The Reality.
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The latest trend in the so-called 'Spiritual' is focused around two poles.
One is the Buddhist and the associated doctrines;
And the other around the Vedanta.
Between them oscillate the various philosophical approaches that attract the seeker.
No surprise, the Vedanta-texts and the Buddhist-Literature appear as if dealing with the so-called 'Spiritual', in two contradictory approaches.
When it comes to practice, J.Krishnamurti (like the Buddhists) leaves us just clueless.
In between are the traditional paths of Yoga, Bhakti, even Tantra.
The seeker and the layman is equally even more confused, when he tries to understand what they teach.
Religion and Philosophy hardly help in solving the riddle 'Spiritual' (whatever it is about).
Vedanta however presents before us the essential, inevitable prerequisites before embarking upon the endeavor about the 'Spiritual'.
The practice is however for those, who 'deserve'.
And the seeker is advised to ponder over the nature of things in term of transiency and permanency. Contemplating about this aspect of Reality takes one soon to the essential nature of Truth.
Truth is what is permanent.
Untruth is what is transient.
However, before looking for Truth in this way, one is supposed to have grasped and developed the dispassion and lost all interest in the 'Phenomenal' as if not of any use whatsoever.
Even without being pointed out by someone, one eventually comes across the 'Realization' that
'Consciousness' is the fulcrum that is the foundation and the only,-even unique 'support' for the 'Phenomenal'.
The next Realization is that while this consciousness is tainted by the 'mind' it is ever so distinct and pure, chaste and virgin, incorruptible that it always hints something even deeper, where-from it is manifest, emerges and subsequently merges into the same source again and again.
The seeker can go along whatever thread he would like to.
Sense of 'I AM' or rather the 'I' takes one there almost in no time.
But then as J.Krishnamurti variously points out :
The description is not the described.
The observer is the observed.
The thought is the 'thinker'.
One finally understands the full import of what He might be pointing out at / saying about.
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The latest trend in the so-called 'Spiritual' is focused around two poles.
One is the Buddhist and the associated doctrines;
And the other around the Vedanta.
Between them oscillate the various philosophical approaches that attract the seeker.
No surprise, the Vedanta-texts and the Buddhist-Literature appear as if dealing with the so-called 'Spiritual', in two contradictory approaches.
When it comes to practice, J.Krishnamurti (like the Buddhists) leaves us just clueless.
In between are the traditional paths of Yoga, Bhakti, even Tantra.
The seeker and the layman is equally even more confused, when he tries to understand what they teach.
Religion and Philosophy hardly help in solving the riddle 'Spiritual' (whatever it is about).
Vedanta however presents before us the essential, inevitable prerequisites before embarking upon the endeavor about the 'Spiritual'.
The practice is however for those, who 'deserve'.
And the seeker is advised to ponder over the nature of things in term of transiency and permanency. Contemplating about this aspect of Reality takes one soon to the essential nature of Truth.
Truth is what is permanent.
Untruth is what is transient.
However, before looking for Truth in this way, one is supposed to have grasped and developed the dispassion and lost all interest in the 'Phenomenal' as if not of any use whatsoever.
Even without being pointed out by someone, one eventually comes across the 'Realization' that
'Consciousness' is the fulcrum that is the foundation and the only,-even unique 'support' for the 'Phenomenal'.
The next Realization is that while this consciousness is tainted by the 'mind' it is ever so distinct and pure, chaste and virgin, incorruptible that it always hints something even deeper, where-from it is manifest, emerges and subsequently merges into the same source again and again.
The seeker can go along whatever thread he would like to.
Sense of 'I AM' or rather the 'I' takes one there almost in no time.
But then as J.Krishnamurti variously points out :
The description is not the described.
The observer is the observed.
The thought is the 'thinker'.
One finally understands the full import of what He might be pointing out at / saying about.
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