JAPA YOGA X ADVTA

 

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One must take to Japa or Nama-Smarana (remembering the Name of the Lord) very seriously and sincerely with full faith. The chanting of His Name is but serving Him. You must have the same flow of love and respect (devotion) in your heart at the time of thinking of or remembering His Name as that you naturally may have in your heart at the time when you really see Him. You should have full faith and belief in the eternity of the Name. 

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B EVENING MESSAGE

The great matter is birth-death
Impermanence is swift!
It’s fitting for everyone to sober up! Wake up!
Do not let [this opportunity] pass by”

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B ONION 

Ajahn Brahm explaining Bhante G's analogy of will / sankhara:

"It's like an onion:

• you keep on peeling it only to find out there's nothing in there.

• it also makes you cry

• the word 'onion' has 'I' in the middle that goes on and on"

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####### In the Chiindogya Upani$ad, for example, Prajapati teaches Indra that the consciousness which is identified with the waking, dream and deep sleep states of experience is in actuality Atman, or pure consciousness itself. Indeed, concludes Prajapati, pure consciousness continues unaffected throughout all empirical states of experience.3 S

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