Categories: Teacher Experiences & Reflections
Spiritual Path (June 1996)
By: Yogi Pranananda
The soul dampening perspective of egoic isolation is an endless obsession, untils it ends.
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A perpetual state of surrender is required of one who would live Truth.
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All spiritual paths represent ways of cultivating freedom in consciousness, through the dissolution of the idea of independent self-hood or ego-consciousness.
Whether one’s restricted sense of separateness is broken through zen training or dissolved through devotional service (bhakti) doesn’t matter. What matters is that one open toward restoration in wholeness of being. And by whatever path, this requires the continual vulnerability of not maintaining a self-image, a fixed identity, so that something superior may unfold and come to life.
In ego consciousness one is like a self-referring tempest expressing through a teapot identity, afloat unknowingly on the calm, expansive ocean of itself.
Originally appeared in: June 1996