Sublime

The instruction, then, was to sit concentrating on the heart at the right side and ask ‘Who am I?’ When thoughts arise during the meditation one is not to follow them up but to watch them and ask: ‘What is this thought? Where did it come from? And to whom? To me — and who am I?’

2 Drishti-srishti vada If his questioners found the idea of ajata or non-causality

is the jnani's experience that nothing ever comes into existence or ceases to be because the Self alone exists as the sole unchanging reality. It

it is said that śravaṇa, manana and nididhyāsana (study, careful consideration and practice) should continue hand in hand in our life until we as ego lose ourself entirely in the infinite clarity of pure self-awareness (ātma-jñāna).

advanced stage of meditation in

Kena Upanishad: “Brahman is unknown to those who know It, and is known to those who do not know It at all.” This knowing of Reality by unknowing is the psychological state of the man whose ego is no longer split or dissociated from its experiences, who no longer feels himself as an isolated embodiment of logic and consciousness, separate from the “

The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once

Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone is liberation. The

It is devoid of pramada [forgetfulness of Self] which is the cause of birth and death.9 Q: How is the