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"Sharing Wisdom" by Academy of Absolute Understanding
The Academy of Absolute Understanding (AAU) informs:
Many questions to AAU and responses from AAU have happened on NNH. Many questions are profound and such responses happened and contributed to a deeper understanding of wisdom. Some questions on the other hand lead to a repetition of questions and responses, this is because the meaning of responses from AAU are not understood, for they are not the same as those held in the mind for generations.
Opinions of the questioner are respected. Man does not choose his opinions, opinions happen to man. Opinions mean they indicate man as the doer in time. Responses by AAU explain that all known in the mind is illusory and are not opinions for they do not imply man as the doer. Therefore responses by AAU are not opinions to be discussed, for they are not a product of thought or concept, but a sharing of wisdom to be enquired into so that an understanding may happen. If what gets shared by AAU is believed as further knowledge, the responses will not be understood.
EVERY thought of the mind has to be clearly understood as illusory. The world has been proclaimed to be illusory (Maya) by the enlightened. This simply means that “EVERYTHING is illusory in the world“. The understanding that effort needs to be done by the ego to achieve the impossible, including enlightenment, in the future would be illusory, for the effort and the ego is illusory. Understanding that leads to knowledge or wisdom is part of the evolutionary and sophistication process of life and is not brought about by the mind!
Daily life is the satsang of life, and every moment in life is enlightened. Therefore wisdom happens to man in his daily life, in every moment of it. As long as reactions of the conditioned mind happen in daily life, understanding is not complete as yet neither could be enlightenment, no matter how peaceful and loving the waking state may appear to be. This is behaviour and nothing wrong with it nor is any behaviour, for it is not man who brings behaviour about, albeit illusory. If the understanding is complete life always responds to itself, free of the beliefs of the mind. The moment the understanding becomes complete can never be known and if it is known it would only be illusory. The truth can never be known. Furthermore it would be the ego which wants to know. The ego is always in a wanting “mode“.
To offer a wide range of responses to the questioning mind, on www.acadun.com articles, interviews, books, CD's and DVD's are available which are the outcome of sharing wisdom by Dr. Vijai Shankar. Responses to probably all questions of sincere seekers could be found in the archives of AAU. For direct questions to Dr. Shankar the schedule gives the opportunity to meet.
Questions which come up while reading or listening to the media of AAU will be responded to on www.acadun.com or NNH. Please quote the paragraph or sentence your question refers to. Then elicit the understanding you already have of it and ask what is not clear as yet to you.
The sharing which happens through AAU is not dogmatic for it does not contain opinions, things to do in daily life or how to achieve enlightenment. AAU is an offer to all human beings, so that man may understand life is a singular spontaneous, uncontrollable and unpredictable flow and not a sum of events and situations. So that man may understand he is not the doer, the speaker and the thinker, for it is not man who makes life but life happens to man every moment.
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Amati: it is for life to say what am i...every moment...every second..
Response:Life happens to man means, man is an optical illusion of life and NOT a real individual separate from life. Life does not say anything because life is light and sound in a singular eternal flow... Dr.Shankar
is it my peda nanna or my gurujii marcus...?
hello..and namaste.
there is now an understanding that I have not understood clearly and that I am not the doer is not complete or clear understanding.
I now understand that in reality there can be no doer as such... not "me" nor any body or any thing.
There is now an understanding 1.how 2.what 3.why 4.when etc are illusionary because in reality these do not exist( or their existance is not real) and ths exist only as illusions.
regards
P.Gopinadh
Amati post: "seperate from life"
Response: Guruji is not a person he appears as a person. 'Who' is a question put for the ego by life, so that it may exist as real. Whoever he or she is NOT is the enlightened. Neti Neti. If the understanding is knowledge it will be recognized in daily life when individuals, actions, time... appear real and reactions happen - Nothing could be done about it until spontaneously, uncontrollably and unpredictably the knowledge transforms into wisdom. Read the forum topic "Sharing Wisdom".
dear peda nanna and marcus.....
thank you both for your kindness and grace that has showered on me in such abundance....
despite all that kindness and understanding that ensued allow me to submit the following, for your kind consideration.
there is something about me which has a immense ability to receive what comes and what comes not.
It sometimes appears to me like a sea of vairagya.
It sometimes appears to me as full of sprightlyness .
It never questions.
it appears as though appearing and as soon as I realise that it cant appear it stops appearing.
it never is concerned about itself.
it is the essence with which all is happenning like seeing, doing etc etc is done
it is the one?/thing? which accommodates all the three seen seer seen.
it appears to be so simple as though as it is nothing.
it sometimes appears as what I really am.
it is never concerned with what has happenned or is hapenning or might happen....
it is like the deep sleep
it sometimes appears as the feeling of well being and confidence I had as a child
sometimes it appears that evreything happens to it and it has no say in it and yet it is never worried.
it appears like the space without an area and time without any duration.
at times it like houses everything
at times I can say nothing about it.
it reminds me of SIVA...the god of love and wisdom
it never is bothered about any meaning
anyway .....
my heartful thanks for your grace ,patience.
I hope one day I can contribute back to AAU in atleast a small way.
thank you
regards
Dear Amati.
RESPONSE: The capacity of the mind to imagine is unimaginable!
dear marcus
I do not know if I am right . Or you are.Because "it" as such is not ...I dont know..how to put it...related to right or wrong....
it simply is there like the unmovabale.....sthira...sthanu
when I said "there is something" I immediately knew you would then point it towards the mind using the phrase"there is something" and I thought I shouldnt type it as my submission would be lost.
But...
it has no specific attributes apart from those which I impart based on my understanding....so strange....and yet I am sure that I am extremely familiar with it....like a son with his father or mother.the son doesnt know completely about the father yet there is no one more intimate.LIKe that.
dear marcus....is it behaviour as you say.....?
it is behind my behaviour...marcus..( I am not again I submit contradicting your observation as imagination..please consider)
it is behind my behaviour....it allows me to behave with freedom and content.Like a Father holding his todler "I" gopinadh , the person...holds "it" as my father/mother and move.....and yet it is not something to be held.
It is not a sense of being or presence too.These two are "me" as such.I am is the root of "me". it has no roots nor it is the I am.
is it imagination.....? a future...? or how the "now" could be...?
it says( yet doesnt speak ) to me every moment is perfect.Thus every moment is beyond my imagination and is magic.
is it sound...?
when I hear a sound ...there is a thrillll..that it is a miracle ...and there "it" is. in it all are sounds are heard.
Dear marcus....
it is more than full...and makes me full...and yet it remains more than full ...purnamidah....purnamidam
this fullness is very simple..very ground to earth...
because of this fullness I raise both my hands, cup the hands to life...and drink what ever is poured in it with full content and realisation that it/what ever is being poured in..or not poured in... is a wonderful wonderful miracle, magical and precious....beyond words and imagination.
regards
yours
amati
Response: Dear Amati, "it" and the sounds (words and meanings) are not separate. Understand all known as not "it" and be happy. No need to talk about "it", this, that and the other, for nothing can be "it".
dear gurujii...
i now understood......that you have understood....that i have wrongly understood.
ah what a disciple do you have gurujii..I think you must have done a great deal of mischief/sin sometime to come acorss me...
what a lazy slouth amI? refusing to think refusing to understand refusing to see outside the box what an absolute idiot is this amati....
its providence I tell you that I deleted all my posts... providence I say...I dont know why but somehow I thought it was the right thing to do and did it.
gurujii are you smiling? just a little bit...little...? thank you..
now if i was your say..hypothetically a toddler brother learning to walk and failing to do so will you just leave me like that in the corner of your hall or something....
no you wouldnt. Then why are you doing it now...do you know i was born feet first..? seriously...i was born feet first? everything is like that with me...
Dear guruji please consider the following and kindly guide me where necessary:
there is now (thanks to gurujii).....a knowledge that...
1. "everything" is knowledge ( notes...please bear..gurujii I went back home tried to see what you/AAU was pointng me towards with such a pateince....and bang in the middle of the night I beautifully realised I was infact in beautiful, wonderful, black coloured...... SQUARE 1.
it scared me. It was a near disaster of sorts .
i garnered myself back and asked me "when I look at something(object) what happens"...there is an identification of it..there is an interpretation of it...knowledge
so why shouldnt "I" too be such an interpretation....? and I found to my utter amusement that it was.even when there is plain seeing say a tree and no judgement of the tree as this and that ...tree is still an interperetation....of what is..
2. as knowledge is an interprtation of what is.."everything" which is knowledge is not real and thus an illusion.HOwever it doesnt mean that it does not exist.
3. The "i" too is knowledge. As "I" too is knowledge...knowledge can neither happen "to" it nor "by" it.
4.Reality cannot be knowledge.
5 The grace is the knowledge that every thing is knowledge.
6. as "I", "time" is knowledge too...knowledge as such is timeless.
7. Thus a moment is what is, and eternal...knowledge continuously changing...like energy..?
8. Thus knowledge /life/moment is there to be rejoiced..as rejoicing is possible only for the illusion.
9.such is the knowledge that dawned upon this disciple and being submitted to his guruji...
yours amati
Response: You are not a toddler, neti neti. Read www.acadun.com - guidance is there, all that you need.
dear gurujii...
marcus>>you are a not a toddler
amati>> (I , I being this , I not being this or that and toddler ) all are knowledge/interpretations and thus not reality.
marcus>> neti... neti....
amati>> an action(knowledge) cannot happen to me or be done by me (knowledge) as both(action,me) are knowledge/interpretations.
whether it be na(neti) or cha(also)
marcus>>Read www.acadun.com - guidance is there, all that you need.
amati>> the reading(knowledge) shall happen if it is meant to.SO shall guidance(knowledge).That "I need" is knowledge too (an interpretation) and not reality.
regards
yours
amati
Response: 'Need' is an auditory illusion OF reality. Life, and not man, provides guidance if it is meant to happen to an optical illusion labeled Amati.
gurujii..pranaam
marcus>>'Need' is an auditory illusion OF reality. Life, and not man, provides guidance if it is meant to happen to an optical illusion labeled Amati.
amati>>guidance(knowledge)cannot happen to amati as amati too is knowledge.
regards
amati
amati>>guidance(knowledge)cannot happen to amati as amati too is knowledge.
Response:Knowledge does not know it is knowledge for it to need guidance to know it is NOT knowledge.
dear gurujii..
pranaam.
Marcus>>Knowledge does not know that it is knowledge for it to need guidance to know that it is not knowledge.
Response>> With the above one blow from your loving hands there is now submission, reverence and wonder. There is now knowledge why guru is light. gurudev..I , like a swine rolling in mud and filth Keep dirtying your lotus feet.
anyway,marcus, my gurudev....the below is the response.
everything is knowledge and thus not real.......is reality itself.
regards
yours
amati
AMATI: "dear gurujii.. pranaam. Marcus>>Knowledge does not know that it is knowledge for it to need guidance to know that it is not knowledge. Response>> With the above one blow from your loving hands there is now submission, reverence and wonder. There is now knowledge why guru is light. gurudev..I , like a swine rolling in mud and filth Keep dirtying your lotus feet. anyway,marcus, my gurudev....the below is the response. everything is knowledge and thus not real.......is reality itself."
RESPONSE: Reality as such is not. The illusory as the reflection of the real, is being lived if all knowledge is understood to be not real, including "swine", "guru" and "lotus feet".
dear marcus,
"action"( or that an action is) is knowledge/interpretation and not real.Thus with "living" and "understanding".Thus with "being" and with any other action.
only knowledge can be rejoiced being not real.
for knowledge, "rejoicing", and "time" for rejoicing are knowledge and not real.
as "time" too is knowledge and not real it has a "room" for the knowledge of "rejoicing/action" which is not real too....thus...
only knowledge can be rejoiced....and the below is my rejoicing:......
thank you marcus ,gurujii for your patience and unwavering kindness. Though I , not fit even to praise you....bear with me as you have done earlier and allow me to say ....
there is a lake with crystal clear waters unbroken and without any boundaries. Mountains rise from it and so does the Moon.There is a white swan too swimming in serenity.
I a dirty vagabond of the woods , with drooling mucus in my nose and uncleaned bottom (for GOD knows how many ages)with a ton of muddy hair in my armpits and body, shouting loudly without any sense and purpose....decided to have a swim..... without knowing how to swim.
a gust of wind, one "look" at this swan my guruji and..... there is no "dirt" anymore.
regards
yours
amati
dear gurujiii.
there is an understanding that life is happenning to me every moment and not the other way round...
what am i....?
it is for life to say what am i...every moment...every second..
yes it is not that I do not care as such.why is it that I do not care..??????... because it is for life to say what am i....or if am i etc etc etc ...
BECAUSE IT IS NOT ME WHO HAPPENS TO LIFE BUT LIFE WHO/WHICH HAPPENS TO ME.....ahhh I am the child of the universe( is what Life is saying ..for me...)
gurujii....
my heart is at your feet....thank you...
with an undertanding that I as such am not the one who is putting the heart there and you as such are not the one at where it is being put...
thank you ..guruji
and wishes for madam
yours disciple...
amati