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You cannot understand the Absolute from the standpoint of relativity.  And from the plateau of nonduality, relativity does not exist.

In the 108 Upanisads contained within the Vedas, all the darshanas [philosophical systems] found their place, and the gods and goddesses too.  None vied for supremacy.  It was all integrated.

The scriptures say that if you want a long life of 100 years, then you should purify your senses and mind.

Atharvans, a class of priests who performed the Vedic sacrifices, were the fire tenders, both external and internal.  The outer rituals (fires) appeased the gods, neutralized karmas, and kept the balance of nature.  The internal fire consisted of the fire of knowledge and the fire of Yoga.  The fire of Knowledge refers to all the Wisdom they were collecting.  The fire of Yoga is one's attempt at realizing that Knowledge.

[Babaji presented the chart: "The Seer, the Seen, the Unseen, and the Obscene"]
Seer = Consciousness; Seen = what you see with the senses; unseen = inner realms; Obscene = what people see with a fragmented mind where the Seer is mixed up indiscriminately with the seen.  If one does not know via study and meditation that earth goes to smell, water with taste, fire with sight, etc, and that all these connect into the mind at individual, collective, and cosmic levels, then one is probably living a fragmented life.

The theme of this first class is Sarvosmi, "Everything is."  All these things are either manifest or unmanifest.  If you do not understand this then you neither intuit the Seer nor see the Unseen, and then will ignorantly turn the Seen into the obscene.  If you are in knowledge of AUM, or Sri Krishna's Gita, then you are either sporting in manifestation or transcending it.  There is no lower maya in this knowledge, only Mahamaya.

India shut out Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, and the British.  India's Ahimsa,  nonviolence, marched across the world in the form of Buddhism.  Buddhism did not raise a finger, what to speak of a sword, in its spread across the world.  Among phenomena, this is a most amazing one.

Christ intended that we base religion on "I and my Father are one," not Genesis.  After two thousand years this idea of beginnings is so deeply embedded in our western consciousness that we now think in terms of birth and death, and increments of time.  Genesis is okay, that is what those Five Russian dolls represent, or the Bell chart.  But all these merge into their Source.  What is called "creation" does not come out of nothing.

Where does the sound of a bell go?  Out into the ethers?  If it does, it gets distorted.  I know this as a sound engineer.  I liken this to the soul distortion that occurs the farther one moves from the Source.  Better to think of and see the sound as being inherent in the Bell -- vibration is inherent in the Self.  You get to the Father through the Son.

Arguing about form and formlessness -- what nonsense!  There are some who want the form only, or formlessness only.  But how do you get wine to your lips without a bottle?  What is more, how do you know what you are drinking without the label?  Brahman is the wine, the Son is the bottle, and the revealed scriptures represent the label.  Together they solve all issues.  So we do not need to argue about this.  You get to the Father through the Son.  God is with form, formless, and beyond both.

Mukti is not liberation from bondage.  It is not an experience.

Why does the ego come out?  Because of desire.  What are its desires?   The five elements, according to Lord Buddha.  We wanted to stand on solid ground, eat food, and smell fragrances, drink water, see and touch objects, and hear sounds.  The elements are our desires made manifest.

Assume the position of Samadhi even before you believe in it.  There is no Samadhi in the Self where meditation, meditator, and object of meditation are one -- just as described by the Avadhuta Gita: "....homogenous, like the sky."

Your perfection cannot be purified.  You cannot gain it or lose it.  The Self is already pure.  Now just realize It.

Sri Ramakrishna wanted householders to renounce internally, for they are so vulnerable, living amongst family and jobs.  The most basic duality to renounce is pleasure and pain, but as you go along with your practice, you come across subtle dualities such as form and formlessness, bondage and liberation. Pondering these is very helpful.  When you see God everywhere, you do not see the world.  What world is there to renounce?

Sakshi is the Cognizer of the presence and absence of the triputi of knower, knowledge and knowing. That is, Sakshi is the cognizer of the shifting of states of absence and presence.

"The Atman, hidden in all beings, reveals Itself not to all, but is seen only by the seers of the subtle through their refined and pointed intellect." - Katha Upanisad

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