[Advaita-l] CLARION CALL OF SAGES

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks for sharing these words of wisdom.  They are valuable to me.

regards

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:56 AM sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l <
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> Dear Sri Subramanian
>
>                    SAGES DECLARE AS FOLLOWS :
>              (Collected from the writings of Rupert Spira)
> Quote :
> Consciousness is eternal existence itself,
>
>  one’s ownself and being is that.
>
>  Consciousnessis not an event or something new to experience,
>
> it is what you are right now.
>
> You don't become it,
>
> you are already it right now,
>
> it is your very own self, that is all.
>
> Here and now you are that consciousnessitself
>
> that you know so well as yourself or ‘I’am.
>
> No one can deny his own being,
>
> 'I' am present because consciousnessitself is present.
>
> Consciousness is the only Seer, the onlyhearer,
>
> the only knower, the only thinker etc…present.
>
> There is no other Seer present but thisconsciousness itself,
>
> no other knower, no other thinker, noother hearer etc...
>
> but this Oneness itself Omni-present,
>
> the One without a second is ‘you’.
>
> Consciousness is simply one's own self.
>
> *
>
> ‘I’ is Self-luminous, Self-evident,
>
> Self-existent and Self-knowing
>
>                         *
> Unquote.
> The above is the essence of the Teachings of Upanishads.Is it not Sri
> Shankara's upadesha also?If I am wrong please correct me without hesitation.
>
> With respectful namaskars,
> Sreenivasa Murthy
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