Guest guest Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 ombhurbhuva wrote: > Hi Lewis, > I read the essay on the sampradaya of Nisargadatta that you recommended > and found it very interesting. I'm on a different computer so I don't have the > url to hand. It's an ancient slow coach that makes anything other that e-mail > tedious. > > The work which Ramana considered one of the greatest in the Advaitic literature > emanated from Dattatreya(founder of the lineage of Nisargadatta) via Haritayana. > I speak of Tripura Rahasya (the mystery beyond the Trinity) and it is available > from Ramanasramam who publish it. It is an oddity of a book, sublime speculation > mixed with allegory and legend. > > Michael. I am familiar with it Michael. It is a clear elucidation of Advaita Vedanta as practiced by Nisargadatta. What lies beyond SELF is not touched. How could it be? Lewis 85.......... " Therefore become dispassionate and inhere as the Self. Such inherence is spontaneous (no effort is needed to inhere as the Self). It is realised after thoughts are eliminated and investigation ceases. Recapitulate your state after you break off from it, and then will know all and the significance of its being knowable and unknowable at the same time. Thus realising the unknowable, one abides in immortality for ever and ever. " Chapter XV:85, Ashtavakra Section, Tripura Rahasya Regarding Nisargadatta words: 68. After experiencing the Inner Self, he will be able to identify the Self with the Supreme and thus destroy the root of ignorance. There is no doubt of it. 69. The inner Self is realised in advanced contemptation and that state of realisation is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Memory of that realisation enables one to identify the Inner Self with the Universal Self (as " I am That " ). Chapter XV:68-69, Ashtavakra Section, Tripura Rahasya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 For those interested an online translation of the Tripura Rahasya by Sri Ramanananda Saraswath can be found at: http://sss.vn.ua/tripura1.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Sometimes it's tempting to talk about Truth plainly, but you have to check that impulse. It would only confuse matters further. The world separates things into little bits: this and that, here and there, right and wrong. Truth, like a huge snake, swallows it's food whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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