Tag: Advaita Vedanta

• July 8, 2025

  A Very Short Tutorial On Self-inquiry

  Right now there’s a sense you have that I am reading these words. Then there’s the sense that I am looking around. Then a sense that I am experiencing tiredness or boredom. Then a feeling that I am getting hungry. These experiences–reading, looking, feeling tired or bored, getting hungry, and so on–come and go, come…
• July 1, 2025

  You Mean Karma Yoga ISN’T Primarily About Being Of Service?

  Question: I thought karma yoga had to do with being of service to others. That’s not so? No, not directly–though that’s one type of action that can arise. The target of karma yoga is the ego-self–specifically, its diminution and ultimate “extinction” (The quote marks around “extinction” are meant to indicate that the ego-self never existed…
• June 25, 2025

  Ego In Two Senses: Covert And Overt

  Question: The nondual teaching says explicitly that the Self is not the doer, and yet I’m still hung up on being the doer. How do I go beyond this idea? Ego In Two Senses In what briefly follows, I don’t mean to suggest that ego “in the two senses” is anything but a stipulative distinction.…
• June 23, 2025

  Is Atmananda’s Direct Path Teaching The Same As Ramana Maharshi’s?

  Question: Aren’t Atmananda and Ramana Maharshi essentially saying the same thing, and can’t their direct path approaches be regarded as versions of the Witness teaching? Excellent question! And just the right one. In short: No! Atmananda’s teaching can be divided into “the lower” and “the higher.” The lower teaching employs the Witness in order to…
• June 21, 2025

  What, Really, Is Karma Yoga?

  One common misunderstanding of karma yoga would have it that it’s about being of service to others. While this view isn’t wrong per se, it largely misses the essential point, which is that it has to do with letting action come without resistance or fetishization while knowing that one is the eternal witness of all…