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Pay attention to the trajectory of your felt experience. Karma (intention) is conditioning future karma (intention) which has a direct effect on the intensity of your suffering.
To start doing this, you need to detect Intention (karma) in your experience.
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Here's the summary table for the provided quote on Light in Hinduism:
| Theme | Details |
|---|---|
| Symbolism of Light | Light represents divine knowledge, truth, and enlightenment in Hinduism. It is the journey from darkness (ignorance) to light (wisdom). The Upanishads and Vedas speak of this transition. |
| Mantra from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad | "Lead me from untruth to truth, from darkness to light, and from death to immortality." This emphasizes the move from ignorance to knowledge and from mortality to immortality. |
| Beings of Light | Divine beings like devas and enlightened souls live in light, embodying virtues and universal consciousness (Brahman). |
| Nachiketa's Story | In the Katha Upanishad, Nachiketa’s quest for truth and light highlights the importance of courage, devotion, and discipline to attain wisdom and liberation. |
| Path of Dharma | Living in light involves following one’s dharma and the four purusharthas: dharma, artha, kama, and moksha. The Bhagavad Gita guides this journey, with Krishna symbolizing divine light. |
| Meditation and Inner Light | Meditation, as described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, is a practice to connect with the inner light (Atman), which is eternal and divine. |
| Bhakti Yoga and Devotion | The story of Meera Bai represents living in light through devotion to Lord Krishna. Her unwavering faith symbolizes the surrender of ego to the divine light. |
| Cosmic Light | Hindu cosmology sees light as the origin of creation. Purusha Sukta describes creation as emerging from the luminous cosmic being, and the Chandogya Upanishad speaks of an inner light within all beings. |
| Modern Interpretations | Modern thinkers like Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo emphasized the importance of striving for self-improvement and spiritual progress. Aurobindo envisioned a supramental light transforming human existence. |
| Essence of Light | Light is both a metaphor and the essence of existence, symbolizing the universal truth. The Rigveda's verse states, "Surya atma jagatastasthuṣaśca" — The Sun is the soul of all that moves and does not move. |
This table highlights the core teachings and symbolic significance of light in Hinduism, from sacred texts to modern interpretations.
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Attachment to and with some other person is such a strong way of being happy in the now. With no attachment, there is little or no happiness,
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Ultimately, everything said by any spiritual teacher (including Teja) about enlightenment is inaccurate. Enlightenment, true enlightenment, exists beyond any words or mental understandings that can be conveyed. Exponentially beyond. ‘Enlightenment’ exists totally out of ‘time,‘ so saying enlightenment takes thousands of years/lifetimes or is already here & now are both hopelessly inadequate and wrong…kind of like saying love takes thousands of years to arrive, and yet love is already here & now.
‘Years,’ ‘lifetimes,’ ‘rebirth,’ ‘here’ and ‘now’ are all meaningless concepts to the Illumined One.
Saying it takes ‘effort’ is also absurd, because the illusory entity or self-contained, bounded “I” identity that would make this ‘effort’ is the very thing realized to be a phantom that never existed.
As I have said so often, ‘enlightenment’ is not, absolutely not, an event, practice or attainment that happens in ‘time’ to and ‘individual.’
As Ramana Maharshi says: “The Self is always the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it, ‘attaining it.’ Who is to realize what, and how, when all that exists is the Self?” (I know I’ve reprinted that many times, but, IMHO, it never loses its power for us, and can’t be revisited too often.)
It’s a conundrum, because the moment an illusory “I” gets interested in enlightenment and commencing a ‘spiritual path’ (also an illusion,) “they” will want to study scriptures, read books by so-called masters & teachers, and even find a ‘personal’ guru to tell “them” ‘how to get enlightened’ (in 8 easy or not-so-easy steps:-)
Then, depending on the scriptures’ or teacher’s background, they will hear answers like, “It takes years or lifetimes“ or “It takes no time at all“ or “It takes a lot of effort“ or “No amount of effort can cause it.“
Then, any two or 2000 students compare notes, feel confused and say “Well, which is it?“
At one level, the thing that appears to be calling “you“ to enlightenment is the ego, because the ego simply wants an end to its suffering and permanent happiness. But egos don’t get an end to suffering or permanent happiness, and egos don’t get enlightened.
At another level, what’s calling you to enlightenment is You, The True You. The True You can only experience its (already existing) enlightenment directly, by Being Itself, not through any words, scriptures, methods, teachings, time or effort.
So don’t worry about which is the ‘correct’ answer. They’re all ‘correct’ and they’re all nonsense. Listen to your own intuitive calling and pick the one that resonates most with your inner knowing. Then follow that pathless ‘path’ with all your heart. In the end it’s the pure heart of the ‘seeker’ that matters much more than the specific path & methods.
And don’t be concerned, “we” will all ‘get there’ (poetically speaking,) because “we’re” all already there. There’s really no place else to go :-)
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The best times are when things just happen and are without conscious thought about them. As soon as thoughts come into it, the ‘I’ (ego) surfaces. It’s so good not thinking.
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In the deepest Silence, where the ‘perceiver’ disappears, there is only Truth, no contradictions.
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Going, coming, doing - Stop, Just Be!
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TA-Because (if your read the rest of my post) words, concepts and the mind’s deductive explaining are 110% inadequate to the transcendent.
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