Insights on Awakening (Part 1)
(32:42) If you sit quietly with yourself, That which is alive in you will bring you to the Recognition of what you are. The real quietness is the stillness of your true Being. When it is known and seen, it will reflect in the mind. To sit quietly with oneself will definitely trigger the awakening […]
You Are Not the Doer of Your Enlightenment
(20:28) The secret of practice is in the effortless response to the call of the inner Self. Don’t bring anything of your mind there. It will all happen on its own. It is more about allowing Consciousness to shine freely within you. You cannot decide about it, you can only disappear. With your domestic intelligence understand […]
Pure Love is the Direct Seeing
(9:51) In this video, Swami Ji responds to the question asked by a spiritual seeker with regard to the nature of true love in the world of desires and relationships. All love affairs are of the same nature. It is like trying to come to fulfillment through the wrong path, which only brings more suffering […]
Why Change this Mind which is Not Yours?
(13:58) Vedānta has provided us with a deep analysis of mind at the subconscious and unconscious levels (vāsanās and samskāras) long before modern psychology. Understand that your compulsive thinking comes from the deeper levels of your mind. Unless your mind is causing psychological pain or imbalance, why would you like to change this mind which […]
From Awakening to Complete Recognition and Liberation
(13:35) When we start this inner quest, this inner inquiry, we will definitely have glimpses. We feel the inner peace, the vastness, that utter silence that is completeness itself, we are totally fulfilled, it’s profound happiness, we call it Bliss. Yet, it is an intermediary state on the way to the complete Recognition and Liberation, […]
“I am Brahman” without the “I”
(11:14) When you say “I” it contains a belief, namely your borrowed identity. That “I” is connected with a whole story about yourself. The thought “I am Brahman” will free you from your habitual state of confusion. Yet, that declaration implies duality. You still remain as the advanced seeker who has intellectually understood that you […]
The Self is not Attainable, it is Ever Attained, Ever Realized
(24:20) To know who you are you don’t need the objectifying consciousness (Tamil, suttarivu), but you have to deconstruct it, you have to understand how it works, what it is in nature. Drop the clinging to the contents of this objectifying consciousness, because it is nothing other than pure Awareness plus its objects. If you […]
When there is no otherness in the perceived otherness… That is the Natural State!
(4:00) Life as Consciousness is the sentiency manifested in forms and it comes, first of all, as our subjectivity, yet in the infinite Absolute Consciousness (sk, Cit) there is no subjectivity as it is the non-polar consciousness. You can’t find any partition there, any distinction, any differentiation between a pole which would be subjectivity and […]
All there is to renounce is the “I”
(2:24) You can renounce the world, you can renounce family ties, you can renounce your position in society, your wealth… Unless you renounce to “I” you haven’t renounced anything. Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-Duality) and Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India.
When the Boundaries Fall Apart, this World Becomes Glorious!
(10:49) People rarely comprehend the Love and Oneness experienced in Awakening. When you awaken, you realize that suffering is really a dream. Society is not ready to receive the pure Love that you feel but you can still express it through compassion and generosity. Awakening is an experience of fullness and, as such, a desireless […]