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Samsang — Live 2-hour Recurring Sunday Satsang on Zoom

Samsang — a word that says it all. The endless cycle of worldly entanglement, desire, and becoming. But is there a way out? Or is that even the right question?

Beginning this Sunday, I am opening a live, recurring weekly Satsang (Samsang) on Zoom — a two-hour open space every Sunday from 4 pm to 6 pm IST, where genuine seekers can bring their questions on spirituality, philosophy, consciousness, and the art of living. No lectures. No prepared talks. Just honest, direct inquiry — question by question, seeker by seeker.

This is not a course. This is not a performance. It is simply a space where the most important questions in life get the attention they deserve.

Monthly subscription: ₹449. Register via the Google Form below. Upon payment confirmation, the Zoom link will be sent to your registered email.

See you Sunday.

https://forms.gle/SLDHMeqwV3kTJQPP8

Samsang — Live 2-hour Recurring Sunday Satsang on Zoom

Samsang — a word that says it all. The endless cycle of worldly entanglement, desire, and becoming. But is there a way out? Or is that even the right question?

Beginning this Sunday, I am opening a live, recurring weekly Satsang (Samsang) on Zoom — a two-hour open space every Sunday from 4 pm to 6 pm IST, where genuine seekers can bring their questions on spirituality, philosophy, consciousness, and the art of living. No lectures. No prepared talks. Just honest, direct inquiry — question by question, seeker by seeker.

This is not a course. This is not a performance. It is simply a space where the most important questions in life get the attention they deserve.

Monthly subscription: ₹449. Register via the Google Form below. Upon payment confirmation, the Zoom link will be sent to your registered email.

See you Sunday.

https://forms.gle/SLDHMeqwV3kTJQPP8

Samsang — Live 2-hour Recurring Sunday Satsang on Zoom

Samsang — a word that says it all. The endless cycle of worldly entanglement, desire, and becoming. But is there a way out? Or is that even the right question?

Beginning this Sunday, I am opening a live, recurring weekly Satsang (Samsang) on Zoom — a two-hour open space every Sunday from 4 pm to 6 pm IST, where genuine seekers can bring their questions on spirituality, philosophy, consciousness, and the art of living. No lectures. No prepared talks. Just honest, direct inquiry — question by question, seeker by seeker.

This is not a course. This is not a performance. It is simply a space where the most important questions in life get the attention they deserve.

Monthly subscription: ₹449. Register via the Google Form below. Upon payment confirmation, the Zoom link will be sent to your registered email.

See you Sunday.

https://forms.gle/SLDHMeqwV3kTJQPP8

Samsang — Live 2-hour Recurring Sunday Satsang on Zoom

Samsang — a word that says it all. The endless cycle of worldly entanglement, desire, and becoming. But is there a way out? Or is that even the right question?

Beginning this Sunday, I am opening a live, recurring weekly Satsang (Samsang) on Zoom — a two-hour open space every Sunday from 4 pm to 6 pm IST, where genuine seekers can bring their questions on spirituality, philosophy, consciousness, and the art of living. No lectures. No prepared talks. Just honest, direct inquiry — question by question, seeker by seeker.

This is not a course. This is not a performance. It is simply a space where the most important questions in life get the attention they deserve.

Monthly subscription: ₹449. Register via the Google Form below. Upon payment confirmation, the Zoom link will be sent to your registered email.

See you Sunday.

https://forms.gle/SLDHMeqwV3kTJQPP8

— The Instability of Meaning —

* Next post in The Missing Step Series *

Words seem solid.

They give the impression of clarity.
Definition.
Precision.

You say something, and it appears to mean something.

But if you look closely, that meaning is not as stable as it seems...

continued https://bhagavan.dev/instability-of-meaning/

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The “I” That is Seeking Liberation is Unreal: “All Are Appearances in and of Awareness” — Advaita, Gaudapada & the Seeker Who Never Was

A friend messaged “All are appearances in and of awareness” in reply to my poem “Big B” – https://selfrealization.blog/2026/04/13/big-b/.

I responded back as follows:

With such perfect understanding already in place, are you sure I might have anything else to add to that. Really, what you wrote just now is all the knowledge one needs to undertake and finish the spiritual journey with no need for any other prop. The very looking for other props is itself the obstacle to the full manifestation of the understanding that is already there…shit, one knows one has to just “keep quiet” and everything will be accomplished and yet why are we all restless?

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing;
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

~ Matsuo Basho

This (“All are appearances in and of awareness”) is all that the name-and-form analogy of the clay and pot conveys albeit in different words.

The only problem then for you and I might be that we are failing to grasp that the I that is seeking to understand and attain self-realization is itself an “appearance in and of awareness”.

Which is why Ashtavakra Gita and Gaudapada’s Verse 32 in Chapter 2 of Mandukya Karika (see below) and Sankaracharya’s Nirvana Shatakam say what they say.

Mandukya Karika 2.32 (Vaitathya Prakarana) asserts that from the standpoint of Absolute Truth (Paramartha), there is no creation, destruction, bondage, liberation, or seeker. This famous verse highlights that all dualistic experiences are illusions, and the ultimate reality is non-dual (Advaita), often interpreted as the unborn, unchanging Self. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Sanskrit Verse (2.32):

न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः ।न मुमुक्षुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता ॥ ३२ ॥

na nirodho na cotpattirna baddho na ca sādhakaḥ |na mumukṣurna vai mukta ityeṣā paramārthatā || 32 ||

Translation & Key Meanings:

• na nirodho: There is no destruction.
• na ca utpattiḥ: There is no creation or origin.
• na baddhaḥ: There is no one in bondage.
• na ca sādhakaḥ: There is no one practicing spiritual disciplines.
• na mumukṣuḥ: There is no seeker after liberation.
• na vai muktaḥ: There is no one liberated.
• iti eṣā paramārthatā: This is the Absolute Truth. [1, 2]

Significance:

• Non-Dual Reality: This verse by Gaudapada clarifies that the ultimate reality is entirely free from all dualistic concepts, including the processes of spiritual seeking or the state of liberation itself.
• Context: It comes within the context of analyzing the “unreality” (Vaitathya) of the world and the mind, noting that when knowledge of the Self is attained, all mental projections disappear.
• Absolute vs. Relative: While relative existence appears as a world of change, from the ultimate standpoint, no change ever occurred, as explained on VivekaVani and Tom Das. [1, 2, 6]

[1] https://vivekavani.com/m2v32/
[2] https://tomdas.com/2018/02/22/advaita-vedanta-gaudapadas-method-mandukya-upanishad-karika/
[3] https://swamij.com/upanishad-mandukya-karika.htm
[4] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-17/
[5] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-20/
[6] https://vivekavani.com/m3v32/

Hitherto Unblogged Poems from My Latest Book “The Seeking Soul” — https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0G4KCHV3W

The Corridor of Uncertainty

My buddy AV Satish Chandra
Now retired as prof of pol sci
From OU, tired as he already was
With the politics there
(Sigh, the gap, always a gap,
Between theory and practice)
Said to me more than a decade ago
With a humility that scholars have
He is ok to be walking
In the “corridor of uncertainty”
And with him then I would not agree
Hurts to agree most of the time
You may not have it all figured out
Now that I am older and wiser
I am inclined to tip my hat to him
And say, “Spoken like Socrates, chum”.

(AV Satish Chandra’s author page on Amazon — https://www.amazon.in/stores/author/B07TBWHH59)

The Search

I searched for God

But settled

For the girl next door

Who knows what I found

And what I did not.

What I See

Standing in the balcony

As it drizzles

I stretch out my hands

To feel the rain droplets

On my fingers

I see across the street

Two children playing with paper boats

And in front of the yonder house

I see a brand new hearse.

The Winter

It’s freezing

Leaves are all gone

I stand bare, half-smiling,

Knowing

Spring, too, will come

And trouble me

This year-round rigmarole.

She

She smiled

I smiled back

Without knowing

Why she smiled.

The Restraint

The lottery we never buy

Can haunt us for a lifetime.

The Truth That I Seek

I can never find

The truth that I seek

Assume I find it

How can I tell

It is the truth.

The Ultimate Paradox of Life

I keep saying

“I do not want to exist”

Yet how could I have said it

If I had never been born.

Does She Love Me?

I wanted to ask her

“Do you love me?”

Then let it go

I who was not sure

What love was.

Transience

The leaf on the tree

wonders

Which wind

Will separate them both.

The Flow

It started raining

And I got all confused

Which was my tear drop

And which the rain drop.

Mit unserem derzeitigen #Weltbild und #Menschenbild fahren wir unsere #Zivilisation Gegen die Wand. Wir müssen grundsätzlich umdenken.
Es gibt ein Jahrtausende altes Menschenbild, das uns entscheidende Impulse für dieses #Umdenken geben kann: #Advaita #Vedanta.
https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/advaita-vedanta-und-die-zukunft-der-zivilisation

#repost Alain Eskenazi (Olam) : Un Rendez-vous intime et festif au coeur de l’Être et de du Son. Ensemble. Du 23 au 26 Mai au Château d’Alleret en Auvergne. https://www.just-be-love.com/son-sacre

avec Shanty Avy, Ingrid Obled, Nathalie Gomes, Julie Ann - Just be Love, Souls Gongs, Association Le Petit Prince

#spiritualité #ceremoniecacao #festivalbienetre #conscienceeteveil #nondualite #conscienceeteveil #developpementpersonnel #advaita #guerison

Der Ausgangspunkt des #Advaita #Vedanta ist die Frage: Wer bin ich?

Eine mögliche Antwort: Der #Mensch ist ein unendlicher Kreis, dessen Rand nirgends ist und dessen Zentrum sich an einem Punkt befindet.

Das #Universum im #Inneren ist erforschbar. Es unterliegt bestimmten Gesetzen, die nicht weniger zwingend sind als die Gesetze der äußeren Natur. Und hier kommt der #Yoga ins Spiel.

Ein Artikel von Alan P. Stern in der Zeitschrift Visionen.
https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/alles-ist-gott-advaita-vedanta

#Vedanta led to a #peaceful and #sustainable #civilization that lasted for millennia. Even though it had some flaws in its practical implementation, we see them clearly today and can avoid them. As #Advaita Vedanta, it provides an intellectual basis that is appealing to scientifically minded modern people. If we choose to rebuild our #worldview on this basis, we can hope that the #rethinking of people and, as a result, the rebuilding of our civilization can succeed. https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/advaita-vedanta-and-the-future-of-civilization

Renaming Caste, Retaining Privilege

Attempts to 'invisibilise' caste through definitional alterations – whether in terms of an organic community or of a cultural community – are enmeshed in long-range socioeconomic transformations. Ankur Barua and Vishal Ananthakumar write.

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https://www.theindiaforum.in/caste/renaming-caste-retaining-privilege

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