Savikalpa or what?

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, " Era " <n0ndual@w...> wrote:

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>

> Many of them are blessed with various glimpses of

> the higher life, which they have entered. These carry

> the stamp of a genuine change of consciousness, and

> of course the sadhaka is happy, and convinced that he

> has made real progress. There is no harm in it, because

> he soon has to face the fact that his 'experience' is fading

> away, never to return. When this happens again and again,

> he learns to understand these sparks as what they are,

> glimpses from another dimension which want to teach him

> to discriminate between the different dimensions but which

> also lure him on in his spiritual endeavour. They only become

> a pitfall, when he, by vanity or impatience, gets stuck in one

> of them, taking it for final Realisation. Then his further

progress is blocked.

>

> The mark by which this pitfall is recognised is 'I' have

realised...'

> This 'I' can only be a 'wrong I', because it is not the 'I' that

realises.

> ...

> With this idea he gives his 'personal I' a strong chance to

> develop into a 'spiritual I', which is much worse than his

> original quite ordinary 'I', strenghtened by all his previous

> spiritual effort. The result is a spiritual pride, the worse the

> more advanced the sadhaka has become, because his attainments,

serve only to confirm his 'right' to be proud of his success.

>

> But even if he perceives the gentle Voice from within, warning him

> against his trend going on in him and reminding him of the secret

> of real 'attainment', silent humility, and even if he is quite

prepared to accept the warning, there is still the risk that the

cunning ego now is concealing itself behind his pride in his

humility!

>

> There is only one remedy against these and all other pitfalls on

> the Path to Realisation: Alert Awareness, relentlessly focussing

> on the treacherous ego-I.

> ....

> The most cunning pitfall on the path of sadhaka is the last one,

> hidden in Realisation Itself.

> The first Revelation of the Self is temporary. " Jnana, once

revealed, needs time to steady itself. " (Talks, 141)

>

> The danger is not in the sliding back; it is natural to most

sadhakas and is met quite naturally by continuing one's practice

faithfully, which in its turn will lead to further Revelations of

the Self until finally there is no sadhaka left, but the Self only.

>

> If, on the other hand, the sadhaka tries to 'hold on' to that first

> Revelation, in spite of his Inner Guide warning him, (Who is

holding

> on?), then the ego-I slinks again in where the Self is veiled

again and distorts the Revelation of the Self into the cry of

victory: 'I have realised!'

>

> Blindfolded by the Bliss of the final 'success' (whose success?) he

> never stops to scrutinize his condition and thus never finds out

the truth; That he became a yoga-bhrashtha, one who has fallen out

of his yoga, his 'union'.

>

> The new and definitive disguise of his ego-I is 'the Guru', and

this

> last and most powerful pitfall never releases him, because he

> never recognises that he is its victim.

>

> There are nowadays many whose Guru-pitfall caught them even

> much earlier on their path.

>

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> Lucy Cornelssen: Hunting the 'I', from pp.48-51

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>

> love, Era

>

Namaste,

 

I tend to think that this is talking about a samadhi where the ego

isn't completely destroyed...........ONS...Tony.