Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Recognizing The God Within


The limitlessness that is God, the ananda that is God, the absolute freedom that is God, shines as self-revealing, self-luminous, self-existent Consciouness that is the non-negatable dimension, the indestructible truth of “I”.

We are not in touch with this ever-existent truth simply because of ignorance, which covers as though with a wall made of bricks of false limiting concepts about the self, and the resulting layers of emotional impurities.

So getting in touch with the truth of the limitless God who shines as one’s self involves :

·        freeing oneself emotionally of the layers of impurities born of false perceptions, like anger, hurt, guilt, fear, anxieties, worry, frustrations, sadness, greed, jealousy, postive and negative projections on people, objects  and situations as capable of giving happiness or sorrow etc.
·        negating the false concepts of limitation of the self as the body-mind-sense complex, as a jiva - this is understood clearly thru systematic and thorough study of Vedanta Shastra as handled by a competent teacher who has studied traditional Vedanta

When both of these are there, the changless, limitless nature of the self is recognized and realised as the self-existent, self-revealing conscious vast spaciousness in whose presence all experience takes place. 

Om Tat Sat