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Spirituality
Publisher: Read Herrings
Pages: 70
Copyright: 2008
A collection of Daniel Batten's vast knowledge in spirituality and ancient wisdom. It speaks to the Buddhist, the Hindu and the Christian.
A collection of Daniel Batten's vast knowledge in spirituality and ancient wisdom. It speaks to the Buddhist, the Hindu and the Christian.
Excerpt
Karmanyevādhikāraste
(“In action alone the jurisdiction of thee”)
It is the way of the yogin to be indifferent to his actions; for indifference releases him from the shackles of pride. It is wise to be a man of good intentions, but to contemplate the intentions is to cause a delay and “inaction” is the fruitless way of the fool. The yogin understands that by being aware of his actions, he pollutes them, and that proper action is an obligation, and not a reward. Proper action leaves no waves, and it causes no stir, it merely passes overhead unnoticed. It thrives on nothing, and it wounds no one. Action is not a sword, and it has no blade, it cannot penetrate the air, for it does not hold any weight or any cause, but to be, and in being, like Brahman, who is all powerful and of great force because by way of His silence, He is unoffending.
Krtsnavin na vicālayet
(“The complete knower not he should disturb”)
Take your mind to a place of great and impenetrable beauty. Where your senses are so overwhelmed by beauty that all ugliness you knew dissolves in the virtue of Brahmin. Happy, you find more enjoyment and satisfaction staring into the blissfulness of such bounty; the mind looses all its doubts and its attachments and melts into the glory of the whole. This is the mind of the yogin. This is the promised place of all salvation. It is the duty of the soul to remember this inner heaven. A flawed mind that contemplates and attaches itself also is a fool. The yogin must not contemplate ugliness, or his perspective will too become ugly. It takes one weed to ruin the entirety of a garden. You cannot then convert a mind bound by ugliness into beauty, when to them; their ugliness is beauty, for when you do, and you offend them you turn them away from your truth. You cannot give to a man that only takes, and you cannot take if you only give. Those deluded by action, are too deluded by the effects of their actions. It is the greatest teacher who speaks nothing to his students, and who works not to harvest another’s crop when it takes all his energy to keep the weeds from his own. The perfect knower should not disturb the foolish men of incomplete knowledge.
Matprasādāt tarisasi
(“From my grace thou shalt pass over”)
The yogi’s mind is like a candle, it burns, and by burning, the fire consumes him and He becomes devoted to the burning and not to the reasons why he burns. Just as the non-believer goes about his life neither to serve himself nor to please Brahman, he is wise beyond his knowledge. The yogin was doing the same, except his reasons were much different. He lives to be one with Brahman, but like the non-believer, He wishes to not interrupt Brahman with his own egotism and “I Making” and let Brahman’s grace fill him and make him fixated on Him. The non-believer is more wise than the religious man who talks all message, speaks with fiery passion and wishes to burn the world with his own ego, for he is too busy loving himself to listen and hear the passing of Brahman in the soft breeze. Keep thy lantern low, yogin, keep thy ears to the heavens, and speak not or you shall miss Brahman in the slightest details, the call of a bird, or the lessons of the active word as it beckons on the lips of the slave or the dying. Be the fire, and say nothing, nor concern yourself with the flame. Silence is Brahman, and everything of truth needs no mouth to utter it, for to utter it is to lose it.
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