Words and Advaita.

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Namaste,

 

Words IMO, are ideas, and ideas are thoughts and thoughts are

things, and things are Avidya or ignorance.

 

There is always the danger in philosophy becoming an end in itself,

instead of a means. I see it all the time, where people discuss,

argue, use clever words and dialectics, (Now there's a clever word

for you). However they seem to stay in the round of words in the

world of words. Something like figuring the molecular structure of

water in the swimming pool instead of just climbing out.

 

The ego has infinite tricks and diversions to preserve itself, and

in intellectuals it is in words and cleverness. Some of the non

intellectual seekers do not have this disadvantage. The intellectual

has the dependency, and search for esteem, reflective glory and

pride and pradadkshina of one's own thinking.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how many `intelligent' people are

fundamentalists for example. Proving again that there is

intelligence and then there is spiritual intelligence. Some

surrender their egos not to the Self but to fraudulent and depraved

gurus even.

A true Guru is a Jivanmukta, who operates without the need for words

or Avidya. So it always puzzled me that if one is so much into words

and philosophy, why need more than the `Inner Guru'?

 

If I talk about myself; I was not unintelligent and had the usual

high I.Q. etc etc, but yet I followed a fraudulent guru for years. I

followed sai baba yet read Ramana Maharshi and others. I can only

think that this was for reasons that are more the psychological than

spiritual. I of course am not alone in this and don't regard myself

as a philosopher, I don't have the vocabulary for a start.

 

People hide themselves in their knowledge/avidya and then wrap

themselves in words. It is a form of spiritual materialism and

escape/security for the ego. It seems they many know everything

about say Advaita but cannot let go and need the security of a

person or guru, false or not.

 

In the end it is all bound up together. The reason they follow the

false guru is the same as hiding in their words. It is about self

Esteem not SELF esteem. It is still the ego thinking `I am better

than the other fellow, I am called, I belong to the select group'.

 

This doesn't apply to those who are on a Bhakti path and follow a

Sadguru though. For they are surrendering their egos unconditionally

in Love. I am really talking about people who are seemingly

intelligent, versed in all the scriptures and various philosophies,

yet follow a guru, whilst claiming to be an Advaitin.

It really proves it is all above the impotent human

mind………..ONS..Tony.