Watchfulness

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The great sage Mahavira said to his disciple Gautama that one does not know when

it will be time to go. "So always be watchful O' Gautama!"

 

In Jainism, some say that the highest yoga is known as Upay Yoga or Yoga of

Awareness. The highest rung of understanding in the great spiritual traditions

emphasize being aware of the innate wakefulness of Pure Being.

 

Be Watchful.

 

Watch your Watchfulness.

 

Harsha

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> The great sage Mahavira said to his disciple Gautama that one does not

know when it will be time to go. "So always be watchful O' Gautama!"

>

> In Jainism, some say that the highest yoga is known as Upay Yoga or Yoga

of Awareness. The highest rung of understanding in the great spiritual

traditions emphasize being aware of the innate wakefulness of Pure Being.

>

> Be Watchful.

>

> Watch your Watchfulness.

>

> Harsha

>

 

Thanks for your comments Harsha. Regarding "continual and vigilant

watchfulness": Here are a couple of verses from the "Yoga Sutras, an

interpertive translation by Swami Venkatesananda"

http://dailyreadings.com/sutras_1.htm

 

I.2: Yoga happens when there is stilling (in the sense of continual and

vigilant watchfulness) of the movement of thought - without expression or

suppression - in the indivisible intelligence in which there is no movement.

 

I. 3: In the light of non-volitional, non-moving and therefore spontaneous

and choiceless awareness the undivided intelligence with its apparent and

passing modifications or movements of thought within itself is not confused

with nor confined to any of these. Then (when yoga thus happens), the seer

or the homogeneous intelligence which is ignorantly regarded as the separate

experiences of sensations and emotions, and the separate performer of

actions, is not split up into one or the other of the states or

modifications of the mind, and exists by itself and as itself.

 

Roger