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"To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite - the not-self. Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge - liberation. And what is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and death." - Sri Nisargadatta - |
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*SANT MAT:
1.Nonviolence
2.Truthfulness
3.Selfcontrol
4.Humility
5.Being Content
Nonviolence: in word; means no
back-biting, in action: not to harm oneself
with a harmful lifestyle and no killing;
thus observing the vegetarian diet.
Truthfulness: to oneself and to others
This includes no lying, no illegal gain
and honesty in business, cleanliness
in thought action and speech.
livelihood.
Avoid: Anger Lying Egotism Envy
Vanity and Lust
*BUDDHISM:
1.Right Understanding
2.Right thoughts
3.Right Speech
4 Right Action
5 Right Livelihood
6 Right Effort
7.Right Mindfulness
8.Right Concentration (Samadhi)
*YOGA:
1.YAMA: attitudes toward our enviroment
2.NIYAMA: attitudes towards selves
3.ASANA: practice of body exercises
4.PRANAYAMA: breathing exercises
5.PRATYAHARA: restraint of senses
6.DHARANA: right understanding
7. DHYANA: attention, meditation
8.SAMADHI: complete intergration
*DZOGCHEN:
Five Celestial Buddhas.
Each of the other four presides
over one of the cardinal
points of the compass: Akshobhya, Amoghasiddhi,, Amitabha, and Ratnasambhava.Vairochana serves as the central deity.
Each of these Buddhas is also
associated with one of the five afflictions
of the human personality:
1.confusion
2.pride
3.envy
3.hatred
4.and desire
Dzogchen basically deals
with the innate intelligence or
intrinsic awareness which all
beings possess.
from: Longchenpa:
"Look nakedly at whatever
appears at the moment it appears.
Know the state of pure and total
presence (awareness) to be a vast
expanse without center or border.
It is everywhere the same, without
acceptance and rejection.
Blend the nature of mind and it's
habit patterns into nonduality.
*ADVAITA:
(recommends the same as Swami)
There are two Nirvikalpas:
the internal:
the mind completely merges in the inmost Being and is aware of nothing else
the external: the mind is
absorbed in the Self, the
sense of world still prevails
without a reaction from within.
When the external and the internal
Nirvikalpa are realised as identical,
the ultimate goal, Sahaja Nirvikalpa
Samadhi is been reached.
The Path of Sri Ramana:
Self-inquiry that is more like
Self-attention or awareness watching awareness being awareness.
"The only true and full awareness
is awareness of awareness.
Till awareness is awareness of itself,
it knows no peace at all."
"Is it not because you
are yourself awareness that you now
perceive this universe? If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness
itself as Guru.
Automatically the "your"
(and me and mine) will drop off and
it will be obvious that awareness
watching awareness is really
awareness abiding in or being
awareness.
"You are all Buddhas
There is nothing you need to achieve.
Just open your eyes."
Siddhartha Gautama
Buddha
The notion of Godman, or woman as understood in India; a form of bhakti-yoga (devotional) is difficult to comprehend by the western mind. After fourty years of practicing yoga and studying the sacred writings as well the studies of higher states of consciousness by psychiatrist and transpersonal psychologist; some argue the legitimacy of experiences during meditation, or any religious altered states saying visions are culturally bound thus indicating, that the content of one's experiences may be unconscious projections and also argue about the notion of godman, or Perfect Living Master.
I didn't find an alternative to meditation and a better technique than Surat Shabd Yoga to stay mindful, fully aware and have elevated sense of ethics and refinement of character. I know from experience that
Sant Mat Meditation which is to focus attention on the inner Light at the third-eye and to the inner Sound from above: when we attache our attention to this transcending power we can easily attune ourselves to it; as it is a natural method. The Sant Mat doctrine needs updating to be fully appreciated and practiced by modern societies, but since it is a natural, primal and easy technique of meditation I've full faith in the prevailing of the Surat Shabd Yoga and hope it will be taught widely as a tool to elevate consciousness gain right understanding and inner peace. I value my initiation into the inner Sound and Light the most among all the teachings I received during my lifetme and feel gratitude toward Sant Thakar Singh for initiating me to the inner realms, today my guru is the Sound and Light current itself.
Every organisation, or movement is stamped with the personage of its leader. I value Sant Thakar Singh's efforts of continuing the upkeep of
Ashrams (Manav Kendra), where He takes in the poor and gives initiation to the Light without any discrimination. This tradition started by His Master the great thinker Sant Kirpal Singh. Sant Kirpal .
Sant Thakar quotes in his book the Gospel of Love: "Love is God and God is love" and the title of His organisation named Know Thyself as Soul Foundation sums up His belief, that first and outmost we should strive to know ourselves as soul, which is One with all and in all.
This thought to know the Self brought me to Ramana Maharsi and to the GAIA's Non-Dualist thought his method of self-inquiry leading to self-knowledge to be a self-actualized, selfrealized, godrealized an enlightened being.
To be enlightened in the Heart and keep connected to others with universal compassion and universal goodwill.
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