Swami Nityananda, The Process of Liberation

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The Process of Liberation

 

" A true guru can turn you from the jungle road of ignorance to

the royal road of spiritual knowledge. " (Sutra 102)

 

" But without the Guru, you cannot reach the goal. " (Sutra 9)

 

The paradox is repeated in the form of the guru, because the guru has

two aspects. Nityananda called these the primary (or action) guru and

the secondary (or causal) guru. On the one hand, there is the

physical teacher. This is a personality to be dealt with and talked

to, a person who performs actions that have an effect in the world, a

person viewed by some with admiration and by others with disgust; in

other words, someone viewed by ordinary people as the same or less

than they are. On the other hand, for the few people who are able to,

or care to, look deeply into the situation, what is really there is

not a personality but an extraordinary field of spiritual energy from

which they can draw energy for their innermost being. With this

nourishment, they can attain complete maturity in the supreme state

of pure consciousness.

 

" The secondary guru leads you to the well—the primary guru

drinks from it. " (Sutra 104)

 

The physical aspect of the guru, the secondary teacher, serves as a

doorway. Through our diligence, love and devotion, we pass through

this doorway of the physical teacher into the level of consciousness

that Nityananda calls the action guru. The action guru is the same as

Parabrahma, Paramashiva, or chidakasha. At this level, we express the

infinite spaciousness, extraordinary power, and creative intelligence

that are characteristics of the essential state of unity from which

all experience takes its form.

 

" Liberation does not come searching for you. You must make the

effort to seek it. " (Sutra 117)

 

The effort required if you sincerely seek God is to see through the

form, to pass beyond the personality, the individuality, and the

eccentricity of the teacher, and in so doing to transcend your own

personality and limitations.

 

" Draw the breath up to the Brahmarandhra at the top of the head.

Kindle the fire, purify the subtle channels, burn up the impurities.

This is the yoga-fire of deliberation…The pure energy of the

Supreme. " (Sutra 28)

 

The power inherent in the presence of the guru energizes every level

of a human being. The transmission of this power is shaktipat, the

transmission or descent of grace. Shaktipat brings about a quantum

leap in awareness that puts us in contact with the innate freedom and

spontaneous creative power that is eternally and everywhere present

as the source of all. It awakens the deepest potentiality within us,

and the kundalini shakti begins its extraordinary unfoldment. As this

unfoldment continues, the entire structure of the human being is

refined and purified. When subjected to fire, iron is free of its

gross crystallization and impurities and reorganized as the finer,

stronger metal of steel. The human being also, through contact with

the forge of the guru, becomes purified by the inner fire of

kundalini and is established in the supreme state of awareness. . . .

 

In all places and in every age, there are many good people who seek

spirituality, who have spiritual understanding, and who have some

positive concerns for humanity. Yet in any age there are only a few

people, rare and great beings indeed, who can communicate the highest

transcendent state of consciousness to other human beings and who

dwell in that state while still functioning in this world as

ordinary—and possibly eccentric—human beings. "

 

Swami Nityananda, The Process of Liberation

http://www.nityananda.us/teaching3.htm

 

 

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