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The Ultimate Medicine - Dialogues with a Realized Master (Paperback)
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The Ultimate Medicine - Dialogues with a Realized Master (Paperback)
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Loot Price R575
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"The Ultimate Medicine" is not for those who like their
spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for
awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) lived and taught in
a small apartment in the slums of Bombay. A realized master of the
Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself and his family by
selling cheap goods in a small booth on the streets outside his
tenement for many years. His life exemplified the concept of
absolute nonduality of being. In this volume, Maharaj shares the
highest truth of nonduality in his own unique way. His teaching
style is abrupt, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to
the core and wasting little effort on inessentials. His terse but
potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger shifts in
consciousness, just by hearing or reading them.
"The point is that man freed from his fetters is morality
personified. Such a man therefore does not need any moralistic
injunctions in order to live righteously. Free a man from his
bondage and thereafter everything else will take care of itself. On
the other hand, man in his unredeemed state cannot possibly live
morally, no matter what moral teaching he is given. It is an
intrinsic impossibility, for his very foundation is immorality.
That is, he lives a lie, a basic contradiction: functioning in all
his relationships as the separate entity he believes himself to be,
whereas in reality no such separation exists. His every action
therefore does violence to other 'selves' and other 'creatures, '
which are only manifestations of the unitary consciousness. So
Society had to invent some restraints in order to protect itself
from its own worst excesses and thereby maintain some kind ofstatus
quo. The resulting arbitrary rules, which vary with place and time
and therefore are purely relative, it calls 'morality, ' and by
upholding this man-invented 'idea' as the highest good-oftentimes
sanctioned by religious 'revelation' and scriptures-society has
provided man with one more excuse to disregard the quest for
liberation or relegate it to a fairly low priority in his scheme of
things."
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