NISARGADATTA - ALL COMES FROM WITHIN

In our lives we are aware of DUALITY - hot and cold, kind and cruel, happy and sad, war and peace, healthy and unhealthy.

Do our minds create this world of Duality?

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Can our minds skip into a parallel world where there are no extremes, and we do not worry about duality or non-duality?



Nisargadatta Maharaj ( 1897 - 1981), was a Hindu guru of nondualism.



His Guru told him: "Go back to that state of pure being, where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it got contaminated with ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that.’

"Your burden is of false self-identifications - abandon them all."



"Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth.

"Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too.

"All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done."

Nisargadatta Maharaj says he did not condition his mind by thinking, "I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond."

He simply focused the mind on pure being, and soon the peace and joy and deep all-embracing love became his normal state.

"In it all disappeared - myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me.

"Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence."



According to Timothy Conway, Nisargadatta's only subject was -

"Our real Identity as the birthless-deathless, infinite-eternal Absolute Awareness ...

"Fundamentally, we are not an individual, we are intrinsically always and only the Absolute.[web 3]

Nisargadatta explains:

"You are the timeless spaceless witness.

"And even if the mind tells you that you are the one who is acting, don't believe the mind.



According to Conway, awareness of the Absolute could be regained by -

"A disidentification from the dream of 'me and my world'".

Nisargadatta's message:

"You are not your body, but you are the consciousness in the body."

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AMMA - THE HUGGING MOTHER

Amma, front centre.

The guru called Amma has drawn 32 million people 'into her embrace'.

Amma is the Hindu guru Mata Amritanandamayi.

Gabreal Jones wrote:

At the moment I am visiting Amma the Hugging Mother near Barcelona.

Amma, how real is she?

Rolling Stone: The Hugging Saint - OBC Connect

A former Amma devotee writes: "Allowing people to pray to you, kneel to you, and worship you as God Incarnate is not the behavior of someone who wants people to recognize themselves as magnificent, powerful expressions of God."

Rolling Stone: The Hugging Saint - OBC Connect


Amma and the Israeli consul.

Amma is one of the 25 core leaders in the U.N.'s religion parliament.

"An email from her former joint-secretary alleged that she cooks the books, that the money she gathers for charity doesn't go to the charities she claims.

"I've read accounts by her former monks of the unexplained wealth of Amma's family, how her charity hospitals won't take the very poor because the poor don't have money enough for treatment.

"I’ve read about 'suicides' and unexplained deaths of ashram devotees.

"So many dead bodies have appeared in the waters outside the ashram that The Indian Express, New Delhi's daily newspaper, printed an account of local citizens demanding a police investigation into the matter..."

Rolling Stone: The Hugging Saint - OBC Connect


Guruphiliac

"My husband and I were with Amma from 1987 to 1993, hosted her once in our home, and held the Seattle Amma gatherings in our clinic during that time.

"We left abruptly after learning directly from Kusuma, one of her closest disciples, that Amma had used orphanage money to pay for a Mercedes, then lied to the American board of the organization about it"

Crimes of Mata Amma Amritanandamayi aka Ammachi - Cult Education Forum

"It was discovered, after a team of independent financial investigators analysed the data, that only 10% of the foreign money donated actually finds its way to real charity. That over 68% is left sitting in foreign bank accounts.

"Gail Tredwell (author of ´Holy Hell` who was 20 years personal assistant to A. till 1999) states she delivered bags of gold and cash to the relatives."

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