How do we function in the world?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2024
- Michael James from the TH-cam channel Sri Ramana Teachings answers questions.
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I wanted to share examples of living in the world, but not of the world as the witness, as far as having a family...Once I became identified as the witness, Mothering still happens, dog walking happens, dish washing happens and so on, but instead of feeling anxiety, stress, or doubting my abilities, I live from a place of trust and assurance that divinity is just happening through me. There is a lightness to life. I love this way much better now that I am adjusted. The deep love and assurance inside keeps growing. Life is beautiful when you just let it happen and let go. The mind will tend to overcomplicate this process.
Most misunderstand “witness” since the observer is nothing else but ego.
The term “mothering still happens “ is a confused saying which usually stems from the neo-advaita crowd.
Like that there is a separation between ego and the actions one is doing. That is delusion since the witnesser is ego and there nonetheless is an identification with the body.
What is needed is to study Bhagavan’s teachings and especially get familiar with the practice of self-attention to avoid such confusion.
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If Michael’s computer breaks down, he cannot communicate with us. That requires energy and planning for Michael to rectify the situation. How is this possible if Michael does not identify - on such an occasion - with ego.
@@bernhard1071 She writes 'witness' but it is obvious she means 'witnessing': consciousness.
I am glad that you are now adjusted and a conduit for the divine. You have left the personal perspective and now enjoy life as consciousness, our essential nature. We're all very familiar with leaving the personal perspective after awakening from any dream. Just before we slip back into the dream called life. You awakened into the dream called life.
By effacing ego through Atma vichara or Self surrender it is very peaceful to live in this world without any limitation of the form or body mind or objectivity at the highest plane of consciousness and to expend the remaining Prarabda vasanas.
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For whom is it "very peaceful" to live without limitations? That is ego talking and it seems it implies to have attained a peaceful state what can be only an imagination.
If we truly practice properly atma-vichara then we will be actually painfully aware of how much our attachment to a body and likes and dislikes is holding us back from peace.
But how many are actually properly practicing atma-vichara? Not that many since it is quite difficult to maintain.
Wow! I had this question for a long time, which was resolved today.
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Many of us family guys would do good starting with the Bhagvad Gita (karma yoga)... and simultaneously looking to Ramanas direct teaching.
Else a sense of insenserity seems to arise when we ask the mind to start looking for its own destruction when it has not reached some level of purification from thought. The Gita is a sadhana for householders that will make this final enquiry sincere by slowly introducing you to the Truth by means of selfless action (the long route, but much less steep!)
Krishna and Ramana are the same. Both came to show us something in different ways.
Don't feel bad. Don't chase realization. The chase itself is another chain of the mind. Read the Gita. Live a simple life and walk towards Ramana. Sometimes the scenic route is also nice. Maybe ultimately false but still nice. The dream was false but we cannot deny it "happened" right?
I think if conciousness is infinite, these dreams are not merely a bad trap to be escaped, but a journey to be experienced. Be happy. We are all Ramana whether we know it or not.
But "be happy" does not work! Ego cannot deliberately be happy as much as it wants it. Actually ego itself is the source of all misery.
All what I am getting from your comment is an excuse of ego to ignore the path to self-realization. Because subconsciously it is afraid to die which is the case with self-realization.
Bhagavan taught that anybody who is interested in atma-vichara is qualified for it, no matter the stage of purification.
Also it is a crude misunderstanding that our life, aka samsara, is a journey to be experienced. No, that is absolutely not the case and a distortion of Bhagavan's teaching. That journey is a nightmare and if that is not obvious by now then grace will give you some heavy periods of suffering until you'll get the message and develop the desire for freedom.
The consciousness you are talking about is ego-consciousness and has nothing to do with what we truly are, atma-svarupa or pure awareness.
you seem to be trying to justify your decisions/views to yourself.
as if to say, we are all ultimately enlightened, so what does it matter if i realize it sooner, or later?
your choices and your life are your own, of course (to the extent to which you exist, which in reality is not at all), but be aware that there is a cost to every choice.
the sooner we realize the self and abide in it, the sooner our lives are free from worry, doubt, pain, fear, suffering.
@oln3678 I hear you. I'm a "family guy", God knows it's NOT my thing, but I ironically fell into it. Thank you God, I really appreciate the joke! And it's a hell of a surrender to internalize the mind and starve the ego.
@@michaelgusovsky most of the time Ramana gave a solid empiric basis to the confused visitors by telling them: "you can't deny that you exist". In the crowd of followers of advaita/ramane there's a strong atmosphere of fanaticism mixed with the self satisfaction of neo-advaita "nothing exist blablabla" wich doesn't sound like comprehension of the teaching but rather an obsession of a different colour, (self realization, awakening, you name it) driven by the aversion for pain, so still ego at play.
@@bernhard1071Hi bernhard, you wrote "That journey is a nightmare ", but whose nightmare?
"The body must accomplish the task it has been created for", "if you have things to do according to prarabdha, you won't have the choice to do it or not" etc etc. These things to do are opportunities to observe the way ego works, and so take distance from, else what? Are you going to refuse something? Who refuses anything?
2:30 = waking sleep;
Separate from the person,happenings will happen without. Ego.
Yes, however ego nonetheless identifies with the happenings as if it were doing it. That is the problem and needs to be addressed with atma-vichara or self-attention.
In jagrat sushupthi ..one is awake to the SELF and every activity we have to do in the workd goes on automatically and perfectly .Once we fully realise the SELF , then either 1.. we live in the world ..by hanging on to a thread of the ego which thus holds the body here ..and live here till prarabhdha karma is completed .then we drop the body .OR 2...once SELF is realised ..one becomes videhamukta ..ie he stays immersed in bliss of samadhi and drops the body within 21 days .
Please let me know if my understanding is correct Michael ? Thank you .Lalitha
Once self is realized then there is no world and nobody who would/could live. That is what Bhagavan has taught, all other versions are by confused spiritual teachers.
Thus there is either atma-svarupa/pure awareness or ego. Atma-svarupa is formless meaning the illusion of phenomena (like a body and a world) does not exist with atma-svarupa!
The frustration of this woman only goes to show you why this domain of ego investigation is vastly if not exclusively possible for men! There's a reason why all gurus are men. Not because of discrimination but because our minds are wired differently
These words are based on the ego’s dualistic delusion of perceiving men and women, illusory differences, and ego then creating hierarchies of one higher than the other. In other words, the ego mind takes gender and all its dream beliefs about it so seriously. People themselves aren’t real, are only imagined figures in the ego’s projected dream, and yet the ego wants to make differences between dream people so important. Yes this woman is confused but this is only a reflection of the ego deluded mind that doesn’t want to wake up and wants to continue complicating such a direct and simple teaching. Most gurus are not teaching the truth, only dualistic nonsense just like in an Alice in Wonderland dream. All outer forms of gurus are projections of the deluded ego mind, but Bhagavan is a projection of the light of truth in the mind