How to Not Get Enlightened - I tried all of these and they really do work

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

  Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" revolutionized our understanding of evolution when it was first published in 1976. The b...

Soul is an ignorant belief

Scientists have developed Xenobots, tiny biological entities created from frog cells using AI and biotechnology, which can execute tasks lik...

Man at Bombay needs to go to Bombay

 Man is at Bombay. But misunderstood that he is at Delhi. He wants to go to Bombay. He needs to fully understand that he is already at Bomba...

Conscioussness and Awareness

1. Tom, absent in the class - denotes the relative absence of Tom and the absolute presence too. 2. Tom, even if absent, has the absolute po...

Traditional Spirituality vs. Direct Truth

  Traditional Spirituality vs. [Direct Truth] 1 Organized system of beliefs originated from culture. Structured doctrines vastly shaped by g...

The child of a barren woman

  In the absence of the substratum of consciousness, there is no manifestation, and therefore, no separate pseudo-entities to ask any questi...

GOD

  • Did God come and tell you that the world is His creation and concern and not yours? • To help you, God must know your existence. But you...

Let us come back to your problems of re-birth.

  • What is 'born', the objective body, will, in due course, 'die'; thereafter it will be dissolved i.e. irrevocably annihil...

The entity which is supposed to be re-born does not exist

  - The entity that you believe to have been born and will die is a concept. - The entity that you believe to exist and roam about after dea...

You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures

  You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures, be brilliant in your discussions and yet remain a bag of bones. Or you may be inco...

A journey into the unknown

  Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret or worry. You agree to be gu...

The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance

  The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy has sought to clarify it by a number of analogie...

This is not Advaita

 

Individual soul is a religious superstition

  Planarian worms cut into pieces, grow into separate organisms. If each organism has a soul, where from did these extra souls come? Individ...

There is no such thing as matter in itself - Max Planck

  There is no such thing as matter in itself. What we perceive as matter is merely the manifestation of a force that causes the sub-atomic p...

There are no other means to liberation, all means delay.

  When the fallacy of concepts and beliefs are exposed, the common argument raised is "Till I am ready, let me have such concepts"...

Until you drop everything - Ashtavakra Gita

  You can recite and discuss scriptures all you want, but until you drop everything, you will never know the Truth. Ashtavakra Gita

The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness

  ● The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness.  ● As an appearance in consciousness, the world is the totality of the know...

Absolute perfection is here and now

All you get by waiting is more waiting. Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj