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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 29, 2021. 7:57. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-16-2. SECTION 16: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—ILLUSTRATION OF THE ORDEAL -2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In spite of the fact that the senses are withdrawn into the mind, the mind is withdrawn into the prana, the prana into the fire or heat in the system, and heat into the Supreme Being, in both cases, in the case of the liberated, it is a gradual transcendence and a conscious process of ascent. When one consciously moves in a particular direction towards one's destination, one knows what is happening, what one is moving through, what are the stages one has crossed, what is the distance still ahead, etc. When one knows the distance that has yet to be covered

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 25, 2021. 7:57. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-16-1. SECTION 16: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—ILLUSTRATION OF THE ORDEAL -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purusam, saumya, uta hasta-grahitam anayanti apaharsit steyam akarsit parasum asmai tapata iti; sa yadi tasya karta bhavati, tata evanrtam atmanam kurute, so 'nrtabhisandho 'nrtenatmanam antardhaya parasum taptam pratigrhnati, sa dahyate' tha hanyate. Atha yadi tasyakarta bahvati, tata eva satyam atmanam kurute, sa satyabhisandhah satyenatmanam antardhaya parasum taptam pratigrhnati, sa na dahyate atha mucyate. The servants of the

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,August 21, 2021. 8:12. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-15.2. SECTION 15: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE ORDER OF MERGING -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Individual life gets extinguished by a gradual process of absorption of the external functions into the internal ones until they are withdrawn finally into the General Reality, Samanya Satta, in all things. The person enters into a state like that of deep sleep. He does not know what has happened to him. He cannot know that he is dying. That is unconsciousness. There is a sudden shift of emphasis from one level of being to another. One cannot know that one has fallen asleep. However much one may be trying one's best to keep a watch on the process of goi

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,August 15, 2021. 8:48. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-15.1. SECTION 15: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE ORDER OF MERGING -1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mantram-1. "Purusam, saumya, utopatapinam jnatayah paryupasate, janasi mam, janasi mam iti; tasya yavan na van manasi sampadyate, manah prane, pranah tejasi, tejah parasyam devatayam tavaj-janati." 1. When a person is very sick and is about to depart from this world, people sit around him. His relatives gather around him and ask him, "Do you recognise us?" "Do you know who I am sitting here?" If the senses are active, n

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swami Chinmayananda ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,August 10, 2021. 10:02. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-14 SECTION 14: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE NEED FOR A GURU -3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the way? The way is the acharya, the Guru, the teacher, the master, the preceptor. There is no other way. "So only a person who has a proper preceptor can realise the Truth," says this Upanishad. No one else can reach this Truth by any effort of the mind, the intellect or the senses. No amount of scientific analysis, no amount of study of the scriptures alone will be of any use. It requires direct guidance from one who has personal experience. Such a person is the acharya, the preceptor who knows what Tru

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,August 3, 2021. 8:37. PM. Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self-14 SECTION 14: THE INDWELLING SPIRIT (CONTINUED)—THE NEED FOR A GURU -3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have fallen from the ancient, pristine existence by a tortuous process of descent. It is not a sudden drop, as drops of water from the sky fall on the earth. It is a winding process through various kinds of curves and turns through which Consciousness has got itself entangled and has come to this present pitiable condition of earth-consciousness, body- consciousness, object-consciousness, and a total absence of universal consciousness. To go back to that orginal state, it is not possible to take a jet plane and fly straight. It is not a straight movement. It is als