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negate the five sheaths, which are other than oneself. Hence in Upadēśa Undiyār Bhagavan has amended the path of knowledge (jñāna mārga) by rearranging the back-to-front process described in ancient scriptures into a new and practical order – that is, he points out that the practice of nēti nēti is actually the end result.

The feet of guru are that which is always shining within you as “I am I”. Grasp that’.

Yoga involves preventing the mind from being molded into these permutations, the vṛttis, the impressions and thoughts of the objects of the world, such that puruṣa can regain its autonomous nature.

Ram Dass once said, “After many years of undergoing psychoanalysis, teaching psychology, working as a psychotherapist, taking drugs, being in India, being a yogi, having a guru, and meditating for decades, as far as I can see I haven’t gotten rid of one neurosis. Not one. The only thing that changed is that they don’t define me anymore.

did, on the other hand, speak highly of the practice of nama-japa (the continuous repetition of God's name) and he often advocated it as a useful aid for those who were following the path of

To vanquish itself and get established in ātman, the mind should not witness any second and third person objects. The mind should not rise to witness anything; instead, it should witness the witness itself, the first person awareness ‘I’.