#atmananda

[xatmaa]

The wisdom that the suffering does not belong to you will itself get you out of suffering without you having to do anything.

Atmananda Krishna Menon

[letgoness]

Any agitated feeling; fear, discontent, anger, jealousy, begins as a thought that when pursued to its very source disappears into your real nature of peace. In solitude you can clearly contemplate this. Ultimately, the real question, however, is what you allow your mind to identify with?  This identification defines your experience of reality. You are then, a reflection of the very reality you chose.

[xatmaa]

[nondualcafe]

SUBJECT AND OBJECT IN ACTIVITY

(Notes on the Spiritual Discourses of Sri Atmananda).

SUBJECT AND OBJECT IN ACTIVITY (66)

"In every activity, there is only object and no subject. Examine any activity. There seem to be two ‘I’s, functioning simultaneously: the ego or apparent ‘I’ as the doer, and the ‘I’-principle or real ‘I’ as the knower. The former is ever-changing and the latter is never-changing. Therefore I am always the knower and never the doer. Thus there is no doer or subject, and there is only action without an actor. The real ‘I’-principle is present in all action. You believe that an actor or subject is indispensable for every action; therefore you conclude that the ‘I’-principle is acting. Really, the ‘I’-principle is not concerned with the acting at all. Thus you are no doer, enjoyer or perceiver, but only the knower. At every step, the presence of Consciousness is absolutely necessary, in all thoughts, feelings and sensations. This Consciousness is unconcerned with the object or the activity. For further corroboration, you may examine the deep sleep state. You had no thinking, feeling, or sensation in the deep sleep state. Therefore the ‘I’-principle, as pure Consciousness, alone was there. So this is true of all the three states. Therefore the ‘knower Consciousness’ should rightly be called ‘non-doer Consciousness’. Hence, if you say you are sleeping, it means you are not sleeping; and if you say you are doing, it means you are not doing."

[thenothingnessofpersonality]

Knowledge is love distilled by clarity. Love is knowledge pervaded by sweetness.

Greg Goode, The Direct Path (2013)