About Non-Duality
The non-dual teaching is above all about the liberating understanding(s). Understanding(s) about reality, the reality of our experience, the reality of our perceptions, the reality of the world, body and mind.
Living the liberating understanding(s) establishes it in our life, in our actions, in our thoughts and in our body.
The liberating understanding(s) is significant in that it sweetens our life by releasing the unhappy impression of separation. As a result, the sense of lack which we suffer from and the various psychological fears which haunt us, disappear from our life to be replaced by the causeless peace of our essential nature. In religious terms, the peace of God.
Subsequently, we become a beacon of light and love, which is badly needed in our current society.
Serendipitously, our life changes.
Relationships become more harmonious, previous obstacles collapse, infinite possibilities are revealed. While previously life was perceived to be full of opposition and obstacles, life becomes effortlessly cooperative. We become inwardly serene and undisturbed by world, body mind events. Rather than operating from fear and greed, we operate from intelligence, wisdom and love. Our understanding deepens and our compassion and empathy flourish.
Our life lives itself without worries and concerns. We become more engaged in life. An engagement guided by intelligence and the welfare of everyone involved.
As a result of the liberating non-dual understanding, events which appear to you will reveal the hand of God, the divine touch. As a result, the old patterns of resistance, objection and seeking lose their power and, in time, they are no longer on board.
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Core Teachings
With the World today; With my Circle; With Myself; etc.
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Elaborate on various reasons for this problems and see that they all come down to one thing. The idea of separation.
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List the steps and dive into each
From here will come other questions
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What is an indicator of ongoing success?
Glimpses of Reality vs. Abiding in the Self, as the Self.
How do I know when IT has happened?
Do I need a dedicated Teacher?
What is Surrende?
Who Surrenders?
To Whom?
And How?
Can Devotion lead me to realizing my true nature?
If not what else is needed?
Can I control the mind?
Do I need to control the mind?
If Māyā is a Sakti, what exactly is this Sakti?
Sakti is energy or power. It is a name for the dynamic aspect of the Self. Sakti and Sānti are two aspects of the same consciousness. If you want to separate them at all, you can say that sānti is the unmanifest aspect of the Self which sakti is the manifest. But really they are not separate. A flame has two properties: light and heat. The two can’t be separated. They are like the sea and the waves. Sānti is the vast unmoving body of water. The waves that appear and move on the surface are sakti. Sānti is motionless, vast and all-encompassing while sakti is active.
Bhagavan used to say that after realisation, the jīvanmuktā experiences sānti within and is established permanently in that sānti. In that state of realisation he sees that all activities are caused by sakti. After realisation, one is aware that there are no individual people doing anything. Instead there is an awareness that all activities are the sakti of the same Self. The jnāni is one who is fully established in the sānti, and is always aware that sakti is not separate from him. In that awareness everything is his Self and all actions are his.
The universe is controlled by the one sakti, sometimes called Paramēswara sakti (the power of the Supreme Lord). This moves and orders all things. Natural laws, such as the laws that keep the planets in their orbits, are all manifestations of this sakti.
Final words
You stumble around in the darkness of your mind, not knowing that you have a torch in your hand. That light is the light of the Self. Switch it on and leave it on and you will never stumble again.
You are all here because there is a desire in you to realise the Self. This desire does not arise randomly or accidentally in some people and not in others. It is there because of the punyās that may have come from meditation, charitable works and so on. These punyās will manifest as a desire for freedom, a desire to do earnest sādhana, a desire to find a good teacher in whose presence the truth will be taught and revealed. If someone is destined to be a jnāni in this life, it means that he has come to this final birth with a mountain of punyās to his credit. These punyās will take him to a real Guru, to a real satsang, and in this environment he will do sadhana and achieve the goal. If one does not have this mountain of punyās from the past, there will be no desire for freedom, no desire to look for a Guru who can delivery it.
The Self is readily available all the time but we cannot be aware of it or even put our attention on the thought of it because our vasanas are continuously leading our interest and attention in other directions. That is why it is so important to have the awareness, ‘I am not the mind. I am the Self.’ You have to forcibly drag your wandering attention back to the Self each time it shows an interest in going anywhere else. Don’t be interested in the words that the mind is serving up for you. It is putting them there to tempt you into a stream of thoughts that will take you away from the Self. You have to ignore them all and focus on the light that is shining within you.
I ask you to put all your attention, all your interest on realising this final teaching: ‘I am not the body or the mind. I am the Self. All is the Self.’ This is Bhagavan’s final teaching. Nothing more needs to be added to it. Keep good company while you pursue this knowledge and all will be well. – Sri Annamalai Swami