Tag: Advaita Vedanta
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How To Transcend Engagement With The World
‘Engagement’ You stated that not infrequently it seems as if you’re still “engaged” with the waking state. Take time to contemplate the following point: And what seems to follow from taking “all this” to be real? If this interpretation is correct, ghen what’s so neat about it is that all we have to do is to…
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‘I, O Arjuna! Am the Self, Seated in the Heart of All Beings’
“I, O Arjuna! am the Self, seated in the heart of all beings.” —The Bhagavad Gita 10.20 One can investigate this beautiful teaching thanks to Atmananda’s Direct Path method. 1. Start with the experience of being yourself. Hold onto this sense of “being myself.” 2. Then ask yourself: “Where is the center or seat of…
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No Experience Ever Hides Consciousness
No experience ever hides Consciousness. Nor could it. To say this is to embrace the Direct Path of nonduality: “Not a thing from the first”; “The Self is always realized”; “Since our original nature is always clean and pure, how could dust ever alight”?; and so on. If what’s been written is experientially understood, then…
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Who Is The One Having This Dream?
1. Sights, sounds, textures, flavors, and scents are all dreams. That is, all perceptions “of the world” are dreams. 2. Sensations and body images are all dreams. That is, the body is a dream. 3. Thoughts, feelings, and desires are all dreams. That is, the mind in the narrow sense is a dream. 4. In…
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Reality Never Stirred (Ajata)
Absolute non-manifestationis the only Truth. –Papaji How would it be possible for the manifest to “come out of” the Unmanifest? If such were the case, then somehow the Unmanifest would have to be the cause of manifestation and thus manifestation would have to be real. But this isn’t possible. To see that this is utterly…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 