Author: Andrew Taggart
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Don’t Take The Kick
Shri Ranjit Maharaj has a very idiosyncratic way of teaching Advaita Vedanta. Consider but two instances (among many others) of his vivid references to “the kick”: A realized person doesn’t get the kick, the world is there, but he has no kick of it. Kick is the worst. The world is nothing, but the kick…
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In The Nondual Teaching, There Is No Problem
1 There is no problem. Therefore, you can stop hunting for a problem (and thus for something to improve). Therefore, you can rest in and as Awareness. But, nonetheless, if there is a thought that arises and if that thought seems to ‘defensively’ say, “There is no problem,” then it’s worth investigating the matter more closely. Is there…
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I Want, I Know, I Do
While there are quite a few ways of seeking to conceptualize what the ego-self is, I’d like to offer a very simple, straightforward one. Ego can be analyzed in the following terms: The I, apparently static and unified, somehow selects and then identifies itself with desiring; likewise, with the act of knowing; and with the…
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An Interpretation Of Ranjit Maharaj’s Teaching
Ranjit Maharaj’s teaching can be found in Illusion Vs. Reality, which is now a two-volume book. Here, I offer what I consider an interpretation of central aspects of his teaching. Preface You must trust the Master, provided that he or she really is a Master. This is the crucial bhakti element in Ranjit’s teaching. Pointers…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 