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The Self, Maya, and the Heart: The Fundamentals of Non-Dualism, page 10
Many of the stories about
Christ and the words He spoke are similar to stories we
might read of Saints and sages in India, Tibet, and
China, as found in "The Tibetan Book of Great
Liberation" and Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa" by
Evens-Wentz, "Autobiography of a Yogi" by
Yogananda, "Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self
Knowledge" by Arthur Osborn, "The
Ramayana" by Tulsidas, books about the lives of
different Buddhas, or the 10 Sikh Sat (Truth) Gurus, and
many other books one can find about the miraculous lives
of these sages, Saints, Avatars, Jnanis, and so on. But
what was special about Christ was the sense of
awe-inspiring fierceness, the intensity of rock hard
Reality that packed each moment, demanding ... commanding
perfection of everyone, now. For example:
"Be perfect as your heavenly Father is
perfect."
"I give you a commandment: Love one another."
John 15: 12, 17
"For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father
which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should
say, and what I should speak. And I know his commandment
is life everlasting." John 12: 49
As Christ repeatedly stated "If any man have ears to
hear, let him hear." Mark Ch 4: 23, again Mark 7:
16, etc.. This "hearing" is central to the
entire teaching process of the non-dualist. In the
"Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge" (Advaita Bodha
Deepika), Jewel Garland of Enquiry" (Vichara Mani
Malai), "The Cream of Emancipation" (Kaivalya
Navaneeta), "The Essence of Yoga Vashishta"
(Yoga Vashishta Sara) - instructions of the Saint
Vashishta to Rama, Shankara's "Crest-Jewel of
Discrimination", and others, over and over again we
see that the three necessities to realizing the Self,
apart from the prerequisite of a "still mind"*,
are "hearing", "consideration", and
"perfect abiding". Hearing is to understand the
concept of the non-dual Self; "consideration",
to reflect inwardly: "From where do the thoughts
arise?" or "Who sees?", which includes a
steady, even ruthless disregard of all rising thoughts,
as "not this, not this,.." ("neti,
neti,.."); and finally "perfect abiding"
in the form of "objectless abiding as the seer"
or as Ground (asraya) is to a Lightningbolt (Vajra
Siddhi), until the Self flashes forth, as in "I say
unto all, Watch!" Mk 13: 37. *"Stillness of
mind" means "Be still and know that I am God
(I AM Ex 3: 14)." (David, Ps).
Probably the best summation of the possibility,
potential, or promise that Christ represents to the
Western world is in his following statement from John 16:
33.
"These things I have spoken to you that in me you
might have peace. In the world you shall have
tribulations: But be of good cheer; I have overcome
(conquered) the world."
Actually, not to see Christ as the personification of
non-dualism is to turn all He says into demagoguery,
to make him into another "zealot" of the time,
the founder of a bizarre cult, of strange rituals based
in fanatical superstition and myth, a revamping of
paganism in monistic form. It seems quite obvious though
in reading the first three parts (above) concerning Part
I, the subject of the Self, Maya, and the Heart, as they
relate to the philosophy of non-dualism; Part II, the
nature of (Western) preconceptions that needed to be set
aside in order to "enter into" the subject; and
Part III, a discussion of the nature and experience of
non-dualism, as a philosophical reality, that if
we can "hear" Him Christ (the Vajra Siddhi
Guru), ever abiding in and as the Father, may be one of
the most profound Teachers of the non-dual nature of
Reality and proof of its philosophy in terms of realizing
the Truth of our own Reality as all pervasive Self!
Blessed am I
In freedom am I
I am the infinite
in my soul
I can find no beginning
no end
all is my self
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