Dear Anandaji,

Your clarification (Post # 22420) has outdone your first response
(22396) in depth and content. You have beautifully contrasted self-
imposed limitation and natural fullness. The fullness called Self-
realization indeed is the easiest thing if we can remain stark naked
in our natural purity (in puris naturalibus)! All sAdhanas are aimed
at achieving that goal, but, Alas! we know that not! Instead,
pitifully for us, the sAdhanAs themselves become limiting impediments
due to seekership! You have shed light where exactly it is most
needed and enormously enriched our current understanding of advaitic
fullness. We now know what makes a cold and lonely iceberg an
iceberg and forget its oceanicity!

Immense thanks and praNAms.

Madathil Nair
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--- In advaitin (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Ananda Wood <awood@v...> wrote:

> The structures must of course seem artificial; but in the end they
can
> only work by leading back to the heart of nature, to that which is
> utterly and completely natural. It is not nature that needs
> transcending, but only the trappings of constructed scholarship and
> learning. Where any trappings are retained, so too is a confusion
that
> needs clearing, by carefully distinguishing the superficial artifice
> from what's more truly natural.
>
> And here we are of course back at the inherent paradox of advaita
> enquiry. It keeps relentlessly distinguishing what's different, in
> search of an impartial truth where all seeming differences are found
> dissolved.