"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

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Tripura Rahasya

Lord Dattatreya said,

  • Objects are necessary for producing images in a mirror; they are not however necessary for consciousness, because it is self-contained.
  • O Parasurama! Note how daydreams and hallucinations are clearly pictured in the mind even in the absence of any reality behind them. How does it happen? The place of objects is taken up by the peculiar imaginative quality of the mind. When such imagination is deep, it takes shape as creation; consciousness is pure and unblemished in the absence of imagination.
  • Thus you see how consciousness was absolute and pure before creation and how its peculiar quality or will brought about this image of the world in it.
  • So the world is nothing but an image drawn on the screen of consciousness, it differs from a mental picture in its long duration; that is again due to the strength of will producing the phenomenon. The universe appears practical, material and perfect because the will determining its creation is perfect and independent; whereas the human conceptions are more or less transitory according to the strength or the weakness of the will behind them.
  • The hampering of limitations is to some extent overcome by the use of incantations, gems and herbs, and an unbroken current of "I" is established.
  • With the aid of that pure yoga, O Rama, observe the creation manifested by one's will like the hallucinations brought about by a magician.

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