Reply: STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION

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One way of knowing more about the self is through illustrations from other

realised souls.Poets normally interpret poems by anology.

So this is what Prahalada said on the self when attained enlightenment.This

happened during Narasimha Avatara of Lord Vishnu.

O self from the mine of ego – sense Salutation to You

 

O Self in whom the fearsome senses and Salutation to You

All consuming mind have attained quiescence

 

O Self in whom the lotus of bliss has fully Salutation to You

blossomed

O Self whose two wings are consciousness and Salutation to You

its reflection and who dwells in the lotus of the heart.

 

O self the sun that dispels the darkness of ignorance Salutation to You

in the heart.

 

O self, the promoter of supreme love and the Salutation to You

sustainer of all things in the universe.

 

Prahalada said “ I have subdued the mind with its own purified state. I have cut

asunder cravings, ignorance and foolishness by their opposites. Egolessly, my

body functions with its inherent energy. The past tendencies, mental

conditioning and limitations have been completely destroyed. I begin to wonder:

how was it that for such along time I was caught in the trap of the ego-sense !

Freed from dependency, from habits of thought from desires and cravings, from

deluded belief in the existence of the ego, from the colouring of pleasure –

seeking tendency and revelry my mind has reached a state of utter quiescence.

With this all sorrow has come to an end and the light of supreme bliss has

dawned.

 

 

Ravi Sankar

Lusaka, Zambiaanupadayachi <anupadayachi (AT) (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONCHAPTER 2PRACTICEAbhyasa V6. Q. AS THE SELF

SHINES FULLY OF ITS OWN ACCORD WHY IS IT NOTGENERALLY RECOGNISED LIKE THE OTHER

OBJECTS OF THE WORLD BY ALLPERSONS ?M. Wherever particular objects are known it

is the Self which has known itself in the form of those objects. For what is

known as knowledge or awareness is only the patency of the Self (atma sakti).

The Self is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self. If

there are suchobjects they are all insentient and therefore cannot either know

themselves or mutually know one another. It is because the Self does not know

its true nature in this manner that it seems to be immersed and struggling in

the ocean of birth (and death) in the form of the individual

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