Feb 2022 notes- Tr Rhsya

 From Jan 2021 notes :

Persons who practise sense-control shake off their sin by that.

 Perfect ascetics reached heaven gradually through sense-control. 

Sense-control is inaccessible to ordinary creatures. 

Everything is founded in sense-control. 

Therefore they say sense-control is the supreme (means of liberation).

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Therefore they say that the power of inward concentration is the supreme means of liberation.

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One who knows he is not the body remains in constant self

 attentiveness

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A level of maturity is reached when nothing external is of any value, and the heart is ready to relinquish all. 

Then the real has a chance and it grasps it.


 Delays, if any, are caused by the mind being unwilling to see or discard. (514)



Non-investigation is the thread on which all the states of mind are strung.

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Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern. 

It cannot be done, it happens when you realize your true nature. (478)

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Nothings stops you from being a dnyani here and now, except fear. 

If you are still dreaming it is because you have not really understood that you are dreaming. This is the essence of bondage - the mixing of the real with the unreal

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chp 18

3-5. "Why say so much about it? 

The long and short of it is this.

 Objective knowledge is gained by the mind; the mind cannot be objectified.

 Still it follows that there must be mind even in the absence of objects. 

Such pure mind entirely divested of all objective knowledge (or thoughts) is pure intelligence. 

Awareness is its nature. 

Therefore it is always realised, for no other knower beside itself can ever be admitted.

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88. "Hence the identity of space with the Self is not apparent to the scholar, (vidvatta)

because they are incapable of investigating the Self with a steady mind, 


for that is diverted by its inherent disposition to go outward.

89-90. "Second-hand knowledge of the Self gathered from books or gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied to himself. 

Direct Realisation alone will do that. 

Therefore, follow my advice and realise yourself, turning the mind inward.

Once you have understood this, the main obstacle to realization is removed. (476)

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chp 19

10-13. "What kind of effort can avail to disclose the eternally self-resplendent consciousness?

Being coated with a thick crust of infinite vasanas (dispositions), it is not easily perceived.

The incrustation must first be soaked in the running steam of mind control and carefully scraped off with the sharp chisel of investigation.

Then one must turn the closed urn of crystal quartz - namely, the mind cleaned in the aforesaid manner - on the grinding wheel of alertness and finally open the lid with the lever of discrimination.

"Lo! the gem enclosed within is now reached and that is all!
"Thus you see, Rama, that all efforts are directed to cleaning up the Augean stables of predispositions.

As long as you have the idea of influencing events, liberation is not for you: the very notion of doership, of being a cause, is bondage. (298)

Questions arise only to an entity.

Untill you feel you are an 'entity', the spiritual talk ...etc   is a waste

One who transcends the attributes, abides in the Absolute.

First transcend body, then transcend C...


You are prior to C...in that state no pleasure pain


As long as you believe you are an entity all spiritual salvation and all this talk....useless.

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Nothings stops you from being a dnyani here and now, except fear. 

If you are still dreaming it is because you have not really understood that you are dreaming. This is the essence of bondage - the mixing of the real with the unreal. 

In your present state, only the sense "I am" refers to reality. 

The "what" and the "how I am" are illusions imposed by destiny, or accident. (506)

The "here" is everywhere, and the now always. 

Go beyond the "I-am-the-body" idea and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space and time. 

Once you have understood this, the main obstacle to realization is removed. (476)

To know that you are neither in the body nor in the mind, though

 aware of both, is already self-knowledge. (518)

It is only your mind that prevents self-knowledge. (517)

As long as you take yourself to be a person, a body and a mind, separate from the stream of life, having a will of its own, pursuing its own aims, 

you are living merely on the surface, 

and whatever you do will be short-lived and of little value, 

mere straw to feed the flames of vanity. (492)

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The cause of suffering is self-identification with the limited. 

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The inner consciousness must be awakened through the Grace of God.

 Through this awakening a man goes into samadhi.

 He often forgets that he has a body. 

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As self-identification with the body-mind
is the poison that brings bondage,

seek liberation by seeing that oneself is not
any thing personal or perceivable.

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Questions arise only to an entity.
till you feel you are an entity the spiritual talk ...etc   is a waste

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