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Post by Theodore on Dec 22, 2015 12:56:17 GMT -5
I don't know what the point of the OP is, unless you are posing a question, and not asking a question. How did Maharaj come to be what he is and become so well respected? He listened to his guru and followed his instructions, it's just that simple (but it's not that easy. Simple is not always easy). I'm sorry it wasn't clear for you in this case, it clearly wasn't, at all. Maybe if you are curious enough to reread the whole thing sentence by sentence, as if written by the same person throughout, kind of impersonal to anyone, and meaning every word of it, not only the supposedly offensive ones, it wouldn't be that obscure. Of course there is always better writing to be done, but what's done is done in that case. At least now I've learned something. Who'd lynch me first with 'em torches and pitchforks.   |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 22, 2015 13:24:15 GMT -5
I don't know what the point of the OP is, unless you are posing a question, and not asking a question. How did Maharaj come to be what he is and become so well respected? He listened to his guru and followed his instructions, it's just that simple (but it's not that easy. Simple is not always easy). I'm sorry it wasn't clear for you in this case, it clearly wasn't, at all. Maybe if you are curious enough to reread the whole thing sentence by sentence, as if written by the same person throughout, kind of impersonal to anyone, and meaning every word of it, not only the supposedly offensive ones, it wouldn't be that obscure. Of course there is always better writing to be done, but what's done is done in that case. At least now I've learned something. Who'd lynch me first with 'em torches and pitchforks. No, I'm actually new to Sri N Maharaj. I've known about him for probably over 15 years, had I Am That for over a year (picked up at a good price at a used bookstore), but just poked around it a little, and have read some quotes here. But about two weeks ago started reading at the beginning, and have now read 85 pages, plus about half of Pointers (Balsekar). ...A lot of what I read, of I Am That, resonates. I think Balsekar is creeping in a little in Pointers. So no, I'm not heavily 'invested' in Maharaj, no pitchfork. I will try reading one more time OP. |
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Post by Theodore on Dec 22, 2015 13:37:11 GMT -5
No, I'm actually new to Sri N Maharaj. I've known about him for probably over 15 years, had I Am That for over a year (picked up at a good price at a used bookstore), but just poked around it a little, and have read some quotes here. But about two weeks ago started reading at the beginning, and have now read 85 pages, plus about half of Pointers (Balsekar). ...A lot of what I read, of I Am That, resonates. I think Balsekar is creeping in a little in Pointers. So no, I'm not heavily 'invested' in Maharaj, no pitchfork. I will try reading one more time OP. That's alright, it was half-kidding anyways. I've known Maharaj for a tiny fraction of the time you've known about him, but couldn't help but read all of his work, at least what is available as a book of his translated teachings (including a few other stuff, like the gorgeous The Lost Satsang movie), each one multiple times. He struck as lightning. It was a fire that spread all over me, destroying what I thought life was. The desire still comes to pick up a book of his now and then, so the fire has a few pockets here and there still burning. He was, and is, indeed, the One in my case. I had the same experience as you with Pointers. Never managed to completely finish it, -at times when the other books were spent like waterfalls- for the reason that it tastes more unripe Balsekar than classy Maharaj. But Nisargadatta Maharaj, is, at least the spark and tinder that I would be not in this search without. That, and many other things are what Maharaj means to this particular case. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 22, 2015 15:09:51 GMT -5
No, I'm actually new to Sri N Maharaj. I've known about him for probably over 15 years, had I Am That for over a year (picked up at a good price at a used bookstore), but just poked around it a little, and have read some quotes here. But about two weeks ago started reading at the beginning, and have now read 85 pages, plus about half of Pointers (Balsekar). ...A lot of what I read, of I Am That, resonates. I think Balsekar is creeping in a little in Pointers. So no, I'm not heavily 'invested' in Maharaj, no pitchfork. I will try reading one more time OP. That's alright, it was half-kidding anyways. I've known Maharaj for a tiny fraction of the time you've known about him, but couldn't help but read all of his work, at least what is available as a book of his translated teachings (including a few other stuff, like the gorgeous The Lost Satsang movie), each one multiple times. He struck as lightning. It was a fire that spread all over me, destroying what I thought life was. The desire still comes to pick up a book of his now and then, so the fire has a few pockets here and there still burning. He was, and is, indeed, the One in my case. I had the same experience as you with Pointers. Never managed to completely finish it, -at times when the other books were spent like waterfalls- for the reason that it tastes more unripe Balsekar than classy Maharaj. But Nisargadatta Maharaj, is, at least the spark and tinder that I would be not in this search without. That, and many other things are what Maharaj means to this particular case. What do you think of Consciousness and the Absolute, Final Talks? Looking for another Maharaj book I had narrowed it down to that or Pointers, from Amazon reviews, guess I picked wrong. If you could narrow it down to 8-10 sentences, or thereabouts, what to you is most significant in what Maharaj says? |
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Post by Theodore on Dec 22, 2015 20:48:28 GMT -5
What do you think of Consciousness and the Absolute, Final Talks? Looking for another Maharaj book I had narrowed it down to that or Pointers, from Amazon reviews, guess I picked wrong. If you could narrow it down to 8-10 sentences, or thereabouts, what to you is most significant in what Maharaj says? I'd almost recommended you the "Consciousness and the Absolute" in the previous post, alongside "The Ultimate Medicine", for the core of his later teachings. If I were in your position Nisaradatta-wise these would be the two top of my list (and they were; when I was) Now, for the question, I can't really tell. If you asked me a year ago maybe I could, but right now, there is no feeling for anything particular I've read-heard of him. So it may sound a little stale. It feels like I can't form meaninful structures in normal conversations anymore. I have pretty much nothing to say to anyone, and usually whatever comes out of my mouth is in a sense pleasantry, boring, pointless. Anyways, - quotes I've posted from the Lost Satsang in the Nisargadatta no discussion thread. In my own words? Here: He has more to-the-point things to say, but the above is what is with me right now. |
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