Tag: Spirituality
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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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Does The Self Go Missing During The Course Of The Day?
Context A. suggests that he can experience the nondual Self during formal seated practice, and yet, as he’d say, during the course of the day this nondual Self has gone missing. This is his sticking point. Experiment Dear A, A simple experiment to try: This experiment gives the flavor of experiential understanding: activities or movements…
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Thought Never Refers To Any Object
Question: I have been reading Atmananda and was perplexed by his statement one can ever think of a gross object. How can this be the case? My sense is that you’re alluding to Atma Nivritti. Here’s a prakriya that you can undertake to understand what Atmananda is up to in this particular chapter: * Objectives, Briefly 1. Prove…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 