“When the truth of this is not known, the spiritual teaching is distorted”, Tom says in this powerful and very clarifying video.
The Satsang member is describing his response to the introduction from the book, “The Seven Steps To Awakening” which is on Tom Das’s recommended reading list.
“The Seven Steps to Awakening is the most powerful collection of quotes ever assembled on the subject of how to directly experience the true Self whose nature is Infinite-Eternal-Awareness-Love-Bliss and how to bring the impostor self, its tricks and all suffering to a final end in this lifetime”.
This video was recorded live during a Satsang meeting with Tom Das on February 13th, 2025 and put together by volunteers.
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no duality
There is no Duality in Non-duality | Self-knowledge
[Sri Ramana Maharshi writes in] Upadesa Undiyar verse 26, “Being Self is itself knowing Self, because Self is that which is devoid of duality…“.
Therefore it follows that the very nature of Self is itself knowledge, though it is a knowledge which is devoid of the act of knowing.
That is why Sri Bhagavan says in verse 12 of Ulladu Narpadu, “ … That which knows cannot be [true] knowledge … “.
The same truth is also expressed by Sri Muruganar in verse 831 of Mey Tava Vilakkam, where he says, “The real ‘I’ is such a knowledge which knows neither other things nor itself”.
Since Self-knowledge is non-dual, it is a knowledge which shines without the triad [triputi] – the knower, the act of knowing and the object known – and hence it is quite different from other kinds of knowledge, all of which involve the act of knowing.
~ Sri Sadhu Om, commentary on Guru Vachaka Kovai verse 1038
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