[NondualitySalon] ahimsa...

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> All,

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> I found this lovely site today, searching on the word ahimsa. (good

> question - was it Roger? or did he respond with an answer to a question

> from someone else? (the list is so fast and my mind is so slow) anyway,

> this is deeply useful from where I'm sitting:

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> http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/teachings/ahimsa.htm#meaning

>

> Love, Mark

 

Thanks Mark, that was an interesting page. And I enjoyed your other recent

comments too.

 

I found one sentence on the main page at that site objectionable, I suspect

the sentence is from the maintainer of the web site, not from Sivananda who

typically takes my breath and thoughts away.

 

The sentence is: "The only purpose of this human birth, which is very

difficult to get, is to realize God and hence terminate this incessant cycle

of birth and death."

 

Who is it that wants to escape this cycle of birth & death? Such Hindu

escapist doctrine is just more vain exercise of egoic identification

attempting to acquire some imagined goal, trying to gain some imagined

security. Believers in such nonsense sometimes become impractical & avoid

appropriate worldly responsibilities.

 

There is a razor's edge to walk here. In the west we have fallen off the

razor to one side claiming that only matter exists, scientists sometimes

claim that consciousness is only an artifact of having a material brain.

 

In the east they have fallen off the other side of the razor claiming that

an escape from the material world into a pseudo Spirit separate from matter

is the thing. They make this imagined/projected Spiritual escape superior to

the higher discovery of material creation as a projection of spirit.

 

This "spirit superior to matter" or wanting to "get off the wheel of karma"

is an egoic trap, an illusion in itself.

 

Isn't material creation the expression of God? Why would we want to escape

God as material existence? How is LOVE served by escaping from the

challenges of this material world ?!

 

The world constantly provides the challenges necessary for each individual

to realize the truth. Escapism is a diversion, it's a failure to take

advantage of the divine opportunity present in every moment.

 

Roger