Podcast: What Do I Really Want

Podcast Episode 1 What do I Really Want?

Brilliant talks on 6th chp Chandogya Up

Brilliant talks on the vision of non duality and it's application in our life through exposition of selected verses of 6th chapter if Chandogya Up.
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Chandogya Up. chapter 6 - Pujya Swami Viditatmananda

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What is it I really want?

Meditative Insights

In meditation it is good to  just be an impartial observer of the thoughts which  occur, now and then. Sometimes one could get dragged into the thoughts, so the status  changes from impartial observer to one involved in the thoughts. Then one comes back to being an impartial silent observer again. And soon one will be able to recognise that observer is also a role played by the ahankara. One may then contemplate on the fact that both the observer and observed are sustained in one self-evident, indivisible consciousness who is the truth of both the observer and the observed. Keep seeing this fact again and again. 

One may also contemplate that consciousness the truth of the observer-I cannot even be said to be all-pervading because consciousness is free of space. All pervading the word can be used only when there is a concept of space. So then what becomes appropriate for recognising space-less consciousness is the understanding of non dual, ekam eva advitiyam. The Consciousness that one is, is ekam eva advitiyam.

Om Tat Sat

Historical-I is false

Placing one's identity in a historical-I, which is nothing but a bunch of experiences that are finished, over, past, is truly false. Because history is just history. It is in the past. There is something about oneself which is always there and one's identity needs to be based on tha,t which is always there, that is free of the time-space framework and not on experiences which come to go.

So the historical-I, which one is identified with, which is based on a set experiences that come to go,  is false. 

That which is always there is the self-evident ever-present, independent, consciousness, in whose unwavering, undivided, indivisible, ever-presence, all experiences are illumined, empowered and observed to come and go. These experiences which come to go, have no power to prove their existence without the presence of self-evident changeless consciousness.

Observing experiences/knowing them and identifying with them as I are entirely different. To identify with the changing experiences as I, is indeed death ...because all experiences are temporary. Experiences of body, mind, world are there....to identify with them as I or mine, is indeed death....because none of them last. The physical body perishes. The jnani's mind too perishes on death of the body. The world experience is constantly perishing.

And indeed how loyal we are to this false sense of I!!! 

May Ishwara's Grace bless us all with Crystal clear self-knowledge.

Om Tat Sat

Do not bypass bhakti

🙏🏻Pride of being a Vedanti and not worshipping the Lord can become a big obstacle - because you lose a great support system.  Atma-jnanam will give you strength from within, however till then you require a support system.  And that is provided by bhakti - love, reverence and surrender to the Lord .
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 So Pujya Swamiji emphasises this again again. Pujya Swamiji had been teaching and helping sadhakas for 60 years. So in all talks he emphasised the need for connection to Ishvara as it is very much required until nishtha takes place. Sometimes in over enthusiasm people miss this.
You are satcitananda, but as long as jiva bhava is creating a problem for you, you need to handle it thru Bhakti. The Vedantic way of handling may not appeal to your heart. If somebody insults you are you are able to say I am satcitananda...it does not bother me at all, then you don't need a support system. If somebody gives you news that all family members died in the house and you are able to say it's ok they died, everybody has to die someday ...all are anantma and therefore will be destroyed, I am drashta ....then you don't need a support system. Are you able to do that?
This is the Vedantic way.

Until we can do this let us have the UPS of Bhakti. Bhakti provides you the backup. And for very long time we require back up. 
..Swami Sadatmananda, Acharya Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Annaikatti🙏🏻

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