...only in meditation
I am back to the blog world with lots of love and inspiration. But, a mind on chat mode actually gets torn apart into bits and pieces. It takes a lot of meditation to get back into one piece. Writing for a blog demands that much effort. I find that when the mind gets filled with small, fleeting ideas and too many people who are just acquaintances, at the the click of a button, it is very difficult to really settle down for some quiet contemplation.
So I pray to my muse for some clarity and wait in patience till I have have something substantial to say, rather than just blog.
This weekend, I am looking forward to going to Kollam, God's Own Capital in God's Own Country. Primarily, it's for a friend's wedding. But I may also go to Amritapuri and the Parabrahma Temple - where there is no deity, if the time and situation allows.
Namaste. Swaha.
16 comments:
Hi Swahilya,
Great to see you back. Amrithapuri is a beautiful, for that matter the whole of Kerala. And more so with Mata Amrithanandamayi there. She was the first spiritually enlightened I met and was very much impressed by her about 20 years back.
but hari what is your definition of being enlightened? how do you jusdge someone if you have not enlightnened yourslef? or is it you are enlightnened too?
Hello Warlord,
You mean to say that you have to be a SUN yourself to identify the rising sun in the morning.
Sabash Sariyana Potti!
sun example is good but can have limitations because it is objective..when it comes to subjective experience like enlightenment, the examples fail.
Seeing is not Being. You can see a sun but need not be one. Incase of self knowledge or experience it is totally beyond senses..it is like you try to 'see' your own eyes(minus mirror ofcourse)...
but you have a way to get awy
however limited your exapmple is...
Warlord,
You need not see the sun to be aware of its presence, you can feel its presence by the radiance and heat that emanate from it, even with your eyes closed.
Enlightenment is not subjective. It is a state of total mind control and awareness of the all pervasive supreme power, totally spiritual different much above religious interpretations.
Only thing you should not be ignorant of it, just as a case when you cannot differentiate between the heat of the sun and the fire, whereby you cannot feel the presence of the sun with your eyes closed.
Warlord: Seeing is not being. Yes. I had the experience while chanting the mantra Swasti Prajabhya Paripalayantam just today. I opened my eyes and saw the nothing outside. At that moment, I had the feeling of Seeing the Truth.
Hari, Enlightenment is indeed a state of being - experiencing the totality. That is Silence, Void, Nothingness. It fails Expression, because it is beyond sense perceptions. But as you said, it can be identified, because the same light is within you. Like knows Like.
warlord is wrong. Especially his warring attitude. And he is right too. Similarly hari is both right and wrong. Thats why spirituality is very slippery. It can slipanyways. Slip in some direction always.
This slippery aspect of spirituality has enabled all the various schools of thoughts contrast to each other and a million commentaries for the same
gita and upanishads have happened.
It also enabled various types of spiritual masters to appear and guide humanity who apparently contradict each other....never mind the seeker is put to such turmoil.
Thank you Mdafons (Amaluz?)
In fact, I forgot the technique - I used to do it and recommend it to others who had a writer's block at office! But a clear example that God sends someone to remind whenever I forget anything!
Cottonfires: On a screen of nothing, many things appear, draw imaginary lines, fight with imaginary swords and defend with imaginary armour. But truth remains silent and still. In fact there is nothing to remain even silent and still - all so funny, vadam, prati vadam, vivadam, vidanda vadam .... all expressions of the same energy, the same truth!
swahilya..you cannot call the Truth
as 'so funny'. I condemn that !
Cottonfires: The anger in your statement is just adorable. But I did not call the Truth "funny." I dare not. It is all these expressions, the images and movements on Truth - as if fighting, as if attacking, as if retracting, what's funny is, when I see the action and reaction, the big wave and the small wave, the gold ear rings and the gold bangle, and think that they are all different.
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