G: Aha. (nodding)
Siddhananda: So, negating, I think that's what they're doing.
G: Aha.
Siddhananda: You know, negating things.
G: Right.
Siddhananda: Within themselves.
G: Right. Not this, not this, not this, not this.
Siddhananda: Exactly. (pause) So what questions do you have for us today? If you could talk more about this negating process...
G: Aha, aha. So they want to continue within the negating process?
Siddhananda: I think they’re open.
G: Okay.
Siddhananda: I think they just want to know.
G: More what it is.
Siddhananda: Yeah.
G: What it is and what it's not.
Siddhananda: Aha. (nodding)
G: Yeah, the negating process is the looking at the ego self - the identity you have taken yourself to be and looking to dispel what it's not. If you look at it then you can deconstruct it with the “It's not this, it's not this. It's not that.” You can also open yourself to doing "I Am That I am" with the eyes closed and the "OM That I Am" and that will help also to bring expansion and you know... when he sees that expansion and that starting to move, then he can look more at that ego self and say not this, not this, not this.
Siddhananda: Right, because I think a little bit that, if you don't have some of that you just can get really kind of a mental thing, and to have that is to open the heart, too, with the practices.
G: Right. So, we need to also open the heart with that.
Siddhananda: Yeah.
G: And not just stay in an intellectual [level]... you know, stay up here. (raising both hands over her head)
Siddhananda: On that level.
G: In an intellectual mode, right.
Siddhananda: Exactly!
G: He needs to have heart and head. You need to have that balance, so…
Siddhananda: Exactly, and I think that's partly what his... what he was feeling, like what was needed.
G: Yeah.
Siddhananda: Ok, so you can just keep spinning on that, you know. (giggle)
G: Right, right.
Siddhananda: So, he is saying…
Spirit: This is good, thank you so much. This is really what I... I didn't quite know, but I just felt like that may have been getting kind of stuck there.
G: Yeah, you'll see where those thoughts and those energies and those ideations are not in alignment with that expansion. So not this, not this, not this.
Siddhananda: So he can see the contrast there, yeah.
G: Right.
Siddhananda: Like what you're saying, sure.
G: Right.
Siddhananda: And he's... I'm feeling again some light in the heart (waves her hand over the heart center) like, you know, that has... just radiating some light which wasn't there more at the beginning. I think he was kind of enclosed in more of the intellect (waving both hands to the side of the head) you know, of the negation.
G: Right.
Siddhananda: So this, this is good.
G: Yeah.
Siddhananda: Ok.
G: So, thank you. Namaste.
Siddhananda: Namaste.
G: Many blessings on your journey.
Siddhananda: Yep, always.
Namaste, Good pointing to focus on the heart. And not this not that. Good cutting through action. Om shanti.
ReplyDeleteNamaste/\ Thank you. This is a good pointer to clarify the neti neti process. Can relate to that stuck feeling where feel like, "Uh, what now?" For in heart will know that there is more to go but feel like not sure how to move forward. So simple as always and mind can throw in the sidebar loops and rather than just sticking to practices & being in that Stillness, there will be that tendency to want to find answer outside rather than within although find that the Bible and other literary works by GuruG, Ramana or The Bhagavad Gita can be of aide at the right moment and what is needed is provided /\
ReplyDeleteNamaste, nice pointings on the practices. thank you for this. om
ReplyDeleteNamaste, What is this I and netti netti- 2 valuable practices, I feel a relief when engaging in these practices- nice to read this
ReplyDeleteNamaste- Always nice to hear of how to deconstruct the ego using the practices given...Om
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