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What or Who is God and why we need that
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09-22-2011, 01:41 AM
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I believe in Brahman (God) of Advita Philosophy. I am a seeker, I have not attained samadhi in this life, but I am working on it. It gives me great comfort as I believe in Karma theory, and rebirth, that there is hope for me(soul, not this body), as I am not this body.
In the words of Jaggi Vasudev:
"Samadhi means a state in which one has transcended the limitations of the body and mind, and this must happen in life and not in death. So, for those who are in a state of samadhi, there is no such thing as death. Death belongs to the realm of the body."Your body is just something you accumulated. It is a piece of earth you imbibed through food. This is just a piece of earth," he said, tapping his chest, "prancing around like this. Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you. No interest, though," he said, winking."If one is constantly, experientially aware that both the body and the mind are accumulations one has gathered, then that is samadhi. You are in the body, but you are not it. You are of the mind, but you are not it. That means you are absolutely free of suffering because whatever suffering you have known enters you either through the body or through the mind. Once your awareness is keen enough to create a space between these two accumulations and who you really are-this is the end of all suffering."
"The root of ignorance is in being identified with the accumulations you call the body and mind. Your clarity of vision is cluttered with all your identifications and your personality. It is because of this limited identification that the distinct lines between what is me and what is you have been drawn. All disharmony, conflict, and suffering are rooted in this. Samadhi is a state where you have obliterated these distinctions, and you are looking beyond the wall."
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