[NondualitySalon] Harsha's 1001 Enlightenment Stories

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Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar) wrote:

 

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> in ancient days, there was a sect of Sadhus in India. People said

> they were totally crazy because their guru advocated suicide for everyone.

> Their philosophy was that the world did not really exist, was a miserable

> illusion, and the only way out was to climb the big local mountain and jump

> off it, head first. The guru of the sect was widely respected.

 

It seems to me that their fatal flaw was not in holding that all is illusion

(nor

would maintaining the reality of the world be a flaw) but in the illusion that

all is

inescapably miserable, and in confusing death of self with physical death, and

in

separating physical life from life of Self.

 

andrew