Category: philosophical counseling
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Nisargadatta’s Amendment To Self-Inquiry
The late teaching of Nisargadatta is very precious. I offer but one example: So I want you [he tells one visitor] to go back to the source from where you seem to have come. Stop there and find out. Look back, and see what is happening there. Don’t go with the current [allowing the mind…
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‘Never Criticize Others’ As A Metaphysical Pointer
Nisargadatta was a fiery one! Consider this satsang not long before he left the body later on in 1981: Q: Then these others [in this satsang] do not have the knowledge, and that’s why they come back? M[aharaj]: You speak for yourself! Other people may be more knowledgeable than you, why do you equate them…
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Shankara And Nisargadatta On Sheaths And Investigation
Sri Shankara writes in Atma Bodha, 14. In union with the five sheaths this pure self appears to take on the nature of the one or the other, just as a crystal reflects the blue or other colors of objects which come near it. The five sheaths, or koshas, are annamaya kosha (the physical sheath…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 