Guest guest Posted January 16, 2002 Report Share Posted January 16, 2002 Between pure Awareness and Awareness reflected as consciousness there is a gap which the mind cannot cross. The reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun itself.<br><br>Ceasing to conceptualize means ceasing to perceive objectively, which means perceiving non- objectively. It is to see the universe without choice or judgement and without getting into subject- object relationship. What happens then? Nothing, except that you are what you were before you were born: everything.<br><br>When the apparent but illusory identity called a person has disappeared into the awareness of total potentiality that it is and has always been, this is called enlightenment.<br><br>Manifestation may adopt any number of forms but the substratum of all the myriad forms is Consciousness, without which there cannot be anything whatsoever.<br><br>Nothing can have any meaning, or even any existence, except in terms of something else.<br><br>The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.<br><br>Your doubts will never be totally destroyed until perception has gone beyond mere phenomenality, and such perception is not a matter of will but of Grace.<br><br>Only that which was prior to the appearance of this body-consciousness is your true identity. That is Reality. It is here and now, and there is no question of anyone being able to reach for it or grasp it.<br><br>The same Consciousness prevails at rest as the Absolute and in motion as duality. When the sense of "me" disappears completely, duality vanishes in ecstasy.<br><br>To any conceptual problem there cannot be any valid answer except to see the problem in<br><br>perspective as an empty thought, and that there is no such thing as a "problem" which is other than merely conceptual.<br><br>An experience is never factual but only conceptual. Whatever an experience may be, it is nonetheless only a happening in consciousness.<br><br>The manifest phenomenal aspect of what we are and the unmanifest noumenal Absolute are not different. Phenomena are what we appear to be. Noumenon is what we ARE.<br><br>The essential basis of self-realization is the total rejection of the individual as an independent entity, whether it comes about as a spontaneous understanding or through an utter surrender of one's individual existence. <br><br><br><br><br>Love baba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 Dear Baba<br><br>I tried 6 times to reply to your post but each time, something happened that caused the mesage to get erased. There has to be a message in this ... I won't write what I was planning to. Instead, I just want to say I'm happy to see you back here and hope you find our company pleasant enough to visit us more frequently.<br><br>We certainly would love for you to share more of your journey with us here. <br><br>_/\_ Tat twam asi<br><br>Uma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 Namaste<br><br> What do you want to know?<br><br> Love baba<br><br>I am more comfortable in answering questions - then I am on going off on a rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2002 Report Share Posted January 18, 2002 Dear Baba<br><br>Your "ranting" may have more words of guidance and wisdom than my carefully chosen words!!!!<br><br>Please feel free to pick any of the topics, being presented here, where you may want to assist and expand our understanding. <br><br>Meanwhile I will think of some direct questions. <br><br>_/\_ Tat twam asi<br><br>Uma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2002 Report Share Posted January 25, 2002 Dear Baba<br><br>I tried 6 times to reply to your post but each time, something happened that caused the message to get erased. There has to be a message in this ..<br><br><br>This statement led to the following:<br><br><br> Karma can be seen as the firing of arrows in to the air. Each time you react to an event or thought in this life, you can be said to have launched and arrow that will land in your next life. Which in turn cause another event that will elicit another reaction to occur on your part.<br><br> All lot of beings spend most of their time firing arrows and have little time for anything else. Thus assuring the future incarnation to be a hectic indeed. Each arrow carries the vibration with which it was launched with. If your reaction was a kind act, a kind act of equal proportion will manifest when the arrow lands. If instead the reaction was one of malice and cruelty, when the arrow lands something of equal magnitude will manifest.<br><br> The idea here is to make your reactions less often and more benevolent. As you sow so you shall reap, is a factual statement. The ideal situation is to not react at all. God Bless You<br><br> Love baba<br><br>as long as you believe you are a individual being, the above applies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2002 Report Share Posted January 25, 2002 forgive the infantile english Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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