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References to the Hrdayam and Self, which relate to Non-Dualism - Read

in one sitting, and they all seem to be saying and referring to the

same experience.

"The ancient, effulgent being, the indwelling spirit, subtle,

deep-hidden in the lotus of the Heart, is hard to know. But the wise

man following the path of meditation, knows him and is freed alike

from pleasures and pain." Katha Upanishad, p. 17-18

"Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, this Self

forever dwells within the hearts of all." Katha Upanishad, p. 18

"I am the Atman (Self) that dwells in the heart of every mortal

creature. I am the beginning, the life span, and the end of all."

(Krishna to Arjuna) Bhagavad Gita, p. 88

"The devoted dwell with Him

They know Him always

There in the Heart

Where action is not" Bhagavad Gita, p.59

"Both the individual self and the Universal Self have entered in the

cave of the heart, the abode of the Most High, but the knowers of

Brahman and the householders who perform the fire sacrifices see a

difference between them, as between sunshine and shadow."Katha

Upanishad, p. 19

"That being, who is the power of all powers and is born as such, who

embodies himself in the elements and in them exists, and who has

entered the lotus of the heart, is the immortal Self." Katha

Upanishad, p. 21

"That being, of the size of a thumb, dwells deep within the heart. He

is the lord of time, past and future. Having attained him, one fears

no more. He, verily, is the immortal Self." Katha Upanishad, p. 21

"Radiating from the lotus of the heart, there are a hundred and one

nerves. One of these ascends towards the thousand petalled lotus in

the brain." Katha Upanishad, p. 24

"The 'I'-thought is said to be the root of all thoughts. In brief,

that from which the 'I'-thought" springs forth is the heart. (verse

3)

"The heart is different from the blood circulating organ. 'Hridayam'

stands for Hird 'the center which sucks in everything', and ayam,

'this', and it thus stands for the Self. (v 5)

The location of the Heart is on the right side of the chest, not at

all on the left. The light (of awareness) flows from the heart

through the sushumna (para nadi*) to Sahasrara (thousand petalled

lotus in the brain). (verse 6)

"From there it flows to the entire body, and then all experiences of

the world arise. Viewing them as different from the Light, one gets

caught up in samsara. (verse 7)

"The Sahasrara of one who abides in the Self is nothing but pure

Light. Any thought that approaches it cannot survive. (verse 8)

"The universe is nothing but the mind, and the mind is nothing but the

heart. Thus, the entire story of the universe culminates in the heart.

(verse 12)

"The notion that the seer is different from the seen is only in the

mind. For those that abide in the Heart, the seer and the seen are

one. (verse 19)

Sri Ramana Gita, Ch V, p. 26-27

"Certainly, all these are noble: But the man of discrimination

[between Self and not self*], I see as my very Self. For he alone

loves me because I am Myself: The last and only goal of his devoted

heart." Bhagavad Gita, p. 72 [*my italics]

"The nexus of the body and the Self is called the granthi (knot). It

is only by this connection with the Self that one is aware of the

body. (verse 3)

"This body is insentient. The Self is pure awareness. The connection

between the two is deduced through intellect. (verse 4)

"Enveloped by the defused light of pure awareness, the body functions.

Owing to non-apprehension (of the world) in sleep, (swoon) and so on,

the location of the Self has to be inferred. (verse 5)

"Even as the subtle forces like the electric current pass through

visible wires, the light of awareness flows through a nadi (nerve) in

the body. (verse 6)

"The effulgent light of pure awareness, taking hold of a center,

lights up the entire body as the Sun illumines the world. (verse 7)

"Owing to the diffusion of light in the body, one has experiences in

the body. That center of radiation, the sages say, is the Heart.

(verse 8)

"From the play of the forces in the body, one infers the flow of the

light of awareness. The forces course through the body, each hugging

their own special nadi. (verse 9)

"The particular nadi through which pure awareness flows is called

sushumna*. It is also called atma nadi, para nadi, and amrita nadi.

(verse 10) [*between the Heart and the brain]

"As the light pervades the entire body, one gets attached to the body,

mistakes the body for the Self and regards the world as different from

oneself. (verse 11)

"When the discerning one renounces attachment and the identification

of himself with the body and pursues one-pointed enquiry, a churning

starts in the nadis. (verse 12)

"With this churning of the nadis, the Self gets separated from the

other nadis and, clinging to one nadi alone, shines forth.

"When the effulgent light of awareness shines in atma nadi alone,

nothing else shines except the Self. (verse 14)

"He for whom the Atman (Self) alone shines within, without, and

everywhere, as (clearly as) objects to the ignorant, is called one

who has cut the nexus. (verse 16)

"When the light, withdrawn from all other nadis, dwells in one nadi

alone, the bond (between awareness and the body) is sundered and the

light abides as the Self. (v. 18)

"Since such a one has no sense of doership, his karma, it is said, is

completely destroyed. As nothing but the Self exists, no doubts arise

for him. (verse 21)

"Once the knot is cut, one is never bound again. This is considered

the state of power and peace supreme." (verse 22)

Sri Ramana Gita, Ch:IX, p. 49-55

Another well known Gita is the Avadhut Gita, the only known work of

the Rishi Dattatreya, who lived sometime after Krishna. Avadhut means

high Renunciate or Perfected Man. To get an idea of the state of one

who ever abides as his Self, with no awareness of the body, I've

included a couple of stanzas of this Gita here, as well:

"Atman is not the Knower, Nor is It the known. It is not accessible to

inference. Words cannot describe This Consciousness Absolute. The mind

is lost in Its majesty. How can it be explained to thee? Space-like

immortality-giving knowledge am I. (verse 11)

"I am the eternal principle. Free from attachment and aversion, free

from imperfections am I, Fate and providence exist not in me.

Eternally free from the sufferings of the world, Verily, space-like

immortality-giving Knowledge am I. (verse 13)

"Maya is not my modification. Nor is its glamour mine. Deceit,

hypocrisy, truth and untruth Have no place in me. Space-like,

immortality-giving knowledge am I." (verse 18)

Avadhut Gita, Ch III, p 25-27

The following are extracts from the Yoga Vashishta Sara, a condensed

version of the Yoga Vashishta, the spiritual instructions of

Vashishta to Rama, very similar to Krishna's instructions to Arjuna,

which also helps to get a feeling for the meaning of non-dualism:

"Nothing whatsoever is born or dies anywhere at any time. It is

Brahman alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world." Ch I:

23

"The Self is more extensive than space; it is pure, subtle,

un-decaying, and auspicious. As such how could it be born and how can

it die?" Ch I: 24

"O Rama, there is no intellect, no nescience, no mind and no

individual soul (jiva). They are all imagined in Brahman." Ch III: 25

"O Rama, the mind has by its own activity bound itself; when it is

calm it is free." Ch III 27

"O Rama, this enquiry into the Self of the nature "Who am I?' is the

fire which burns up the seeds of the evil tree which is the mind." Ch

V: 1

"How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves

of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while, and disappear

according to their nature." Ch VI: 8

"Knowledge is not separate from you and that which is known is not

separate from knowledge. Hence there is nothing other than the Self,

nothing separate (from it)." ChVIII:6

"All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made."

John I: 3

'In him was life, and the life was the light of men."

John I: 4

"And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not."

John I: 5

"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that is born into this world."

John I: 9

"No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,

even the Son of man which is in heaven."John 3: 13

"I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in

darkness, but shall have the Light of Life." John 8: 12

John Ch 14:

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: No man cometh to the Father but by Me. (verse 6)

If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from

hence forth you know him and have seen him. (verse 7)

"Philip said to Jesus, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.' (verse 8)

"To which Jesus replied:

"Have I been so long with you, yet you have still not known me,

Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; therefore, how do

you say, 'Show us the Father'? (verse 9)

"Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The

words I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that

dwells in me he does the works. (verse 11)

"Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else

believe me for the very works' sake." (verse 12)

John Ch 15:

"Abide in me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself,

except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.

(verse 4)

"I am the vine, you are the branches...apart from me you can do nothing." (verse 5)

"Father, I will that they also, whom thou has given me, be with me

where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have given me:

For you have loved me from before the foundation of the world."

(verse 24)

"The light of the body is the eye: Therefore, when thine eye is

single, your whole body will be filled with light...." (verse 34)

To a non-dualist, this is easily paraphrased as follows: The part of

you that sees (the seer, one's Self) is your true light. Therefore,

if you hold the seer (subject-"I") singlely or exclusively (versus

giving attention to thoughts) you will have illumination - or what

some call the "enlightenment of the whole body". This is the exact

instruction of the non-dualists of the Vedanta tradition, with the

same described outcome, as related above. (As if God’s First

and Second Commandments were’t clear enough in terms of having

no images before the "I AM.")

"The wise man's heart is at his right hand, but the fool's heart at

his left." Ecclesiastes 10: 2. And: "The pure in heart shall see God

("I AM")." Matt 3: 8.

"These things I have spoken to you that in me you might have peace. In

the world you shall have tribulations: But be of good cheer; I have

overcome (conquered) the world." John 16: 33.

Revelations, Ch I: 8, Christ tells John:

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending" sayeth

the Lord, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the

Almighty."

 

The non-dual is One with the trusting mind Words!

The Way is beyond language

for in it

there is no yesterday

no tomorrow

no today

Third Zen Patriarch

Blessed am I

In freedom am I

I am the infinite

in my soul

I can find no beginning

no end

All is my Self

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Pieter Schoonheim Samara <pietersa

Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar) <hluthar;

 

Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:48 PM

Heart here referred to is translated as Hrdayam, said

to be

the abode of the all-pervasive non-dual Self

<http://www.nonduality.com/pieter.htm>

 

 

References to the Hrdayam and Self, which relate to Non-Dualism - Read in one

sitting, and they all seem to be saying and referring to the same experience.

 

 

 

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Dear Pieter,

 

Much gratitude to you for blessing us with such an abundance of worthy readings

this

Sunday. Glad you are among us and include us in your postings.

 

Thanks, and I am sure I speak for the list as a whole in this.

Gloria