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If Time Doesn't Exist Isn't The Body Aging Reflecting The Passage Of Time?

by Ekta Bathija

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Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

TimeBodyAgingAdvaitaNon DualityExperiential UnderstandingTruthDissolutionConsciousnessSleepConditioningDreamsWaking StateDeep SleepOperant ConditioningTime And SpaceDream Analysis

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Again,

If you want to daylight Well,

You can always do it Again,

Again you are going back to the physical body and the mind where the knowingness is concerned.

There is no time and there is no space.

In the deep sleep state,

There is no time and there is no space.

That's why when I ask you,

How long were you in the deep sleep state after your dreaming state?

You will say,

I don't know.

No idea.

Why do you have no idea?

What is time really according to you?

Time is nothing but thought.

Next thought,

The next thought,

The next thought.

The continuity between thoughts gives you the illusion of time in the waking and dreaming state.

It's more so in the waking and a little fuzzy in the dream state.

But you still have the fuzzy kind of image of time in your dreaming state as well.

And what is space?

Space is the distance between two perceptions.

There is perception of the lamp and the table.

Between two perceptions,

The distance is what I call space.

Come back to the core teaching.

I have no idea whether objects exist or not.

All I know is my perception of them,

The corresponding sensation,

The thought that is created and the feeling that is evoked.

That's all.

That is my true experience.

Everything out of that is fudged information.

It is put together because 7 billion people on this planet say,

Okay,

This is a table.

Okay,

This is a table.

It's conditioning.

Yeah.

So now that I recognize that I have to wipe out the conditioning and just look at pure experience to understand Advaita,

It is very clear in deep sleep state,

There is no time and no space because of absence of thought and perception.

Because thought creates time or the objectification of thought is time and the objectification of perception is space.

And this starts happening in a fuzzy way in the dream state and in the waking state,

This becomes as if it is real.

Yeah.

But it seems real because I give importance to the waking state so much.

And I think that the waking state is the bigger state in which there is a smaller dream state in which there is a very tiny deep sleep state.

Some people feel there is nothing like a deep sleep state because they don't experience it.

Yeah.

But this logic is flawed.

It's completely flawed because it's based on an assumption that matter exists.

You're saying the waking state,

What is waking state for you?

Nothing else but matter and mind.

And you feel that matter exists and that we have already derived that it is only an assumption.

It is my conditioning.

So reverse this understanding.

Yes,

This is there in the Yogavashtara also.

That right in the beginning,

What was there?

Nothingness.

This nothingness,

That so-called nothingness is only relative to your somethingness in waking state.

It's not nothingness and it's not somethingness also.

Yeah.

It's just alive.

It is conscious.

It is consciousness.

And in that consciousness,

That is the closest experience of my deep sleep state.

In that consciousness,

The first eyesight arises.

The mind arises.

The mind is born.

Yeah.

That is my dream state beginning.

I get lost in the dream state.

What is dream state?

Just images,

Images,

Images.

Yeah.

These images seem real when I'm dreaming.

When I am the dreamer and I am on the streets of London and a car comes and hits into me,

I really get injured in the dream.

Correct?

Yeah.

So it seems very real to me when I'm in the dream state.

Now inside this dream state,

The waking state happens.

It's the smallest state.

Yeah.

In the smallest state,

In this waking state also,

If I am on the street and a car comes and hits me,

I really get injured.

What is the difference between your waking state and your dreaming state?

It's exactly the same.

It's exactly the same.

Yes.

The pure consciousness is present in deep sleep,

In dreaming and in waking.

There is no difference.

This pure consciousness was pure knowingness in deep sleep and it was the knower of absence of objects.

In the dreaming state,

It is the knower of the dream and in the waking state,

It is the knower of people,

Situations,

Things,

Events.

The consciousness is the bigger state.

Yeah.

So now recognize when you start recognizing this reality,

This is the reality of my experience.

There is an object is not a reality.

That is my assumption.

That is my conditioning.

I don't have proof of that.

This is my pure experience.

So now that I know that my pure consciousness is the bigger state.

So I am consciousness.

I am that knowingness.

I am the knower and I just assume that I am that ego that says I and then I like this and I dislike that and then I create drama and I project the same thing into the world.

Again and again withdraw and recognize I am that knowingness.

I am the pure knowingness.

Yes.

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Ekta BathijaSt. George, USA

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