When is enough, enough? What are we going to do about it? How are we going to take the next step? We can only detach from the lower when we attach to the higher, we can only change when we aware of our bondages. Our discussion this week addresses the intense desire to attain liberation, mumuksutvam…
Total Thoughts (November 30, 2009): Mumuksutvam (Tattva Bodha pages 30 - 32)
- As long as we have limitations, feelings of incompleteness, hopelessness, helplessness, we are bound
- Bondage makes us a slave to the world and to our mind. With courage and the correct knowledge that desire for liberation comes when we address our bondages in a changing world and then desire freedom from it.
- Freedom is not an escape. We cannot escape the world or the mind. Instead, we must confront them by understanding what is real and unreal (viveka), by developing dispassion (vairagya), and by controlling our senses: sama, dama, uparati, titiksa, sraddha, and samadhana
- To get rid of our Arjuna disease, we require knowledge, strength, courage, fortitude, and most importantly, trust in our Guru and/or Scripture
- One with strong mumuksutvam reaches the goal. All other qualities also easily accrue to him/her
Foundation for our upcoming discussion: Tattva Bodha pages 32 - 33
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