"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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

You Are Already Liberated: Live Like One

Sage Vasishtha

It is by emulating the example of the holy ones that one makes progress towards the supreme state. Whatever be one's nature here in this life, that alone he obtains after leaving this life-span. But he who exerts seriously now is able to overcome such predispositions and exalt himself from the states of darkness and stupidity (tamas) and impurity (rajas). It is by the exercise of one's wisdom that one can ascend from these other states to the state of purity and enlightenment (satva).

It is only by intense self-effort that one obtains a good embodiment. There is nothing that intense self-effort cannot achieve. By the practice of brahmacharya (continence or whole-souled devotion to brahman), courage and endurance, and dispassion, and by intelligent practice based on common-sense, one obtains that which one seeks to obtain, self-knowledge.

Rama, you are already a liberated being: live like one!

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