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Wait that link is the Complete Works? Gulp.
Just opened it...Bye, won't be seein' me for awhile !! lol
Yup, and I found it after I bought "Vivekananda: The Yogas and Other Works". It doesn't have all the material contained in Complete Works, however it's a nice hardcover edition and does have all of the core topics (Four Yogas) plus Chicago Addresses, Inspired Talks, Miscellaneous Lectures, Poems and Letters.
Pretty much renunciation (of ego!). Ego - Ahamkara - is the I-maker or appropriating function of mind in the Samkhya psychological model, and that model is used by most (all?) of Hinduism. It's the first thought (I am) from which all delusions arise. Ahamkara says "I am conscious" when the reality is "I Am Consciousness Itself". Ahamkara appropriates That as its own. Localizes the non-local perceptually speaking.
I am not JASG the doer. I am the Witness of the doings of JASG. Am I tasting the Sugar or am I the Sugar or both?
A Hindu views the entire universe as God's and everything in the universe as God.
Hindus believe that each person is intrinsically divine and the purpose of life is to seek
and realize the divinity within all of us.
A Hindu views the entire universe as God's and everything in the universe as God.
Hindus believe that each person is intrinsically divine and the purpose of life is to seek
and realize the divinity within all of us.
I would say Hindus believe we are existence, knowledge, abundance. That instead we see ourselves as body and mind and suffer the world is due to our delusional thinking caused by ignorance of our true nature. This ignorance has no beginning and ends with knowledge.
"Though God has everything, we can still say that He has some desire: He wants to see who will remain unintimidated by this picture, and who will play his part well and come back to Him. You can't run away from this universe, but if you act in this play with your thought fixed on God, you will be free." - Paramahansa Yogananda (in 1946, in San Diego)
OMG, what a quote. Always fixed on God and staying unintimidated, always to remain unintimidated...Not easy, God...not easy.
Those elements that constitute the individual body are the very elements the entire universe is constituted of.
Contemplate on that!
~~Shankara Acharya
"The idea of time is only in your mind. It is not in the Self. There is no time for the Self. Time arises as an idea after the ego arises. But you are the Self beyond time and space; you exist even in the absence of time and space."
Ramana Maharshi
Time is an intellectual conception. Self is beyond that.
A Hindu views the entire universe as God's and everything in the universe as God.
Hindus believe that each person is intrinsically divine and the purpose of life is to seek
and realize the divinity within all of us.
Miss H., you understand the essence better than CB or Tzaph or any of the other posters on Hinduism, IMO. They seem to believe in a dead, constant, and static Divinity, NOT a living one. Life (whether eternal or not) requires growth and time that is why our Reality is established in "quantum time," NOT our measured and experienced time. We are in a permanent "Sting." We are "reproducing" Divinity. Our JOB is to "actualize" its Holy Spirit in our burgeoning human Spirit.
M. Life (whether eternal or not) requires growth and time that is why our Reality is established in "quantum time," NOT our measured and experienced time. We are in a permanent "Sting." We are "reproducing" Divinity. Our JOB is to "actualize" its Holy Spirit in our burgeoning human Spirit.
Dear Mystic, it is Existence, the only Reality. Pure, self-illumined, partless, formless, unlimited. Our JOB is only to understand and realize the truth of I am That.. Miss. H got it well and clear. And you will too, I am sure of it.
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