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Swami Prajnanpad

Swami Prajnanpad is an Indian Brahmin of Bengal, heir to the great Hindu religious tradition, familiar traditional texts: Vedas , Upanishads , Vedanta , Sâmkya , Buddhism and Tantrism , he plays with a new vision, sometimes quite surprising. It was also a reader of Freud , in 1925, he incorporated the point in his spiritual practice a kind of psychoanalysis on the couch which seemed to bring a purification technique of emotions and latent traces of the unconscious, to allow be really here and now. He called this method, repeated since by some of his followers, the lying .

Moreover, it was a physics professor, and his spiritual approach has benefited from scientific rigor, both for the experiment, the validity of the methods used for validation of the results: "What science? Only the search for truth! "He said ... No opposition to self-knowledge, does not it ... Swami left his body in 1974.

These are his Western disciples, Daniel Roumanoff and especially Denise and Arnaud Desjardins , who made ​​known the teachings of Swami Prajnanpad here in France. But since then other Indian disciples discover the Western public their own experiences of this teaching which here, by the writings of R. Srinivasan , a few lines. They are interesting mainly for their simplicity.

Written by R. Srinivasan

Is déséduquer: Abandoning the ideas, opinions, prejudices, likes and dislikes, yes-sayings, superstitions, traditions, beliefs ... and then:
Re-educate themselves: We must calmly consider what is. Set aside what you have not looked yourself. You can then rebuild structurally sound, fair and open to direct knowledge. Keep true, the false away. You'll see how little information is true. Firsthand. The others require further information. Put them side until you have enough documentation to conclude, but not before.

THE DIFFERENCE
The first great truth. Among the billions of things and none is all-in-fact similar to another. So avoid making associations by analogy, and let us see the differences. We see similarities that do not exist. This is due to the lack of refinement of our view. Have a fixed and rigid view of the outside world is an expression of ignorance and the cause of all our misfortunes. Everything changes, everything is different but we fail to perceive. We always see what we see. It is the illusion (Maya), a veil before our eyes, which prevents us from seeing what is. Basically, what to see is that everything is different. I'm here, you're here. Both are different.
Since everything is different, no one can expect the other to act in a particular way. Since it is different, it can only behave differently. He could not act the way you want if you were, which is not the case and the situation in which it is located was the same as you. So we must try to understand others rather than assign the adjective good or bad. This is how you can overcome differences and to understand the uniqueness of each thing.

CHANGE
Second great truth. Everything is changing everywhere and always. This adds a new dimension to the deployment differences. The change is the difference in time. Is there a basis behind these appearances? Something permanent? Yes. This is the background on which these changes occur is real. The vision which perceives the change does not change. This is permanent.
Also make sure you see and feel the change in everything. Then nothing will affect you, do will shock you, because you know that everything is simple phenomenon and appearance. Whatever the look, you stay calm, serene and disinterested. This is the samadhi: you are clear and unaffected. The truth: The difference, change ... so you can not compare! The comparison is impossible! What is truth? Whatever is, is the truth. You are and therefore, you are the truth. The truth is here and now. Accept what is and try to understand rather than wishing it to be different. Perceive this difference, that change and adapt yourself accordingly. "Only the truth prevails, the illusion, never! "

CAUSE AND EFFECT
No one has ever heard of a cause or effect without a cause without an effect ... When something happens you do not want, try to find why it happened. Nothing happens by chance. Everything depends on a cause. If you do not want this, remove the cause! If this is impossible, then, is your lot, it will accept it! Can you say, no it did not happen? No, you can not, since it is there, then you must accept it, completely, with all your heart.

DUALITY IN NATURE
There is a continual change in the outside world. Life and death meet. There are light and darkness, sun and shadow, pleasure and pain, heat and cold, love and hate ... etc. These opposites are endless. But we love some and hate others. We want good, not bad. We thirst for pleasure, hate pain.
But life is made up of all these experiences: good and bad, difficult, easy, simple and complex. We want the pleasant and not rude. Thus, we impoverish our lives. To live is to experience it all. We want no honey and the sting of the bee. The mother wants a child but not the pain of childbirth. This is due to ignorance. The pleasure is not without penalty. Only when we know the pain that we can enjoy the pleasure. Only the man who has suffered from the heat of the sun can enjoy the cool shade.
Also nothing is entirely bad or good, absolutely. There are only differences. Cobra venom can be deadly, and also save lives in other therapeutic circumstances. Everything is relative, ie. Good and evil are relative. What is good for one is bad for another. And everything is a mixture of good and evil. So accept reality as it is expressed in the duality and adapt yourself accordingly.

UNITY OF EXISTENCE
What do you see around you? Everywhere an effort toward unity, toward the destruction of everything that separates man from man. Consciously or unconsciously, we journey towards unity, because we know that unity is the happiness and suffering separation. An action that leads to unity is just that which leads to separation is bad. It is only once transcended the differences and changes that the sage becomes one with everything.

THE MIND
It is what keeps you away from reality. You should always direct you here and now. The mind always takes appearance for reality. How to tell if we see the reality or appearance? If we experience a sense of unity is that we see reality. If we feel separated from what surrounds us is that we see the appearance. The difference is only in appearance. The appearance of emotion is the test that indicates the presence of mind.

The Unconscious
He plays in our lives a greater role than we think. We must discover it in the light of consciousness. Do not censor. So do not say this is good or bad ... Keep an open mind, be ready for whatever comes. Accept "this is mine." Everything becomes aware. Be comfortable and perfectly reconciled to what you are. Whatever the desire, let him up. Then try to see if this desire was fulfilled. See why it disappears. A mind divided between one part and another unconscious conscious can never see things as they are.

MEMORY
Memory is the interference of the past into the present. The past is inserted by force simply because it has not been completely accepted. When we accept, we must free. Suffering, worry, sadness appear because we refuse what happens, that is.

EMOTION
Testimonies from past and present. Accept the past, well, you can accept this. When we see something as it is, we do not experience or emotion or excitement, but rather a sense of unity with it. The passion in the affirmation or denial is a sign that something, somewhere, is wrong. The feeling is not the emotion. It brings emotion as separates. It leaves no trace behind him ...

DESIRE
Desires are born of the dual belief that we can get something from another and that we can keep permanently. These two beliefs are false. Nobody gives anything. The other gives only himself if he gets what he wants. Also you should first give. And in so doing, we are not sure that the other actually received, it can be ignored. Then we can keep believing anything is to ignore the impermanence of everything. So, seeing this, we are no longer carried away by desire. But while they are there, these desires, we must welcome. We should certainly not send them back, but consciously realize and see where they lead us. If the result is positive, we can keep them. If they cause suffering, then they should disappear.

TENSION
Tension locked in suffering. Opening our hearts, to liberate tensions measured by the lucidity. Open, we are free. When you are completely open, everyone's best interest is your interest, you are one with the world.

The EGO
The ego is what makes us say "That's mine! "This is the projection on the outside. It is the reaction of desire or refusal, in other words the emotion. Former movere, moves outward (self). The ego is subjectivity, in the usual sense. Everything to me. We can not know something that's experimenting, and for this we must say yes, welcome. So when there is no effort or to run to, or to flee, one feels that one is with what is. Similarly when you work, you must be totally present. If you eat, then "you eat". That's it. Do not worry about or the one who eats, or what is eaten. Only "eat". The "you" disappears. Similarly, if you make a model and designer you are, there are only the action of making a model. There is no ego or model. Thus, at any time, there are only "what is being", there is only Brahman. Only "One without a second".

COMPANY
The feeling of social belonging comes the realization that we can not live without the other. At first, others exist for ourselves. But soon we realize we can not take without giving back. Also is there a relationship with others, where you give and we receive. Then the man becomes truly adult, he finds more satisfaction in giving than receiving. The real mature adult is to give everything, take nothing.
You can keep the mind on what you are, the Self. But try to be free of the mind that takes you to the Self.

THE QUEST FOR SELF
If only we had the patient to examine these false identifications and achieve the supreme goal, we would see ourselves as pure consciousness, calm and serene. We must start from what is before our eyes. Am I this body? Without waiting, without desire and denial, look ... If experience shows that you are not this body, then you can exceed it. And so on for the subtle forms of individual being. Get rid of all that is gross and subtle matters is the essence of the quest.

ADVANCE
Natural thing, but one step at a time. Concentrated in the moment. Without comparison with the progress of others. Accept what you have done: that is exactly what you could do any causal integrated. The mistake is natural. Nature itself is a thousand errors to succeed one thing ...
Nobody can know you and so nobody can talk about you. Everyone has thoughts about you and expresses his views on the image he is made of you, not you. So why confuse you? You must remain still and silent as if they spoke to someone else.

SEE AND THINK
See and think are very different: we think with the mind and we see with the faculty of perception. The mind projects the I on the subject, which is hidden under such thinking. Stop thinking, because thinking distorts your vision and prevents you from seeing things as they are. Thinking, we consider: what is good or bad, right or wrong. When we see things as they are, there is neither attraction nor repulsion. What you see is you. Finally, everything is within you, that's infinity. When we think something is that we desire or that we refuse. But if we take, we take both the positive and the negative of that thing, that unfortunately we often occultons. The thing must be seen as a whole, or we take it calmly leaves.

Source: Non-duality

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