Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts.
ACIM-T-chapter 31: V:14:3
Timely, as serendipity makes Life events, I opened up to this video today from Eckhrat Tolle. Why Eckhart Tolle has become my main teacher in human embodiment, I don't know but I guess he is, for whatever reason. In this video he was talking about ACIM and that in itself struck me funny because I was just at that moment mentally trying to connect the teachings of A Course with what I have been learning from Maharshi's teachings.
There was a word, in ACIM, that kept tripping me up. I wrote about it a few months back and that word is "salvation". Well this video opened up with " Salvation is undoing"...a line from the What is salvation lessons...in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice.
When we simply stop "thinking", we know everything in the only way it can be known. When we stop labelling, judging, perceiving wrongly, we get beyond what we falsely believe is real to what is. We will wake up from dream state. We will find salvation.
Concepts are not reality. The Truth of who we are and what the world really is, lies beyond the concept of "self" and the world. Self and Reality cannot be experienced with thought.Concepts just get in the way of us realizing Self, as Maharshi taught.
Though terminology may differ, there is so much similarity between the teachings.
A Course uses the word 'salvation' but Maharshi and the ancient Hindu and Yoga sutras would use the word," Liberation" . When we escape from the concepts we pollute this present moment with, this experience of reality with, we will discover the natural truth that has always been there. We will be "saved". We will be "freed" from the bondage of the mind.
Salvation then is so simple...escape from concepts.
So strong is man's conviction of the reality of the world that it is not easily shaken off. But the world is no more real than than individual who sees it. Maharshi
Concepts are learned. They are not natural. Apart from learning they do not exist. They are not given, so they must be made. Not one of them is true, and many come from feverish imaginations, hot with hatred and distortion and born of fear. What is a concept but a thought to which its maker gives a meaning of his own? Concepts maintain the world but they can not be used to demonstrate the world is real. For all of them are made within the world, born in shadow, growing in its ways and finally "maturing" in its thoughts. They are ideas of idols, painted with the brushes of the world, which cannot make a single picture representing truth.ACIM-T-Chapter 31: V:7:1-10
I can see that above passage is going to require some dissecting...next time.
All is well.
ACIM (2007) A Course in Miracles; Combine Volume, Text, Chapter 31 & Workbook,What is Salvation?Intro. Foundation For Inner Peace
Arthur Osborne (ED) (2002) The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi In His Own Words. Kindle Edition
Eckhart Tolle (January 2020) Break Free From Conceptual Realityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTg6Rqlz6ts
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