[Advaita-l] Re mental efforts

[Marko Gregoric]

2008/7/28 Ramanathan P <p_ramanathan at yahoo.com>

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> --- On Sun, 7/27/08, Marko Gregoric <markogregori at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Marko Gregoric <markogregori at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Re mental efforts
> > To: kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> > Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 2:03 PM
> > Dear Sadananda
> >
> > It is difficult to put it down in words but I can just tell
> > you that this
> > body-mind organism functions completely spontaneously
> > together with
> > everything that surrounds him and that I have no way to
> > interfere with it.
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> Is it the body-mind organism that has written the above?
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YES

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> > All knowledge, ignorance, efforts, senses, thoughts,
> > achievements and other
> > stuff pertain to the body-mind organism. None of them is
> > mine .
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> The objective of Self-'realization' is for the body-mind (jiva); this is
> understood.
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> >I have no
> > way to tell you what I am, but I know what I am not. I did
> > absolutely
> > nothing to realise this. It simply happened.
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> Happened to whom/what/where?


I HAVE NO WAY TO TELL YOU THAT. THAT WHAT I AM I DON'T KNOW.

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> > Mental effort is needed only until there is something you
> > want. This
> > body-mind wants something all the time so it puts efforts
> > in it.
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> Is the awareness of this 'fact' in the body-mind?
>

YES

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> Ramanathan
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