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“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

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"Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere."

~Rupert Spira

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Talking of the witness should not lead to the idea that there is a witness and something else apart from him that he is witnessing.

The witness really means the light that illumines the seer, the seen, and the process of seeing.

Before, during, and after the triads of seer, seen, and seeing, the illumination exists. It alone exists always.

- Ramana Maharshi

There is no one standing apart watching life go by like a spectator.

There is only the light in which the watcher, the watched, and the watching itself all appear.

That light was already there before the seer, the seen, and the seeing arose.

It remains all through their existence, and it remains unmoved even after they dissolve.

You are not the witness standing outside experience.

You are the light in which experience itself appears and disappears

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Meditation practices in the Ribhu Gita

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1. Self-Inquiry (Atma Vichara)

Whenever a thought, sensation, or emotion arises,

inquire: “Who am I?”

Recognize: “I am not the body, not the mind;

I am pure Awareness.”

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2. Neti-neti (Not this, not this)

Reject all that is perceived as “not-Self.”

What remains after all rejection is the Self.

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3. Abidance in the Self (Nididhyasana)

Do not meditate on anything; simply remain as Being.

Rest in the knowledge: “I am Brahman.”

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4. Dissolution of the world

See the world as a mere appearance in Consciousness.

Do not deny it; deny its reality.

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5. Silence (Mauna)

True silence is the absence of mental interference.

In silence, the Self shines by itself.

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6. Firm knowledge (Jnana Nishtha)

Remain established in the certainty: “I am ever free.”

No effort, no practice, no goal.

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Essence of the Ribhu Gita

Nothing is to be attained.

Nothing is to be removed.

The Self alone is.

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"There is neither past nor future. There is only the present.

Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it.

Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists."

— Ramana Maharshi

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"You didn’t come here to straighten out the world. You didn’t come here to teach people anything or to show anybody anything. You are here in order to wake up, to awaken, to awaken from the mortal dream. That’s all you’re here for. You’re not here for any other reason."

~ Robert Adams

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HAPPY DIWALI

G: What is your source of light?

D: During the day it is the sun and at night, it is lamp, etc.

G: Yes, it is. Tell me, what light is the means of seeing the sun and the lamp

D: It is the eye.

G: At the time of shutting the eyes, etc., what is the light?

D: It is intellect.

G: What is the source of light for the intellect?

D: It is “I”, the Self (Awareness)

G: Therefore, your own Self (Awareness) is the light of lights (or the Supreme light).

D: Yes, O Lord, I am That Supreme Light (Awareness)

-Ekashloki by Adi Shankaracharya

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"Since past and future have never been without the present, to know the Eternal Now is to know the Truth" - Ramana Maharshi

"The future is a concept—it doesn't exist. There is no future. There is no past. There is only the eternal now." — Alan Watts 

"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant." — Eckhart Tolle 

"Wherever you go the sense of here and now you carry with you all the time. It means that you are independent of space and time."  - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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VEDANTIC / NONDUAL MEDITATION

From Objects to Awareness alone.

Consider the current experience, the first person experience and notice any object..

Step 1:- Objects only

There are flowers.

Step 2:- Awareness Of Objects.

I am aware of flowers.

Step 3:- Objects Of Awareness.

The flowers appear to my awareness.

Step 4:- Objects In Awareness.

The flowers are in my awareness.

Step 5:- Objects As Awareness.

Awareness appears as the flowers.

Step 6:- Awareness Alone.

Flowers are not a separate reality from awareness. They are just names given to forms of awareness.

Only Awareness Is.

One Without A Second.

-Based on Notes of Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon

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Apply in your own experience....

Whatever you aware of, you are not it. You are that which is aware.

Awareness itself - One without a second.

Video shorts:- Swami Sarvapriyananda

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NONDUAL MEDITATION

Key pointers:-

1. You cannot practise being Awareness. You are it, here and now.

2. Remember:- Whatever I am aware of, that I am not.

3. Keep it real.

4. Stay with the teachings of Vedanta, read the teachings, contemplate/think about the teachings, till it becomes clear - I AM THAT.

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“Go deeply into this feeling of ‘I’. Be aware of it so strongly and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and distract you. If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ wll vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I’, Consciousness itself.”

~ Annamalai Swami

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HAPPY DIWALI

G: What is your source of light?

D: During the day it is the sun and at night, it is lamp, etc.

G: Yes, it is. Tell me, what light is the means of seeing the sun and the lamp

D: It is the eye.

G: At the time of shutting the eyes, etc., what is the light?

D: It is intellect.

G: What is the source of light for the intellect?

D: It is “I”, the Self (Awareness)

G: Therefore, your own Self (Awareness) is the light of lights (or the Supreme light).

D: Yes, O Lord, I am That Supreme Light (Awareness)

-Ekashloki by Adi Shankaracharya

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You Were Never Born & You Never Die

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