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    One Step To Enlightenment
    One Step To Enlightenment
    One Step To Enlightenment
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    One Step To Enlightenment

    By J. Robin E. Harger

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    Shiva is the principle of dissolution, as an identified aspect of otherwise pure consciousness. In this respect Shiva is the Higher-Self in its awareness that it alone is responsible for all conditional manifestation appearing as the phenomenon of physicality along with concurrent awareness thereof. Arising as the universe dissolves, this realization results in the understanding that the world of “name and form” is a mere appearance which is reflected in consciousness. This reflection results from the false idea that the ego-self (conditional-self) is an executor and therefore, the reflection is thus seen to emerge from the “ground state of being” merely to accommodate the falsehood. Hence Shiva is also known as the “destroyer” since he destroys the every-day world of illusion. Devi is Shiva’s consort, as the personification of the creative principle she petitions Shiva to reveal the true nature of the universe. Shiva responds with a series of meditation points any one of which when correctly understood will cause the universe to dissolve away from within awareness to reveal the non-duel state alone

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    PublisherJ. Robin E. Harger
    Release dateOct 1, 2011
    ISBN9781465814777
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    J. Robin E. Harger

    Born: New Zealand 1938, spent my early years on a sheep farm in the Waikato. Attended the University of Auckland and The University of California, Santa Barbara where I studied marine biology and population ecology respectively. Went on to teach experimental field ecology at The University of British Columbia from whence I strayed into environmental activism. During the course of my scientific career published widely in technical journals across the fields of ecology, environmental assessment, global warming as well as a number of articles dealing with the theory and practice of environmental activism. I eventually joined UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) spending fourteen years in the Jakarta Office before retiring as a Director of The International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 1999. Have an extremely well-founded understanding of the relationship between science and social practice having also spent time with The State of Michigan Toxic Substances Control Commission where he designed and implemented clean-up procedures applied by the state in controlling instances of toxic substance contamination in the environment.My foray into the area of self-analysis and subsequent projection into the profound provoked a complete reversal of my previously solid view of external physicality now finding complete agreement with Sri Ramana in observing “That the world and the mind arise as one but of the two the world depends on the mind alone the only reality being that in which this inseparable pair have their rising and setting – The One Self Alone”.

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      One Step To Enlightenment - J. Robin E. Harger

      One Step To Enlightenment

      by J Robin E Harger

      Copyright: J Robin E Harger, July 2009

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      Prologue

      The following material is based on The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra[1] which is otherwise known as the one hundred and twelve keys to enlightenment of Shiva. The text opens with an appeal addressed by Devi, Shiva’s consort to her husband. Devi is the personification of the female creative principle while Shiva (the Destroyer), is the principle of dissolution, as an identified aspect of otherwise pure consciousness. Devi speaks:

      Oh Shiva,

      What is your realty?

      What is this wonder-filled universe?

      What constitutes seed?

      Who centers the universal wheel?

      What is this life beyond form pervading forms?

      How may we enter it fully, above space and time, names and descriptions?

      Let my doubts be cleared.

      The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (112 keys of Shiva), edited for simplicity and expanded to 116 items.

      Table of Contents

      Front piece

      Prologue

      Introduction

      Devi inquires

      Shiva replies

      Breath, a bridge to realty

      Attentiveness

      At ease

      Centering

      Penetrate the inner self

      Seeing the past as a dream

      Stop

      Intellectual

      Feeling-devotion

      Looking

      From words through

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