Seeking here is an intellectual understanding, informative knowledge about the spirituality through reading, listening or by way of some practices. Seeking may consist of some experiences but not to forget that every experience is in the paradigm of duality and has nothing to do with the Final Understanding. Having experiences of any sort does not dissolve the sufferings permanently but on the contrary it strengthens the notional seeker entity.
Understanding here is the Final Understanding (Atma-Bodha) of one’s True Nature and is always despite of the intellect. This Understanding is without the presence of the understanding entity. It is simply… Understanding which surpasses every other (how much ever divine) intellectual understanding. This undeniable Understanding transcends every other experience that means; the ground of duality. It is the awakening from a waking dream of duality, where the duality definitely continues but without any traces of the sufferings.
There is no way the Understanding can be described in words and yet Buddha (and many others) spoke and pointed at the same for more than 40 years after the dawning of the Understanding. The undeniable Understanding followed by the unfathomable compassion get automatically shared. This Understanding is not separate from the understanding (assumed) entity. In fact this Understanding gets unconcealed when IT encompasses the ‘understanding entity’.
Some of the conceptual pointers may be useful in realizing the differences between the Seeking and the Understanding and in turn diffuse the misunderstandings & to end the seeking.
Seeking is based on some reason, Undersatnding is without any!
Seeking is with an effort & purpose, Understanding is spontaneous & effortless!
Understanding is absent in the Seeking, - - -
while the ‘seeker’ (understander) is absent in the Understanding! :-)
Seeking consists of the seeker, seeking & the sought,
while only the Understanding of one’s Real Nature prevails in the Understanding!
Search consists of the search, searcher & the searched; Understanding denies the very ‘searcher’!
Seeking consists of stages, intervals & may be some practices,
while the Understanding is eternal...despite of them!
Seeking has an aim while the nature (swabhava) of the Understanding is itself aim-less!
Seeking is supported by listening, reading or pondering,
while the Understanding is always Self-supporting (Independent)!
Fear of forgetting the gathered knowledge prevails in the Seeking,
while even the thought of having understood is absent in the Understanding!
Background of Seeking is Duality,
while the Understanding is the groundless Non-Duality!
Seeking is an ever changing state,
whereas Understanding …. The Stateless state!
In Seeking, lock exists and the search for the key happens,
while in the Understanding, the clear understanding prevails that the lock and the key were never separate (two)! :-)
You are welcome to ponder over, enquire, investigate, absorb or else; get ABSORBED...!
Love n Regards,
-Nitin Ram - - -
29 NOV 2010
www.abideinself.blogspot.c- om
Seeking ends here
Original Marathi blog post can be found here: http://abideinself.blogspot.- com/2009/11/blog-post_23.html
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