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The mind is extremely subtle, making it difficult to perceive or fully understand. "Tasmadetatmanah Sukshmam" signifies that due to its subtlety and dynamism, the mind pervades everywhere, engaging with every sensation of the external world.

"Vyavrittam Sarvagocharam" means that while the mind transcends all senses, it orchestrates the experiences linked to them. The mind is the medium that activates the faculties of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell. It controls all the sensory organs—ears, skin, eyes, tongue, and nose—allowing us to experience the world through them.

Understanding the subtle nature of the mind means recognizing that it is not only connected to our external reality but also serves as a gateway to inner consciousness and self-realization. When we learn to control and calm the mind, we move toward deeper self-awareness and spiritual peace.

AHETUKI BHAKTI

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Ahetuki bhakti[4] – the main thing is to acquire zealous love and devotion for God

“If you have loving devotion – zealous love and devotion – God cannot remain unmoved.

“How great is God’s fondness for devotion! It can be likened to a cow’s fondness for fodder mixed with oil cake. She just gobbles it down.

“Fervent love[5] and selfless devotion to God, pure love for its own sake – that’s what Prahlada had.

“You may visit a rich man just because you like to see him. When you’re asked if you’d like a favour, you reply, ‘Sir, I want nothing at all. I come just to see you.’ This is called ahetuki bhakti. You ask God for nothing – only to love Him.

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Metanoia is a Greek word meaning "a transformative change of heart" or a profound spiritual conversion. It has been used in different contexts, including philosophy, psychology, and religion.

1. Etymology and Meaning:

   • In Greek, "meta-" means "beyond" or "after," and "noia" comes from "nous," meaning "mind" or "perception."
   • Thus, metanoia refers to a shift in one’s way of thinking or perceiving the world, going beyond old perspectives to embrace new insights or values.

2. Religious Context:

   • In Christianity, particularly in the New Testament, metanoia is often translated as "repentance." It refers not just to feeling remorse for wrongdoing but to a complete turning away from sin and turning toward God.
   • In a broader spiritual sense, metanoia involves a deep change in consciousness, a shift toward spiritual awareness, and an alignment with higher values.

3. Philosophical and Psychological Context:

   • In existential philosophy and depth psychology, metanoia is associated with personal growth and transformation. It’s seen as a pivotal moment of change when a person radically redefines themselves, often triggered by a crisis or a period of intense reflection.

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Atman

Atman is a Sanskrit term meaning the inner self or soul in Hindu philosophy. It is a core concept in the spiritual traditions of India, particularly within Hinduism, Vedanta, and other related systems of thought.

1. Atman in Hinduism:

   • Atman refers to the true essence of an individual beyond the physical body and ego. It is the eternal, indestructible core that exists within every living being.
   • In Advaita Vedanta (a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy), atman is considered identical to Brahman, the ultimate, universal reality. The realization that one’s atman is the same as Brahman is the key to achieving moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth).

2. Atman and Reincarnation:

   • According to Hindu beliefs, the atman transmigrates through various lives, taking on different bodies in each incarnation based on the law of karma (the moral law of cause and effect).
   • Liberation (moksha) is achieved when the atman realizes its unity with Brahman, transcending the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara).

3. Atman in Other Indian Philosophies:

   • In Jainism, atman is seen as an individual soul that is inherently pure, though it can become tainted by karma. Liberation is attained by purifying the soul from karma.
   • In Buddhism, however, the concept of atman is rejected in favor of anatta (non-self), where the belief in a permanent self is seen as a source of suffering.

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In essence, metanoia involves a transformation of the mind or spirit, while atman refers to the eternal soul in Indian philosophy, with both ideas pointing to deeper self-realization and spiritual awakening.

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DIY. NOHU. No one ielps u

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Process pain. Outcome pain

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Loss pain. Hardship pain. Change pain

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Knowledge. To Wisdom. To Awareness

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Meditation. Alpha relaxed awareness. Push ups for brain

Visualisation exercise. Gaia

Inflammation is beginning of Degenerative disease

Man me Ram Tan me Ram

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Daata ek Ram

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FULFILMENT CURVE ENOUGH 

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Self knowing of One

FF. Field that wants to know itself

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“Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present. Do not meditate at all, since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come through undistracted mindfulness — Since there is nothing by which you can be distracted.”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation

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FF. Qualia to meaning is comprehension

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Self referential DMN

B the best version of yourself

Brahman is playing out as Maya

Dth of wf. Bought motorcycle and travel.Henry Cole Sn tv

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Harinam Utsav

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Heisenberg

he atom is a particle in every moment where we observe it, but between these observations it is also a wave.

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Yogi Ramacharaka

Thought is as much a 'thing' as is light, heat, electricity or similar forms of manifestations.

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NKB 

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The universe is mental - held in the mind of the All,

Lybalion

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Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. They are the precursor to every action you take and every experience you have." Dispenza 

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 I thought the universe was knowable. At the end of an education, I think the universe is unknowable. Of course, there is much to know. It is knowable in its parts. Under certain constraints knowledge is not just possible, but extremely useful, and also, most importantly, true. Science works, and reveals deep truths about the world, about the fundamentals of Being. But when accounting for all its nooks and crannies I suspect Being to be, in its full, a paradox, or perhaps, to lessen the claim, not fully knowable in any way that doesn’t engender paradox for the understander.

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Nearly Half of Smartphone Users Addicted, Lancet Commission Warns

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When one worldview dominates your thinking, you'll try to explain every problem you face through that worldview. Read widely and realize there are many answers."

~ James Clear

Frailty Dementia same trajectory

Missing LKT tea

Xhitney Heuston. We have a problem

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it

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LEBOW 

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Xelcome dat Nini

TU Nbrs

Oilakshi. Oabeela. Qarvin 

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Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue

STONE AGE FCONOMICS

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32 mn Jindians live outside Jinde

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Vivek. Vairagya. Shadsampatti. Mumukshubhava

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Life is full of those moments when the bottom seems to drop out of our stomach and we feel like we’ve fallen into a deep deep place.

We wonder at that time, will we ever see the light of day again? Will we ever know life as it was before?

Life is made up of moments .. big ones, little ones, full of choice ones and empty ones. Is a moment ever really empty though? 

It may appear to be at times, according to how we are feeling and what we are experiencing in that moment… and yet, there is always life within us as we are within life. And even the moments that may appear lifeless, hold an opportunity for us to see ourselves.

Every moment is a mirror!

~ Janine Savient 💛

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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. 

It's not the shattering itself that breaks you—it’s the silence that follows, the quiet space where you realize there’s nothing left to salvage. And in that moment, you know that you’ll never be the same again. You’ll build something new, perhaps, but it will never be what you lost."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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NDM.

What came first, 

the body of the world or our body? 

Your true nature is formless, 

yet it identifies with the body. 

In the same way, 

the world looks real through the senses!

Who is prior: 

the world or the one who sees the world? 

Your wakefulness is the same as the world. 

First comes consciousness, and 

then the world is seen in it. 

Consciousness is unstable. It likes to be.

However, when ‘I am-ness’ goes so does the world. You have to see this with a very subtle inner discrimination. This vast panoramic world is the reflection of your consciousness. As such it is nameless; yet name gives it support and transactions are made possible. All names are concepts. When Parabrahman remains in the unmanifest state, can He have a name?

Krishna says He is all-pervading. Because of the sense of duality people differentiate. They either praise or censure. The concept ‘I am like this’ is the basic reason of misery or happiness. If you stay with the feeling

‘I am’, the basic vibration of ‘I am’, you will digest miseries as easily as happiness. Whatever is visible, whatever appears, has not happened at all! 

Do not indulge in flattery or censure, even if it costs you your life, as there is no other. Unless the sense ‘I am like this’ goes, the duality will not go. You must understand the ultimate meaning of your Self, by yourself. Then nothing can harm you. One in a million tries to know it. One who realizes it, his consciousness merges peacefully within his own Self. Consciousness disappears into the knower. That is called Parabrahman. 

You know what you are before you know anything else. Convince yourself that you are pure consciousness.

All worldly dealings will be carried out spontaneously. It is the only way. The notion that you do something is utterly false.

!!! MEDITATIONS WITH SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ. Excerpt from: Nirupana 47

Sunday, July 30, 1978

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BG 9. Raj vidya Yog X DTH END OF SUFFRNG BXM AND RELEASE OF CONSC

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Everything is within our mind.

 Usually we think there are many things out there.

In Buddhism, mind and being are one, not different.

As there is no limit to cosmic being, there is no limit to our mind;

our mind reaches everywhere.

 It already includes the stars,

 so our mind is not just our mind.

It is something greater than small mind and that we think is our mind.”

    - Shunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow In the Darkness

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ABOS. Anaesthetic balm of spirituality

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We live in the Dream of Separateness. 

In actuality, there are no‘separate entities.’

There is only Being, The Whole.

 

This is Emptiness dreaming that it is Fullness. Nothing dreaming that it is Everything. Yet, what can appear to arise in Being, Non-duality, The Singularity, is a dream of Two, or many (duality.) This is a paradox that cannot be grasped by ‘mind, nor can we find or assign any reason or purpose for it.

Constant rain in LKT X LEMURS OF MADAGASCAR SN TV

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a leap of faith based on quite some evidence 

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“It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.”
― Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf

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Notice how in the title of this email, I said "pride/ego." 

This is because pride is ego. Ego is pride. It is the belief "I am the doer of life," "I am the creator."

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How can we live life without getting entangled in pride? (Which by the way, only creates suffering for yourself and the world).

Here's what I have found to be helpful in my experience. Hopefully, it will help you too :)

Enjoy experiences, but don't cling. Observe, but don't identify. 

Know that you do nothing. You only appear to. 

Wisdom comes to you, pleasure comes to you, blessings come to you. 

They are given, not gotten. 

They are bestowed, not achieved. 

They are a gift from God, not something "you made happen." 

Let go of the idea "I do." 

You only appear to do. But the impulse to do, the energy to perform the action, and the reward following that action, are all the doing of God. 

The personal self doesn't actually exist. It is just an appearance of which we are only the witness. 

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Let the concept of pride die within you. Remain forever humble. Be happy being a nobody, a nothing. 

Live on God alone. God is your sole protector and provider. God is your greatest treasure! 

Living in this way, your mind cannot become corrupted by pride. 

2 Things:

• If you don't like the word God, replace it with Source, Self, or Life.
• If you want to experientially understand non-doership and become established in the inner peace which results from living in spiritual surrender