Guest guest Posted August 17, 2000 Report Share Posted August 17, 2000 Thank you for sharing the great website and the text of unknown . In shakti , Khaled - upadesa Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:54 PM Re: Echoes from the past Dear Srinivasji and Michaelji, namaskars: What I copied on the recent postings are excerpts of a book called: 'The Cloud of Unknowing and other works'. The author is not known (or if you prefer, is by the famous author called 'Anonymous'). I received some excerpts from a friemd by email. If you feel like buying it, there are many versions and translations available on Amazon.com and other sites like that, otherwise there is an english version that can be read on the Net at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/cou/index.htm All the best, Mouna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 This is very beautifully expressed. Could I know who this great soul and christian mystic is? Warm regards Srinivas , " upadesa " <maunna wrote: > > Dear All: > > I came across some texts of a 13th century anonymous monk that, > strangely enough, echoes (from the past) Bhagavan's teachings and also > Nisargadatta's as well. Under the umbrella of mystic christian > thought, and with a very deep emotional and poetic language, one can > see that the pointer is pointing to the Nondual Self (as every true > tradition does ultimately)... > Hope you'll enjoy > All the best, > Mouna > > ..... > > Know for certain that, although I urge you to forget everything but > the blind awareness of your naked being, what I want (and this has > been my intention from the beginning) is nevertheless that you should > forget even the awareness of your own being in favor of awareness of > God's being. That was the reason why I showed you in the beginning > that God is your being. But it seemed to me that, on account of your > inexperience in spiritual awareness, you were not yet capable of being > lifted up at a stroke to spiritual awareness of God's being; and so, > to enable to climb up to it step by step, I told you first to gnaw > away at the naked blind awareness of your own being, until the time > when, by spiritual perseverance in this secret work, you would became > capable of the high awareness of God. For your own intention and > desire when you engage in the work of contemplation must always be to > experience God. So although at the beginning because of you simplicity > and spiritual immaturity, I tell you to cloak and enfold awareness of > God in awareness of yourself, afterwards, when perseverance has made > you wiser in purity of spirit, you must strip, despoil and completely > unclothe yourself of every kind of awareness of yourself, so that you > can be clothed in the gracious awareness of God's self…. > > .... > > And so descend to the lowest level of your understanding (which some, > on the basis of actual experience, hold to be the highest), and think > in the most ignorant way (but to some it is the wisest way) not what > you yourself are but that you yourself are. For it takes great skill > in learning and cleverness on your part, and much intricate searching > in your natural intelligence, to think what you are in all your > attributes…But to think that you exist is something you can achieve in > your own ignorance and simplicity without any great cleverness of > learning or natural gifts. > > .... > > When you come to be by yourself, put aside good thoughts as much as > evil thoughts…see that nothing remains in your active consciousness > but a naked purpose, reaching out to God, not cloaked in any specific > thought of God in himself, what he is in his own nature or in any of > his works, but only that he is as he is. Let him be so, I pray you, > and do not make him anything else; pry no further into him with > intellectual cleverness. Let that belief be your foundation. You must > think and feel this naked purpose, freely fixed and rooted in sure > belief, to be nothing but a naked thought and a blind awareness of > your own existence: as if you said inwardly to God in your mind, `The > fact that I exist, Lord, I offer to you, with no concern for any > attribute for your being except simply that you are as you are— nothing > beyond that.' > Let this humble darkness be the mirror in which you see yourself and > your whole consciousness. > > > .... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 >> This is very beautifully expressed. Could I know who this great soul > and christian mystic is? Indeed, who is it? It certainly resonates with a timbre most reminiscent of Ramana Bhagavan. -Michael- , " A. Srinivas Rao " <profsrinivasrao wrote: > > This is very beautifully expressed. Could I know who this great soul > and christian mystic is? > > Warm regards > > Srinivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 who wants to know? MIchael Cape-Meadows <ramanatmosphere wrote: >> This is very beautifully expressed. Could I know who this great soul > and christian mystic is? Indeed, who is it? It certainly resonates with a timbre most reminiscent of Ramana Bhagavan. -Michael- , " A. Srinivas Rao " <profsrinivasrao wrote: > > This is very beautifully expressed. Could I know who this great soul > and christian mystic is? > > Warm regards > > Srinivas TAT TVAM ASI ... Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Dear Srinivasji and Michaelji, namaskars: What I copied on the recent postings are excerpts of a book called: 'The Cloud of Unknowing and other works'. The author is not known (or if you prefer, is by the famous author called 'Anonymous'). I received some excerpts from a friemd by email. If you feel like buying it, there are many versions and translations available on Amazon.com and other sites like that, otherwise there is an english version that can be read on the Net at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/cou/index.htm All the best, Mouna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Dear Mouna tku for sharing this website in Ramana michael - upadesa Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:54 PM Re: Echoes from the past Dear Srinivasji and Michaelji, namaskars: What I copied on the recent postings are excerpts of a book called: 'The Cloud of Unknowing and other works'. The author is not known (or if you prefer, is by the famous author called 'Anonymous'). I received some excerpts from a friemd by email. If you feel like buying it, there are many versions and translations available on Amazon.com and other sites like that, otherwise there is an english version that can be read on the Net at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/cou/index.htm All the best, Mouna Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1402 - Release 28/04/2008 13.29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.