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Qualification is King #33
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For the consummate spiritual aspirant who desires freedom more than anything else in the three worlds, Mother India’s storehouse of wisdom teachings represent a golden opportunity to qualify oneself in this rarest and most precious of all attainments. For the sincere, adamant seeker, this chart can act as a complete map in the luminous lands of higher wisdom and eternal dharma.
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The Corrosion of Consciousness #126
An “old bucket of rusty nails” is a good symbolic definition for all the unresolved karmas, past and present, that both harm and influence human mind and thought today. If the human mind were posed as the bucket, and all its thoughts were the nails inside, the obvious negativity present there would be the acidic corrosion going on. In this ingenious wisdom chart, the call to wakeup to the dangerous presence of gradually fructifying karmas, and the order of ones own will to do something about them, gets proposed. It is spiritual practice, always ongoing, and under the supervision of the spiritual preceptor, that provides the solution. Otherwise, the household today, and even the monastery — as Lord Buddha indicates here — are at dire risk.
4 Mighty & Noble Combats #184
One of the revealing statements in spiritual life tells of the eskimo who must watch snow conditions very carefully every day in order that his survival, and that of his family, is assured. The meaning is that a sadhaka, or adept spiritual aspirant, must observe his/her own consciousness daily for signs of both dangers and realizations arising there, for his spiritual progress depends upon it. The wisdom chart concerning the Four Mighty & Noble Combats provides a simple and straightforward explanation for this necessity, like a sentinel on watch day and night for signs of progress or retardation. All is indeed well in the kingdom of the soul when such a watchman is on duty and scrutinizing the scene.
Vivartopadana #160
Vivarta, false superimposition, is a key principle in Vedanta philosophy, the point being that all manifestation/expression covers the formless nature of Reality. Left alone in Its purest state, Brahman is “partless, faultless, actionless, and divine,” to quote the Upanisads. When mentation begins, from the Cosmic Mind on down and out to the collective and individual minds, then does all that is “unreal” obscure the Real. Beings then take what has been projected by the mind, like matter and objects, as being the only reality. That there is more or less of the conscious shine of Brahman in every little thing, while Brahman remains partless and indivisible, this is the lesson of Vivartopadana taught by the Vedanta philosophy.
Time & Enlightenment #152
There is no doubt that the factor of time plays an essential role in the attainment of spiritual enlightenment. Called Kramamukti in the Vedic tradition, what is inferred is a slower-paced and gradual inward ascension into the fullness of realization, over lifetimes. Though a few rarer souls may take swifter and more direct routes to Brahman and Ishvara, most beings on earth will walk this slower, gradated path. On the wisdom chart displayed here, some of the dynamics of spiritual evolution are laid out for study, along with many of the trials, requirements, and landmarks that accompany them. Replete with several wisdom quotes by a few of the most revered luminaries on earth over cycles of time, this chart is one to be posted on the walls of the household, ashrama, and monastery alike, as well as in educational institutions.