When will I FINALLY get Enlightened?

Does gradual spiritual growth or instantaneous transformation lead to enlightenment? Neither, according to Advaita Vedanta: it's a non-linear process. Q&A with Swamiji #13.
Liberation or enlightenment (moksha) is the discovery of your true nature as sat chit ananda, limitless, eternal conscious existence, often referred to as the true self, atma, or inner divinity. According to the rishis, the sages of ancient India, your true nature is already divine, but unrecognized as such due to ignorance (ajnana). The removal of that ignorance by atma jnana, self-knowledge, is instantaneous. But much time might be required before and after gaining that knowledge, first to become fully prepared to gain that knowledge (adhikaritva, preparedness for spiritual growth) and then afterwards to assimilate that knowledge and become fully established in it (nishtha) through the practice of nididhyasana, non-dual vedantic contemplation.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha...

[@BillSikes.]

It came to me after a life of near suicidal struggle, i was 31 and i reached a point where i just couldn't do it anymore, it was a complete surrender, and a huge relief, like a great weight lifted from my shoulders, in the next few moments i realised i was perfect as i was, and everything id believed about myself, other people and life was complete rubbish, a great humility came over me as i realised how wrong id been about everything, this was many years ago, none of that pain or fear i was consumed by has ever come back, simply because i know its not real ive never struggled with anything since that moment, it was a great awakening, i instantly became acutely aware of my own mind, and not a thought slips by without me noticing i see all that pain fear and turmoil i was in as a teenager and a young man was inadvertently a great blessing, and that knowledge id stumbled upon has never left me, its in us all, but like the Swami says its hidden by ignorance, my biggest stumbling block was thinking i knew what i was doing, this is a form of pride, in truth i didnt, i was eventually forced to admit defeat, this was my point of surrender, and it was this that dashed my ego and leveled my pride, Good luck to you all 🙏

[@GuruRasaVonWerder]

Indeed, God did not create junk, as a drop in the Infinite Ocean of God, you are God, as perfect as She is. The only 'flaws' are in our sins, misconceptions, ignorance, delusions etc. So see yourself as you are, try not to focus on any 'faults.' So good work stay blessed & happy.

[@Godly_Sharing]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@Dharmicaction]

It is all one big divine play. Whether you want to be part of it or not, it is up to you. You can walkover. But the game between dharma and adharma will continue perpetually. Moksha is also a duality cycle from microcosm to macrocosm and vice versa. So, moksha is not a permanent state. Time is cyclical.

[@GuruRasaVonWerder]

@@Dharmicaction this is so convoluted, no one will understand you. Really I have been studying spirituality all my life - 50 years as an adult - your remarks to me do not make sense, sorry. Moksha not permanent? Really. Are you crazy?

[@Kindandresponsible]

when we live all our life 24x7 as 'yoga', there's no defeat. In a life of yoga (as per the Bhagavad Gita), we perform our duties as an offering to the Lord and we accept the outcome as His (or Her) 'prasad' (sacred gift). We will and must plan, and ,make the effort to execute our plan, but the outcome cannot be dictated by us. Once the arrow leaves the bow, the archer has no control over the outcome. This 'prasad' attitude is really the meaning of 'surrender', according to the Bhagavad Gita. Once we learn to work with an attitude of yoga, we can keep working for hundreds of years and we'll not be affected by others' judgement. Also, if we concurrently study the Vedanta under a qualified teacher such as Swamiji, we'll gradually recognize the spark of the Divine in us (Atma or Atman), and then , there'll be no want or sense of incompleteness.

[@NondualityChannel]

When the "I" is seen through for the mirage it is. Liberation happens when realization shatters the illusion of bondage.

[@paulmetdebbie447]

Thank you 🙏 for pouring clear water ❤️

[@Godly_Sharing]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@mndcom]

Rightly said.

[@NondualityChannel]

@Language and Programming Channel There is no distinction or separation, but "I" is a thought...a fiction of the mind. There are no droplets in a river...that would be a fiction of mind to imagine the river full of droplets.

[@bazradwan]

@Language and Programming Channel "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire Ocean in a drop."

[@ustinovvadim2114]

Swamiji, namaste! Thank you for the laconic and clear explanation of non-linear processes in comprehending the spiritual teachings of Vedanta! "You do not reach Enlightenment, but Enlightenment gets rid of you." ОМ ТАТ SАТ ओम् तत् सत्

[@MrSA1829]

Yes. Excellent quote

[@vasuraju7302]

without truth, enlightenment impossible ,.

[@buddhaexhumed9922]

Thisis the latest research on Adi Guru Shankaracharya which goes against present day norms. Swamiji. I do research on Buddhism in Bihar. Adi Guru Shankaracharya was clearly a Buddhist monk and took part in debates for Buddhists which has been wrongly thought that he was debating for Hindus. Xuan Zang clearly takes his name as one of King Ashoka's key Brahmins. The debate Xuan Zang describes is ditto the story of the debate between Shankaracharya and Mandan Mishra sans the mythological part. The debate according to Xuan Zang took place in Huddi Diara which is north of Pach Mahala which was Ashoka's palace. Xuan Zang also shows the spot where Ashoka made a rock house for Adi Guru Shankaracharya. That rock house still stands today.

[@alexrichardson6461]

I have been at this 'realization' pre-occupation for about 50years now and have practised meditation every day. Each one or your talks bring me back to the fundamental truth which is so profound and liberating. Thank you.

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

I’m enlightened to the fact the more I know the more questions arise within . I’ve concluded that it’s just endless wonder .

[@Dharmicaction]

@Kieran ! A perfect Yogi is beyond meditation, Jnana and rituals. (Baghavad Gita chapter 6)

[@hershchat]

Humbly speaking, I believe moksha, spiritual ascension, is non-intellectual and non-experiential. There is a third way. The way we know that time exists, the way we can connect two fingers from separate hands in the dark. That is the way of intuition, of unmediated knowing. Awareness not mediated by intellectual or experiential or inputs. We are programmed to receive mediated learnings- the more in the modern age, where learning is not just mediated, but inevitably referential and preferential. With modern education, every knowledge and authority is validated by reference. A good doctor has to have a degree, no one cites a fact or opinion without citing a source (“according to a recent study…”), a good teacher from a bad school cannot be considered a good teacher, etc. Preferential: given the over abundance of info sources, no one takes in info where the source, medium, or message isn’t congenial. Words of a rich man receive more attention than those of a poor person man, no one takes a monk seriously if he isn’t dressed the part, etc. Worldly, aesthetic considerations approve of or invalidate authority. In this milieu, spiritual awakening escapes us, just like a beautiful sunrise escapes a blind man. Moksha is reported most commonly from a person in meditation, who has stilled his mind. A still mind is a mind that is transacting in neither intellectual nor experiential information. Experiential signals drown out intellectual signals, and intellectual signals drown out intuitions. The meditator is able to receive intuitions. A meditator focused on the SELF is able to awaken to the timeless reality of their own’ness. They become aware of the “I”; where intellectually and experientially all we can learn about or perceive is the “My”.

[@Prashant-cw3ir]

Why are you concluding it so fast? This innate nature of mind to conclude is what perpetuates it! Being in the constant state of not knowing opens further possibilities!

[@swamivedantanandapuri1322]

Pranaam maharaj🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rkatz0]

Wait. Let me grab a coffee for this. Oh, that was good, very good, thanks so much!

[@reydeselbojorquezsuarez2478]

Like it 🔥🙂 👍 ✨ love ❤ it ☀️

[@laxmangc9710]

Om

[@yogadasannagalingam6788]

Thanks. Divine Soul. Shiva Baba's Blessings. OM Namah Shivaya OM. Namaste. I 🙏.

[@radhikabhatia3852]

Thanks Swamiji. This same question was coming up in my mind and you answered it so beautifully. Pranams and thank you for your guidance.

[@RP-xi1ld]

Thank you guru 🕉️💜🙌🏽🌸💕🌱🙏🏻👍🏼✌🏻🐦💖 ☮️

[@premarammohan2436]

Hari Om! My dear pujya Swamiji🌹🌺🌷💐🌼 please accept my namaskarams to your lotus feet🙏

[@hrishikeshmoghe]

So beautifully explained! Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏

[@kr1221E]

Lovely soothing voice

[@gireeshneroth7127]

Consciousness finds itself in time. In time. It finds its way back to itself as it begins to guide itself through its own mind posture. You are pure consciousness first and through it all.

[@mvvkiran]

Thank you Swamiji

[@prithachakravarti1579]

Wonderful! Pranam

[@nagarajsingh5362]

Swamiji is very convincing and puts forth the perfect answer in clear terms aided by examples! Thats why i love swamiji's discourses all the more !

[@sankararamaprasad9482]

Thank you, Maharaj. So clear as ever . Pranams 🙏🙏🙏

[@normaquesada7307]

Thanks dear teacher, with admiration from Mexico

[@mercival]

Thank you for all your vids, such bliss. You are like the youtube version of the guru that is so hard to find in real (or is it 😉) life who answers questions i have.

[@laika5757]

Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸

[@heerabridgelal3273]

Very true

[@leandroemiliolopez]

Boom Shankar Mahadeva!! Gracias por este canal. Lamentablemente no se el idioma Ingles, así que cuando suben un video y tiene subtitulos con traducción me pone muy contento que pueda entender. Gracias al que pone los subtitulos!!! Thanks for this channel. Unfortunately I don't know the English language, so when they upload a video and it has subtitles with translation, I am very happy that it can understand. Thanks to the one who puts the subtitles !!!

[@4Sportsonly]

So beautifully explained...🙏

[@kirtisagarbaral3167]

Love the way you explain every tiny details in a respectful convincing way. I think meditation as a way of life is the starting point for enlightenment.

[@prosperity-ft9mc]

so happy to find another master who i enjoying his teaching . it is deep and truthful. give me so much clarity thank you

[@gridcoregilry666]

can you point out other masters enjoying their teachings in Vedanta?

[@drumasankar]

​@@gridcoregilry666 Swami Sarvapriyananda

[@honestal2684]

Thank you for all your help , I have learned a lot from you

[@SureshKumar-pp4vj]

Beautifully explained.... simply beautiful, blissful .... Thank you swamiji

[@winnywinarto7111]

What a wisdom clarity.

[@ind3215]

You explain every concept so lucidly, swamiji🙏

[@kumarsubramanian7086]

exactly as Ramana Maharishi

[@buddhaneosiddhananda8499]

Enlightenment means freedom from all traces of ego...

[@user-sd6vl1gd6s]

😇🙏😇

[@williamburts5495]

Whenever we make a statement about identity we invoke consciousness therefore consciousness is our identity. When you realize this you are enlightened because you understand that you are not this body, mind, intelligence, and false ego.

[@heerabridgelal3273]

🙏🙏🙏❤

[@alukuhito]

Thank you very much, Swami-ji.

[@onetwozerojourney]

Pranams and Thanks Swamiji. After watching this video again today after one year, the same doubt I too had got cleared fully. Thanks 🙏

[@nileshlolayekar4922]

Thank you

[@jjbbjcmh78]

Thanks for the insightful answer

[@hille3142]

To listen this chanel and Swami Tadatmananda is a really good preparation to gain self-knowledge and enlightenment :)

[@Magik1369]

I practiced sadhana for 7 years prior to my initial awakening. Then the Dark Nights of Soul and Spirit for 23 years. Then some minor infusions of bliss and Light. These states last 2-3 days and then I contract again. The duration of the transcendent states is getting longer and the states of contraction shorter. Moksha does not come suddenly, at least not in my case. Mother Theresa was in the Dark Night for 43 years until her death. I think it is different for each Soul depending on karma, levels of trauma, and whether the aspirant did inner work in prior lives. Interesting video! Love your teaching and your channel!

[@tzadik36]

Pronaams!🙏

[@johnburman966]

My greatest experience "going home" was nearly 50 years ago. Its not the experience but the integration makes it permanent. I still wait for Grace, but with a loving heart.

[@redpillmatrix3046]

How did you experience it ?

[@johnburman966]

@@redpillmatrix3046 Quite a long story, but using Gurdjief/Ouspensky technique of self observation, realised I could not observe myself. This momentarily made me realise that self does not think, only reacts to thing that have already happened, in fact does nothing. This was like dying...everything collapsed, and I experienced a totally different reality where everything was "me"but without separation. Then the conditioned mind recovered itself and the experience was lost. Since then the strength of ignorance has been greatly weakened, yet apparently is still there.

[@redpillmatrix3046]

@@johnburman966 where to learn that technique?

[@johnburman966]

@@redpillmatrix3046 There is no technique, you have to devote all your time asking yourself, "what's real" "what is before consciousness". You have to see what is motivating you, what do you live for. Meditate, and question everything. In truth I don't know what to tell you, except that is all I live for, "to go home".

[@myspiritualjourney-hm4624]

Growing up in the culture of SanatanaDharma will prepare naturally an individual to develop interest and understand Advaita Vedanta which is part of that science itself. It has helped me too. The only thing that we need to do is to try to know the meaning behind each and every aspect of the culture when it has been practiced in daily life and not just follow them blindly. Every ritual or custom that I have come across in SD culture has the ability to make us think about the separate self and the absolute Truth.

[@creativeperspectives2712]

We have nothing else but thought. The ability to see the whole of the thought process may lead to silence. And that is obviously not so easy because we are so identified with thought.

[@Kindandresponsible]

yes, slowing the mind down is a 'necessary' condition, but not a 'sufficient' one. By watching our thoughts, the thought process will slow down temporarily, but the 'moksha' Swamiji is talking about is not about attaining 'silence' of thought. It is about how to know my real being as Sat-Chit-Ananda and then abiding in it effortlessly. This can be achieved only by imbibing shastra teaching handed down by a qualified teacher through verbal, oral communication. A room that has been in darkness for a 100 hundred years can be lit up only by turning the switch on, not by staring at the darkness.

[@creativeperspectives2712]

@@Kindandresponsible Let us leave what all gurus say about this. We know that our reality is the ever flowing thoughts, emotions and feelings. That is our reality. That is the plane on which we exist. Some may be experiencing more peace and more organized but it is still the same thing. There is no temporarily or gradually moving towards this as truth is like a light. When there is light there is no darkness. Truth and illusion both cannot stay together. So when you observe the thoughts which is our reality the next phase may come. The point I am trying to make is you start with what you are right now without imagining or expecting any end point. Truth will prove whether shastra is right or wrong and it is not the other way around though you can take pointers from shastra.

[@esneliamunoz4475]

🕉🕉🕉🙏

[@Bonpu]

Thank you. I liked that match metaphor because it reminded me of my experience that "truth always begins with truth"; like fire can only be started with fire. You can waste years trying to figure out awakening whereas even the smallest spark of experience or feeling will get you very far. It might be a teacher, some book, creative exaltation, childhood experiences of bliss, whatever. Without that inner longing and humility that come from experience or direct intuition practice will seem tedious, whereas with it all you need is essentially trust.

[@annuaravinda]

Loved the simplicity in explanation!

[@jbrobstna]

This is so lovely

[@Pallab969]

Very true, assimilation of the real truth does not always abided by the turbulent mind which have been conditioned not only through this birth, but by many previous births

[@Nana-Kunwar]

People are always eager to measure levels of enlightenment and signs to tell that they are enlightenment.

[@douglasholden3169]

ah no enlightenment right Maharaj , Maharshi, never thought you i ego think? they for a second were? Om namaskar :D thanks i get it- my play is- we are and , when, telling then me, i become back oh I know not you , ego i me feeling like i better stand down i am a burden to I AM. hahaha! huh. Om

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

@@douglasholden3169 You might want to sober up before writing comments. It'll make it easier for the rest of us to understand what you're saying.

[@paulmetdebbie447]

Liberation does not come with signs to be perceived.

[@Godly_Sharing]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@Dharmicaction]

Nana Kunwar Define enlightenment? It is nothing but how far you are able to avoid new karma despite doing action through Jnana/Karma yoga or remove past karma through Kriya... Dharma and Karma are inversely proportional. So, people who are leading a worldly life can measure how far they are able to avoid new karma with their dharmic actions.

[@jeffcastaneda7010]

Thanks for this video, which I have watched many times already. It begs the question, Swami: are you enlightened already. If so, how did you realise you were enlightened?

[@rainbowflow2016]

🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙

[@amitsharma-vx8bf]

Parnaam swamiji so clear explanation, but I feel stuck in my journey, need help

[@robodobo653]

I'm pretty sure one knows. But I thought the understanding was that we have always been That was a great question!

[@douglasholden3169]

yes. so realization of We are, is shedding i ego, mind body, world(ly) i thoughts, the I AM is where i am was. nice :P

[@sanjanewmoonlife]

When you feel love and peace for the world . This is enlightenment.

[@alukuhito]

Not necessarily. That can come and go. You can be enlightened and be upset.

[@rsr9200]

I agree that a mind which is free from ignorance of the real self will not hate the world or create strife it since the world is not apart from the real self.

[@rameshbabulakshmanan]

Complete surrender to GOD will give realisation much faster Maya goes away.

[@25bmax]

How to surrender to god? With your hands up in the air?

[@mndcom]

@@25bmax surrendering the falsified ownership that a man collects over the years relating to his mind and body. He thinks that a remarkable work is done by him. He starts boasting about it. But he doesn't know he is just a tiny part of nature. And nature let him do it. He is just a pawn.

[@rameshbabulakshmanan]

@@mndcom well said god bless

[@muralidharshenoykochi]

🙏

[@squamish4244]

I worked like hell, fought with blood, sweat and tears (yes, a little blood) to wake up for 16 years since my crash on psychedelics 16 years ago. I know someone whom enlightenment just...happened to, eight months ago. Okay, he had dealt with panic attacks and depression before that for five years, but wasn't actively trying to wake up. I've done it all...trying without trying etc. And he did nothing and he just stumbled into initial enlightenment, then several more after that (which is common - after you're really let go because of an initial awakening, several more often follow with ease). I am staggered and even more frustrated than before. I'm not going to pretend to be all cool with it. I just can't believe that the hellish conditions I've endured for SO long with so much fantastic help haven't been enough. I am very frustrated that okay, he went through five years of hell - so what. That's less than 1/3 of the time I've been doing this. No family, no career, missed out on many precious experiences because of ferocious anxiety. If I'd awoken on his timeline, that means 2011, which means I would have been only 32, which means a radically different life than the one I've had. A family, a career, many precious life experiences. I just can't believe it. We really need a scientific understanding of how all this works, because we don't know nearly enough yet.

[@MikEm-jg5wz]

According to the rishis, the ancient sages of India,...

[@alejandroenciso9650]

Without purity it is impossible to experience the Divine. The Lord judges the devotee by the purity of his heart and not by the kind of worship and the japa he performs. Even if you practice no worship or meditation, it is enough if you have cleansed your heart. The Divinity will then enter it. The Veda teaches how to attain purity of heart.

[@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259]

Yes swami vivekananda also said blessed are those who has pure heart because they will experience divine atma। But also japa bhakti also cleans our heart। Make path of realisation easier

[@rajivjoshi2468]

Swamiji It’s one thing to become enlightened by living in an ashram and another to do it while continuing to be engaged in the social world with all the family responsibilities of earning, paying, rearing, caring etc. Do you know of someone who attained enlightenment while continuing to be engaged in the material/social world and continued to do so long after attaining enlightenment. This person would be better able to relate to and educate people who struggle with it on a daily basis

[@AnkurWat]

8:06 Swami, does this mean you are enlightened? or does it mean you have acquired self-knowledge?

[@ramakrishnaengineeringcomp1722]

My sincere request is please after completion of AtmaBodha series start a topic which builds more motivation and excitement to follow in life like (subhashitams)....

[@Krasbin]

Oscillating to varying degrees, I am both interested to know to what degree I am (not) enlightened as well as not interested as what really matters is the transformed experience of the (inner and outer) world. The only truly valid reason I can see for wanting to know to what degree one is enlightened, is if one wants to be a teacher. A higher degree of enlightenment, all else being equal, implies better knowledge of the territory that others are traversing and therefore would qualify the person more for teaching.

[@conscious3714]

Thanks for the clear and logical explanation in a simple to understand language.

[@tonykehoe123]

Be by Tony kehoe Be calm become become the one the one you needed to become before you came to be someone Be wise be free be free to be without believing to be free is something that you need to be Begin besides you’ll recognise a new beginning is beginning right before your very eyes Beneath below and all you know is buried deep within yourself if you just have the strength to go So be bold and be brave if love you crave it may come sooner than you think not when you’re lying in your grave Beyond behold the pages of your life are turning and you watch as they unfold Beware between what’s never seen when you awaken you’ll remember that it all just been a dream So be calm and become for when all is done you may return back to the place to find you have finally begun Copyright reserved

[@bakigoku9551]

🙏❤️💯🥪🍺

[@theguyver4934]

Are you agnostic

[@bakigoku9551]

@@theguyver4934 I don t kwon

[@theguyver4934]

@@bakigoku9551 - What do you identify yourself as

[@bakigoku9551]

@@theguyver4934 seeker of truth

[@theguyver4934]

@@bakigoku9551 - Meaning your a hindu

[@jamal16493]

That intro music....!

[@Godly_Sharing]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@ustinovvadim2114]

Enlightenment is like a cool shower on a sultry day, just as water from a shower completely washes away sweat and dirt, so Enlightenment crushingly destroys the concepts and grasping of the personality, and the personality itself, which agrees to even get Enlightenment with only one goal - to preserve self as an individual, to gain Eternity for its personal settings. ОМ ТАТ SАТ ओम् तत् सत्

[@douglasholden3169]

deep well waters may i please have a bucket to reach this life giving water? :) thanks Om Namaskar.

[@prateekbhardwaj9943]

Yes nothing is permanent

[@AurelienCarnoy]

How do you realize you lost your keys? You have to know what keys are. You have to want and look for it. And then exhaust that search and concluding that you don't have the keys. Those are the steps for the realization that you are key less. 🔑 This liberation can be blissful or filled with dread. Especially after the realization that you don't have a lock either. Eternal waves of realization are instantly arising effortlessly. My pocket is holy And that hole in infinite. 😘

[@sarathm7427]

Pranams Blessed Divine State 🙏🙏🙏 Could you kindly state why this Quality-less SELF got veiled .... Isn't it akin to stating the primordial Blessed Being engaging in an Act of Sin.. But Ofcourse in transactional strata .... Why this act of Reversal and removal of sheaths of ignorance... Where did this Ignorance emerge from?? And why then the primordial Ignorance sprouted from the Pristine Sat Chit Ananda... : The QUALITILESS ENTITY 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@contrawisecontrawise7215]

To get enlightened you need to have perfect body and mind. After enlightenment you will realise you were already enlightened and have wasted time all along running after future and forgetting or trying to forget past.

[@animax1034]

Not true. you are not already enlightened. the preparations and self- inquiry makes you enlightened

[@barryobrien1890]

Sadly attachment to wanting enlightenment is in itself a loosing battle. In time the need for enlightenment will fall away and finally you will realize you are already there.

[@Dharmicaction]

Intention is needed as a starting point for doing any action including meditation. Intention ends once meditation starts (yoga on the mat). Moreover, Intention does not always mean karma. eg If your honest intention to help people ends up bad, you do not create karma. In the same way your honest intention to practice Yamas and Niyamas, Jnana/Karma yoga (to avoid new karma) and Kriya to reach Nirvaikalpa samadhi (to remove past karma) is needed to be enlightened. So, let us not play around with narrow meanings of English words and miss the point. Enlightenment is nothing but how far you are able to avoid new karma and remove past karma. That is it. Intention is not the problem because without intention we become immobile. Conscious action (yoga off the mat) is needed while leading a worldly life . Un-necessary use of Buddhi and unconscious reaction to subconscious thought patters/habitual thoughts is the problem which can be solved by Jnana/Karma yoga.

[@barryobrien1890]

@@Dharmicaction if I look hard I do not find intention, only awareness, in which thought arises. If mind follows thought, then intention may arise and action may result. In my experience there is only awareness, which is everpresent in a sea of changing thoughts. In meditation the sea is calm and few thoughts arise. Eternal gratitude for awareness leads me to practice backti yoga. Allowing time for thought free awareness and willingness to free mind to follow thought that resonates with awareness has led me to many satisfying outcomes. Awareness does not seem to care either way, as it just is. Mind can suffer with painful distorted thoughts when it becomes attached to the outcome. That is my experience, and it is different for everyone. I am very happy for karma yoga, kriya yoga and raja yoga, as they all play an important role. Thank you for your wonderful thoughtful comment.

[@bharathihariharan8821]

🙏🧖🙇🙏

[@rajivjoshi2468]

Swamiji Do you feel you are enlightened? Was there a aaha moment? Are you able to control your thoughts every moment of the day? Once enlightened, what does one consider ones duty or purpose in life?

[@jeroenjansen2709]

What do you exactly mean by knowledge of the self or Atma? Or is it intuition based induced by supreme calmness?

[@Dharmicaction]

Non reaction (both physical and mental) to our subconscious thoughts which come out in the form of thought patters, habitual thoughts. in other words, just don't react to unconscious thoughts which come in the form of pashyanthi (thought images) and Madhyama (thought words). Conscious thought/action is okay and does not create karma. This is Buddhi or Jnana yoga (also called as Vipassana). We do not create new karma or Agama karma by practicing Jnana yoga. To reach Nirvikalpa samadhi and to clean up karma of past lives which are stored in Akashic layer or the first element or which are not yet pre-programmed in this life, one can practice Kriya or Shambhavi mudra with pranayama as warm up. Above explanation is based on vedic metaphysics Sankhya which combines Advaitha (Shiva) + Dvaitha (Shakthi). Shiva is not the doer but just an observer of Shakthi for the perpetual duality cycles to happen. Human vehicles are pre-programmed script (based on past karma). Shiva (our true self) is the witness of different scripts. This constant awareness that we are Shiva not Shakthi (mind/body) can come through Jnana/Karma yoga or through Nirvikalpa samadhi via Kriya

[@jeroenjansen2709]

@@Dharmicaction 🙏🏻

[@muralisub6534]

Dear Swamiji Astavakra Gita says Enlightenment can be attained in a fraction of a second. Please tell us whether such a shortcut is possible in Gnana marga?

[@divedeepinside-JK]

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has the simplest sample on How long it takes . When you put a pot of cold water to boil , i takes some time to warm up the pot of cold water but the boiling is instantaneous when the water riches 99.99 C degrees . The way is to gain the experience of Atma by practicing TM releasing stress and strain , and when you lost the last one , woalaaaa there you are .

[@redpillmatrix3046]

I practice tm. Can you share more about enlightenment in relation to maharishi mahesh yogi

[@divedeepinside-JK]

@@redpillmatrix3046 of course

[@thedudeabides5201]

Now

[@douglasholden3169]

presence always is. I AM THAT I AM. i am :) now agh passing sucked in the momeeennnnttt hahaha!

[@ETHANR26]

"Since your very nature is just this - why do you say, 'even searching, it cannot be found'?"

[@buntypatil5454]

Because u dont need to search u need to realise.

[@robodobo653]

Because you can't find something you never lost

[@douglasholden3169]

@@robodobo653 isn't it so Dang world where's my silly I AM THAT oh I AM here haha i was now I AM hahaha!

[@douglasholden3169]

@Margaret awake folks i am to I AM ATMAN Spirit the Christians say i must die hahaha yes i must die then I AM :P love pure. PARABRAHMAN ah. smiling now i am . here. thanks ANd google spell check or chrom? PARABRAHMAN Dote.

[@paulmetdebbie447]

There is no one (separate) to find or loose anything (separate). There is only wholeness. And this is it.

[@jasjotsinghkang7366]

What is the intro music?

[@mikaela353]

You are already enlightened, you are a spiritual being having a human experience, not a human trying to be spiritual. The only problem is that we forget who we are when we incarnate in lower density, but this is for the purpose of the experience, because how do you know you are light if you don't experience something you're not? We are here to be, not to do. All states of mind reproduce themselves, and a good example is the state of mind when we wake up in the morning; if is bad, we'll have a bad day, but if is good, our day will be positive. Remember JUST BE, you don't have to do anything.

[@alukuhito]

You're not even a spiritual being though. That is an object to you, Awareness. The spiritual being (subtle body) is more real than the physical human (physical body) though, in the sense that it lasts longer. A human has no choice but to be AND do. It's impossible for a human not to do anything. If you read the Bhagavad Gita and comprehend it, you will know that it's better to do your duty in life than to drop out. Don't get too attached to this idea of being a spiritual being. You are NOT a being. You were NOT created. You are the ultimate subject, not a being.

[@mikaela353]

@@alukuhito Everything you said is coming from your mind and not your heart. Where this information came from? When we choose to listen others instead of ourselves we won't get anywhere. The answers are within and not without. Therefore, I don't need to listen to what other people say unless is coming from their own heart wisdom. I AM a spiritual being having a human experience. I remember who I am, I have seen who I am. This human body is a suit for me, like hardware, I need it to be able to navigate in this dimension. My true nature does not have a body. I'm a being like many who came to playground Earth to have experiences and to raise consciousness. I even remember the moment I came, how excited I was. I didn't understand when my higher self was saying I am here to be and to sift my perception from doing to being. I will give an example: when we wake up in a happy mood, usually we have a pretty good day, but when we wake up in a bad mood, the day usually goes wrong. What it says is that we should choose our state of being first. I know is not easy to understand as we have been told different for so long. My advice is to listen to your own inner wisdom, take time to be still, to meditate and connect with your own information, you don't need others information. From my heart to yours 💜

[@alukuhito]

@@mikaela353 Everything YOU wrote is from your mind (subtle body). I'm surprised you're not familiar with what I wrote, yet you're here on a Vedanta video. I don't think you've studied much Vedanta. What I wrote is just truth, and has nothing to do with belief. It is what I have discovered through Vedanta. If you studied Vedanta properly, you would discover for yourself that you are NOT a spiritual being ultimately. Sure, from a certain perspective (the subtle body's), you are, but ultimately you are Awareness. Anything you experience, even a spiritual being, is simply that - an experience. You are not the experience. You are the experiencer. That's very true that your true nature doesn't have a body. Neither does it have a subtle body (or soul or spiritual being or whatever you want to call it). I don't need any advice from you regarding this, thank you. I know the truth. You can't be what you see. That doesn't mean I throw out your experiences of a spiritual body at all. It's just that you are NOT that. How could you possibly be? You are beyond qualities. You are the subject of all objects, including the most subtle ones that transcend the physical realm. Why are you even writing here if you reject the most basic discrimination of Vedanta?

[@mikaela353]

@@alukuhito I read the title only and shared my souls truth. I am not in a competition, I only express my souls truth, not the absolute truth for that only God has it. Is really hard to communicate with words as misunderstandings can occur. I respect your belief and will never try to convince anyone of anything. I am here to express my truth.

[@alukuhito]

@@mikaela353 There you go. This is a deep topic covered by a very intelligent swami, and you just came by, read the title only, then wrote something. Context, my friend! I wasn't talking about belief. I was talking about reality. It's something to discover for yourself, not believe in. You've had experiences that most people haven't, or if they have, they can't remember them. That's great, BUT they're only experiences. ALL experience comes and goes and has no effect on who you are. Not even God can affect who you are. It's great that you don't identify with the human body, but take it a further step and don't identify with your spiritual body either.

[@evaldochavesoficial446]

People are making a big mess about Enlightement. Signals of Enlightement. 1. Sensation of an strange and good Inner Empeatness 2. Supreme Bliss idem to item 1 above 3. No toughts or almost no thoughts 4. No feelings like: angry, rage, jealous, greed, lust, weakdness, many fears etc 5. Profound inner Silence 6. Endless sensation 7. Formless sensation 8. Sensation of oneness with all the objects 9. Blessedness sensation 10. Sensation of have and no be: one body, one mind or conscieness and one EGO and one name that is a far shadow 11. No more commit wrongs in life 12. Health body and mental much better after Enlightement 13. The life change really after Enlightement But, in my opinion, Enlightement is an endowment. But it is necessary to chisel like artists, poets, soccer player, doctors, etc. But Enlightement is more rare then all of them. It's is brougth on the Karma.

[@db8799]

TV/Radio programs you...

[@hershchat]

Humbly speaking, I believe moksha, spiritual ascension, is non-intellectual and non-experiential. There is a third way. The way we know that time exists, the way we can connect two fingers from separate hands in the dark. That is the way of intuition, of unmediated knowing. Awareness not mediated by intellectual or experiential or inputs. We are programmed to receive mediated learnings- the more in the modern age, where learning is not just mediated, but inevitably referential and preferential. With modern education, every knowledge and authority is validated by reference. A good doctor has to have a degree, no one cites a fact or opinion without citing a source (“according to a recent study…”), a good teacher from a bad school cannot be considered a good teacher, etc. Preferential: given the over abundance of info sources, no one takes in info where the source, medium, or message isn’t congenial. Words of a rich man receive more attention than those of a poor person man, no one takes a monk seriously if he isn’t dressed the part, etc. Worldly, aesthetic considerations approve of or invalidate authority. In this milieu, spiritual awakening escapes us, just like a beautiful sunrise escapes a blind man. Moksha is reported most commonly from a person in meditation, who has stilled his mind. A still mind is a mind that is transacting in neither intellectual nor experiential information. Experiential signals drown out intellectual signals, and intellectual signals drown out intuitions. The meditator is able to receive intuitions. A meditator focused on the SELF is able to awaken to the timeless reality of their own’ness. They become aware of the “I”; where intellectually and experientially all we can learn about or perceive is the “My”.

[@stillmystic]

Another metaphor: Invisible, the brain does not perceive the nose, even if the nose is in our vision. We need to consciously put our attention there in order to see that the nose is constantly in our vision.

[@waldwassermann]

There is only the Enlight; its meaning derived from En- meaning Ein or One and -Light meaning Self.

[@rationalityrules111]

Now.

[@lokshaunak2137]

how can one avoid falling asleep during mediation?

[@prateekbhardwaj9943]

Exercise daily / do hard work like farming, eat only live, light and fresh food, live with nature, wakeup early in brahm murat and then do meditation. I know it's hard.

[@evaldochavesoficial446]

I had such problem like yours. I changed the way as i have practiced meditation. Look: 1. I've never practiced meditation on afternoon, because is more easy to sleep this time. 2. I use to practice meditation, between 30 min a 60 min, before go to sleep. In case the sleepiness come, i am ready to sleep. 3. I choose practice meditation: or 8 o'clock A.M. or 3 o'clock A.M. or 4 o'clock A.M. that is, dawn. Because in this time, i am rested. 4. I guess, but i'm not sure, when in profound meditation, is possible to lose the conscieness. I a'm research about that.

[@alejandroenciso9650]

@@evaldochavesoficial446 you never lose consciousness, if you do you are not meditating, perhaps day dreaming

[@evaldochavesoficial446]

@@alejandroenciso9650Ok. Because that, i put above, that i am not sure and i've been researching about.

[@Dharmicaction]

It depends on the type of meditation technique you are following. Using your fingers, close all the openings of your face such as eyes, ears, nose (hold your breath as much as you can) and mouth. You wouldn't dream or fall asleep. Enlightenment will be sudden. So, beware of it.

[@alejandrolimache9518]

Question, aversion and craving are emotions, but according to budism, emotions are a part constitutive of us. So wouldn't It be foolish to try to get ride of them?

[@animax1034]

not to get rid of them but to get un attached by them so they dont drag you like a human tied behind a horse to drag you. but you learn to ride the horse in full control.

[@ankurmishra7773]

My two cents; Vedanta is not some object. Objectification is bound to fail and apply it every second, every minute. Otherwise it will remain academic. And look inwards the quality of your relationships etc.

[@Nooneself]

Greetings....are you saying you're awakend? We now have several medical imaging tests( dti mri) that might help you verify if you're truly awakend or just aware of your perusa being independent of prakiti. Best wishes😮

[@aristotlesocrates8409]

Distancing self from the body, mind, other acquired stuffs may help to speed up the progress.

[@required.]

Which type of business can I do after becoming enlightened ?

[@robertjsmith]

Before enlightenment chop wood carry water,after enlightenment chop wood carry water.

[@Dharmicaction]

Define Enlightenment? Any person who does not create new karma or remove past karma is enlightenment. So, it means both yoga on the mat and off the mat. On the mat is for removal of past karma and off the mat is for the avoidance of new karma. So, yoga off the mat is nothing but doing everything (including business) within the framework of dharma to avoid karma through Jnana (buddhi) and Karma (action) yoga

[@robertjsmith]

@@Dharmicaction There isnt anyone to get enlightened

[@gridcoregilry666]

any

[@ladymuck2]

How will you know you’re enlightened? How do you know you are not already enlightened? What is different when you’re enlightened? Will you stop needing to eat or use the loo?

[@skiq2520]

nice questions =) did you get answers anywhere

[@KAUNTINYA22]

Vedanta is vidya and anta. The ending of acquired knowledge. The emptying oneself of what is known and emptying the knower is vedanta. Anta. The indoeuropean END. How can one study and learn vedanta when one has to unlearn?. It’s an oxymoron. Indian scriptures say it beautifully. Na ayam atma pravachanena labhyate na bahuna sukhena. Not by reading avidly nor by listening to learned speakers can self understanding be obtained. It is all about unlearning, hnconditionjng and emptying until you are empty of external knowledge. Until the subjectless objectless awareness becomes the sole ground of being That is vedanta. The beginnings of intelligence

[@alukuhito]

It's Veda + anta, not Vidya + anta. The teachings of Vedanta are found at the end of the Vedas. Vedanta is also the last spiritual teachings you need.

[@KAUNTINYA22]

@@alukuhito i meant the root word is vid or to know -for veda and vidya. Ending of what is known rather than knowing more. It’s unlearning rather than learning. Hence the admonition neti neti. Insight and intelligence rather than knowledge. More heart and less mind

[@alukuhito]

@@KAUNTINYA22 OK. Thanks.

[@rsr9200]

Hmm, interesting perspective! So, as an adherent of this viewpoint whatever you post here for us would have been what you unlearned yourself, i.e., we are getting what you discarded?

[@KAUNTINYA22]

@Margaret knowledge only strengthens mind and ego. There is the danger that aham brahmasmi becomes mechanical verbal understanding rather than insight. Nisargadatta says the same thing. As did ramanan. Manashoonyata. Or the biblical be still and....As RSR says less said the better. But misunderstanding gives a feeling of illusory understanding Here is Nisargadatta Reality transcends knowledge known and knower. All paths lead to unreality. Paths are creations within the scope of knowledge. Therefore paths and movements cannot transport you to Reality because their function is to enmesh you within the dimension of knowledge while Reality prevails prior to it Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@thepb77777]

🕉🙏🏼Where can I get Vedanta matches?😌💗

[@redpillmatrix3046]

Visit your nearby vedanta center