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nanda chandran [vpcnk]

Monday, February 01, 1999 2:16 PM

advaitin

Freewill

 

The Self is nothing but YOU, even in the common sense of the

term. YOU are always present. It's YOUR mind or YOUR intellect or YOUR ego

or YOUR sense, which works. What the above statement does not mean is that

since the Self is beyond the mind and senses, it's beyond you. It only means

that since YOU ARE IT, and the senses and the mind exist only in relation to

YOU, YOU are beyond them. YOU presuppose them. The YOU is nothing but you

even now. So don't try to use the mind and the intellect to know yourself.

Just be. (It may sound simple , but just try it and you'll find how hard it

is to be YOURSELF!)

 

Harsha: Very beautifully put. But how can one "try" to just be? Trying

indicates "doing". Being is always Prior to all doing. So Being must be

found permeating "all doing and trying" and also independent of them.

Spiritual effort itself is due to Grace. God Remembrance is due to Grace.

The Absolute Surrender is due to Grace and it is this Moment of Truth that

contains Infinity. It puts an end to all trying and doing. Here Being shines

forth in all nakedness and dominates everywhere. Here, the Self Sees It Self

as the Self as there is Nothing else to See but the Self.

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