Knowledge & Enlightenment

[Guest guest]

 

 

Namaste, Sri Sadanandaji, Sri

Bhaskarji and Sri Sureshji,

 

Thank you for your Notes on

Enlightenment.

 

I wanted to know about it,

because my understanding was:

 

One is said to be

“enlightened†when he gets clarification or explanation, i.e. Knowledge of

what

he has been seeking in life. Or, “enlightenment†involves that Knowledge

which

puts an end to what he has been seeking i.e. removal of ignorance about what he

has been seeking.

 

The problem is, one does not even

know that he is limited or he wants freedom etc., but he has been pursuing all

activities towards “obtaining†happiness. He also wants to be immortal, as

no

one wants to die, as one is ignorant about what death involves, and the

resultant fear causes severe sorrow. In short, all pursue happiness, but

somehow whatever happiness takes place seems to be temporary and not only that

more often than not, such happiness turns to be unhappiness or pain later on.

So, there is an internal urge in everyone to know or follow that path which will

take him to what he has been seeking and even get rid of such pursuits which do

not produce what exactly he has been seeking. When this urge becomes very

intense, like for the “ten†who became very sad and distressed as one of

them

appeared missing, by Lord’s grace, someone appears or he is drawn to someone,

who is capable of showing him the right path of pursuit to attain what he has

been seeking. Or, maybe in very rare cases, again with His Grace only, the

right path may be revealed to him. This pursuit is towards “enlightenmentâ€

i.e.

for “attaining†what he has been seeking all through.

 

When he follows the pursuit

for attaining what he has been looking for, the first thing he is told is that

he has been searching for the sought in wrong places.

 

Actually, one has been

seeking “Knowledge†of that which will put an end to his further seeking of

what he has been seeking all through.

 

I may be totally wrong, and

that is why I approached our Group for Enlightenment about what Enlightenment

is.

 

Hari om and With warm

regards,

 

R.S.Mani

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. S. Mani

 

 

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[Guest guest]

There is an old Hindi movie, " Kashmir Ki Kali " . There is a love song in that

movie which has the following lines.

 

Khud ko Kho ke tujko paya - roughly translated it means " by losing myself, you

were gained " . So the poet is hinting at the complete identity of the lover and

the beloved in the highest form of love (parabhakti) which is the same as Jnana.

 

Kya meri taqdir hai (roughly translated it means, " how strange and amazing is my

destiny or fate " .

 

I have tried to capture the essential spirit of the idea of identity between the

seeker and the sought in a simple way in the following poems, especially at the

end.

 

true-love-divine-love

 

the-magic-pull

 

" What voice can speak now

and say I loved

and lost myself in you

and then saw that You were Me.

Silence stole us from ourselves

for all Eternity. "

 

Namaste and love to all

 

Yours in Bhagavan

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf Of

R.S.MANI

Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:45 PM

group

Knowledge & Enlightenment

[Guest guest]

There is an old Hindi movie, " Kashmir Ki Kali " . There is a love song in that

movie which has the following lines.

 

Khud ko Kho ke tujko paya - roughly translated it means " by losing myself, you

were gained " . So the poet is hinting at the complete identity of the lover and

the beloved in the highest form of love (parabhakti) which is the same as Jnana.

 

Kya meri taqdir hai (roughly translated it means, " how strange and amazing is my

destiny or fate " .

 

I have tried to capture the essential spirit of the idea of identity between the

seeker and the sought in a simple way in the following poems, especially at the

end.

 

true-love-divine-love

 

the-magic-pull

 

" What voice can speak now

and say I loved

and lost myself in you

and then saw that You were Me.

Silence stole us from ourselves

for all Eternity. "

 

Namaste and love to all

 

Yours in Bhagavan

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf Of

R.S.MANI

Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:45 PM

group

Knowledge & Enlightenment