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A short note from Guruji on inner worship. He shows how stepping back as the witness can ease pain, and why knowing who you are is the heart of Sri Vidya.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Original post: "A note on sadhana: Antarmukha Samaradhya", 25 April 2016, shared on Guruji's blog by Vira Chandra. The note ends by pointing to the Sri Vidya classes listed at www.devipuram.com and to Guru Karuṇa as a teacher. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-note-on-sadhana-antarmukha-samaradhya.html.
A doctor said: I have treated so many patients. They had pain, but I did not have any.
Want to avoid pain? Become the doctor that treats you!
Learn to get out of your body and enter the world. Your pains don’t belong to the world.
They will just disappear!
Think. Happiness comes to a person in pain if he can sleep. When did you not have any pain? When you were asleep or unconscious or before you were born or after you are gone. Notice that in all these states, time is not flowing when you get out of yourself to become the world, not aware of your body.
Why do you focus on the hurting part? Move your attention away to a part that doesn’t hurt. The world is the part that doesn’t hurt. Move into that, and witness yourself from that vantage point.
Witness is neither a criminal nor a judge. Who is witnessing you? The world. If you are witnessing yourself, who are you? The world.
The formula for health, wealth, happiness, and creativity is not being a small part of the world, but being the whole of it. Can I be the world? Yes, you can. Is it true? Yes, it is true. The world is so big and I am so small. How can the small contain the big? There is no small or big.
Just think. Wherever you are, or whatever you do, you experience the world through thinking or feeling. After sleep, the next day you are ready for more. Where is this world of your experience? In your thoughts and feelings. The world is inside you.
How can you see yourself being the world? By being a witness. How do you become a witness?
Yoganidra.
Relaxation meditation.
By anesthesia.
By sleep.
By death of your smallness called your ego.
By realising who you are.
May you be blessed with the knowledge of who you really are. Knowledge of who you are is called Ātmavidyā or Śrīvidyā. It is best learned under a trained Guru.
I have become old and infirm. I want to just do my sādhana. But I do want to help you. So, I will conduct classes over the internet. You can join the classes on Śrīvidyā from anywhere in the world. Details of class information can be found at www.devipuram.com
Now you have a very good teacher, Guru Karuṇa. Go to him. He will guide you well. I am sure the Goddess of creativity Bālā Kāmākhyā and the majestic power of love Lalitā will guide him and you properly.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Original post: "A note on sadhana: Antarmukha Samaradhya", 25 April 2016, https://amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-note-on-sadhana-antarmukha-samaradhya.html
Antarmukha Samaradhya means worship turned inward. In Kaula practice there are two sides: inner worship and outer worship. This note is about the inner side. It uses no tools, only attention.
Guruji asks you to look at who is watching. If you can watch your pain, you are not only the pain. He calls that watcher the world. Kaula practice treats the whole world as the Goddess, so being the witness is a way of resting in Her.
Outer practice, such as yantra worship, supports this. But Guruji says the knowledge of who you are is best learned under a trained Guru. If this note speaks to you, find a teacher and a class, and take it slowly.
It is worship turned inward. In this note Guruji gives it as a sadhana of stepping back, becoming the witness and knowing who you are.
He says to move your attention away from the hurting part to the part that does not hurt. He calls that part the world, and asks you to witness yourself from there.
Guruji lists yoganidra, relaxation meditation, anesthesia, sleep, the death of your smallness called the ego, and realising who you are.
Guruji says knowledge of who you are is called Atmavidya or Srividya. He adds that it is best learned under a trained Guru.
No. It is a spiritual teaching about attention. For any pain or illness, please see a doctor.
Read the original: A note on sadhana: Antarmukha Samaradhya, on Guruji's blog. Guruji left his body in October 2015. This post was shared on his blog in 2016. This site is an independent practitioner's space and does not speak on behalf of Devipuram.
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