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If I Have To Be A Witness, How Can I Speak, Act, Etc?

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.

SpeakingAdvaitaNon DualityExperiential UnderstandingTruthDissolutionAwarenessMindfulnessImpermanenceKnowingnessNon Dual AwarenessMindful ObservationSpiritual GrowthRamana MaharshiActingWitnessingSpirits

Transcript

Music Yes,

Speaking of mind,

It's not different.

What is mind?

Mind is also knowingness.

Yeah,

So it is all knowingness.

Yeah,

But you have to act.

I'm not saying you don't have to act and don't have to do things.

You will know everything in the world.

But now being established here.

Till now I was established here and then I was getting lost and trapped in the thoughts and feelings and perceptions sensations and creating drama and grieving suffering for myself.

But now I know,

Oh,

I am the knower of thought.

I'm the knower of perception and the knower of sensation and the knower of the feeling.

Now I just be here.

Yes,

I have to interact with people.

I have to do my things.

I do it like a game.

Yes,

I know that it is all made of knowingness,

But I can't go and tell that ignorant shopkeeper that you know,

You are knowing this and I'm knowing this and this money is knowing this.

There is no point giving knowing this to knowing this.

So it doesn't work like that with the person,

The other person who is not in knowingness.

But if you were to meet the Buddha,

You think you would even need to speak to the Buddha?

A connection would happen at knowingness.

If you were established in knowingness,

There would be a connection happening at knowingness.

Yes,

There would be no need for words.

There would not be any need for any exchange.

There would be absolute silence and that is what Ramana Maharshi really taught.

Silence,

The connection and the level of knowingness.

So obviously it's going to change with the varying stages of growth of the other person in the world.

That's how I play a game.

I go out,

I play,

I teach,

I have fun.

And when I come back,

Always be in the knowingness.

It is actually an ocean that you're carrying with you.

In that ocean only Lydia arose and Lydia is with me and after a while Lydia will go away and somebody else will arise.

I'm just playing this game.

It's a video game.

It's beautiful.

Yes,

But I'm established in the knowingness and not lost in thoughts and feelings and perceptions and sensations created by this arising and falling.

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Ekta BathijaSt. George, USA

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