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SADHANA
PADA
Nature of the seer and seen
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| Sva_Svami_Shaktyoh
Svarupa_Upalabdhi_Hetuh Samyogah |
| |2.23|| |
| Nature of the owner
and the owned On their conjunction,
is known. |
Sva:one's
own Svami: Lord Shaktyoh:
strength, potential Svarupa:
own form
Upalabdhi: attainable Hetuh:cause
Samyogah: meeting point |
| 2.23 Q: When or how does
the EXPERIENCER gain awareness? |
| A: When he comes into contact
with the NATURE, the process of experiencing occurs.
It is then that he identifies himself with the object
of experience. |
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Why this divorce and why this reunion? So that the experience
of the pain of divorce is realized and also the pleasure of
Union.
Had Rama not lost Sita, there would have been no Ramayana.
But why did Sita separate from Rama? Because of Maricha, the
illusion of an attractive deer. But can the all knowing Sita
fall a prey to illusion? For it is just a play! But are Rama
and Sita, separate? No, they are one, but they divide to enact!
Thus it is said that the entire universe is just a play.
But to the un-liberated the fact remains that he does not
know that he is only a witness to the play. He thinks he is
the character and thus suffers.
Scriptures say:
God is the Lord of the Maya. The whole world is filled with
beings who form part of his parts.
| There are two attributes:
maya, illusion to the universal soul, and avidya
, ignorance to the embodied soul. On abandoning
the two, what is seen is the perpetually true, Conscious
and blissful pram Brahman- The ultimate supreme
reality. |
| Adhyatma Upanishad |
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| Q: When will external objects
vanish? |
 A:
If the mind, which is the cause of all thoughts
and activities vanishes, external objects do vanish.
Bhagvan Shri Ramana Maharshi |
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