Tag: Advaita Vedanta
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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…
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Abiding Quietly As The Heart
If what exists were not, would existing awareness exist? Since the existing substance exists in the heart without thought, how to think of the existing substance, which is called ‘heart’? Being in the heart as it is alone is thinking. Know. –Ramana Maharshi, “Maṅgalam (benedictory) verse 1,” Ulladu Narpadu, trans. Michael James and Sri Sadhu Om…
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‘Ego Itself Is Everything’
If ego comes into existence, then everything comes into existence; if ego does not exist, everything does not exist. Ego itself is everything. –Ramana Maharshi, “Verse 26,” Ulladu Narpadu 1. Start the inquiry by asking whether the world exists. If it exists, then it must be a solid entity, indeed a substance. Is it? The…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 