"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

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Jnani's Prarabdha?

Sri Tandavaraya Swami

Disciple:

Should the sage, liberated while alive, who has transcended the incidents of the body, lost the sense of doer-ship and the whole individuality, and become one with Brahman, be said to be the experiencer of prarabdha, he must also be the doer. Can there be experience to a perfect non-doer? 

Master:

As a hill of lodestone neither moves of itself nor puts things in motion, and yet pieces of iron orient themselves towards it, I neither act by myself nor actuate others, and yet the whole world is active before me. Like the Sun I remain an unconcerned witness of all the functions of the body, senses etc. and also of the state of Peace that results from merging the mind in Brahman. One possessed of this firm experience is the Perfect Doer.

The Perfect Enjoyer is he who partakes of anything that comes his way without discriminating whether it be tasty or not, clean or unclean, healthy or unhealthy, like a blazing fire consuming all that lies in its way. He whose mind is crystal clear; unaffected by passing phases, great or small, good or bad, his own or others', is the Perfect Renouncer. A liberated sage is strictly an exemplar of these three virtues (united).

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