The 3 Masters.
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Really, I came to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in 1989, -some 5 years after, when I had been with Sri Ramana Maharshi (His literature) for some 5 years before this.
But because I got the core teaching from both these teachers as well as many others I am grateful to all them. But this is most important and relevant that a stanza (2 short lines) attracted my whole attention, and that lead me on the path.
The stanza tells us :
चित्तवायवश्चित्क्रिया युता।
शाखयोर्द्वयी शक्तिरूपका।।
(उपदेश-सार -12)
"the mind and the (vital-)breath (प्राण) have the same source (say a point as tiny the end of a needle) in the chest where-from they begin to function."
This tiny point is traceable on the right side of the chest and is the very Heart of all Life, Existence and the being, and once a ray of light (attention) emanates from it, it triggers the physical breath in the left side of the chest, -that is the physical heart. Thus though one can be 'clinically' dead, one never dies. only the physical structure is finished.
So when one pays attention to physical breath and keeps on doing so for a long time, one comes across the tiny point on the right side of the Heart.
This is how it works.
Sri Nisargadatta arrived at this point just by remembering 'I AM', without defining or identifying the 'I' in any way. And He didn't even notice what Sri Ramana has pointed out. So He never speaks of this 'Heart' or 'The Spiritual Heart'. But His understanding of the 'Reality' is exactly the same as of Sri Ramana.
And yet Sri J.Krishnamurti arrived at this point just by paying attention to attention. Consciousness working upon itself.
So He doesn't even talk of 'Heart' or 'I AM'.
It is helpful according to one's temperament and sincerity. Most often, one is so inattentive about paying attention to his mind, consciousness, inclinations, tendencies etc. And Because one is so fascinated by the sense of the (Apparent) Reality of the world and oneself as a person in that world, that one is just overwhelmed.
One may turn to meditation only when conditions force him somehow. Otherwise one is just indulged, amused and bemused by the drama of the personal world so much that it does never occur to him to ponder over and find out 'What it is all about!'.
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Conscious Meditation ends this whole structure (the sense) of the 'personal' existence of the individual.
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Really, I came to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in 1989, -some 5 years after, when I had been with Sri Ramana Maharshi (His literature) for some 5 years before this.
But because I got the core teaching from both these teachers as well as many others I am grateful to all them. But this is most important and relevant that a stanza (2 short lines) attracted my whole attention, and that lead me on the path.
The stanza tells us :
चित्तवायवश्चित्क्रिया युता।
शाखयोर्द्वयी शक्तिरूपका।।
(उपदेश-सार -12)
"the mind and the (vital-)breath (प्राण) have the same source (say a point as tiny the end of a needle) in the chest where-from they begin to function."
This tiny point is traceable on the right side of the chest and is the very Heart of all Life, Existence and the being, and once a ray of light (attention) emanates from it, it triggers the physical breath in the left side of the chest, -that is the physical heart. Thus though one can be 'clinically' dead, one never dies. only the physical structure is finished.
So when one pays attention to physical breath and keeps on doing so for a long time, one comes across the tiny point on the right side of the Heart.
This is how it works.
Sri Nisargadatta arrived at this point just by remembering 'I AM', without defining or identifying the 'I' in any way. And He didn't even notice what Sri Ramana has pointed out. So He never speaks of this 'Heart' or 'The Spiritual Heart'. But His understanding of the 'Reality' is exactly the same as of Sri Ramana.
And yet Sri J.Krishnamurti arrived at this point just by paying attention to attention. Consciousness working upon itself.
So He doesn't even talk of 'Heart' or 'I AM'.
It is helpful according to one's temperament and sincerity. Most often, one is so inattentive about paying attention to his mind, consciousness, inclinations, tendencies etc. And Because one is so fascinated by the sense of the (Apparent) Reality of the world and oneself as a person in that world, that one is just overwhelmed.
One may turn to meditation only when conditions force him somehow. Otherwise one is just indulged, amused and bemused by the drama of the personal world so much that it does never occur to him to ponder over and find out 'What it is all about!'.
--
Conscious Meditation ends this whole structure (the sense) of the 'personal' existence of the individual.
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