Realizing Advait in Daily Life.

Realizing Advait in Daily Life.

Any given moment has two components: awareness and whatever it is aware of.

If you include both your body and mind in the focus of this awareness, the awareness becomes supreme – the awareness of Godliness.

This supreme awareness is unique.

It is total, complete, infinite, and that’s why undivided.

This infinite component is the most important.

Why?

Because it encompasses everything it is aware of, nothing can escape it.

Infinite means TOTALITY.

What does it mean?

Whatever it perceives is also it.

And that’s why saints say – everything is consciousness, and duality is an illusion.

The apparent separations among the material world are not real, and they all have a single origin – the consciousness.

Listening to this, we try to force duality into a non-dual state.

But that is only a mental exercise (because all we have is the mind).

And the mind can’t grasp a non-dual state (because the mind is duality).

This is not samadhi; it is a big headache for the sadhak.

The only way to resolve this dual-non-dual conflict is at the level of awareness.

Sharpen your awareness via meditation until only the supreme awareness remains, nothing else, not even you ( your present self ).

This awareness is Godliness. (Awareness becomes your new you, your new self.)

That’s when compassion, patience, karuna, and love emanate from this Godliness.

These are not single-pointed (like mother’s love), but universal (for all).

And in this state, one can live a sansaric life.

The duality of the Sansar and its non-dual state are not separate entities.

It should not be tiresome to “bring” them together to satisfy our minds.

THEY ARE NOT SEPARATE; THEY ARE ONE.

Looking at them with your mind, you see duality; with awareness, you see non-duality.

(The snake-on-a-rope example used by the scriptures is the most appropriate for this, the snake being an illusion and the rope being a reality.)

What are the implications of such a profound realization?

Try it in life and realize it yourself.

Hating someone is an ugly manifestation of duality (one person hating another) and drains your mental energy.

Loving everyone and everything ( for no reason ) is a beautiful manifestation of the non-dual state ( being ONE with all ), and…

These things cannot be “taught “ to others ( temples and churches are a waste of time ).

Everyone must realize this for themselves and let gems like these emerge from within.

MEDITATE.