“Life is not a battle worth fighting. Quit.” The word is a deliberate stumbling block. What is to be given up is not the body or the life, but the fighter — the ego whose founding myth is that life is a war to be won. Camus answered the question of life’s worth with revolt; Advaita takes the path he never considered: neither suicide nor defiance, but the dissolution of the one who asks. Quit the way a fist quits clenching. The battle is optional because the soldier is fictional. What remains is life itself — neither fought nor fled.
Tag: Surrender
Summa Iru — The Pristine Spiritual Path
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“Is it perfume from a dress / That makes me so digress?”
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Yogakshemam Vahamyaham – Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9, Verse 22
अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जना: पर्युपासते |तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम् || 22|| ananyāśh chintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsateteṣhāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣhemaṁ vahāmyaham … More
ChatGPT on Bhakti Yoga
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Don’t Worry
“You are being driven by God. I am being driven by God. The wind does not worry about which way … More
The Mind and Surrender
“The mind is a localized and circumscribed entity that has very limited knowledge and understanding. Hence, using it egoically to … More
Ramana Maharshi on True Surrender
Q: [Given to Sri Ramana Maharshi in the form of a written note.] They say that one can obtain everything … More
Karma Yoga
(Source: Collated from Various Sources on the Net) Karma Yoga is the path of ‘action’, of putting in 100 percent … More
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