Robert Powell, a devotee of Sri Bagavan has made some random notes on the teachings of Sri Bhagavan. Some of them
are given below. (original - Mountain Path, Aradhana, 2004)
1. Body perception gives rise to a framework in space and time that drives us, motivates all our thoughts and actions. In its
totality it is nothing but what we call 'mind', basically a concept, kept alive artificially through repeated false vision and self-
misunderstanding.
To pierce our suffocating illusion, we should see the 'body; as nothing but an easy way of speaking, a thought construct.,
We perceive the 'body' as such an account of our assigning limits or boundaries to it in space and time. These boundaries have
been assigned by the sense organs, but these organs are themselves part of the body whose real existence has to be proved.
So the whole thing is is an exercise in begging the question a circular argument!
2. All that we really are is an 'idea', everything that we think to have 'existence' i.e. independent existence is only an idea,
a creation of the mind.
3. Most of us like to have some 'temporary immortality' to stretch out that which we cling to the idea that temporarily negates
our ideation or ideological reality that is, we constantly negate our being as a mere idea. Because once I accept or confirm existence
as a mere idea where am I? I am nowhere at all, nothingness only a 'nothingness', however, that rests on the only solid basis of
consciousness.
contd.,
Arunachala Siva.
