bozy Pittfalls of hunting the I

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> Era wrote:

>

> > There is another rather harmless mistake which happens regularly to

> > beginners.

> > 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.

>

> .

> Is it just me?

>

>

>

> When you refer to " beginners " (blessed with so-called glimpses of

> 'higher-life' in the the context of

> " they " & " them " , aren't you really

> just referring to yourself?

>

> (whether you're either quoting yourself or someone else)

>

>

 

 

 

 

" Are you takin' to *ME ? " ~Robert deNiro in a taxi

 

 

ahh David I mean ALL ....here and there...everywhere and .. online..

 

because: narrow is the gate that leads to paradise !

 

it's like going through an eye of a needle

 

AND

 

online ID's just won't fit through that one...

 

IMHO

 

 

 

> > 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.

> >

> >

> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

> >

> > Era

> >

>