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Vedanta calls the desire for liberation as 'Mumukshutva' and lists it as one of the prerequisites for spiritual practice.

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It is important to realize that this subject is unchanging. But everything else in your consciousness keeps changing. It can be compared to the moving pictures in a movie screen. The pictures change constantly but the screen remains the same. When we are engrossed in the movie, we completely forget about the screen. The same thing happens when we think. We are completely engrossed and identified with our thoughts that we never step back from those thoughts to actually observe them.

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Yogananda once confessed:

A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and the floating universes. The entire cosmos, gently luminous, like a city seen afar at night, glimmered within the infinitude of my being.

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Buddha says life is suffering he actually says that our current psychological processes which motivate craving, delusion, attachment and aversion cause suffering.

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Contacting the present moment means being psychologically present: consciously connecting with and engaging in whatever is happening in this moment. Humans find it very hard to stay present. Like other humans, we know how easy it is to get caught up in our thoughts and lose touch with the world around us. We may spend a lot of time absorbed in thoughts about the past or the future. Or instead of being fully conscious of our experience, we may operate on automatic pilot, merely “going through the motions.” Contacting the present moment means flexibly bringing our awareness to either the physical world around us or the psychological world within us, or to both simultaneously. It also means consciously paying attention to our here-andnow experience instead of drifting off into our thoughts or operating on “automatic pilot.” 

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. But neither spirituality nor science knows the exact relationship between consciousness and matter yet.

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t Atman is not an entity or an object; it is the subject or the observer self.

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Witnessing So, let me give you something to practice. Sit in your chair and pay attention to your thought process. Don’t try to think anything with your own effort but don’t try to stop your thoughts either. Let thoughts arise and you just sit back and witness them. An attitude of detachment is necessary to do it properly. Don’t judge any thought as good or bad. Assume that you are peeking into someone else’s mind. Just observe each thought and be curious about the next thought or the bundle of thoughts that will arise. Even if you find yourself judging your own thoughts, recognize that as just another thought. You may forget this witnessing and get lost in the thought stream again and again. But don’t feel guilty about it or feel that you failed. Because this is bound to happen again and again. But the key lies in recognizing that you missed the attention. As soon as you realize that you have forgotten to pay attention to the thought process, you will be back on track again. Along with your thoughts you can also pay attention to your body, if you have to move it for any reason. Let us call this practice ‘Witnessing’. This method of Witnessing was recommended by Osho (Rajneesh) to his disciples. 

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The problem with our minds is that we are lost in the thought process all the time. We are not consciousness that we are thinking. The tendency of mind is to go on in a continuous monologue, verbalize each and every thing that it comes across and always making some noise. When you pay attention to what the mind is doing, you stop giving the energy that the mind requires to continue the monologue. As you do it more and more, you will notice that the thought process is getting slowed down. Sometimes there might be even gaps in the thought process. You may have to wait for the second for the next thought to arise.

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thinker that J.Krishnamurti is referring to is the person who you think you are. It is the image that you carry in your head about yourself, which derives its identity from the story of the past and the hopes and dreams of the future. But there is really no such person when there are no thoughts. All that exists in the absence of the thoughts is just pure awareness, the subject. Since the thoughts move so fast, the constant movement of the thought process gives you the illusion of a separate and consistent self. 

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It doesn't mean that we should completely reject whatever we hear, read or think. There is a third choice, to just let it be as a memory or as a possible hypothesis, without coming to a conclusion. Because once we have come to a conclusion, we have closed all the doors of knowing anything further

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It is time to actually talk about the practice - what exactly you need to do. We have already discussed witnessing, which is something that has to be integrated in everything you do. The beauty of the witnessing process is that it doesn’t require a specific time to be allocated.

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Remember this analogy: When the clouds move away,movement of clouds do not create the sun; The sun did not come into being because the clouds moved away. But the disappearance of the clouds revealed the sun which was already there all along. The same way, whatever practice that we do is to remove the impurities which are clouding the truth of who you are. The practice removes the idea that there is a doer. The idea that there is a separate self which is the doer of actions is actually like a thick sheet of clouds which is stopping you from seeing the truth. 

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Karma Yoga is defined as doing your actions while surrendering the fruits of action to God.

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SURRENDER TO EXISTENCE AND BE MINDFUL IN PRESENT

to accomplish this: 1. Surrender: Here, the word ‘surrender’ doesn’t mean surrendering to a person. It means surrendering to the existence itself, without resisting what is. Whatever happens in this moment right now is something that cannot be avoided. You can possibly avoid or change what will happen in the next moment; but whatever that is happening right now is already happening. There is no point in fighting with it. So, what happens at this moment has to be accepted without resistance. This attitude of acceptance and not resisting to what is happening is surrender. 2. Being in the present moment: Being fully present is being mindful. Being mindful is nothing but witnessing. When you witness your body and mind as you do an action, your attention is fully in the present moment. 

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m Osho’s talks which is about witnessing. This will help you to get a clear idea about it: “Just be, and watch. Being is not doing, and watching is also not doing. You sit silently doing nothing, witnessing whatsoever is happening. Thoughts will be moving in your mind; your body may be feeling some tension somewhere, you may have a migraine. Just be a witness. Don’t be identified with it. Watch, be a watcher on the hills, and everything else is happening in the valley. It is a knack, not an art.

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You don’t say, “This is bad, this is good,” “This should be there….” and “This should not be there….” Then you are not a watcher; you have prejudices, you have certain attitudes. A watcher has no prejudice, he has no judgment. He simply sees like a mirror. 

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PURE BEING SILENCE

Soon the gaps will be bigger, and finally the gap is always with you. You may be doing something, the silence is there. You may not be doing anything, the silence is there. Even in sleep the silence is there.” - Osho, From the False to the Truth, Talk #3

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Flow is an optimal state of intrinsic motivation. In other words, it is an optimal state of Karma Yoga. During the states of flow, the subject and object merge and become one. But this is not the same as getting lost in thoughts and becoming identified with them. Usually, flow states are experienced along with a tremendous reduction in involuntary thought process. 

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WITNESS  X EMOTION 

Thomas J. Scheff , a Professor of Dept of Sociology at UCSB emphasized cognitive awareness which he called 'distancing. According to him, only if there is a distance between the observer and the emotions, only when you witness your emotions as a passive observer, catharsis is effective. The person going through catharsis should maintain the observer role instead of maintaining the role of a participant. So, expressing emotions in a proper catharsis is not the same as expressing the emotion in isolation, in everyday life. The important concept of catharsis is awareness; the success of catharsis depends on how much mindful we are and how much detached we are from the mental processes.

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Swami Chidananda claims that:

To the enlightened one, the world as he knew it ceases to be, and everything now stands enmantled (shrouded) by a shining vesture of divine effulgence, hitherto invisible to his normal vision.

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Purna Avatars are born with an extraordinary array of supernatural powers, and possess an inexhaustible ability to perform divine miracles or miraculous deeds. They use these supernatural powers of theirs with the highest motives for both spiritual and temporal good of other beings, especially human beings. They never use these powers to benefit themselves

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mindfulness. This is primarily a Buddhist practice, although Vedanta provides something similar, albeit in the form of negation

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Jody Radzik

Spiritual enlightenment is biological: attention binds to simple awareness resulting in the recognition of personal identity in that aconceptualitY

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MAUNDER MINIMUM 2050

Such a grand minimum happened in the middle of the 17th century. Known as the “Maunder Minimum” (from the names of 2 well respected solar astronomers of the time, Anne Russel Maunder and Edward Walter Maunder), the resultant cold temperatures saw the river Thames freeze, and the Baltic Sea as well — which allowed a Swedish army to invade Denmark by marching across the ice.

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Shrinwantu vishwe amritasya putra

Arya dhamani divyani thasthu

Vedam ayetam purusham mahantam aditya varanam tamasa parasthath

Tvameva vidhithva atimrityu methi, nanyah pantha vidyathe ayanaya

 

 Svetasvatara Upanishad.

Shrinwantu Vishwe Amritasya Putra- these verses tell us that humans are not sinful creatures and can become immortal through their deeds, hence amritasya putra… and to do so people have to embrace  knowledge and and consider everything in the universe as one; the path to enlightenment and Brahma(everything).

The immutable Reality is unperceived and unfelt, and the apparition seems to give us life, light and joy. The sole purpose of the Upanishad teaching is to disentangle man from the chain of samsara, to show him the way to the Glorious Light that shines within himself. Man is not a sinful mortal creature in truth; the Upanishad calls him “son of the Immortal”— amritasya putra. But he can know himself only through sacrificing himself. The highest sacrifice is the offering of the self to the Absolute. The greatest yoga is the sinking of the self into unity with the Absolute, by denying the separate, and asserting the One.

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