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Yajnavalkya and Uddalaka Aruni are considered as the earliest proponents of non-dual wisdom. Western scholars who studied Upanishads conclude that they are the results of the protests of kings against the influence of Vedic rituals and the priests who conducted them. Swami Nikhilananda, in his book 'The Principal Upanishads' writes the following: “Therefore several Western writers have contended that the Upanishads represent a protest of the kshatriyas against the influence of the brahmins." They contend also that the Knowledge of Atman, whatever its origin, was cultivated primarily by the kshatriyas and accepted by the brahmins only later on. Hindu scholars, however, do not accept this view.” ‘The Principal Upanishads’ by Swami Nikhilananda

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How do we control our own thoughts?

Osho said, “Watch your mind. Don't do anything – no repetition of mantra, no repetition of the name of god – just watch whatever the mind is doing. Don't disturb it, don't prevent it, don't repress it; don't do anything at all on your part. You just be a watcher, and the miracle of watching is meditation.”

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 can see very clearly that most of the poems in Upanishads were indeed a protest against Vedas.

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Upanishad, we are reading an anthology of various poems which reflect the thoughts of the individual composers. It was during this period, that Sramana movement arose in the country. A sramana was an individual wandering monk, free from traditions, who practiced severe austerities in the pursuit of liberation. Also, it was during this period that Buddhism was born and Jainism also flourished

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Buddha was probably unaware of the recently composed Upanishads. Atharva veda was probably not a part of the sacred Vedic canon either. It must have been an independent collection of texts. But since Buddha himself was searching for a way to liberation and since he also went to a lot of gurus, we can assume that nondual wisdom was already born and the ways to attain it had already been somewhat established before Buddha was born. People who were liberated and who were guiding others for liberation should have existed as independent gurus who did or didn’t associate themselves with any tradition.

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All schools of thought which didn’t accept Vedas as authority were named as ‘nastika’ schools. Buddhism and Jainism were the largest of all nastika schools. Schools which accepted the authority of Vedas were categorized as ‘Astika’ schools. Samkhya, the oldest astika school of Indian thought emerged as a distinct school during 5th century BCE, which put together many independent ideas into a single system. But, Samkhya didn’t consider Vedas as the only authority to the truth, even though it accepted Vedas as important.

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If after getting enlightened, do we overcome all of the positive-negative effects of all the planets?

On enlightenment one enters Turiya - The fourth. Turiya is beyond states of the human consciousness. Turiya is not a state it is true nature of our existence that which makes this earth move where all dreams dissolve, where neither God nor devil remains, where neither sorrows nor happiness remains, where neither sleep nor waking remains.

Turiya is God's state.

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Yoga came from Sankhya. They are essentially the same except one important concept. Samkhya doesn’t talk about a personal God and doesn’t consider it as necessary. But Yoga brings in the concept of Ishwara, who is a special Purusha. In Patanjali Yoga sutras, there are a few sutras which talk about Ishwara and define him as a special purusha or a special subject.

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In the modern times, most of the people have never heard of Samkhya. The reason is obvious. Any school of thought which rejected or ignored the concept of a personal God did not survive and flourish in India. Because, people simply could not accept that God didn’t exist.

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YOGA - BRAHMAN ISHWARA PRAKRITI AND ME - BIPAM 

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Yoga describes the final destination as nirvikalpa samadhi. Literally, nirvikalpa means ‘without alternative’. But in this word it means the loss of distinctions and the merger of knower, knowledge and the known. A liberated person’s experience of reality is always without distinctions; it is always nirvikalpa.

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GRATITUDE IMPROVES SELF CONTROL

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The School of Vedanta After the composition of the 13 principal Upanishads, sometime down the line Upanishads also became a part of Vedas. Then, the whole Vedas got divided into two sections : Karma Kanda and Jnana Kanda.

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SUBJECT - THAT WHICH KNOWS

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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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CONTENT AND CONTEXT  

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THIS ROOM AIR IS PEACEFUL DESPITE WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS ROOM , SAME IS AWARENESS- SPIRA

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The disagreement between Samkhya and Vedanta regarding the cause of creation touches on an important problem : The hard problem of consciousness. How can a conscious experience arise from matter?

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ATMAN SOUL AWARENESS - CORE PEACE

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FRUIT OF NON DUAL TRADITION IS CORE PEACE

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 Vedanta say that it is impossible for consciousness and cognition to arise from something that is not consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the root cause of creation.

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NOTHING BUT THE KNOWING OF EXPERIENCE 

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Both spirituality and science really don’t have a clear, verifiable answer for the hard problem of consciousness. The only mistake people do is to sound certain and consider a possibility as certainty. Instead, we have to honestly agree that we don’t know yet. Only a scientific research on the hard problem of consciousness can answer these questions. There is a deep mystery in the existence which seem to be something that cannot be answered

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DOES SOUND APPEAR IN CONSCIOUSNESS OR OUTSIDE CONSCIOUSENESS

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KNOWING IS ONLY SUBSTANCE EVER FOUND IN EXPERIENCE

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Upanishads, Brahmasutras and Bhagwad Gita are the three important texts in Vedanta. They are collectively known as Prasthanatrayi. All these texts were open for multiple interpretations and they led to thousands of commentaries.

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ANT FISH DOG ALIEN GOD - CANNOT KNOW ANYTHING OTHER THAN KNOWING

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NOTHING POSSIBLE TO FIND ANYTHING OUTSIDE CONSCIOUNESS

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EXPERIENCE IS THE ONLY SUBJECCT MATTER 

ALL WE FIND IS KNOWING

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KNOW ONLY KNOWING 

BE ONLY KNOWING

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Usually, a person who had written commentaries on the principal Upanishads, Brahmasutras and Bhagwad Gita was called as an Acharya. There have been many such acharyas in India. The most important one among them was Adi Shankara (788–820). He not only wrote commentaries on Prasthanatrayi but he also debated with a lot of scholars all over India in order to prove that Advaita Vedanta was correct and it is in accordance with Upanishads. Shankara is recognized as a liberated person by most of the religious and spiritual teachers.

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