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That was solid and very much how I feeling and see it as well Also thanks for the book mention, i just ordered that book, I haven’t heard of that one before
This is coming at the time when everywhere Shree Datta jayanti is been celebrated here in india. Dattatray is also called guru tatwa,brihaspati lord of knowledge encompassing everything. Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏 Every type of
This seems to speak to the work of Babuji Maharaj and Reality at Dawn also talks of the Brahman mandel as a point within the mind where a kind of conscious unconsciousness moves into unconscious consciousness and that echo within from nature. Fascinating video.
Brahman is the infinite unmanifest. Out of nothing comes everything. The original empty dream. Timeless, existenceless, and so forth. That is why if you wish to manifest anything, this is where you must go, you must go to the absolute emptiness, let it go, allow it to come to you, simple. The second you force it in any way, it acts as a magnet and pushes you away, that's why the only way to approach what you want is to surrender, to allow it to drag you in, as if you had no polarity, no wishes, no thoughts, empty. It need not be so complicated, you have been doing it you whole existence, there is only that. Even creating the absence of what you want, the absolute opposite of what you are looking for, is coming forth from brahman, through your athman into your reality. You are only capable of that, nothing else, everything works the same way, from you to the big empty, from the big empty to you, back and forth. So make plans in your mind, let them go(to the void) then calibrate to the void within you, and allow the plans you made to come forth manifest in whatever way they come and be thankful of what you get, for you always get it how you wanted it, if it isn't to your liking, you need look no further than within yourself as the source of what went wrong. Or more accurately what you perceived as something going wrong, because it didn't. It came exactly how it was supposed to, as you wanted it to. The distortion that makes you seek these kind of videos to begin with, to read this kind of comments comes from you, from your ideas, your thoughts, your belief, your experience, you must forget what is in order to get what could be. Forgetting is your greatest skill, master the art of forgetting in order to travel to new exciting places. Make room within. So just like I can type infinitely, going in circles saying the same thing in an infinite different ways, you can create anything you desire, if you could just forget it. Cheerio!
Nameste Jason, really appreciate the way you simplified the importance of understanding Brahman as IS! Brahman is beyond Our minds or comprehension; just knowing Brahman is, nothing more, nothing less. Awesome breakdown Jason. Thank you 🙏🏾
But what is not clear to me is whether yall are saying Brahman is a thing, or not a thing. Even as a conceptual presence, or realizing that one is Brahman, that still sounds like a thing. So, are we talking about a thing, or simply the falling away of illusion that there is any fundamentally different nature to anything?
@@Abhinav-m4o funny you should say that. I was just talking with a Catholic Priest, and he described God in the same way. Something beyond conception, and things of the like.
This debate reminds me of the ideas that circulate in trading, IE, "Buy low, sell high", self evident yet no one can actually pinpoint what these states look like.
Absolute awareness ⭕️ = I = ♾ is independent of apparent body, coherent mind & adherent ego as evident in Alzheimer’s & NDEs Swami SriDattaDev SatChitAnanda
Plotinus wrote beautifully about the absolute in exactly the same terms you have expressed. It is beyond duality and thus beyond language or concepts because thought requires a binary.
Jiva Gosvami said in his Sat Sandarbhas, that the Absolute very well is accessible through speech and can be related through speech. The author Bruce Martin gave a short introduction into that by his essay "the language of Transcendence". It's available online.
I am delighted to experience this teaching. Very appreciative. Subscribing. (Watching from the USA.) Two questions come to mind. Clearly they are not original with me. They are: How can one absolutely rule out duality while living in a duality that begs our attention constantly. Perhaps that is the fundamental or most common human question. The second question is related. How can we speak of anything without duality? Even to speak of this something, by whatever name, that is beyond the division between duality and duality, when such an idea is itself a concept. That is, how can we use our minds without concepts--which are informed by and from sensory experience? These are sincere questions, not argument teasers. Our brains seem "wired for duality". --- One comment about the video presentation. The frequent blurring of the screen is rather hard on my nervous system, my ability to focus. It distracts my attention from the spoken content. I don't have the technical knowledge to offer a solution.
Amazing. I just did a video about this exact topic with the title "Duality & Nonduality: Two Sides Of The Same Coin" where I talk in depth about the difference and secret commonality of duality and nonduality and how to integrate and transcend both of them. I would be honoured if you check it out and let me know what you think! 🙏
When the Absolute is realised, it becomes obvious that the jiva-identity does in Truth, not exist; nor do either what we call duality nor non-duality. What alone exists is the Absoluteness of pure awareness. But how is that known? By the concurrent knowing that I am the experiencer of that Absoluteness. That is Sat - I alone exist. The experiencer is Cit - that which I am. Concurrent with those knowings (in my case at least) was what the Buddha described as “a (soundless) paean of joy” - knowing that there is zero separation ever - that is Ananda, that surpasses all understanding The paradox is that, while that much can be retrospectively described, it is impossible to express the experience as it unfolded. There was awareness, certainly - the substratum never is absent, and while the sense of I as a separate Java had gone, there was a definite knowing that I was the one who was experiencer. That begs the question as to whether the I was the Jiva or I was the absolute. Suspect the latter, but the jiva identity reappeared upon the return to waking consciousness 😅 Why am I writing this? To reinforce what Jason points to in all of his Avadhuta and Ashtavakra videos. The journey might start with the Vedas, might deepen with the Upanishads and might finally end when you explore past where they leave off. And also to emphasise that the only guru you’ll ever need is the One within. May your journeys be blessed. Good luck 🙏
We exist for being who we are, but we are not what we think we are, we are not what we feel we are. We are all that is to experience, the bliss of existing, as only by staying at peace you are neither with your ego and nor with your super ego. We all start out as an idea, which turns into action, into possibility of reality and reality manifests itself. We be devoid of qualities, be nirgun -as to be of matter , you require qualities which reflects to the world so that it manifests because we will always be a reflection to observer. So all we get to experience is life itself ie. limitless, devoid of any quality and is all the final sum, the consciousness.
Interesting pointers. The VOID of qualities, although everything that we can think of and beyond that. Wasn’t the Heart Sutra also pointing to the same teachings. Beyond Buddhism? Gate, …
if it is the experience and the one who experiences it is ever present and always being experienced only disguised as the self or the world it is being experienced.
I think I understand. I’m Norse pagan so forgive me if I get this wrong. Both dualism and non dualism explain the illusory state of maya and neither are wrong and neither is correct. They both just are. From our point of view as things in maya, both kinds of thinking can connect us to Brahman if we let ourselves be and exist without letting our view of the world become a fetter.
"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao." Tao Te Ching, In the Bible, God says to us, "Your thoughts are not like My thoughts, and what I do is beyond your imagining." the point is that we cannot know the "mind" of the Universe.
Jason Gregory 🙏 The Masters say - _"Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know."_ Meaning, those who have 'realized & seen' by their direct experience of the ultimate underlying "true nature" of all things; Don't or can't speak or teach about it thru' speech or words because in doing so - shall miss it totally. The ultimate "true nature" is the "Oneness" that interconnects all things & beyond all things. It is undescribable, inconceivable, beyond time & space, is infinite & it pervades the entire Universe or Creation. 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Hey Jason, Makes me wonder if u r a "White Yogi" . U r more Hindu than most Indian Hindu who takes the Hindu identity Tradition for granted. I try to gather the Hindu Truth whenever an opportunity to learn exists. Thanks your short lessons.
Looks like avadutha, follows advaita. Cause, only brahman exist is advaitic concept. The problem with this concept is, it makes things like karma and reincarnation futile. And advaita, has many other flaws, like if its just play of brahman, then it means brahman is cruel. And of course, in advaita you can't explain maya. A better philosophy is tamil, saivam sitthandam. It, basically, it says all the three advaita, dwaita and vishistaadvaita is wrong. In saivam, its called god is everywhere, at same time different from soul. So, its advaita and dwaita at same time. Basically, it says god, souls and ignorance are eternal. So god, didnt create suffering or souls. But, to enlightenment the souls, god created maya and karma. And the goal is to reach god. This saivam, is a complete philosophy with practical experiences. In fact, saivam is much older than advaita(500ce) and the other two schools of Vedanta. If you're interested let me know, I'll teach
Max Stirner destroyed philosophy/ metaphysics 180 years ago. “The Unique and Its Property “, 1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. The “creative nothing “ is still as good as it gets. Further: “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon for proper physics including the CAUSE of gravity, electricity, magnetism, light and well.... everything. In the Expansion Theory every atomic object doubles in ‘size’ every 19 minutes: how can/does the ‘spiritual ‘ ( ego, consciousness, memories et. al. ) keep up? Irrelevant to “reality.” Good luck!
Jason, its easy to talk the talk but difficult to walk one step of the talk. Thats is why it is Saadhana - effort, time and 100% chitta. But for a person in Shishu, Balyavastha and Gruhasthi stages Bhakthi is the easiest for self realization. But groups behave differently as a sect and fight it over ( fight is verbal not physical violence)😢
I better stay with Mathematics, numerology which is giving bigger picture how this reality works rather than theories or religions. ua-cam.com/video/Px2W9rTmsmg/v-deo.htmlsi=DhcdvY-k-uAH86hX
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That was solid and very much how I feeling and see it as well
Also thanks for the book mention, i just ordered that book, I haven’t heard of that one before
This is coming at the time when everywhere Shree Datta jayanti is been celebrated here in india.
Dattatray is also called guru tatwa,brihaspati lord of knowledge encompassing everything.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
Every type of
“The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding.”
It is "primordial" and it is also here now. 🕉☯👍
never born and never dies
Always on point Jason! Thanks a lot for this video. Much peace for you brother 🙏
Thankyou Jason ,that was great!
Wonderfull podcast. Thanks Jason!
Great Advice!🙏
Thank you! Grateful for you!
☯️🕉️
Well put put well.
This seems to speak to the work of Babuji Maharaj and Reality at Dawn also talks of the Brahman mandel as a point within the mind where a kind of conscious unconsciousness moves into unconscious consciousness and that echo within from nature. Fascinating video.
Brahman is the infinite unmanifest. Out of nothing comes everything. The original empty dream. Timeless, existenceless, and so forth. That is why if you wish to manifest anything, this is where you must go, you must go to the absolute emptiness, let it go, allow it to come to you, simple. The second you force it in any way, it acts as a magnet and pushes you away, that's why the only way to approach what you want is to surrender, to allow it to drag you in, as if you had no polarity, no wishes, no thoughts, empty. It need not be so complicated, you have been doing it you whole existence, there is only that. Even creating the absence of what you want, the absolute opposite of what you are looking for, is coming forth from brahman, through your athman into your reality.
You are only capable of that, nothing else, everything works the same way, from you to the big empty, from the big empty to you, back and forth. So make plans in your mind, let them go(to the void) then calibrate to the void within you, and allow the plans you made to come forth manifest in whatever way they come and be thankful of what you get, for you always get it how you wanted it, if it isn't to your liking, you need look no further than within yourself as the source of what went wrong. Or more accurately what you perceived as something going wrong, because it didn't. It came exactly how it was supposed to, as you wanted it to. The distortion that makes you seek these kind of videos to begin with, to read this kind of comments comes from you, from your ideas, your thoughts, your belief, your experience, you must forget what is in order to get what could be. Forgetting is your greatest skill, master the art of forgetting in order to travel to new exciting places. Make room within. So just like I can type infinitely, going in circles saying the same thing in an infinite different ways, you can create anything you desire, if you could just forget it. Cheerio!
Your mention of the word "surrender" catches my attention. Some of my friends and I have brought up that behavior for discussion lately.
When I was a kid I was struck by the phrase "Beyond, beyond the beyond... hail the goer!"
Nameste Jason, really appreciate the way you simplified the importance of understanding Brahman as IS! Brahman is beyond Our minds or comprehension; just knowing Brahman is, nothing more, nothing less. Awesome breakdown Jason. Thank you 🙏🏾
But what is not clear to me is whether yall are saying Brahman is a thing, or not a thing. Even as a conceptual presence, or realizing that one is Brahman, that still sounds like a thing. So, are we talking about a thing, or simply the falling away of illusion that there is any fundamentally different nature to anything?
@@JayS.-mm3qrit's a reality beyond
It's different from abrahamic
@@Abhinav-m4o funny you should say that. I was just talking with a Catholic Priest, and he described God in the same way. Something beyond conception, and things of the like.
The interesting thing is the dichotomy between dualist and non-dualist. When non-dualist choose that option they are still in duality 😂😂😂😂
Yeah but you see in one direction and you don’t exist in the other I think all contradictory things are and are not.
Hey Jason. Nice channel you got. Thanks alot for the abundance of guidance you give! I wonder, do you have a book you could recommend about Pranayama?
This debate reminds me of the ideas that circulate in trading, IE, "Buy low, sell high", self evident yet no one can actually pinpoint what these states look like.
Absolute awareness ⭕️ = I = ♾ is independent
of apparent body, coherent mind & adherent ego
as evident in Alzheimer’s & NDEs
Swami SriDattaDev SatChitAnanda
Dual means 2, Non-Dual means 1. If Brahman is the only reality and everything else is an illusion, then it is a clear case of Non-Duality
Both exist . . . and neither exists as well.
Thank you
I'm reminded of void and da'at and prima potentia, etc.
Not 1 and not 2.
that's why I love Ramakrishna. he together me to be an open and accepting non-dualist.
Plotinus wrote beautifully about the absolute in exactly the same terms you have expressed. It is beyond duality and thus beyond language or concepts because thought requires a binary.
Right off the bat... all we know is the human experience of reality, not the truth about reality.
Jiva Gosvami said in his Sat Sandarbhas, that the Absolute very well is accessible through speech and can be related through speech.
The author Bruce Martin gave a short introduction into that by his essay "the language of Transcendence".
It's available online.
I am delighted to experience this teaching. Very appreciative. Subscribing. (Watching from the USA.) Two questions come to mind. Clearly they are not original with me. They are: How can one absolutely rule out duality while living in a duality that begs our attention constantly. Perhaps that is the fundamental or most common human question. The second question is related. How can we speak of anything without duality? Even to speak of this something, by whatever name, that is beyond the division between duality and duality, when such an idea is itself a concept. That is, how can we use our minds without concepts--which are informed by and from sensory experience? These are sincere questions, not argument teasers. Our brains seem "wired for duality".
---
One comment about the video presentation. The frequent blurring of the screen is rather hard on my nervous system, my ability to focus. It distracts my attention from the spoken content. I don't have the technical knowledge to offer a solution.
Amazing. I just did a video about this exact topic with the title "Duality & Nonduality: Two Sides Of The Same Coin" where I talk in depth about the difference and secret commonality of duality and nonduality and how to integrate and transcend both of them. I would be honoured if you check it out and let me know what you think! 🙏
When the Absolute is realised, it becomes obvious that the jiva-identity does in Truth, not exist; nor do either what we call duality nor non-duality. What alone exists is the Absoluteness of pure awareness. But how is that known? By the concurrent knowing that I am the experiencer of that Absoluteness. That is Sat - I alone exist. The experiencer is Cit - that which I am. Concurrent with those knowings (in my case at least) was what the Buddha described as “a (soundless) paean of joy” - knowing that there is zero separation ever - that is Ananda, that surpasses all understanding
The paradox is that, while that much can be retrospectively described, it is impossible to express the experience as it unfolded. There was awareness, certainly - the substratum never is absent, and while the sense of I as a separate Java had gone, there was a definite knowing that I was the one who was experiencer. That begs the question as to whether the I was the Jiva or I was the absolute. Suspect the latter, but the jiva identity reappeared upon the return to waking consciousness 😅
Why am I writing this? To reinforce what Jason points to in all of his Avadhuta and Ashtavakra videos. The journey might start with the Vedas, might deepen with the Upanishads and might finally end when you explore past where they leave off. And also to emphasise that the only guru you’ll ever need is the One within. May your journeys be blessed. Good luck 🙏
We exist for being who we are, but we are not what we think we are, we are not what we feel we are. We are all that is to experience, the bliss of existing, as only by staying at peace you are neither with your ego and nor with your super ego. We all start out as an idea, which turns into action, into possibility of reality and reality manifests itself. We be devoid of qualities, be nirgun -as to be of matter , you require qualities which reflects to the world so that it manifests because we will always be a reflection to observer. So all we get to experience is life itself ie. limitless, devoid of any quality and is all the final sum, the consciousness.
Interesting pointers. The VOID of qualities, although everything that we can think of and beyond that. Wasn’t the Heart Sutra also pointing to the same teachings. Beyond Buddhism? Gate, …
Yes. And we probably agree, that this video in any shape or form, did not explain it either. Becuse it cant . Very good tho 🙏
It explained that it can not be explained :D
@bojanangjeleski138 yes its actually really beautiful right? We will never get enlightened, and yet we seems to light it more and more up 🙏
@@MMM-dj7ou the paradox :)
if it is the experience and the one who experiences it is ever present and always being experienced only disguised as the self or the world it is being experienced.
I think I understand. I’m Norse pagan so forgive me if I get this wrong.
Both dualism and non dualism explain the illusory state of maya and neither are wrong and neither is correct. They both just are. From our point of view as things in maya, both kinds of thinking can connect us to Brahman if we let ourselves be and exist without letting our view of the world become a fetter.
This guy gives me Milhouse (The Simpsons) association
It all depends upon how one defines 'exist'.
The Stillness. is Dancing. The Silence. is Singing. Life just is. words do it no justice. it is. what it is. and I am That. just Am. why? no clue!
"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao." Tao Te Ching, In the Bible, God says to us, "Your thoughts are not like My thoughts, and what I do is beyond your imagining." the point is that we cannot know the "mind" of the Universe.
I’m kind of on two minds about the subject
To speak of the eternal Tao,is not the eternal Tao.
Why cheap marketing for serious content? By placing sensationalist ads you are not going to sell more
The less you learn, the more you do doctrine the more will you experince, know, become
Jason Gregory 🙏
The Masters say - _"Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know."_
Meaning, those who have 'realized & seen' by their direct experience of the ultimate underlying "true nature" of all things;
Don't or can't speak or teach about it thru' speech or words because in doing so - shall miss it totally.
The ultimate "true nature" is the "Oneness" that interconnects all things & beyond all things.
It is undescribable, inconceivable, beyond time & space, is infinite & it pervades the entire Universe or Creation. 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Flipped upside down on its head. Hahaha
Luctor et emergo
Hey Jason, Makes me wonder if u r a "White Yogi" .
U r more Hindu than most Indian Hindu who takes the Hindu identity Tradition for granted.
I try to gather the Hindu Truth whenever an opportunity to learn exists. Thanks your short lessons.
Looks like avadutha, follows advaita. Cause, only brahman exist is advaitic concept. The problem with this concept is, it makes things like karma and reincarnation futile.
And advaita, has many other flaws, like if its just play of brahman, then it means brahman is cruel. And of course, in advaita you can't explain maya.
A better philosophy is tamil, saivam sitthandam. It, basically, it says all the three advaita, dwaita and vishistaadvaita is wrong.
In saivam, its called god is everywhere, at same time different from soul. So, its advaita and dwaita at same time.
Basically, it says god, souls and ignorance are eternal. So god, didnt create suffering or souls. But, to enlightenment the souls, god created maya and karma. And the goal is to reach god.
This saivam, is a complete philosophy with practical experiences.
In fact, saivam is much older than advaita(500ce) and the other two schools of Vedanta.
If you're interested let me know, I'll teach
Max Stirner destroyed philosophy/ metaphysics 180 years ago. “The Unique and Its Property “, 1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. The “creative nothing “ is still as good as it gets. Further: “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon for proper physics including the CAUSE of gravity, electricity, magnetism, light and well.... everything. In the Expansion Theory every atomic object doubles in ‘size’ every 19 minutes: how can/does the ‘spiritual ‘ ( ego, consciousness, memories et. al. ) keep up? Irrelevant to “reality.” Good luck!
Who “knows” Brahman, if it is “beyond description”? Brahman is a fake narrative 😅
Nuh
You don't know what you're talking about nonduality is about you yo ar we saying you don't exist smh tat tvam asi is you the atman
Jason, its easy to talk the talk but difficult to walk one step of the talk. Thats is why it is Saadhana - effort, time and 100% chitta. But for a person in Shishu, Balyavastha and Gruhasthi stages Bhakthi is the easiest for self realization. But groups behave differently as a sect and fight it over ( fight is verbal not physical violence)😢
I better stay with Mathematics, numerology which is giving bigger picture how this reality works rather than theories or religions.
ua-cam.com/video/Px2W9rTmsmg/v-deo.htmlsi=DhcdvY-k-uAH86hX