liberation
God’s grace vs the importance of effort in attaining liberation | Yoga Vasistha | Advaita
“In the scriptures, the importance of effort is really driven home as being very important. This is because, what they don’t want is people to say you are Brahman, you are the absolute so you can do what you like”
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Teachings from Yoga Vasistha
Who is the thinker? Removing illusion and delusion
In silence thoughts lessen.
The attachment to thinking and to desire gradually weaken until they eventually fade and die.
If we relinquish the sense of limitation, that limiting belief “ I am the body” then the ego disappears consumed by silence, stillness, being.
Deeper silence and stillness where nothing is lacking.
This video was recorded live during a Satsang meeting with Tom Das and put together by volunteers.
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If you just be…
If you just be, all of these teachings will be revealed to you. You won’t need to read any books, go to Satsangs, watch YouTube videos or plough through scriptures, if you just be.
Maybe one thing I could add is not ‘just be’ but to know that your identity is being. To just be and somehow trust that what you truly are is this beingness that transcends body, mind world, matter.
This video was recorded live during a Satsang meeting with Tom Das and put together by volunteers.
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You Have to Surrender the Mind | Self-Surrender
We have to surrender the mind. And then That what we are looking for is revealed naturally, spontaneously, effortlessly, but not to the mind.
If you start the practice, even if it is atrocious in the beginning, faith will come.
You will start to fall into the path and accelerate.
Every attempt at stilling the mind is a progress.
You are holding onto the branch of a tree (your mind is holding onto the illusion of body/mind/world – Maya) when your feet are on the ground (you are the Self already).
Only when you turn within and let go of the name and the form (the illusion/Maya) you will discover that you have always been standing on the ground (you have always been the Self).
Do not take this world to be real, or this body mind to be yourself.Do not take your thoughts to be your thoughts.
Abide as the Self.
Merge with the Knowledge that is within you.
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Love, beyond Love
Ever-present,
Always here,
No-thing.
One with All [phenomenal appearances],
Ever-Unaffected [by phenomenal appearances],
Naturally Still.
Movement,
And Stillness
Matter Not.
Love,
Beyond Love,
These words [concepts] disappear.
What is Self-Enquiry? (Atma Vichara) | Sri Ramana Maharshi
Manonasa – what is it? And doesn’t ‘destruction of the mind’ sound dangerous and unhealthy?
What is manonasa?
In the traditional scriptures, Manonasa, literally meaning desctruction of the mind, is a synonym for liberation of self-realisation.
Doesn’t ‘extinction of the mind’ sound dangerous?
Liberation is possible FOR YOU
What matters is liberation
Here Tom explains how the way in which your life unfolds has only a relative importance. What matters is only liberation, since only liberation can free you from suffering.
Tom Das 