Advaita Practice (practice- writeup)

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Wonderful. Please, I would like to take the rest..

 

Thanks for posting it

 

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De: advaitin [advaitin ]Em nome de

Putran Maheshwar

Enviada em: segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2007 20:57

Para: advaitin

Assunto: Re: Re: Advaita Practice

 

 

 

--- putranm <putranm wrote:

 

> advaitin , " putranm "

> <putranm wrote:

>

> Let me add to this a stronger quote for authority;

> please refer to the Gita lectures II and III

> of Swami Vivekananda Vol 1.

>

> III end:

>

> " All weakness, all bondage is imagination. Speak

> one word to it, it must vanish. Do not

> weaken! There is no other way out.... Stand up and

> be strong! No fear. No superstition.

> Face the truth as it is ! If death comes --that is

> the worst of our miseries -- let it come !

> We are determined to die game. That is all the

> religion I know. I have not attained to it, but

> I am struggling to do it. I may not, but you may. Go

> on ! "

>

 

Regarding above, I will post a practice-writeup by

someone written a few years back. One can spot the

influence of Sri Ramana in the theory aspect, and the

writeup can be inspiring and has merit in that the

person got much from fighting in the trenches of

spiritual warfare. I find it useful and hope others

do.

 

I will post the first part now. If people think they

may find it useful, will post the others later.

Forgive, if I do not answer questions regarding it.

 

thollmelukaalkizhu

 

(QUOTE)

 

Pointers on Mind, Thoughts and You: How to guide the

mind to the Self.

 

Part I is for the general audience seeking to pursue

the spiritual path. 1-5 and first two sentences in 6

were first written; they are the crux along with 10,

with 2 being the main point. If you comprehend 2,

everything else follows. Part II ( & III) is

continuation (not to be read separately) and meant for

those needing specific instructions for dealing with a

very unruly mind. Please contemplate carefully on each

idea and relate it to the specific issues that govern

your mind, then attempt to put it to practice.

 

Part I: general

 

1. Mind is a bundle of thoughts.

 

2. Thoughts come and go; you remain the same (like

pictures on the movie screen). This ‘You’ is called

the Self. When It is identified through the mind, It

is considered limited; otherwise You are.

 

3. Learn to trace back to the source of your thoughts

by asking yourself “Whose thought is this?” [Mine]

“Who am I?” … thus free yourself from the grip of the

mind and return to the pure state.

 

4. Quit teaching your mind to sustain itself on dream

worlds of non-eternal identifications. Regularly

practice merging into and meditating upon your true

Identity.

 

5. When times of hardship strike, walk the spiritual

path facing the issues truthfully in a heroic manner.

No escapism into the dream worlds.

 

6. Remember: You think and define your thoughts, not

vise-versa. Confusion on this simple point is the

cause of much fear and instability. You say “I am

happy”, “I am suffering”, “I cannot be truthful”, etc.

Don’t say it! If you must characterize your nature or

being, say “I am beyond pleasure and pain!” or “Truth

is my very nature! How can I waiver from it?” and live

up to that.

 

7. Establish positive, strengthening sequences to

culminate in positive identifiers to counter

established negative sequences and identifiers. For

example, answer “Who am I?” with “I am the

all-pervading Self!,” or when thoughts arise, quickly

surmise them as waves on the Ocean of Brahman and

dissolve them and their prime basis, your

individuality, into the Ocean. The Ocean is the

eternal Reality; all else arises from It and dissolves

back into It. Another typical positive reference is

the Bhakthi ideal of God.

 

8. Positive identifiers are useful and sometimes

considered necessary in the initial or sudden stages;

however do not become bound to them. The goal is to

get beyond the jiva-shrishti (individual’s creation)

plane and realize/be the Self. Hence use them

sparingly, and at all other times, resolve to higher

discrimination.

 

9. All identifiers through name and form are of your

making, and it is you who qualifies these choices as

good/bad, positive/negative, etc. You are not subject

to the limitations assigned through the mind. It is

imperative that we eventually confront all these

mental holds as false superimpositions upon the Self.

The way to do this is not by arm-wrestling with them;

recognize their unreality and get back to the solace

of your pure state. Only in moments of desperation

must you deal a blow on them using a positive

identifier; at all other times, discriminate back to

your true Self.

 

10. Just as you are not defined by name, form or

thoughts, know that that which you identify through

such identifiers is also not limited or defined by

them. Don’t qualify a person as good or bad based on

the thoughts that presently run through his/her head.

Rather realize that the true Identity is the

unchanging Self behind the present superimposition of

name, form or thought. We must learn to live at the

level of the unchanging Substratum of “Being”; then

the waves of passing shows will not appear real. When

parents see a child angry, sad, happy, or misbehaving,

they react appropriately but at the same time, know

that the present mood of the child will soon change.

Hence they only see the “Self” in the child and do not

consider the changeful moods to be a real

characterization of the child. A saint does the same

at all levels of existence; we must learn to do the

same.

 

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