Spiritual Practice
If you fall off the dharma out of forgetfulness, it may take you a long time to get back on track. Better to fall off out of error, because you might more readily see this mistake and correct yourself quickly.
Vedanta focuses on ‘Who am I?’ Tantra focuses on, ‘Do I really love God first and foremost? – All the time?! Do I love my neighbor as myself?’ This is the ultimate station inside of the worlds of name and form. ‘Who am I’ bridges on this.
Brahman is the hardest thing to keep in mind, because It isn’t in the mind. Look for God in the all-pervasive Self.
All stations in life – celibate student, householder, vanaprastin (retired from family and society) – are leading to sannyas of one kind or another, called complete renunciation of the world. And you may make this step in the mind only.
You cannot mistake the person who has seen through the appearance of the world; they have distaste, dispassion, discrimination, discernment – dis, dis, dis, dis – they are ‘dissing’ the false and ‘dis’picable world all the time by their very presence in it!
All the chakras are in the mind, so go into the recesses of the mind and find them. Lift off the lower chakras and rise up; sublimate the gross and subtle energy.
There’s never been a civilization like America – so opulent and technologically proficient. But is it being used to serve God or the ego? If one looks, even on the surface, the answer is obvious.