The Body is Not "I"
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The Body is Not "I"
Only "One" illuminates the mind, the intellect, and all organs of the senses, and their objects. It is only a false notion that he is "someone." If you maintain an idea that you are a "body," it seems that the body does everything, the eating, drinking, etc. This is called Ignorance. The illusory concept that "I am the body," creates the individual (Jiva), and the sense that, "I am not the body," makes you God (Shiva). The belief that the objects of the senses are full of pleasure, is only a mistaken concept. The sense organs become agitated to take hold of objects. The world of the body is measured. It is only three and a half arm’s length (the length of the body). All activities are only for the sake of the body. Its enjoyments and its attachments are received by it only. It has given away its true "Glory" in favor of the sense organs, and now it is very difficult to get back to it. The sense organs are addicted, running out of control chasing after imagined enjoyment. That is the wonder! That is what is called pleasure! Pleasure merely indicates the stimulation of sensory nerves.
There is a game of madness and it was decided that you must keep on playing the game of win or lose, pleasure or pain, and you must keep experiencing it. You call it pleasure, but it is really nothing but a play of imagination. You call it pleasure, but it must be "killed." There is real happiness in killing the enjoyment, but people keep up the imagination, which is really only suffering. If you have killed the enjoyment, that is good. However, the killer of the enjoyment, also must die. Objects are imaginary and the enjoyment of them, is also imaginary. Enjoyment is only a thought or feeling that you like. You get enjoyment when everything takes place according to your hopes. God (Shiva) is without any thought of duality, and without any thoughts of doubt.
The objects of every sense organs are different. All the ten pull you in ten directions. Yama, the God of Death, rides upon the "Buffalo of Ignorance" and attacks you. Ignorance is what carries one to the realm of death. The enticement of the senses and being ensnared by pleasure, is nothing but attachment to the body. Everything happens in the grand scheme of things, but the individual says "'I' have done everything." Although he is the Self, he says that he is the body, and bears the burden of merit and sins. This is the disease of body identification called the ego. It's like the dog that is walking below a moving cart and says that he is the one who is driving the cart. Similarly, the individual takes up false pride and claims to do everything. He takes no rest at any time. It is like he is having an uncontrollable seizure of body identification.
There was a law in the town of blind people that said if anybody comes who can see with his eyes, they would take out his eyeballs. One must escape from there with sufficient cunning. Illusion knows that if anybody realizes the Self she would be defamed, so she makes efforts in the opposite direction of Knowledge. Because you are attached to the body and sense pleasures, the cycle of birth and death is continuous. It is only when you see that pleasure is sorrow that you come to real happiness. Action done with expectation of fruit is very detrimental. The desire for fruits, or results, is what compels the Self that is beyond birth, to take birth. Therefore, do not harbor desire for any results. Maya harasses the Jiva by imposing upon him the mirage of body identification, but alas, the individual does not get fed up. The Jiva takes birth in various bodies and suffers all of his own accord. The Jiva that is blindfolding the eyes of Self-hood is wandering all over. Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj from a talk in "Master of Self-Realization"
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Richard
If God were limited to a 6 foot body, it would be too crowded for Him.
Mahakali
restoring himself by helping them functioning better within dualities.
These sciences actively promote and reinforce the idea of duality as
the correct interpretation of reality. And, of course, the first sign
is the relationship between the doctor (me) and the patient (the
other) which premise is already on separation and not in sameness or
unity (except with autistic children who do not seem to exist as an
ego or feel the separation in the world ).
Kali
Richard
The psychiatric profession observed the 150th anniversary of Sigmund
Freud's birth on May 6. My modest proposal for the event is to exhume
his body and put a stake through his heart. Freud's Viennese
contemporary Karl Kraus quipped that psychoanalysis was "a disease
posing as a cure". Kraus was closer to the truth than he could have
imagined.
The object of psychoanalysis was not to spread universal joy, but to
proceed "from hysterical misery to ordinary unhappiness" (quote by
Freud).
The above is taken from an article by a “fan” of Freud’s.
Advaita, on the other hand (what other hand?), proposes that there is
nothing wrong with who we truly are. And as Kali says, no separation
between Dr. and patient.