Whether we call it “Conversations with God”, “Getting in Touch With Our Buddha Nature”, “Connecting with our Higher Self”, or “Looking Within” there is a space inside all of us that speaks with wisdom.\u00a0 With practice, I believe that each of us can access this Knowing Nature even during times of great turmoil and upheaval.\u00a0 The word Gnani or Jnani (knee-yawn-ee) is used to describe someone who is self-realized.\u00a0 The Gnani Chronicles are part of this ancient tradition of self enquiry.<\/p>\n
EGOIC MIND:<\/em> My heart skips and it still terrifies me, like it always did.\u00a0 Like I fear it always will.\u00a0 I have no clue what to do.<\/p>\n GNANI: <\/strong>So, still in the illusion that DOING is what will solve the problem in your mind?<\/p>\n EGOIC MIND:<\/em> Yes.\u00a0 Because Do Nothing<\/em><\/strong> seems so hard in the moment.\u00a0 In the moment, I want to take action … rush to the hospital, get an artificial heart that will pump forever.<\/p>\n GNANI: <\/strong>Yes, you believe you<\/em><\/strong> can be immortal with the exploits of science, don’t you?\u00a0 That is the fallacy right there.\u00a0 Good for you to see it for what it is.\u00a0 You can not obtain immortality … you already ARE immortal.\u00a0 Stop believing the lie of your own birth and you will stop fearing the death of the body.<\/p>\n EGOIC MIND:<\/em> But how?\u00a0 How do I stop believing my birth.\u00a0 I have pictures.\u00a0 My mother was present.\u00a0 Seems like I was born.\u00a0 And I have been to my Grandfather’s funeral.\u00a0 Seems like I too will die just the same.<\/p>\n GNANI: <\/strong>On the level of form you are quite right.\u00a0 The body was manifested and the body will cease to manifest.\u00a0 But YOU are not the body, nor are you the mind.\u00a0 You have experienced this deeply yet you continue to vacillate between form and the formless.\u00a0 Decide now to spend all of your time and attention on your true nature.\u00a0 Do not wait until you are in a mental snake pit and then look upon your authentic self for salvation!\u00a0 Unless you already KNOW WHAT YOU ARE you will be unable to transcend the experiences of the body\/mind.\u00a0 Go about your business, take care of your family.\u00a0 But keep part of your attention on the timeless, empty nature of your BEING.\u00a0 Look not out from your eyes.\u00a0 Search not inwardly with your vision.\u00a0 But step back and be still inside.\u00a0 Spend time in this place.\u00a0 The rest will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether we call it “Conversations with God”, “Getting in Touch With Our Buddha Nature”, “Connecting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,24,71],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnani","tag-advaita-vedanta","tag-guru","tag-gnani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}