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VEDANTIC / NONDUAL MEDITATION

From Objects to Awareness alone.

Consider the current experience, the first person experience and notice any object..

Step 1:- Objects only

There are flowers.

Step 2:- Awareness Of Objects.

I am aware of flowers.

Step 3:- Objects Of Awareness.

The flowers appear to my awareness.

Step 4:- Objects In Awareness.

The flowers are in my awareness.

Step 5:- Objects As Awareness.

Awareness appears as the flowers.

Step 6:- Awareness Alone.

Flowers are not a separate reality from awareness. They are just names given to forms of awareness.

Only Awareness Is.

One Without A Second.

-Based on Notes of Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon

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Apply in your own experience....

Whatever you aware of, you are not it. You are that which is aware.

Awareness itself - One without a second.

Video shorts:- Swami Sarvapriyananda

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NONDUAL MEDITATION

Key pointers:-

1. You cannot practise being Awareness. You are it, here and now.

2. Remember:- Whatever I am aware of, that I am not.

3. Keep it real.

4. Stay with the teachings of Vedanta, read the teachings, contemplate/think about the teachings, till it becomes clear - I AM THAT.

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“Go deeply into this feeling of ‘I’. Be aware of it so strongly and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and distract you. If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ wll vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I’, Consciousness itself.”

~ Annamalai Swami

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HAPPY DIWALI

G: What is your source of light?

D: During the day it is the sun and at night, it is lamp, etc.

G: Yes, it is. Tell me, what light is the means of seeing the sun and the lamp

D: It is the eye.

G: At the time of shutting the eyes, etc., what is the light?

D: It is intellect.

G: What is the source of light for the intellect?

D: It is “I”, the Self (Awareness)

G: Therefore, your own Self (Awareness) is the light of lights (or the Supreme light).

D: Yes, O Lord, I am That Supreme Light (Awareness)

-Ekashloki by Adi Shankaracharya

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You Were Never Born & You Never Die

-Sunny Sharma

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"To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace – this is the way beyond. "

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Original Recordings of Nisargadatta Maharaj

Note:- Recordings are in Marathi, though some have translation in English.

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Ego Vs True Self - Sunny Sharma

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will vanish automatically.

— Ramana Maharshi

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MIND AND AWARENESS (SELF)

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“Go deeply into this feeling of ‘I’. Be aware of it so strongly and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and distract you. If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I’ wll vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I’, Consciousness itself.”

~ Annamalai Swami

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Best wishes to all on Maha Shiva Ratri - 2021

Vasistha to Lord Shiva:

"Lord, though by your grace I have reached the state of self-fulfillment, I am eager to know more about one thing. Pray enlighten me. What is the method of worshiping the Lord which destroys all sins and promotes all auspiciousness?"

The Lord said:

"Do you know who God is?"

"God is not Vishnu, Shiva or Brahma; not the wind, the sun or the moon; not the brahmana or the king; nor I nor you; not Lakshmi nor the mind (intellect)."

"God is without form and undivided; that splendor (devanam) which is not made and which has neither beginning nor end is known as God (Deva) or Lord Shiva which is Pure Consciousness."

"That alone is fit to be worshipped; and that alone is all. If one is unable to worship this Shiva (Consciousness) then he is encouraged to worship the form.

The latter yields finite results but the former bestows infinite bliss. He who ignores the infinite and is devoted to the finite abandons a pleasure-garden and seeks the thorny bush. However, sages sometimes worship a form playfully."

"Now for the articles used in the worship: Wisdom, Self-control and the Perception of the Self in all beings are the foremost among those articles."

"The Self (Consciousness) alone is Lord Shiva who is fit to be worshiped at all times with the flowers of Wisdom."

(I asked the Lord: Pray tell me how this world is transmuted into Pure Consciousness and also how that Pure Consciousness appears as the jiva and other things. The Lord continued:)

"Indeed only that cid-akasha (the Infinite Space of Consciousness), which alone exists even after the cosmic dissolution, exists even now, utterly devoid of objectivity.

The concepts and notions that are illumined by the Consciousness within itself shine as this Creation, on account of the movement of Energy within Consciousness, precisely as dreams arise during sleep.

Otherwise, it is totally impossible for an object of perception to exist outside of the Omnipresent Infinite Consciousness."

"Even as the duality experienced in dream is illusory, the duality implied in the creation of the world is illusory.

Even as the objects seem to exist and function in the inner world of Consciousness in a Dream, objects seem to exist and function in the outer world of Consciousness during the Wakeful state.

Nothing really happens in both these states.

Even as Consciousness alone is the Reality in the Dream state, Consciousness alone is the Substance in the Wakeful state too.

That is the Lord,

That is the Supreme Truth,

That You Are,

That I Am and

That is All."

~ Vasistha's Yoga - Swami Venkatesananda

|| ॐ नमः शिवाय || || Om Namah Shivay ||

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HAPPY DIWALI

G: What is your source of light?

D: During the day it is the sun and at night, it is lamp, etc.

G: Yes, it is. Tell me, what light is the means of seeing the sun and the lamp

D: It is the eye.

G: At the time of shutting the eyes, etc., what is the light?

D: It is intellect.

G: What is the source of light for the intellect?

D: It is “I”, the Self (Awareness)

G: Therefore, your own Self (Awareness) is the light of lights (or the Supreme light).

D: Yes, O Lord, I am That Supreme Light (Awareness)

-Ekashloki by Adi Shankaracharya

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The thinker of thoughts is merely

Another thought.

The one who knows this is

No longer in his own way.

-Wu Hsin

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Bhakti Yoga - Yoga of Devotion

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Consciousness in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Intelligence in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Sleep in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Hunger - Desire in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Shadow - Individual Self in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Shakti - Creative Energy in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Thirst - Desire in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Patience in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Original Cause in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Humility in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Stillness in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Devotion in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as splendor in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Lakshmi in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Mind in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Memory in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Compassion in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Contentment in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Mother in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Delusion in all beings everywhere.

O Mother!

Let all my speech be your prayer; let all my crafts and technology be your worship and be the mystic gestures of my hand, adorning you.

May all my movements become your devotional circumambulations.

May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you. Let my lying down in rest and sleep be prostrations to you.

Mother! Whatever I do, may all that become a sacramental service and worship for you.

Om Peace Peace Peace

- Devi Stuti

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Guided Self Enquiry

Teacher: Please look at the flower in front of us.

Student: Okay.

Teacher: Where exactly do you experience it?

Student: In the garden.

Teacher: Not the physical location, but the place of experience. The light rays are converted into electrical signals in your body and then your mind sees it. So, you experience it within you. Do you follow?

Student: Yes, I understand the basic physics and since mind is part of me who is looking at the image of the flower, so I am looking at the flower within me.

Teacher: Good, now how far is your Awareness from the flower?

Student: Well, my Awareness is right there where flower is. There is no gap between my Awareness and the flower.

Teacher: Can you now close your eyes and imagine the same flower. Now, how far is Awareness from the flower?

Student: Same as before. Whether eyes are open or close, there is no gap between my Awareness and the flower.

Teacher: Great! Awareness takes the shape of the flower. Now, how far are you from the Awareness?

Student: I am there where my Awareness is. There is no gap between myself and the Awareness.

Teacher: Excellent, since there is no gap between you and the Awareness, is there anything else that you realise?

Student: Well, let me think for a moment……. This is amazing! I am the Awareness.