The Secret Teaching Beyond All Knowledge Revealed

In the Eastern spiritual traditions, liberation is the central focus. There is one text, however, that takes this a step further to point out that even liberation itself is an obstacle. In this episode of the Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from the Ashtavakra Gita, a text one is ready to assimilate after enlightenment. The Ashtavakra Gita is for those to absorb oneself in the presence of the Ultimate Reality after awakening.
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[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

Amazing ! Great Channel ! 🙏🏼

[@dalialik8376]

Thank you Jason for sharing your knowledge with us, I really appreciate it🙏

[@manuellopes7144]

love an light

[@johnc.6645]

As usual Jason your content and interpretation is very thought provoking. You bring light to these ancient teachings brother.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

'The idea of liberation is a serious limitation to the serious spiritual seeker' . . . . . what an incredible statement. Reminds me of Meister Eckhart's saying, 'God save me from God' - that the very idea of God can become a block to finding that which is called . . . God. Thank you for bringing this beautiful teaching to the awareness of so many of us. Inspiring.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

@@marksavoia3687 There are clearly many ideas covered by the phrase, ‘non-dual’. To me none of the expressions you use are really non- dual. If Matt 22:39 has said, ‘Love thy neighbour for thy neighbour IS thyself’, I think we would be getting nearer how I see things. But in case, all these words are merely ideas, fingers pointing at the moon. Ultimately there are no neighbours and no self to be a neighbour.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

@@marksavoia3687 Why are you attacking me? I replied that your usage of the idea of non-duality did not match how I see it. I am not seeking to change your view, merely trying to express my own position.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

@@marksavoia3687 Grief. Goodbye.

[@7heplague236]

@@SolveEtCoagula93 In reference to Mark 'attacking' you -- if there is no neighbor, there is no you to attack 😜 ✌

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

@@7heplague236 The 'self' that Mark is attacking exists in the world of appearances ie the world that 'we' inhabit. This 'self', indeed, this world, is however, an illusion. In the Absolute, the non-dual, there cannot be a 'self'.

[@calvingall9685]

This is the sort of content I was looking for! Thanks for the clear explanation

[@sheikmunjah2241]

Thanks Jason. Reminding indeed profits!

[@richardharper831]

Yes! I always look forward to these videos on this incredible text!!! Thank you again Jason!

[@Nexthendrix2112]

So grateful to hear this wisdom this morning

[@catharinegriffin2507]

I have been looking for this enlightened piece of knowledge. My gratitude for your teaching runs deep! Thank You again.

[@LEP7cv]

awesome one Jason. Thank you!

[@sol33330]

I really enjoy hearing your thoughts on this because I have just begun really understanding this concept in my own life and how sometimes I feel beyond all suffering and other times I feel very venerable to suffering. So I was already putting this together and then I found your videos! So cool! And it’s a bit of a relief because I don’t personally know anyone who talks like this and these ideas have just stayed in my head because i haven’t had anyone to talk to about them. Again thank you for the videos and sharing your thoughts! Something I want to add is that I think sometimes the spiritual community and people who have understood the Atman will look down on the Jiva persona. As though it is lower and not useful anymore. But what I’ve found is that that both the Jiva and the Atman are beautiful parts of creation and myself. It is beautiful to be human and limited in a sense but also to have the awareness beyond the limited identity. Its something I’ve been pondering on. But I’ve found that now that I have seemed to understand the Atman in myself, I am enjoying life in the Jiva more if that makes sense. At first I was denying the Jiva (because I thought it was lower and not truly a good part of me) and I realized doing that actually caused suffering! But when I accepted both the Jiva and Atman part of myself now my life seems to be flowing a lot more naturally. It’s hard to explain but it feels right! Anyways, thanks for reading if you had time 🧡

[@shallah7777]

Beautifully explain ✨💫✨💫✨

[@sachinkolhe3324]

Well said

[@nicknord7575]

Please check out study in NEI KUNG as you may find practice interesting.

[@pascalxus]

Thumbs up! I've noticed the theme of down regulating the sense of self / Jiva, is reoccurring in these teachings and is very much at the core of eastern philosophy. Thank you for sharing this.

[@RavenMadd9]

thank you Jason ....

[@themystic6851]

Love you little brother keep up your work of great wisdom 🙏🏼

[@andrewjewell3142]

Peace and love to you Jason keep up the great work

[@stevedallaspiano777]

Rich. Thank you!

[@sharauro]

Stumbled on your channel. After David Godman, you're the only other westerner I've seen who has the clarity and understanding of Advaita vedanta, Upanishads and can explain these very intricate concepts with such clarity. Great job.

[@nicknord7575]

Please check out books in study of NEI KUNG.

[@arvindrampal1565]

Another well produced and succinctly explained topic. Thank you Jason. Keep this wisdom flowing for the benefit of generations to come.

[@jodiparry111]

All is happening.. occurring.. I feel like the awareness is just from an angle through this Jiva.. its very easy to return to the body at this stage.. thankyou. I listen daily, reminding, remembering.. even though the searching is what needs to be let go of.. it seems to have become more practice, less searching..

[@fernandoorozco5968]

Thank you

[@pankajbisht7813]

Hey Jason thank you so much sir...

[@tobinharris8107]

Thumbs up J! PS~Just finished Krishnamurti's "The First and Last Freedom", thanks to your recommendation. C

[@subashdevkota4358]

wonderful video !!

[@vegout8159]

Bingo in the front row! Thank You

[@innocenzz]

I love these deeper teachings Jason, thank you for them!!! Chapter 15 verse 4 is a "personal" favorite for this little "I". In the mystical experience i had ( in fact this JIva "i" whas vanished then) there whas a strong notion/image or feeling about reality of something like these Russian Matroesjka dolls, where everything fits perfectly well into eachother. I've been trying to get that puzzle solved with the mind but it didn't work ofcourse as its focussed towards the outside. But the idea of that Matroesjka isn't that strange. When this little "i" dreams, consciousness creates entire worlds and characters within it while in fact the characters aren't real, this play exists within the consciousness of something bigger that can't be touched by whatever happens within the dream. What we call "life" is actually the same, we are not the personas within it but the consciousness in which the play occurs. To go back to this Matroesjka comparison again we even aren't the largest Matroesjka in which the smaller ones appear. We are the space/consciousness in which all the Matroesjka's exist small or big.

[@innocenzz]

While i keep thinking about this you can say that our true nature (Brahman) is the eternal nothingness in which everything appears like the Matroesjkas. Brahman is formless and provides the space in where every-thing else appears. So the largest Matroeska of the metaphor symbolize the gods, One symbolizes Yama (death) the next one symbolize the realm of angels, guides etc so to speak, the next one might be this universe followed by a plane like this earth and within that the Jiva's follow. I thought this would sound a bit too new-age like, but after reading the Tibatan Book of Death a bit this maybe isn't that strange.

[@oerantia9126]

There is no need to think of layers of dolls. Doing that (thinking: putting it into words or thoughts) is again using the dissecting/dividing mind that tries to understand something that is not at the level (language is sometimes very incapable of finding a proper expression for it) of the mind. Try to “understand” the small I dream as an EXPERIENCE entirely based on thoughts. Every thought is an experience. When you wake up, what do you have or what do you do? You start immediately having your next thoughts, so you start having your (day) experiences, based on the very same mechanism that you are having dream experiences. That mechanism is - as always - thought (or the mind if you prefer that word). Mind/thought can be seen as (again a dissection) the (limited!) creative aspect of Reality. The passive aspect of Reality is what we could call consciousness. When these creative thought-based experiences somehow get bundled through the mechanism of memory (thoughts disappearing and reappearing) AND the root-thought “I”, personal doership, the ego is thought(!) to be real. Thinking, which I highlight again as being extremely CREATIVE and as being extremely EXPERIENTIAL, is what keeps us bound to experiences, to the ego, to personal doership. The mind is (very) helpful to understand how experiences or simply put “your (egoic) life works, but to understand that egoic life is NOT the highest/deepest “level” of Reality, one can only become silent (within). Being silent externally can be an aid, but is not necessary. It is entirely all about the attitude within: do we continue to identify with the external experiences or do we make an honest attempt at identifying with the silence within? I leave you with a quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj: “What a fall! The perfect state [silence] caught up in these experiences [thoughts that appear to be real(ity)] and expecting [desire] some gain [improvement at the egoic level] from them.” Ramana Maharshi has said that “there is no mind”. One day, you might wake up from a dream and experience the similarity between sleep-dreaming and awake-dreaming. The key to true understanding is to understand things at the level of direct-experience. Don’t get stuck or don’t get content at understanding life at the layer of words, at some layer of fancy concepts. That is one of the ways to cut through the illusion of all experiences, including the small I. One has to be awake (or dream) for there to be an individual I. In deep sleep, the individual I is not there, so the individual I is - every single day - just a temporary experience. I agree, that a dream points to the experience that YOU are capable of dreaming a dream-I and also dream another world and other dream-I’s in it, but don’t rest content with verbal/conceptual/expressible knowledge there is then a higher or larger mind, a larger I at work for the universe we see when we are awake. I tried it, you want get any satisfaction from it for the simple reason that no expression, no thought, no experience can ever remain permanently with you, so one clings to something that is impermanent. You may have heard of the saying “everything heard, must be used and thrown away”. If the throwing away doesn’t happen, even with the highest of teaching, one remains stuck in either one’s own expressible understanding/experience or somebody else’s expressible understanding/experience. Only what is with you (as true inexpressible understanding) non-stop (24/7) is Real Truth and not bound to be painful and pleasurable in endless succession. Your presentation of the dolls is not with you non-stop when you are awake, dream and definitely not when you are in deep-sleep. All expression requires the support of memory and the repeated expression of it. In that way, anything that requires support (be it just the expression of it, but also the logic or reasoning behind it) can NOT be the Uncaused Effortless Reality. Go back to your mystic experience. Maybe you got the insight: “hey, this is completely effortless or this never sleeps, is always awake …”. As egos we are addicted to expression, because expression is experience. Letting INTERNALLY go off the addiction to experience (including the “liberated experience”) is one of the most powerful steps in yoga (re-union with Reality).

[@innocenzz]

@@oerantia9126 thank you

[@FM-lo9vv]

Your videos are really good 🙏

[@YongnianTaiChiUSA]

Excellent, astavakra samhita looks good. Just read a Damo Mitchell book where you wrote a prologue.

[@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne]

We need to transform and nurture a holistic Jiva. One that is observant, yet non judgemental, fully immersed in brahman/dao yet detached from illusions. A Jiva that is unique to your own human experience in this cosmos, cultivated through sadhana and day to day experience...

[@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne]

Being an atman all the time is actually too hard in 21st century I feel. That's just my perspective. I agree we Leo Gura (actualized) on his "Burning through Karma" video...

[@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne]

Which is a bit different from yours, but I agree with both of you. I'm more in alignment with Leo's idea on this.

[@SpaceisAFantasy]

who want to be a jiva even a holistic one “Tat twam asi” Realize the Suprême Self and set yourself free💚💚💚🔫 there is nothing to liberate you are allready free

[@jasonc8910]

Thank you.

[@Divine_Guidance_Coaching]

Wonderful explanation. Thank you.

[@annmorgana2848]

interesting thank you. the more i practice, the more i find the all is seeking the full resolution of paradox. to free yourself you must fully realize you have never been bound, to give up the world you must wholeheartedly embrace all of it.

[@nicknord7575]

Please check out this book. "Healing light of the Tao" and the key words NEI KUNG.

[@ezreality]

Perfect... Thank you... Jason

[@ArkansasGamer]

Wonderful!

[@MassiveLib]

More concepts, more thoughts. Getting indegestion

[@oerantia9126]

“What a fall, the perfect state caught up in experiences and expecting some gain from it” [Nisargadatta Maharaj]

[@oerantia9126]

@yahkahlalah apparent, appearance is in the mind. Appearance bears no truth whatsoever. The perfect state is the indescribable, never-expressible state. It is conscious and not-conscious and beyond both (another NM quote). So what was NM apparently? He was the non-apparent, the apparent and beyond both. Just like you and everybody else. Complete silence teaches one everything about non-silence, about expression and how no opinionated expression can ever be the complete/original/final truth.

[@Robinson8491]

very clever explanation

[@philmcdonald6088]

rest in present awareness be still close eyes listen to your breathing.

[@millersadventure]

loved that it came at a perfect time.

[@rvsam4u]

subscribed

[@billzepp69]

Fun. It made me think about the animals.

[@billi16]

Adi Shankara had sung this concept in Nirvana/Atma Shatakam.. Sadame samatvah na muktir na bandha( the atma is in a state of equilibrium, it was never having being in state of bondage and neither the need for liberation)

[@infinitenothingness]

Before Enlightenment, chop wood 🪓 After Enlightenment, chop wood 🪵 🙏 Namaste 🕉

[@26noren]

I think liberation could also be defined as being able to see right through Maya into ultimate reality and experiencing oneness with consciousness

[@raine5508]

There is no such thing as liberation

[@nicknord7575]

You lack imagination. You may interpret this anyway you wish.

[@raine5508]

@@nicknord7575 who

[@shaktiveda7041]

Aham Atman

[@nicknord7575]

Do you have books similar to Healing Light of the Tao by Mantak Chia that you could share titles of?

[@nicknord7575]

Specifically interested in Nei Kung practices to practice.

[@EISPrado]

There is not a leave that fells without I knowing, because I am the leave. Being the sea, you have access to all waves, past, present and future. The 3rd eye... Aham Brahman Asmi

[@jayros4269]

So is the point of life to experience it from a place of moderation? Is there any end goal like heaven? Do we just reincarnate endlessly to experience reality?

[@ishikawa1338]

There is no point. U happpen to be the one alive, the point is to live how u want with in the means you have. Money is the most important thing, then real estate and health thru food and exercise Spend all you time and extra on setting up a self sustaining life that exist outside of the normal society at that point do whatever u want as long it don’t break law, others feelings do not matter Basically , have every sex experience with whoever u can whenever u can minus the shady stuff What I mean is date many of type u like, sleep w them all it doesn’t matter really unless u get disease Or find one who satisfies u best u can in all ways and choose to be worth them but still it doesn’t really matter in the end I can’t take any experience with u Therefore anything goes in a sort of sense Yes I get there r just some things u shouldn’t do and are gross or wrong for many reasons

[@RicardGomes76]

Sartre, being imerged in the western culture, said that human being has no essence, he/she is nothing. Uau!

[@bric3089]

QUESTION. Do we know we're dead? Does the actual self, the i am know like a thought that death too has occurred?

[@teresascott1648]

So in a way you are saying that because we are in a car driving it does not mean we are a car.

[@233..]

U shuld do podcast with KZbin channel called PsychedSubstance (2.5M subs) Hosts name is Adam and his very spiritual and advanced consciousness. Ur talks wuld be soo eye opener to many people. Eye wish this happens🙂👍🏻

[@teeniequeenie8369]

Is this where the saying “just cuz they’re dead doesn’t mean their smart” comes from?! Lol

[@johnf153]

In your belief system, can there be individual (not separate), unique conscious, living expressions of the One that are not hypnotized by the illusion of separateness?

[@nicknord7575]

Please read "Healing Light of the Tao". No one is nothing and all this is just words people make up to communicate. Nothing....feel me?

[@johnf153]

@@nicknord7575 Thanks. I read that book when it first came out 30 years ago. At the time, I also studied directly with Mantak Chia. However, I found his approach to sexual energy too clinical for me and not love or heart centered.

[@RC0921]

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[@warrenpyke813]

This just repeats what one can get from any number of sources. As long as people are caught up in theories of the Atman and liberation, which are merely concepts propagated by religious teachers, they will just keep running about looking for these things, fantasising the ‘undifferentiated’ and so on endlessly - instead of facing life as it is. There is no liberation, nirvana etc, there is only the mental bondage we make for ourselves. Logically, these theories are deeply flawed for example relying on the idea of ‘one consciousness’ as the ‘undifferentiated’, the latter term excluding the former.

[@AbhishekGupta-yv2mk]

See here is the problem You are comparing advaita with belief system As read advaita You cannot be free cause you are already free You are who you are and just forget your real self to enjoy suffering and cut down the pleasure of your real self Now if you close your eyes and debate with people that light exist or not it's rubbish Now the people who are trying to say that you should believe it they themselves are not sure and are blind Just like this other religions teach you to believe But here advaita tells no need to believe You just have to see by yourself You will know who you are It does not need any money or anything Just years of thirst and meditation When you start feel nihilism and meaninglessness of world then you go within you realize who you are See just like An actor plays a role but by an accident forgets that he is actor And now all the time he is acting But when someone asked to him a human just like him who is an actor Does it exist he said no he don't believe it Now tell me if he do not believe it will the reality change that he is the one No So for that he just have to remember himself So please atlest try to meditate and don't believe any stories And don't believe God Just try to know who are you actually?

[@samuelmacdowell559]

One question. Is the Atman aware of itself or does it only become aware as it differentiates into a Jiva? What is the purpose of the Atman differentiating into a Jiva? Is this experience necessary in some way or is it just a pathology of existence?

[@tushartari5232]

Watch it from 35:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn3Ck6SQZt2Lgq8

[@AbhishekGupta-yv2mk]

Brahman bored of constant pleasure just becomes Maya and jiva in Maya to play , like characters in movie In kashmir shaivism (advaita ) You will read Unmesa --- expansion of Brahman and he becomes universe himself Nimesa--- contraction of universe This cycle continues to infinite Just for play But Brahman do not affected by it He remains infinite

[@samuelmacdowell559]

@@AbhishekGupta-yv2mk Ok. Thank you. So it´s all this big cosmic game and all the suffering, wars, destruction is jut a silly joke. We are all here, forgetful of our true nature, suffering in illusion, and to become enlightned is to awake to the glory of being Brahman. A pity it´s almost imposible for the majority of us. Must remenber it´s just a movie!

[@AbhishekGupta-yv2mk]

@@samuelmacdowell559 yes you understood it right See just like Matter and energy can never be created and never be destroyed Matter can be energy and energy can be Matter It's all just change of form But all the Matter and energy which is same thing remains constant In this universe no matter how much it changes its form but will be always there in different form Water changer to vapor does not mean water died just like this organism change to some other form does not mean organisms died

[@mimimalignant]

I don't want to learn anything after enlightenment!! Reincarnations after reincarnations and I still got learn after reaching enlightenment?

[@warriorshedge6772]

So does physical hell exist?

[@kunwarsingh5319]

🇮🇳🙌🏼

[@deeveevideos]

Our Atman is a wave of Brahman but not the other way around.

[@enlightenedperspectives1111]

❤☮☯

[@ArkansasGamer]

Any recommended reading for semen retention? Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom 🙏

[@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne]

Highly request this. Very very important. Please @jason.

[@ResearchTemple]

lol its called self discipline which eventually becomes effortless when atman is realised

[@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne]

@@ResearchTemple it's not that easy you know... it's the most primal of human drive, having your life force seed expelled over pixels is draining.

[@ArkansasGamer]

@@TetsuoTheAwakenedOne I understand your struggle. I've struggled with trying to practice with retention for years. I just got out of my first long term relationship and my lust for other women was apart of what ended it (never tell you partner you are struggling with lust for other people if you know you'd never act on it, it's not their burden to bear!) But anyways I would highly suggest giving up porn above all else. The images are scarring because they never really leave your mind once you've looked at them. At least for me

[@ArkansasGamer]

@@ResearchTemple Ive realized this recently. It definitely takes effort in the beginning though. At least for me. I know they say the hardest way to not think about a certain color is to actively try and not think about it, but for me, I have to think about not fapping all the time in order to keep my mind vigilant to temptation. I hope in time it will just become effortless, but for now I must think about it more. Meditation does help too for sure

[@lenisand7391]

1:13

[@johncurtis920]

Proposal. The initial bifurcation in all that "you" are is the birth of the physical self. From that moment, and no matter how you struggle, you cannot become the One. But don't misconstrue. I'm not saying you should not strive for it. The struggle may very well may be the whole point of the bifurcation. To be removed, to learn, and by that process attain understanding. All I'm saying is that to regain the One you must accept leaving physicality behind. But this is tough, isn't it? It's why there are only ever a few prophets. We don't have herds of Jesus's, or Buddha's, or any other of those types around, do we? There are only ever a bare few. This is probably a reflection of their, and ultimately our, final time around the wheel of existence. With epiphany comes Enlightenment. And with that, *poof!* you are gone.. So it goes. John~ American Net'Zen

[@lenisand7391]

1:11 1:12 22 110

[@Gamer-yk5to]

I ever undifferentiated and uncontained

[@coyfishhh]

Give up learning and it will be 100 times better for you. Do you think you can improve on the world? I don't think it can be done. Lol I get it and I'm still here listening to learn. Hahaha Yet . . . . . blah blah blah to the end of time