Eka jIva VAda – I Am Alone: Part V
This Post responds to the Comments of 18th April made by Suka. (Suka’s Comment in blue and my response in black). S: Mithya is defined as sadasadbhyām vilakṣaṇam – meaning it cannot be categorically...
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Logical enquiry into ‘Who I am’ (3/4)
When we analysed the world of objects in the waking state we came to the understanding that our experience of the variety of objects is due to the variety of corresponding mental impressions (covered...
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Logical enquiry into ‘Who I am’ (4/4)
We started this enquiry into identity by employing a simple piece of logic: you cannot be what you observe. From this point of view, the things we normally take ourselves to be, starting with the body,...
View ArticleEka jIva VAda – I Am Alone: Part VI
Understanding Perception: We don’t ever see or experience a ‘world.’ Our capacity to detect anything is confined to a limited bandwidth of certain characteristics (in a so called world) using our...
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upadesha sAhasrI Part 11
Part 11 of the serialization of the presentation (compiled by R. B. Athreya from the lectures given by Swami Paramarthananda) of upadesha sAhasrI. This is the prakaraNa grantha which is agreed by...
View ArticleQ. 353 – Witness to the boredom
Q: I have a problem with the boredom of everyday life. Nothing seems to satisfy me. I just find it so difficult to be just here in the moment and be content with that. You say: go through life and work...
View ArticleEgo – how it arises
The immutable consciousness that the witness-self is, being reflected in the mind, and apparently limited by it, appears as the ego, the empirical self, which functions as the percipient. Methods of...
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upadesha sAhasrI – part 16
Part 16 of the serialization of the presentation (compiled by R. B. Athreya from the lectures given by Swami Paramarthananda) of upadesha sAhasrI. This is the prakaraNa grantha which is agreed by...
View ArticleReview of article on Shankara by Ramakrisnan Balasubramanian
(This is a slightly modified article published here one year ago, which was improperly and incompletely posted. Ramesam had asked me to review the following article, with which I complied after much...
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Who Slept Well – part 3
Experiencer of the Deep-Sleep-State As noted in Part 2, we have three experiences in the deep-sleep state: 1. I exist, since I say I slept well; 2. I have the knowledge of homogeneous ignorance, since...
View ArticleHow could we merge absurdist and Buddhist philosophies?
www.quora.com/How-could-we-merge-absurdist-and-Buddhist-philosophies M. Provisionally we could put side by side ‘absurd’ (or illogical) and ‘unprovable’, even if they are not synonymous; and the main...
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Vedanta the Solution – Part 25
VEDĀNTA the solution to our fundamental problem by D. Venugopal Part 25 continues to look at who we are, in relation to experience and consciousness. There is an especially useful analysis of the...
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The Mystery – Part 6
Continuing this new, short series presenting the booklet by Bimal Prasad, in which he answers some ‘Rarely Asked Questions’ on Life. Primarily from the perspective of Advaita, questions addressed...
View ArticlePantheism, agnosticism/atheism — and Advaita Vedanta
How would you define your sense of pantheism? www.quora.com/How-would-you-define-your-sense-of-pantheism/answer/Brad-Neil Brad Neil, proponent of nonduality I have devised this classification for...
View ArticleQ.402 – Witness vs jIva
Q: Please correct my logic below: The ‘negating’ (neti, neti) is actually done by the not-Self (intellect, jIva). The things negated are not-Self (body, senses, mind/intellect, jIva itself?) The...
View ArticleQ.442 Witnessing and the Self
Q: Seeing-feeling that ‘I’ am not this body (aggregate of cells) and not this external world (job, house, possessions) is much easier for me than seeing that I am not this mind (thoughts, memories,...
View ArticleQ.443 A ‘simple summary of advaita’
Q: Based on your own search and discoveries over all of these years, and the writing of all of the books and blogs, if you had to summarize all of this, the truth of life, what would you say? A: Not...
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Chaki: A Vedantic Perspective
Chaki – by Bimal Prasad This is a household grinding machine called a ‘Chaki’, made of stone. It has two parts:an upper plate and a lower plate. The upper plate is rotated over the stationary lower...
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.475 Witness-Consciousness
Q: Can you help me to clear the following doubts? What part of the body is referred to as the mind? Why cannot the witness consciousness be a 5th part of the mind, Ego (changing subject), Emotion,...
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