This is what I try to use.Response.

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Namast All,

Amanda you asked what I use, I try this;

 

Before I start let me say that because I can talk

about all this,doesn't mean I can do it.I still have a

lot of samskaras of course.

 

Purification of the Buddhi,or the

individualised version of the universal Mahat,is

necessary for spiritual progress.The Buddhi is an

aspect of the Vijnanamayakosha or Awareness Sheath,it

is the Inner Mind or Antahkarana.When it is turned

inwards it pierces through Maya and leads to Moksha or

Liberation.When it is turned outward it only succeeds

in enhancing the power of the Lower Mind or

Manamayakosha. This part of the mind is turned out to

desires and satisfaction of the senses.

 

A Buddhi turned outwards is a distortion of

its'function. For man can manipulate his mind to enjoy

the senses,out of season,so to speak. Unlike the

animal,which only operates instinctively within its'

Dharma.

I will briefly talk about the five koshas and how

this purification process works.It is a reversal of

consciousness as we know it,to its' "Natural"

State.The five koshas are the

 

ANNAMAYA,PRANAMAYA,MANOMAYA,JNANAMAYA,ANANDAMAYA

KOSHAS.THAT IS THE FOOD,ENERGY,MIND,AWARENESS OR

INTELLECTUAL,BLISS OR CAUSAL SHEATHS.

 

These Sheaths all relate to different planes of

consciousness of course.

 

We must start self-sadhana by purifying the food

sheath and work our way up so to speak. We purify the

food sheath by regulating our food and avoiding

tamasic food and meat. Eating meat means we absorb bad

vibrations plus we are sending billions of Jivas to

the subtle world,many of which are born again as

humans. Billions of people were these animals in their

last lives and they bring their resentment of human

beings with them. The resentment of their bad

treatment and having their lives cut short. Hence this

contributes to violence,mass slaughters and so on.

 

People don't realise this, and they wonder why kids

kill kids or there are massacres like Ruanda. We

purify the energy sheath by controlling our desires.

This is also connected to the mind sheath where

desires and attachment to the senses have to be

controlled. The important sheath in this process is

the awareness sheath which is part and parcel of the

Buddhi, and controls and guides the lower sheaths

particularly the mind. Intelligence isn't awareness,

some geniuses are spiritually ignorant and unaware.

 

Re awareness amongst people, there are four types of

human; human animal, aspiring human being, human

being and Divine Human.

 

It I said that desire (for purification or

Liberation) without effort is useless, Self-Sadhana

purifies our impulses. "Manas Sathyate Shuddhate".

Only Truth can purify and sublimate the mind.

 

To achieve this purification there are Four

Exercises.

1) Swadhaya,that is reading spiritual books, bhajan,

satsang, to make us aware of the Atma.

 

2) Japa, this should go on unceasingly, be aware and

only come out into the world when it is necessary. To

think of God at death is very difficult, if you

haven't practiced the Name all your waking life. It

is better to start at about eight or nine years of

age. Some people die and don't even realise they have

died, others get distracted at the last moment, or are

confused by the memories of their life. It is not so

easy to be like Ghandiji and remember Rama as we die.

 

Nobody experiences death for one is unconscious.

Except if you are a Yogi then there is no death of

course. Sankara says death is being separated from our

desires.

 

3)Homa, Japa becomes Homa, offer all activities to The

Lord all day long. Don't offer Grace just for meals,

Brahmarpnam etc is to purify our inner being for all

is food for the senses.

 

4)Brahmiya Kriyate Tanuhu.A Divine Inner Body".

 

Finally this inner balance leads to purification of

the Buddhi. Cessation of the mind is the goal.

 

The Buddhi is not present in deep sleep just

the thought "I am sleeping", we must purify even that

thought and become God. Once we have stilled all

thought we are God, we enter the fourth or Turiya

stage of consciousness.

 

See all as God, Do all as God. This is through

DAYA, KSHAMA, AND SHANTI; Compassion, Forgiving those

that trespass against us, and Peace to all, all is

God. Love, Love, Love, Prema, Prema, Prema. All is

One! This is were helping others comes in for it

lessens our preoccupation with ourselves and therefore

weakens the ego sense, and helps expand our vision.

 

KOHAM.............SOHAM.Who am I? Drive the

thought inward to the Universal "I". By eliminating

the illusion of an individual ego. "I" is that

background feeling of awareness that suffuses

everything.

 

I use 'mindfulness of breathing' in the final instance

for meditation.

 

All these exercises are to purify one's Buddhi

so that one may have one-pointedness and achieve

Liberation, or loss of illusion and Moha .For a

purified Buddhi is essentially a state of no mind,

which is Liberation. Love is the answer, infuse our

thoughts!

(When a stage is reached that one feels deeply

that whatever is being done is happening and one has

not got anything to do with it, then it becomes such a

deep conviction that whatever is happening is not

happening really; And that whatever seems to be

happening is also an illusion.) Sri Nisagardatta

Maharaj.

We move from thinking we are our own thought,

to realising we are God's thought and eventually we

realise there was no thought at all. This I believe is

the end result of the teachings.If you are a Human

Animal you can do all the things that animals

do-mate,eat,sleep,defend whatever.If you are an

Aspiring Human Being you have to change yourself from

an animal.You have to take on Ahimsa,not killing an

animal to eat its meat.

 

Human Beings are like a flower,a flower bursts into

creation and it gets to a certain point,at the end of

the day when it closes its petals and it goes back in

again.Human Beings are the same,not every flower

bursts into creation and comes back in at the same

time.Some close earlier some close later,the person

still coming out into manifestation,they are more

likely to be a Human Animal.If they have decided to

close in the petals and come back;whereas they are

more likely to be an aspiring Human Being.

 

Om Namah Sivaya, Tony.

These are exracts from a talk I gave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THAMASO MA JYOTHIR GAMAYA, From darkness, lead me to light,

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