Knowledge & Ignorance // Freedom & Bondage
Ignorance is the first sin.  But it is not a permanent black mark on your Soul; it is an overlay over your unawakened mind.

You can always recognize the nondual scriptures because they are only concerned with the following topics: Brahman, jivatman (embodied soul), sadhana (spiritual discipline), and maya (happenings in the phenomenal universe).

Of the four main Yogas of life granted by Mother India to us, Jnana Yoga (path of Knowledge) is the focus on the path of liberation.  It is a qualifier and a purifier.  As Sri Krishna states in the Gita, "Na hi jnanena sadrsham pavitram iha vidyate.  Verily, there is no purifier like knowledge."

Sri Ramakrishna did not wear his detachment like a crown of thorns, but like a robe.  Indeed, He was not like us; he was telling us to be like Him.  He is God in human form.  We have forgotten what that is like.  People let children, pets, and money rule their lives.  They are bound, and they teach their children to be bound.  If I am free I can help others to be free.  If I am bound, I teach others to be bound.  What else?

Voidism should be avoided.  Nihilism should be annihilated.  This can be done by asking "Who is it that gave nihilism a name?  Who is it that became aware of the existence of the void?"  As my guru, Swami Aseshananda used to say: "One can go on denying everything for a time, but soon one learns that one can never deny the existence of the one who is doing the denying.....”

Certainly, there is a form of God in a heaven somewhere, but God, the formless, is in me, and in you – and you, and you too!  You are not the individual; you are the Indivisible.  What does indivisible mean?  It means that you never split off and went to a heaven somewhere.

The expression "Born free" is a contradiction in terms.  No one is born free; they are born bound – that is what birth is.  Even the great souls come into the body with their consciousness veiled.  It is as if Mother has covered awareness on purpose so we can say "Wow! Look at that!" as the most current Avatar breaks all bondages, once every age, before the collective eyes of humanity.
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