"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, January 29, 2018

Yogi - Like A Child

Sage Vasishtha

RAMA asked: 

Lord, how can these two be reconciled? Can I seek freedom from all experiences and freedom from inactivity at the same time?

VASISHTHA replied:

He who has no desire or hope for anything here, nor entertains a wish to rest in inactivity, such a one does not exist as a jiva; he is neither inactive nor does he seek to experience. He who does not lean towards experience or perception of objects, though he is engaged in ceaseless activity, he is neither inactive nor does do anything or experience anything. The objective experiences do not touch the heart at all: hence, he whose consciousness is not inactive is a liberated sage here and now.

Freed from all conditioning, fully established in the state of unmodified consciousness, the yogi remains like a child or a dumb person; in him there is bliss, like the blueness of the sky. This bliss is not an experience, but the very nature of consciousness. Hence, it does not act as a disturbance, but remains integrated in the consciousness. There is freedom from all experiences. As the same time, the yogi, is constantly engaged in action: hence, there is freedom from inactivity.

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