Purification not Reinforcement.

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Namaste All,

 

It depends on whether we eat the

apple from the left or the right or just core it.haha.

 

'Who am I', isn't japa at all but an

'inner feeling'.

Yes

thought is just a stream, and mind

is just

experiencing this stream.

 

However for those with a less than

developed

'awareness sheath', isn't

that all of us? It is necessary to

do sadhana to

purify the Buddhi so

to speak, this weakens instead of

reinforces the

samskaras, enabling

them to be further fried in

meditation.

 

With regard to Bhakti, at an early

level, Bhakti is a

good vehicle if

the person hasn't got that far into

Jnana. Admittedly

they both end up

at the same place, but intially for

most Bhakti is a

quicker vehicle.

For one hasn't to wonder why one is

doing something,

one just does it.

 

Ramana's sadhana presupposes a

certain amount of

spiritual awareness,

otherwise it is just surface japa,

not an inward or all

encompassing feeling.

 

In that respect a thought wave

without removal of

samskaras is impeded

so to speak.

 

So really the ego will still identify with the stream of thought even

though it knows it is not the owner. Due to the identification with

samskaras and the downward drag of same, so to speak. So even to

appreciate 'I am that', purification by sadhana and meditation is

necessary, of what ever type.

 

OM Namah Sivaya.....Tony.