Self-Abidance ātma-niṣṭha
Just short of &
continuously identical with moksha
Liberation is said to be the practice & state that is the endpoint of both ātma
vichāra Self-Inquiry & also supreme Non-Dual
Devotion & Surrender to God and/or Guru. That in-common practice & state ātma niṣṭha Self-Abidance.
Concentrated
penetration to the core Reality with Self-Inquiry & giving up attachment to
all that is considered as "me" & "mine" in renunciation
of individual will [not my will, but
thine] – both or either of these paths to Egoless Enlightenment will
ultimately require abandoning identity with a Mind, that poor objective substitute for subjective Pure Consciousness.
Ego
reference-identity on the one hand [vs.
inquiry], & Desire–Attachment on the other hand [vs. devotion]
are inherent in the Mind. They are the very fabric of which the Mind is made.
So long as one self-identifies as an Individual "I", there will also
be a sense of Attachment to what is "mine", all the way down to the
Life of the Body. Surrender of individual will & relinquishment of
Attachment necessitates inquiry into the nature of Mind or surrender the mind
that has an individual will & feels
attachment to the
Body & other possessions.
Individual identity – feeling "I am a Person, a separate
Individual, a Mind
living in the Waking State inside a Body" – all that is merely False & distorted
& the root cause of all Desire & all Suffering. Equivalent to Surrender
of Ego is close examination & Discrimination through Self-Inquiry.
So along with
scrutiny of Ego being:
(1) the correct "inward direction" for
Self-Abidance as the Self, &
(2) the way to strip Ego of its objects so that
it vanishes, &
(3) Discriminating-Knowledge that dissolve
supporting vasana Tendencies, the also –
(4) recognition & abandonment of false Ego as
false compares to:
giving up the false
notion that mistakes a wayside Rope for an hallucinated Snake in the dim light of dusk. Looking closely at the Snake, we discover that it is in fact
nothing but a Rope. So too, if we
examine or surrender Ego–"I", we discover that it is in fact
nothing but the Real & unlimited
Pure Consciousness.
Such is Self-Abidance.
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