youtube/watch?v=MvLGuSOLNQA //>>Gurdjieff: Teacher of Radical Transformation 171 Having its Self-Knowledge veiled by illusion, being bound by the fruits of sinful karmas, and suffering, having lost sight of the Supreme, the ego’s play is a mere mockery, like the sculpture of the Supreme which appears to carry the temple tower. 172 Would passengers, if wise, carry their luggage on their own heads, while travelling on a train which hauls, under steam-power, the heaviest loads like wisps of straw? 173 Similarly, since, by it’s very nature, the Supreme Power alone sustains all things, it is wise for men to leave the burdens [cares and anxiety] of their life on that Supreme Power, and thus to feel free. Michael James: Refer also to Who am I? for the above two sayings. The above three verses were summarised in the following verse by Bhagavan: B3 Look! While God is bearing the responsibility of the whole world, it is a mockery for the false jiva to think that it shoulders these responsibilities, like the sculpture which appears to carry the temple-tower. Whose fault is it if a passenger in a train, which is hauling a heavy load, suffers by keeping his luggage on his head instead of placing it on the rack? Michael James: This verse also appears as verse seventeen of Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham. Are there not among us some aspirants who, seeing the sufferings in this world, make efforts to reform it or even to heavenize it? But here Sri Bhagavan exposes the foolishness of such aspirants and advises them to surrender to God all their cares, both for themselves and for the world, and to remain quiet! 174 One’s fear and quaking of one’s body while one is entering samadhi is due to the slight ego-consciousness still remaining. But when this dies completely, without leaving even a trace, one abides as the vast space of mere consciousness where Bliss alone prevails, and the quaking stops. Sadhu Om: The annihilation of the ego is alone the realization of Self, so when an aspirant’s attachment to his body is being removed through enquiry, he [i.e. the ego] will feel that he is going to die, hence some aspirants experience during their sadhana a fear of death and sometimes even a physical shaking or great heat, and so in this verse Sri Bhagavan clears the aspirant’s doubts and explains these phenomena. 175 The only worthy occupation is to thoroughly absorb the ego by turning Selfward and, without allowing it to rise, to thus abide quietly, like a waveless ocean, in Self-Knowledge, having annihilated the delusive mind-ghost, which had been wandering about unobstructed. 176 The truly powerful tapas is that state in which, having lost the sense of doership, and knowing well that all is His Will, one is relieved from the delusion of the foolish ego. Thus should you know. Michael James: The last sentence may also mean, ‘Therefore, acquire such tapas’. 25 Treason Against Self 177 To be deluded and without Self-knowledge, and to thus see all the worlds and the jivas therein as different from oneself, is truly doing treason against Self, that vast Space of Consciousness in whose view nothing is other than Itself, and which absorbs everything into Itself. Sadhu Om: The rising of an individual ‘I’ [ego or jiva] is the reason why Self is seen as many things. Therefore, since it seems to spoil the true Oneness of Self, the ego’s rising is considered to be treason against Self. text from davidgodman.org/rteach/GVK154-265.pdf ---------------------
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