--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Article critical of Ramesh Balsekar: > > http://www.inner-quest.org/Real_Advaita.htm
The above article is very well presented and addresses the "not path" that so many in FF ascribe and tread well, albeit to their ultimate dismay. Kali is rampant in this age. So many FF'ers battling their inner demons. Hearing from their mouths, "I am my own Guru. What is to be liberated?" "What needs to be sought" Quoting Conway "It needs to be stated in no uncertain terms that these pretenders are actually anarchists, for they attempt to destroy any rational or intuitive basis for morality and ethics. In this pseudo-nondual realm, "anything goes"--at least for themselves and their cronies. There are no ethical standards by which to determine appropriate and inappropriate behaviors." BHAKTI/GURU IS THE ONLY WAY Should you wish to believe otherwise, know that most likely the Asura's have your head. Below are some quotes taken from the above link. Spiritual knowledge, unsupported by worship is baseless." If there is no devotion (bhakti), there is no knowledge (jnana). Devotion is the mother of knowledge. Without the Master's grace, there is no knowledge. When will the Master's grace flow? Only through steadfast devotion. Then, even mud will turn into gold. The Satguru is your protector. Why bother about others when the Satguru is your guardian? Siddharmeshwar Maharaj - Excerpts from Amrut Laya xxxxxxxxxxxx There is a saying in India, "With one piece of turmeric, one cannot open a grocer's shop." Many people talk of God even though they do not know God. Why? Because they are always moving in the opposite direction from Him. If you want to go to the mountains in the north, and you go to the south, how can you reach the mountains? Where is God and Who is God? One should know He is not outside, but within you! Thoughts are naturally directed to the outside; they should turn toward the Self with the help of the Master. Then, the aspirant may ask, "What should I do?" Do nothing! Words only go up to the space. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, "There, from where the words come, That is my Self." That is my Self. In the Bible, Christ also said the same thing: "Know thyself and you know the world." Go up to where thinking ends, go up to That, and there is the Self. So, I always call it, "Self without self". Self-realization is Self without self. As long as 'realizing' remains, self remains. The eyes have got the habit to see that which is not. The Master takes you up to That, up to the Reality and says, "Understand yourself." Ranjit Maharaj XXXX Sant Samarth Ramdas - Excerpt from Dasbodh (the text on which Siddharameshwar Maharaj commented as a form of Self-knowledge teaching) Beware of the false prophets who pretend to be spiritual Gurus, but are as worthless as straw. Posing himself as an Advaitic Vedantin, he dismisses all distinctions of good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy and behaves as promiscuously as he wishes. One must take utmost care to see that the Guru he wishes to resort to is one who has himself realized God and who has the capacity to make others also realize Him. xxxxxxxx Only two kinds of people can attain to Self-knowledge: those whose minds are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, not overcrowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who after studying all the Scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing. Jnana never comes without the renunciation of lust and possession. With renunciation is destroyed all ignorance, all avidya. Many things can be burnt by means of a lens held directly in the rays of the sun. But you cannot use it in the shadow of a room. Even so with the mind. You must take it out of the dark cell of this world and expose it to the full blaze of self-effulgent Divinity. Then alone will come true renunciation, and all ignorance will be destroyed. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa xxxxx Being devoted completely to the lotus-feet of the Guru, be liberated from transmigration without delay! Thus, by controlling the mind and the senses, you will see the Divine who is dwelling in your heart. Adi Shankaracharya To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
