Practice
“You imposed limits to your true nature of infinite being,
then, you get displeased to be only a limited creature,
then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these nonexistent
limits.
“But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits,
how could they allow you to transcend them?”
~~Ramana Maharshi
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If Ramana was around today and muttered these lines, he would be denounced as a neo-Advaitin.
How would practice allow a transcending of limits which it itself implies, in the first place.
And yet practice(s) teem in phenomenality.
Including the practice of self enquiry, as suggested by the same dude.
The resolution of this seemingly paradox would be that practice, whatever be it’s form and nature, whether Tantric processes, dualistic Bhakti, the various Zen-ic hoopla, Sufi dancing and whirling , the Hassidic rituals , self-enquiry…..the practice of denouncing all practices….
….are all complete in themselves ….. AS themselves.
Nothing is a means to anything else even though there appears to be casual linkages between
seemingly disparate aspects.
If any and every aspect of phenomenality is complete in itself, …..
…….then phenomenality as a whole is complete in itself.
Moment to moment to moment.
This is complete;
That is complete;
Out of completion, arose completion;
And when completion arose;
what it arose from, was still complete.
~Sandeep
