complete absence of desire and fear

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on 4/26/03 2:14 PM, devianandi at devi wrote:

 

 

> devi: i am realized, not deluded, the only thing thats clear here is

> that you can't accept that fact and really it's a pity because until

> you do you wont get realized...

 

you're going to hold me back, mm?

 

 

>> You say I am mean, but this is in your mind, and you are clearly

> still

>> living there.

>>

> devi: oh come on, you think your behavior towards me is kind,,get

> real, your being mean

 

mean and kind are in the mind, you should know this if you're realised.

I don't mean to hurt you. I think you are hurting yourself. Does anyone

believe you?

I will stop egging you on, now.

 

)))))))Shawn

 

Sri Niz:

You will recognize that you have returned to your natural state by a

complete absence of all desire and fear. After all, at the root of all

desire and fear is the feeling of not being what you are. Just as a

dislocated joint pains only as long as it is out of shape, and is forgotten

as soon as it is set right, so is all self-concern a symptom of mental

distortion which disappears as soon as one is in the normal state. (332)

 

Distinctions are created by the mind and apply to the mind only. I am pure

Consciousness itself, un-broken awareness of all that is. I am in a more

real state than yours. I am undistracted by the distinctions and separations

which constitute a person. As long as the body lasts, it has its needs like

any other, but my mental process has come to an end. My thinking, like my

digestion, is unconscious and purposeful. I am not a person in your sense of

the word, though I may appear a person to you. I am that infinite ocean of

consciousness in which all happens. I am also beyond all existence and

cognition, pure bliss of being. There is nothing I feel separate from, hence

I am all. No thing is me, so I am nothing. Life will escape, the body will

die,

but it will not affect me in the least. Beyond space and time I am,

uncaused, uncausing, yet the very matrix of existence. (221-2)

 

Having realized that I am with, and yet beyond the world, I became free from

all desire and fear. I did not reason out that I should be free, I found

myself free, unexpectedly, without the least effort. This freedom from

desire and fear remained with me since then. Another thing I noticed was

that I do not need to make an effort; the deed follows the thought, without

delay and friction. I have also found that thoughts become self-fullfilling;

things would fall in place smoothly and rightly. The main change was in the

mind; it became motionless and silent, responding quickly, but not

perpetuating the response. Spontaneity became a way of life, the real became

natural and the natural became real. And above all, infinite affection,

love, dark and quiet, radiating in all directions, embracing all, making all

interesting and beautiful, significant and auspicious.