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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject: it |
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If the divine mind wants to share itself with us and we are willing to accept, then the stage is set for unity. The main tenet of Vedanta is extremely simple � duality is too weak to stand forever. Take any sin or elusion, and in time it will come to an end. Take any pleasure, and in time it will start to pall. Take any depth of sleep, and in time you have to wake up. In Vedanta they say that the only real thing is eternal bliss consciousness (sat chit ananda). These words promise that the timeless waits for me when the temporary expires, bliss outlives pleasure, and being awake comes after sleep. In that simplicity the whole notion of duality collapses, revealing the unity behind all illusion.
You can�t be tempted when you have it all. It is even better when they can�t take it away from you. Vedanta is expressed in a famous saying, �I am That, You are That, and All this is That.� When the ancient sages refer to �That,� they are referring to an invisible but quite real power. It is the power of existence. You have it forever when you can say, �I am that power, you are that power, and everything around us is that power.� Other words like grace, godhead, the light, alpha and omega work just as well � yet none of them equals the experience, which is very personal and totally universal at the same time. |
Sorry for a long quotation!
What does 'it' mean in the above?
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IanT
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Difficult!
"...have it all." means, here, "have access to all of reality"
and "can't take it away" means "can't stop you having the experience of having access to all reality"
So "it" means "everything", more or less.
That's quite a text you're studying!
Hope helps,
Ian
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Tao
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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IT refers to the main idea in the first paragraph, i.e. that�the timeless waits for me when the temporary expires, bliss outlives pleasure, and being awake comes after sleep. ALL of this�eternal bliss consciousness (sat chit ananda) is IT.
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