The Nature of Realization

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jodyr [jodyr]

Wednesday, April 28, 1999 12:19 PM

 

This is why bhakti with its attendant surrender is the best path (IMO).

You just give up wanting realization and concentrate on wanting total and

complete blissful surrender.

 

Harsha: Wise words indeed. But I wonder whether one can just give up wanting

Realization. Probably one cannot give up wanting any "want" until the

wanting has waned. One can certainly concentrate on wanting "total and

complete blissful surrender." Perhaps that is helpful as you suggest. The

fundamental issue is the "wanting." Surrender happens when the wanting has

waned or has been suspended, or one simply has become completely indifferent

to all wanting. In other words, one has become "wanted" out. It happens when

you have been waiting and waiting and waiting. Waiting can be a form of

doing also. Then it is a long wait. You might be doing anything. Meditation,

Yoga, Pranayama, etc. These are all essentially forms of waiting. And

waiting can be helpful. It tires you out. It is Grace that finally makes us

so indifferent to any "seeking" or "wanting", that we forget what we had

been waiting for. Here the Primal Being Reveals It Self as Eternal, as the

very Core of our existence, being Existence It Self. To enter the Kingdom of

Heaven one must be completely naked and bereft of all things. There is no

path to this entrance because there is no where else to go.