Spiritual Progress (Q. 305)
Q: What are some indicators of progress on the spiritual journey? Is witnessing consciousness an indicator of progress? (Oct. 2010) A: Most people actually don’t go along with the idea of ‘gradual’...
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Who do you think ‘I’ is? (Part 2)
PART 2/3: PREPARATORY STEPS Go to beginning Having established the principles involved in escaping from the torments of living a false identity, we can examine how traditional advaitins approach the...
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How to be really, really, really happy
In the Taittiriya Upanishad we are told that 1 unit of human joy is that enjoyed by a young person described as being in the prime of life, fit and healthy, possessed of strong mental faculties,...
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Seeking – giving up pleasures? (Q. 322)
Q: I can see I need to live more austerely, and I am prepared to sacrifice much to bring about a more lucid and disciplined spiritual practice, but if I am honest, sacrificing those pleasures will have...
View ArticleQ.384 – Dark night of the soul
Q: Please help me.I had a temporary glimpse of reality around 15 months ago by following 8 fold path. I tried to penetrate the question of suffering and learned that everything wants to come into...
View ArticleQ.468 Roles versus Witness
Q: I have been reading Vedanta for a few years and have a question. We are always playing some form of role such as Employee, Worker, Husband, Son etc. My understanding is that Advaita tells us to let...
View ArticleQ. 480 Being ‘present’
Q: I feel that reading and writing feeds the mind. But, when I am in Presence I don’t feel the need to read and don’t really have anything to say. For me this is a problem, since reading and writing...
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pratibandha-s – part 1 of 10
Here begins the promised article on pratibandha-s. It is actually one of the topics in the book that I am currently writing called ‘Confusions… for the seeker in Advaita Vedanta’. The book will be in...
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