“Through the concepts of others you have built up so many things around you that you are lost. “You” is decorated and embellished by the concepts of others. Prior to receiving any hearsays from outside, has anyone any information about himself?”
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Omnipresent Love’s Tweet for today:
15. I followed my ego and got lost. I followed my heart and came home ♥
Nisargadatta continues:
“The purpose of the Sat-Guru is to tell you what you are like prior to the building up of all those concepts of others. Your present spiritual storehouse is filled up with the words of others–demolish those concepts. Sat-Guru means the eternal state which will never be changed: what you are. You are that immutable, eternal, unchangeable Absolute. Sat-Guru tells you to get rid of all these walls built around you by the hearsays and concepts of others.
You have no form, no design. The names and forms you see are your consciousness only – the Self is colorless but is able to judge colors, etc.
The one who is directed by a Sat-Guru has no more birth. Your sadhana is over, you have reached this place.
To you who search for the Self , I explain this type of knowledge, I lead you to a state where there is no hunger, no desire.
When you have knowledge you see the “I” as all-pervasive, as long as the consciousness is there, but the witness of the consciousness has no “I Am,” that is your true eternal nature.” (Nisargadatta, Prior to Consciousness p. 83)
Sat-Guru:
True dispeller of darkness and revealer of light. This can be in the form of another human person or other being or seen and felt only internally.
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Yes, My Love — it’s good to be on the return path, following our hearts once again, Alia
I don’t know where we’re going but it sure feels GOOOOOOOD!
YES!! I have come to really feel this lately. I’ve even stopped reading because I don’t want to be filled up with the influence of others (and I’m usually a bookworm!)
Want to know how I have come back to myself? I’ve started drumming – as in Shamanic, First time I’ve explored this area. I cannot state how therapeutic I found it 🙂
Blessings be.
Alia and I went to a drumming group regularly for a while and I agree, it starts something vibrating very deep in our being…some very primal layers are activated. Mine is a djembe ~ I love it! Yes, I’m glad to hear you are enjoying drumming!
😀 wow, that must be amazing, to drum with others!
I’ve found, too, a mantra that went really well, you’ve probably heard it before:
“I am a circle within a circle/with no beginning and never ending…”
I find I repeat this, over and over, it seems such a powerful chant to me… and it went well with the drumming too. More exploration to be done! 🙂
Blessings be.
🙂
The words resonated with me at many levels.
“I followed my heart and came home”, so simple but very deep.
Regards,
Deep is very often simple.
Thanks for your response ~
with warm regards,
Tomas
Forces one to dig deep, dwell and discover.
I find that the “dwell” part is essential in this.
Great post Tomas
I especially like this: …”the Self is colorless but is able to judge colors, etc.”
yes it is like clear water that understands when a drop of color is added, almost like the process of distillation where evaporation removes all impurity.
Good ~ yes, the metaphor of distillation is good.
and your other thought: “one becomes absorbed as if one were clear water sucked up evaporated by light” is similar… evaporation and distillation – purity through the process of being removed molecule by molecule out of the state of in-homogeneity ~ all of consciousness is impurity of the Absolute.