Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 2. V.16 Commentary and Contemplation - 9th August 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that the root of all misery is the illusion of duality and separation. He guides seekers to step back from the world of objects and follow the 'trail of the witness' to recognize their true nature as one undivided awareness.
Looking at one and seeing many is the cause of all misery.
Follow the trail of the witness... and the recognition will be undeniable.
You are the one solitary witness, immaculate and absolutely safe.
contemplative
Transcript
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Let's pick up our Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 16. And this is a beautiful thing: 'Looking at one and seeing many is the cause of all misery. Realize that I am one, aware, pure, immaculate, peaceful, and absolutely safe.' Looking at one and seeing many is the cause of all misery. Is it possible to have misery, to support being miserable, without duality? There must be this 'me' and 'another.' What a great way he says it: 'Looking at one and seeing many is the cause of all misery.' In our life, looking around me, we see only one appearance, but we believe the appearance is many. What makes that many? Upon hearing this also, there can be a distinction made, which is that, 'Oh, this is one, this is one.' If there's a carpet here, even this body will be seemingly in the perception here, apart from the one. The mind can see and make some separation.
Many times you can hear this, 'Oh, this is one,' and we can feel like we love everyone. So you can feel like, 'I as somebody, but now I love everyone because they are one with me.' We may think something so beautiful as that, but there can be duality. 'They are one with me.' But that is not what is being said. It is almost as if we are looking at one consciousness, one being, and all this that is manifest is one. We can see all objects are the same, which includes this body. When they are the golden one, it is said often that we... who is the 3D? Equal to the 3D. 3D is something like a story everyone knows. The cache to look at there, nobody, yes sir. Whoa-oh-aah. Versus the little frumpy or the written test dummies. One is it. Are you doing the root of all of these opinions and dualities? I am something different from this. I am this. Now you just are. I am there is existence which rapidly since it resurfaced. Hopefully, there are two aspects to this world of duality within a pleasure, good and bad. Mathematical theorems of one world, one in the world.
Now if it is seen that it is one, then we step back from that one. Otherwise, we participate in that world by our identity, thinking, 'I prefer this, I do this.' We participate with our context. If you step back from this, if it's seen that everything is one, right now everything is doing this, designed this way, but we see that it is one. We just watch. It looks like you might see that some of you have seen the statue of Shiva and Shakti in one surgery. So sometimes we can look at something, only one aspect to it, but we can see like, 'Oh, this is...' and make a conclusion about the world. It is like this because the world is full of suffering. It is also full of joy. And then my contemplation that's seen that in everything, in all of this manifest creation, then everything is available in duality. There is nothing which is outside it. At the times in which balance things to get over it again, when the fact that the great of times come, we will be together. So balance is a beautiful thing to see. That's right.
You can see that we can see in the training, this is not full pivoting. So always taking a side, we will discover suffering. Other thing, confusion with this hundred is for the token system. The world is only this, market hoping, leaking facilities. This is the balancing of beginning. They dance with the constraints in the design of a little stress between chocolate. We were played in the constant pounding down to this constant check to see the world as a whole. So to see this, you are not participating in that one. If you are not an object in this world of you, the world appears. I mean Maya. It is one, nice one, k1v, nice products. So when you see that 'I am not subject to the whole quality of this world,' then that is the dropping of this. This is what is. This is what this can be, just what is without resistance. Then there can be cables, and that what is, it just moves. The movement of these bodies, everything can be heard as it is. And then individual entity, and now I am going to decide to let it be as it is. That's not other things. I'm making except types of the solution, and I'm including the movements, words, and actions of this body also in the water. Then the whole illusion of always flawless, you design future. Okay, all of this play is one.
So that is what you are seeing. You are seeing with obviously that interpretation which means it seems they can part of this duality. So coming to the recognition of the source, or coming to the recognition of awareness, it goes away from this idea that I have to gain in this story. If you just see that there is one appearance, Maya appearing, putting the definition of appearance which comes in books, that is compared with kind of appear and an appearance. And if I also come and go as an experienceable thing, I do not come and go. You think I also came and went. But reporting that 'I come and go' would not be possible at all. Not the Protestants. To keep the change, there is no focus with you. Change cannot be reported. At this another climbers, however, fortunately, protection... if you mean consciousness at rest, you mean that which is not yet 'I am.' This 'I am' is not risen from it. So it's not appeared from details as an unfair existence, which means that Atma, normally the move in the with the deep sleep, and there is no protection yet there is awareness. Because otherwise, I would not be able to say there is no perception.
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I try to understand you here the word because you cannot understand it in that way. How is it? Where is perception when I am the power of protection set? Because all people see precise a shaving varies with distance of the projection effect. Now before I am even this protection is not it. There is no phenomena to perceive and there is no existence, sense of existence, which is a perceiver, the creator of the light of this environment news. Now even to make these people, I must be aware of it. Or are you talking out of Maya? We are bounded making this up. There is no particular but in this case, if it is no, which we were, there is no protection movie. So either we have a screams of before these people just a common make that all of us share what we are aware it will be the time where multiple perceptions have even depends of course people but they're not being the nervousness of that this. So that we could usually the subject or all our object which is this consciousness is also ultimately an object. The ultimate subject which in the way now with the feeling of consciousness then come all of these power. There is seven, there is perception, say sign that it space, it will life is all of the body usually is my character to do is this consciousness with something within put back into the source where all of this potable you see also section my separation I think to believe as it and yet you are aware the direct course you can report it only even this nominal appear until day.
So the power of our section relies on this climb of powerful I think there is no protection without attempt yet there is awareness without it. You can see perception click even with a lot of attention usually late at night. I take it example, the bill doesn't happen to me that I'm doing something and I'm watching you after a while you see that you can watch the attention is defeating. I think withdrawn out from out of this world something is it looking back in the soils then swim even this scent that I am ambitious and there nothing to the polls. I think what that ideal is one consciousness, one beingness, and all this world of academic papers run anything shut and so also not paid the idea of the list in the real perception which what we protection with some deputation orders. The kid says, 'All I see is one.' It is not that how you're not able to perceive that their actual body body if it is that all this google perception happen one is one concept very often we do the experience where is the experience of high taxes whether they experience experience.
So even in spirituality we are huge nealy mean a bit modestly. One is that we start the presumption that the separation happened. There is a vehicle's engine and how to make it a better person for good first. I'm telling the truth away from greed others including to get in the way of spirituality a project exists and then getting to the point where I respect receiver to be recognized it's warm on my back is not external tell you mr. McCarney is unpredictable and then hundreds of voices doesn't work one over the left so quickly charity forgiveness famous and one it's given fields of the testes I as poison no attention to it as only the pretty goes this way is to point like this way right now and to see that you are one approaching thing because he bore interest attached oh there you are the one solitary with yourself all day.
It's such a beautiful point of it. Let's follow the trail of the written and the recognition will be undeniable without a best again the mind will come to nothing. I want booze to come up to me and share with you follow the trail of the rhythm you come to the place where it feels like I see nothing I can't be much who can calm us to me then empowerment checks now although the trail of the business as you say what it means to follow the trail of the business whatever the object might be find out in witnesses that then find out who this or the mind will come and say that this is infinite regress the business is a regression optimization index Lippmann did you knock you we're falling to that fine time to believe in this come together this is here well not again it's covering what the divine can come to the students confuse very acceptable like that if I say we can be nothing I want to talk about they can give this is giving you the idea that profound joy is it's a nice ableism backwards or if I tell you the story but I will only be there now they must only be awareness of awareness there must not be any worldly perception the tackle to let's go meet your mind if you come there all the riddles forms of until the victim just following the part it is following this valve is it there is a all the clues are there important to us but there is not come and do what it is that they're not coming to the story that it is this with activity very easy application.
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