Sadhana

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Namaste to all,

 

Once the knowledge has been given by the guru, that I AM HE, and

understood, what is/are the most important(s) Sadhana(s) for

enlightenment, Sahaja?

 

Not kevala samadhi but sahaja samadhi.

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--- nonduel <nonduel wrote:

 

> Once the knowledge has been given by the guru, that I AM HE, and

> understood, what is/are the most important(s) Sadhana(s) for

> enlightenment, Sahaja?

>

> Not kevala samadhi but sahaja samadhi.

 

nonduel - PraNAms.

 

Once non-duality is understood as a fact - there is nothing else to do since

doing

involves duality. All doings are done naturally enlivened by your very presence

as

Krishna says maayaa adhyaksheNa prakRitiH sUyate sacarAcharam - under my

president-ship

the prakRiti does all actions including the creation of movables and immovable.

 

The problem we find is that we understand nonduality as seemingly possible not

factual.

Until that understanding takes place as fact not as a concept, one has to keep

reflecting

on that fact until it becomes a fact. This is called NidhidhyAsana -

internalizing the

truth as your own. Enlightment is to recognize that I am already enlightened

even when I

think I am not. It is not something to think but something to be.

 

There is beautiful sloka in AvadhUta Gita by DattAtreya pertinent to your

question -

 

aham dhyAtA param dheyam akhaDam khaDate katham? Meaning I am a mediator and

this has to

be meditated upon - why do you divide that which is indivisible? - questions

DattAtreya.

 

Once I have learned that sOham or I am He, then I need to realize it as fact not

as a

thought - for that I have to internalize that knowledge since even after

knowing, the

mind wants go back to its habitual thinking (which are due to vAsanas) that I am

only a

local guy and not global one that the identity says. The mind needs to be free

from all

previous notions - which is also called cleansing the mind from preconditioning

or chitta

suddhi. Study of the scriptures and keep the mind focused on the inquiry of the

truth -

teaching, writing, contemplating, etc all come under NidhidhyAsana where mind is

constantly dwelling on that truth - it involves ultimately seeing you as the

center of

the universe.

 

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

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" nonduel " <nonduel wrote:

>

> Once the knowledge has been given by the guru, that I AM HE, and

> understood, what is/are the most important(s) Sadhana(s) for

> enlightenment, Sahaja?

>

> Not kevala samadhi but sahaja samadhi.

 

Nonduel, pranams,

 

All will depend on what you meant by the word " understood " .

- If by that you meant that it was quite a new concept that makes

sense and you feel you can trust the one who told you that, then

Sadhana will be, as it was pointed out, the reflection/investigation

of that " concept " (until no more doubts about it) and then

contemplation of that new understanding by the mind, until it

dissolves the very core of the illusory Ego/Doer/Mind and Self shines

of its own accord.

- If by that you meant that the statement evaporated the illusion of

having a mind and the experience of the Self (experience in this case

means Experience without an experiencer, Reality) was

revealed/recognized fully, then Sadhana will be to continue

de-stabilizing the illusory mind until destroyed and the Natural State

(Sahaja Samadhi) shines of its own accord, since it is the illusory

mind with its illusory tendencies that continues creating the illusion

that Self is " not reached " (a sort of hypnotic transe). As for myself,

Bhagavan's Ramana Maharshi's " method " of Self-Inquiry proved to be the

most efficient way to " do " that (to de-stabilize the egoic/doer/mind).

 

Only a point of view, people are different, although we all share the

fact of being objects of our Common Awareness.

 

yours in All,

Mouna