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| | Selected quotes from
"Be As You Are"
by David Godman
Arkana Books © 1985 |
"The most advanced realize the self as soon as they are told about its real nature. Those in the second class need to reflect on it for some time before Self-awareness becomes firmly established. Those in the third category are less fortunate since they usually need many years of intensive spiritual practice to achieve the goal of Self-Realization."
Page 19
"The principle misperception is the idea that the Self is limited to the body and the mind. As soon as one ceases to imagine that one is an individual person, inhabiting a particular body, the whole superstructure of wrong ideas collapses and is replaced by a conscious and permanent awareness of the real Self."
Page 19
"The feeling 'The body is I' is the error. This false sense of 'I' must go. The real 'I' is always there. It is here and now. It never appears anew and disappears again. That which is must also persist for ever. That which appears anew will also be lost. Compare deep sleep and waking. The body appears in one state but not in the other. Therefore the body will be lost. The consciousness was pre-existent and will survive the body."
Page 21
"So there is a continuity in the sleep and waking states. What is that continuity? It is only the state of pure being."
Page 22
"...when passing from sleep to waking the 'I'-thought [individual self] must state and the mind must come into play. Then thoughts arise and the functions of the body come into operation."
Page 23
"Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of infinite being, and then weep that you are but a finite creature. Then you take up this or that spiritual practice to transcend the non-existent limitations. But if your spiritual practice itself assumes the existence of the limitations, how can it help you transcend them."
Page 24
"Just at that moment he wakes up and finds he has not moved an inch but was seeping where he lay down. He has not returned after great effort to this hall, but is and always has been in the hall."
Page 28
"Hearing the truth [sravana] is the first stage. If the understanding is not firm one has to practise reflection [manana] and uninterrupted contemplation [nididhyasana] on it. These two processes scorch the seeds of samskaras so they are rendered inneffective."
Page 29
"The ego is the thought 'I'. The true 'I' is the Self."
Page 30
"Yes, he [a Jnani] does dream, but he knows it to be a dream, in the same way as he knows the waking state to be a dream. You may call them dream no.1 and dream no.2"
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