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Here are simple tips to improve your #life and feel the difference. Here’s how you can do it:
Here are simple tips to improve your #life and feel the difference. Here’s how you can do it:
How can one know that he or she has achieved complete enlightenment, and not just an illusion of being enlightened (ego)?
Opening of chakras and enlightenment go hand in hand.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Opening of chakras and enlightenment go hand in hand.
#enlightenment #spirituality
When the third eye (Ajna Chakra) opens then each cell of your body becomes non-dual and your vision changes as your eyes also change. This is the first time you see this world without a conscious mind void of subject and object.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
When the seventh chakra opens then you feel the vibrations at end of the spine (first chakra).
When the eighth chakra opens then your consciousness dissolves into cosmic consciousness.
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When the eighth chakra opens then your consciousness dissolves into cosmic consciousness.
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Is effort required for enlightenment?
Extraordinary effort is absolutely required for Spiritual self-realisation.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Extraordinary effort is absolutely required for Spiritual self-realisation.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Don't fall for non-dualist theories that you need to do nothing. You will reach nowhere except imagining yourself to be enlightened. And when reality strikes, you would have done lots of psychological damage to yourselves.
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Please Beware!!!!
You must put effort in negating all that which is making your self-reflection, vichara, and dhyana difficult.
Once you are meditative by your own nature, you may not call it effort anymore, as you are floating with it already.
#enlightenment #spirituality
You must put effort in negating all that which is making your self-reflection, vichara, and dhyana difficult.
Once you are meditative by your own nature, you may not call it effort anymore, as you are floating with it already.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Enlightenment (spiritual): Is it really possible for humans to be without ego for prolonged periods of time?
Nope. Human egos don’t go away or get destroyed. They simply recede way into the background.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Nope. Human egos don’t go away or get destroyed. They simply recede way into the background.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Imagine your ego takes up most of your foreground. You think you are your ego and the body-mind that contains it. This is the condition of most people on the planet.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
Now imagine you somehow become absorbed in the deepest Silence, Awareness and Pure Being. Everything just Is, and it’s all perfect.
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Enlightenment is often described as "being" the flow of life, with the acceptance that everything is impermanent... But isn't "living in the flow" what we are all doing anyway? Doesn't everybody already know that everything in life is impermanent?
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#enlightenment #spirituality
YOU are impermanent and YOU are the flow. In other words YOU are ever constantly changing flow of “experiences”. And it includes all your life, the whole perceived world.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
There is nothing outside of seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling, tasting, thinking. This is the world, life, constantly flowing.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
What was the key to Buddha's enlightenment? He obviously tried all the methods that we know about. What was his secret that seemingly no one else had tried before (at least that we know of)?
#enlightenment #Buddha
#enlightenment #Buddha
Siddhartha felt cheated in the name of enlightenment.
When his master said, “You have to move on. I am only a teacher, not a master. I was pretending and I am very sorry!”. Buddha was totally shattered and tired.
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When his master said, “You have to move on. I am only a teacher, not a master. I was pretending and I am very sorry!”. Buddha was totally shattered and tired.
#enlightenment #Buddha
He went to take a bath in a nearby river, Niranjana. It is a very small river; in the summer it is not even one foot deep. And he was taking a bath, but he was so weak that he could not cross that small current.
#enlightenment #Buddha
#enlightenment #Buddha
Why is it said that only psychological pain falls away after Enlightenment, but not physical pain? If Consciousness is our true nature and if it's really primary & prior to everything, then wouldn't we also be free of physical pain too?
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Pain is a general word universally applied to both body and mind.
But, are they both ‘pain’ ?
A lustful man could not possess a woman, and is suffering pain. A child was bitten by an ant, and is crying in pain.
#enlightenment #spirituality
But, are they both ‘pain’ ?
A lustful man could not possess a woman, and is suffering pain. A child was bitten by an ant, and is crying in pain.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Is it fair to call both by the same word and idea called ‘pain’?
A psychological pain is purely caused by attachment and delusion.
Then, what is physical pain.
#enlightenment #spirituality
A psychological pain is purely caused by attachment and delusion.
Then, what is physical pain.
#enlightenment #spirituality
If there is a need to know, a need to be self-assured that one has arrived, then one hasn’t.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
If you have, then you do not care whether you are enlightened or tube-lightened or whatever.
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#enlightenment #spirituality
Standing before the Sun, you are throwing light on it from your torch, just to make sure that it is in fact the Sun.
Will you?
If you were actually standing before the Sun :)?
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Will you?
If you were actually standing before the Sun :)?
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With all the different definitions of enlightenment, isn't it foolish for people to keep insisting theirs is the right one?
Did Ramana Maharishi define enlightenment in Russian?
He did not.
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Did Ramana Maharishi define enlightenment in Russian?
He did not.
#enlightenment #spirituality
But, Why didn't He?
Obviously, His mind does not know the Russian language.
Definitions happen through their minds.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Obviously, His mind does not know the Russian language.
Definitions happen through their minds.
#enlightenment #spirituality
There cannot be two different truths. Enlightenment aka Truth is the same but the minds that express them are different.
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Is sex a hindrance in path of spirituality and enlightenment?
This is an interesting subject.
Most of us have been conditioned to condemn our sexuality.
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This is an interesting subject.
Most of us have been conditioned to condemn our sexuality.
#enlightenment #spirituality
From religions to spiritual teachings, and even social customs, we’re programmed to feel ashamed about our sexuality because we’ve been told it’s “animalistic” or “sinful.”
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#enlightenment #spirituality
As we grow up, our hormones drive us to seek romantic partners, and soon enough, we discover human sexuality.
Depending on how strongly we’ve been conditioned, we may feel embarrassed or bad about our sexuality.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Depending on how strongly we’ve been conditioned, we may feel embarrassed or bad about our sexuality.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Enlightenment (spiritual): Is it really possible for humans to be without ego for prolonged periods of time?
Nope. Human egos don’t go away or get destroyed. They simply recede way into the background.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Nope. Human egos don’t go away or get destroyed. They simply recede way into the background.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Imagine your ego takes up most of your foreground. You think you are your ego and the body-mind that contains it. This is the condition of most people on the planet.
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Now imagine you somehow become absorbed in deepest Silence & Awareness. Everything just Is & it’s all perfect. Your sense of an individual “you” gives way to direct knowing of your Pure Beingness & Consciousness, with no subject or object present,
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
9 modes of #Devotion
śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ: smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam
iti puṁsārpitā viṣṇau bhaktiś cen nava-lakṣaṇā
(Srimad Bhagavatham 7.5.23-24) #Thread
@ShefVaidya @anuradhagoyal @Sai_swaroopa @vikramsampath 1/22
śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ: smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam
iti puṁsārpitā viṣṇau bhaktiś cen nava-lakṣaṇā
(Srimad Bhagavatham 7.5.23-24) #Thread
@ShefVaidya @anuradhagoyal @Sai_swaroopa @vikramsampath 1/22
Nine types of #Bhakti are
1. Shravana
2. Keerthana
3. Smarana
4. Paada sevana
5. Archana
6. Vandana
7. Daasya
8. Sakhya &
9. Aatmanivedana.
Thus, a person can follow any of the given nine types of Bhakthi and can attain #Enlightenment. 2/22
1. Shravana
2. Keerthana
3. Smarana
4. Paada sevana
5. Archana
6. Vandana
7. Daasya
8. Sakhya &
9. Aatmanivedana.
Thus, a person can follow any of the given nine types of Bhakthi and can attain #Enlightenment. 2/22
1. #Shravanam: It means ‘to listen’. A devotee can demonstrate shravanam by listening to the Bhagawan’s qualities & stories related to his divine nature and form. Also, this is the easiest type of Bhakthi any devotee can practice. All it takes is for one to listen. 3/22
Here's a thread with key lessons from each chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.
Chapter 1:
Every duty comes with challenges. Learn to embrace the hardships - thats half the battle won.
Every duty comes with challenges. Learn to embrace the hardships - thats half the battle won.
Chapter 2:
You will never know peace, long as you are attached.
Peace comes from detachment.
You will never know peace, long as you are attached.
Peace comes from detachment.
How do you reconcile 'you are already enlightened and there's no need to strive!' with 'you should strive for enlightenment. Purify your mind!' (Enlightenment, truth, Buddhism)?
The confusion is because of the wrong word called enlightenment.
#enlightenment #Enlightened
The confusion is because of the wrong word called enlightenment.
#enlightenment #Enlightened
To me, it seems to be a dangerous word convenient to create religious supremacies.
En-Lightenment - what is adding light to what? The halo around the head?
Replace it with ‘Realization’, or the Sanskrit ‘Atma Jnana’.
#enlightenment #Enlightened
En-Lightenment - what is adding light to what? The halo around the head?
Replace it with ‘Realization’, or the Sanskrit ‘Atma Jnana’.
#enlightenment #Enlightened
There are beautiful Mahavakyas in Sanskrit pointing to this- Ekam Brahma- Brahman is One, Aham Brahmasmi- The inside is of the nature of Brahman, TatVamAsi- You Are That, and so on.
You are what you are whether you realise or not!
#enlightenment #Enlightened
You are what you are whether you realise or not!
#enlightenment #Enlightened
With all the different definitions of enlightenment, isn't it foolish for people to keep insisting theirs is the right one?
#enlightenment #spirituality
#enlightenment #spirituality
Did Ramana Maharishi define enlightenment in Russian?
He did not.
But, why didn't he?
#enlightenment #spirituality
He did not.
But, why didn't he?
#enlightenment #spirituality
Obviously, His mind does not know the Russian language.
Definitions happen through their minds.
There cannot be two different truths.
Enlightenment aka Truth is the same but the minds that express them are different.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Definitions happen through their minds.
There cannot be two different truths.
Enlightenment aka Truth is the same but the minds that express them are different.
#enlightenment #spirituality
Why is it said that only psychological pain falls away after Enlightenment, but not physical pain? If Consciousness is our true nature and if it's really primary & prior to everything, then wouldn't we also be free of physical pain too?
#Enlightenment
#Enlightenment
Pain is a general word universally applied to both body and mind.
But, are they both ‘pain’ ?
A lustful man could not possess a woman, and is suffering pain. A child was bitten by an ant, and is crying in pain.
Is it fair to call both by the same word and idea called ‘pain’ ?
But, are they both ‘pain’ ?
A lustful man could not possess a woman, and is suffering pain. A child was bitten by an ant, and is crying in pain.
Is it fair to call both by the same word and idea called ‘pain’ ?
A psychological pain is purely caused by attachment and delusion.
Then, what is physical pain.
It is not pain. It is body’s signal mechanism that something has to be set right. This unpleasantness instructs the brain to take some action and correct it.
#Enlightenment
Then, what is physical pain.
It is not pain. It is body’s signal mechanism that something has to be set right. This unpleasantness instructs the brain to take some action and correct it.
#Enlightenment
Discussions about #FreeSpeech are misguided in the information age.
Even before our voices are drowned out by the noise on social media, or overwritten by information combatants, we lose our agency and decision autonomy to manipulative complex systems we don’t fully understand.
Even before our voices are drowned out by the noise on social media, or overwritten by information combatants, we lose our agency and decision autonomy to manipulative complex systems we don’t fully understand.
The whole point of the #enlightenment, the scientific revolution, our educational and #epistemic institutions was to empower individuals to find a way out of their self-imposed #immaturity, to take #agency over their lives and make informed decisions.
We need #epistemic clarity about reality, for without it, our agency will be blunted & our freedom a charade
It is public-interest education, journalism & science that truly make individuals in a #democratic society free, not the right to cast a vote or to elect a representative
It is public-interest education, journalism & science that truly make individuals in a #democratic society free, not the right to cast a vote or to elect a representative
@linda_a_burnett's workshop done, presentations attended, scholars met, and conversations had. What have I learned? Surprising things. Here's a partial reflection histories of scientific instructions, lists & colonial travel. @UU_University, @BookScribbler, @eayers0, @dominikhhh
First off, not all lists are alike. Much can be learned by the order of items, especially when it comes to ethnographic observation. The order of observation tells us about the intellectual context from which the instruction arises. #listing #History #Science #KNOWLEDGE
But study of intellectual context takes us into other domains - of national experiences, of inter-imperial exchanges, of cross-cultural encounters and yes, so often, of violence and indifference to sufferings. #History #Empire #colonized #Violence #KnowledgeManagement
Is effort required for enlightenment?
Extraordinary effort is absolutely required for Spiritual self realisation.
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
Extraordinary effort is absolutely required for Spiritual self realisation.
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
Please do not fall for fancy non-dualist theories that you need to do nothing. Please do not flatter yourselves. You will reach nowhere except that you will be imagining yourself to be enlightened.
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
And when reality strikes which will, you would have done lots of psychological damage to yourselves.
Please Beware!!!!
You must put effort in negating all that which is making your self-reflection, vichara & dhyana difficult.
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
Please Beware!!!!
You must put effort in negating all that which is making your self-reflection, vichara & dhyana difficult.
#Spirituality
#Enlightenment
Where should one’s awareness be directed in the body? Where is the centre point?
Big question deserving direct answer from a BrahmaJnani.
Two Direct Pointers from Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi:
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#enlightenment
Big question deserving direct answer from a BrahmaJnani.
Two Direct Pointers from Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi:
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
You cannot know it with your mind. You cannot realise it by imagination when I tell you here is the centre [pointing to the right side of the chest]. The only direct way to realise it is to cease to fantasise and try to be yourself.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
When you realise, you automatically feel that the centre is there. This is the centre, the Heart, spoken of in the scriptures as hrit-guhaarul [grace], ullam [the Heart].
The Heart is used in the Vedas and the scriptures to denote the place whence the notion ‘I’ springs.
The Heart is used in the Vedas and the scriptures to denote the place whence the notion ‘I’ springs.
What does life feel like after the ego or "me" dies? How do I know if I'm experiencing 'ego-death’?
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Here in the world of so many so called ‘Enlightened people & ‘Spiritual’ categories, and throughout the world’s ‘spiritual path’ communities, there’s lots of talk about the ‘death’ of the ego or complete collapse of the false “me” identity. Sounds attractive & intriguing, right?
So everyone wants to know what it feels like, what’s left…and how to “do” it.:-)
But if the “me” dissolves, “who” is to see what it feels like?
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#enlightenment
But if the “me” dissolves, “who” is to see what it feels like?
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
What did Nisargadatta Maharaj mean when he said, "The clearer you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker you will come to the end of your search and realize your limitless being."?
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Silence, stillness, peace, being, clarity, freedom, bliss, awareness, the Self, the Absolute.
The limitless goes by many names.
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#enlightenment
The limitless goes by many names.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Look close, and you’ll see they’re all negative terms.
Silence is the negation of sound.
Stillness is the negation of activity.
Peace is the negation of agitation.
Being is the negation of doing.
Clarity is the negation of confusion.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Silence is the negation of sound.
Stillness is the negation of activity.
Peace is the negation of agitation.
Being is the negation of doing.
Clarity is the negation of confusion.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Is sex a hindrance in path of spirituality and enlightenment?
The actual act of sex need not be a hindrance.
The fantasizing and the obsession over sex definitely are pathetic hindrances.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
The actual act of sex need not be a hindrance.
The fantasizing and the obsession over sex definitely are pathetic hindrances.
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Everywhere there is a sexual dopamine trigger to the mind.
What is the relevance of erotica to milk? Seriously? Are we so sick mentally that we should be sexually seduced to buy and drink milk?
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
What is the relevance of erotica to milk? Seriously? Are we so sick mentally that we should be sexually seduced to buy and drink milk?
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Romancing with a single partner at intervals isn't a hindrance unless your next step is Nirvikalpa Samadhi itself.
But the societal obsession over sex is leaving individual minds in a state of chaos, that is non-conducive to spiritual practices such as meditation & mindfulness.
But the societal obsession over sex is leaving individual minds in a state of chaos, that is non-conducive to spiritual practices such as meditation & mindfulness.
Without accepting someone as a guru, can we gain spiritual enlightenment simply by reading scriptures or listening to lectures?
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#enlightenment
#Spirituality
#enlightenment
Sant Namadev, a great saint of Maharashtra, used to have a direct contact with God (Vitthala). God spoke with him face to face. But one day, he was deeply disappointed.
#Spirituality
#Enlightened
#Spirituality
#Enlightened
At the behest of Jnaneshwara, Gora Kumbhar, a potter and a senior saint of his times, tested the maturity of knowledge in a bunch of holy men including Namadev. He tapped their heads like a potter taps a baked clay pot to see if it’s fully done.
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#Spirituality
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