Sunday satsang at SAT

[Guest guest]

Hello friends and fellow seekers.

 

I wanted to post a little from Sunday's satsang.

 

The subject of the discourse was the teaching, found in the

Upanishads, and in the teachings of both Ramana Maharshi and Sankara.

 

This is one of the key teachings of Advaita Vedanta.

 

One form of this teaching is:

 

The world is unreal.

Brahman alone is real.

All this (the world, the body, the mind, the ego-idea, prajna, etc.)

is Brahman.

 

For Westerners, perhaps this can be best stated as:

 

"The World is unreal,

The Self is real.

All this is the Self."

 

The purpose of spiritual practice is to destroy the illusion of

reality of "all this." What remains, then, is the Self. The

illusion is destroyed by Self-Knowledge (the non-conceptual knowledge

that you are the Self. This knowledge needs to be with the same

degree of certainty as is the knowledge that you exist). Self-

Knowledge is brought about by Self-inquiry.

 

Not two,

Richard