Fwd: Self Knowledge and Self Realization-7

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, " Lady Joyce " <shaantih

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I just want to remind that the foreward to this book mentions that it

was written in Niz's younger days...oh the glory and innocence of

youth :-) You can reread it in post #1, as it provides a perspective

on him at that time. May we all know and treasure the innocence of

the child bhakta.

 

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THE MYSTIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The blissful mystic clearly sees the difference between his

characteristics before and after realization. All that is transient

has an origin in time and is subject to change and destruction, while

he is free from change and can never perish. The unchanging one views

the ever changing world as a game.

 

 

 

All the characteristics of the Saint naturally spring from his

experience. As there are no desires left in him, nothing in the world

of sense can ever tempt him, he lives in the fearless majesty of Self-

realization. He is moved to pity by the unsuccessful struggle of

those tied down to bodily identity and their striving for the

satisfaction of their petty interests. Even the great events of the

world are just surface lines to him; the number of these lines that

appear and disappear is infinite.

 

 

 

Individuals are only the faint streaks of these lines, and only as

such lines are they recognized. When the streaks vanish there remains

nothing to recognize as individuals. The interval between the moment

of emergence and the disappearance of a line is what is called life.

The wiped out line can never be seen again.

 

 

 

The Saint who has direct experience of all this is always happy

and free from desire. He is convinced that the greatest of the sense

experiences is only a momentary affair, impermanence is the very

essence of these experiences; hence pain and sorrow, greed and

temptation, fear and anxiety can never touch him.

 

 

 

 

 

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from Self Knowledge and Self Realization b Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

 

http://itisnotreal.com/Self-Knowledge.html

 

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