Self-Immolation

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Eu ficarei doente, envelhecerei, morrerei, serei separado daqueles que amo, das minhas relações e assim por diante. Desta forma, o efeito totalmente amadurecido das minhas ações chegará a mim e a mais ninguém, e, portanto, não estou além da dependência do que fiz nas vidas anteriores. Pensar assim repetidamente é o antídoto para coisas como a arrogância. Faça todos os esforços para não se tornar arrogante meditando neste antídoto. Kangyur Rinpoche

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Disciple : How can we possibly wipe out the past record when we do not know nor have the means of knowing what it is? Jagadguru: Except to a very few highly advanced souls, the past certainly remains unknown. But even our ignorance of it is very often an advantage to us. For, if we happen to know all the limitless varieties of results which we have accumulated by our actions in this life and the countless lives that have preceded it, we will be simply staggered at the magnitude and number of such results and give up in despair any attempt to overcome or mitigate them. Even in this life, forgetfulness is a boon which the merciful God has been pleased to bestow on us, so that we may not be buried at any moment with a recollection of all that has transpired in the past. Similarly, the divine spark in us is ever bright with hope and makes it possible for us to confidently exercise our freewill. It is not for us to belittle the significance of these two boons-forgetfulness of the past and hope for the future. - Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Swamigal, 35th Sringeri Shankaracharya

The world considers You inauspicious, O Destroyer of Lust who plays in the smashan smeared with the ash from funeral pyres, wearing a necklace of human skulls, with ghouls for comrades. But for those who remember You with devotion, O Bestower of Boons, You are supremely auspicious. (Shiva Mahimna Stotra, 24)

“Regarding your question concerning the spirit souls falling into Maya’s influence, it is not that those who have developed a passive relationship with Krishna are more likely to fall into nescient activities. . . the soul may fall down from any position or any relationship by misusing his independence.” Srila Prabhupada

Śūnyata (शून्यत, “void”).— If you can concentrate on your body as void (śūnyata) or space and transcend all thoughts, even for a moment, your mind will be liberated and will take on the form of that void. It is important to note that you do not have to concentrate for hours and hours in order to experience this state. Even if you focus the mind for just a moment, it is enough to give you the experience of a heightened state of awareness. ( Vijñānabhairava verse 46)

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“The Mahamantra is just like a prescribed medication. It will work and heal you from the disease of material illusion no matter if you understand and believe in it or not.” Sri Aghoracharya Vishnuswami

At several places in his commentary (8:5,6,7 and 8:14,26,27), Acharya Abhinavagupta gives a lengthy elaboration on the characteristics of “the last moment”, i.e., the moment when the departing soul is leaving the body. At the outset, Acharya Abhinavagupta points out that whatever object one had meditated on (throughout one’s life), that very object he attains at the time of leaving his body. However, a significant de­ parture from most of the other commentators is that, according to Acharya Abhinavagupta, it is not necessary for one to remember his (de­ sired object) at the very last moment of leaving his body. For ex­ ample, a yogin who has meditated on God throughout his life at­ tains the highest reality whether he remembers God, at the last moment, or not.