Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda

For those of you who have studied the Path of Perception, investigatng the information given by your senses, thoughts and feelings, consider this brief thought from Spiritual Discourses by Shri Atmananda deeply:

1096. SPONTANEITY AND CONTEMPLATION

All experience is spontaneous. You should not colour it or disfigure it.
By "spontaneous" I mean that which cannot be related to any cause or effect, or which does not make any reference to its opposite. Every percept is spontaneous. Let us concede that it is related to its particular sense organ alone. As a percept it makes no reference to its opposite. If you dismiss it immediately at this stage, it does not bind you.

But you do not dismiss it immediately. Instead, the very next moment, you mix it up with innumerable other concepts and with samskaras (conditioning) stored up in the mind, and then you project them all together as what you call the object. The object you so conceive does not exist anywhere. It is only a bundle of sensations. The percept was nearer the real, when it occurred. But when you mixed it up with other concepts, the percept was transformed into a concept and became unreal.

To further deeply explore and understand sensory perception, thoughts and feeling, we urge you to get our DVD, Illumination with Greg Goode, which takes you through a series of exercises that can be performed while watching the video, allowing you to directly experience the reality of experience.

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