Assorted Vidyas #14

1.

If one is having difficulty controlling thoughts while settling into meditation, one cuts through it with a mantra which is a good "middle step" to getting to deep meditation. It gives consciousness power over the brain by using will. You could also use an alternate technique of employing the Zen suggestion to "think the thought of not thinking."

2.

Can "awakening" be described as a mysterious process through which we experience  the real answer to the question, “Who do you think you are?”, and the realization that believing that we are the body, ego and thoughts was a case of mistaken identity?

3.

From our viewpoint of human reason, God is bizarre and insane. But the truth is kinda  the other way round.

4.

Perfection is relative. Excellence is a different matter.

5.

Think of all the things you have to know and deal with just to get through childhood. Then all the things you have to know and deal with to get through adulthood. Then all the things you have to know and deal with for your job, relationships, offspring, etc.. Then think of all the things you don't have to know and deal with when experiencing Shakti.

6.

Love heals but Shakti dissolves.

7.

The yogi is an immersive resident of Shakti, not a tourist.

8.

~“Same thing only different” expresses the Divine paradox of cosmic variety yet all is 
    one.
~“Same thing only different” means the shape-shifting of The Divine wherewithal to
    create emanations.
~Einstein's famous equation, e = mc2 , is saying that matter and energy are the same 
    thing only different.
~While experiencing Shakti you can't tell left from right, forwards from
    backwards, up from down, head from heels because it's all the same thing only
    different.
~Some interrelated golden words: silence, humility, gratitude, observer, equipoise.  
    They're the same thing only different.

9.

Here's a bit of advice about how to keep a balance in life. On his 1950's TV game show, "You Bet Your Life", Groucho Marx was chatting with a woman contestant who had 17 children:

GROUCHO: “Why do you have so many children? That’s a big responsibility.” WOMAN: “Well, because I love children and I love my husband.”
GROUCHO: “Well, I love a good cigar but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”

10.

If I use thought to determine how I think something will go in life it doesn't always  happen quite the way I thought it would. However, intuition is highly reliable.

11.

Look not with the ego “I”,
look with the third eye,	
to sense The Divine Vibration,
to feel the profundity of Creation,
to experience the Presence of OM,
to be where consciousness calls Home.

12.

~The tantric directive, “Do as you will, but choose wisely”, includes doing the right 
     thing which is based on situational ethics, intelligently weighing all the 
     components of a situation, and viewing as the observer.
~Doing the right thing is often doing what is needed and acting from outside the
     personal.
~Doing the right thing does not mean getting entangled.
~Doing the right thing is part of practicing equipoise.
~Doing the right thing can mean doing nothing or being silent.
~And the reward of doing the right thing is that one did the right thing.

13.

I'm an old hermit yogi.
Soon I'll graduate and become an ancient hermit yogi.
After that I'll become a living fossil hermit yogi.
Then, at long last, I'll become the among-the-grateful-dead hermit yogi.