Michael/Time Is The Child Of A Barren Woman - Nectar of Immortality

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Dear Michael,

 

I don't metitate as a practice and before I ever knew about " neti

neti " method one day I felt the need to meditate. I was

contemplating " I am not my legs, arms, chest, feelings, thoughts and

so on... " Finally I experienced an energy form bouncing all around

in a dark chamber which was similar to what you described as " just a

sort of golden light, encapsulated in a round bulb. " Of course I was

scared and did not go beyond that. Sometimes we use the words energy

and light to describe the essence of one's being and the ancients

also had another word, the Spirit, which sounds sort of old fashioned

nowadays but I still like it.

 

Anyway, the next day I told a friend about my experience and he gave

me a Ramana Maharshi book " Be As You Are " which mentioned the " neti

neti " (I am not this...or that) method. Ramana was favoring self-

inquiry instead. Whether it was just a state of mind, a concept, an

experience that takes place in the mind and also perceived by the

mind or an awareness beyond the understanding of the mind which is a

link to a higher Being, what I learned from Maharaj is that abiding

in the sense of " I am " reconciles the riddles of duality for me.

 

Hur

 

Nisargadatta, MSouther@e... wrote:

> I've been thinking about just this subject lately. In looking back

> to

> the time before I was born, I find nothing there. No me, no god,

> no world. Just a sort of golden light, encapsulated in a round

> bulb.

>

> So, I started to wonder what would make or cause this golden

> light of nothingness to become anything. If there is nothing

> there, what could intrude to stimulate or draw out the world (or

> the beginning of it)?

>

> I conclude that there is a potentiality in the nothingness. An

> energy which causes it to burst forth into the the world (and me).

>

> This energy can't be stopped and appears to be what we know of

> as life itself. It arises spontaneously from an inexhaustible

> source - regardless of what anyone does or doesn't do.

>

> Enough for now,

>

> Michael Souther