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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."
The Seven Steps to Awakening is the most powerful collection of
quotes ever assembled on the subject of how to directly experience
the true Self whose nature is Infinite-Eternal-Awareness-Love-Bliss
and how to bring the impostor self, its tricks and all suffering to
a final end in this lifetime. Most books on the subject of
Self-realization are written by those who have only conceptual
knowledge and no direct experience of the infinite Self. All seven
of the sages quoted in The Seven Steps to Awakening lived in the
infinite and their knowledge came from their direct experience of
the infinite Self. The quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening are
doorways to liberation and a loving transmission from the Infinite
Self to you. When the impostor self attempts to derail you from
your journey to Awakening, reading the quotes in The Seven Steps to
Awakening can inspire and encourage you to get back on track. Only
the most essential and most powerful quotes that have no
distractions or detours were selected for The Seven Steps to
Awakening. The first collection of quotes describes how to tell the
difference between a conceptual journey and a journey to Awakening.
The second points out that the world, etc. is a dreamlike illusion.
The third reveals why it is necessary to bring the impostor self to
its final end. The fourth is about the importance of increasing
your desire for liberation. The fifth is for the purpose of
encouraging, inspiring and motivating you to actually practice all
seven steps. The sixth is about turning your attention inward. The
seventh describes the most rapid, direct and effective method that
brings the impostor self, its tricks and all suffering to their
final end so that you can remain forever in the true Self whose
nature is Infinite-Awareness-Love-Bliss.
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The False Self (Paperback)
Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Vasistha
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R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
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A mistake made by almost everyone who studies the Direct Path
Teachings is that instead of using the teachings as practice
instructions they become lost in spiritual concepts. Most of those
people never correct that mistake and at the end of their physical
life they are still lost in a maze of concepts without having
realized the True Self. A journey that never goes beyond thought is
not a journey to Self Realization. In this book Seven Sages teach
how to avoid getting lost in concepts.The type is Palatino 16 for
crisp clear easy reading.This book contains all of the quotes in
Chapter (Step) One from the book The Seven Steps to Awakening. How
Not to Get Lost in Concepts is book Six in the Self Realization
Series. One purpose of the Self Realization Series is to put just
one category of quotes into a small book that has the advantage of
making it easier to focus, meditate on, grasp and have insight into
just one subject at a time. That makes the approach simple, easier
and less complicated. The idea is to stay focused on just one
subject until you have received everything you need to receive from
that one subject. Most people go on to the next subject without
ever having learned to apply to their lives the subject they are
studying now. The Self Realization series of books are portable
practice manuals aimed at helping sincere seekers of Self
Realization master one Key to Self Realization at a time.The six
titles in the Self Realization Series are: 1.Self Awareness
Practice Instructions. 2.The Desire for Liberation.3.The False
self.4.Inspiration and Encouragement on the Path to Self
Realization. 5.Everything is an Illusion.6.How Not to Get Lost in
Concepts.
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