Saturday, 11 February 2017

Non Duality The True Philosophy One Must Follow

By Alxa Robin


The philosophy of Advaita promotes oneness, it is otherwise also known as non-dualism. The term Advaita is a Sanskrit word, which comes from the three schools of the Vedanta philosophy. Vedantas are so called because they were found at the end of the Vedic books. The three schools of Vedanta are the Dualism or Dvaita, Vishita- Davaita or initial monism and Advaita or non-dualism.

Non duality is an experience which tells us that there is no separation between the subject and the object. Advaita or non-dualism is not an actual religion but a belief. Being simple, you are connected to the world, as it is god that has created every being in the world; this ensures that everyone is connected to one another through on one creator. Non-duality can be considered as the realisation of our consciousness; it lets us face our true nature, which depicts the revelation of happiness, love and beauty in oneself.

You can consider an example for this like our fingers and hands. Each finger present in our hand is somewhat different from the other; however each of them comes from the same hand. Similar to this everything that you know exists around you it may be the animals, people and nature and so on, they shall look different to you but everything has made its existence from the same source.

Everything is connected to a particular source. Likewise you can also consider a candle as an object. When a candle is burned it changes to wax, smoke, ashes and gives of energy in the form of light and heat. Now, when this happens there is only one thing that remains the same, it is the molecules of the candle and the energy, which remains constant. The matter and energy remained in the candle, which was then converted to smoke, ashes and dissipated energy.

Only the God here has the true reality, he or she is known as the Brahman also known as the Oneness. Even for us, our individual consciousness, there is no real or absolute reality that exists between us. The individual identity that we live are relatively real, however it is only the oneness that is real among which lies in the roots of our consciousness.

It sometimes becomes essential to have a spiritual teacher for your self-realization and enlightenment. It is the role of a teacher to teach its disciple and help them in the realisation; however the teacher might look to the disciple as a different individual but the teacher has established its knowledge as universal consciousness.

Where the individual consciousness is concerned, the non-duality tells us that if everyone analyses their own consciousness, it will be difficult to find any absolute reality within the consciousness itself. As our individual consciousness is influenced by several changing thoughts and sensations, they are never going to be permanent.

Being precise, the essence of non-duality is the experience in nature; it may be from music or kind of art, either through work or any hobby, even walking or by having any social interaction. Once you are aware of what non-dualism actually is, you start getting more curious to know more about it. In this pursuit you might get a more meaningful and have the realisation of the real you.




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