DTR CRSS X RECLUSE WPP

 CHITTA VRITTI 

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CLOB CLEAR LIGHT OF BLISS X SAT CHIT ANANDA 

Secret Mantra has four levels: Action Tantra, Performance Tantra, Yoga Tantra, and Highest Yoga Tantra. Action Tantra principally emphasizes external actions, Performance Tantra places equal emphasis on both external and internal actions, Yoga Tantra principally emphasizes internal actions, and Highest Yoga Tantra is the supreme class of Tantra.

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ROMAN DECIMATION 

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In the Arjuna on the battlefield example, in the Bhagavad Gita, 'Arjuna' 'decides' to fight the battle after the vision of Krishna. Does this not perpeptuate the false belief in the individual self? How could 'Arjuna' 'decide' to fight the battle without still retaining a false sense of self?

The Bhagavad Gita, or beautiful Song of God, just one section of the Hindu Mahabharata, is all allegory. It is a teaching vehicle with storybook characters, and through those characters and their adventures, it does an unsurpassed job of educating “us” dream characters how to live well, successfully and compassionately ‘in the dream.’ And it also is full of powerful information about the nature of reality and how to ‘wake up’ from the dream.

Except…that is impossible. There is no method, path or practices that a dream-character can employ to wake up from the dream. Any more than there is anything the dream-you can do to force yourself to awaken from a night-dream. The ‘physical’ you can set an alarm or make sure the windows let in plenty of light, but the dream-Jof is a hallucination that, try as he may, cannot jar itself back into the waking state.

So Bhagavad Gita is only metaphor. There are large groups of ‘people’ - devout Hindus, bhaktas, and others - who firmly believe Krishna and Arjuna really lived and the battle really took place. This is sometimes labeled a Dvaita religion, or duality. For those who cannot fully accept that there is no separation between God or Brahman and the illusory ‘inidividual’ - (even though Krishna in the Gita itself clearly states “there is no separation between God or Brahman and the illusory ‘individual’”). - Dvaita-style religions can provide much comfort and a belief in ‘spiritual progress’…within the dream.

Advaita clarifies there is no one, nothing separate from the Self, and so no one to attain anything and nothing to attain. No battle that need take place or be allegorized into a story of quests, paths and ‘attainment.’ It’s not for ‘everybody.’ Indeed, there are far more illusory dream-characters who subscribe to some dvaita or dualistic religion then there are non-dualists. Which is why the Gita is so immensely popular amongst a billion-+ Easterners.

And that’s fine. But it does indeed perpetuate the illusion that there is an ‘individual self’ that must generate ‘their own effort and ‘fight against the ego’ to become worthy of ‘attaining’ something called ‘enlightenment.’

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