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Unsupported Awareness
To go deeper in the Realisation of one's Spiritual Roots, one has to internally renounce all supports - teachings, teachers, people, relatives, places, ideas, concepts - the whole edifice of conditioning. This gives Awareness a chance to fly free of its material and mental fetters which tie our perception to the mundane. It is our habitual and engrained attachments which keep us identified with our body and our mind. Letting go of this identification allows us to Realise our Spiritual Nature and then remain identified with what we are in Essence. The price of finding the Infinite is letting go of the finite. One can’t have both for Realisation.
 A water lily on the Ashram lake: symbol of the potential and perfection which lies at the root of all of us. Just as the lily grows out of the mud to culminate in the beautiful flower facing the sun, so we, as humans, can grow out of our physical limitations to realise the Reality behind our very existence. |
"I will tell you in half a verse what has been told in hundreds and thousands of scriptures: This world is unreal, Consciousness alone is real and the individual consciousness is identical with the Supreme Cons-ciousness."
Sri Shankaracharya