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The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them and have no desire to lock up the world in a mental picture.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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Jivas, like waves in the sea, come into being, rise and fall, fight against each other and die.

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Striking against the sea shore, waves recede, tired and worn out, seeking rest and peace. Likewise Jivas seek the supreme in various ways.

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(Sri Atmananda)

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If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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(John 15:7)

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All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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When waves realize that the sea is the common support, all fight ceases.

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When water is realized, wave and sea vanish. What appeared as two is thus realized as one.

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(Sri Atmananda)

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Need the person have any designs of its own? The life of which it is an expression will guide it. Once you realise that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.

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All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

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When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is inherent in the reality itself. The person has no being in itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the ‘I am’, which again is a mode of being.

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in reality only the Ultimate is. The rest is a matter of name and form. And as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace — immersed in the deep silence of reality.

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When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. Plurality and diversity are the play of the mind only. Reality is one.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me  you can do nothing.

(John 15:5)

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The world is perceived as an apparent objective reality when the mind is externalized, thereby abandoning its identity  with the Self. When the world is thus perceived the true nature of the Self is not revealed; conversely, when the Self is realized the world ceases to appear as an objective reality.

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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Advaita Scriptures 2015 – 102 – (Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 15:4 , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , w/ I Ching & Derrida footnotes)

Shankara made three statements: that Brahman is real, that the universe is unreal, and that Brahman is the Universe. He did not stop with the second. The third statement explains the first two; it signifies that when the Universe is perceived apart from Brahman, that perception is false and illusory. What it amounts to is that phenomena are real when experienced as the Self and illusory when seen apart from the Self.

The Self alone exists and is real. Actually, the Self alone is the world, the ‘I’ and God. All that exists is only a manifestation of the Supreme.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

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(John 15:4)

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For everything there are innumerable causal factors. But the source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility, the Supreme Reality, which is in you and which throws its power and light and love on every experience. But, this source is not a cause and no cause is a source. Because of that, I say everything is uncaused. You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is, because the universe is as it is. cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is, because the universe is as it is.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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I Ching & Derrida Footnotes:

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DECISION

Turning Back

Prosperous and smooth

Going out and coming in

No harm

Friends arrive

No fault

The Tao of falling away and turning back

In seven days comes the return

Favorable to have somewhere to go

(Hexagram 24)

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“Hospitality must wait and not wait. It is what must await and still not wait, extend and stretch itself and still stand and hold itself in the awaiting and the non-awaiting. Intentionality and non-intentionality, attention and inattention. Tending and stretching itself between the tending and the not-tending or the not-tending-itself, not to extend this or that, or oneself to the other. It must await and expect itself to receive the stranger … gather all these words, all these values, all these significations (to tend and extend, to extend oneself, attention, intention, holding, withholding …”

(Jacques Derrida)

Atman says

 

focus on being the witness, realizing the witness in more and more thorough and subtle ways. this is seeing and experiencing ego as object (not subject). the ego is an object ,like many other objects in the world. witness it.  watch it.  care about it, even love it. but  dont identify with it. it is not your center. you  are not in the body, the body is in you. and you are not in the ego, the ego is in you. the ego is in Self/Atman. everything is Self/Atman. Self/Atman is Being — Being and non-Being. we can call it God. and we understand Jnani and Bhakti. this is Jnani. this is being one , being identical with God. actually any sincere bhakti absolute surrender to “God” can also be understood as Jnani really. for the lesson is the same, in that personal will is an illusion and powerless. everything happens because of Self/Atman , God , Being. actually nothing is really happening because everything is One. multiplicity and diversity and change is an illusion, Maya. and so the teaching is simple, and also very subtle with various dimensions/perspectives. it can be understood in different , even seemingly contradictory ways. we can seem to be saying different things , prescribing different methods, and actually be saying the same “truth”. realizing nothingness is essential.

comments

 

this is a continued discussion regarding places and placement , where it is , where it is going, with special emphasis on footnote texts, Derrida’s Archive Fever in combination with the Return of the I Ching , as announced as the return of Christ, the all knowing aspects of Hospitality and what Advaita teaches us as the Atman Self of understanding , standing over, looking “down” , on the ego, behind the ego, making the ego possible, and all Being , locations, places, in the heart, the heart of Being,

 

 

 

Advaita Scriptures 2015 – 101 – (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , John 14:29 , Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 1:38-39 , Bhagavad Gita , w/ Luke & Derrida & I Ching footnotes)

 

When your desire is not clear nor strong, it cannot take shape. Besides, if your desires are personal, for your own enjoyment, the energy you give them is necessarily limited; it can-not be more than what you have.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.

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(John 14:29)

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To those who have not realized (the Self) as well as to those who have the world is real. But to those who have not realized, Truth is adapted to the measure of the world, whereas to those that have, Truth shines as the Formless Perfection, and as the Substratum of the world. This is all the difference between them.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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‘What do you want?’ … ‘What are you looking for?’ … ‘What are you seeking?’ … ‘What are you after?’ …

(John 1:38)

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Now I shall tell you of the End of wisdom. When a man knows this he goes beyond death … beginningless supreme: beyond what is and what is not.

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(Bhagavad Gita)

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They said, ‘Rabbi’ (which means teacher), ‘where are you staying.’ ‘Come,’ he replied ‘ and you will see.’ (John 1:39)

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You, the Self, being the root of all being, consciousness and joy, impart your reality to whatever you perceive. This imparting of reality takes place invariably in the now, at no other time, because past and future are only in the mind. ‘Being’ applies to the now only.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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There is no duality. Your present knowledge is due to the ego and is only relative. Relative knowledge requires a subject and an object, whereas the awareness of the Self is absolute and requires no object.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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The Light of consciousness comes to him through infinite powers of perception, and yet he is above all these powers.

He is beyond all, and yet he supports all. He is beyond the world of matter, and yet he has joy in this world.

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(Bhagavad Gita)

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eternity is in the split moment of the now. We miss it because the mind is ever shuttling between the past and the future. It will not stop to focus the now. It can be done with comparative ease, if interest is aroused… By keeping your mind clear and clean, by living your life in full awareness of every moment as it happens, by examining and dissolving one’s desires and fears as soon as they arise… Once you are well-established in the now, you have nowhere else to go what you are timelessly, you express eternally.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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Luke & Derrida & I Ching Footnotes

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And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

(Luke 17:20-21)

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Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the archive.

But rather at the word “archive”-and with the archive of so familiar a word. Arkhe we recall, names at once the commencement and the commandment. This name apparently coordinates two principles in one: the principle according to nature or history, there where things commence-physical, historical, or ontological principle-but also the principle according to the law, there where men and gods command, there where authority, social order are exercised, in this place from which order is given-nomological principle.

There, we said, and in this place. How are we to think of there? And this taking place or this having a place, this taking the place one has of the arkhe?

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(Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever)

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going around and beginning again

endless cyclic motion

after Falling Away comes Turning Back

after Splitting Apart comes Return

turning back and starting again is a universal and everlasting truth

the light shines in the darkness

the bright situation begins again

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(Hexagram 24)

Bhagavad Gita 2:14-17

 

from the world of the senses, Arjuna, comes heat and comes cold, and pleasure and pain. They come and they go:they are transient, Arise above them, strong soul.

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The man whom these cannot move, whose soul is one, beyond pleasure and pain, is worthy of life in Eternity.

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The unreal never is: the Real never is not. This truth indeed has been seen by those who can see the true.

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Interwoven in his creation, the Spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring to an end the Spirit which is everlasting.

Advaita Scriptures 2015 – 100 – (Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 14:28 , Bhagavad Gita 2:4-14 , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Shankara , w/ I Ching footnote)

 

The Self is all. Are you apart from the Self? Or can the work go on without the Self? The Self is universal so all actions will go on whether you strain yourself to be engaged in them or not.

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The work will go on of itself. Thus Krishna told Arjuna that he need not trouble to kill the Kauravas because they were already slain by God. It was not for him to resolve to work and worry himself about it, but to allow his own nature to carry out the will of the higher power.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to God, for God is greater than I.

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(John 14:28)

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I owe veneration to Bhisma and Drona. Shall I kill with my arrows my grandfather’s brother, great Bhishma? Shall my arrows in battle slay Drona, my teacher?

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Shall I kill my own masters who, though greedy of my kingdom, are yet my sacred teachers? I would rather eat in this life the food of a begger than eat royal food tasting of their blood.

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And we know not whether their victory or ours be better for us. The sons of my uncle and king, Dhrita-rashtra, are here before us : after their death , should we wish to live?

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In the dark night of my soul I feel desolation. In my self-pity I see not the way of righteousness. I am thy disciple, come to thee in supplication : be a light unto me on the path of my duty.

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For neither the kingdom of the earth, nor the kingdom of the gods in heaven, could give me peace from the fire of sorrow which thus burns my life.

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When Arjuna the great warrior had thus unburdoned his heart. ‘I will not fight Krishna,’ he said, and then fell silent.

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Krishna smiles and spoke to Arjuna — there between the two armies the voice of God spoke these words:

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Thy tears are for those beyond tears; and are thy words of wisdom? The wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who die — for life and death shall pass away.

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Because we all have been for all time : I, and thou , and those kings of men. And we all shall be for all time, we all for ever and ever.

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As the Spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age, the Spirit wanders on to a new body : of this the sage has no doubts.

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From the world of the senses, Arjuna, comes heat and comes cold, and pleasure and pain. They come and they go : they are transient. Arise above them, strong soul.

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(Bhagavad Gita 2:4 – 14)

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The most important thing for you is the “I Am”. Just be that and the necessary guidance will come.

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Whatever image you have of yourself is nothing but a concept.

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Here is the worshiper is the consciousness, and the object of worship is also the consciousness.

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Everything happens out of your own Self. This consciousness is spontaneously felt in the Self only. This “”I” is not an individual.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , 3/13/81)

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I am the Self; I am not anyone different.

I am, indeed, Brahman, not having any portion of

sorrow.

I am of the nature of Being-Consciousness-Bliss.

I am of the innate nature that is ever liberated.

(Shankara , 7)

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I Ching Footnote :

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Light and truth finally overcome darkness and evil and bring about a new phase of change

(Hexagram 23, Top Nine)

 

Scriptures 2015 – 99 – (Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 14:27 , Bhagavad Gita 1:45-47, 2:1-3 , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , w/ I Ching footnote)

 

The feeling ‘I work’ is the hindrance. Ask yourself ‘Who works?’ Remember who you are.

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Then the work will not bind you, it will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce; it is your effort which is the bondage. What is destined to happen will happen. If you are destined not to work, work cannot be had even if you hunt for it. If you are destined to work, you will not be able to avoid it and you will be forced to engage yourself in it. So, leave it to the higher power; you cannot renounce or retain as you choose.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

 

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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(John , 14:27)

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O day of darkness! What evil spirit moved our minds when for the sake of an earthly kingdom we came to this field of battle ready to kill our own people?

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Better for me indeed if the sons of Dhrita-rashtra, with arms in hand, found me unarmed, unresisting, and killed me in the struggle of war.

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Thus spoke Arjuna in the field of battle, and letting fall his bow and arrows he sank down in his chariot, his soul overcome by despair and grief.

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Then arose the Spirit of Krishna and spoke to Arjuna, his friend, who with eyes filled with tears, thus had sunk into despair and grief.

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Whence this lifeless dejection, Arjuna, in this hour, the hour of trial? Strong men know not despair, Arjuna, for this wins neither heaven nor earth.

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Fall not into degrading weakness, for this becomes not a man who is a man. Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it.

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(Bhagavad Gita 1:45-47 , 2:1-3)

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What is necessary is to understand with sure conviction is that all is temporary, and does not reflect your true state.

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There is no individual looking at another individual; the sense of presence is cognising. Other than that, there is nothing. This state of consciousness cognising what appears in consciousness is being witnessed as a temporary state. the alternate states of waking, sleeping and the sense of presence are all temporary states that have come upon me. I am not the states. They have all come spontaneously and will go spontaneously. No one has any control over them.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 2/27/81)

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I Ching Footnote:

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the waxing and waning of yin and yang

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A new cycle began — after the falling away, a turning back followed.

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(Hexagram 23, 12/01/15)

 

Scriptures 2015 – 98 – (Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 14:25-26 , Bhagavad Gita 1:34-39 , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj w/ I Ching footnote)

 

The Gita starts by saying that you are not the body and that you are not therefore the karta [the doer].

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It means that one should act without thinking that oneself is the actor. Actions will go on even in the egoless state. Each person has come into manifestation for a certain purpose and that purpose will be accomplished whether he considers himself to be the actor or not.

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Karma yoga is that yoga in which the person does not arrogate to himself the function of being the actor. All actions go on automatically.

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The question arises only if there is the actor. It is said in all the scriptures that you should not consider yourself to be the actor.

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the actorless action.

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(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

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All this I have spoken while still with you.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

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(John 14:25-26)

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Facing us in the field of battle are teachers, fathers and sons,; grandsons, grandfathers, wives’ brothers; mothers’ brothers and fathers of wives.

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These I do no wish to slay, even if I myself am slain. Not even for the kingdom of the three worlds : how much less for a kingdom of the earth!

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If we kill these evil men, evil shall fall upon us : what joy in their death could we have, O Janardana, mover of souls?

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I cannot therefore kill my own kinsmen, the sons of king Dhrita-rashtra, the brother of my own father. What happiness could we ever enjoy, if we killed our own kinsmen in battle?

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(Bhagavad Gita 1:34-39)

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Now, understand the subtle difference.what are you and what do you understand to be you … that very identity with which you try to understand everything is unreal …Give up the habit of labeling whatever you are. Be what you were prior to the label or the title, be that. Don’t employ the mind, do nothing.

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(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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I Ching Footnote:

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Act in accordance with the situation and keep still

Contemplating the image,

The superior person comprehends

The alternatiion of increase and decrease,

Also the alternation of fullness and emptiness.

It is the Tao of Heaven.

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(Hexagram 23)