tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post2193099500542532169..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: A Criticism: I don't respect Robert and Ramana Enough; calls me a moth while Robert is an Eagle. Uses Godman as proof of his opinion.Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-20996956656884027712013-12-31T22:34:17.091-08:002013-12-31T22:34:17.091-08:00Guys, just listen.
There are many types of Jnani ...Guys, just listen.<br /><br />There are many types of Jnani who further evolve into Jivanmuktas, as has been described in many ancient text including JivanmuktiViveka by Swami Vidyaranya.<br /><br />1st Ones are those belonging to Monist cults who have formally taken up Sanyas and are totally dried up and dead from within, except in dealing with Advaita and the like, for example, Gaudapada, Vashishtha, Shankara, Vidyaranya, Sidhar, later Shankracharyas, Ramana, Totapuri, (only exception here is Lord himself, Lord Krishna). They even seem to do worldly things but only to make a point in relation to proof of some advaitic/religious principle.<br /> <br /><br />2nd One are Householders who are Jnanis only, who had tasted mundane life but later got knowledge. They still have some desires to help, love to be, and get amused by the Lila with a detachment. They include Siddharameshwar, Nisargadatta, Vivekananda, and other Bhakti movement people who later converted/got to Advaita like Smartha Ramdas, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Krishnamurthys', Osho, Nityananda lineage, etc.<br /><br />This second group includes people of all varieties. At one point Siddharameshwar asks disciples to be desireless but at some other place to please Self in all the other people - a contradictory statement. People of this category have to maintain a balance between non-dualism and the world (existence of duality) and they do so as per the combination of the astrological position in their personal horoscopes. They do all sorts of things like marrying, raising children, doing business, using prostitutes, guiding disciples, preaching advaita, even for sometime (in the eyes of others) falling from the path. But in reality it does not matter. Would a person who has really become free would bother about criticism by others at all unless he has to prove a point (still a lila) or has a hidden agenda of becoming a Guru in which case he is not a siddha himself, but some person high on the path. Shankara did many things which are not connected with Advaita but he had no desire of deriving any benefit from his activities.<br /><br />Also, almost all of the Monists and Householders Jnanis near the end of their life appear to become acutely passimist, suicidal, depressive and without love and energy which is a natural extension of their mindset before the final will to be (a Mahat phenomena) also gets extinguished and they leave their body without a tinniest trace of desire.<br /><br />If the will to be and love for beingness is still not extinguished near the end of physical life, the Jnani would have to take rebirth to pass some more time. Don't bother about Householder Jnanis of the past, they are already dead and the current Jnanis of the world are to work out their own charts. In our India, monist Advaitins are still the hallmark of Advaita.<br /><br />Please pardon me for taking your valuable time and pardon my english.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-72286663536081111472013-12-29T11:55:07.192-08:002013-12-29T11:55:07.192-08:00Be courageous enough to identify yourselves.
I re...Be courageous enough to identify yourselves.<br /><br />I really love the comments where someone said I never fully realized who and what Robert was as deeply as they, who only read his words or listened to his tapes, understand his true nature.<br /><br />You were never with Robert you guys, you have only known your idea of that he was like.<br />Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-5982353025735382092013-12-29T11:49:38.664-08:002013-12-29T11:49:38.664-08:00If you want me to post your comment, you must iden...If you want me to post your comment, you must identify yourself. Almost all negative comments are anonymous.<br />Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-79830699655933434862013-12-26T22:15:44.736-08:002013-12-26T22:15:44.736-08:00Trevor. I contradict myself daily, hourly. But t...Trevor. I contradict myself daily, hourly. But to each time qualify what aspects of Robert, Ramana, or Maharaj that I reject and what I accept, you have to look at the context.<br /><br />There is nothing odd about loving Robert at one moment, and throwing his method under the bus because I see how much damage as well as good it has done.<br /><br />There are people who are not psychologically ready for self-inquiry, and it should not be practiced without a living guide.<br /><br />For those people, other approaches are needed. <br /><br />TH ONLY TEACHNIQUE THAT I THINK ALWAYS HELPS, AND WHICH ALSO MAY HAVE A DOWNSIDE, AGAIN DEPENDING ON CONTEXT, IS LOVING ONESELF AND LOVING ANOTHER, AND FINDING SELF LOVE INTHE OTHER.<br /><br />All other techniques have dangers,, emptiness and depression when self-inquiy becomes only emptiness, and insanity when Kundalini awakenings go out of control due to lack f guidance, or too strong of a practice.<br /><br />But I like to speak passionately because of 15 years of being lost in emptiness.<br /><br /><br />I hate logically, because logic is of the mind and superficail.<br /><br />I want to incense people, aropuse them, cajole them, make them love or dive passionately into their sense of self.<br /><br />Robert was dead. He preached deadness, silence, non-reacting--he preached zombiehood. I have to oppose his method as much as I loved him,or because I found his Witness Parabrahmman, not a place to permanently alight.<br /><br />Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-25716708823945892072013-12-26T19:55:18.676-08:002013-12-26T19:55:18.676-08:00I have read your blog since 2009. I found it when...I have read your blog since 2009. I found it when I was lost: i couldn't find any "spirituality" that suited me, and then I found this blog. Thanks to you I was introduced into this whole world of possibilities in which spirituality is a matter of experiential love, of beingness, of Self.<br /><br />I think some of your teachings are rich. I said the same in my response. To love with all the heart and to then make the association with Self - yes, it's an important contribution. Especially for people who feel in touch with life; the energy, the visceral.<br /><br />But surely you'd admit that you have a contradictory association with the greats. Sometimes you align yourself with them, while at others you cast Ramana as a guy who avoided conflict and sat back on his laurels while his devotees fed him grapes (quote taken from one of your posts). <br /><br />Ed, having a rich contribution of your own, why the bashing? Why distinguish your contribution by calling incomplete that of the others? For me I have trouble understanding this simultaneous tearing down and aligning with the greats that you often employ.<br /><br />It could be due to a lack of knowledge and experience on my part, but i don't see the need to constantly say that the others were not complete in their process and their teachings lack the depth that, according to you, your teachings have. Such comments feel not only absurd but political in nature...like you're employing it as a tool to validate your position. This is my honest assessment after reading you for four years. <br /><br />Loving the world and being aware of it is by no means a betrayal. That is not what I wanted to say.<br /><br />TrevorTrevorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809259292555129752noreply@blogger.com