Summing up the teachings now: The Self is inconceivable and beyond the reach of all limited beings. He dwells perpetually devoid of space, time, form and so on. The Power of the Self is also inconceivable like the Self. The first act of the Power of the Self is giving the Self the perception that […]
Self – Power of the Self – limited individual (Part 3)
In my last post I started speaking about merit. This point is generally overlooked by a lot of people due to the veil drawn by spiritual ignorance. For example: They think that they can understand “anything” about spiritual matters “provided” a teacher explains it to them in detail. They think that their intellects are strong […]
Self – Power of the Self – limited individual (Part 2)
I told you in my previous posts that I would dissolve your ignorance about the scriptures little by little by giving you their essence. In order to define what a limited individual is, I will quote aphorism III, 1 of Śivasūtra-s (a very important scripture): “The individual Self (is) the mind||1||” “Limited individual”, “limited being”, “conditioned […]
Self – Power of the Self – limited individual (Part 1)
The Self is inconceivable. The Self cannot be described in any way. The Self is without any name. One has to use words or expressions such as “Self”, “Highest Reality”, “God”, “Lord”, “That”, etc. in order to deal with Him. And since the Self can be masculine, feminine, neuter or even something else, you can […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 4
I said that there are three ways to get right knowledge: direct experience, deduction and testimony. A person who has dissolved his ignorance about the scriptures but lacks direct experience of the Self is a theoretician. Why? Because he has all the time to resort to the processes of deduction and testimony in order to […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 3
I will speak about the second aspect of spiritual ignorance now: Lack of direct experience There are three ways to get right knowledge: direct experience, deduction and testimony. When someone has no direct experience of a particular subject, he can resort to deduction (reasoning with his intellect) or testimony (scriptures, others’ teachings, etc.). If one […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 2
In my previous post I said that spiritual ignorance is related to the Self, i.e. to what you really are. As you don’t know your true nature, you are always in trouble whether you are a beggar or the king of the world. This spiritual ignorance is very powerful and will NOT be removed just like […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 1
Spiritual ignorance is the source of all your problems. You may blame other people for your problems, you may blame weather for your problems, you may blame the movements of planets for your problems, you may blame destiny for your problems, you may even go to the extent of believing that some dogs barking all night […]
