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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-32

 

The importance of physical silence

 

15 The first and most important lesson that has to be learned

by sadhakas (spiritual aspirants) is silence.

 

16 The silence [of not speaking] is the medicine that can

change the habit of speaking pointlessly like a mad person.

 

The importance of subduing mind-consciousness

 

17 Curb the restless activity of mind-consciousness. Then, as

if you were firmly diving a nail, destroy and annihilate it in pure

consciousness.

 

18 To what ever extent [that] mind-consciousness dives within,

to that same extent will the bliss of the Self spring forth and

reveal itself.

 

Guru Vachaka Kovai, verse 451: To whatever extent you dive within

the Heart, to that same extent you will experience the bliss that

merges with you as the undivided Atma-swarupa (the real nature of

one's own Self) that exists and shines with an utterly different

nature [to sense enjoyments].

 

Vilakkam: The bliss of swarupa (one's true nature; one's true form;

the Self) will manifest to the extent that one dives into the Heart.

It will be equally appropriate to say, " to the extent that suttarivu

(the false consciousness that divides itself into someone who sees

and objects that are seen) is diminished " . Bhagavan says that even

when a desired object of enjoyment is attained, bliss is experienced

because the mind dives into the Heart. Therefore, as the mind abides

more and more in the Heart without suttarivu, like a discriminating

person who does not leave the shade, the bliss of the Self will

shine of its own accord.

 

19 Unless the mind abides as a mere witness to everything, and

conducts itself in this way, what can all the other [practices] do

for a sadhak?

 

Giving up distinctions

 

20 The reason for the mind's perplexity is the belief that the

seductive and addictive pairs of opposites are real.

 

21 How can liking and disliking be inherent in the non-dual

reality in which it is impossible either to reject or accept.

 

22 Give up disputation; give up the distinction " I " and " this "

that arises from delusion and become gloriously whole.

 

23 Destroying the feeling that there are differences [bheda-

buddhi] is the magnificent accomplishment that is attained through

extensive sadhana.

 

24 Abide, bathing constantly in the cascading waters of

unsurpassed bliss, beyond all differentiation.

 

NOTE: TAKEN FROM " PADAMALAI " , EDITED BY DAVID GODMAN, PAGES 232 AND

233

 

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