"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Monday, April 11, 2011

Getting rid of desire is yoga

Sage Vasishtha

Yoga is getting rid of the poison of desire. Even if you desire something, there is nothing other than the self. What would you desire? Consciousness is subtle like space and indivisible; that itself is this world. How do you desire and what? There are no objects which can be desired. We do not see, either, if there is a distinction and relationship between gain and its possessor. How is an unreal substance gained? Who has obtained a black moon? When thus the nature of the gain and its possessor is clearly understood, we do not know where they disappear!

When the distinction between the seer, sight and the scene is also seen to be non-existent, the ego-sense etc. are merged in the self or consciousness. In liberation there is no seer, nor sight nor scene; when the latter exist there is no nirvana (liberation). The illusory appearance of objects is of no practical use: a shell that looks like silver has no cash-value. When you affirm the reality of the illusory appearance, you invite unhappiness; when its unreality is realized there is great happiness.

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