Conscious Immortality

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Q: What about P.B.'s idea of inspired action?

M: Let activities go on. They do not affect the pure Self.
The difficulty is that people think they are the doer.

This is a mistake. It is the Higher Power which does everything and people are only tools. If they accept that position they will be free from troubles, otherwise they court them.

The sculptured figure on the temple tower shows great strain, but really, the tower rests on the ground, and that supports the figure. The figure is a part of the tower, but is made to look as if it is bearing the weight of the tower. Is it not funny?

It is the same with the person who takes on himself the sense of doing.

P. 13

Supreme state

If the supreme state is that in which neither the senses nor the mind exist and not the state in which they exist, how can it be the perfect state (paripurnam)? As karma alone is responsible for the activity or inactivity of the sages, great souls have declared the state of sahaja nirvikalpa (the natural state without concepts) alone to be the ultimate state.

(From 'Spiritual Instruction': IV.6)

Turiya

Turiya means that which is the fourth. The experiencers (jivas) of the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, known as 'visva', 'taijasa' and 'prajna', who wander successively in these three states, are not the Self. It is with the object of making this clear, namely that the Self is that which is different from them and which is the witness of these states, that it is called the fourth (turiya). When this is known, the three experiencers disappear and the idea that the Self is a witness, that it is the fourth, also disappears. That is why the Self is described as beyond the fourth (turiyatita).

(From 'Spiritual Instruction': IV.8)

Spiritual friends

“Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.”

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche