Talks on spiritual and philosophical topics, mostly related to the path of knowledge and Advaita Vedanta or Non-dualism. Subjects such as the consciousness, mind, reality, metaphysics and various ways to study these are discussed.
Why does this world appear imperfect and why do we feel a need to improve it? Is there such a need? Who can fix it? Who is empowered to make a change here? What is the nature of such empowerment? Let us try to peel this very complex onion of Maya and the appearance of empowerment.
Part 2 of 2. Shunya and Self, what is the difference? Nirvikalp or Savikalp, which is better? What is the relation between the mind and death? How to explore the universal mind? Let us know the answers to these questions in detail.
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Part 1 of 2. Shunya and Self, what is the difference? Nirvikalp or Savikalp, which is better? What is the relation between mind and death? How to explore the universal mind? Let us know the answers to these questions in detail.
Join the online Skype meetings.
What is creation? Who is the creator? How is it being created or was created? Who's will is this? If everything is being created by the mind then why is there a history or archaeological records? What is the nature of historical time? Let us dig out some answers for these fundamental questions and solve them for once and for all.
This is the audio version of a reading session livestreamed on my YouTube channel recently. It has been edited slightly and cleaned up. Ranjit Maharaj was a Guru brother of Nisargdatta Maharaj and so his teachings contain the same flavour. In this part we learn about his views on reality or zero and the relation between knowledge and ignorance.
The text can be found here : https://www.inner-quest.org/Ranjit_Meeting.htm
Many of our actions produce a residue on the universal memory. These manifest as bonds or debts, wherein we are trapped. A seeker realises this quickly and endeavours to break these bonds, tries to pay them off. What are these bonds? How to break free from them? Let us see.
We are having a dual experience. We experience the opposites. If there is perfection, there is also imperfection. Yet, I the existence is absolutely perfect. How is that possible? How can we call this existence perfect when all we see is imperfection? Isn't our struggle against this imperfection that we find around us? Let us explore our own experience, and find out if it is really perfect.
There are three ways to manage desires. Satiation or fulfillment is the first and most popular way. We discuss here the consequences of desire fulfillment. We discover something very important.
Desires are the cause of actions. Quality of our life depends on how we act, which depends on what we desire. So their study is of a great significance. What are desires and how many kinds are there? Lets see them in the first part of this series on desire management.
After realizing that there is no doer, a question is often asked - what should I do now? How to live this life? What is an ideal action? etc. It is paradoxical, how can you act when you are not the actor? The answer is surprisingly simple. That is what we discuss here.
