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Is the World Real?


A friend wrote to me: “Trying to understand Reality,By renouncing the world,Is like trying to understand the ocean,By ignoring the … More

Brahman, Clay and pot, Consciousness, Criteria for reality, Criteria for truth, Dream analogy, God, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Jagat mithya, Meditation, Mithya, Name-and-form analogy, Philosophy, Ramana Maharshi, Reality, Religion, Sankaracharya, Self, Spirituality, Unchanging, Unreality of the World, What is "real"?, World

I Am Not A Thought – So Who Am I Really? – Nisargadatta Maharaj Wisdom


Advaita, Brahman, Freedom, Libertaion, Mind, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nonduality, Philosophy, Self, Self-enquiry, Self-realization, Thoughts, Upainshads, Who am I, You are not the mind

“There Is No Creation, No Destruction”: Ramana Maharshi | Ajata Vada | Non-Duality | Truth | Maya


Body-mind identity, Brahman, Creation, Destruction of the world, I thought, Personal world, Pralayam, Ramana Maharshi, Self, Suffering, Unchanging Self, Who am I?, World

Tasya Bhāsā Sarvam Idam Vibhati – by His light all this is illumined


“Sarvam idam vibhati” (सर्वमिदं विभाति) means “All this shines” or “Everything is illumined,” a key phrase from Vedic scriptures like the Katha … More

Brahman, Katha Upanishad, Sarvam Idam Vibhati, Self, Self-luminous, Svayam Prakash, Truth

Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’ | J. Krishnamurti


Questioner: ‘Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’, the ‘me’. Without that, everything else is futile. ‘ ‘Show me how … More

I Me Mine, Life, Meditation, Mental health, Mindfulness, Self, Spirituality

How to remain in a no-mind state?


“Thou art the woman, Thou art the man, Thou art the youth and the maiden too. Thou art the old … More

Advaita, Mind, Nonduality, Self

Sam Upanishad


They know notBig Bang, they sayAn unproven theoryWho knows how it beganAnd what was there or notBefore it began. Forms … More

Advaita, Brahman, Change, God, Metaphysics, Nonduality, Ontology, Philosophy, Poem, Poetry, Sam Upanishad, Self, Upanishad, World

Path to Self-Realization – Meditating on the ‘I Am’ – The Nisargadatta Maharaj Way


My Introduction Aitareya Upanishad states “Prjananam Brahma“, menaing “Consciousness is Brahman” (or, Self). Brahman (Nisargadatta Maharaj often refers to this … More

Brahman, Consciousness, I am, Mahavakyas, Meditation on 'I Am', Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nisargadatta Maharaj on the I am, Self

An Open Letter To Whomsoever It May Concern


It has become increasingly clear to me that this world is much ado about nothing. I no longer want to … More

Absolute truth, Brahman, Self, Self-realization, Self-realization / Liberation, Truth

J. Krishnamurti on the Self or the “Me” (the Ego)


Because thought has divided the world into nationalities, geographic divisions, class divisions, religious divisions, ideological differences – communists, socialists, ultra-left … More

Ego, J. Krishnamurti on the Self, Self

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