Complete Objectification of the Doer
Meditation (nididyasana) – Sunday December 10, 2023
- What is meditation? The process of Complete Objectification of the Doer. 5-10-15 rule is a long (or short) process depending on the teacher’s karma.
- What does the Objectification of the Doer imply? That I need to take my vasanas seriously i.e. see that they are unhelpful to myself and others. What is the downside of taking them seriously? I may get stuck in the necessary satya/mithya teaching. I will dismiss my vasanas as unreal (mithya) when they are real (satya) for a jiva. Jivas are deluded; although they are unreal, they think they are real.
- Why should the Doer be Objectifed?
(a) Suffering remains if it isn’t. Suffering is
attachment to the results of my actions.
(b) Why does objectification create a doubt in the
doer? Because the Self is attached to the doer
owing to Maya.
(c) Objectification obscures the misunderstanding
that freedom is only happiness for the me-self,
not for others.
(d) It generates the belief that saving the world, not
saving the me-self is the greatest virtue, causing
individuals with low self-esteem to seek fame and
suffer grandiosity. AHAM story
The Power of Fear
(4) Can a teacher help in this process or is a teacher only
meant to teach moksha?
Yes, but most teachers don’t because fear causes emotional relationships. Why don’t emotional relationships work? They destroy friendships because from the jiva point of view both the teacher and the taught are right. Nobody is right. Both the teacher and the student are virtue itself.
(5) What is trust?
Willingly following a teacher’s suggestions assuming the teacher’s ego is completely objectified. When a doubt occurs, the student knows he or she is always wrong and Isvara’s words in the form of scripture is always right as explained by the teacher.
Why is it difficult for the student to trust the teacher? Because he or she has no way of knowing if the teacher’s ego is completely actualized.
Lack of knowledge of the stages of objectification
creates doubt and prevents growth.
The Stages
- A Self-Realized teacher who thinks that Self-Realization is the last stage and doesn’t know the value of Self-actualization. Dharma trumps moksha.
- A Self-Realized teacher who is in the process of objectifying the doer. He or she identifies with the “still small voice” that speaks when the mind is sattvic i.e. Ishwara2. Identification with Isvara 2 is the God complex. It is an inability to accommodate uncertainty. “I am right because I know the facts!”
Why should I accommodate uncertainty and desire?
Because no matter how much you know
there is always something that it unknown.
Remember, Vedanta objectifies the Doer and the Self objectifies Vedanta, which means that the teacher and the teaching are only real until the nididyasana practice disappears. Until then a teacher in nididyasana is liable to trust Isvara2, when in fact Isvara 2 is not trustworthy.
Why is There No Final Stage?
Because there is only ME, existence shining as unborn consciousness. I am not a teacher because I am not a jiva. It is me but I am not it. I am not right or wrong.
I don’t trust Isvara because I am Isvara.
