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    Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe
    Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe
    Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe
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    Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe

    By Gangaji

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    Home is Where You Are
     
    This slim volume challenges readers to discover their place in the universe. In it, teacher, author, and spiritual leader Gangaji offers the radical invitation to:
    • Examine one’s own life.
    • Choose to wake up from the trance of who you think you are and experience the truth of who you really are.
    • Resolve not to go back into the trance by turning away from that essential experience of waking up.
    • Freshly inquire anew as thoughts or feelings of separation arise.
    Gangaji's invitation is radical in part because it is not based upon a particular philosophy or religion. There are no prescribed practices or rituals, unless one considers self-inquiry or self-observation a practice.  Most radically, it calls into question the very structure of who we've believed ourselves to be. Who you are is not separate from God or Love or Truth or Freedom or Peace or Silence, whatever one chooses to call it.
     
    Therefore, there is nothing you have to do to "get there." No merit to be earned. Who you are is already here, has always been and will always be. The invitation in this book is to wake up and be Yourself.
     
    “My life is given to what I have received,
    which is the truth of living peace, fresh
    fulfillment. My life is given to serving that
    truth, that fulfillment in you.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHampton Roads Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9781612833361
    Freedom and Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe
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    Gangaji

    Gangaji is an American-born spiritual teacher dedicated to sharing the path of freedom through simple and direct self-inquiry, as taught by the legendary sage Sri Ramana Maharshi of India. In 1990, Gangaji (then Antoinette Roberson Varner) entered this lineage through Sri H.W.L. Poonjaji. Since that time, she has traveled the world, holding gatherings and retreats with spiritual seekers of all faiths.

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      Freedom and Resolve - Gangaji

      The Choice Is Yours

      After aeons of choosing to tell a story of separation from God, the story seems choiceless. It seems choiceless, but it is not. You have simply been continuing to choose the story that was passed on to you by your ancestors, by your past lives, by your past mistakes, by your past desires. What is choiceless is the truth of who you are.

      Choice lies in the mind's ability to either deny that truth or to embrace it. That choice is free will—the freedom of choice. You have no free will regarding who you are. You are that fully and completely. But you do have free will regarding the powers of mind and imagination. You can play as if you are not who you are. You can play as if you almost are, but still not quite. You can play any number of variations and permutations of choosing or denying who you are.

      You have played like this for aeons. Eventually, a weariness arises in the play because the play is limited. For all of its display, for all of its beauty, for all of its pain, the play is limited because it is based on the assumption that you are somehow separate from truth, from understanding, from love, from God. The whole play is based on the assumption of separation, and the assumption hardly ever gets investigated. The assumption is believed to be real, and from this belief the play gets very complicated.

      I am inviting you to see who is really playing.

      Taking for granted the truth that you are consciousness, that you are one with God, that you are truth, then this taking for granted is a kind of trance or sleep state, where you will one day imagine that you are separate, that you are lost, and then the search begins again.

      You are naturally consciousness. What we name God is supreme consciousness. You are naturally one with God. You are naturally truth. All the rest is unnatural. It may be normal, but it is not natural. It may be usual, but it is not natural. The play even has its purpose because with the belief in the play and the unnatural normality of it, there is an opportunity to imagine yourself as lost, to experience the pain and the suffering of being lost, of being cast out, of being separate from God. Then this imagination, this play with all of its pain, can give rise to the yearning for reunion of truth in all of its glory.

      In the invitation that is extended from Ramana, the invitation of direct self-inquiry, you have the opportunity to turn your attention to who is lost, who is separate. You will find no one. There is no one lost. The lost one was fabricated in the mind to begin the play. If your resolve is to investigate intensely, freshly, completely, to not fall asleep by continuing to practice the belief based on the assumption of separation, then you will meet yourself as that very consciousness in which player, seeker, separation, and union appear and disappear.

      Vigilance: A Call to Deeper Surrender

      Many lucky, graced people have had a taste or a glimpse of what is immortal, of what is the eternal Self. From that taste the question arises, What next? or What should I do now? What do I do with this? Where do I take it? These questions indicate that more surrender is being called for. There is always an invitation to more deeply surrender. This surrender is vigilance.

      Vigilance is often misunderstood. Usually, what passes for vigilance is careful monitoring by the super ego. I'm sure you're very aware of this kind of monitoring: Oh, I shouldn't have said it that way. I shouldn't have done it that way. I shouldn't have thought that. I should have surrendered. This monitoring is not vigilance. It is an imitation of vigilance. Vigilance comes from the word vigil, meaning to keep vigil. Keeping vigil is a form of worship. Vigilance is a sacred, quiet, peaceful vigil at the flame of truth.

      By assuming that the perception of separation from truth is likely, or at least possible, you have the opportunity to keep vigil at the flame of truth. If you are truly vigilant, you will discover yourself as not separate from truth. What's next from that? Deeper vigilance. Deeper discovery. There is no end to true discovery. What can end is your preoccupation with who you thought you were. Your

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