Advaita [Non-Duality] in a nutshell. Everything is Brahman [Consciousness]. How?
Question:
Ekta didi, please would you explain Advaita [Non-Duality] in a nutshell. Everything is Brahman [Consciousness]. How?
Answer:
Let’s directly experience it rather than talk about it.
- Step 1 – Inward journey: Move the attention from the outside world of objects to the inside:
- Start by looking at the object and recognizing that your eye is the ‘seer’ and the physical object is the ‘seen’.
- Now step back once again and recognize your mind is the ‘seer’ and the eyes are the ‘seen’.
- Now take one more step back and recognize the witness is the ‘seer’ and the mind is the ‘seen’.
- Step 2 – Now remain steady in the witness & recognize the quality of the witness.
- It is limitless. It has no borders.
- It is made of nothing.
- It is not personal.
- It extends beyond the body/mind.
- It is a massive field that is shared by all and everything.
- It is aware.
- It is awareness itself.
- I am ‘awareness’.
- I am aware that I am aware.
- Awareness is aware of itself.
- Awareness knows itself.
- Awareness is not different from Knowingness.
- Therefore Witness = Awareness = Knowingness.
- Step 3 – Outward journey: Recognize the field of awareness/knowingness/witness while moving outward back into the world.
- Are you knowing that you are thinking? Recognize that Knowingness is not different from thought.
- Are you knowing that you are seeing and hearing? Recognize that Knowingness is not different from seeing & hearing. Therefore Knowingness is not different from the perception of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
- Are you knowing that a certain feeling is arising? Recognize that Knowingness is not different from feeling.
- Thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions are all made up of Knowingness itself.
- Recognize that Knowingness transforms itself to become the mind and move outwards.
- Recognize that we never know objects, we only know our perception of objects and the corresponding sensation that arises in the body, and the proceeding thought & feeling that arises in the mind.
- The field of knowingness contains everything, even one’s own personal activities [cleaning, cooking, or playing with kids].
- Activities of body and mind arise in the space of knowingness, they play for a while in knowingness and they dissolve/die into the space of knowingness.
- Recognize that everything is just made up of one stuff – Knowingness/Awareness/Consciousness
To summarize it, Sarvam Evam Brahman! Everything is Consciousness!
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Didi,
Is Brahman Satyam the Inward Journey, and Jagat Mithya the Outward Journey?
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Yes dear, that would be appropriate to say in a nutshell.
Thank you Ekatji!