"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

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya said,

Hemalekha continued,
  • If one is fixed in that fundamental basis of the universe (i.e., the Self), one becomes the All-doer. I shall tell you how to inhere thus. I assure you - you will be That.
  • Realize with a still mind the state between sleep and wakefulness, the interval between the recognition of one object after another or the gap between two perceptions.
  • This is the real Self, inhering in which one is no longer deluded. Unaware of this Truth, people have become inheritors of sorrow.
  • Shape, taste, smell, touch, sound, sorrow, pleasure, the act of gaining, or the object gained - none of these finds place in that Transcendence which is the support of all there is, and which is the being in all, but is bereft  of everything (does not contain anything). That is the Supreme Lord, the Creator, the Supporter and the Destroyer of the universe and the Eternal Being.
  • Now let not your mind be outgoing; turn it inward; control it just a little and watch for the self, always remembering that the investigator is himself the essence of being and the Self of self.

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