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Cutting back on internet, aspiring for Self-realisation

Posted on Feb 3rd, 2008 by M. Alan : Aspiring sadhak M. Alan

A number of things have come up, almost synchronistically forcing me along the path of spiritual realisation.  I'm a private person and i don't say everything on blogs the way some do, but suffice to say that several events have brought things to a head... So I'm cutting back on the internet, and aspiring much more intensely than I ever have for Self-realisation (capital "S" self; i.e. the atman).  Currently Ramana Maharshi is my guide in this.  I haven't abandoned Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and never will.  But their sublime path of Integral Yoga is so advanced that one can only really take it up when one has already attained self-mastery (because their Yoga only truly begins where the others end; i.e. at Enlightenment and Liberation.  And when it comes to attaining the Self,  Ramana is the purest teacher i have ever come across; not only a truely enlightened being, but also - and this is most important for me - the one who most embodies universal love and compassion for all sentient beings with equal consideration, regardless of external form.  Once Self-realisation is attained then i can go from there to the even more challenging and even more rewarding path of Integral Yoga.  But for now it is Raman's path that beckons.  So this is what i am dedicating myself to.

It's not that i intend to give up the internet; i can't see myself ever cutting myself off from the world; that sort of otherworldly renunciation holds no appeal, nor is it any use for transforming this world.  But it is all a question of priorities.

More to say, but i'll wait and see how things develop

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