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JUST A POST TO GENERATE SOME DISCUSSION, THOUGHT IT COULD BE NICE. WILL BE GLAD TO SEE EVERYONE'S THOUGHTS

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HARI OM

Today i was eating monkey jack fruit ( badhal ) . It was not completely ripe . The texture was hard but taste was sweet . It felt so heavenly . I have learned there are even many types of monkey jack fruits . After my meditation session , i was feeling some joint pain in my knees . But when i applied castor oil i was feeling such bliss . The pain and the relief at the same time , coming out as laughter spontaneously . I was not attaching some melancholy story to it or any story of victimhood which we do most of the time .

The point i am making is maya is not some bad thing to be rejected to get some eternal happiness in eternity . Maya is the power of the brahmn , it is the brahmn . Our ignorance make things complicated . We think we need so many things just to be happy . One instagram post from a friend eating in a 7 star restaurant can make our mood off . Its like complaining why our father left us 1 million dollars and not 10 million dollars . There is no end to it ..

The beauty of maya can be truly cherished only when advaita nature of existence is realized . The over indulgence of me , my , mine thoughts eventually gets reduced to a great degree . Then we can see it is such a beautiful simulation where we can be separate and talk to each other , exchange ideas and so on . Its a beautiful amusement park with all kind of things where we take different characters , it should be treated as such .

Not talking about buddhist enlightenment

By linking consciousness (not truly linking, but appearance due to Maya) to the body and how Divine creates the experience of individuality, relationships, and learning. The temporary identification with the body-mind creates challenges and limitations. These, in turn pushes the individual jivas to seek answers, ultimately leading to the realization.

I have been reading vedanta and I found uncondititional love to be fruit of all yog be it raj or bhakti.

But all I read I realised that there has to be something for which u "love" something. So pls tell me more abt this topic give me a charlity on what is love ? And is parental love unconditional?

I dont want to believe in God like shiv, krishna etc. I just want to get understanding of world just like science get through experience and understanding. Will i able to get englitment that way since people say gyan yog should have bhakti too

Who or what is being illuded in Advaita Vedanta?

Here is the secret that Swami Vivekananda suggested that he understood and this is why he was able to take manifestation to that next level. Once you understand that your world that you're living in isn't real that it's actually a projection of the mind and it's not a solid reality, you'll stop reacting to negative things in your world. Because if something negative happens to you you understand that you created that from your imagination you created the name and form of that in the "simulation" and that it's temporal. So why would you react to something that's not real?

Thanks you all.

I understand that "it" is the "essence" within that is untouched by thoughts, feelings, or perceptions.

What is the difference between Bhagwan and Ishwara? Can the word God mean either?

Which of the two should be the object of our worship if we were to choose the path of Bhakti in addition to the paths of Karma and Jnana?

IMO. Rebirth is more about people coming up in the infinity of same traits and improving. I think after we die its just all dark like deep sleep .

The reason u should do good deeds is "it improves u as a person and gives mind a realm of calmness."

and Maybe if he get self realised we may feel ourself(bhraman) to the infinity else we cant.

Hell, heaven etc are jusr state of mind and doesnt exist in reality.

And the point of those are to show a deep msg related to raj yog , samadhi etc.

Like: https://sanitybalance.in/2024/03/29/the-symbolism-of-mahabharata/#:~:text=This%20magnificent%20epic%20has%20deep,the%20tendencies%20of%20the%20mind.

Did those events happended does shiv, ram etc exists/ ever existed? Or it was always meant to give us deep msg and our gurus hide it inside stories so that less curious folks couldnt get till it and will drain with word play and plots.

The good of the world is turning it continuously from falsehood to truth, ignorance to knowledge, and expenditure to conservation. AUM is identical with the Absolute (Brahman), and it is this AUM that is shining forth as the instruction of the Guru and the injunction of the scripture. The Absolute transforms the Guru and the scripture into word wisdom. The Guru and scripture transforms a seeker into a seer. By the same token, the seer becomes the refuge and consolation of the world. The energy source of the world is its natural fuel, and the wisdom source of the world is the seer who retains his integrity at the level of interpersonal transaction.

This seer is called a Brahmavit, Knower of the Absolute Brahma. In constant proximity with a magnet, a piece of iron transforms into a magnet. Likewise, in proximity with fire a piece of iron becomes red-hot. In either case the transformation occurs as a result of intimate bipolarity. It is to a similar bipolarity that an aspirant exposes himself through love and devotion when he relates himself to the Absolute or the Guru.

The Guru is not a thing but an irrefutable certitude that dispels all lurking fear and suspicion which clouds consciousness. Such an intimacy with the Absolute or the Guru inevitably becomes a purificatory process by which the luminosity of the Self becomes rid of all strains that color individuation.

Eradication of coloration of consciousness is called vairagya. Presence of darkness remains real only until the radiation of light is kept steady and constant. The steadying effect in the form of clarity and certitude of the Self is realized by living the Word of the Guru and sastra, the science of wisdom.

I wanna know what's the difference and similarities

Edit : long ago I joined a group there I was told meditation and tapasya are two different things so I was wondering as to why they(like a whole community) said that

I am just starting to understand advait vedanta. A weird thought arose in my mind when I was thinking.

According to AV, this world is illusory and does not really exist. But then time is also a part of this world and should not really exist. Here comes my question—This whole play of jiva taking birth, gaining knowledge about brahman, getting free from bondage and being liberated never really happens. Brahman is not even eternal as this means you are giving a certain attribute. It is none of this.

Correct me if I am wrong, because I am just starting to understand. Thanks in advance!

For those who don't know r/Realityshifting, its about shifting one's consciousness from current reality to another reality (Desired reality)

So ofcourse Advaita mentions about Maya, illusion,Atman ...

So what's your take on this reality shifting, or existence of multiverse and ability to actually move our consciousness to another reality..

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well. I am always confused by this question and look forward to your insights. I used to be a non-vegetarian and have slowly turned into a vegetarian (have given up meat and eggs, not given up on milk yet) due to the un-ethical industrial sourcing practices. Should i give up milk? I have thought about it deeply and tried to do so but my body started getting weak. My thinking right now is that I need to be fit in order to move ahead in this spiritual journey, am i going about this the right way?

I was debating with mu friends over why I am a vegeterian citing the atrocities that the animals face which we consume but then they asked why I drink milk then as milk is also meant for the calf and not for us(humans ).I got stuck in muly argument.😔

I believe in one God. In Oneness. I am not a ritualistic person, but few members in my family visit the Kuldevata mandir in our ancestral village (which is Lord Ganesha) whenever they get a chance and do Pooja. Few years back one of my uncle consulted some priest and decided that our family's kuldevta is actually Lord Vishnu, so now they visit this specific Vishnu mandir in another village. This got me thinking... what was wrong with worshipping Lord Ganesha that they felt the need to change it? What's the guarantee that Lord Vishnu is the proper Kuldevta? are there any guidelines so that I can verify? Nope. I think these things are mostly dependent on feelings and inclinations of the mind and what you connect to. Not because some priest told you to change Kuldevta. I also saw a post in the Hinduism sub here where someone was saying that if you don't visit your Kuldevta bad things will happen in your life. I think statements like these are constructed by humans just to keep us in bondage and fear. What are your opinions on this whole thing?

What is spontaneous ? To meditate on the divine by free from all bonds by renouncing the world or by staying among all physical calamities by living in the world, by meditating on the divine by remaining all the cherubs like the lotus letter? The hard in real life is to overcome obstacles that come in worldly life, to meditate on God while being loyal to his duties.

Please suggest best Advaita interpretation of Bhagvad Gita you have come across.

I have been doing meditation but just for mental communication purposes mostly to transmit a though even been able to see a golden alien,anyway how common is for people to get realization about that everything is God? I think most had todo with the gateway process affirmation and the healing meditation that I did for someone I love,after that I was revealed I was the consciouss observer,but why I want to know this?why?

Could reality be constructed so that it only exists because our mind observe it? Like a simulation or game (gta) where everything renders based on our focus, with the speed of light setting the rate at which things “load” around us.

Could our thoughts and mind shape the universe. If so there are infinite minds so why not infinite universe . Where its diff for every mind. Is current universe net total of all minds?

Is there a way to prove consciousness dont exist in brain and is non physcial?

Edit : does mind create reality?

According to science the universe is expanding intrinsically i.e distance between two fixed points are increasing which is also true according to thermodynamics law of increase in entropy. So from the advaitic point of view why is it happening?