Hello instructors,
I invite you to share your thoughts on the small but handy book called, Don't Delay Enlightenment.
The author had profound spiritual experiences at the age of 18 and found his enlightenment at age 58. There is also something called the Sri Bagavath Mission who's wish is to promote a faster enlightenment for all.
He seems to know the foundational principles of nature and consciousness, explaining the physics of subconsciousness, consciousness, and deep consciousness. He explains some essential things like how subconsciousness has a mechanical life of it's own until it comes in the conscious field, whereby it can be perceived but, never controlled directly.
He also claims that once one has attained enlightenment, he or she then must confirm it so. He mentions how the Buddha's sudden enlightenment is still a remarkable one to this day, but that sudden enlightenment can be attained by all of us, since liberation is a matter of understanding, not time.
Personally, I've killed many ego's simply be having intellectual epiphany's and I was very surprised that I could obtain comprehensions and eliminations without meditation.
But, there seems to be one major short coming to Sri's book; there doesn't seem to be much consideration about practical and emotional comprehension. For example, one cannot destroy laziness until one comprehends that they must do something. One cannot destroy superficiality until they comprehend what it feels like to suffer and be afflicted with emotion.
The book takes an hour and a half to read. What do you think? Why does sudden enlightenment happen, and can we all attain it? And when master's speak of enlightenment, do they usually mean, half the work? Because there is no mentioning of Tantra with a partner to eliminate all of the ego.
I invite you to share your thoughts on the small but handy book called, Don't Delay Enlightenment.
The author had profound spiritual experiences at the age of 18 and found his enlightenment at age 58. There is also something called the Sri Bagavath Mission who's wish is to promote a faster enlightenment for all.
He seems to know the foundational principles of nature and consciousness, explaining the physics of subconsciousness, consciousness, and deep consciousness. He explains some essential things like how subconsciousness has a mechanical life of it's own until it comes in the conscious field, whereby it can be perceived but, never controlled directly.
He also claims that once one has attained enlightenment, he or she then must confirm it so. He mentions how the Buddha's sudden enlightenment is still a remarkable one to this day, but that sudden enlightenment can be attained by all of us, since liberation is a matter of understanding, not time.
Personally, I've killed many ego's simply be having intellectual epiphany's and I was very surprised that I could obtain comprehensions and eliminations without meditation.
But, there seems to be one major short coming to Sri's book; there doesn't seem to be much consideration about practical and emotional comprehension. For example, one cannot destroy laziness until one comprehends that they must do something. One cannot destroy superficiality until they comprehend what it feels like to suffer and be afflicted with emotion.
The book takes an hour and a half to read. What do you think? Why does sudden enlightenment happen, and can we all attain it? And when master's speak of enlightenment, do they usually mean, half the work? Because there is no mentioning of Tantra with a partner to eliminate all of the ego.
Accepted Answer
Many conflate temporary spiritual experiences with permanent realization. It is easy to initiate such states, but difficult to sustain and establish them in a lasting way.
While time is not contingent upon temporary spiritual states, their full realization and development only come about after years of work in the path of initiation. Nothing in nature takes leaps, like the blossoming of a sapling into a tree.
Comprehension can occur in any level of the Tree of Life. However, to permanently end desire, meditation is needed.
Meditation is fundamental to the elimination of the ego, because its roots extend throughout the soil of Klipoth. Is it possible to extirpate the roots of the tree without digging into the earth? The same with the mind: the causes of affliction are within the internal worlds. To get there, we have to abandon the body and its senses.
The following course touches upon the nuances of temporary and permanent realizations in meditation. See especially the separate lectures on States and Stations:
While time is not contingent upon temporary spiritual states, their full realization and development only come about after years of work in the path of initiation. Nothing in nature takes leaps, like the blossoming of a sapling into a tree.
Comprehension can occur in any level of the Tree of Life. However, to permanently end desire, meditation is needed.
Meditation is fundamental to the elimination of the ego, because its roots extend throughout the soil of Klipoth. Is it possible to extirpate the roots of the tree without digging into the earth? The same with the mind: the causes of affliction are within the internal worlds. To get there, we have to abandon the body and its senses.
The following course touches upon the nuances of temporary and permanent realizations in meditation. See especially the separate lectures on States and Stations:
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
Accepted Answer
Many conflate temporary spiritual experiences with permanent realization. It is easy to initiate such states, but difficult to sustain and establish them in a lasting way.
While time is not contingent upon temporary spiritual states, their full realization and development only come about after years of work in the path of initiation. Nothing in nature takes leaps, like the blossoming of a sapling into a tree.
Comprehension can occur in any level of the Tree of Life. However, to permanently end desire, meditation is needed.
Meditation is fundamental to the elimination of the ego, because its roots extend throughout the soil of Klipoth. Is it possible to extirpate the roots of the tree without digging into the earth? The same with the mind: the causes of affliction are within the internal worlds. To get there, we have to abandon the body and its senses.
The following course touches upon the nuances of temporary and permanent realizations in meditation. See especially the separate lectures on States and Stations:
While time is not contingent upon temporary spiritual states, their full realization and development only come about after years of work in the path of initiation. Nothing in nature takes leaps, like the blossoming of a sapling into a tree.
Comprehension can occur in any level of the Tree of Life. However, to permanently end desire, meditation is needed.
Meditation is fundamental to the elimination of the ego, because its roots extend throughout the soil of Klipoth. Is it possible to extirpate the roots of the tree without digging into the earth? The same with the mind: the causes of affliction are within the internal worlds. To get there, we have to abandon the body and its senses.
The following course touches upon the nuances of temporary and permanent realizations in meditation. See especially the separate lectures on States and Stations:
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
I think the author was somewhat lucky and steady with his enlightenment. He even wrote that meditation is good but, more suitable for beginners! And that we must go beyond meditation and find enlightenment faster, through the intellect!
The claim that jumped out the most in the book was the one in which he writes, "Enlightenment can be achieved solely through intellectual understanding."
and I thought to myself; is he just trying to simplify his meaning...? How did he comprehend lust then? I had recently experienced my first few comprehensions of lust and they were as Alexis warned, exceptionally profound.
The claim that jumped out the most in the book was the one in which he writes, "Enlightenment can be achieved solely through intellectual understanding."
and I thought to myself; is he just trying to simplify his meaning...? How did he comprehend lust then? I had recently experienced my first few comprehensions of lust and they were as Alexis warned, exceptionally profound.
The following course touches upon the nuances of temporary and permanent realizations in meditation. See especially the separate lectures on States and Stations:[/quotePost]
It looks like the course is no longer there...? I just see one paragraph and then the titles of topics that lead to other pages and courses below.
It looks like the course is no longer there...? I just see one paragraph and then the titles of topics that lead to other pages and courses below.
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