Post by Reefs on Jul 19, 2013 10:06:58 GMT -5
"Realization is of the fact that you are not a person. Therefore, it cannot be the duty of the person whose destiny is to disappear... At the moment of realization the person ceases. Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is inherent in the reality itself... Unless the witnessing consciousness begins to play on the person and it becomes the object of observation rather than the subject, realization is not feasible. It is the witness that makes realization desirable and attainable...
For realization, understanding is essential. Action is only incidental. ... There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind....
Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow. To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy... Self -realization is beyond the mind... To know that the known cannot be me nor mine, is liberation enough. Freedom from self-identification with a set of memories and habits. To know the source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source only is self-realization... Just as every wave subsides into the ocean, so does every moment return to its source. Realization consists in discovering the source and abiding there....
Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it comes and goes. Self-realization is not an acquisition. It is more of the nature of understanding. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost. On the other hand, consciousness is changeful, flowing, undergoing transformation from moment to moment. Do not hold on to consciousness and its contents...
All experience is illusory, limited and temporal. Expect nothing from experience. Realization by itself is not an experience, though it may lead to a new dimension of experiences. Yet the new experiences, however interesting, are not more real than the old. Definitely realization is not a new experience. It is the discovery of the timeless factor in every experience. It is awareness, which makes experience possible. Just like in all the colors light is the colorless factor, so in every experience awareness is present, yet it is not an experience..."
taken from "I AM THAT"
For realization, understanding is essential. Action is only incidental. ... There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind....
Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow. To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy... Self -realization is beyond the mind... To know that the known cannot be me nor mine, is liberation enough. Freedom from self-identification with a set of memories and habits. To know the source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source only is self-realization... Just as every wave subsides into the ocean, so does every moment return to its source. Realization consists in discovering the source and abiding there....
Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it comes and goes. Self-realization is not an acquisition. It is more of the nature of understanding. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost. On the other hand, consciousness is changeful, flowing, undergoing transformation from moment to moment. Do not hold on to consciousness and its contents...
All experience is illusory, limited and temporal. Expect nothing from experience. Realization by itself is not an experience, though it may lead to a new dimension of experiences. Yet the new experiences, however interesting, are not more real than the old. Definitely realization is not a new experience. It is the discovery of the timeless factor in every experience. It is awareness, which makes experience possible. Just like in all the colors light is the colorless factor, so in every experience awareness is present, yet it is not an experience..."
taken from "I AM THAT"