Is Consciousness Fundamental? Is There Something Subtler Than Consciousness?
Om.: I absolutely agree that the world is an activity of consciousness, but if it is so, then could there be a possibility that consciousness is made of something finner? What proves that there is no division in consciousness? Jagjot.: If there are divisions in consciousness, they have to be…
Akhil.: Let's say that A has no previous karmic account with B. But A does a new KRIYAMAAN KARMA, and out of that karma, does something bad to B. Now, A will suffer in this lifetime or another. But the question is B, who neither got this bad event written…
Stillness is hard to describe in words. It is the primordial truth - the essence of who we are. The analytical mind tries hard to know the non-dual truth, and in that desperate bid, it forgets that the highest truth is its own absence. Sushi.: There are times when the…
There Is Nothing Here But Consciousness: The Ocean of Unconditional Love
Nothing exists apart from consciousness. It is pure knowing or the ocean of infinite and unconditional love in which the mind and the world of names and forms appear in separation. Separation is suffering, while the unicity or oneness is absolute love. Sushi.: Yesterday, I heard a woman asking Rupert…
The root of suffering lies in our limited perception of how things should or should not be, as opposed to how they are. A Sage is one with the spiritual understanding of the Heart and knows that surrender or acceptance of What-Is is the only way to bring oneself peace…
The root of fear lies in the belief in the illusion of separation from the Wholeness, which is what we truly are. The Wholeness is complete and perfect. This simple realization itself dissolves the fear as the entity sustaining it also gets dissolved in the Wholeness. Sushi.: I flew back…
Sushi: Sometimes, we are not in a situation to be able to sit & watch our thoughts. And before we know it, we are sucked in. I guess it needs to be seen that not even this taming of the thinking mind is in our control. Total surrender boils down…
Truth is non-dual and not only a matter of intellectual understanding. While intellectual understanding also helps, the final liberation is in the Heart. The Heart is the Witness, free from the subject-objection relationship. Witnessing happens in the light of "impersonal" awareness (I AM), where the mind is just one object…
When it comes to Vedantic teachings, there is a great misconception about two words: illusion and ignorance. These words have a negative connotation attached to them. If you call someone ignorant, they are not going to like it. Isn't it? The English word ignorance implies that there is something (knowledge)…