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When we are looking from the mind, meaning via the senses and via thinking, there are numerous forms, numerous options, preferences, as well as numerous impressions. The senses and thinking can be misleading. One may perceive an orange only to find later on that it is a persimmon. One may also…
For the separate self, memory refers to events in time. Both the events as well as time are believed and felt to be real. The separate self gets the impression via memory that there was something real that has occurred which is/was made out of people, things and experiences. In ignorance the…
Turning your attention to being aware
Whenever you turn your attention to 'being aware', whether you are turning your attention to being aware of belief or to simply being aware of being aware, you are visiting your true nature, so to speak. It is like going to the cleaners. These visits to the laundromat have the effect of making old…
The merging of Shiva and Shakti
In spite of the understanding that 'I' does not refer to a separate self, which many of us may have understood, the sense of self (the me-feeling) remains, slightly altered, but not completely dead. Although we may be clear that 'I' refers to consciousness, the me-feeling as well as the tendency to…
All rivers flow to the ocean. Each according to its condition. At the heart of every drop of water is love of the ocean. Aranachula represents the ocean within our heart. Nourishing, acknowledging, honoring this love makes it bloom into full fledged bliss of being and selfless dedication to the…
There is no mind. What we call mind is thought. God is the creator of all thoughts. The creator of the wind, the breath, the oceans and galaxies. Problems are due to the belief that I am a mortal form. A separate self. A mortal reality. This belief overlooks the eternal and universal reality of…
That which gives the impression that 'I am machine' is the belief in matter, the belief in a physical reality. Believing that there is a reality called matter, leads to the impression of physicality and has yet to be established by scientist who are looking for 'matter'. When the body is perceived…
Wanting to share and looking for validation and support seem natural. Insights into our true nature have a profound effect. Sometimes the effect of a glimpse are noticeable sooner and at times later. It is like an irreversible crack in the shell of separation. The mind is altered and recognizes a…
There is no separate thinker of thought. All events, including thought are universal events. Like the galaxies and their gravitational fields, like the weather. Impersonal cosmic events. When you take a close look at the thinker, you only find consciousness without any borders, without any actual…
I, awareness permeates the entire experience
When the mind is silent as well when the mind is active, I/Aware presence permeates the entire experience. One could say that when the mind is silent, I/aware presence permeates experience knowingly. When the mind is active, although I/aware presence does permeate the entire experience, the…
I do agree that clarity is helpful for a more harmonious living. When we confuse the content of our experience (which is constantly changing) with the changeless reality of experience, we are missing the core of the teaching. The non dual teaching does speak of the principle of non-doing (non…
Sensations appear to us, which we refer to as body. Perceptions appear to us, which we refer to as world. Mentation appears to us, thinking, feeling, sensing, imagining, which we refer to as mind. Contemplation reveals that consciousness/awareness, which we know as I, is the reality of…
When you are identified as a person, as a mortal body mind, you are experiencing yourself as a separate self, as a dream character and you are not knowingly yourself.Like in your night dream, you may imagine yourself to be a 6 year old boy having all sorts of adventures with friends and making all…
All rivers flow to the ocean. Each according to its condition. At the heart of every drop of water is love of the ocean. Aranachula represents the ocean within our heart. Nourishing, acknowledging, honoring this love makes it bloom into full fledged bliss of being and selfless dedication to the…
Praying to god. When you pray to god, do not pray from a distance. When you pray to god from a distance, you are not heard. You are only hearing yourself. To pray to god, you have to get very close and closer than close. So close that there is no distance left between you and god. That is how you…
When you drop the critical mind
When you drop the critical mind, when you do not maintain the judgemental mind and remain as you are, the wholeness of being/awareness may be available to you. There is no separation in gods eyes. You need to uproot the old tendencies of differentiation and nurture the love that unites us all. The…
The peace of being is independent of whatever it is you are experiencing. Knowing yourself to be borderless aware presence invites you into the heart of stillness and beyond the mind impressions of time and space. Keep returning to the eternal now, to the timelessness of presence and the impression…
This realm is an opportunity to realize the reality of divine presence and to realize the true emptiness of form which seems so real and pressing. We come into existence endowed with love for truth and happiness. As a separate self, we travel astray to distant lands that reveal ‘not here’, ‘not…
Before any superimposition, we are transparent borderless aware presence, nameless, formless. The unseen universal reality of being/awareness. What a wonder!Turn your attention to the transparency, that which you are. This way the impression of physicality and materiality will cease to haunt you…
THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still,…
Father. Although I veil your heaven by the ego which keeps me away from your love, I long for you. May the seed of love and forgiveness which you have planted in my garden bloom steadily within me, bringing joy to mankind. I dedicate myself to be your way, to be the vehicle of your love and grace.…
Father. Although I veil your heaven by the ego which keeps me away from your love, I long for you. May the seed of love and forgiveness which you have planted in my garden bloom steadily within me, bringing joy to mankind. I dedicate myself to be your way, to be the vehicle of your love and grace.…
You are the light of being, transparent presence. In spite of the mind impressions that mislead you into separation, nothing is really in the way of the wholeness of being which is awaiting your realization. Contemplate your experience directly without mediating it via thinking and feeling. Thus…
The key thing in contemplation is the contemplation of reality. Who cares about anything that is not real? What is the point of having all sorts of theories and discussions about that which is not real? It makes sense to stick with reality because reality is absolute. You will be wasting your…
Whenever we live from the sense of separation, we are overlooking the holiness/wholeness of love and we are misguided by the monkey mind and the negative emotions. The challenges and the unhappiness we perceive and feel are meant to remind us that we are walking in the wrong direction. God's…