Tag: nonduality

• March 19, 2025

  The Veiling Of The Self Never Actually Happened

  One’s true nature is consciousness, the supreme. When the mind is extinguished in the Self, the [three] saktis, beginning with inch, which are said to exist, will completely cease, being [known to be] an unreal superimposition upon the perfectly pure consciousness that is one’s true nature. —Muruganar, “Verse 42,” Guru Vachaka Kovai, p. 24 One…
• March 3, 2025

  The I Is Non-relational

  Is the I capable of entering into a relationship with non-I?  If it is, then the I would have to be in relationship with the world, the body, or the mind. Specifically, it would have to be an I-perceiver, an I-gross body, an I-energy body, or an I-mind. Is any of this possible? Take the…
• February 10, 2025

  Diversity (Which Is Not) And Oneness (Which Is)

  The finite mind projects a diversity of objects (e.g., the body, the world, other minds, etc.) and then assumes that reality is such that it conforms to this diversity. As a result, when the finite mind “goes in search” of the Self, it posits twoness: its own independent existence as well as that of the…
• February 7, 2025

  The Weirdest Thing

  The weirdest thing that seems to happen has never actually happened. I seem to have woken up from the dream state and, as a result, I really do believe and feel that I am the waker, an individual with a life to lead. Chalk this mistake up as the weirdest weirdness there possibly is. After…
• January 10, 2025

  Are You Real?

  Suppose you dreamed last night about being a newborn infant. In the dream, you grew up. Later on, you saw your aunt get old, fall into sickness, and die. In this dream, you came to believe and feel that your life was unfolding within the temporal domain bounded by birth and death. You felt, above…