Time Bound

[Chelluri Nageswar Rao]

                                               Srim

Thank you Pannir I just read the article you suggested.  It is very
interesting and informative.  Suggest everybody read it.

My belief that Time-Bound Acts in Spirituality are futile is reinforced.  Its
Here and Now like my friend Sada said.   How? every one has their own
approach.


Shubaham                                                    Nageswar
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Dear Nageswar,

To expand on my earlier post, when I say meditation is facing the facts, to
me that is the same as saying meditation is facing (or accepting) God.  God
is All That Is.  In our usual state, we try to actively avoid facing All
That Is by engaging in activities designed to prop up the falsehood of a
personal self, or ego.  One of the things the ego does is tell us that the
world (including aspects of ourselves that we dislike) is "unspiritual" and
that we must retreat within to find God.  But this is merely an escape, an
avoidance of God, a denial of God's omnipresence.  It is an attempt to hold
onto the fictitious personal self by creating a so-called better, more
"spiritual" personal self.  Facing the facts means to accept, without
interpretation or judgment, all that we see, hear, smell, taste and feel,
as well as the reactions of our body-mind.  In complete acceptance there is
no person, there is only Freedom.

Mark
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> From: Chelluri Nageswar Rao <Chelluri at AOL.COM>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADVAITA-L <ADVAITA-L at TAMU.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Time Bound
> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 6:27 PM
>
>                                             Srim
>
> Greetings Mark. Thank you for the response.  I respect your view, infact
I
> respect any body who offers a opinion.  That is the only way one can
learn.
>
> Life is not a Movie (although it is) that one can watch for few hours and
> leave not effected by  it a bit.   Wish I can watch my life as a
spectator
> not effected by any events.  I believe some people can do it
unfortunately
> for me, I am not one of them.
>
> We form beliefs when we experience from the five senses and indirectly
from
> those we trust.   Why we trust them is a mystery for me.  Anyway my
belief is
> meditation on god lis not like any other meditation (Meditation is facing
the
> facts - just quoting you).  Only way one can say "Aham Brahmasmi" is when
one
> completely dissolves the ego and surrender completely to the supreme.  I
no
> longer exist to face any facts I am one with him/her.    This is not my
view,
> this is my belief.
>
> Shubham                                                 Nageswar