What Happens at DEATH? Travel of the Subtle Body According to ADVAITA VEDANTA
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- What survives death of the physical body? Does it travel? How? And what happens at death for an enlightened person who has broken free from the cycle of rebirth? Q&A Series #16
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If you die of natural causes, your breathing stops first, and that deprives the organs in your body of oxygen, causing them to shut down one by one. But surprisingly, your brain will continue to function for just a few more minutes before it, too, shuts down. People who were lucky enough to be revived during those few minutes report various kinds of near-death experiences, like traveling through a dark tunnel towards a distant source of light. But if you're not revived in those crucial few minutes, your brain will soon cease to function, and all activities of your mind will stop.
And then what? According to the rishis, the sages of ancient India, you'll actually continue being aware. You'll be aware of the complete absence of any physical sensations or mental activities. Like standing in a perfectly dark closet with your eyes wide open. You don't lose your power of sight in the closet. You can see, but there's nothing to be seen. In the same way, at death, you don't cease to be aware, but there's nothing left to be aware of.
The ancient rishis discovered that your true, essential nature is awareness, pure consciousness, consciousness that's eternal, never-ending. They called it atma, the true self, the inner divinity that exists independently of your body and mind.
But then, what about reincarnation? What is it that leaves the body at death and travels on to be reborn? According to doctrine of karma, it's the sukshma sharira or subtle body that leaves the physical body at death and acquires a new one.
After death, what happens to the sukshma sharira, the subtle body, for someone who has attained enlightenment? Enlightenment is the result of discovering that your true self, atma, is pure consciousness and not an agent of action. When you're enlightened, you'll know that the agent of action who commands your body and directs your mind is the ego, a mere thought that says, "I am."
For an enlightened person, the ego is negated; it's nullified or falsified. In Vedanta texts, the falsified ego is said to be like a dagdha-bija, a burnt-seed. When mustard or cumin seeds are roasted, they still exist, but they can no longer germinate. In the same way, when the ego is falsified, it still exists, but it can no longer produce karma, nor can it reap the results of past actions. Since a falsified ego cannot reap the results of past actions, the laws of karma will no longer preserve the sukshma sharira with the ego from decaying after death. In a manner of speaking, the powerful karmic glue has nothing it can stick to.
And, according to the doctrine of karma that says, just like a person undergoes a cycle of life, death and rebirth due to karma, in the same way, the entire universe undergoes a cycle of creation and dissolution due to karma. The karma that drives the cycle of creation is called samashti karma, the collective karma of all living beings. Each new cycle of creation begins when it's triggered by samashti karma. And then, after all that karma has been exhausted, the universe enters a state of dissolution and remains in an unmanifest condition until the next cycle begins.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha.org/
I keep returning to the teachings of Swami Tadatmananda merely because they are by far the easiest I have found to understand, both because I am a native English speaker and because he explains in such easy to understand terms and words. Sometimes you will watch other Vedanta teachers and they seem to go off on a tangent leaving you to ponder "what is he saying?" I also closely follow Buddhist teachings, videos and books and like to compare it with Advaita Vedanta. There are so many similarities to me, in certain areas. Still I think I will always have a hard time "getting" reincarnation and karma philosophies. They just seem very hard to fully agree to or something. Must be the veil of ignorance around me!
It' s because Advaita Vedanta does not the right view of the Self. Advaita Vedanta bypasses the evolving Soul, which is the Higher Self of the Ego.
Read Brian Weiss MD books on reincarnation he encountered in his patients.ASTOUNDING.CANNOT MAKE IT UP.
It’s normal to not “get it”. That is why Vedanta prescribes shravana manana and niddhiyasana. Even if you don’t understand keep listening keep shravana. It is not that you don’t understand. It simply means the intellect is in the way of understanding. When the intellect is no longer function the understanding gushes forth from the heart ❤️ the you that doesn’t understand disappears.
For 22 years I had had a presumption that I was really reaching a spiritual goal. Then I fell totally in the physical craving which miserably interrupted my serenity. Now I'm making effords to get back to my lost path, but it is really hard. The videos like yours are giving me a great help. Thank you, sincerely.
These Q&A sessions are ace, gets the mind pondering over such profound questions; many thanks and gratitude for sharing your pearls of wisdom, abundant knowledge and cosy ambience. Appreciated; namaste, love & light!
This is brilliant! Perfect timing, I had no clue how it worked, now I do. 'I've' been ego desire free for 21 years, living in bliss, just floating along watching the majesty of all.. Thank you 💖
पूज्य स्वामी जी,
Your life changing teachings are so deep and powerful that every human being should try at least .
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Very clear and beautiful explanation! Thank you.
Pranams swamiji. I have never received such a profound and lucid explanation about karma of
enlightened person. 🙏
thank you so much for imparting the knowledge!
Very happy to listen to your talk after a long time. We are in bangalore and used to visit when we were in US.
Thank you, Swami, for a brilliantly clear exposition of the doctrine of reincarnation and enlightenment according to Advaita Vedanta.
Very profoundly said " your true essential nature is AWARENESS"
Sleeping in these teachings has become a fruitful seed of experience. Thank you Tadatmananda 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Superb explanation. No words to describe the knowledge of this great person
PRANAM Guruji wonderful explanation I felt a deep sense of happiness and bliss from this talk pranam 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Namaste,
I think it’s a good idea that Swamiji has begun newly his Questions & Answers Section. It allows us to ask him all the questions we have but there is no room for them in his weekly teachings. And, of course, it is always better to have his answer, based in the teachings of the ancient rishis ( “arsha bodha” means the teachings of ancient rishis if my memory is true).
One question arises on me. I like to visualize that we are drops of waters (atmas) feeling that we are separated from ocean (brahman). When the subtle body of an enlightened person returns to subtle elements, when there is no possibility of rebirth, “then, one continues to remain in blissful silence, in perfect peace”, but there is no one, an individual one, there is only ocean, there is only brahman.
I like the definition of Swamiji to “shraddha” faith in scriptures and in the guru pending on personal verification.
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excellent, have no words to express my gratitude, you have opened my eyes for many questions which have had confronting in my life to find the answers have been clearly explained, My humble pranams.
The absolute Truth.Sadguru my humble salutations at thy lotus feet.Love&Peace.
Great explanation Swamiji
No words to express.
i wish if you had an ashram in bangladesh or India. i would love to visit. i am skeptical about gurus, but it feels so peaceful and it touches my heart when I listen to you.
Very nice explanation..loved it♥️♥️
Best way to explain Vedanta and the role of karma in a short lecture. You are Great.
Crystal clear explanation Swami ji. Very clear and logical. Swami ji I would request u to deliver a video lecture on Panchkosh.
Your explanation and teachings are as clear as Cristal sir. Thanks for enlightening us.
I am glad and it strengthen my view and knowledge that you are telling the same as I listen to the other gurus…
This was beautifully explained
Thank you, Swami-ji! 🙏 It would be so nice, if someday you could make a video desciribing and explaining in detail the characteristics of each body (Sthula, Sukshma, and Karana Sharira). The topic if very interesting, yet a bit confusing at times, and you always explain everything so clearly. 🙏
Your physical body, is a Gravity-Body,
at sleep You move the Day-Consciousness, to the Feeling-Body, via the Coupling-Body,
and so to the other 'Night-Bodies', Intelligence-Body, Intuition-Body, Memory-Body, and Instinct-Body,
and then back to the Gravity/physical Body, at wake.
The Night-Bodies is what doctors call Deep-Sleep-periods,
the Coupling or Transfer body, is known as REM.sleep.
Eternity-Body, Under-Bodies, Coupling-Body,
Performance-Body, is where the Day-Consciousness is in the Circuit.
Very nicely explained
Absolutely lucid , and brilliant explanation. Perhaps even more lucid than Paramahansa Yoganandas explanation of what happens at death. Except that I suppose individuals who have attained moksha still have Astral and causal karma. But they are freed from the cycles of birth and death on earth.
fantastically explained👋
Very clear .the way the explaination is very touching 🙏🏻om namah shivayah
Thank you for the clear explanation. --Preethi 🙏💖
Clear understandable answer.
Love from Nepal.
I needed to hear this, I'm not religious, but this has always been what I thought/ hoped happens after life :) very comforting to me , thankyou for sharing ❤
Check near death experiences.
@@dare-er7sw NDE's don't explain the why's and wherefore's really, as the Rishis of ancient India did. The experiencers of NDE's mainly talk about being able to experience what happened to them after they came out of their body and could see doctors do this or that, walking through a tunnel, etc.
Sanatan Dharm or Vedic Hinduism has nothing to do with religion in the sense of following some routine or beliefs (often without any real explanatory reasoning behind them) rigidly out of fear of damnation to eternal hell, or some such made up stuff. That is exactly why the Rishis of the Vedas were able to explain the why's and wherefore's behind all such Q's in a way that it is logical, not forcing one to believe out of compulsion.
@@astroradha7124 I'm aware... closely following Advaita Vedanta for fifteen years now along with A Course in Miracles, another nondualistic teachings.
@@dare-er7sw that's great :)) I have spent a lot of time on NDEs out of curiosity on the subject of birth and rebirth, and consciousness. While it is quite intriguing, it didn’t give me the information I have been seeking. That’s what I was trying to convey. As an astrologer, I feel naturally intrigued by these subjects
Superb. Sadar Pranaam
Thank you very much Swamiji 🕉
❤hearing this over and over again! I’d like to memorize Panini’s 4,000 slokas ! Anywhere where that is instructed?
thank you Swami for your beautiful and accessible teachings and explanations. You are doing a great service to humankind. I have to say, though that one in thousand, and then again, one in 1000 attaining enlightenment does not indicate a high success rate! Not very encouraging, yet I will keep going on as there is no alternative to truth.
As I am deeply grateful to you, for your lessons about the atm an, I hope you will solve some riddles about the sukshma sharira. The last decades in the Weat have witnessed a crescendo of discoveries, that highlight the limitations of western concepts. During the NDE-near-death experience, one is detached from the body and observe it often from a higher vantage point, without any anxiety. I had surmised that this split energy-body is equivalent to the sukshma sharira. However, a well-known French professor of Indian philosophy, Jean Varenne, wrote that the sukshma sharira lacks any distinctive personal feature, in other words, does not differ between individuals. The pioneers of ITC- instrumental transcommunication (Macy and Meekl in the US ) did even make photographs of the so-called departed! There is here no doubt that the distinctive features of the entities in question were maintained. Was Varenne wrong? Or we should speak of jivatman, rather than of sukshma sharira? Arent we speaking here of that second body, treated by the Taittiriya Up., comprised under the pranamayakosha?
Thank you so much 🙏🙏✨
The explanation that a false identity in ego, in the subtle body, creates a binding glue/link in which even death can not unensnare you from is profound. I visualize this subtle body as a bubble within prakriti, through which ishvara can become aware of itself. But should ishvara live a life in that bubble and not become aware, then in death it finds its way to a new body to "try" again, where the laws of Karma continue to ensnare. But if in death you arrive free of the false identification, without eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste, ishvara grows in its overall awareness, and the subtle body discipates. Each occurance of Moksha is Ishvara coming to know itself more completely.
Wonderfull
What a knowledge, 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Next level
Namaste, om shanti. Thanks.
Grazie🙏🏻🕉️
Guruji.. Kindly explain.. How to attain enlightenment??
🙏🙏 Thank you Swamiji...
Divine voices
Very interesting - lots to think about. Perfect eternal awareness of nothing at all does sound rather daunting though...
I am an Indian. For the last 18-19 months I have been meditating. And have developed certain interest in spiritual subjects. In this regard I happen to read and listen to various personalities who are knowledgeable of this subject. Only a few Enlightened Indian masters whom I listen to can make such a complicated subject so easy to understand as you do Swamy Ji.
Can you share any tips on meditating out of personal experience? Do you notice any changes, apart from this interest in listening to teachers?
@@astroradha7124 In my opinion, engaging in spirituality may not have a significant impact on one's daily life or intelligence, especially for individuals who are busy with day-to-day work and responsibilities. It is better to focus on daily exercise and a healthy diet to lead a happy and simple life. Spirituality may be more relevant for those who have fewer responsibilities, such as sadhus.
@@reactiontoreligion on the contrary, spirituality and spiritual studies is for everyone! As long as there is genuine interest. Videos such as these help pique interest, and when sufficient interest is gathered, one has to go through systematic and consistent studies of the scriptures for a length of time under the guidance of a competent Guru. That is the true meaning of scriptural studies.
@@shreyasjois In today's society, where the concept of the spirit is being questioned, what is the significance of spirituality? To gain insight, consider reading one of the Vedas, such as the Rigveda, in its original translated form rather than relying on interpretations. By doing so, you can discover what the Vedas contain and what spirituality truly entails.
@@reactiontoreligion Sanatan Dharm is holistic, which means that focus on healthy diet (a pre requisite of yoga) and on daily duties is part of it. Please do not misunderstand the teachings discussed in this particular video as some mere doctrine. What you said there about spirituality not having a significant impact on daily life might hold good for organised religions - where you have to follow some strict regime of do's and don'ts without any logic to them and more out of fear of some damnation to hell or incurring the wrath of Allah or something like that. Spirituality is different altogether. Spirituality is like understanding the concept of karma. To oversimplify this concept, what you think shapes your intentions/motivations, which in turn shape your actions, which have an outcome- sometimes immediate or not. How can this not be significant to your daily life. This is as basic as the law of gravity.
Great! Reflects Buddhist doctrine.
Knowing ourselves fully is too difficult.
So, in the inner realm we have our Mind (मन) where our thoughts come and go and which directs the outer actions of our physical body (शरीर). In a higher state lies the Ego (अहंकार) where we experience our feelings (hurt, pride, joy, disappointment, envy, etc.) & desires, and which controls the mind. Still higher there is the Intellect (बुद्धि) where the overarching ideas that define us originate (e.g. fairness, Veganism, anti-natalism, etc.), and which moulds the Ego through to the Mind. We can observe the flow of our thoughts in the Mind, with a little effort we can be aware of the feelings/desires originating in the Ego (the corresponding thoughts will contain the words "I", "me", or "my"), and can also know (in our intellect) of the broad ideas that define the broad contours of our personality.
Thank you Swami ji.
Thank you Swami
Thank you Sir
What silliness; there is no 'you', there is no 'going' (transmigrating or otherwise)! All we can ever be is Here! Now! Eternally! 'We' do not 'go', we Are!
So why are you here! We are entitled to believe what we believe: you may be here feeling superior in your belief we don't care: so again why are you here: ask yourself why: we do not need an answer from you: just go away and leave us alone: we don't care what you believe in.
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This Subtle Body (comprising the Mind, the Ego, and the Intellect) is a unit which receives and "reflects" an infinitesimal part of the eternal all-pervading infinite Consciousness (aka Aatma / Paramatma / ब्रह्म / Parambrahm / Ishwar). The Aatma thus received by a Subtle Body is the common "thread" that goes through the Mind, Ego & Intellect and allows us to observe their inner workings.
The aforementioned "reflection" appears to an outside observer as an "Individual Consciousness". The more "purified" this Subtle Body becomes, the more "Aatma" it "reflects", and this "degree of reflection" then becomes a measure of how elevated a particular "Individual Consciousness" is.
Swami jee koti koti naman
I don’t experience deep sleep currently, falling asleep is like fading away. When I was younger there would be visions and I could sometimes follow myself into the dream space. So, my general awareness has lessened as time passes.
It may sound strange but actually you do experience, but your mind, which is absent during sleep, convinces you that you don't. The gap is in memory, not awareness.
@@brianbritchie8710 you’re right it’s the memory… I still experience every moment just the connection that ties the construct of time together is lost… however, now I’m wondering… in deep sleep, do you have awareness of one single moment, one single state of being? Or might there be any experience of the passing of time? I wonder without time, how long an eternity might feel.
@@halcyon2864 yeah I am wondering how it feels to consciously experience the deep sleep state though with memory of it in tact. When you can manage to hold your awareness during that, you’re basically enlightened
Try Yoga.
@@subliminalmuseI suspect the 'conscious-experience' (of being in a 'deep sleep') might be incompatible with the cognitive thinking required for 'memory'. I suspect that 'intuition' or knowing or being or comprehension is the bridge between our 'memory-of-experiencing' our awareness and the state/moment of "being-aware" during these times of being (aware) as opposed to 'doing' something like 'dreaming'
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🌍🌏🌎🕊️ To us all
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I hope I haven't intruded🧘🏼♂️
श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः।
हरि ॐ॥
Thank you Guru ji 🙏
Deep dreamless sleep IS a state of unconsciousness. There is no awareness whatsoever - not even of stillness or peace.
Sri Ramana Maharshi has explained that only when the Self is realized that Pure Consciousness remains unbroken and unchanging through Waking, Dreaming and Deep Sleep.
Who cares? It is the Vedas that have authority, not just one person. If it has a beginning, it also has an end. If the FOURTH is not now, it will remain forever beyond reach.
@@TheGuiltsOfUs You did not argue your case at all. The fact remains that deep sleep is indeed a state of unconsciouness. There is no need for the Vedas authority regarding that; it is verifiable in everyone's experience.
Only in deep sleep your pure consciousness(the light that illumines the all three states) shines..Deep sleep is not the absence of experience, it is the experience of absence!
When I fall asleep, it's lights out completely - I love it and sleep like a log literally even with some daily concerns/challenges and if I am ever kept awake, it takes something pretty major to keep me awake at night, also, I find that this type of a solid sleep, enables me to make do with less hours, so, 5-6hrs sleep and I will arise, feeling completely refreshed in the mornings. However, on the flip side, I also think, that if I were to pass away during my sleep state, would I/ego/mind, even notice?
but I think if you were to pass away in your sleep, it will make you awake and then you will pass away
🙏💗Om Shanti 💗🙏 Jai Sanatana 🌏🌈
🙏🙏You have said that after death we are like in a dark closet with our eyes open.I have a small experience, like when I was in sleep, suddenly I felt darkness, I opened my eyes and saw to know that I was in sleep. My question is how dead dear ones come in dreams and talk as if they have seen what was happening around them after death? My mother came in my husband's dream and complained that I was still crying for her,how is it possible?He was not aware of that.
This question arises from a continued misidentification with a body (subtle or otherwise).
Awareness is singular...the same awareness/consciousness you are and were before the birth of this body will continue after the death of this body. So it will be exactly as it was years before the birth of the body.
As I understood it, the question was not about the base consciousness that experiences and forms all apparent phenomena but rather was about the 'subtle body' of individual subjective phenomena. If, for the sake of discussion and everyday function, you concede that there is a question and questioner (and here you are addressing them directly) why not concede, in 'relative truth', the existence and life trajectory of the so-called 'subtle body', 'soul', or 'jiva'?
@@FrogmortonHotchkiss There is no division or individuals even now. Self is just talking to itself. Do not misidentify with a body, a subtle body, conscious awareness, etc. Do not misidentify as a "me" going somewhere on some life trajectory. Cease identifying with something born and that dies.
@@NondualityChannel Yeah, I know... You can come out of teaching mode. ;-)
I wonder who/what is/are behind all of this trauma in lives, and for what purpose 😢
Can u do a video advaita vedanta Vs dzogchen?
Sri Aurobindo's teaching is the correct one. At first the "I" or ego is outwardly identified. After awakening, the outward egoic identification is de-animated (ego death) and the blocks, complexes, repressed emotions, feelings, and instincts in the deep unconscious (subtle body) de-repress and are purged. The shadow is integrated. The personal evolving soul (Psychic Being) is the Higher Self of the ego. This is the one who reincarnates. The Personal evolving Soul is then integrated with Atma, which is the pure light body of Spirit. Atma is the Universal aspect of the Higher Self. The Psychic Being is the personal aspect that is evolving from life to life. Integrating the Psychic Being and the Atma or Spirit, results in enlightenment or Integration.
Pranams swamiji🙏🙏🙏
In preparation for death, control of lucid dreaming in the bardo of sleeping, is a challenge.
Once a cycle ends and when the new cycle begins, is the enlightened soul reborn and performs new karmas
What song is that in the beggining?
Sadar Pranam 🙏
How can I ask questions to swamiji?
Swami g, Is astral body is the second name of the subtle body ?
Too good Swamiji 🙏thanks for the clarity and information on Karma and rebirth.
Pujya swamiji if what happens to animals and birds after death?
Do we die slowly. I mean in days.what do you say?
It all depends when you pass. The very young ones often stay in what ever form with the loved or close ones. My elder brother passed when he was 10 and I 6years old. At that time I was worried because there was terrible winter with minus 10 C in Jena with ice and snow and my poor brother had now to stay in his cold grave. 30 years later an ashramite in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram told me that he feels a very positive being around me and I knew it was my brother.
When I pass my thoughts of today and yesterday will bring me to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and I will rest on a special tree there. Where and with what capacities to be reborn can also be influenced by constant prayers to our Mahashakti. Is She not present every where at any time ? And ready to help with her brilliant allpowerfull grace if we sincerely ask for it.
I'd read from your text,
that age of the Ashramite, might be about 26 year old,
how does it fit with your experience?.
What if everyone lived in their own bubble with their own illusionary universe, rather than in a "multiplayer" world?
The dream is a perfect example of this. Everything in the dream is an individual illusion, there is no one else, not even other souls, although this is not recognized in the dream.
Consciousness is riding a mind posture in the pretence of an ego self. It's a binding ride that gets tougher for pretender.
Master, so mind is part of subtle body?
Hi if u fell folling in a Holl what do that meen
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Non-living things do not "reflect" the Aatma at all. Living beings "reflect" it to varying degrees depending on how "purified" their Subtle Body is.
The term "purified" in the preceding paragraphs can be understood in terms of the extent to which a Subtle Body has been able to let go of its "attributes" (गुण-रूप). When the Mind has become totally still, when the Ego has let go of all its emotions, desires & attachments, when the Intellect (originally born to observe & interpret Prakriti) is able to realize that it is "in" Prakriti and not "from" Prakriti, to see through Prakriti, and observe the Aatma as indistinguishable from itself -- that is when the "purification" is 100% complete and the Subtle Body is able to dissolve into the Aatma, not having to take another body ever again. That is Moksh, when the Subtle Body completes its cycle (being born from Aatma and getting dissolved back into Aatma).
Swami jee, what happens to the causal body after death? Can one get permanent liberation till one's causal body is still in existence? I think that one should be free from the existence of three types of body -- physical, subtle, and causal -- for liberation.
Hari Aum!
Only after the destruction of vasanas liberation is possible.
causal body / kaarana shareera (which holds vasanas) gets dissolved after vasanakshaya, when all of vasanas are emptied off.
So, after eradication of vasanas, with the dawn of Athma Jnana, one becomes a Jivan mukta.
I differ from the Swami ji view, that a Jnani when he drops his body, his subtle body gets dissolved as well. But like a burnt seed, it wont take another birth due to karma, as the sanchita karma is burnt as well.
But by will of Para Brahman/ Eshwara, its possible for such a Jnani to be reborn for लोकक्षेम (for the benefit of the mankind).
Subtle body of a Jnani stays for a period of time(how much time, it depends)...
Jnani / Jivanmukta has Sookshma shareera even after liberation.
Its with sookshma shareera, that the liberated one, goes to Brahma loka / other lokas, but Jnani himself/Herself, does not associate themselves with the subtle body.
Bhagavan Ramana says that in due course of time, Jnani 's sookshma shareera too gets dissolved and that is the absolute union with Para Brahman.
They were / are always remain as the ever present conscious awareness...
Aum Arunachala Shiva!
You should voice audiobooks, in english!
Greetings from Chattanooga, TN USA. After listening to this teaching, I have a few questions. What is the Karma or Dharma does a human being have upon the first birth. Should I say when one aperture of Brahma first incarnates into a human being form? If we are all moving toward liberation as a Rainbow Light being why must we endure all that this human being form imposes upon us? Is it correct that once we reach our peak then we decline back to mineral and back to light again, as an ocean waves do we too eternally wax and wane? If all is vibration, then your peak and trough arrive mutually. I ask this as I look at The Buddha pointing a way off the Wheel of Samsara. This seems to be a contradiction.
I ask about the body because in 2019 I thought I was perfectly healthy then to have a doctor tell me before the door even shuts behind him, I have 2 weeks left to live and then only if I get an emergency liver transplant. For two weeks I accepted my death but lived as if each day in the hospital was just another day. It turned out I was the sickest person in all of USA and that's how it is determined who gets the next organ by UNOS. I did not know this until the last day of my initial 2 weeks. I also did not sleep or become tired for two weeks. The doctors said this can happen to someone with less than 10% liver function. Now, I have no fear of death, it is as great a gift as life is. I also know that I am Brahma without the 'I' and the liver transplant was going happen always but it was my choice how to experience it. I choose to see it as the greatest opportunity of my life since birth, and it was. That keep happening to me now. It is a loving Universe, and my sub-conscious desires are fulfilled daily like as if by Grace, not by will. I have been a follower of Buddha/Zen/Christ/Advaita Vedanta for about ten years now.
Thank you for your time and for sharing your wisdom. I have been greatly concerned about a Guru and I have many now to help that are living and passed, thanks to the internet, such as yourself, Ram Dass and Alan Watts. Also the videos on the UA-cam site for The Advaita Vedanta Society of Southern California.
Here are two beliefs I have formed.
1. Zen is what happens when you are not thinking Zen.
2. Our subtle consciousness is who we are if we had no memories.
BTW: I emailed also but wanted post here to be part of this community. Isn't community of the utmost importance?
In India its called Leela (a Play).
Basically the God is bored so he needs to experience through his creation so he expanded himself into to multiple beings to experience.
@@0arjun077interesting that much the same as the Sumerian tablets.
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Who is the figure in the background, to the upper right of the teacher (our right)? The statue, I mean.
lord who is within
SHIVA
Why do we have an ego in the first place if we are to ultimately destroy it? I’m wondering what is the purpose. Will there ever be a point where all egos are destroyed - and everyone is enlightened? If so, then what happens?
Ego = thought!
Bodhidharma said that "Zen is anything done thoughtlessly. "
Ego = Duality!
"In the first place" there is no 'we' to 'have' anything.
Thought is, we perceive it as it goes by.
And YES!!
Armageddon is here to rid the Universe of haters and anyone who cannot be unconditional Love/Enlightened!
After Armageddon clears most of the planet, we will enjoy Universal Enlightenment/Unconditional Love!
If the Love is unconditional, the 'symptoms' will be the unconditional Virtues; Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Gratitude, Humility, Charity (Charity is never taking more than your share of anything, ever!), Honesty, Happiness, Faith...
ALWAYS!
Fake it till you make it!
Namaste'
Namah Shivay Pranam
Pranam Swami Ji. _/\_
what happens to the me when we sleep , when awake we are aware of the me
Hi Sir , Please guide me , how can i achieve professional success. People do bully me a lot . i am a coward.
I could understand many thanks a lot...
I always have a doubt regarding reincarnation.
It's said that we are all born again to learn our lessons.That means , all the dead are here on earth living new lives.Then how come people who are on the death bed see their parents coming to take them ,I myself had witnessed my grand father seeing his dead mother, inviting in and sking her to sit down and then telling us that his mother has come to take him home and after a few minutes, he was gone. I also heard many such cases.Even people who face near death experience says they were welcomed by their dead relatives aunt,uncle,grand parents and so on.If that is the case aren't they reborn yet?? How come the families are together up there? If all families are meeting ,it's a big world than earth....here living people and there dead people Do all interact with each other? Can they see us ,hear us ? If we talk ill,do they hear and feel bad ...or seek revenge? Will they be born as babies in our families and is that so we have difficult times with some members in our family? Or are they present both here and there at 2 places.....What is really happening ....my head is ccracking...very very confusing....pls clear my doubt
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