Summary of discussion on Vijnana-bhairava-tantra made by Guru Yogi Matsyendranath and Rev. John Dupuche<\/p>\n
Vij\u00f1\u0101nabhairava-tantr<\/em><\/strong>a<\/em> 119<\/strong><\/p>\n Technique: seeing a landscape; radical poverty<\/p>\n vastu\u1e63u smaryam\u0101\u1e47e\u1e63u d\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6de de\u015be manas tyajet | \u201cWhilst looking at a landscape, he should put his mind aside with regard to objects and memories. Once the body is without support, the Universal Lord appears.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\u201d (Mt 5.3)<\/p>\n Whilst looking at a landscape, he should put his mind aside with regard to objects and memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n The hermit goes out to the desert or the mountains, into a landscape broad and vast, without any particular feature to capture the mind. All objects and memories are put aside (tyajet<\/em>). Fond memories as well as traumas, traditions and customs, resentments and angers, desires and fears, reputation and self-image, sorrows and joys: all are abandoned.\u00a0 The recollection of past lives, the inherited lives of one\u2019s ancestors, the whole furniture of the memory bank: all are set aside.\u00a0 Egoity and body-image, impessions (v\u0101san\u0101<\/em>), and prejudices are let go. It is a return to the essence of one\u2019s being, prior to all formation and deformation; it is a purification.<\/p>\n The word tyajet<\/em>, \u2018put aside\u2019, is connected with the act of sacrifice. All things present and past and future are sacrificed.<\/p>\n The first words of Jesus\u2019 first sermon in the first gospel, are concerned with this \u015bloka<\/em>: \u2018Blessed are the poor in spirit\u2019, namely those who are \u2018poor\u2019 in every sense. They have set all aside. It is a radical poverty.<\/p>\n Once the body is without support<\/strong><\/p>\n Every support disappears. Our body, that is our limited self, is formed by the experiences of life on the formation of the past so it is painful to be without support. Prior to his crucifixion Jesus is stripped naked, stripped in every sense, and reduced to nothing. Even the divine support is removed. \u201cMy God, my God, why have you abandoned me.\u2019\u201d (Mk 15:34)<\/p>\n the Universal Lord appears.<\/strong><\/p>\n When this occurs, then the Universal Lord (prabhu\u1e25<\/em>) appears, literally \u2018he flows out\u2019 (prasarati<\/em>). The Lord is not static but flowing, not changing but dynamic. The stability is in fact constant dynamism and energy, like the gleaming light, the flowing water, and the moving wind. All limitation is abandoned; there is a sense of universality, the \u2018oceanic consciousness\u2019, a phrase used by Romain Rolland to describe the profound experience of Ramakrishna.<\/p>\n The \u015bloka has a play on words. \u00a0The term nir\u0101dh\u0101ra\u1e43 <\/em>(without support) is taken from \u0101dh\u0101ra<\/em> which can also mean \u2018source\u2019 or \u2018spring\u2019. \u00a0The word prasarati<\/em> is based on the word sara<\/em> which means \u2018flow\u2019, \u2018river\u2019. This, those who abandon every other source find a new spring rising in them, the divine Lord himself.<\/p>\n The Universal Lord appears clearly in the end but he has been present from the beginning, for it is not possible to abandon all support without first being supported by a greater reality.<\/p>\n The promise is made: \u00a0that the Kingdom of Heaven will be given to those who are truly poor. That is, the power and influence, the reality and dimension of the Kingdom belong to them. They have become identical with the Universal Lord. The one to whom all authority in heaven and earth is given, (cf. Mt 28:18) is apparent to them because they have become him. There is deepest unity. They are one Body. To see one is to see the other, in identity of nature and diversity of persons. Having abandoned all, they become all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of discussion on Vijnana-bhairava-tantra made by Guru Yogi Matsyendranath and Rev. John Dupuche Vij\u00f1\u0101nabhairava-tantra 119 Technique: seeing a landscape; radical poverty vastu\u1e63u smaryam\u0101\u1e47e\u1e63u d\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6de de\u015be manas tyajet | sva\u015bar\u012bra\u1e43 nir\u0101dh\u0101ra\u1e43 k\u1e5btv\u0101 prasarati prabhu\u1e25 || 119 || \u201cWhilst looking at … Continue reading
\n<\/em>sva\u015bar\u012bra\u1e43 nir\u0101dh\u0101ra\u1e43 k\u1e5btv\u0101 prasarati prabhu\u1e25 || 119 ||<\/em><\/p>\n