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Date Posted: 17:51:07 07/13/08 Sun
Author: Michael
Subject: Re: Spiritual Awakening
In reply to: iteo 's message, "Re: Spiritual Awakening" on 22:13:59 07/12/08 Sat

The Ashtavakra Gita is one of two scriptures that the Yogi encourages people to read.

The week before the Yogi arrived his attendant was here. He spent most of the week ,plus the two weeks the Yogi was here, persistently correcting me.
It was quite gentle but it also was so much that it was quite confusing.
In the end I never knew what I was doing was right or wrong. If i did something i was told I should delegate it, if i delegated a job I was told I should have done it, or it was delegated to the wrong person. Even when I did something well, all I got was a correction about not informing him on time about something. etc etc

At first i tried hard to 'get it right' which was confusing as I couldnt work out what was right. I began to doubt my ability to make judgemetns, but after a week or so I began to realise he was doing what the Yogi had done to him (but in much milder form for me). I had to just do what I thought was best, for the sake of it, without desire to please or get praise. A form of surrender.
It was gently done so it was an relatively easy lesson....but there's lots more tougher lessons to come, Im sure.
>Very interesting.
>
>I'd like to discuss this seriously since I too am on
>the spiritual path, so I hope you won't mind making
>this a discussion.
>
>I am none too good at doing what you've been told to
>work on either and in fact it's something that I've
>been coming to grips with these past few weeks. The
>way I see it is when I am annoyed by any situation, it
>is due to my desire to be either doing something else
>or simply not accepting the current situation.
>
>Take this quote:
>
>Abandon desire, the enemy, along with gain, itself so
>full of loss, and the good deeds which are the cause
>of the other two — practice indifference to everything.
>
>— Ashtavakra Gita 10.1
>
>Perhaps I am wrong, but I feel that this quote sums up
>the situation very well. In other words, maybe don't
>try to be "good", since being good is still a
>polarity, and itself a delusion of yin and yang and
>thus samsara.
>
>Instead, what I think the Ashtavakra Gita is saying is
>to try to be indifferent to your own wants, and once
>you're doing so, the wants or needs of others, no
>matter how absurd, won't be so annoying.

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