#un v.benedictory

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Could there be the consciousness ‘am’ [𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵] if there did not exist the reality [‘I’, 𝘴𝘢𝘵]? Since that Reality exists in the heart, beyond thought, who can and how to meditate upon that Reality, which is called the Heart? To abide in the Heart, as it is [that is, without thought, as ‘I am’] is truly meditating [upon it]. Know thus.

 Ulladu Narpadu - Reality in Forty Verses -  Benedictory Verse

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🔱  Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri ArunachalaRamanaya   🔱  

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The Paramount Importance of Self Attention, by Sri Sadhu Om, As recorded by Michael James

Part Five - Mountain Path: April – June 2013 - Excerpt

Note of 3rd January 1978

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Question: Is attention to the present moment the same as self-attention?

Sadhu Om: Yes, or rather it is a clue leading to self-attention. Attention to any second or third person is not possible in the precise present moment, because thoughts, which are attention paid to second or third persons [1], are always moving. Such wavering attention can never result in knowledge of what is real, because to know what is real attention must stand still [since stillness is the nature of reality]. If you look for the present moment among second and third persons, you will find no such thing, but will find only a constant movement from past to future. However, if you attend to the first person, attention will stand still, and when attention is still it subsides into its source. You will then know that self is always present in the 'now', and that all else is non-existent.

When people are told to pay attention to the 'now', they find they cannot do so, because they are only attending to second and third persons. The clue of self-attention is essential, because then only can we understand what the present moment actually is.

In the first sentence of the first mangalam [Benedictory] verse of Ulladu Νarρadu Bhagavan asks: "Without [or except as] that which is, can there be consciousness of being?" That is, if there were not that which is, namely 'I', could there be the awareness 'am'? This awareness which is self-shining, shows clearly that something real does exist, and that real something cannot be other than this awareness [because the awareness 'am' is a first-person awareness — an awareness only of itself, not of anything else]. This sentence is clearly referring to the existence and awareness of 'I', and not to that of any object, because to be known objects depend upon 'I'.

Since this reality 'I' exists beyond thought, in the heart, and is therefore called 'heart', how to meditate upon it? This clearly shows the absurdity of meditation. All religions teach that we should think of or meditate upon the reality or God, but since it exists beyond thought, how can we think of or meditate upon it? Bhagavan therefore teaches us that subsiding in the heart as it is — that is, as 'I am' — is alone 'meditating' upon it correctly. That is, the only way we can truly 'meditate' upon what is real is to remain as we are, without thought. Since what is real is beyond thought, thought can never take us to it. To attain it, we must give up all thought [including the first thought, the 'I' that thinks] and just be as it is.

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[1] External world, and internal world as feelings, emotions, desires... 

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