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There is an analogy in Vedanta to explain this theory of karma. Imagine you are a bowman and you have a quiver full of arrows. The quiver of arrows represent Sanchita karma, the sum total of karma of all your past lives. Now, let us imagine you take an arrow and shoot it. The arrow you have shot represents prarabdha karma. Once the arrow is released from the bow, there is no way to stop the arrow. The arrow has to run as long as the force is exhausted. The same way, even though you can destroy all Sanchita karma at liberation, the prarabdha karma which has already begun to give fruit can’t be destroyed that way. Prarabdha will get exhausted only by living the current life. Many liberated yogis talk about dying by their own will; they just mention it as ‘leaving the body’, they don’t call it as death. Because they claim that they can die or leave the body whenever they want, without damaging the body and without experiencing any pain. But such a concept doesn’t exist in Vedanta. Of course, if prarabdha is the one which determines when you will die, you cannot determine the time of your death.

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Dr. Russ Harris says the following in his book ‘ACT made simple’ : “Furthermore, ACT postulates that the root of this suffering is human language itself. Human language is a highly complex system of symbols, which includes words, images, sounds, facial expressions and physical gestures. We use this language in two domains: public and private. The public use of language includes speaking, talking, miming, gesturing, writing, painting, singing, dancing and so on. The private use of language includes thinking, imagining, daydreaming, planning, visualising and so on. A more technical term for the private use of language is ‘cognition’. “

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5 UNANSWERED Q OF PHILO

FREE WILL

KNWLEDGE

WHO AM I

WHAT IS DTH

WHAT IS JUSTICE

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THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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SELF IS THE AWARENESS OF THE BLANKNESS OF DEEP SLEEP

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What is the best type of meditation to achieve enlightenment?

Meditation alone won’t bring your enlightenment. It is a tool that will get you close, but in the end, something else is needed. That something else is a strong wish for seeing the truth of yourself. If you are religiously inclined that wish may manifest as a longing for meeting the Divine in whatever form you worship it.

There are several techniques that can get you close. They will provide you with great support in your journey. Here are some of them:

• Antar Mouna (inner silence). It will teach you to be more relaxed toward the content of your being. This may be thoughts or anything that you can pick up with your senses. It also teaches you to focus your mind and concentrate on a specific topic and then move on when you are done. The result is a nice and rested state and a general better mental focus. I recommend if you have a very active life and mind.
• one sitting is between 30–45 minutes.
• Ajapa Japa (Meditation on the psychic-breath aka Ujjayi). This meditation will increase your energy levels and help clear out your subconscious. It will improve your mood if needed, and energize your whole being. A steady Ajapa Japa practice is likely to make you very dynamic. The last step in Ajapa Japa is an experience of your whole being, and it’s very usual to experience the much-coveted silence, peace, and joy at this stage.
• one sitting is between 30–45 minutes.
• Kriya Yoga (Ajapa Japa on steroids). If Ajapa Japa is powerful in clearing out the subconsciousness and moving you deeper, Kriya Yoga is the master. Through carefully designed stages, it energizes you and leads you deeper until you arrive at an experience of your deepest self (Swarupa). Kriya Yoga is a combination of asanas, visualizations, mudras & bandhas. Ujjayi is used at several stages of this meditation. Since seeing your Self requires you to journey through every layer of your being I can think of no better meditation than this. It touches upon every aspect of your being.
• you can make an ultra-short sitting in 30–45 minutes. Usually, a full Kriya program takes several hours. I got the best results from 1½ to 2-hour sittings. I did 4 and even 8-hour sittings, but I got too energized and sensitive from them.

As your meditations get deeper, it is likely that hidden emotions and passions emerge. This can be scary, especially if you carry a belief that spirituality is all about being nice, nobel and desireless. Don’t worry enlightenment or Self-realization is not possible without getting to know every aspect of human psychology. Instead of seeing these things as terrible, see them as an education in your own psyche. Doctors too have to dissect the human body in order to learn how to fix it—right?

When shit hits the fan and morbid or painfull emotions occur, Antar Mouna is a good way to handle them. You can also use mindfulness, vipassana, but the most powerful is Hridaya Akasha Dharan. I know, it sounds terrible, but it just means Concentration on the hearts space. Much nicer right?

Hridaya Akasha Dharan teaches you how to stop and start emotions. That comes in handy as you subconscious material starts bubbling to the surface. If you don’t fancy this meditation, any sort of therapy that helps you deal with emotions will do. Someone recommended EFT, but I haven’t tried it myself. It looks sound and safe though.

If you do all of this—for some time—you will arrive at the last obstacle to enlightenment. Your mind. You are likely to carry all sorts of notions about what enlightenment is and isn’t. Take my word for it, they are probably all wrong. The final step, going through the ideas of mind doesn’t necessarily require meditation. It does require letting go of everything you think you know, a sort of giving up figuring it out. Only then is there an opening that you can step through.

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I realized at a certain point in life that, besides being fun, waves had a significance connoting ABUNDANCE. Actually, they're the testimony that wind has been blowing over a big stretch of ocean. And what that means is that THAT wind has just enabled more life for zillions of little critters. That ultimately I guess was a big part of the connotation.

Pertains to lakes, but it'll do. "The epilimnion is the layer of water that interacts with the wind and sunlight, so it becomes the warmest and contains the most dissolved oxygen. Though dissolved oxygen doesn’t play a direct role in lake stratification and turnover, it is important for all the aquatic organisms in a lake that require oxygen to survive."

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A Some time between 450 BCE and 200 CE, Brahma Sutras, an important text in the school of Vedanta was composed. Brahmasutras attempts to establish the essence and the theme of Upanishads. It also logically refutes the views of other schools like Samkhya, Yoga and Buddhism. It takes the premise that Upanishads are infallible authority of the truth and uses the verses in Upanishads to disprove some theories of other schools. For example, the first part of Brahmasutras focuses on proving that the world originated from Brahman and refutes the view of the Samkhya school which says that the world originated from unconscious principle, pradhana.

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I M THE KNOWER OF MISERY AND PEACE OF MY MIND

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SLEEP V ANESTHESIA V COMA V DTH

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SWAPNA V SUSHUPTI 

SUSHUPTI- EXPERIENCE OF BLANKNESS

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‘chit’ means consciousness. The subject, the absolute reality is also conscious.It is the one which knows or the one which is aware

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