The works of Sunyata Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen – By coincidence I learned about Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen, who was better known by his Buddhist name Sunyata, as the ‘janam-siddha’ or simply as the ‘rare born mystic’ as Ramana Maharshi called him.
He was born on a farm in a village just outside Aarhus in Denmark, near my place of birth, in 1890. By a series of strange events, initiated by a meeting in England with Rabindranath Tagore, he ended up in a cave in Indian Himalaya, where he as a Sadhu lived in solitude, meditated and received guests. In 1973 Sunyata met with people from the Allan Watts Society who asked him to come to California, though he insisted that he had nothing to teach or sell. He went and spent his last years in the US, where he held weekly sessions for the public. Read the Wikipedia article about him here.
Sunyata met with Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Anandamayee Ma, Yashoda Ma (Mirtola), Swami Ramdas and Neem Karoli Baba. He died in a car accident in California in 1984. There is a couple of books about Sunyata out there. They are all based on this raw 486 typewritten manuscript. The document is unfortunately in a very bad shape and it is more than 92 Mb. It is only here for the nerds, preservation and scientific reference:
Sunyata – The typewritten manuscripts
For a more readable version choose this carefully retyped version:
Nectar of Sunyata
This stone was raised in the arboretum in the hometown of Sunyata. It has the Danish inscription: “Stilhed er det virkeliges sprog” meaning:
“Silence is the language of Reality”
https://www.academia.edu/130483877/A_Journey_to_Inner_Peace_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
A Journey to Inner Peace- Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep.
There is nothing I can give you which you have not got;
But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it,
You can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts
Find rest in today. Take Heaven!
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden
In this present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow.
Behind it, ye within our reach, is Joy.
There is radiance and glory in the darkness,
Could we but see, and to see, we have only to look.
I besearch you to look.
Life is so generous a giver, but we,
Judging its gifts by their covering,
Cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard.
Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it
A living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with integral strength.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the
Angel’s hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trail, a sorrow, or a duty.
Believe me, that Angel’s hand is there; the gift is there,
And the wonder of an overshadowing presence.
Our joys too: be not content with them as joys.
They, too, conceal Diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose,
So full of Beauty-beneath its covering –
That you will find earth but cloaks your heavens.
Courage then to claim it: that is all!
But courage you have; and the knowledge that we
Are pilgrims together,
Wending through unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you.
No quite as the world sends greetings,
But with profound esteem and with the prayer
That for you and forever,
The day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam – Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
JUNG: Memories, Dreams and Reflection – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/130398793/JUNG_Memories_Dreams_and_Reflection_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
In an unusual way the autobiography is the man :- a mature integral consciousness – playing in simple word-symbols -, and clear Self-reflecting light on Carl’s graceful childhood and Jung’s conscious awareness of its values. Awareness and experience in Grace or God, were there in childhood-, really, throughout Dr. Jung’s life-span, – co-existing and un-clashing-, as if the over-shadowing – ego-consciousness and the play in duality-values – and analytical mentology – were a due mode in the one integral – and, perhaps, universal consciousness, which is the complete Man (Meneske).
Source from old paper collections of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
Sri Wuji Reminiscence – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/129641773/Sri_Wuji_Reminiscence_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
Mill Valley, California
August 1981
Jay Bhagwan Ji:
When this Viking bhai was with Sri Ramana Maharshi at Arunchala in 1936 it, at first, jarred his susceptibility to call the Gnani “Bhagwan”, but HE himself did say unto us: “Bhagwan, as ye call me, is your SELF. You have wrongly identified yourSelf with the body and the mind. I suggest you pursue the inquiry! “Who am I?” Now here in the ‘far out’ California, at Sri NoMo’s gathering, the greeting on arrival and departure is a shouting, “Jay Bhagwan!” We acclaim the inner-standing Self in the invisible Real. We are all Bhagwan, as in Namaste and Namaskar. The Source and I are one or, as Sri Wuji and Emmanuel would have it, a non-dual o.
‘We’ are 91 years young, a Dane and his spiritual friend Sri Wuji, in the invisible Real (and his spiritual friend Sri Wuji, in the invisible Real) and the name Emmanuel – was fastened upon us by a peasant mother – along with four other epithets, – moaning. All Peace, All Joy (Ananda), the inner, intuitive Light- and serenity-. Something to live up to – says Wuji. Yes, Christ Emmanuel inner-stands at joyous ease. Intuitively we felt and awared the indwelling Christ: consciousness as dimly awake and Self- aware, Grace – aware. Neither mind nor ego were developed to be any trouble or tie, during 7 or even 14 years of solitary childhood. From infancy we were ego-free, mind-free, desire-free, plan-free and care-free. Twenty years in Denmark, 20 years in England (as a simple gardener) , 45 years in Bharat India and now three years in California. Sri Wuji also invites you, Bhagwan, to a birthday celebration on the 27th of October 1990. Ambrosia, Amrit and Soma juice will be served, Remember the date Wu!
P.S. In his last incarnation Sri Wuji was in dog-body. Born in Tibet (Taklakot) he travelled 120 miles to us along with a tiger-cub, which went to Baroda Zoo and died. During 10 years Wuji was our close and sole companion, teacher and playmate. Without teaching or training he rose on his hind legs – and joined his other lotus-paws in a peremptory – namaskar and so begged his food from bakers and butchers and cobblers. To people in general, we were only “the dogs Sadhu”, and Behinji. Sri Ananda Mayee Ma, often assures us: “Chow Chu Wuji is not a dog.” She did not tell Bhaiji, who or what Sri Wuji IS. Wu!
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
Alone to Be All one – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai – Life Story)
https://www.academia.edu/129353919/Alone_to_Be_All_one_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_Life_Story_
God and Eternity are abstruse concepts and ambiguous subjects not often discussed, or even mentioned, in our polite and respectable society, though in certain of so-called religious culture, much is talked and written about the eternal life, which is supposed to be ours, if we have been good souls- when Death has relieved us of our earthly tools and faculties and forms. “But the Eternal life is here and now. We, our Self is the Eternal life-”.
This is stated by a man who is not known to the public here in Denmark, where he took body and birth some 75 years ago on a farm in eastern Jutland. His parents named him Alfred Emmanuel Sorensen, but he has had dozens of other names foisted upon him during the 50 years in which he has travelled, worked and experienced life in foreign realm, mostly Europe and Asia.
Unassuming, unassertive and often serenely silent, he seems somewhat different in consciousness from the other often talkative bustling and ambitious Danes. A good fairy godmother must have blessed his babyhood with the gift of contentment, of serene appreciation and at homeness in the life-play – and with a love of – solitude. He took peasant; birth as only son – on a small farm near Aarhus. His parents were elderly and this childhood’s setting was simple and quiet in natural activities. Two sisters, 12 and 14 years older than he, were already elsewhere serving -, nursing or – married. There were a few servants and farm-hands and there were neighbouring children at no far distance, but Emmanuel did not seek company or play-fellows and was often quietly happy and fulfilled – alone. He did not avoid people or playmates-, but he did not seek them. His father was exceedingly quiet and sparing in wordy expression – also to his son- but in silence, – in word-free empathy and in Being’s rhythm – there can be intuitive transmission and mystic awareness.
Emmanuel seemed to have had the faculty of contemplation as a child, – a kind of pre-ego consciousness and a serene inner happiness or inner standing in nature – or intuitive, integral awareness : Everything was alive and there was harmonious interplay – and a grace of being alive and aware. He accepted and was accepted by Nature and at Home in it at all seasons, – and humans too were accepted as due part in the interplay. “Consciousness was there -, a kind of intuitive, unconscious awareness – or unity feeling, unconscious because the mind had not yet come into play to make contrasts and divisions. Ego was not very swell, bumptious or assertive, nor was there felt any distinct division, as the Self is also in ego-play as Eternity is in time. Consciousness is One and the usurping ego-consciousness is a due mode in the integral whole-. Aloneness was often ego-free all oneness-, but when other persons-, human ego-souls, were near with assertive cravings and trivial talk naturally his ego was evoked to respond. He had to listen and this was done calmly-, kindly – and with sensitive intelligence. Emmanuel smiled and sometimes laugh but he never shouted – or enthused. He became a good listener and egos liked to hear themselves talk, – assert and explain. He did not resent -, though sometimes it felt wearisome – and depleting and he had to go to his tree-friends for strength and wholeness. They were patient and rooted in life, while some egojis are like unconscious vampires. Even when a healer is being touched in faith and love, he may feel a strength or virtue gone. However there was always the healing Silence -, Nature and Solitude. Its wholeness makes us whole, when we contemplate and merge in it. There is joyous ease and integral grace. It is all really within our Self. In all-oneness there is no i-, me and mine -, no i-dentity-.”
We spent several days together with this Viking: brother in an old parsonage on Fyn. After 20 years as a hermit in Himalaya – he is again visiting his native Viking realm -. He seems to be at home also in the life of actualities and ego-fuss in our civilized welfare state -, accepting all and free in it-, yet not of it-, responding – but not attracted or attached. The real is also in actualities – and all is well. So, like a passerby, a wayfarer, a pilgrim – witnessing-, accepting-, enjoying – and calmly passing on -, he moves among us-. “It is our Self everywhere at play”, he says, “and the play is divine, anandful and graceful”.
So Emmanuel’s inner light, inner-standing and insight are not flickering – nor brilliantly assertive. The ananda-grace is not boisterous or noisy, but a calm glow-, a still suffusing radiance. His silence is not irksome or offensive, – but contagious. He rarely laughs aloud but his smiling blue eyes are often laughing kindly and softly at our foibles-, and in his word-play is often a saving grace of humour and of paradoxes. (det jyske Lune). Ananda, he says, is Sanskrit term for a concept or experience, which comprises and transcends opposites and duality-terms, such as joy and woe, happiness and unhappiness-, birth and death. It is in and beyond and is awared and experienced by mature ego-souls when they are ripe and ready to die into It-, or to use Eckhart’s symbolism “when the birth of Christ within” has happened beautifully. The indwelling and immanent Emmanuel – is our Self – and we simply awaken into integral, abiding and conscious awareness. Egoji is not saved, it vanishes.
Many Sanskrit term symbols pertain to the non-dual experiencing – and there seems to be no equivalent word-symbols in accidental languages for such experiences or concepts as : Swadharma, Swalilla, Swadarshan-, Sunya-, Satori, Sahaja Samadhi, Turiya, Karuna, Nirvana-, Fane all Fane. In Himalayan India such concepts and experiences are part of our cultural heritage. Common peasants and city-workers are familiar with such term-symbols, though they may not have the experience of what they denote. A simple peasant may have easier access to divine grace than the learned school astica and the intellectual scientist. Knowledge is not wisdom. Mind and beliefs are often hindrances – to integral awareness, – while faith is prerequisite to grace. “Always take peasant birth”, advises Emmanuel’s canine-looking companion, Tibetan Guru Wuji. They have been Himalayan hermits since 1935. Previous Emmanuel Sorensen had travelled all over India during five years, and had worked manually as a gardener during 20 years in England, France and Italy.
He has built his own huts – caves and cottages on a mountain ridge at an altitude of 6000 feet with vast views – towards the snowy summits in north India, Nepal and Tibet. He has planted an orchard and often kindred Sadhus or Hermits stay in the cottages he has built with his own hands in a kind of contemplation. They willed to be and so bodied forth at joyous ease through him as media. There are kindred neighbours within a few miles. Mostly solitary artists,- writers, researchers, contemplatives and nature-lovers. There Emmanuel lives for 9 months of the year in Sunya Silence, money-free-, servant-free and almost word-free and ego-free-, richly active in self-controlled spontaneity and joyous ease. Visitors are not specially invited or encouraged in the sanctuary-cave, but Emmanuel accepts serenely all that the Lord or the Devil may send along in due Karmic Dharma. He visits neighbouring friends occasionally- specially the German-born Lama Anagakarika Govinda, who lives on the next door mountain-top a mile northwards. They have been friends since 1931, when they both lived with Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore at his Shantiniketan – (Abode of Peace), where Emmanuel at that time, was invited by the poet ‘to teach Silence’.
3 times a week he bounces the 9 mountain-miles – to the city a thousand feet below. There are typists and post to attend to and friends to visit, and, in the cool of the evening, he trots more slowly up with his purchases. Good exercise of an age-free body often ascends the jungle in darkness. There are leopards and panthers that are fond of dogs and one evening enticed and gobbled up his “Lady Yami”-, but they wisely avoided – the human, mortal ego-souls. The Monsoon and the hot seasons are spent in the Himalayas, but the 3 or 4 winter-months may be spent with friends in Delhi and the Punjab. No privacy-, but noise and flux and constant change-, are salutary tests of balance and poise, serenity and inner Silence. Only the few in our restless modern activities are integrally whole and harmoniously – at ease in life. Viking brother Emmanuel is one of these. He notes and accepts also our highest record of suicides – our syphilis and psychoses-, our alcoholism-, wild youths – and surface-living-. Wu!
After 5 years of apprenticeship in horticulture – Emmanuel Sorensen went – abroad to other cultures. It was in 1911-, and, except for a few years in France, Switzerland and Italy, – he worked in England until 1930. He managed nurseries for friends or worked in public or private gardens: Forty hall, Darlington Hall, Sunbury Court, Hampton Court and Kew Garden. He had escaped academic education and he did not seek the ties of property-, of power, of marriage or of mere knowledge. It is intuitive inner-standing that matters more than mental under-standing. Direct perception and integral awareness are effort-free in contrast to mental, analytical and willful play. Emmanuel did not study and was not ambitious. There was but little leisure at the time-, except evening and week-ends, and he sought no external Guru or teachers or guides. His body was reading-: novels, biographies-, travel books – and also psychological books where the travel is within-, but not psychology, philosophy – or religion as such, and not studying a special subject -: Just desultory and ‘chause’ reading. Yet Emmanuel felt vaguely, what now he experiences clearly-, that there is no real chance-. The people we have to meet come our way-. No meeting is fortuitous and nor is our reading. There was already a mystic, intuitive awareness – of Swadharma, – of his Being law and rightness-, a mystic-clear consciousness of inner guidance and of what he had to do – or not do. There is an inner call and a sure guidance-, if we be but ego still to listen. The Real Guru is our Self within. We are the simple Tao-, so “step by step as thou goest- the Way will open unto thee”. Walk on in faith and greet the unknown with a cheer.
In England Emmanuel’s consciousness cleared and expanded, to comprehend Eastern cultures as something kindred and familiar. The communal Silence of Quaker friends could be rich, but not pure enough-. Sunya is more than the Silence of words and the sensation of noises. It is rather the silence or the freedom of no desire-. The cessation of craving of ego-willfulness, of lust of possessions, attachment and power-play, and of the lust of giving and of doing-, the cessation of the conceit of agency – and of ego-fuss, there is the ego-humble awareness – that things are being done through us.
Emmanuel did not join any special sect- or society-, party or group-, nor did he belong to any special religion. The mature mystics in all have the same universal – non-dual experience and they recognise one another in silence and in spite of semantic term-symbols. If you join one blinkered group you are shut out from others. While, if you accept all, – you are often accepted by all. To join may be better than to divide, but we are already ‘joined’ in the Universal life and all comprehended by Sunya. So why all this striving and unholy fuss to attain what we already are ?
Just awaken ego-freely to Be your Self consciously, integrally aware. Bondage is delusive. Ego is illusory. Only the Eternal is Real – and Thou Art That – all the eternal while.
The Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore befriended the simple gardener at Darlington Hall in Devonshire, where both spent the summer of 1929. From his reading of Eastern literature Emmanuel could well inner-stand the Poet’s rhythm and light of awareness in his playful, cultured, word-symbols and the Poet had leisure to share in Emmanuel’s records of Beethoven’s last 5 quartets being played in the woods by the river Dart. Poet invited Emmanuel to come to his Bengali Home, Shantiniketan (the abode of peace) “to teach Silence”. This can be done only by Being it – as they both knew-, but it was the Call from the East – and, like the present trip to the West after 30 Himalayan years, it had to Be. It was due and inevitable – and, without any excitement, hesitation, – fuss or desire, Emmanuel said yes to destiny. There is no real choice and no real ego, but there is Swadharma and anandful Swa-Lila.
The proposed 3 months holiday grew into 18 months, and, by that time, Emmanuel had found his poise and home in Himalayan India. He had accepted and was accepted by the Indian brethren. He did travel slowly over land from Basra to Oslo – and England-, but only to settle affairs in that home and return to new one. Since the age of 14 his real Home had been – within At Darlington Hall, he had endured another salutary ‘death’ – and so earned his passage to India and the freedom and grace of non desire-.
In October 1923 he was again in Bombay, and after a few years of travel in India, and, in the hot and rainy season, seeing the Himalaya from Peshawar to Burma, Almora chased him to settle them. The Jawaharlal Nehru family had just bought an estate, ‘Khali’, near that mountain-city and offered him this as home and play-ground. He helped Ranjit and Vijaya Laksmi Pandit with planting of fruit trees, corn and vegetables and attending the hydraulic ram, while the Pandits and Jawaharlal ji were most often in prison at that time-, resting and writing books. Ranjit translated ‘Kalidasa’ from Sanskrit into English, but prison-life broke down his physical health – and he left us early.
In 1937 Emmanuel built his first Himalayan hut on a small plot of land given to him. It is beautifully situated – with vast views and vast silence and therein he lived happily alone during 20 years. Other huts were built or projected themselves through his tools and his active mode of contemplation, or “Yogic skill in action”. Kindred solitary Sadhu types have stayed in these huts and Emmanuel felt richly fulfilled and contented. His intuitive and often unconscious quest of integrality became more clear and more conscious. The Eternal is already here and now-. The all and the whole is within our Self. Only ego-souls revolt resents harbour grievances and accepts insults – and flattery. “Lo I AM always with ye-. So Be of good cheer!” said the inner Emmanuel. Ego-fuss and duality consciousness are the cause of all our woes, all our blinkers and civilized diseases. Sahaja Samadhi is joyous and easy in all actualities-. Winter- travel among plain-egos in noisy civilization-, is a good test of one’s reality of inner Silence.
So in Himalayan India Emmanuel can Be himself – more freely at ease, in simple naturalness. There is less conformity-, respectability and uniformity than in the accident-, where Sadhu would be considered a simpleton, a vagabond, a paracite, a useless nobody, or a despicable – half demented fool-, a nuisance sponging on India’s economy.
In India such simple human beings are called Sadhu and are not only tolerated, – but respected and admired -. Few of them may be holy or integrally whole and Self realised -, but they are supposed to aim at the graceful state of serenity and ego-freeness, and their very appearance and presence remind their fellow beings of God-, of the inner Reality – and of Eternity in time. Often there is around them an ‘aura’ or sense of time-freeness, age-freeness, home-freeness – and ego-freeness. Their home is within and , so, wherever they be-. Some wander about – and others stay at one or two places throughout the year-, or never leave their cave or hut. There are always dharamshalas where they can shelter and temples where they can get Rice and Dal to cook for themselves, if they prefer this to private hospitality. Some sadhus never enter a house-holder’s home -, but, live in temples and dharamshalas go private folks may build a separate room, as a kind of shrine-, in which nobody else, but the special Sadhu sleeps or dwells. Sri Ananda Maya Ma must have hundreds of such “homes” as she has been constantly – moving home freely in India for 40 years with thousands of devotees wherever she goes. But Sadhu is a widely comprehensive term-symbol comprising Swamis-, Sannayasis-, Yogis, Tantrics, Masters and their attendants and devotees. Some Sadhus may well be married-, house holders – and ‘useful’ earners or rich people. Sadhuism is an attitude to life-, an approach to awareness of the invisible real – and, so, a non-attachment to things and to the result of their work. Emmanuel, being naturally simple, – celibate-, frugal and un-ambitious in the actual and worldly sense, was naturally acclaimed as Sadhu and as a whole human being – aware that we are more than human mortals – ego-souls. “I AM human : Nothing human is strange and alien to me” is still an ego-boost! – I AM – is enough.
We ask Emmanuel : “Do you pray or make puja”? and he quotes Meister Eckhart : “God is nearer to me than I am to myself : When I pray for aught, my prayer goes for naught, when I pray for naught – I pray as I ought. When I pray for something I pray at my weakest. When I pray for nothing – I pray at my strongest. And when I ask nothing and make no request, I am praying at my best”. One’s life can be a constant dedication and remembrance, a steady Self-recollection or contemplation. To appreciate is to possess in a far deeper sense than that of legality. That which recognises is within our Self. Emmanuel craves no possessions, – no power, no learning and no fame. He seems fulfilled, – contented and – grateful in India.
He has renounced nothing, not even the concepts we call devil and God, They are aspects of one whole as are all opposites-, complementary aspects, which constitute one another-. Has he “renounced” responsibility? He feels that – He or she or That, which projected all these universes, can very well look after them without his interference. There is our due swadharma – and prarabdha – karma. We fulfill it whether we know or not, – like it or not. But in ego-stillness we can intuit our swadharma (the law or rightness of Being and doings – and of Maya Lila. No need to kill or renounce the mind-ridden ego – any more than to renounce other bodies. They are useful tools. It is our identification with them which vanies in Self-awareness. “Love your neighbourers as yourself”. They are your Self. “Resist no evil!” There isn’t any. “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”, quote Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. So transcend thought – and mind and ego – and use them – ego-freely.
Intuition is a faculty we all have but hardly aware of and rarely use consciously, and much less train, discipline and live by it. Its light transcends that of intellect. It is direct, immediate and spontaneous perception, a sense of essence and integrality-, rather than mental under-standing and analytical reasoning.
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment and you’ll come to wonder!” advises the intuitive Guru Wuji, who favours contemplative Buddhism, where it evokes and uses intuition to break through intellect to Satori-enlightenment. Reason, like patriotism, is not enough. “Reason was the helper. Reason is the bar”. Both reason and belief having been helpers become hindrances to integral and non-dual experiencing. Power and Knowledge and cute, prawd ego swellness seem to be aimed at in the accident, rather than ego-transcendence and Self-awareness. Intellect dominates intelligence. Knowledge usurps wisdom. Emmanuel’s intuitive rhythm and serenity (Sorensen) were naturally recognised and responded to in India. Hinduism is eclectic-, tolerant and universal. It can accept and absorb – and survive all religious and all conquests, even Yankeeism. There seems to have been something inner, integral and universal in Emmanuel’s consciousness even in childhood, which resisted or ignored the usual mental impositions and conditioning of stiffened orthodoxy, dogmas, doctrines and rituals. So it was not a matter of “losing” his childhood’s beliefs, but of discarding them or letting them be-, in the light of sure faith and integral experience.
Experience is more than beliefs and abstractions. These were not a loss-, but riddance. Dogmas and doctrines and the manner in which they were practiced and lived in churchianity around him, did not tally with his inner experience and intuitive light of awareness. The person who “confirmed” him tried to bully him into orthodoxy (right beliefs), but mere beliefs in immanence and in omni-presence and constant incarnation of the word made flesh, (and issuing from Sunya Silence)-, are like ego, a hindrance when these are natural experiences : when Christ – Emmanuel inner stand -, livingly and is awared, not as a mere ideal concept or pious abstraction, or as a mere fact, but as a living truth and concrete Reality-, manifesting in ever-changing forms and interrelationships – and in what Emmanuel later on called joyous ease and Self controlled spontaneity-, Death is the secret of life.
He had seen 14 autumns, when this first great debacle or ‘death’ began to happen. It was a gradual process or organic growth (-growing-pains) not really influenced, under-stood or even noticed by humans around him. Emmanuel did not show his troubles and had no word-language for them – and no urge or need of any. His Being’s language and silent rhythm were inner-stood by his tree friends and animal companions and by Nature is general. Much later, in Advaita Vedanta – and in Dhyan Buddhism he found some suitable term-symbols – for his own experience in his peasant childhood-.
Emmanuel seems to have “renounced” fear and worry and ego-fuss – and, so, to be free in these woes. The vast harmonies and inner stillness around his Himalayan hermitage echoes in his own rhythm, they are inner-stood rather than under-stood, inner stances rather than circumstances, lived rather than explained in wordiness. His hut is far away from any doctors-, but he has needed none during the last 30 years. Too much learning, thinking and talking about body-woes and mental ailments seem to bring them about. Fear attracts them. Natural animals can ‘smell’ or sense the fear and animosity in human ego-souls. Real Sadhus who harbour no fear are accepted as equals, are unmolested and often be-friended by so called ‘wild’ and ferocious animals. Only humans are unnatural and sometimes inhuman. In regard to natural health and Yogic feats – Emmanuel cites a Hathi-Elephant Yogi in a body of 76 years old, but looking much younger. He can drink acid and poison.
Minch glass, stay buried underground for weeks at a time, walk over water and across fire. Probably he can also levitate his body, be at two places at a time and dematerialize objects including his own body. He is healthy -, but rather gross-looking and un-spiritual.
Such feats are not miracles, but natural phenomena and naturally developed faculties, which come – by the way – in some Yogic practices-, whether they are desired or not. Too much attention to them is a fall from grace or from spiritual awakening. They should not be aimed at or displayed. But this Yogi advocates a practice which would seem a great help in times of famine and also in our chronic inflation and food shortage. He says that a handful of rice a day would suffice to anyone who conscientiously practices his particular brand of Yoga daily. It contains all the vitamins needed to keep one’s body healthy, except for those of manual labour. This Yogi, L.S. Rao claims : “Stalin-, Marilyn Monroe, Adlai Stevenson. and the richest woman in U.S.A., Doris Duke, among his pupils-, He taught Stalin Pranayam (control of breath) and Yogic postures in 1951 during his visit to Russia”-, he says. Yogi Raos Yoga represents only the art of living harmoniously in perfect health and body control-, without any mysterious significance or mystic spirituality. Hatha Yoga is one of the dozens of different Yoga- exercises practiced in Himalayan India from times immemorial – but the faculties and powers which come by the way of practice should not be exhibited or traded – for profit, -name or fame -. Sincere and consciousness practice simply keeps the physical body healthy and harmonious and, so, (perhaps) likewise the mental body-. The ego-ridden mind can be fatal obstacles to integral awakening and grace. Emmanuel has witnessed the various Yoga exercises, but had no urge or need to practice any – but his natural gardening – and cave-building – and natural calm breathing the pure mountain air. Contemplative walking up and down the Himalayan ridges has kept his physical body fit and flexible, slim and fat-free. The mental body has been no great trouble and there is not dissipation in verbosity, no telephone, television, radio or cinema distractions and so on flickering stars or Sports – Heroes to worth sip, no Beatles ! In the town, thrice weekly he may see a newspaper and ship skim the headings.
If one is in Emmanuel’s presence for some time and converse with him, one senses the integral awareness and silence in his rhythm and radiance. Sometimes it is felt as if his ego is not there in our actualities and time values. He responds freely kindly and spontaneously to any of our questions, but is usually silent and unassuming until somebody speaks to him. Beyond his personal talk one feels impersonal. We do dissipate a great deal of energy in trivial chatter. Silence may be conducive to ego-freeness and to psychic health. Himalayan Solitude will enfold Emmanuel again in the autumn. He tells us it is the loveliest season of the six-, days. The monsoon-washed air is pure and the nearly heaven is Krishna Blue – and makes the snowy ranges seem very near, cool but not cold. They are a hundred miles away. In such grace and vastness one can hear the silence. The winds in the woods below sounds like the surge and soughing of billows on a Nordic sea-coast. The golden pine-festive in the woods, not wild but untamed, from October to late November, then mimosa blooms take over in a feast of yellow fragrance. It is never too cold for a Viking body though snow comes near on all the hilltops around. Emmanuel has spent several winters there, walking barefoot the 30 miles northward to Bageshwar trade-fair, – where border-folks from Tibet and Nepal come with their wares-, sing and dance at night and bathe in the icy cold river. It is auspicious to do so at the junction of two holy rivers: a “river-wedding”. It is near the Pindari Glacier, – but a sheltered valley. Bo and Banyan, sugarcanes and citronous (Citrus) fruit grow there.
Emmanuel is happy to revisit the land of birth -, to see his sister and old friends and to make new ones. It has been a century since the Viking lad went to re-conquer Great Britain and later on, the still greater Himalaya-, though he says the real travels and travails are within our Self, and the real conquest is of the ego. After having spoken Himalayan and English for 50 years, Emmanuel can still wield the Danish tongue-, though certain inner experiences need Sanskrit. Silence is the eloquent language of the Real, he says, and soon he will return to the Himalaya silence of all-oneness. There is outsight and insight, empathy and joyous ease in simple unity-awareness.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
THE RED-INDIAN – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/129191599/THE_RED_INDIAN_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
Out of sheer envy we are obliged to smile at the Indian naivete and to plums ourselves in our cleverness, for otherwise we would discover how impoverished and down at the heel we are. Knowledge does not enrich us, it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once- at home by right of birth” – Where is the wisdom, intuitive insight and the joyous ease in wholeness, – which we have lost in mental knowledge and analytical information? Where is the integral life-awareness we have lost in our power-play of actualities and ego-fuss? Wu ! It is quite safe within our Self. “Tout et bien scrtant de mains de l’Auteur des choses-”, and we return to the Source – when we awaken integrally. Death is an important interest, especially to an aged person. A categorical question is being put to him and he is under an obligation to answer it. To this end he ought to have a myth about death, an arch-type or a real death-experience (“Die before you die”. Wu), for reason shows him nothing but the dark pit into which he is descending. Myth is the natural and indispensable, intermediate stage between unconscious and conscious cognition. The unconscious reveals more than the ego-consciousness does, but it is an awareness of a special sort, an intuitive awareness of Eternity here and now usually without reference to ego-values and not couched in the language of the intellect. Wu!
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
PS: As a human being I’m not against any creed and colour, all of us are made by God. In this article Thoughts of Ochwiay Biano(Mountain Lake) his own towards the Americans not mine. In this article Indians refers to native of Americans, not the people of India/Hindustan/Bharat – Rama kant-
TRAVELS – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/129127075/TRAVELS_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
We may “go with” Dr. Jung in consciousness when he investigates and experiences the undiscovered Self-, or what he may call the collective race-consciousness or simply the unconscious. At one place, and to Miguel Serrano, Jung seems to equate his concept of Self with Christ-, the indwelling Emmanuel : The Sleeping Beauty which awakens into conscious Self-Awareness and Eternity, in the due, mature fullness of time. Meister Eckhart also experienced – the inherent Emmanuel – and “The birth of Christ within”. Other mature mystics, sages, sufis and Himalayan Rishis awared and expressed the same secret in their local language, or they lived the Experiencing serenely in Silence, as wordiness is apt to blur or falsify the Word-.
So let us also travel objectively with Dr. Jung in his external travel – and go with him in consciousness – at joyous ease-. His first travel outside Europe was to North Africa -, and of one Arb he say: “He lacked that faint note of foolishness, which clings to the over-mental European. He was the un-mental intensity of life —. My dragoman confirmed my impression of the prevalence of homo-sexuality and of its being taken for granted-, and he promptly made me an offer. The encounter with Arb culture had struck me with overwhelming force. The emotional nature of these unreflective people, who are so much closer to spontaneous life than we are, exerts a strong suggestive influence upon those historical layers in ourselves, which we have just overcome and left behind, or which we think we have overcome and left behind-. It is like the paradice of childhood-, un-mental and ego-free, from which we imagine we have merged, but which, at the slightest provocation, imposes fresh defects upon us. Indeed our mental cult of progress is in danger of imposing on us ever more childish dreams of the future-, the harder it presses us to escape from the past”. The past and the future are all within our present Self-. We are the Eternal Now-, non-dual experiencing – when ‘we’ are not. Wu.
“My beings European gave me a certain perspective on the people, who were so differently constituted from myself and utterly marked off from me. But I was not prepared for the existence of unconscious forces – within myself, which would take the part of these strangers with such intensity, so that a violent conflict ensued. This conscious or unconscious empathy was in fact the first hint of “going black under skin”-, an intellectual peril which threatens the uprooted European in African to the extent not fully appreciated”. “Going native”. ‘Wu ha da’. : A pinko-grey, beafy-red or deadly-white egoji can never be a native anywhere. Wu!
“Just as a childhood-memory can suddenly take possession of consciousness with so lively an emotion, that we feel wholly transported back to the original situation, so these seemingly alien, and wholly different, Arb-surroundings awaken arch-typical memory of our only too well know pre-historic past, which, apparently, we have entirely forgotten. We are remembering a potentiality of life, which has been overgrown by civilization, but which, in certain places, is still existent. If we were to relive it naively, it would constitute a relapse into ‘barbarism or pre-mental mode, therefore we prefer to forget it. But should it appear to us again in the form of a conflict-, then we should keep it in consciousness and test the two possibilities against each other- the life we live and the mode we have forgotten. For what has apparently been lost does not come to the fore again without sufficient reason. In the living, psychic structure nothing takes place in a merely mechanical fashion; everything fits into the economy of the whole, that is to say, – it is purposeful and has meaning. But because mental consciousness never has a view of the whole, it usually cannot inner-stand consciously aware”, Integral consciousness cannot understand itself. But in Empathetic and intuitive Light of awareness, many modes of consciousness be co-existing and un-clashing, says Wuji.
Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984)
A Danish mystic, horticulturist and writer who lived in
Europe, India and the US, also known as Sunyata, Sunya
or Sunyabhai. His experiences and travels and anything
concerning his more than 88 years as ‘Rare Born Mystic’,
so named by THE GREAT RAMANA MAHARSHI.
Gandhi Ji once told him “I live in SILENCE once a week,
and you are SILENCE forever!”
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
Arb- “Arab” refers to people and the Arab world in general, while “Arabic” specifically relates to the language. “Arabian” is more historically or literarily associated with the Arab world and its people
Chirst- The word Christ is from the similar-sounding Greek word “Christos,” which describes the divine Son of God, the Anointed King, and the “Messiah” who is positioned and purposed by God to be the Deliverer of all people in a way that no regular person, prophet, judge, or ruler could be (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 2:7)
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung ( 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, perhaps best known through his “autobiography” Memories, Dreams, Reflections. He visited India in December 1937. Emma Jung (born Emma Marie Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She married Carl Jung,
Egojis – The word ego generally refers to an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Emmanuel – God with you – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
Ha da – In Danish, “ha da” is an idiomatic phrase meaning “goodbye” or “have a good one.”
Meister Eckhart- (1260-1327) – Dominican theologian and writer who was the greatest German speculative mystic.
Miguel Serrano –(1917-2009) was a prominent Chilean diplomat, author, and esoteric writer, known for his works on spiritual and metaphysical themes. He served in various diplomatic roles, including ambassador to India, and was a major influence in the field of occult literature. Serrano’s integration of mysticism and politics makes his work a unique study in 20th-century esotericism.
Paradice- Paradise
Rishis- Himalayan Rishis, or sages, are revered figures in Hinduism and other spiritual traditions, often associated with the Himalayan region. They are believed to have attained enlightenment and wisdom through rigorous spiritual practices and are revered for their knowledge and power. Post-Vedic tradition regards the Rishis as “sages” or saints, constituting a peculiar class of divine human beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from Asuras, Devas and mortal men.
Sufi –is generally used for a Muslim saint or dervish. This word originated from the word Safa (pure) meaning a devotee of God who is free from all worldly evils.
Wuji– pet(dog) name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984), also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic. In article Wuji mean Sunya himself.
The Spiritual Insight of Sri Narayana’s Solitude – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/128930132/The_Spiritual_Insight_of_Sri_Narayanas_Solitude_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
The thoughts “I have not realised – is a hindrance. The thought “I am Narayana or I AM – sanyasi, loved, holy and free!” : All are bunkum, delusions and veils, : I –veils and ego-deceptions – Wu. Our Sunya-Silence was solicited and we were to have gone South alone together, when in the last moment, (all fares paid) Sri Narayana vanished into his own Solitude, body-death and Swadarshan. Wu! There’s no death of the Real, all is well. Sin is behovely : Simultaneous ignorance, unawareness, veiling and ego death all are behovely and ALL IS WELL.
A TREE HOME – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/128805557/A_TREE_HOME_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
We are at Hari-dwar (God’s gate) and beyond the limpid water of the holy Mother Ganges we see the Himalayan paradice in steep and regal splendour. There the Gods dwell in unsullied vastness and pure harmonies, and from there they send forth their cooling breath and their swift flowing “Ganga Mai” to their earth-bound children.
At Haridwar is the beginning of one of the 5 ancient roads that lead into Heaven, and so, for thousands of years and from millions of hearts, these hills have heard the glad pilgrim song from aspiring human souls. Pilgrims of Eternity we all are, each in his own rhythm yearning for Home, for the Kingdom of Harmony within -, for the pure consciousness or simple awareness that transcend ego-will and passes intellect. Steep and narrow is the Way, hot and dusty the ascent, and so it is well to have – wings-.
Time here seems to flow as softly as the words of lovers, and as swiftly as the rafts on the lovely river Ganges, in and on which we have lived richly during the past two months, or is it years? Time and other divisions seems unreal when Beauty speaks, and when we live and move in synthetic and intuitive awareness.
We begin to wonder if we are already in eternity, whether Paradice is on this side of Haridwar or beyond? But really Heaven – like God – is everywhere and nowhere, within, around and beyond, ad is ours if we are an open for our self, and see un-cravingly. Awareness is all. William Blake sings: “He who takes to himself a joy, doth its winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies – lives in Eternity’s Sunrise.” So let us live There safely, here and now.
Did you ever live in a tree?
Do try! A tree is fascinating home, at least we find it so here on this tiny island, with cool winds and Mother Ganges swiftly flowing all around and underneath our nest.
A real nest at least! Fancy a natural home, all alive in the soft breeze, alive in line, in sound and in the changing lights of the shine and shade. If we are very still we can surely hear the heart-beat of the home the pulsating rhythm of the sap.
So stiffness or stuffiness is here, no dust or sediments, no tiresome straight lines – so abhorred by nature and by her living children. Often we have planned rooms with no corners and with flexible or plastic walls, and lo! now our walls and loft are natural, transparent and moving. They give shade, and yet we can see through them and fully admire the colour-scheme, which is chiefly in greens, warm grey, silver and sky-blues, all light suffused and projected by the greatest of artist. Cosmic colours do not clash, they intone harmony.
Our home is free-hold, and we only had to take possession and let it possess us. No bargaining, no trying, no –fuss. We have light and running water, hot and cold, and the life-sustaining “Prana”, the quick, pure air, is all around. Also we have central heat and lovely unbounded jungle-garden, all free and gratis and for nothing – but- appreciation. All that we appreciate is really ours in a sense deeper than that of possession and legality. “Of little worth is all that hath its price” said Nietzsche, and truly, he greatest things – and people in life are simple and priceless. They belong to life – to us all. Awareness is all.
What life-beauty we have in the undisguised human form and in all natural, sine-sere and simple things! How many wonderful shades or tones in stones and in trees! All stones are precious to those who feel their rhythm and hear their life-tone. The hues and movement of animals, birds and insects, the living response of plants and trees, the graining of natural-coloured wood, the yellow chords of reeds and bull –rushes we have it all on this river-bank, before our many-windowed, free-hold home. Even the bright-hued flowers never clash or shrick in nearness. Untamed mature, like cultured beings, intones harmony and is therefore soothing, healing and unifying to our divided consciousness, our emotional fever and our mental fret. Nature, like maturity finds in various fields of life a radiant, unifying concept, and no doubt the great Life-Architect and Artist in Forms I mature and aware. Life can be so very simple seen in synthetic perception and intuitive awareness: so simple to know, so different to understand and limpidly clear is our Gange Mai, as she issues in almost prestine beauty from God’s gate and speeds in wide serves among wooded slopes towards the sun-scorched plains – to fertilize and fructive them and thus nourish her children, the teeming multitudes of India. This holies of rivers sees still to be charged with the purity and the sure, clear peace of her source: the strong, calm hermit peaks on the roof of the world.
Blessings flow from that high heaven, but paradics is also at this side of the gate, not only as a reality here and now, a condition of consciousness, but also as an actuality and a realm in time and space. Clever folks say that it was at the wedding of Euphrates and Tigris, but a Viking-Pilgrim and a simple fool seem to have stumbled into it in the bosom of Ganga Mai and this is good to know for the true believers : when our fat souls grow wings, we can make a bee-line for it and can here become refreshed and renewed for our trials and our duty complexes. In the cosmic melodies issuing from the eaolian harps in untamed nature and in soul-culture we can become unified, central and whole. We can hear the silence – beyond and in the Word – made flesh.
Although we found it on the first day of our exploration here, this paradice is really one of these “Impossible” places that are well protected from lazy legs and fat souls. The approach is very steep, and on both sides of the river and jungles and jungle-life in briars, trees and flowering shrubs, all winging in untamed beauty. Nature here is the best gardener, and so Adam and other amateurs can rest in her instead for battling against her. The best way of approach to paradice is naturally by flying – or by swimming, and when at last, you get here, behold a lovely cove with a sandy beach among willow-trees and wooded slopes which sing like those that frame the river Dart in Devon. Flowers, fragrant herbs and untamed berries grow in shady nooks and on sunny brinks. There are dells and caves and rippling water, and then, of course, the Island of the smaller of which lives a lovely young snake, who is licking sunshine and eating dust quite freely and harmlessly, as there is no Eve to tears. We are good neighbours and he wags his tongue at us silently as to the sun – in a kind of living worth-ship and “Joie de vivre”.
The larger island possesses us, and sometimes a few of the elder and the youth from Gurukul University, who can be silent yet surprised. And then, of course, you are here. All one friends, all we have realm seem (and to really see is to love) live with us in paradice, make music-harmonies in our consciousness lightening our awareness of around and within, and helping us to Be and smile, the Smile of in real Life-correspondence. We are large, we are multitudes.”
Our isle was formed in an ancient landslide and it consists chalk of a huge willow-tree, which has been chopped low and has again reduced bushily to the urge of life. In its centre, 6 feet above the murmuring mother, : a veritable nest, quite a leafy hall, floored with turf drift-wood, which has been deposited here in the rains, when the holy water of Gange Mai swells and rises. In the home is sample and comfortable for three ordinary-sized humans, and there is plenty of space on tree branches for overflow meetings. Some of the teachers and Brahman students like to come here and fee free in Nature. Beautiful and other souls many of them are, and we teach these souls to fly, or, concise the wings in rich solitude. Lonely we cannot be in nature; we are open and in touch.
In the nest is cool freshness and green-shade. No walls or we shutter shut us in or out from life. The shades are alive and we go through them over the wide glittering stream to the opposite wooded and flowery banks. North-wards, up-river, we see the temple-crowned Haridwar and the heaven – soaring Himalaya. We can listen mutely to natures many hued and very-formed life-play, and we do not deplore the absence of flies and mosquitoes, who love our sensitive skin, but not the cool clearness – ant the breath over the waters.
The largest beasts of prey on our isle are some friendly, big and busy black ants, who remind us of an aunt of ours in her Sunday-best, close fitting black. She seemed always to be fussily dusting things, and she also gave her tongye but little rest. We wonder if she is now fretting, subtly bullying and at war with dust in a heaven different from ours here – or has dust conquered?
You might tell the prim and prened Madame S. of our patent way of saving the wear and tear of clothes in heaven. We take them off, fold them neatly and methodically, and put them safely by. Then we just simply live: Be and let them be. Sometimes the disguise of clother hinders us, shuts us off or in from the free contact with life in unadorned, yet marvelously fitting nature. Yet, if some of us did not disguise our at times protruding tummies, we and nature might at first feel sad at such unbeautiful sight of flabby deformity. But then if we really see, really love the life in any form, we see also the form as right and lovable. We accept in a sense, that is far deeper than that of submittance, and putting up with. All is forgiven, and it seems strange not to forgive and not to rejoice. Nay, all is loved, even the abused and flabby tools. Anyhow, nakedness makes us free and fitting in Paradice, and after a brief while we regain our wholeness as before the fall into sin-complexes, ego-cravings and divided consciousness.
And we no longer see that we are naked.
If the body becomes soiled or dry there is always the patient mother below. The cooling Paradice-stream will clean our skin and quench our thirst, and is not our natural leather-dress the most expressive of our Self! The most beautiful besides being the cheapest and the best fitting? It renews itself without fuss and does not often evoke envy or jelousies. It must be our depraved sense of Beauty, our diseased mentality, which makes us unnaturally (prettily or uglily) cover up anything. So fussily and tryingly we try to improve Nature’s Life’s and God’s fit and organic expression of Beauty. In Paradice at least there is no earthly reason for covering any of our godly tools. In truth nothing is ugly, indecent and unnecessary.
So for the Time being we live in this Eternity, and, as a contrast to 6 months of rich contacts in cities and civilizations, we enjoy the naturalness of nature and the ease of culture. In some way we seem even to exceed our Indian Brothers in simplicity. “Back to Nature”! is it retrogression and mere sensuousness? We feel it well to be able to go to heaven and to hell and everywhere between, and there feel our kinship with all or with the One Life in all. The apparent divisions and distinctions such as high and low, good and evil, East and West, involution and evolution, male and female – all fade in the light of a wider synthesis. They are true, but not true enough: that which unites, comprises and uses is truer.
Some places, like some fellow-pilgrims seem to be open, to fit in and to recognize us naturally and accepts simply. Nature here seems to have accepted us uncritically with the other beasts and Birds, and like these and the angels (Devas) we live naturally, freely, except for the wings and the inevitable Gandhi –cap which still must protect a Viking head from the suns too powerful radiance and from the infra-red and ultra-violet rays.
Perfect peace reigns on our isle. “Unbroken perfection is over all”, as our saints and poets well know in direct perception and in heightened consciousness. “The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about our ears, and sometimes voices –.”
So the boys quote to us from Sahkespears most mature play “The Tempest”, and we tell them about the suffering of a sea-change (or is it see-change) into something rich and strange, into life or God-Awareness. The boys and teachers naturally “hate” the English and the English language, or they think they do. We suggest that to hate is adolescent and, really, the sensitive youths are susceptible to the beauty of rhythm and the fitness of Shakespeare English, although we naturally cannot become organically aware of the inner melody and mystic, organic fitness of any language unless we can think and feel and naturally live in its rhythm.
We suppose to learn Hindi, and the boys like to come chatter, but we know well the futility of any word-language as a medium of real expression and real intercourse. Look into the eyes of a fellow-pilgrim, see his smile and listen clearly to the quality of his Silence, and you will know more of him than miles and miles of his words will tell. There is something more wonderful containing within one man, than in all the book on earth. Each face tells a divine story, each body is more eloquent than words and silvery speeches, finer than heard melodies.
Nearly always we feel accepted by nature here and by the “native” men and boys who in the afternoon come swinging or floating (on rafts) down-stream, and some of which will occasionally rest their glittering, sun-kissed bodies on the isle and wag their tongues for a while in banter and life-play. How beautiful is not the natural undisguised body in play of light and lines and in free movements in unadorned nature! Why do we hide and disguise it, except in cities and in civilizations where its beauty feels wrong – to the mind and the ego-consciousness . Beautiful are all free and natural things in nature, a fit expression of the life that inform them.
Our isle is quite fit for ariels and other winged beings, and on the opposite banks are Calibans in forms of langurs and monkeys, who laugh and fight and play in the trees and bushes, but do not swim across and invade our isle and our river-brink. Here are no monkey-homes, but thousands of butterflies and richly, hued insects, water-fowls and air-birds. When we keep quite still and listen with our whole being, we can hear them talk freely among themselves, about their feels and fancies. What organic play! How expressive and revealing their beings rhythm! What fascinating language and games they know, and what gorgeous colours some of them have chosen! The King-fisher is here, the many-eyed Pea-cock and the small, brilliant Sun-bird; the golden Rani, the longtailed Himalaya Magpie and the inconspicuous Chul-chul (Nightingale) which seem to have all its riches within and to express it in “full-throated ease”. How eloquently, livingly and off times mutely everything speaks, could we but be open, free of ego and egos, to hear the word which was even in the endless “Beginning”.
When our isle and its setting are so alive with music, so festive in colours, changing lights and life-movements, it is no wonder that we dispense with evening-meals. Food and food-thoughts do eat up much of our time, much of our life. Our wants are complex and many while our needs are simple and few. Don’t you find harmony richly nourishing? Even the word is related to health and wholeness, and in its rhythm we can almost hear the Word – and see God – beyond ego and beyond trying.
Do you love untamed strawberries and Ganges water? Some birds do and by our isle are also rhasberries and figs of which seven leaves-full have just been consumed by seven uninvied, welcome guests. “Next door” is another fig-tree which is not cursed in a temper, like the one in Judaea, but laden, weighed down in the water, by its fruits which are tiny like black goose-berries, but sweet and good for the tommy. We are reminded of David H.Lawrence – his sexy fig-tree and his advise “stick our your tommy and be proud of your solar-plexus.”
Proud and richly sensitive David! We cannot read him here, only love him. He belongs to civilization, though he hated its deadening grip and tried to escape and go – beyond-, but the wrong way, to the pre-mental instead of the intuitive realm. True but not true enough. “Pis aller, pis aller”.
You would love the voice or Gunga Mai as she is now softly chattering to the drooping willow-branches. How sweet and cool and pure her breath! How many and large her fishes! From our vantage-nest above the clear, softly flowing stream we might learn also the language of the fishes, their Beings rhythm. Stillness is the key: passive positivity and open receptivity, a feeling and sensing beyond thought and certainly beyond our kind of mentality. Intuitively and vibration-ally we can know- David H.Lawrence said:
“I have been a tree within a wood,
and many a new thing understood,
which was rank folly to me before –”
Mental knowledge is not living knowledge and often it bars and blinkers our intuitive awareness. If we have not found the Centre and do not know our Self livingly we are naturally fearful of losing our ego. It is the Self-identification, the becoming and, for the time, Being our Self in that other form, which constitutes living knowledge. But we are fearful of getting out of our skin, out of our prejudices, ideals and mental conceptions and our interpretations of our experiences. Could we but realize our experiences and so live them. We talk too much in mere words. When we know with our whole being, our whole consciousness, then we no longer believe but live – our Dharma.
At times large bamboo-rafts come floating down streams with dusky bodies and songs, which all reminds us of the mental and emotional pictures produced by childhoods tales of Red-Indians. But these Indian brothers are but deeply bronzed and quite harmless to a pinko-grey viking in a tree nest. They sing and shout, honouring us with the name of their uncrowned emperor- : Mahatma Gandhi -, not so much because they are pre-mentally clearvoyant and can read our greatness by the hues of our aura but they are amazed to see a Saheb wearing the prison-cap and being equal with the lowest”.
Crickets, chikales and frogs also sing among mango, banana and lokat-trees, and the Chul-Chul’s notes are accompanied by the rhythmic beasts on tom-toms and by religious chant from distant villages. The Himalayan peaks look down from their serene heights in clam acceptance-;
Sometimes they seem but a few yards away and sometimes miles distant, like God in our awareness. Every day, aye every hour, they change in fascinating aspects of beauty in colour, line and mood yet ever they remain the same.
Eloquently – mutely they speak.
(Emanuel)
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
(original paper of this article are in very bad shape)
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’
and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
5 Ancient roads to heaven – In Hindu mythology, Ravana, the king of Lanka, is said to have worshipped Lord Shiva for many years to achieve immortality. Lord Shiva agreed to grant his wish, but with the condition that Ravana build five staircases to heaven. The First Staircase (Pauri): The first staircase (Har ki Pauri) was built in Haridwar, hence the legend associates this location with the beginning of the five pathways to heaven. The Other Four: The other four staircases were said to be built at various locations, including Shiv Mandir Pauri Wala, Chudeshwar Mahadev, and in Kailash. The Unfinished Task: Ravana failed to complete the fifth staircase before dawn, depriving himself of immortality.
Aeolian harp – An Aeolian harp,- or wind harp, is a stringed musical instrument played by the wind, named after the Greek god of the winds, Aeolus.
Ariels – Ariel is a spirit who appears in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. the leader of the angelic host of God. He is also known as the “Lion of God” and is associated with the protection of Jerusalem. In the Bible, “Ariel” appears as a name for Jerusalem in Isaiah 29:1-2, 7, and also as a name for one of the “chief men” summoned by Ezra in Ezra 8:16.
Aye -means yes; used in some dialects of British English.
Bee-line – A bee line is an idiom for the shortest route or a straight line between two points (see “as the crow flies”).
Blake’s – William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. The Wild Flower’s Song” captures the dichotomy between the natural world’s serenity and the harsh realities of life.
Brahaman – Brahmin,Varna and caste are one of the four castes of India. Brahmins are considered the highest caste in Hindu society. The traditional occupations of Brahmins include teaching, performing yajnas, and priestly duties.
Bushily – describes something that is thick, shaggy, or resembles the dense growth of bushes.
Calibans – is a wild, sadistic, deformed creature in Shakespeare’s The Tempest .
Clearvoyant- clairvoyant – sixth sense a person who some people believe has special mental powers and can see what will happen in the future
Dart – The River Dart is a river in Devon, England, that rises high on Dartmoor and flows for 75 kilometres (47 miles) to the sea at Dartmouth.
D.H. Lawrence (1885- 1930, Vence, France was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century.
Deavas – In Hinduism, “Deva” (Sanskrit for “deity” or “god”) refers to celestial beings, often associated with the forces of nature and representing good and righteousness.
Dharma – Being Law and Rightness – the basic principle of divine law in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism; a code of proper conduct conforming to one’s duty and nature
Fructive – This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the Middle English period (1150—1500), bearing fruit in abundance
Gandhi Cap – is a white sidecap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band . It is made out of khadi. It is named after the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi , who created it and first popularized its use during the Indian independence movement. Commonly worn by Indian independence activists, the crown became a symbolic tradition for politicians and political activists in independent India to wear.
Ganga Mai – (Gunge/Gange/Ganges) In Hinduism, the Ganges river is considered sacred and is believed to flow through heaven, earth, and the netherworld. Because of this, the Ganges is known as the “Three Path River” or Tripathaga. The three worlds Heaven: Also known as Swarga, this is the abode of the gods Earth: Also known as Prithvi, this is the world where humans live Netherworld: Also known as Patala, this is where the ashes of the dead are believed to go. Devotees believe that bathing in the Ganges washes away sins and helps achieve Moksha, or liberation from the cycle of life and death. The Ganga flows 2,525 km from Gaumukh glacier to the Bay of Bengal at Gangasagar.
Golden Rani – The gold-billed magpie, also known as the yellow-billed blue magpie, is a striking bird in the Himalayan region.
Gurukul University – Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University) was founded on March 4, 1902 by Swami Shraddhanandaji with the sole aim to revive the ancient Indian Gurukula System of education . The gurukula (“guru’s family”) system of education, in which a pupil, after his initiation, lives in the house of his guru, or teacher, and studies the Veda and other subjects under his guru’s guidance.
Haridwar – is known as ‘The Gateway to God’, or ‘the Gateway to Heaven’ located in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. City. It is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus and is a major pilgrimage centre. It has been known by many names; originally it was called Kapila, for the sage who once lived there. Its present name means “Door to Hari”; Hari is one of the names of Vishnu, a principal deity of Hinduism.
Himalaya – mountains in southern Asia on the border between India and Tibet and in Kashmir, Nepal, and Bhutan
Jelousies – is a Middle English noun form of Jealousies
Joie de vivre – literally means “joy of living” in French
Judea – Today, the area formerly known as Judea is largely referred to as the West Bank by the international community, while the Israeli government uses the term “Judea and Samaria”. Judea was an ancient region in the Levant, encompassing the area around present-day Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Langur – Grey langur or Hanuman langur, whose scientific name is Semnopithecus, is a biological genus of langurs found in the Indian subcontinent. A type of medium-sized monkey with a long tail that lives in Asia
Lokat – The loquat is a large evergreen shrub or tree grown commercially for its orange fruit.
Madame S. – Brand name of clothes
Mahatma Gandhi – (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country. Gandhi is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political and social progress.
Nietzsche Friedrich (1844-1900)- was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead,” in a way that determined the agenda for many of Europe’s most-celebrated intellectuals after his death.
Paradice – (paradise)
Pis aller – is a French phrase that means “a last resort” or “a stopgap”. It can also mean “a means to an end
Prana – is seen as a universal energy which flows in currents in and around the body
Prestine (pristine) – extremely fresh and clean
Rhasberries- berries/Rasbhari are rich in antioxidants such as vitamin C and polyphenols. These antioxidants help neutralize harmful free radicals in the body, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation . Consuming Golden berries/Rasbhari regularly may help protect against chronic diseases and promote overall health.
Sahib – is a respectful form of address, primarily used in the Indian subcontinent, that translates to “sir” or “master” in English.
Twangling instruments – The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Ugiliy – Uglily” is not a standard word in the English language, and it’s more common to say “in an ugly way” .
Wedding” of the Euphrates and Tigris – rivers refers to their confluence, where they merge to form the Shatt al-Arab river in southeastern Iraq.
William Shakespeare – (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
Viking- The term ” Dane ” commonly refers to Vikings from Denmark, while “Norse” commonly refers to Vikings from Norway.
https://www.academia.edu/128670793/I_LIVE_IN_A_TREE_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
In our paper, we explore the intriguing interplay between fear, intuition, and the symbolic presence of snakes in our lives. We invite you to reflect on how falls and failures can lead to growth, and how embracing our ‘wings’ can help us navigate the complexities of existence. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
I LIVE IN A TREE – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai)
Yesterday we paid a surprise visit to the other trees and to the monkeys who live on the opposite river-bank from where much beauty and often many strange voices vibrate to our tree-home in the jungle near Haridwar. The monkey received us wistfully, diffidently and rather disdainfully.
What queer monkey-faces they have! Like those of miniature old, old men and women without wrinkles; but with it so serious, yet detached and suspicious men, which seem to say “What are now those queer creatures up to? We do not approve of their rhythm and vibrations, but we are secure on our own, and can always escape; still we must watch their tricks and antics. They are funnily gaunt and stiff and clumsy, what pitiful impediments! But then they are only human!
Often monkey families are like herds of pigmy-inmates of a mental home. They seem to lack some of our faculties and to have developed or retained others which we have lost. They may live in a David H.Lawrenece’ lovely paradice(paradise), the pre-mental world, with rich organic blood-knowledge and psychic sensibilities. Their minds seem to be working a little differently from ours, and like many mature people who have true instincts and swift, clean reactions, the monkeys seem to sense us through their whole body rather than to see us with their eyes.
From a safe distance they look at us mutely, through eyes and bodies which send wave after wave of animosity and suspicion. And no wonder that they distrust the human species, the civilizers and progressers, who can look so gently and harmless in their disguises, but whose deeds prove them to be vandals and vile destructors of forest-homes, more depraved than tigers, more dangerous than serpents, kites and scorpions, more mental-
So the apes in untamed nature look at us sadly, surly and mischievously. Can’t you hear them mutter: “Confound these human apes! How clumsily they move in our realm! How stiffly they strut and act! But then, they are only Human, only temporary. We can afford to ignore and to bear patiently their irksome presence.”
The young monkeys are more open and acceptant and no doubt, more care-free, and what dear ducky: darlings the tiny baby apes are, as they climb and swing in the trees with unpracticed and yet agile limbs, or when they take shelter and safe transport under mama’s tommy.
How they ape one another in sympathy or in reflex action! They are organically at home in nature ( a unitive part of her) and they seem to have a sense of humour, or at least a joy in life-movements, as they play and laugh on or under the branches, just like our small human monkey boys would if they were blessed with such perfect command over their bodies, such agility and such long tails.
Yes, trees are lovely homes and friends to the life that is open and can respond. They are lovely in variety and in interblending music, like our jungle here, lovely in the aggregate as universal music and cosmic colour-tones, but also as single individual trees, each vibrating its own language in organic beings rhythm, fulfilling its Dharma in lone grandour(grandeur), like the mighty Persian Chinars in Kashmir, the Banyan and Bo-tree; our monarks(monarchs) of the Himalayan forest; the Pines and Cedar- “Deodar” – aye a fittings name – Deodhar -: the gift of God.
And those huge individual Oaks in Devon are so strong and regal, so livingly assured in their spacious setting, so perfect in symetry(symmetry) and harmonious expression. They would not be able to reveal themselves in such perfection if they were not alone -, free to contact the source and the life-breath. They are in touch and so can possess their soul in patience and in peace. Without promptings and pressings, without waiting or enthusing, they accept in passive positivity, Life’ gift, and transmute it into organic strength and simple dignity. They do not try to give. Their lips are in their lives. They simply are, sing and smile and radiate in their Being’s true rhythm. How calmly and simply they breath, how organically they know.
But we also love clusters in large woods, when they play in quartets or symphonies or vibrate in a wind of community-singling. We can still hear the Cavatina-music in the courage and hues of a Devonshire wood seen from above; and the silent vibrations within a young Oakwood are filled in rich mystic harmonies, like the inside of Exeter Cathedral. In the Danish Beachwood we have more the pure gothic soaring of Cologne Cathedral, and in the “Land of the thousand lakes” is the somber mystic singing and roaring that may subdue into serene joyousness and dynamic peace.
Each tree and each family of trees play its own tone, its own Dharmic life-melody. Be at home in the midst of any natural trees or group of trees’ branches; listen or at least be passively receptive, and look through the leafy lungs and see what pattern this particular tree makes of heaven. Then listen from the centre, become the tree ! Feel the pulse of the life rhythm, sense it very stilly and clearly, free of the bars and veils of ego-identity. Fear and ego have no place in this consummation.
The sight, the song, the feel and meaning are different in each two live trees or clusters of trees, as they are in each human form and in each nation, beautifully different. If we are free of the bars of ego-values and false self-identification, the life in trees, as in other forms, come out to us in glad recognition (cannot help it when it recognizes itself), and we know the forms as life-vibrations more than as forms. We know them livingly, with our whole consciousness and not merely visually, mentally and learnedly. Or we can enter them, be at home and free everywhere for there are real divisions or barriers except in the realm of ego consciousness (which itself is unreal). The death of ego is the death of death.
Do you remember the rhythm of the isolates, somber firs in Norway, gnarled, weather-beaten and undaunted individuals like the field and its folks. And their light and leap in a spring-day yearning and wondering: what loveliness can there be beyond the grey shadowy fields; and the birches of Sweden, how gracefully stately and festive, like the Swedish language. The huge plans-trees at Sunbury; temples and bird: sanctuaries and yet reserved in their vastness, as if preserving and guarding their secret treasure.
The chestnut language by Hampton Court, tamed no doubt, but still fair in the flood-light of millions of living candles-unfolding blossoms. Yet that is not the real light. Few of us see more than the external and obvious beauty and meaning in them or in anything. How few can attain steadily to the awareness of no-thing-ness , the rich, blissful Nirvana-life that is here and now, beyond divisions, age and ego.
A Swiss cherry orchard was tamed also, but still immaculate in bridal blossoming, a whole mountain-side white like our Himalayan snow against the deep-blue boundless heaven. There were wolly clouds above at times, and a soft-white carpet below, but the Swiss pleasant seemed only to see ripe cherries and from his bullying we soared higher up to Montana, where among, messy, snow-laden fir-trees, we met the transfigured K.M. She had paid the price which David (H.Lawrence) could not pay until his body also had to go.
We spoke to her of her mystic Pea tree, which even in obvious perfection is saddening and painful to egos, and we spoke of her powerful, vivid Alo, but the she only smiled mutely and serenely and looked at the snow laden fir-tree is joy which seemed to twinkle: “Unbroken perfection is over and in all. We know it livingly when we awaken into wholeness. Awareness is all”. And the fir-trees were lovely in stately wholeness crowned by their pure shroud.
The moss, soft as velvet on the path, was also hanging fine and soft and garland-like from the snow-laden arms veils filled with snowy stardust. And, oh, wonder! Do you still respond to the music of the Black Forest, or the Cedars of Lebanon? The Cypresses of Greece, and the Rushes by the Nile? How strangely lovely their sighing and singing! The Teak-wood in Burma, the Bamboos and Palms of Ceylon, ah, the singing is endless, nowhere so lovely as in a willow tree in the holy Ganga Mai, where we are quite near into at least 3 different heavens.
There in India we seem to have an infinite variety of tree-species, and we have talked to many and know their songs though not their names. Some clusters of untamed trees are now ablaze in vivid tones around us, yellow, purple, amber and carmine. These songs, just now, are loud and obviously strikingly beautiful, and if it were not cosmic colour-tones, they would easily be blatant. But they are short lived and really a disease-cry in the flood-tide of blossoming, a part of the trees Annual symphony. We must listen and see again and again at various seasons in order to know the –whole likewise with people and places.
We have slept in the cented(scented) Sandal –wood and in the shade of the holy Banyan-tree whose roots come down from their arms. With graceful Tamarinds and with soaring Pines have we communed, and we dwell among constant companions of fragrant Mimosa, Rhododendron-woods and stately Deodars. There are luxurious, tropical jungles in the Sikkim valleys. Even much of the lower Himalaya is still happily uncivilized. We are today by an ever quivering Bo-tree, a descendent of the one under whose projecting arms Gautama Buddha and other mature souls attained ego-illumination – the living knowledge of the Self.
Aye, and innumerable other trees are here, of which we fortunately do not know the name-self; if we were not alone (free) we could not be in consummation with the life in life in trees and in other forms, and if we had a Botanical mind or the company of an overflowing mental person, the trees would simply shut up or shut themselves in. The shutters would come down in self defense (for trees have un-human sensibilities and manners) and we would see the form, perceive the details through our physical eyes, and not know the whole through the intuitive single eye, which makes us see the body as light-vibrations. A learned mental companion or a gushing emotional one enthusing: “Is not that lovely?” would bar our entrance into the awareness of the Tree as light and life-expression. At least its song and its meaning would hardly be hired for noise, for ego-sediments and for names, names which are given to things temporarily and conveniently, by egos and which have nothing or very little to do with realities, with the song of life within and around us: the song of the pilgrim-soul and he silent song of the Self.
In the monkeys homes yesterday we met group of trees who talked to the heavens in a language much akin to that of the Danish Beaches, only their skin were different and tazzels(tassels) were hanging from their arms, softly rattling the seeds in accompaniment to the unheard melodies.
But specially(especially) the rhythm of two contrasting songs fascinated us for hours, until they became complimentary, rounding a whole. Two groups of trees were singing closely together and intermingling, like life and death. Death was solemn and somber but beautiful in rhythm and full of virtue. Its young branches are being used as natural tooth-brushes, whenever they grow in India, and have medicinal properties. The seeds are good glue, and the flowers also are reputed to be virtuous, but the feeling in the bosom of these Kikker-trees is a at first clammy, stark, barren and even frigid. Their touch and emanation seem queer, uncanny, almost repulsive and sickly. The trees seemed dead or at least unresponsive, self Absorbed. The skin on bodies arms was dark brown, blackened, cracked, shredded and torn, as if it had been scorched by fire or was a shocked, sensitive Mimosa, and was so fine that even the winds refused to play with it. It gave hardly any shade. No movements were heard and no melodies, but a somber brooding and a still, singing inwardness were felt. A soothing beauty, when we know it as a part of life; and when we know to make a good death (in life) we will not grieve for anybody’s death. “The Truth shall make you free.”
But what striking background and seeming contrast those Kikker-trees were to the close by : slender soaring Eucalyptus-trees, all grace and light and soft movements. Do any trees in the world sing life – songs more clearly than those we heard yesterday in a Eucalyptus-wood by Gunge(Ganga) Mai. Lovelier it is than that of the huge Chenars (Chinars) and flaming Silver poplars by the lotus-lakes in the fair vale(valley) of Kashmir, fairer in grace and in living joyousness.
The outer bark of the trees seemed completely shed, as if to dispense with any disguise and to be naked, free and sine-sere in life. Some trunks were finely veined like marble, but shining with the smile and the sheen of vibrant life, not so whitely as the Silver Birches, but softly warmly, and clearly like the marble body of Taj Mahal, a huge a life-warmth which make them look and feel like human bodies moving in soft, elastic rhythm from top to earth. But more smooth and firm than hyman(hymen) trunked and limbs the Eucalyptus-trees soar in lofty slender grace before the arms and lungs reach cut in prayer or in life-embracing beauty.
Swaying, light-suffused joy-emitting column of life, with foliage quivering with rich beauty of feeling, form and scent Yes, today we give the prize to the Tree of Life.
To-morrow we may give it graciously to the tree of somber knowledge. Each man is both, did he but know, all trees are planted and fostered and laid low by a mature gardener. All are artists in life being used.
Another snake made its appearance in our paradice(paradise) this morning. Probably the mother or grandmother of our young friend and constant neigbhour, She was four or five times larger than he, but not obviously beautiful, having passed the outer bloom of youth and being robbed in rather uniform dull, steel-grey.
While she was peacefully drinking sunshine and water on our beach, she did it untryingly, making an impression on our mind, that is so susceptible to feminine beauty, but it was not “love at first sight”. We were impressed by her bulk, but did not like the look in her one eye, as she, sensing our movements above, made a swift plunge into the water. Perhaps it was the look of fear, always so pitiful and pathetic in animals. But what strength and agility, flexibility and control in such a long and legless body! What marvelous swiftness in vanishing, tricks a rustle, a streek, a plump and perfect silence.
Don’t you feel that young Jehova lost his temper when he cursed the snake for his success, and Mother Eve for hers? Falls are necessary if we are to learn the use of legs or of intuitive wings. But now, for the rest of the day, we may see snakes everywhere in a reflective snake-complex. They will nearly all be imaginary ones, though snake-families do take more to open-air life now in the heat. Gangaji is attractively cool and our airy or tree-home also, but we feel safe here, and on approaching home we rustle or flap our wings, so as to give the darling serpents fair warning before we tread upon them. They do not do well but they hear and sense that this home is already occupied, and the tree tells. O, life would be dangerous without wings and living charms, but even without them Vikings must live fearlessly. “Prudence is the deadly sin”, cried before so doubting Thomas. It is so, at least in Paradice(paradise), where we can dispence(dispense) with the civilized God: Time, and also with the Traffic-sign of Safety First.
(sd) Alfred Sorensen
Almora, U.P.
India
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
Aye -means yes; used in some dialects of British English.
Alo – Hello
Bamboo and palm trees in Ceylon- are both prominent in Sri Lanka, which was formerly known as Ceylon Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon
Birches of Sweden – The most common birch trees in Sweden are silver birch (Betula pendula) and downy birch (Betula pubescens). The Ornäs birch (Betula pendula ‘Dalecarlica’) is a variety of silver birch that’s the national tree of Sweden.
Black Forest – the Black Forest, called Schwarzwald in German , is located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany.
Bo Tree- The Bodhi Tree is a sacred fig tree in Bodh Gaya, India, where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment. It’s also known as the Tree of Awakening
Burma teak wood – Brmese teak is often considered a premium hardwood and commands a higher price due to its superior quality and limited availability Burma – was part of the British Empire of India for a time. Burma was separated from India in 1937 and became an independent country in 1948. Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also rendered as Burma is a country in northwest Southeast Asia
Cavatina music- a short, simple solo song or melody that is usually part of a larger composition, such as an opera or oratorio.
Cedar – The deodar cedar is native to the Himalayas, where its local name is deodar, which translates from the original Sanskrit as “timber of the gods”.
Cedar of Lebanon- a true highlander of the tree world, that stands between 1,300 and 3,000 meters in elevation and can grow to be 40-60 feet tall!
Chestnut Language- Hampton Court – here are multiple matches for chestnut language by Hampton Court, including Chestnut Avenue, Chestnut Sunday, and Chestnut Time. Hampton Court – usually refers to Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Chinar – The chinar tree (Platanus orientalis) is a symbol of Kashmir and is found throughout the Kashmir Valley. It’s a long-living tree that’s been an important part of Kashmiri culture for ages.
Chinar (Persian) – “Chinar” meaning “what a fire” in Persian, was named by Mughal Emperor Jahangir. It remains a cherished motif for craftsmen in Jammu and Kashmir. It refers to the tree’s striking orange-red color in the fall. The chinar tree is known for its size, longevity, and vibrant colors. It’s also a symbol of life and eternity.
Cologne Cathedral – a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is famous for its stunning Gothic architecture, impressive size, and long construction history spanning over six centuries, culminating in its completion in 1880. It is Germany’s most visited landmark, attracting an average of 6 million people a year
Cypresses of Greece – The cypress tree appears in the Bible in many passages, including in the books of Isaiah, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Song of Solomon. The cypress is often mentioned in the context of construction and craftsmanship, and it symbolizes strength and longevity.
The Mediterranean Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) is a prominent evergreen tree in Greece that’s linked to ancient myths and has many uses.
Danish beechwood – is a versatile hardwood that’s used for furniture, flooring, and other applications. The beech tree, Fagus sylvatica, is native to Denmark and is the country’s most common forest tree.
Danish Beaches – Denmark boasts a diverse coastline with numerous beaches, including popular spots like Marielyst Beach, Skagen, Løkken Beach, and Blåvand Beach, known for their wide sandy shores and natural beauty.
Deodhar – Deodar forests are made up of deodar cedar trees (Cedrus deodara), which are native to the western Himalayas.
Devon Oak – Devon, England has two native types of oak trees: the sessile oak and the English oak. Oak trees are known for their thick trunks, large branches, and leaves with rounded, rough, or smooth edges.
Devonshire wood- It refers to the woodlands in the county of Devon in southwestern England, in a variety of hues, including browns, grays, and reds.
D.H. Lawrence (1885- 1930, Vence, France was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century.
Dharma – Being Law and Rightness – the basic principle of divine law in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism; a code of proper conduct conforming to one’s duty and nature
Dharmic – religious or devout, is used for a person who believes and practices religion.
Doubting Thomas – “Doubting Thomas” is an idiom that describes someone who is skeptical and refuses to believe something without personal experience. It comes from the Bible story of the Apostle Thomas, who doubted Jesus’ resurrection until he saw Jesus’ wounds.
Exeter Cathedral- properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. This is the only example in Europe of a decorated Gothic building almost in its entirety apart from the two northern towers. It also boasts the longest, unbroken stretch of Gothic stone vaulting in the world.
Firs in Norway – Fir is a dominant tree species in some forests, and Norway spruce is a large, fast-growing evergreen conifer. The Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver fir (Abies alba), and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are important elements in forest management of Central European forests.
Ganga Mai – In Hinduism, the Ganges river is considered sacred and is believed to flow through heaven, earth, and the netherworld. Because of this, the Ganges is known as the “Three Path River” or Tripathaga. The three worlds Heaven: Also known as Swarga, this is the abode of the gods Earth: Also known as Prithvi, this is the world where humans live Netherworld: Also known as Patala, this is where the ashes of the dead are believed to go. Devotees believe that bathing in the Ganges washes away sins and helps achieve Moksha, or liberation from the cycle of life and death. The Ganga flows 2,525 km from Gaumukh glacier to the Bay of Bengal at Gangasagar.
Haridwar – city, northwestern Uttarakhand state, northern India. It is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus and is a major pilgrimage centre. It has been known by many names; originally it was called Kapila, for the sage who once lived there. Its present name means “Door to Hari”; Hari is one of the names of Vishnu, a principal deity of Hinduism.
Himalaya – mountains in southern Asia on the border between India and Tibet and in Kashmir, Nepal, and Bhutan
Jehova – Jehovah,The name of God in Judaism and the Bible. It is derived from the Hebrew word ‘Yahweh’ (יהוה). The name Jehovah is pronounced ‘YHWH’.
Kikker- Babul or Kikar is a tree of the Acacia species. It is a native tree of the African continent and the Indian subcontinent. Babul tree is called Desi Kikar in the local language. According to old beliefs, this tree is considered to be the abode of Lord Vishnu. This tree was worshipped in ancient times. Cutting this tree is considered a great sin.
Mimosa- mimosa, (genus Mimosa), large genus of plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to tropical and subtropical areas throughout both hemispheres.
Monarks(Morarch) – The Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus) is known as the “monarch of the high mountains”. It’s a pheasant native to the Himalayan forests and shrublands. The monal is the national bird of Nepal and the state bird of Uttarakhand, India.
Montana – Montana is a state in the western region of the United States. It is famous for its natural beauty, wildlife, and mineral resources. It’s also known as the “Treasure State”
Moss – is a small, non-vascular plant that grows in clumps or mats in damp or shady places. It’s a member of the plant division Bryophyta.
Mother Eve – In Genesis 3:20 she is named Eve, which literally translates to “mother of life.” She will carry life in her womb for 9 months. She will experience the pain, struggle, and work it takes to bring life into the world, and ultimately she will be one of the first women to feel the deep grief that comes with the loss of life
Nirvana – in Buddhism, the state of peace and happiness achieved after giving up personal desires
c soil of the Himalayas and into Southeast Asia to the mountains of New Guinea
Plants- tree at Sunbury – There are multiple matches for Sunbury and planting trees, including tree planting in Sunbury, Ohio, and a tree planting event in Sunbury, Victoria, Australia.
Rushed by the Nil – In the Bible, rushes by the Nile refer to the reeds that grew along the Nile River where Moses was hidden in a basket. The story of Moses in the bulrushes is told in the Book of Exodus. Nile – The ancient Egyptians thought that the Nile is the gift of the gods. The name Nile is derived from the Greek word Neilos (Latin: Nilus), which probably derives from the Semitic root word nahal, meaning valley or river ravine and hence, by extension of meaning, also a river flowering plants in the heath family, notable for their attractive flowers and handsome foliage. Rhododendrons are native chiefly in the north temperate zone, especially in the moist acidi
Rhododendron- (genus Rhododendron), diverse genus of about 1,000 species of woody
Siddhartha Gautam ¬- The Buddha who lived 2,600 years ago was not God. He was an ordinary man, whose name was Siddhartha Gautam. Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha touching the earth at the moment of enlightenment.
Sikkim Valley – The tropical ecoregion of Sikkim extends from the foothills of the Outer Himalayas to an elevation of about 1,200 meters. This area includes steep-sided valleys and gorges.
Swiss Cherry – Switzerland’s cherry orchards are located in the cantons of Zug, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau, St. Gallen, and Thurgau. The canton of Zug is known as “Switzerland’s cherry country”. And every second cherry eaten is sourced directly from Switzerland.
Taj Mahal – white marble mausoleum complex in Agra, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58) to immortalize his empress consort Mumtaz Mahal (“Beloved Ornament of the Palace”), who died in childbirth in 1631, having been the emperor’s inseparable companion since their marriage in 1612. One of India’s most iconic mausoleums, it is situated in the eastern part of the city on the southern (right) bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River.
Viking- The term ” Dane ” commonly refers to Vikings from Denmark, while “Norse” commonly refers to Vikings from Norway.
THE TOWER – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/128556798/THE_TOWER_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
Aloneness can be all-oneness. “Beats Solitude. Sole Beatitude” and (in Latin) “Called or uncalled God is here”, were inscribed above the portal of Dr. Carl Jung’s retiring room-, sanctuary and Hermitage. He had a love and a need of solitude and, in mature age, he designed and built himself a forest-retreat by the lake at Bollingen, or it built itself as a protective shield, or body, – around him and his inner, gnostic task or dharma. “At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life”, he writes. “Here I am most wholly and most deeply myself – and “ tire age –old son of the mother”. That is how alchemi puts it very wisely, for the “old man”, the ancient, whom I had already awared and experienced in my childhood, is personality no. 2, – who has always been and always will be. He exists outside time and is the son of the maternal unconsciousness. In musing (or ego-free contemplation), it took the form of philamon and he came to life again at Bollingen.
The feeling of repose and renewal that I had in this sanctuary was intense and from the start, it represented for me the maternal hearth-. Later-, in 1931, I felt the need for a room in the Tower, where I could exist for myself alone. I had in mind what I had seen in Indian houses, in which there is usually an area-, (though it may be only a corner of room, separated off by a curtain), to which the inhabitants can withdraw. There they may meditate or contemplate for perhaps a quarter or half an hour or practice Yoga or Puja. Such an area of retirement is essential in India, where people live crowded very close together, without privacy – and in a constant flux of movement of interruptions. Sadhuism is such inner withdrawal to Self – contemplation, Solitude and Silence.
In my retiring-room I am myself. I keep the key with me all the time. No one else is allowed in there except with my permission. No telephone, telegram, radio- television, news-papers – or so- called time-saving gadgets, interfere-.
“In the course of these years I have done paintings on the walls and so have expressed all those things, which have carried me out of time into the time-free. Thus the second tower became for me a place of integral contemplation and what William Blake would call ‘creative imagination’.
After my wife’s death in 1955 – I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. (To be consciously and integrally self-aware). But from the beginning I felt the Tower as a womb in which I could become, awarely-, what I was, what I am and will be. It gave me a feeling as if I were being reborn in stone. It is thus a consecration of the individuation process-, a memorial ‘acre percennisus’ to organic growth, or awakening into integral and conscious wholeness. During the building work, of course, I never considered these matters. I built the house in sections always following the concrete needs of the moment. It may also be said that I built it in a kind of dream. Only afterwards did I see how all the parts fitted together and that fitting and meaningful form had resulted-, a symbol of psychic wholeness.
I have done without electricity and tended the fire-place and store myself. Evening I light the oil-lamp. There is no running water and I pump water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple and ego-humble and starkly undisguised-, graceful as one is simple before God or Self. In Bolingen silence surrounds me almost audibly and I live “in modest harmony with nature” (title of an old Chinese Woodcut showing a little old man in a heroic landscape). Thoughts rise to the surface, which reach back to the centuries and accordingly anticipate the future. Here the torment of creation is lessened; creativity and play are close together” (in ego-free, self controlled spontaneity. Wu!)
On the stone-walls of his Tower Dr. Jung had carved sentences from the gonstic and the Egyptian Alchemists – and he had out-lined mandala-, and other magic symbols. “It is very interesting”, Miss Bailey told us after Jung’s passing. “I have helped Jung perform some rites there. In the morning, when he came into his little kitchen, pots and frying-pans. He told me I must also do so. “They aware and appreciate it” he said. Jung always used the same frying-pan and pots because they were his friends and he considered them old acquantenses with whom one could commence in the solitude of this sanctuary-retreat. For Jung all things are animated with their own life or with the life we transmit to them” (by the recognition of our-Self in this or the form and interplay). The mystic awares that “All that lives is holy? One integral wholeness, and all is alive-. Thus the reverence for all Life – and the Grace of Self-hood.
Jung’s sanctuary-tower was for him a symbol of wholeness-, oneness and Grace. Elsewhere in his superbly mature autobiography – the doctor of psyches states : “A characteristic of childhood is that, thanks to its naivety and un-ego-consciousness, it sketches a more complete picture of the Self-, of the integrally whole man in his pure individuality-, than adulthood. Consequently the sight of a child, or a primitive, will arouse certain longing in adult, civilized persons, longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality, which have been blotted out of the total picture in favour of the adopted -, civilized and respectable persona-masks” (egoji). There are vestiges of pre-ego consciousness, integral and pure. There are atavistic memories of wholeness and of Eternity -, Cosmic intimations of integral awareness. “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” – no doubt due and behovely – as dharmic experiences-. “Heaven lies about us in our infancy”. Yes but it is still Here – and now-. Only awaken ego-freely to Be- awarely. Wu!
Jung states: “Inner peace and contentment depend in large measure upon whether or not the historical family, which is inherited in the individual, can be harmonized with the ephemeral conditions of the present. In the tower at Bollingen it is as if one lived in many centuries simultaneously. The place will outlive me and , in its location and style, it points backwards to things of long ago-. There is very little about it that suggests the present. If the man of the sixteenth century were to move into the house, only the kerosene lamp and matches would be new to him; otherwise he would know his way about without difficulties. There is nothing to disturb the dead, neither electric light – nor telephone. More – over my ancestors’ souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the quest and the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the wall. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house. There I live in my second personality – or integral awareness-, and experience life in the round-, as something forever coming into being -, into forms and interplay, and then – passing on ….”.
Yes, doctor, says Wuji : ego-life – or “what ye call life” -, becomes and begos-. Forms and concepts change and pass-, but Life remains -, Self-radiant in all actual and phenomenal interplay and inter-dependence. Behold Shiva in the Jiva (ego –soul). Aware of the hermaphrodite Nataraja’s psychic dance of transmutation, in the cosmic heart cave, to the anandful rhythm of the mystic AUN, the word made flesh – and interplay -. “Ye are such stuff as dreams are made on-“. But awaken to behold the ananda-rhythm and the healing Grace within and around. It is all within yourself. Wu!
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
AN INTERVIEW WITH Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/128296104/AN_INTERVIEW_WITH_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
Q : “The Yoga of living, of life itself – we may call it Natural Yoga(Nisarga Yoga) -. It remains me of the primal Yoga (Athi Yoga mentioned in the Rig Vedas, which was described as marrying life with mind”.
Wuji: “A life lived thoughtfully in full awareness is by itself Nisarga Yoga”.
Q : “What does the marriage of life and mind mean”?
Wuji: “Living in spontaneous awareness, consciousness of effort free living, being fully interested in one’s life, all this is implied”.
Q : “Sarada Devi, the wife of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, used to scold his disciples for too much effort. She compared them to mangoes on a tree, which are being plucked before they are ripe. Why hurry? She used to say : “Wait till you are fully ripe, mellow and sweet”.
Wuji: How right she was. There are many who take the dawn for noon, a momentary experience for full realization, and destroy even the little, they gain by excess of pride. Ego-humility and Silence are essential for a Sadhaka-, however, advanced. Only a fully ripened Gnani can allow himself complex spontaneity”.
Q : “It seems there are Schools of Yoga, where the student after illumination is obliged to keep silent for several years. Even Ramana Mahrshi imposed on himself years of oral Silence before he began to teach orally-.
Wuji: “Yes, the inner fruit must ripen. Until then the discipline, the living in awareness, must go on. Gradually the practice becomes more and more subtle, until it becomes altogether formless”.
Q : “J. Krishnamurti too speaks of living in awareness”.
Wuji : “He always aims directly at the ultimate. Yes, ultimately all Yogas end in your Athi Yoga, the marriage of consciousness (the bride) to life (the bridegroom). Consciousness and being (Sad-chit) meet the bliss (Ananda). For bliss to arise, there must be meeting contact, the assertion of unity in duality”.
Q : “Buddha too has said that for the attainment of Nirvana one must go to living beings. Consciousness needs life to grow”.
Wuji : “The world itself is contact, the totality of all touches matter and consciousness results. Such consciousness, when tainted with memory and expectation becomes bondage. Pure experience does not bind. Experience caught between desire and fear is impure and creates karma”.
Q : “Can there be happiness and unity? Does all happiness imply necessarily contact, hence duality”?
Wuji : “There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth contact is needed. Above the unity of Being there is union of love. Love is the meaning and purpose of duality. Don’t give your love : Radiate it. Wu!”.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
This paper is along with a bunch of old collections of Sunya Bhai, besides this paper I have no clue about period or place. Who took this interview? Whether it is published anywhere or not. Any old paper, which concerns Sunya Bhai has some divinity, so I’m revealing it here.
Athi Yoga –Ati Yoga, the ‘utmost yoga’, or “supreme yoga”. is the pinnacle of Buddhist Vajrayana practice. It is also known as Dzogchen in Tibetan. It is the most simple, direct, and profound path to experientially realize the primordial wisdom which is one’s basic nature.
Buddha – Siddhartha Gautama -(better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563 – c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India and Asia in the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The title Buddha was used by a number of religious groups in ancient India and had a range of meanings, but it came to be associated most strongly with the tradition of Buddhism and to mean an enlightened being, one who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and achieved freedom from suffering.
Gnani – jnani – literally means ‘knower’, ie. ‘knower of truth’ or ‘knower of Self’, In Vedanta, Jnana refers to “salvific knowledge”, or knowledge that leads to liberation (moksha).
J Krishnamurti- Jiddu Krishnamurti(1895 -1986) born in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He was an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual figure. Krishnamurti asserted that “truth is a pathless land” and advised against following any doctrine, discipline, teacher, guru, or authority, including himself.
Karma – is the belief that the things you do in life will eventually return to you, either in this life or the next.
Nisarga Yoga – is a form of yoga that emphasizes living in harmony and peace with oneself and others. It’s based on the idea that we’re already in union with our true Self, but feel separate due to duality. The goal of Nisarga Yoga is to reconnect with this true Self.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa -(1836-1886) -was a great saint, spiritual guru and thinker of India. He emphasized on the unity of all religions. He believed since childhood that God can be seen. Therefore, to attain God, he spent his life of rigorous meditation and devotion. Swami Ramakrishna was a priest of humanity.
Ramana Maharishi – (1879-1950) was a great sage and saint of modern times. He laid great emphasis on self-reflection. He has had great influence in India and abroad in the modern period. Ramana Maharshi emphasized monism
Rigveda- it is a sacred text of the Hindu religion. It is written in Sanskrit language. It is considered to be the oldest and most important Veda among the Vedas. Rigveda contains mantras praising gods and goddesses. Rigveda is considered to be a storehouse of knowledge.
Sad-Chit – In Vedanta, the term “Sat-chit-ananda” is a description of the ultimate reality, which is also known as Brahman. It is a combination of three words: “Sat”, “Chit”, and “Ananda”.
Sadhaka – In Hinduism, a sadhaka is a spiritual practitioner who follows a path of self-realization and enlightenment. Sadhakas are devoted to spiritual practices such as meditation, chanting, and puja.
Sarada Devi -(1853 – 1920, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India) was a Hindu religious teacher who was the wife and spiritual consort of the Indian saint Ramakrishna. At the age of five Saradamani was wed to Ramakrishna in an arranged marriage. (Because Ramakrishna had taken a vow of celibacy, the marriage was never consummated.) When she was 16 years old, Saradamani joined her husband in Dakshineshwar, Bengal, where Ramakrishna was a temple priest. Three years later Ramakrishna declared that his young wife, whom he now called Sarada Devi, was the avatar of the Divine Mother of the Universe.
Yoga – is a set of ancient spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a strong tradition and is seen as a tool to achieve liberation to this day, in particular in Hinduism.
Wuji– pet(dog) name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984), also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic. In article Wuji mean Sunya himself.
https://www.academia.edu/127840015/The_Essence_of_Mysticism
The Essence of Mysticism- Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
Keywords : Awareness – Charlotte Brontë Christ, Christianity, consciousness, Emily Brontë, Hinduism, Maharashi Ramana, Mysticism, Plato, Theology William Blake, William Wordsworth
In the natural light of intuition the mystics aware and experience that nothing in this ego-world is trivial, – nothing is unimportant-, nothing is common or unclean or to be despised, “To the pure all is pure” and the pure in heart and mind (hsin) naturally reflect God also within ego-klesha. Blake has cyrstallised this feeling or intuitive awareness in the lines: “To aware the world in a grain of sand and Heaven in an untamed flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of a hand – and Eternity in an hour-; “Never never (try to) tell thy love – love that never told can be –” and “He who takes to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy; but he who kisses (i.e. awares and appreciates) the joy – (ananda) as it flies, lives in Eternity’s Sunrises”. Only the Eternal is Real. Awaken to aware and to live It here and now – in Grace and Gratitude.
The true, mature mystic then, in the full and integral sense of the term, is one who awares righ wisely – the unity underlying all diversities and is in and beyond Yogic unions, ecstasies and efforts-. It is at the centre of all existence – The mystic ‘knows’ -, not mentally or analytically, but intuitively and integrally-, by the most perfect of all tests for the person concerned-: because he awares, experiences and – lives it – lives his own Swadharmic truth in its light of values and of interrelatedness. True Mysticism is an experience, a living, experimental science, and it is ineffable. It is an incommunicable to those who have no inkling of the same experience, as is the odour of a violet to those, who have never smelt one. At its highest and fullest consummation – it is the supreme adventure, “the flight of the alone to the Alone”-, the All oneness that is divine Empathy. As distinguished from the mystical thinker, or philosopher, the practical mystic has the ontological, intuitive awareness- and the direct, media-free experience in Prajna-Light and Karuna-rhytm – in wisdom-awareness, which, to him, is integral and natural-. So, living is natural spirituality – or Self-controlled spontaneity-. No trying to save, to love – or to wallow in sentimental suprarmentality. A Silence – may be a grace-, but a finger – pointing to the moon- is not a ladder. Grow wings! Advises Wuji: Intuitive wings Wu!
Wordsworth stresses the importance of contemplation, Blake that of the intuitive, creative and Self –revealing “Imagination”. Ramana Maharshi advocates the intuitive. Yoga Self-investigation (“Man know thy Self !” or, for the mature Bhakta, full and complete ego-surrender-. It is also the mysterious, open secret taught by the Upanishads-, the Eleusinian mysteries – and really by nature Mystics, Sages, Sufis and Rishis. They lived it – as also did some- saints – and Gupta-Yogic-: The Spiritual consciousness is the only Source of true Wisdom and Karuna-love, and in all cases is stressed the necessity of cleansing the inner life (specially mind and thought) if we are to reflect purely and Be-consciously aware of and in our divine nature. “To the pure all is pure”: The Self aware its Self in us – and – everywhere.
In the six Ennad of Plotinus we read : “God is not external to anyone, but is present in all things, though they are ignorant that it is so. God is not in a certain place, but wherever anything is able to come into contact with him, there he is present. A psyche that knows itself also knows that the proper direction of its energy is not outwards in a straight line, but round a centre, which is within”. It is because of our (due?) ignorance of the indwelling Christ and our unawareness of cosmic immanence, that our living is discordant and psychically diseased. Egoji is clashing with its Self, blurring the Swadarshan –insight and the awareness of its own inmost principle and unitive Source. Mind is the troublesome tool. The mind-ridden egoji is the fatal disease. Wu!
Mysticism is always a reconciliation of opposites : They are awared as complimentary and as conditioning one another. It appeals from the intellect to that which is beyond the intellect. It asserts the supremacy of intuition over reason, of inherent wisdom over acquired knowledge and of Being-awareness over Power-play and ego-becoming-. The intuitive, Self revealing light of Eternity is in time. Darshan-insight or Reality-apprehension is quite different from comprehension, knowing or mere understanding. Karuna is more than love insofar as it can never be possessive, exclusive, craving-lustful, jealous or pitiful. The love that needs or craves reciprocity or re-cognition is not true enough -. Wu!
Padmore’s first wife revealed to him this, which is the basic fact of all his thoughts and works: : “Nature goes on giving-echoes of the same, living triplicity in animal, plant and mineral, every stone and material atom owing its being to the synthesis or ‘embrace’ – (empathy) of the two seemingly opposing forces: expansion and contraction, projection and withdrawal. Nothing whatever exists as a single entity, but in virtue of its being thesis and antithesis and synthesis, and in humanities and in natural life this takes the form of sex, the masculine and the feminine and the neuter, or third forgotten sex, spoken of by Plato, which is not the absence of the sex-life, but its fulfillment and strength-, as the electric fire is the fulfillment of positive and negative in their ‘embrace’) (mutual interpenetration or empathy)”. Wu! The highest love is that of Self -, a constant giving or Self-fusion -, a simple Self-awareness. We give by accepting-. We receive by giving and hold, by letting go : Let live and – live, let be and Be.
Re-incarnation is the central fact in a man’s experience-, for it is going on perceptibly in himself- an experimental science. Pain is a prod to Self-recollection. Suffering may make us remember -: Who suffers? What is it that re-incarnates ? What is abiding? Who are you? “The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man see it. It is a temple of majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a realm of Light and Grace did not man disquiet it. The angels keep their ancient places –. Turn but a stone and start a wing- ‘Tis ye –’tis your estranged faces that miss the many-splendoured thing. ‘Tis not the object but the Light – that maketh Heaven -: ‘Tis is pure sight”- , a pure, intuitive insight-darshan-, a simple, integral Self awareness – or Self-remembrance. Ego-souls to ego souls are like apples, one being rotten rots another. Alone ye can Be – the all-one-consciously, integrally aware. Man and mind and egojis disquiet the Sunny Silence, and Wuji barks-: “Is your God a He-, a She, a Nature or an experience?” We respond with a solemn : Wu! Genuine mystics are never lonely when – alone.
In Emely Bronte we have an unusual type of mystic. Indeed she is one of the most strangely hidden and baffling figures in English literature. We ken in the truth very little about her-; but that little is significant – and it is now realised that she was a greater and more original genius – than her famous sister, a Gupta Yogini touching the Source awarely-. Strong as were Charlotta’s passion and creative imagination-, that of Emely were still stronger and deeper rooted-. She had-, as far as we can tell, peculiarly little actual – (external) experience of life-. Her material interests were bounded be her – family, the old servant Tabby, the dogs and the moors. For the greater part of her thirty years of living she did the work of a servant in the little parsonage house on the edge of the graveyard. She can have read little of philosophy or metaphysics and probably had never heard of the mystics; she was brought up in a narrow, crude and harshly material creed-, yet her own inner experience-; la vie intérieure, her intuitive empathy – and her touch with the secret” of life-, enabled her to writ “Wuthering Heights” and the remarkable series of poems, the peculiar and haunting quality of which has, as yet, scarcely been recogonised. They are strong and free and certain, hampered by no dogma and weighed by no explanation; but containing, in simplest language-, the record of Swadarshan – insight and integral experiencing in psychic health.
She had lived through it and could reveal it – simply and strongly-. Emily Bronte lived remote, unapproachable, self-sufficient and detached, yet consumed with a fierce, unquenchable love of life and of nature, of the life which seemed to withhold from her all the gifts most priced by egos- love, -friendship, sex-experience, motherhood – recognition – fame -; and the nature, which she knew only on a circumscribed space of the wild Yorkshire Moors-; yet she experienced “The fire for which all thirst”., the whole in the part play.
In her poems her mysticism is primarily in two ways : in her unerring appreciation of values, of the illusory quality of material things, even of the nature she loved-, – together with the certain awareness, or darshan of the Abiding, – the one Reality in and behind all forms and all duality-play-. This, and her description of Darshan-, of the one who has tasted this-, experienced and lived through it, mark her out as being among those genuine ones, who have authentically’ been there’, who have awared and re-cognised the Eternal in time-, the whole in the part-play – The microcosm in. In “The Prisoner” she describes the coming of the Messenger.
“He comes with Western winds, with evening’s wandering airs-
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars.
Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire –
And visions rise and change, that kills me with desire;
But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends,
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends.
Mute music soothes my breast – unuttered harmony-
That I could never dream till Earth was lot to me.
Then dawns the Invisible, the Unseen its truth reveals.
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels -:
Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbor found,
Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound.
On dreadful is the check – intense the agony-
When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see,
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain”.
This is the description, – always unmistakable-, of the supreme mystic experience: the joy of the outward flight, the pain of the return -, and it could only have been written by one who, in some measure, had the grace and the wisdom of experiencing. This, together with exquisite little poem, “The Visionary”, which describes a similar experience and “The Philosopher”, stand apart as expression of the ego-transcending, integral darshan-experiencing, and are among the most perfect mystic poems in English-. Her realization of the meaning of common things, her wisdom-awareness that they hold the secret of the universe, and her crystallisation of this in verse, place her with Blake and Wordsworth.
“ What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tall.
The earth that wakes one human heart to feelings
Can centre both the world of Heaven and Hell”.
And finally the sure sense of continuous life-,
One central, all-sustaining life-, or consciousness-
Of the oneness of God and man -, Nature and Spirit,
Has rarely been more nobly expressed than in
Her best known poem, the “Last Lines” – she wrote:
“No coward soul is mine.
No trembler in the world’s storm-trouble sphere.
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear-.
Oh God within my breast!
Almighty ever present Deity!
Life hat in me has rest
As I – , undying life, have strength in Thee.
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men’s heart; unutterable vain-,
Worthless as withered weeds-
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in me –
Holding so fast by thine infinity-
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of immortality.
With wide embracing love
Thy spirit animates eternal years-
Pervades and broods above-
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears-.
Though earth and man were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And Thou wert left alone –
Every existence would exist in Thee.
There is no room for Death-
Nor atom that his might could render void.
Thou – Thou art Being and Breath
And what Thou art may never be destroyed-”.
If the sun and moon should doubt, they would immediately go out, and were all star-suns and universes to be extinguished – and earth-life thus come to nought, Yet the Source of Life would Be anandfull as ever-, Only the Eternal is Real. The faith of the mature Mystic, Sufi, Sage and Rishi, is rooted in Swa-Darshan, Self-experiencing or Integral Awareness.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
https://www.academia.edu/127701639/Myth_and_Reality_in_Spiritual_Awakening_Advaita_Buddha_and_Christianity_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen
Myth and Reality in Spiritual Awakening – Advaita, Buddha and Christianity– Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
Freshly issuing from Maya’s side- baby Buddha proclaimed : “Earth below, akasha above and heaven within : I AM the most honoured, (non-dual) one”. Good memory :- is Wuji’s comment. He also, as a baby, remembered and lived his pre-ego and pre-natal consciousness-, and so cannot easily inner-stand the western-conditioned guys deadly-white duality-wallahs, who try to under-stand and so cannot comprehend the Buddha-consciousness or the Christ-awareness. The baby Buddha – remembered who and what He Is. What language did the newly born, bonny baby speak? Egojis would ask, scientific, metaphysical, religious ? or ontological ? Was it in Pali or in Gawd own Amurican ? Wuji suggests it was the Wu-language – or Silence, the radiance of the Eternal – the invisible Real. Wu! Who recorded it? Who heard and recorded the solitary: “Hay this cup of ego-crucifixions be witholden” and “My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken Me? Who is translated it so badly? Asks Wuji. That baby Buddha remembered is a greater wonder than that he spoke, untaught by egojis : Some legends and myths are truer and more significant than are more facts. The child-buddha experienced a certain mode of Samadhi under the Rose-apple tree, while Shakya Pa. was ploughing -. The re-collection or memory of this was crucial in making possible the integral enlightenment or awakening into aware Buddhahood under the Bo-tree at Buddha Gaya-. A Jewish child, Jeshuh ben Miriam -, also, precociously, radiated the integral wisdom-light – (Sophia or Prajna) when he, at 12 years of bodily age in the holy of the Holy in sacred Jerusalem, confounded the learned ignorance of Pandits and Pharises. The child was at the Source of natural spirituality -. “Unless ye Be, as babes, ye can in no way enter the realm of grace”:-. So be child-like rather than childish brats – and adolescent heroes and sport stars. Wu! There are no records of the wordiness uttered by young Jeshuah to the Pharises – (except to old Nicodemus). But the boy is in a strange, transcendental mood when Na Miriam, after 3 day search retrieved the lost lamb. He almost scolded the holy virgin-Na, for her worry, anxiety and wordy fuss: “Woman ! what have I do with thee? Wist ye not that I AM at the busyness of the Source? Who are my brethren ? Be quiet – woman! and abide your fullness of time”.
He had no guilt-complex, but implied : Am I conditioned by these blood-relatives-, Ma, Pa, Judas, Andrew-, Johana, Betty and two more baby brothers 7 or by creeds and dogmas, doctrines, rites, and rituals. The source is deeper, vaster and more comprehensive-, and there is re-collection of pre-ego consciousness, -pre-natal Memory of integral Sophia-Wisdom and inherent Grace. “The vaster truth and insight shall set ye free.” Bondage is delusive -:, “Be Still and – aware. Ye dinna ken that ye are Gods?” – ; Egoji is still a shadow, a disease-, a bar to conscious awareness-.
The virgin Ma (with 7 children) does not seem to under-stand-, nor inner-stand intuitively-. She was submissive and ego-humble. Her ugly duckling-, or paramhansa-swanling, hurt her susceptibilities-. She brooded her wounds in her heart. Yet the good messenger, arch-angel Gabriel, had told her -. She forget even his injunction about the baby’s real name” “Ye shall call his Nama Emmanuel!:. Perhaps old Joseph claimed some relationship-, so the very common name Jashuah (Romanised Jesus) was given to the uncommon child, Emmanuel is the inherently indwelling Christ, which we can all awaken to aware and experience. It is the grace of integral experiencing within- and beyond heaven and hell and other duality-concepts and abstractions-. Seek and find, aware and experience ye, first and essential-, this inner realm of integral grace-, and all otherness is naturally added-. Having Nothing, willing nothing and desiring nothing-, we can Be the All – consciously Self-Aware. Wu! Ego-oblivion is automatically Self Awareness. Only egoji with its duality-values-, abstractions and conceit of agency is the distracting shadow and the disease, Egoji was the helper and is now the bar. Much essential gospel truth was weeded out by the learned Church-fathers and Church-mothers, yet much remains that is mystic-clear and simple to integral-, ego-transcending consciousness : Love others – like you love your Self : They are your Self-. Love your enemies- Are there any? Resist no evil ! So easy when we aware that ALL IS WELL.
Again the negative cloud of unknowing or Neti neti mode of disillusionment and debunking-, or disenchantment of ego-klesha; but this is all that is needed -: the removal of veils – of concepts – and of abstractions. Ego-oblivion is Self-awareness. God-, Self, Freedom, – Prajna Sophia, Karuna-rhythm and the Ananda-Grace, is here and now all the eternal while-. It is all within our Self, and we are It-. Awareness is all-. Wu! So the erudite – and God- experienced meister goes on to tell us : “The Soul God’s Kingdom – (The integral realm of grace) dawns in, who is consciously aware of God’s fullness and nearness, her e non durst council no instruct. She is by it instructed and assured in Life Eternal. In this God-conscious state the integral psyche perceives how near God is in all its fullness and noughtness —–. I am as certain as I live that nothing is as close to me as God-. God is nearer to me than I am to my Self”.
Unknowing is thy chief perfection (egoji) and suffering thy highest activity. If the soul (the integral psyche) knew her Self, she would know all things. That man knows aright, who is equally aware of God- (or Self) in all things. To serve God is fear is good, to serve in Love is better-, but he who is apt to behold God in fear and in hate does best of all-. We lose our ego-livings to aware our Being (integrally). Ego-emptiness is God-fullness. Seek nothing at all, not under-standing – nor gnosis-, nor power, – possessions, – pity-, peace nor inwardness. God’s will be ever done. The really virtuous (naturally spiritual) man does not want God. He makes no plans, he sets no store by things, but is really free – beyond pride and beyond humility (beyond love and hate, God and devil and all complimentary opposites and seeming divisions -. Wu!). “The smallest creaturely image that over takes birth in three – is as big as God. How so? It shuts out the whole of God”. So let’s not be image-worth-shippers. Duality consciousness usurps the integral Self-Awareness. Wu!
“As soon as the image appears God disappears, and as the image fades God comes – (in Self-awareness). When God is awared in this (integral and intuitive) light it happened in private, safe from the slightest intrusion or sediment (ego-klesha) of creaturely things. Then we have immediate wisdom of eternal life. At oned and Self-radiant in awareness the soul (integral psyche) may be purely alone, open, receptive and with noting flowing into her but sheer divinity flowing into Itself. By purity she has discovered her capacity, virginity and grace (To the pure all is pure and the pure in heart (hsin) naturally aware and re-cognise God – everywhere – in all things – even in egojis).
“Doubt not hat if thou if thou art traveling for thy self or for thy friend, no birth of Christ has taken place within thee-: The birth is not over till thy heart (hsin) is free from care” (and free in care). Consummatum est-, not only on the ego-cross-, but all the eternal while – in the eternal Now–, only the dead must awaken-. (The dead the quick) – and Be –Self-aware. Christ is an experiencing beyond time-; but also in the due fullness of time the alone begotten Sun over takes birth, or is revealed, in the mature consciousness. The fullness of time is the Himalayan dawn of Eternity – here and now.
“Why do ye prate about God? (asks the Meister). When ye speak about God it is not God ye speak of. It is a higher act to love God for God’s sake than to have God-”. Still duality, when we are conscious of having and of doing – in conceit of agency. So also Ramana Maharshi in our own day advised egojis to leave the word – symbol ‘God’ – well alone and to experience Self-hood -. “Your (egoji’s) highest glory is where ye cease to exist!” – Salvation-, from concepts, abstractions and art-full disguise-. Also names and labels hide our name-free, integral Reality. Awaken to experience it.
Meister Eckhart says : “A man has many skins in himself covering the depth of his heart(hsin). Man knows so many things -, but he does not know himself. Why, 30 or 40 skins or hides-, like those of an ox – or bear, cover his soul – (integral psyche). Go into thine own Ground (or Hridaya Guha) and experience your self – (or ego-death) there. Fools regard themselves as awake now-. So personal is their knowledge, – no cocksure their learned ignorance”.
Our knowledge is not inherent wisdom. Our power corrupts and is not integral strength – nor the grace of joyous ease in Swalila We play in fancy-dress – and are ashamed of our natural skin: dress and as to the ego-ridden mind -: How deadened and conditioned – in concepts, how swaddled in abstractions-, how blurred by word-symbols-, analyses and intellections – : 30 or 40 – artful and artificial disguises – Wu! No wonder the neti – neti cry – till we come to the Silence of Aham, Soham, twam that asi or Wu. What unholy trying-, desire-lust and ego-willfulness, when it is a matter of simple, integral awakening into awareness of whatever Is-. Buddha advises : “Do not complain and cry and pray, but open thine intuitive eye and aware integrally; for the Light(Prajna-Sophia) is all about you and it is so wonderful, so beautiful, so far beyond anything man has ever dreamt of or prayed for-, and it is – forever and ever”. Meister Eckhart had also awared the light of Emmanuel and experienced the inherent Christ within :-
“When I pray for aught my prayer goes for nought.
When I pray for nought I pray as I ought.
When praying for someone, I pray at my weakest.
When praying for no one I pray at my strongest.
And when I want nothing and make no request,
I AM – praying at my best-”.
The I – Me and Mine – notions have come to grief -, to nought, to Sunya -. Wu!
With rare exceptions the Christian theologians insist that the Godhead is incarnate in one man only-, the historical Jeshuah-, just as if historicity matters or proves anything. This confinement of the incarnation, to a unique event in the historical past, thus renders the myth ‘dead’ and in effective for the present. For when a myth is confused with history it ceases to apply to man’s inner life. Myth is only ‘revelation’ so long as it is a message from heaven-, that is from the time-free, ego-free and non-historical world-, expressing not what was true once, but what is true always. Thus the incarnation is without effect or significance for human beings living today if it is mere history; it is ‘salvic’ truth only if it is poronial-, a revelation of time-free event – going on within man always – dismembered, re-remembered-: obliterated by ego-, recollected in Christ-. Incarnation implies also ex-carnation. Christ is the nature but not the person of each man. This would make sense if theology but not the person of each man. This would make sense if theology would go on to state that the persona mask (nefesh, psyche-soul) is not the real man, but only the abstract and illusory- egoji. Still more repugnant to the theologians is the perception of the divine in Lucifer, the realization that the two serpents are one, Lucifer in descent and Christ in ascent. The nearest which the Church approaches to anything of this kind is the embarrassing passage sung on Candlemas Sunday. “O truly necessary – (certe necessarium) sin of Adam – which Christ has blotted out. O happy fault (O felix Culpa) which merited no great a redeemer”. “Sin is behovely-”. In Isaiah the Lord is made to say : I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create evil-“ In regard to ego-salvation we have the passages: “Whiter I go, ye cannot come”. Thus to ascent to heaven, man must be a babe, egofree, – or “deny himself” (egoji), because ‘no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven (Christ in You) even the Son of Man, which is in heaven” similarly: “Who so over would save his psyche shall lost it”. “If any man come to me – attached to ego-, parents or things, he cannot be my disciple”.
The tragedy of Christian history is that is a consistent failure to draw the life from the Christian myth and unlock its wisdom. This whole failure is epitomized in the problem of Lucifer, who should remained the symbol, not of ‘deliberate malice’, but of the necessary ‘dark side’ of life -, of shadow revealing light by contrast of darkness, as the Light(luci) Bearer (fer). He would correspond to what the Chinese call yin as distinct from Yang, the dark, negative and feminine aspect of life, in complimentary opposition to the light, positive and masculine -, the two represented together as the interlocked comma or fish, one black and one white, one ascending and one descending. In the West the same symbol is found as the zodiacal sing of Pisces and the two opposed fishes are a common motif of early Christian gems, Christ himself being the ascending fish.
Lucifer has double role. He is necessary, negative or dark aspect of life personifying the ‘wrath’ of God-, the dark angel, Sammael. He is also the Liar, the illusion of ego-consciousness- and narcissism, personifying the mistake, the missing of the mark-, which the human mind has made in confusing its identity with a ‘self’ abstracted from memory. In both cases he is a ‘disguise’ of God-. To miss the mark is the original meaning of the Greek word for sin (hamartanein). God is appearing as a two-faced Janus. In becoming ‘enchanted or identified with the abstract and illusory ego-, that which suffers the enchantment, is the ever unknown ground of the human mind :- The holy breath, the ruach or pneuma – which is always divine in principle and which never really becomes the individual, the human ego-soul, save in seeming, in dream. Thus Lucifer is God seeming to be ego-conscious, to be an ego, an individualised thing-. God or Self is the No-thing-ness. Things and egojis are God in disguise.
The Lucifer-myth have been ‘missed’ by Christian theology so that what is now personified or symbolised by the theological Satan is not one of the aspect of God-, but the very illusion of ego in which orthodox Christianity most fervently believes. The tragedy of Christianity is its duality consciousness-, its fear of Adwaita inability to Be beyond the complimentary opposites and to transcend ego-, individuality and the persona-mask. The realm of integral grace is within. Christ is within-, inherent and to be awared and experienced there, integrally-, here and now-. God is omnipresent and immanent, yet the Christian mystics, who somehow awoke to aware integrally, to experience the Eternal in time and their Self every-here-, (and who, unwisely and adolescently, stuttered about it and tried to explain in word-symbols,) were deemed heretics, – pantheists-, hallucinationists and what not. Some were tortured and burnt for the good of their erring ego-soul-, which needed salvation. Others were exiled-, banned, excommunicated-, imprisoned or in the general hush-hushed into oblivion. Wu! Christianity is confusing its myth with history – and facts, which is the Realm of the abstract and the ‘dead’, of egoji-, the seeming Self. Degraded to this realm, Christ and Lucifer alike became images of ego-, of the past the ‘dead’ man, who does not liberate, but only binds or deadens. Hate is as binding as is love. Transcend all duality and experience the Adwaita freeness and – grace. For the ego-predicament the myth goes on to offer its own un-headed solution.
Strange the one solitary instance in gospel-truth – that “The truth-awareness shall make ye free”. Freedom is a subjective experiencing, Christ-Awareness, Jesus was not thinking of the mechanics of education-, technical facts, or scientific truths -, nor of power and possessiveness and learned ignorance-, but
of the immediate truth of the here and now-, the instant of integral Being-awareness. There is nothing to attain, acquire conquer or under-stand, but just an integral awakening and simple awareness. The bondage is delusive. Integral Freedom ever Is – here and now in the grace of relationship with all that exist :-. the sure sense of at-one-ment – or Adwaita empathy -, the alone – begotten Sun or Sophia-radiance, – the alone – all-oneness -, awesome, ineffable and unbelievable simple. Wu!
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
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Himalayan Silence in Fyen – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen-
(Ego-free life journey of Sunya Bhai)
The individual Danish peasant moved in their homes with equal ease and pose and pleasure as in the homes of city-workers and peasant. He was in tact and in tune -, in nature as in fellow-pilgrims rhythm and light of consciousness -, at least for the time being, and could accept and respond effort-freely and spontaneously-. Indian brethren often sense, intuit and share – integral wholeness. They experience and transmission, a unity in empathy and in effort-free silence-, they aware their integral Self in nearness and presence- of ego-free Silence-, a mutual magnetism, a grace of inner stillness clarity and harmony. This experienced Reality is implied, to them, in the word-symbol Sunya, and among the dozens of name-labels foisted upon a viking-body is Sunya Bhai, the Brother of Silence and Sunya Baba.) The Source, the Ground, the essence of the acme of Silence). Rabindra Nath Tagore awared a certain mode or quality of Silence – in Emmanuel and Ramana Maharshi recognized and confirmed it was Sunya.
Ego deaths are of many kinds and degrees, and in one mode of awareness such deaths may be called birth, awakening, unfoldment or growing-pains. Some deaths can be sudden, sharp and intense, – others can stretch over months and years. External facts have to be accepted, but it may take years before we can ‘accept’ the truth of such facts and their due rightness in the play. In retrospect we may aware the inevitability and the clear guidance. Emmanuel’s deaths were not sensational or outwardly spectacular (-and act ‘fatal’ –like that of Ramana Maharshi – at 17), as he did not “shriek in ecstasy” or in pain, did not assert or try to reveal, ex-press or shout for sympathy or for under-standing. The duly uprooting one at 14 years did not involve others and was almost unnoticed – hidden in silence. The last one in Europe did involve a group of friends and wounds, sores and scars in the desire-body; but when the inevitable was accepted and realised, there were no guilt-complexes, sin complexes or regrets. His Indian ‘holiday’ – was not escapism or defeat, but perhaps our intuitive flair for healing – alone – in the new and the unknown-, or, like the present journey – as a test-; Can one play alone in the essential all-oneness in the unknown and Be – integrally whole in the part-play? Wu wei ness is Self-controlled spontaneity, a kind of integral awareness – positive positivity-, – negative capability – and intuitive receptivity, effort-free empathy and calm Self-radiance. Sunya Silence cannot be asserted or explained or told to egojis. “Never, never tell thy love, love that never told can be”. However it can be experienced, practiced and – lived -. Such ‘Silence’ is the eloquent language of the Real-, the Eternal -, the Self, and needs so recognition from egojis. There is effort-free response. The Self smiles to its self. It inner-stands and comprehends, all. “Jove nods to Jove from within each of us”. “All that lives is holy” ( or one, integral whole-), and all is alive – ‘Tis not the object -, but the light, that maketh Heaven on earth, here and now -. It is the clear light of the integral, pure consciousness. The integral realm of grace is within-. Christ is there inherent and immanent. Awakening into conscious-, abiding awareness is All. So, simply and patiently, mature and left ananda bubble up – ego-freely.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’, ‘Haiku Ramayan’ and ‘Haiku Uttar Ramayan’ in Hindi
KENYA AND UGANAD- Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
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That whole-e episode, and all that is meant, was dramatically called to mind and again when I saw the sculptured cynocephali(of dog faced baboons) of Abu Simbel, the southern gate of Egypt. The myth of Horus is the age-old story of the newly risen, divine and inner Light. It is a myth which must have been told after human culture, that is consciousness, had, for the first time, released men from the darkness of pre-historic times, Thus the journey from the heart of Africa to Egypt became, for me, a kind of drama of the birth of light. That drama was essentially connected with me, with my philosophy and psychic experience. I realized this, but felt incapable of formulating it in words. I had not known in advance what Africa would give me, but here lay the satisfying answer-, the fulfilling experience. It was worth more to me than any ethnological yield would have been, any collection of weapons, ornaments, pottery or hunting trophies. I had wanted to know how Africa would affect me- and I had found out-“. We must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites -. “There is nothing either good or bad-, but thinking makes it so”, guot Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. So simply bounce beyond mind and thought and time (advises Wuji) and Be at joyous ease in your own spontaneous wholeness.
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi, kant.rama@gmail.com
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EGO- Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
If the doors- and windows of intuitive perception were cleaned – everything would appear to man as it is infinite, integral, essentially immanent. For man has closed himself up in concepts and blinkered truths till he sees all things through the narrow kinks of his cavern. Mysticism is the practical art of man’s conscious re-union with Reality-, an awakening into conscious awareness and experience in the Unity and Integrality that ever Is. The mystic is a person who has awakened or has some inkling of the experiencing in the invisible Real-. He is practical artist in life, with no craving for power-, possessions or knowledge, with no regrets or resentments-, no demand or petitionary prayers-, no itch of lust or of desire. The mature mystics ‘are rid of all their asking and henceforth the heat of having scorch no more’. In the freedom of no desire-, who is there to pray to – or for what? ego-hood must be eliminated before Reality can be awared-.
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
This article Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi, kant.rama@gmail.com
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“ I saw Eternity the other night Like is great ring of pure and endless light All calm as it was bright-, And round beneath it, Time in hours-, days, -years, Driven by the spheres-, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled –”. -from Poem World written by Henry Vaughan- “Heaven is Eternity, Mark well my rhyme: Hell is but everlasting Time. When Alfred Tennyson plucked a wild flower out of the crannied was held it in his hand and contemplated it, did his analytical mind merge ontologically or empathetically to be the contemplation? David H. Lawrance stated : “I have been a tree within a wood and many a new thing understood-, which was rank folly to me before”. If we inner-stand a flower we do not pluck it or analyse it-, or even wonder “what thou art”. In the Karuna I-dentity, – sahaja co-passion and Prajna-intuition-, there is but silent Ananda-Gratitude, an effort-free Self-radiance. Except to a civilized, dis-eased and unnatural mind what wildness is there in a natural, untamed flower or tree-friend? If a natural animal does not smell our fear, our-artificiality and our mental, respectable and divided consciousness-, they will not fear, attack or harm the human, mortal jivas-; but our desire-lust, fear and powerful ego-will vital our ‘rapport’ and poison our relationships. Essential insight, integral outsight and mature innerstanding in conscious Self-awareness are strange and difficult to experience livingly, but the wonderful thing is that , once in a while, we transcend this temporal and relative made to experience that death is not the end of things and that trishna is reflected in Krishna and is rooted in Karuna or Self-identity.
INTEGRALLY SELF-AWARE- – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
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Dear Selfji, Radhey Shiam
Again a joyous greeting from Viking Bhai in Sunya, Who, in a body of 88 years young being conquered in Yankeestan. He feels rather age-free, time-free, quest-free, sex-free, mind-free, ego-free, money-free, desire-free, and of course death-free, says Wuji in the invisible Real. Wu ha da! Wu!
May 1979 be richly rewarding in health and grace-awareness in your prarabdha and in the essentially graceful Swa Lila Self interplay. You are the Self. Discern, intuit and be It consciously Self-aware. Wu! Dive within, and aware the “Self-pearl of great price.” It is really price-less, as egoji is nothing. Wu!
Sri Wuji confirms Ramana Maharishi’s saying, “We are always aware, Sunyata”. In depth consciousness it is so. Still the mind and its ego-desires and fussy activities, and reflect purely That which Is-change-free in all the ever changing forms, events and ejojies. The Self innerstands, awarely and gracefully. Its play is Swa Lila, Swa Dharma and Swa Darshan. Wu! Satchitananda: Being –Awareness-Grace: Tat Twam Asi.
Sri Sunyata let his no-thing-ness and the Viking body be kidnapped from Sri Himalaya for the second time-and so-here we are –indefinitely in delightful uncertainty and at joyous ease in the best of well being. The return ticket to Bharat has given up it valid ghost and – it seems that some swell Yankees guys and girlies crave a Wei Wu Wei – no body, no mind and nothing-ness “to charm them out of thought and time doth Eternity.” As in Himalaya, we can ignore Bhagwan Sri Dollar and even Sri Wuji survives all the busy-body, doings, food fuss and ego-antics in Duality know how. Knowledge is not Wisdom. The love we can make and fall into is not Maha Karuna. Power is not integral strength. Understanding is not aware inner-standing and mere happiness is not ananda-grace. Sri Wuji says: If you have body must have a soul(atma). But, here and now, through all your bodies and souls, shines Awareness, the pure Light of “Chit” -. Intuit, aware and focus It unswervingly. There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover That and stay with it, intuitively aware. Of course, these are words and a manner of speaking and words are as much a barrier as a bridge.
Find, aware and experience the spark of Life that weaves the tissues of your body and Be with it. It is the only Reality the body has and “Tat, twam, asi”. The Spark, that light, Life, Energy, Truth or Tao Way is your Self, our Self, THE Unitive, Death-free Self. That Self-radiant Reality is beyond time, beyond mind, thought and duality. Birth and death are but points in time. Life weaves eternally its many webs. The weaving is in time, but Life itself is timeless, time-free, says Wuji. Whatever name and shape you give its’ expressions, it is like the ocean-never changing-ever seemingly changing.
“We are always aware, Sunyata.” Babes are unconsciously aware. There is intuitive intelligence and pre-ego, pre-mental consciousness-, as in Wuji’s childhood. “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting. Trailing clouds of glory do we come from Heaven, which is our Home.” We forget our Self, the realm of Grace, in the mental duality-antics and ego-power fuss. But we can awaken into consciousness, abiding self-awareness or non-dual Self-experiencing, which is Self hood, Christ consciousness, or Grace awareness. Wu!
The world can be considered like a dream. Waking is long. Dream is short, other than this there is no difference. yet the Swa-Lila and Swa-Darshan are graceful. Wu!
There is what Ramana Maharishi called “learned ignorance” and there is natural ignorance which is often a blessing. There will come a time when one will have to forget all that one has leaned in “The Cloud of Unknowing”. Knowledge is not wisdom. Telepathy, knowing the past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom, insight (jnana-tristi). “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?” asks T.S.Eliot. It is safely within our self, inherent and inner-standing, says Wuji. We have only lost sight, insight and aware inner-standing of Being it. We forget our Self in a world of greed, competition, material, mental and emotional fulfillment and rat race. We forget our Self –and that the Life-play is Swa Lila, Swa Dharma and Swa Darshan. Our inner space travel in pure akasher-ether is also advisable experience for balance and “re-creation”. Egojies “recreation” is often further dissipation-, even at rest and in dreams they are still mentally and emotionally involved with all the negativities, strivings and tensions of the rat-race world.
Be still to be integrally Self-aware, says Wuji. In Grace awareness there are no problems, no quest. In Being-Awareness our doings will take care of themselves, in spontaneous, in-tuitive Wei, Wu Wei made of action. No dissipation in activities-no quest of mere happiness-, mere knowledge-, mere ego-power play-. There is joyous ease and delightful uncertainty. Light and Love are also in darkness and death. (No death of the Real. That we ever are. –Wu!)
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
This article Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi, kant.rama@gmail.com
Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984)
A Danish mystic, horticulturist and writer who lived in
Europe, India and the US, also known as Sunyata, Sunya
orSunyabhai. His experiences and travels and anything
concerning his more than 88 years as ‘Rare Born Mystic’,
so named by THE GREAT RAMANA MAHARSHI.
Gandhi Ji once told him “I live in SILENCE once a week,
and you are SILENCE forever!”
akasher -ether – Akasha is the Sanskrit word for ether, and is considered to be the first element in yogic and Ayurvedic in Hindu cosmology,thinking, and Western occultism and spiritualism. It is the essence of emptiness, thought. It is intangible, boundless, and infinite, and is said to mirror the concepts of freedom and expansion.
Ananda – Ānanda, (Sanskrit: “joy,” or “bliss”), in Indian philosophy of the Upaniṣads and the school of Vedānta, an important attribute of the supreme being Brahman.
Bhai – brother
Bhagwan Sri Dollar- Power-prosperity – powerful Bhagavan Sri Dollar, but power is apt to corrupt egojies and “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Chit – (Sanskrit: चित or cit) is a Sanskrit word meaning consciousness.
Chirst- The word Christ is from the similar-sounding Greek word “Christos,” which describes the divine Son of God, the Anointed King, and the “Messiah” who is positioned and purposed by God to be the Deliverer of all people in a way that no regular person, prophet, judge, or ruler could be (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 2:7)
Doth – is an old-fashioned third person singular form of the verb `do.
Egojis – The word ego generally refers to an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Jnana-tristi – The meaning of wisdom is vision,view of knowledge or philosophy of knowledge. According to Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā, jnana drishti means the vision of knowledge. Through jnana drishti, a person can know things related to the world of knowledge or the visible world.
Mahākaruṇā- (महाकरुणा) refers to “great compassion”, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 2).—Accordingly, “People of sensitive and upright mind can easily obtain salvation. If these people do not hear the doctrine preached, they fall into grave difficulties. It is like the lotus (utpala) in the water: some are born, some ripen, some remain within the water without emerging. If they do not have sunlight (sūryaprabhā), they do not expand (vikasanti). The Buddha is like [the sunlight]: sent forth by his great loving kindness and great compassion (mahāmaitrī-karuṇā), that he might have pity for beings and preach the doctrine”.
Ramana Maharishi– (1879-1950) was a great sage and saint of modern times. He laid great emphasis on self-reflection. He has had great influence in India and abroad in the modern period. Ramana Maharshi emphasized monism.
Prarabdha -is that portion of ones karma which is the cause of the present birth.
Rat-race-
Satchitananda – is a Sanskrit term that describes the nature of reality as it is conceptualized in Hindu and yogic philosophy. Some consider sat-chit-ananda to be the same as God or Brahman (Absolute Reality).
Sunyata- ” (Sanskrit) is usually translated as “essence”, “emptiness”, “hollow”, “hollowness”, “emptiness” . Emptiness, a doctrine of the secondary school of Mahayana branch of Buddhism is. This means that the world and all its substances are without existence. Some special things related to emptiness
Swadarshan – ‘ Swa’ – Means Self and ‘Darshana’ – Means to meet, to observe or the philosophy.
Swadharma – Self-righteousness is to choose one’s duty according to one’s qualities and nature
Swa Lila – Self interplay.
Tao – Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who, around 500 B.C.E., wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe. Taoists believe in spiritual immortality, where the spirit of the body joins the universe after death.
That Twm asi -Tat tvam asi, in Hinduism , is a famous expression of the relationship between the individual and the Absolute
T.S. Eliot -was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943)
Viking- The term ” Dane ” commonly refers to Vikings from Denmark, while “Norse” commonly refers to Vikings from Norway.
Yankee – its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States.
Wuji– pet(dog) name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984), also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic. In article Wuji mean Sunya himself.
INDIAN SPIRITUALITY AND WEST
– Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/124024897/INDIAN_SPIRITUALITY_AND_WEST_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_bhai
“In India I was principally concerned with the question or the psychological nature of evil. I had been very much impressed by the way this problem is integrated in Indian- intuitive life, and I awared it in new light. In a conversation with the cultivated Chinese I was also impressed again and again by the fact that these people are able to integrate so-called evil without “losing face”. In the West we cannot do this. For the Oriental the problem of morality does not appear to take first place as it does with us. To the Oriental good and evil are meaningfully contained in nature and are merely varying degrees of the same thing. I saw that Indian spirituality contains as much of evil as of good. The Christian strives for good and succumbs to evil, the Indian feels himself to be essentially outside good and evil and all so-called opposites. Indian spirituality needs or aims at, nirwendwa, liberation from duality-consciousness and the mind-ridden ego-sense, and seems to realize this state by meditation, contemplation or some other kind of Yoga- (-There are dozens of different modes of Yoga). The Indian’s goal is not moral perfection or ego-salvation, but a condition of nirwendwa, ego-free Self-awareness-, integral consciousness or mature individuation.
A man, who has not passed through the inferno of his passions, lusts or cravings, has not overcome them. Whenever we give up, leave behind or forget too much, there is always the danger that the thing we have neglected will return with added force-. Sri Wuji is weary-, suspicious or different in regard to concepts and term-symbols such as: spiritual, divine, sublime, soul and Saint – Holiness, Paramhansaji, – Avatar and God. “Have ye experienced what ye are taking, theorizing and sentimentalizing about”? he asks. “We do ye prate about God”? asks Meister Eckhart, Shankaracharya and Sidhartha Gotam Buddha-, and Ramana Maharishi said a few times to emotional egojis : “Leave Bhagavan God alone” – likewise re-incarnation and futurity – and attend to your Self in the present -, the Eternal Now-. Your Swadharmic experience is your essential and integral concern.
Dr. Jung continues: “I grasped the Life of the Buddha as the realisation of the Self-, which had broken through. For Buddha – the Self stands above all gods –
(like Meister Echart’s concepts, or experience, of – Godhead, – the Urground or Christ,) a “unis mundus”, world unity, which represents the essence of human existence and of the world as a whole. The Self embodies both the aspects of intrinsic Being – and the aspect of being awared, without which no world exists: Satchitananda : Being Awareness – Grace.
Buddha awared and comprehended the cosmogenic dignity of human consciousness, – He lived out his life’s Swadharma and dies at an advanced age, giving up his body when it was over 80 years old. Likewise our Ramana Mahrarishi on the mountain of Self-radiant Light-, while Christ’s actualities, as Christ in the Jewish body of Jeshuah ben Joseph, probably lasted no more than a year-. Buddha-, Christ and Ramanji did not die on the ego-cross in life. “Where can I go? I AM – always Here”, he said when his ailing body was going, and the indwelling Emmanuel stated : “Lo! I AM – always with ye. So Be – of good cheer-”. If we experience the immense and the omni-presence of Self-hood-, naturally there can be no fear of body –death or of ego-oblivion. Only 3 years of ministry is recorded-, sometimes of Jewish Joshuah and intermittently as the Christ-consciousness, while Ramanji, without privacy, – prayer or power-antics, was 50 years among us egojis in Self- radiant Sahaja-Samadhi or constant Christ-consciousness. It did not fluctuate, waver or falter. Could you imagine him praying: “May this cup of suffering (-3 years is cansered(cancered) body) be withheld from me? Or prophetically cursing a barren fig-tree and learned pharisees? After the Holi Ghost, or ghostly whole had descended on Joshuah-, even at the ego-crucifixion and body- death on the modern cross, he is alleged to have uttered “My God, my Father-Source, why hast thou forsaken me”?
Still ego “My and me”, not so Ramanji. It’s true that in the end, we have :- “Unto Thee I commend my spirit” and “Consummatum est”-. Yes, consummation ever Is-, Grace Is, Christ Is-. Conscious awareness is All.
“In the course of time Buddhism underwent the same transformation as Christianity. Buddha became as it were, the image of the ‘development’ of the Self:- The intuitive awakening into integral Self-awareness. He became a model for men to imitate-, – whereas actually he had warned against imitation” : “Be a light unto your Self. Find and experience and live your own truth or Swadharma. By awaring and overcoming the Nirdana-chain, or ego-delusion, every human being could Be a Self-enlightened and anandaful-. One-, a Buddha – consciously aware in Swalila. Nirvana is Sansara-, the Natural (Sahaja) is the Spiritual. You need not imitate your Buddha nature-, Christ-concept or any body’s dharma-, and you do not become a Buddha, – a Christ or your Self, but, in the mature fullness of time, you simply awaken and conscious Self-awareness :- The non-dual experiencing in Wholeness and Grace: No ego-antics, persona-masks, identity or conceit of agency. When egoji has vanished like a Shadow in the inner light of wholeness-, who is there to realise, i.e. make read, what is ever and always Real in and all around us? The Truth-experiencing sets you free- from – and in egoji-, in and – beyond. Wu!
Similarly in Christianity and Churchanity. Christ Emmanuel is an example or Archtype, who dwells in every body as its essential and integral personality (or what) Jung might call Unconsciousness or individuation-, the undiscovered Self – or the unawakened Christ). But historical trends lead to the “imitation Christ, imitation of Christ, Buddha or God-concepts, whereby the individual does not consciously persue his own dharma or destined road to wholeness and grace, but attempts to imitate a supposed ideal, a supposed Christ-concept. Beliefs, preconceptions and pre-convictions are hindrances to Ego-free Self –experiencing: “The cross on golgata thou lookest to in vain, if not, within your Self, it be set up again. If Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem were born, and not within your Self, it were – forlorn-” Imitation is a trap “To thine own Self be true”.
“Similarly in the East historical trends led to devout imitation of Buddha – and that Buddha should have become a model to be worshipped and imitated was itself a weakening of his idea-, or light of awareness, just as the ‘imitato Christi’ was the forerunner of fateful stasis in the evolution of the Christian dynamic Idea -. As Buddha by virtue of his insight, inner standing and Empathy with all life, was fare in advance of the Brahman, God and degrading caste-blinkers, so the Christ-conscious Jew, Joshuah ben Joseph-, cried out to the local Pharisees-, Sadukees and fellow-Jews. “Be still and aware ye are Gods; Ye Are God-”. (John-10-34), but men were incapable of comprehending or experiencing what he meant. Instead we find that the so-called Christian West-, far from creating a new world, is moving with gigantic strides and swell prawd-ness towards the possibility of destroying the world we have-”.
“I was intensely aware of both the meaning and the living presentness of the grail-myth. It is still living in spite of all scholarship that has accumulated around the grail-tradition. This fact had impressed me all the more, when I realized the concordance between the poetic myth and what alchemy had to say about the “uniform vas”, the ‘una medicina’ and the ‘unus lapis’. Myths, which today are forgotten, continue to be told by night, and conscious figures, whose mental consciousness has red-used to banality and ridiculous trivialities, are recognized again by poets – and are prophetically revived -. Therefore they can also be recognized in changing forms by intuitively sensitized persons. The great ones of the past have not died-, as we think. They have merely changed their names. “Small and slight, but great in might-, the veiled Kabir enters, new house”: The awakening of the Sleeping Beauty, – the quest of the grail of wholeness and the search for the Philosopher’s Stone (or the Ground of the Wise)- and the amirt of immortality, are living truths of experience at all times. And some prodigal egojis do ‘come to their Self”, their Source and Wholeness.
Wu!
I was taken out of the realm of India and reminded that ‘India’ was not my task, but only a part of the way admittedly a significant one, which should carry me closer to my goal. Towards the beginning of spring I set out on my home-ward voyage with such a plethora of impressions that I did not have any desire to leave the ship at Bombay. Instead I buried myself in my Latin alchemical texts. But India did not pass me by without a trace, it left tracks, which lead from one infinity into another infinity-.
At Ravena we discussed the original ritual of baptism, especially the curious, archaic conception of it as an institution connected with the real peril of death. Such initiations were often connected with the peril of death and so served to express the archtypical idea of death and re-birth. Baptism had originally been a real submersion of the physical body, which at least suggested the danger of drowning. What happens within one Self when ego consciousness integrates in Conscious Self-Awareness, is something which can hardly be described in words. It can be experienced and lived integrally and is a subjective affair, quite beyond discussion. Perhaps one has to be close to death to acquire the necessary freedom to talk about it. There is arch-typical initiation.
From another point of view – body-death appears as a joyful event. In the light of eternity it is a birth – or an unitive wedding, a ‘mysterium coniunctious. The psyche attains, as it were, its missing Self, it achieves wholeness in the invisible Real. On a Greek sarcophagi the joyous element was represented by dancing girls; on Etusean tombs by banquets. When the pios Rabbi Simon Ben Jochai came to die, his friends said that he was celebrating his wedding – or rebirth, or home-coming. To this day it is the custom in many regions to hold picknic(picnic) on the graves on All Soul’s Day. Such customs express the feeling that death is really a festive occasion. Likewise the Orphic and Dionysean mode of life, to which Christianity-, or at least Churchanity, seem to have lost the key-, or path – on the universal Tao.
Dr. Jung did not come to India to heal the Indian psyche or even to investigate or – experience objectively and subjectively the unbroken tradition-, the inter-related flux of paradoxes and antinomies-, of sub and super-mental modes – of Silent “Word made flesh” and penomena-. He had not ‘the time’ to lose egoji in Empathy-, Eternity or Sahaja-Samadhi, or-, rather, it was not his dharmic task-, but else-where he does state interesting opinions regarding India, which seemed true to his teutonic light of awareness. In his books – “The Undiscovered Self” and “Modern man in Search of a Soul”-, we read- :
“Our western air of superiority, in the presence of India’ mature insight, is a part of our essential barbarism. We accidentals had learnt to tame and subject the (psyche’, but we know nothing about its methodical development and its organic functions. Our civilisation is still young, and we therefore require all the devices of the animal-trainer to make the defiant barbarism – and the savage in us to some extent tractable. But, when we reach a more mature level of awareness, we must forego compulsion and turn to self-development (ego-transcendence). For this we must have the skill of wisdom, of integral insight – and of a method or way unto integral wholeness, and, so far, we know of none-. We plug up the emptiness of our souls with efficiency and mentology. Psychology-, as pursued in the West, is only mentology, a science of the mind-, rather than a science of the psyche. It is safe to say that every one of my patients, (in psycho-therapy) – in the second half of life, fell ill because he, or she, had lost that which the living religious of every age have given to their followers, and that none of them really healed, who did not regain his religious outlook” (essential insight and integral wholeness).
Scientific, intuitive psychology, or Self-search has been successfully practiced in our India from time immemorial and Carl Jung pays at least ego-humble lip-service to the mature culture of India, is contrasted with the civilization of the West, and the still more extrovert and adolescent Far West.
Sri Wuji does not favour the blatant power-antics of the almighty Bhagavan Sri Dollar, his swell progress, benevolent bullying and charitable patronage-, but he would not call Yankee-guys and girlies, on their way to the moon and the plants, “adolescent, barbarian mentogliests”, A dignified “Wu” ! Suffices-.
We quete Dr. Jung’s advice to Western conditioned youth, to adolescence or to a particular mind-ridden egoji. “You are so young and at the very beginning of things that I must beg you, as earnestly as I can, to be patient towards all unsolved problems of your heart and mind. Try to care for the questions themselves, as if they were closed chambers – or books written in a foreign language. Do not search now for an answer, which could not be given to you, because you could not live them. The important thing is to live everything, (opleve, – erleben, experience in empathy and in conscious awareness-). At present live the questions – and perhaps, little by little, almost unconsciously – you will, at some distant date, enter into and live- the answers –“. This seems mature advice, but Wuji is weary and wary regarding mental and sentimental word-symbols-, such as mind -, soul, psyche, divine and spiritual. To him the Spiritual is the Natural, the Sahaja – ego-free spontaneity, and in Sahaja-Samadhis as in actualities and duality-play-, the divine Hønisse is integrally at joyous ease and serene grace. Wu! To be solemn and serious, regarding Sri egoji, is more than ridiculous, he says.
“India does not interpret symbols: it lives them. Words are really a mask. They rarely – express the true meaning -, in fact they tend to hide it. An Indian, as long as he remains an Indian, doesn’t thinks, in the same way as we do. Rather he perceives a thought. It comes to him, what I mean is simply that, thank God, there is still a man, who has not learnt how to think, but who perceives his thoughts as though they were visions or living beings, and who perceives God-images as if they were visible – thoughts based on instinctive or intuitive Reality. Thoughts come to him, happen upon him, he interest in the details, the personal and the general actualities of the universe also in objectivity and civic sense, but is interested in the Darshan – the essential insight or the experiencing in totality, the non-dual, ego-free mode of awareness – or graceful Being, So, like the pueblo Indian, he often thinks with his heart-, or ontologically, with his whole Being-. Thought-free, integral wholeness is more than holiness.
“Hindus are notoriously weak in rational exposition. They think most parts in parables, and images, allegories and metaphors, and are not interested in appealing to reasons”. It is said that “reasons extremity is intuitions opportunity. Why reason and analytical thinking, when there is direct perception, integral awareness and darshan-empathy? Sri Wuji is Sahaja simple, thought-free, time-free, ego-free and spontaneously at joyous ease.
Dr. Jung’s book “The Seven Sermons of the Dead”, is apparently and exercise in automatic writings-, written by Jung as though directed, from the realm of the invisible Real, by his diamon and philamon; or, as he might say, by his archtype in the Unconscious, “The Undiscovered Self”. But most inspired writing and poetic and prophetic utterances are an eenastived, intuitive, immaculate” conceptions-. We are being LEAD used and, intuitively-, beyond reason and respectability. We may drop our blinkered ego-conceit of agency and of swell doership.
Conversationally Dr. Jung said – (perhaps playfully), “I was in India sometime ago, trying to convince the Hindus that it is impossible to get rid of the idea of the age (or of ego-consciousness) even in the deepest state of Samadhi” ; Had the learned and deeply experienced Sahaja Samadhi or Ego-freeness? Or did he come here to teach his grandmother how to make Chapaties ? asks Wuji. Conversationally Dr, Jung also stated : “Yes, India is arch-typical and does not analyse or interpret dreams and symbols. (It lives them). That’s why I made no plans to visit Swamis or Gurus, when I went to India I did not even go to see Ramana Maharishi, who had so interested and impressed by Somerset Maughan, because I felt it was not necessary to do so.
I knew what a Swami was. I had an exact idea of this arch-type and that was enough-, especially in a world in a world where extreme personal differentiation doesn’t exist, as it does in the West. We have more variety, but it is only superficial”. “Teutonic, mental and reasonable blinkers? – or – fear”?, asks Wuji. Somerset Maughan, Aldous Huxley-, Dr. H.Lawrence and Dr. Albert Schweitzer also failed in awaring, or experiencing Bharat essentially and integrally. In Empathy the persons –mask, and egoji are ‘lost sight of’ – and the individual vanishes in the indiviumum. Wu!
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
This article Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi, kant.rama@gmail.com
Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen
(October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984)
A Danish mystic, horticulturist and writer who lived in
Europe, India and the US, also known as Sunyata, Sunya
or Sunyabhai. His experiences and travels and anything
concerning his more than 88 years as ‘Rare Born Mystic’,
so named by THE GREAT RAMANA MAHARSHI.
Gandhi Ji once told him “I live in SILENCE once a week,
and you are SILENCE forever!”
Archtypes- is the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies
Aldous Leonard Huxley -(July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English-born writer, whose masterpiece novel, Brave New World, depicted a future in which universal happiness is only achieved by thoroughly dehumanizing humanity.
Amirt – immortal nectar
Anandaful – bliss or happiness.
Avatar – incarnation
Baptism – a Christian ceremony in which a person has water poured on their head, or is covered for a very short time in water, in order to show that that person has become a member of the Christian Church
Bhagavan –God
Brahman – in Hinduism, Brahman is the supreme reality, or the ultimate truth, of the universe.
Buddhas – In Buddhism, Buddha is a title for those who are spiritually awake or enlightened, and have thus attained the supreme goal of Buddhism.
Chapatis- also known as roti, Chapatis are made of whole-wheat flour known as atta, it is a common staple in the Indian subcontinent (-Sunya takes more than one hour to eat one Chapati it come to be known to me when He often visited my father’s home at 434 Bareilly Cantt. As per my father’s saying)
Chirst- The word Christ is from the similar-sounding Greek word “Christos,” which describes the divine Son of God, the Anointed King, and the “Messiah” who is positioned and purposed by God to be the Deliverer of all people in a way that no regular person, prophet, judge, or ruler could be (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 2:7)
Christianity – Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths.
Churchianity – is a usually excessive or narrowly sectarian attachment to the practices and interests of a particular church.
Consummatum est- In the Bible, consummatum est is the last words spoken by Jesus Christ on the cross. The Latin phrase consummatum est means “it is finished” or “it is completed”.
Daimon – a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
Darshan– a vision of deity
David Herbert Lawrence -(11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct.
Dharma – Being Law and Rightness
Dionysean – Dionysian, characteristic of the god Dionysus or the cult of worship of Dionysus; specifically, of a sensuous, frenzied, or orgiastic character.
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung ( 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, perhaps best known through his “autobiography” Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
Erleban – experience(Germany word)
Gautam Siddhartha ¬- The Buddha who lived 2,600 years ago was not God. He was an ordinary man, whose name was Siddhartha Gautam. Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha touching the earth at the moment of enlightenment.
Golgata- Golgotha (Biblical Greek: Γολγοθᾶ, romanized: Golgothâ) was a site immediately outside Jerusalem’s walls where, according to Christianity’s four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.
Guru- in Hinduism, a personal spiritual teacher or guide.
Egojis – The word ego generally refers to an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Emmanuel – God with you
Etusean tombs – Etruscan tombs were constructed from natural bedrock or tufa blocks. Their décor and layout are a rich source of information about Etruscan attitudes to death. They also offer a vital insight into Etruscan life.
Hindus – (Hindustani: [ˈɦɪndu:] ( listen)) are people who religiously practice Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographic, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.
Hønisse – Danish word – hen
IMITATIO CHRISTI- is imitation of Christ : the attempt to live and act as Christ lived and acted.
Jews- refers to people who are part of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Joshua ben Joseph – Joshua Höschel ben Joseph was a Polish rabbi born in Vilnius, Lithuania about 1578 and died in Kraków on August 16, 1648. In his boyhood, he journeyed to Przemyśl, Red Ruthenia, to study the Talmud under Rabbi Samuel ben Phoebus of Kraków.
Kabir – Kabirdas was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and the god of saints. Kabir was opposed to superstition, personality worship, hypocrisy and pretense. He worked to break the shackles of caste and religion in Indian society.
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer – OM (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ] ⓘ; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German-born, French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
Meister Eckhart- (1260-1327) – Dominican theologian and writer who was the greatest German speculative mystic.
Mentology -is a healthcare provider that offers psychological support for individuals, parents, professionals, teams, and organizations.
Mysterium coniunctionis Carl Jung suggested the term mysterium coniunctionis (Latin: “mystery of the conjunction”) as a designation for mystical paradoxes.
Nirdana-Chain- The twelve nidanas describe how the cycle of suffering known as samsara is created.
Nirvana – in Buddhism, the state of peace and happiness achieved after giving up personal desires
Nirwendwa- One who does not care about anything:”He remains lost in his own world, unconcerned about the world”
Opleve, experience(Danish word)
Orphic – Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
Philamon – In Greek mythology, Philammon (Ancient Greek: Φιλάμμων) was an excellent musician, a talent he received from his father Apollo.
Pharisees- Sadukees – the Pharisees and the Sadducees were both religious sects within Judaism during the time of Christ.
Pios – pious – having or showing a deep belief in religion
Pueblo Indians -North American Indian peoples known for living in compact permanent settlements known as pueblos.
Paramhansaji- Ramakrishna Paramhansa(1886-1886) Bengal, was a great saint, spiritual guru and thinker of India. His original name was Gadhdhar Chattopadhyay. He emphasized on the unity of all religions. He believed since childhood that one can see God.
Rabbi Simeon Ben Jochai – Shimon bar Yochai or Shimon ben Yochai, also known as Rashbi, was a 2nd-century tanna, or sage, of the period of Roman Judea and early Syria Palaestina. He was one of the most distinguished disciples of Rabbi Akiva
Ramana Maharishi– (1879-1950) was a great sage and saint of modern times. He laid great emphasis on self-reflection. He has had great influence in India and abroad in the modern period. Ramana Maharshi emphasized monism.
Revena Ravenna is home to a collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments that are considered a blend of Graeco-Roman tradition
Sachchidananda-This is another name for God in the form of Brahma. Sat means truth, Chit means mind or soul and Anand means a state free from the bondage of karma.
Sarcophagi- sarcophagus is a stone coffin or container that’s usually displayed above ground, though it can also be buried. The word comes from the Greek word sarkophagos, which means “flesh-eating” or “limestone used for coffins”
Sahaja – (Prakrit languages: সহজ Sanskrit: सहजsahaja) means spontaneous enlightenment in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality.
Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness
Sansara – the indefinitely repeated cycles of birth, misery, and death caused by karma
Shankaracharya – Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya was an Indian Vedic scholar, philosopher and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta. Shankaracharya is a religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism.
Somerset Maughan – W. Somerset Maugham (born Jan. 25, 1874, Paris, France—died Dec. 16, 1965, Nice) was an English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human nature.
Swadharma – Self-righteousness is to choose one’s duty according to one’s qualities and nature
Swa Lila – Self interplay.
Swami – in India, a religious ascetic or holy person.
West – the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Western Europe, Northern America, and Australasia.
Wuji– pet(dog) name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984), also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic. In article Wuji mean Sunya himself.
Tao – Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who, around 500 B.C.E., wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe. Taoists believe in spiritual immortality, where the spirit of the body joins the universe after death.
Teuotonic – Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.
the Word made flesh – The phrase “the Word made flesh” is a reference to the Bible verse John 1:14, which states, “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”. This verse is interpreted to mean that the second person of the Trinity, who is God, took on human nature and became a man. This is also known as incarnation
Una medicina- one medicine
Unis Mundus – Unus mundus (Latin for “One world”) is an underlying concept of Western philosophy, theology, and alchemy, of a primordial unified reality from which everything derives.
Unus lapis – Latin word – (one stone)
Urground – Jesus is synonymous with their ground or place.
Yankee – its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States.
Ye – Ye is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for you when you are talking to more than one person
Yoga – The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘Yuj’, meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to yoke’ or ‘to unite’. A Hindu philosophy which aims to unite the self with the spirit of the universe.
Yogi – A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions..
Yogic- Relating to the activity or philosophy of Yoga: yogic exercises.
VISIONS, DARSHANS, DREAMS AND DEATHS
– Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/123235743/VISIONS_DARSHANS_DREAMS_AND_DEATHS_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_bhai_
These, as well as Archtypes, – Mandalas and Myths-, were of great interest and significance to Dr. Carl Jung in his psyche research and investigations of the conscious Self -, collective or individual. Darshan is more than mere visions or dreams –, but even these may indications – of psychic woes-, dis-eases – or wholeness, and long familiarity and experience – in dealing with Archtypes, Mandalas and Myths, seem to have given Dr. Jung a key or an insight – or an innerstanding of these and, also, in what we may call death-experiencing.
“Myths are the earliest forms of science -. When I speak of things after death, I am speaking out of inner promptings – and intuitive experiences – in individuation or integral awareness. There are indications that at least a part of the psyche is not subject to the laws of space and time. Scientific proof of this has been provided by the well known J.B. Rhine experiment, along with numerous cases of spontaneous fore-knowledge – pre-visions and non-spacial perception. The psyche functions, at times, outside the spatic-temporal law of causality. A complete awareness, concept or experience of integral Wholeness requires the addition of still another dimension, and this unified experience we may have in ego-free darshans-, dreams or deaths.
Myth is the natural and indispensable intermediate stage between unconscious and conscious cognition on awareness, the unconscious can reveal more than consciousness does, but it is awareness of a special sort-, awareness of Eternity-, another dimension, usually without reference to here and now, not couched in the language of the intellect. Death is of important interest, specially to any mature person. He is under an obligation to answer a categorial question and, to this end, he ought to have a myth about death or an authentic death-experiencing, for reasons, and respectability shows him nothing but the mystic – dark pit of Suynata. “Die before ye die”, ‘advised Allah’s prophet : Dare the existential leap into ego-oblivion and integral Self Awareness-. Wu’!
“Even now I can no more than tell stories -, mythologise – and make statements about my own Myth” and mode of individuation or integral experiencing. Perhaps one has to be close to death to acquire the necessary freedom to talk about it”. Prejudices cripple and injure the integral phenomena of psychic life-. Egoji is the ‘devil’ and mere beliefs, pre-conceptions and pre-convictions are hindrances to integral experiencing or non-dual awareness.
Dr. Jung had many significant dreams-experiences – specially the one in Liverpool, – the Mandala Centre of Life, but we will quote only his actual death-experiencing. Shanti Devi in Delhi not only remembers her earlier life-span in Agra-, but describes her death-state-, the interval between the two incarnations and actual life- play-. This interval of course, is time-free and difficult to state in ego-terms or duality word-symbols.
At the age of 60 Dr. Jung experienced a prolonged – physical illness – and doctors – thought the disease fatal. Carl did actually – die-, but returned to body consciousness and was mind conscious among us for another 20 years of vital and creative play-. This is how he describes his – death experiencing : – “As I approached the steps leading up to the entrance into the rock, a strange thing happened: I had the feeling that everything was being sloughed away, everything I aimed at or wished for, or thought, – the whole phantasmagoria of earthly existence fell away, or was striped from me- an extremely painful process. Nevertheless something remained : It was as if I now carried along with me everything that has happened around me and within me. I might also say : it was with me and I was it. I consisted of all that, so to speak. I consisted of my own history and I felt with great certainty : This is what I am. I am this bundle of what has been and what has been accomplished. The experience gave me a feeling of extreme poverty, but, at the same time, of great fullness-. There was no longer anything I wanted or desired.”
“I existed in an objective form, I was what I had – and had lived. At first the sense of annihilation predominated-, of being stripped or pillaged, – but suddenly that became of no consequence-. Everything seemed to be past. What remained was a “fait accompli” without any reference back to what has been. There was no longer any regret that something had dropped away or been removed. On the contrary -: I had everything that I was, – and that was – everything-.
Something else engaged my attention. As I approached the temple I had a certainty that I was about to enter an illuminated room and would meet there all those people to whom I belong in reality. There I would at last be aware, this too was certainty, – what historical nexus I-, or my life, fitted into : I would know what has been before me, why I had come into being and where my life was flowing. My life, as I had been living it, often seemed to me like a story that had no beginning – and no end-.
I felt as though I was floating in space, though I was safe in the womb of the universe, in a tremendous void, but filled with the highest possible feeling of happiness – (Ananda). One is interwoven into an indescribable whole and yet observing it with complete objectivity. The objectivity, which I experienced in this “dream and in visions, is part of the complete individuation. It signifies detachment from valuations and from what we call emotional or affective ties. In general –emotional ties are very important to human beings. Emotional relationships are relationships of desire tainted by coercion and constraints-. Something is expected from the other person and that makes him and ourselves unfree. – Something else too, came from my illness. I might formulate it as an affirmation of things as they are, an unconditional YES – to that which is, without subjective protests-. Acceptance of the conditions of existence as I am aware and experiencing them, acceptance of my own nature – as I (egoji) happen to be. When we follow the path of individuation to integral awareness, and live our own life, we must take mistakes into the bargain. Life would not complete without them”.
Dame Julian was told by her God-: “Sin is behovely” in the life-play. –Blinkers, ignorance and unawareness-, are due and behovable – our Swadharma, – or prarabdha karma – of our destined Life-interplay. Mature, integral awakening into conscious and abiding Self-awareness – is all.
Now-a-days many human fellow-pilgrims court this ego- transcending, other-dimensional and integral experiencing-, by injections or by orally taking drugs-, mescaline-and whatnot. This psychedelic practice, or attempt at temporary ego-suicide, may be a ‘pis aller’ , confusing and even harmful and we have not the slightest temptation or urge to experiment in drug-psychedelics-, but 5 of our near friends do court this mode of experiencing – and seem to find it profitable and salutary. They are all western-conditioned guys-, and 3 of them we did not suspect would need to court this temporary, momentary or time-free mode-, but their description of their ‘death’ experiencing tally with that of Dr. Carl Jung-, Here in the East the Spiritual is the Natural and Sangsara is Nirvana. 200 different kinds of Yoga have been practiced here during millennium: Intuitive Psychology and Sri Himalaya-, Freud, Adler and Jung did brave pioneer work in the adolescent, mental West. Carl Jung said truly : “Psychology, as practiced in the West, is a misnomer for Mentology, (Science of the Mind). We do not know the integrally whole psyche”. See “The Undiscovered Self” and “Modern man in Search of a Soul” by Dr. Jung.
Very few of the human fellows – way-farers-, or pilgrims in Himalayan consciousness, who experience death or ego-transcendence, have any- word-language ready for expressing this-, and so they keep wisely mum. It may come upon -, like grace, -unaware, unsolicited and unaimed at-, as in the case of Ramana Maharishi-, or by strenuous Yogic practice. The Eastern Sages-, Rishis and Sufis made word-symbols befitting their experience in Beyondness and in immanence. – Socrates-Platao in “Phaedrus” – and mature mystics like Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehm and Juan de la Cruz, stuttered in their own local dialect, ecclesiastical, -alchemi or poetry-, and were often condemned, imprisoned or ex-communicated by their own Churchanity, which tabooed the non-dual experiencing – or Grace-awareness, the Unity in and beyond union and ecstasy-, the natural spirituality of graceful Sahaja Samadhi. Words are apt to falsify the word – and to blur Reality-Awareness. The body of Lazarus had begun to decay and to stink after three days in the cool-cave-. It is said that after his return to ego-life, he never laughed-, or mentioned the state of death-. Perhaps-, having experienced it, he could smile the Smile of Life-Word-freely.
Dr. Jung speaks of his mother’s body-death thus: “It was Wotan, the God of my Alemannic forefathers, who had gathered my mother to her ancestors-, negatively to the ‘wild horde’ -, but positively to the ‘Salig Lut’, the blessed folks. It was the Christian missionaries, who made Wotan, or Odin, into Devil. In himself he was an important God with single intuitive eye in his forehead-, an all-wise Father-Source, a Mercury or Hermes, as the Romans correctly realized – a Nature Spirit, who returned to life again in the Merlin of the grail-legend and become the ‘spiritus mercurialis’, or the Stone of Wisdom in Alchemi. Thus the dream says that the Soul of the Self, which lies beyond the segment of Christian morality, – is taken into the wholeness of nature and spirit, in which conflicts and contradictions are resolved-. A belief proves, to me, only the phenomenon of belief, not the content of the belief, and Belief is often a hindrance to integral experience.
In old age one begins to let memories unrold before the soul’s eye – and -, musing, to recognize oneself in the inner – and outer images of the past. This is like a preparation for an existence in the hereafter, just as in Plato’s view philosophia is a preparation for leaving the body, the ego-mind and other good tools. Many of us remain imprisoned in these memories, but if our musing be reflective and is translated into images, retrospection can be a ‘reculer pur mieux sauter’ . In general, the conception people form of the hereafter is largely made up of wishful thinking and prejudices – and not of authentic experience.
What I experienced in my 1944 visions was liberation from the burden of the body-identity-, and the perception of meaning and of wholeness gave me the deepest bliss – (Ananda-Grace). The figure of the Yogi would more or less represent my unconscious, pre-natal wholeness and the East, as is often the case in dreams, a psychic state, alien and opposed to our own. The aim of these dreams, is to effect a reversal of the relationship between ego- consciousness and unconsciousness – and to represent the unconscious as the generator of the empirical personality. This reversal suggests that, in the opinion of the ‘other side’, our unconsciousness existence is the real one (the visible Real) and our conscious world, of ego-values and actuality-play, a kind of due illusion or Maya-Lila interplays-, an apparent reality constructed for a specific purpose-, like a dream, which seems a reality-, as long as we are in it. “Dreams are true while they last-, and do we not live in dream”?
The unconscious wholeness, therefore, seems to me the true ‘spirit us reactor’ of all biological and psychic events. Here is the principle which strives for total Self-realisation, which in man’s case, signifies the awareness of integral consciousness-, or mature awakening into conscious Self-awareness-, in that which Is, – Here and Now-, eternally. Awakening into integral consciousness, or mature conscious Self-awareness is culture in its widest sense and is the heart and essence of this process.
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
kant.rama@gmail.com
Babes and Consciousness – Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya bhai)
Let it not disconcert you that we speak in plurial. It is rather in the Whitmansish sense: “Do I contradict myself ? Very well contradict myself: I am large, I am multitudes”, aye more then all these universes and interpenetrating multi-verses. This is in Adwaita mode of cosmic unity-awareness or Self experiencing-, and, in a strange yet real and natural way, it has been ours-, in babyhood and also intermittently since-, co-existing and un-clashing with ego-consciousness-, aye suffusing it in mutual in interpenetration. Wu!
All babies are inherently wise and integral – in pre-natal consciousness and until the bodily age of two years, -when the fatal ego-consciousness usurp to blur and hide our real Self to our insight – and, in mere knowledge. Wisdom is also lost – sight of-, awareness of. Our deep, dream free sleep is really a needful return to the perennial Source-, The Alaya, the common, unifying Ground. It is a relief like death- from ego: thought, mind and conceit of agency-. This Adwaita-mode of experiencing cannot be truly asserted or willfully expressed in words, as a descent from the not-two state of awareness into word symbols, is always a falsification. Still one may play in wordiness, – lightly and well knowing that it is play-, that it is really a dissipation, and that only Silence is eternally Real and Self-radiant. Where is the wisdom we have lost awareness of in mere knowledge, cleverness and swellness ? In ego-life, duality, values and external fuss, we dissipate the intrinsic awareness – in Integrally – and the aware consciousness in Self-hood and in Self –experiencing, in Shanta atman as in Shakti-business. Yet bondage is delusive. We are ever free in it all-. Be but ego- still to – Be – awake in conscious awareness, and at joyous ease in all ego-fuss and phenomena; Swadarshan is ever in Swa-leela and Swadharma is our real concern.
So, in our snatches of consciousness bubbling into word- symbols, the ‘We’ and the ‘our’ – do not imply – the ego- I-ness or possessiveness. ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are really naughty words. Wu! These are always the bodies-, mental, sensuous and physical in which we function and in which the I AM plays at joyous ease. And always there is the masterly Co. Sri Chow Chuji. Wu!, whose physiognomy looks rather in the image or murti of canine friend, but our local avatar, Sri Ananda Maya Ma, (who calls us Bhai ji) declares and declaims, concires and conceives, confesses and confirms, the Sri Chow Chuji W ‘is not a Dog’. Wu!
We left J. freely alone in Himalayan Nature – all one to find his atonement-, integrality and inherent – intrinsic Swadharma within Himself-. Is he mature enough to make a good, salutary – and abiding death into Life? “Sannyasa – means death – or “renunciation” letting go of ego-desires, of ego – willfulness and of the blinding conceit of agency-. How can be help fellows-pilgrims to such death into free dawn and conscious aware Self experiencing, integral living? Our own death is no-atonement to them. Our real awakening into the Eternal, the invisible Real-, in conscious abiding awareness, – seems a matter of sincerity – and of ripeness, “We must endure our coming hither and our going hence! Ripeness is all – !. Maturity is all, and some babes are born mature. Age is not in a span of years, – non death in a body’s decay-. The cross on Golgata thou lookest to in vain, if not within thy Self it be set up again. If Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem were born and not within thy Self, it were forlorn” (in vain). Hard sayings to Sri Ego and to duality-values, – but truly: death is the secret, the key to Life and not its opposite, which is birth.
The pre-ego conscious state of awareness, or mode of experiencing, is very important and utterly simple, but how can it integrally bubble into words? Focus it and we may, in creative contemplation, aware and experience and Adwaita as con-existence – as the Sahaja, unimpeded interpenetration-, but the thought, word-symbols and trying are impediments, and tiresome dissipations. “A Fest”, says mind-free Wuji. The internal whole does not assert, – nor does Sri Himalaya and a healed psyche fuss. The invisible, – eternal Real is not external in origin and can only be re-cognized and experienced in consciousness-, in conscious Self-Awareness. Although the expression or assertion of Adwaita-Awareness is impossible to egos-, still its Existence or Beingness is indicated in Karuna-rhythm. “ We are always aware Sunya!” is a statement a reminder, rather than an assertion.
M. and C. have worked out a very interesting method or salutary way of “Education” and, at the Government’s invitation, they will be travelling and demonstrating it in school and in ‘mental’ homes. It sees practical pragmatic, essential and much simpler than J. K’s word-spinning – and psychological discussions. The aim is to save and protect the Eternal babe is from being ‘headucated’, super-imposed and conditioned in learned ignorance, delusive bondage and civilized diseases. There is the rampant disease of more knowledge, – of sin and guilt and swell power-complexes-, and of ego-megalomania. Half of the population in such highly enlightened educated and socially ideal democracies as Switzerland and Denmark, do suffer from some form of neuroses, psychoses or schizophrenia. Their “highest standard of living” does not prevent them from having the highest world-records of suicides.
This liberation or freedom-education (bringing forth or the inherent, natural wisdom and simple in inegrality) is a living thing. The teacher must live it, and so simply evoke-transmit-, heal and liberate – by manifesting – it in practice. The aim is to liberate the child-like from being childish -, the mature babe from becoming an adolescent brat- and the natural spirituality and integrality from the fatal fall – into ego or divided consciousness. Unless ye reawaken and re-become the consciousness of babes-, ye can in no way enter the inner, integral realm of Grace, said the Christ-conscious Jesus. “Suffer the children to come unto Me – for such as the eternal realm of Grace”.
Upto 2 years of age the babies usually are loveable and free -. Then begins the format on and re-formation into emotional and mental brats-, into cleverness, greed and, civilized values, into habits, conformity, diseases, accomplishments and sins. So the salving begins at 2 years of age. Is the Fall in the Garden of Eden really necessary-? Can we not at least speedily re-capitulate our psychic experiences, -as we do the physical ones- prenatally? Surely there is the inherent, intrinsic and integral Wisdom – Awareness which far transcends the mere knowledge of good and evil – and duality “know hows”.
If the civilized disease are already rampant in grown: up children, as in the most of us, the bleeding psyche must be healed, -de-civilized, into integral health, Self-culture and Sahaja Beingness. In psychic health, the merely physical diseases, (which are but symptoms of psychic ills,) will be automatically healed. Heal the Cause. Seek the Source-, the transcending essence. Awaken the individuum into the individual or into the healthy attitude that liberates and in which they naturally heal themselves and stay healthily and integrally aware, at joyous ease in the Grace and inter-relatedness of Swaleela.
Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
kant.rama@gmail.com
Adam fell – The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Adwaita -Advaitais the feeling of looking at all beings from the same perspective i.e. in a unified manner. In Advaita Bhava, there is no meaning of ‘mine’ and ‘yours’, in this everything is created by the Supreme God and in the end there is a feeling of merging in Him.
Alaya – the universal soul
Avatar – incarnation
Babes – ‘babe’ is a broad term that encompasses infants and young children.
This biblical symbolism is largely employed to underscore themes like purity, the purity of faith, innocence, humility, and the necessity of complete dependence on God.babe serves as a symbol for pure, unpretentious, and humble faith.
Chow Chuji – signifies strength, power, and loyalty. – The Chow is a breed of dog. It is originally from northern China and is one of the oldest dog breeds.
Garden of Eden- Because Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Lord sent them out of the Garden of Eden into the world.
Golgata- Golgotha (Biblical Greek: Γολγοθᾶ, romanized: Golgothâ) was a site immediately outside Jerusalem’s walls where, according to Christianity’s four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.
Headucated – reduce stigma and discrimination towards mental health
Himalaya – Himalaya a range of mountains that are revered in India. These are considered sacred and mystical. Sages, yogis, seekers are drawn to these stately and lofty mountains. As per Hindu religion and mythology, the Himalayas are the abode of Gods, especially of Lord Shiva.
Individuum – Latin indīviduum, noun use of neuter singular of indīviduus (“indivisible”).
Karuna – Karuṇā (Sanskrit: करुणा) is generally translated as compassion or mercy and sometimes as self-compassion or spiritual longing.
M.C. – Marshall Cavendish Education has developed a proven, time-tested approach that has helped children around the world prepare for the demands of life ahead.
Megalomania – is the result of a person’s childhood experiences
Pluriel- in French in English – Plural
Sahaja – (Prakrit languages: সহজ Sanskrit: सहजsahaja) means spontaneous enlightenment in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality.
Sannyasa – Sanyasa or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as Ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (on the path of Brahma), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).
Schizophrenia -is a serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel and behave.
Shakti – means energy. Mahadeva has the creative power or Maya who is the feminine energy and creator power or masculine energy both.
Shanta atman – Śāntātman (शान्तात्मन्).—a. calm, tranquil-minded, sedate or composed in mind.
Sri anandamayi ma – (sri anondomoyi ma or anandamoyi ma; 30 april 1896 – 27 august 1982) was a enlightened mystic and guru from bangladesh. sri anandamayi ma was also called as dakshayani, vimala, kamala, “mother of shahbag” and manush kali (living kali).
Sunya – Sunya is the state of nothingness, it means that every material and spiritual entity emerges from nothingness and merges into nothingness, but this supreme nothingness is the all encompassing Brahman who is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss
Swadharma – Self-righteousness is to choose one’s duty according to one’s qualities and nature
Swa Lila – Self interplay. .
Swadarshan – ‘ Swa’ – Means Self and ‘Darshana’ – Means to meet, to observe or the philosophy.
Whitmanish- language or expression of the kind characteristic of the poet Walt Whitman.The earliest known use of the adjective Whitmanish is in the 1920s.
Wuji– pet(dog) name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (October 27, 1890 – August 13, 1984), also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic. In article Wuji mean Sunya himself.
A hermit from Himalaya in Oslo- Alfred Emmanuel Sorensen- Sunya
(A life sketch of Sunya Bhai)
A Danish peasant lad was once invited to come to Shantiniketan to ‘teach Silence’ by the Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore. His name was Alfred Emmanuel Sorensen and his present name in India, Sunya was conferred upon him by one of India’s greatest modern Sages Sri Ramana Maharishi. Sunya Bhai means Brother of Silence or of ego-freeness. In its widest sense the Sanskrit term symbol Sunya , or Sunyata, denotes the mystics 0, -, the full Plenum Void-, void of ego and duality. It is a state of experience or mode of Being awareness, which also means Brahm, Satori, Turiya or simple, natural Sahaja Samadhi. It was the mode of conscious awareness lived by the above mentioned Rishi Ramana-, who unasked gave the modern Viking initiation and name. Emmanuel also is “Christ within”. Sunya is a friend of the Indian Ambassador Apa B. Pant with whom he is staying at present. We visited him and had a pleasant talk with him at the Ambassador home. He is not under a vow of silence and he can still, after 50 years abroad in Europe and Asia, use his Danish tongue. Danish and Indian friends have given him the return fare to New Delhi – and he spent a week in Beirut, a month in Greece-, in Athens and at Mount Athos-, and 3 month in Denmark. On the return he will revisit England, Belgium, France and Greece again. In Himalayan India where he has been during the last 30 years, he has built several solitary sadhu huts for himself and kindred friends, who also like to live solitary in neighbhourly friendliness on the Himalayan ridge. They are not all sadhus – or simple livers, but they love simplicity, naturalness and spontaneity. Elsewhere on the ridge – live other western-born souls – and Indians, Artists, contemplatives, writers, researchers and nature-lovers-, sometimes in families-, but not very social, and there is, half a mile or a mile between the various dwellings. Sunya’s nearest neighbour southward was, for 22 years, Akasha and Earl Brewister who painted the various faces of Sir Himalaya in the changing moods and seasons. A mile northward is still German born Lama Angarika Govinda-, well known painter and writer on Tibetan lore. His Lama wife is Parsee Li Gautami, also a painter and photographer. Further north is a small group of English students from Cambridge University,- professors, doctors, captains and reverents. They have an Indian woman as guru – and have built a temple in which Radha and Krishna are worthshipped very ritualistically.
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Guru Wuji advises us to love kindly and charitably. Charity, he says, was once Karuna-, Agapa and Kinde-Love. “The greatest of these is Charity ” (Caritas). Now we say cold as charity and it is often degraded into benevolent bullying inflicted on the ‘natives’ and the blessed poor in Spirit. It can be condescending, patronizing and pitiful and may relieve your guilt complexes and divided consciousness. The mass neuroses-, crowd-hypnoses and ordinary psychosis and schidgophernia-, Is it an entrance: fee into the promised realm of Grace-, Empathy or integral Unity-Awareness? Consciousness, like Self or God – is one; ego-consciousness , collective consciousness and even unconsciousness are parts and modes of integral consciousness. But we play in these various modes, unaware that ‘we’ are the Essence and the Whole – “Soham, tat twamasi”- until we awaken maturely into the dawn of pure Himalayan Consciousness. Few of us remember our pre-ego-consciousness-, the child-like, ego-free and mind-free mode, which is said to be in- dispensable for re-entrance into the pure realm of grace. It is not the childish brat-stage. Children soon become mental, clever and indoctrinated egos, says Guru Wuji. A mind-ridden ego and an ego-ridden mind! What is the difference? he muses and it seemed to him that genius and most artists are blinkered, diseased ego souls and not artists in Life., not whole and gracefully free Wu! “Creative” ! Shakti-business ! Yes, blinkers and sins are ‘behovely’ -. It is due to individual Swadharma – and prarabdha-karma interplay, but we cannot create without destroying-. There is transmutation, a constant mutation and changing of forms and modes of play. There is mutual interpenetration, but is there any creation, sudden or evolutionary? Guru Wuji rails against the term-symbols Creator. – Preserver and Destroyer, and suggests Projector, Sustainer and Transmitter”. With one fragment I projected all these universes. I (the Silence) remain”, says Brahm, or Krishna – or Sunya somewhere. The Word made flesh and phenomena issues from the cosmic Silence. A fragment is projected and informs us while Silence remains the Source and Ground of all – “We” are the screen of Silence on which the Maya Lila Swadharma is projected and enacted playfully. Vishnu-love sustains the form and the interplay, while Shiva Ji, In the aspect of Nataraja, is both Creator and destroyer of forms – in the cosmic Dance-Play. He is the constant transmuter of forms and Self-interplay, sex-free and whole in poise and rhythm and Self-radiance. It is Swa-Lila and thus divine energy and anandaful Grace.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
Kant.rama@gmail.com
https://www.academia.edu/121513944/A_hermit_from_Himalaya_in_Oslo
Buddham Saranam Gachami
Mysticism in Buddhism
By
Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen(Sunya Bhai)
“……… But because there is, monks, an unborn, not become, not made, uncompounded, therefore an escape can be shown for what is born, has become, is made, is compounded”- Nirvana is not part of the flux. Nirvana is in the experience that Meister Eckhart would call “the eternal Now-, an unborn Reality- which we all can aware and experience in a time-free, effort-free and ego-free mode of consciousness. It is an escape – from duality-consciousness and from false i-dentification. Buddha would not, like our modern empiricists, identify experience with sense-experience. Nirvana is non-dual-, non-senseous experiencing and Buddha is the way to awakening-, to integral enlightenment. The Buddhist adept claim to have direct experience in Nirvana in this life without waiting for another life-span. Therefore for Buddha the conception of Nirvana is not metaphysical but empirical. “The Tatagata, O Vaccha, is from theories”.
Source from old paper collection of letters sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Rahdey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’ and ‘Nature and I’ in English and
‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Haiku Ramayan’ in Hindi
https://www.academia.edu/119800886/Mysticism_in_Buddhism_Author_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen
Ramana Maharishi represents a perfect instance or the ego-free state-, an embodiment of the Maha Rishi -, who lives, or manifests, the non-dual, adwaita consciousness of light of awareness: He speaks little and only when he finds it necessary. Silence (Mouna) is, to him, the most powerful expression of integral Being-, which speech only hinders. Asked to define Mouna, he said: “That stage which transcends speech and thought in Mouna. It is contemplation without mental activity. Depth-contemplation is Eternal speech-. Salience is ever speaking-, (the word). It is the perennial flow of language. It is interrupted by speaking-, for words abstract this mute language . Silence is unceasing eloquence. It is the best language”, Wuji says. Wu!
https://www.academia.edu/117267831/Ego_free_Maharishi_Ramana_and_Alfred_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_
Ego-free : Maharishi Ramana and Alfred Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
“The Real is unpalatable and incredible to egos.
The Humans cannot stand very much Reality.”
~Emmanuel Sorensen
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