intellect from all phenomena. Sri Aurobindo spent three days observing his mental field and merged into Nirvana. Hegel dedicated his “Phenomenology of Spirit’ to similar observation (explaining difference between mind and intellect) and started “The Science of Logic’ from the only word: “Being’. According to spiritual reality, as soon as he began to think about Being from position of conscious being, the whole sphere of “pure ideas’ appeared as the matrix for materialization. For this reason, a professor called Hegel’s logic as a “partita for trance’. It makes sense.
Intellect and Guruism
Can a real guru ask his disciples to suppress their buddhi and become unreasonable? Actually, when a guru teaches meditation he suggests one-pointed concentration stopping thoughts. It becomes the process of developing buddhi (intellect) for his disciples. There are some initiations when thinking stops in the presence of a saint who has the vision of Reality. But it is impermanent because it needs support from disciple’s buddhi while it is not developed yet. If disciple follows Guru-Yoga, going by the way of unity with his guru, this is the same situation. He needs to develop attention to a guru in the same degree as if he would develop attention to Reality itself. No matter, how you use your buddhi, – to recognize Reality itself or to recognize Real Guru, – both methods are effectual for your development. Reality helps as a guru, forcing to do what is necessary. But if you are stupid, no one guru will help you. For example, Ramakrishna merged to Reality both his disciple Vivekananda (spiritual person by his nature) and his servant (kind non-intelligent person). Both were impressed and shocked till the extreme degree, and Ramakrishna brought them back to usual illusory world for their safety. Later, Vivekananda continued to develop his buddhi even after his guru passed away, and finally he got permanent abiding in Reality. In opposite, the servant left his guru, got married, built house, worked in garden, and lived ordinary life until death. GURU WAS THE SAME.
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