Summer Retreat Notes, 2016

 Pithy Points to Ponder

The worldly ask, “Why me?”
The striving ask, “Who am I?”
The awakened say, “I am.”

You are sitting in a chamber of your mind, but you have “Omnesia.”  Try to remember the Lord and Mother of the Universe, and the Supreme Brahman, and you will free your mind.

People lose their original intention all the time – Maya takes over.  So do not wait; do not deviate.

The great power of the Four Yogas came to the West in Swami Vivekananda.

Jnana Yoga is a slow acting medicine in those with still small intelligence, but the swiftest path possible for those harboring expansive awareness.

Laya – the move from individual to indivisible.

Aspiring Vedantists do not have a midlife crisis; they have a many lives crisis.

Vedantists aren’t elitist; they’re illumined.

Science ends in a void; Vedanta ends in Brahman.

You should focus on the Witness when you fall to sleep; and be the Witness of your death when you leave the body.

Here, in the embodied state, we are all “fecked”, as the Irish say: Perfeck or imperfeck.

The Gunas are modes of Nature, not modes of the Self.

Purification of mind is really transcendence of mind.

Don’t be yourself.  Be The Self!