Pratibha — Power of Intelligence #8
Few beings alive really know the power of Intelligence, what to speak of its origin within the Mother of Wisdom. The intellect is its vessel, but is only fit to hold its rarified levels if it gets purified by Jnana Yoga. When awakened and flowing, intelligence forms streams of wisdom particles that can destroy obstacles, wake the soul up from maya, and transport the mind into those blissful and inexplicable flights of transcendence called samadhi.
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Spiritual Art of Mental Asanas #187
As a companion for wisdom chart #139, but also as a stand-on-its-own offering, the teaching of Mental Asanas, though not new to Indian darshanas and their way of thinking, is nevertheless relatively new to this day and age, and to the West in general. And what an ingenious and effective method it is, especially for the sincere and serious practitioner who is willing to combine deep study with concentrated meditation. The divisions of this teaching give the seeker three levels of postures for the mind to take up, practice, and accomplish — one for mental health, one for spirituality, and one for transcendence. Selecting one or more from each category, the aspirant can strive for success in overcoming obstacles that otherwise may have been impeding progress for lifetimes. Practicing these under the guidance of a guru proves extra effective.
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Sri Ram’s Discourse of Divine Discontent #183
Ancient as time itself, and never to be forgotten, is the divine saga of Sita and Ramchandra related in the revealed scripture, the Ramayana. Much like Lord Buddha much later in time, Ram returned from a journey outside the walls of his father’s palace, but did so possessed of a remarkable transformation. For, he had seen suffering close up in the people of the land, and was hard put to deal with it. When the time was ripe, however, his father arranged for a gathering in the Great Hall under the auspice of which the young luminary expressed his deepest feelings about the world-bewitching maya — the details of which are revealed on this dharma art wisdom chart.
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The 6 Illusory Bodies #123
Taken from the Vivekachudamani of Shankara, this dharma chart teaching shows the risks and dangers of embodiment, as well as the problems associated with thinking oneself to be the body. To drive home the point, Shankara utilizes examples of bodys that everyone should know better than to identify with, like the shadow of a man, and the reflection of oneself in a lake. In the same way, the seeker is to think of the physical body as being a mere appearance as well, and withdraw from it to focus attention upon the Atman.
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The Divisions of Atman from the Sri Rama Hrydayam #94
The indivisibility of Divine Reality, Brahman/Atman, is a famous principle in Vedanta, and so is the description of its apparent separations and coverings. This is how nondual Awareness takes on twoness, manifoldness, expansiveness, multiplicity, and duality, all the while remaining unchanged. With Its own maya it covers Itself, like a manta ray burying itself in deep sands on the ocean floor while still remaining the same. And who better to explain such subtle mayic machinations than the Treta Yuga Avatar, Sir Ramachandra, pictured here elucidating these fine philosophical distinctions to Sita and Lakshmana.
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The Evolutes, Characteristics, and Limiting Factors of Maya #110
The Great Master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, has cautioned spiritual seekers, and all who would remain free of undue attractions and distractions, to study Maya from a distance. For, looking at it up close, the observer is bound to fall into it, like a fascinated creature into quicksand. Another helpful metaphor cites a man camping overnight in a valley that is covered by a fogbank. He imagines all manner of threats and ills all night, but when the sun rises and burns the fog away, he realizes that they were all unreal. Such is the world-bewitching Maya something to keep at arm’s length, as the list of its evolutes and limiting factors on this dharma art wisdom chart reveals.
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The Four Descending Steps of Negligence of Brahman #43
Though mankind’s nature is perfect, or “divine,” living beings do not know and experience It until they have purified the body, mind, and senses and realized the Atman. This can only be accomplished by spiritual practices. Along the way of this overall discipline, forgetfulness of the underlying “Ground of Existence” must be guarded against until remembrance of this inner perfection comes to the fore and becomes natural once again.
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The Great Actor, Great Enjoyer, & Great Renouncer #280
In yet another story from the sacred scripture, Yoga Vasishtha, a clear and direct lesson in dharmic life is delivered via this wisdom chart, free of reservations. It describes in threefold fashion how the adept luminary, once having been a sincere practitioner, lives freely after attaining a station of consciousness that is beyond acts laced with agency, above all pleasures enjoyed for personal satisfaction, and transcendent of thoughts that still believe that the worlds of name and form in time and space are somehow real. He/she becomes “great” in all three of these modes, even though it may appear to others that ordinary life still goes on, on the outside.
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The True Meaning of Siddha — Perfection #109
The Sanskrit word, Siddhi, has several meanings, and these have confused the unenlightened ones who, as yet, are uninitiated into the secrets of spiritual life. Some may take it as something to be physically imbibed, like an intoxicant. Others, of metaphysical leanings, may interpret it as meaning occult powers that can bring unusual forces under the control of the seeker after power. But adepts and luminaries know that Siddhi is absolute perfection. This artistic wisdom chart poses two choices, side by side, for the consideration of discerning aspirants everywhere, and in every religion. For much of religion’s downfall can be traced to preoccupation with the occult, with miracles, and with sensationalism. There is a much better choice, as the teachings of Sankhya Yoga and Vedanta reveal on this dharma chart.
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The Two Main Forms of Desire #113
Most novices along the spiritual path — meaning all those who have not attained discrimination between Reality and relativity and renounced that latter — do not yet know that, one, their desires are keeping them from making any substantial progress, and two, that there are desires that are not harmful to spiritual advancement. Reading testaments by great souls, studying the scriptures, and listening to authentic dharma teachers will inform them of this, and also allow them to clarify in their minds which desires are to be fulfilled, and which are to be dissolved via sadhana.
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Tree of Samsara #202
As a companion chart for #295, The Sword of Discrimination, both wisdom charts being teachings springing from Shankara’s great scripture, Vivekachudamani, this dharma chart shows a tree of a different variety than that of the famous Tree of Yoga. Samsara, also called maya, is stultifying, and can easily trap the incarnating soul in a web of both illusion and delusion. Complex to infinity, samsara is treated by this great luminary by placing its main characteristics in a more simple setting, to make it easier for the seeker of Freedom to detach from it. For, as the Great Master said: “Never identify with maya, study it from a distance.”
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