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"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

-- Elvis Presle

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BBTBR- EARLY OR LATE - TOLB THEN JUST PALLIATE

 

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SPRTUALTY IS NON RN - SRM 

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If happiness is about getting what you want, it appears that meaningfulness is about doing things that express yourself

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METACOGNITION 

A bear can walk down the hill and get a drink, as can a person, but only a person thinks the words ‘I’m going to go down and get a drink’

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INNER MONOLOGUE 

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Marriage is a good example of how meaning pins down the world and increases stability

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People ask what is the meaning of life, as if there is a single answer

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LYF GOALS- NCC 

Life goals come from three sources, so in a sense every human life has three basic sources of purpose. One is nature. It built you for a particular purpose, which is to sustain life by surviving and reproducing. Nature doesn’t care whether you’re happy, much as people wish to be happy. We are descended from people who were good at reproducing and at surviving long enough to do so. Nature’s purpose for you is not all-encompassing. It doesn’t care what you do on a Sunday afternoon as long as you manage to survive and, sooner or later, reproduce.

The second source of purpose is culture. Culture tells you what is valuable and important. Some cultures tell you exactly what you are supposed to do: they mark you out for a particular slot (farmer, soldier, mother etc). Others offer a much wider range of options and put less pressure on you to adopt a particular one, though they certainly reward some choices more than others.

That brings us to the third source of goals: your own choices. In modern Western countries in particular, society presents you with a broad range of paths and you decide which one to take. For whatever reason — inclination, talent, inertia, high pay, good benefits — you choose one set of goals for yourself (your occupation, for example). You create the meaning of your life, fleshing out the sketch that nature and culture provided. You can even choose to defy it: many people choose not to reproduce, and some even choose not to survive. Many others resist and rebel at what their culture has chosen for them

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In metaphysics, we find the use of geometric mandalas as

consciousness focusing tools.

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GOB

‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are among the first words children learn. They are some of the earliest and most culturally universal concepts, and among the few words that house pets sometimes acquire. In terms of brain reactions, the feeling that something is good or bad comes very fast, almost immediately after you recognise what it is. Solitary creatures judge good and bad by how they feel upon encountering something (does it reward them or punish them?). Humans, as social beings, can understand good and bad in loftier ways, such as their moral quality.

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The second need for meaning is value. This means having a basis for knowing what is right and wrong, good and bad. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are among the first words children learn. They are some of the earliest and most culturally universal concepts, and among the few words that house pets sometimes acquire. In terms of brain reactions, the feeling that something is good or bad comes very fast, almost immediately after you recognise what it is. Solitary creatures judge good and bad by how they feel upon encountering something (does it reward them or punish them?). Humans, as social beings, can understand good and bad in loftier ways, such as their moral quality.

In practice, when it comes to making life meaningful, people need to find values that cast their lives in positive ways, justifying who they are and what they do. Justification is ultimately subject to social, consensual judgment, so one needs to have explanations that will satisfy other people in the society (especially the people who enforce the laws). Again, nature makes some values, and culture adds a truckload of additional ones. It’s not clear whether people can invent their own values, but some do originate from inside the self and become elaborated. People have strong inner desires that shape their reactions.

The third need is for efficacy. It’s not very satisfying to have goals and values if you can’t do anything about them. People like to feel that they can make a difference. Their values have to find expression in their life and work. Or, to look at it the other way around, people have to be able steer events towards positive outcomes (by their lights) and away from negative ones.

The last need is for self-worth. People with meaningful lives typically have some basis for thinking that they are good people, maybe even a little better than certain other people. At a minimum, people want to believe that they are better than they might have been had they chosen or behaved or performed badly. They have earned some degree of respect.

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FOREST BATHING 

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There is no one pharmaceutical or precision medicine tool that could ever have the broad benefits of a forest.

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Green space for everyone

Yet you don’t need a certified forest therapy guide — or even a full-fledged forest — to reap the benefits of green space. “Even a city park, even a little patch of grass is beneficial,” Abookire says, so long as a few ingredients are present: the feeling that you’ve been able to get away from regular life and a natural element to focus attention on. She points to a 2019 study in Frontiers in Psychology that allowed urban-dwelling participants to choose the time, place, and duration of their nature experiences. Researchers found that even 20 minutes of these flexible “nature pills” three times per week yielded benefits like lowered salivary cortisol levels.

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BK MULTIPLE ALTERS OF MIND AT LARGE

 DREAM ENDOGENOUS OF UNIV MIND 

BRAHMAS DREAM 

DTH IS END OF METABOLISM 

DTH IS END OF DISSOCIATION OF MIND

DISSOCIATE EVERY TIME YOU FALL ASLEEP

DREAM AVATAR FONE WHEN AWAKE - WE DONT MOURN AWAKENING AND LOSS O DREAM AVATAR

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DHARMA RASHYA GUHYA GYAN 

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GYAN IS NOT KNOWLEDGE , BUT WISDOM 

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"The older you get the better you get... unless you're a banana."

-- Betty White

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METAPHYSICAL TRUTH V SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE 

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KARMA YOGA- BG 1-6 CHAPTERS

BHAKTI YOGA- BG 7-12 CHAPTERS

GYAN YOGA- BG 13-18 CHAPTERS

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BG 9 - BHAGWAN VIGYAN 

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"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself -- no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are -- completely; the good and the bad -- and make changes as YOU see fit -- not because you think someone else wants you to be different."

-- Stacey Charter

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 Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love ..."

— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

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MIND IS LOWER FORMAT OF SOUL

 HIGHER BIRD V LOWER BIRD

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“This principle of karma has been expressed in various ways. In the Christian tradition, we see it as “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” In physics, it is the principle that every action has an equal but opposite reaction. What you put out, you get back. “What goes around, comes around.” For every cause, there is an effect; for every effect, there is a cause.

Karma is a Sanskrit word that means “to do or to make.” It is energy in action. Everything we do or make provides an opportunity for growth. Because of this, we do not want to look at karma as simply a process of debts and balances. Many times we choose an incarnation that can be more trying and testing to help us learn specific lessons needed on a soul level. When we make right decisions and actions, positive and rewarding opportunities open their doors. They are not necessarily handed to us on a silver platter, but the doors are opened. If we make wrong choices or actions, these in turn create their own consequences.”

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BOHM EINSTEIN 1950-51 QNTM THEORY

 MIND AS QNTM WAVE COMPUTATION 

WAVE NOT PARTICLE

CONSC CORRESPONDS TO SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE

UNIV IS SPLIT AS MATTER AND MIND - 

MIND IS A QNTM WAVE 

ROOM TEMP SUPERCONDUCTOR OF MIND- CONSC 

TAMO TO RAJA TO SATTWA THEN TRASCENDENTAL

 

joshua tree

A HIGHER POWER AS GOES DOWN 

AVATAR RAHASYA

AVESHA AVATAR - BUDDHA, NARAD MUNI 

PRAVHAV AVATAR- HANS AVTR , VED VYAS, 

VAIBHAV AVTR - MATSYA , BARAHA, KURMA, KACHHAP, , 

PARAVASTHA AVTR - KRSNA , RAM, NARSINGH 

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BTS BACK TO SILENCE

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FALLEN LEAVES IN DAPPLED SUNLIGHT 
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RKHI CRD TO TMPA

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”

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FORGOT JD CARD WAIT AND SCROLL - GOT LCM JD CRD WNDY TP DRWR

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"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."

-- Alfred A. Montapert

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PERMA-BACKLOG

WAD TO LV

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Attractive people are also likely to be more intelligent, studies find.

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Consciousness presents a “hard problem” to scholars. At stake is how the physical body gives rise to subjective experience. Why consciousness is “hard”, however, is uncertain. One possibility is that the challenge arises from ontology—because consciousness is a special property/substance that is irreducible to the physical. Here, I show how the “hard problem” emerges from two intuitive biases that lie deep within human psychology: Essentialism and Dualism. To determine whether a subjective experience is transformative, people judge whether the experience pertains to one’s essence, and per Essentialism, one’s essence lies within one’s body. Psychological states that seem embodied (e.g., “color vision” ∼ eyes) can thus give rise to transformative experience. Per intuitive Dualism, however, the mind is distinct from the body, and epistemic states (knowledge and beliefs) seem particularly ethereal. It follows that conscious perception (e.g., “seeing color”) ought to seem more transformative than conscious knowledge (e.g., knowledge of how color vision works). Critically, the transformation arises precisely because the conscious perceptual experience seems readily embodied (rather than distinct from the physical body, as the ontological account suggests). In line with this proposal, five experiments show that, in laypeople’s view (a) experience is transformative only when it seems anchored in the human body; (b) gaining a transformative experience effects a bodily change; and (c) the magnitude of the transformation correlates with both (i) the perceived embodiment of that experience, and (ii) with Dualist intuitions, generally. These results cannot solve the ontological question of whether consciousness is distinct from the physical. But they do suggest that the roots of the “hard problem” are partly psychological.

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Consciousness presents a “hard problem” to scholars (Chalmers, 1996). The “problem” is to explain how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. How does the brain make a blooming rose feel lush and sensuous and snow seem still and silent? How can electrochemical signals invoke sublime glory when we hear Bach’s music?

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David Chalmers (Chalmers, 1996) suggests that such explanations are bound for failure: it is impossible to reduce a subjective phenomenal experience to the physical. This is not merely due to the cognitive limitations of humans or their current narrow understanding of physics or neuroscience. Rather, the problem arises from what experience is and how it relates to the physical world.

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THE MANY LIVES OF DABBA This story triggered an old memory. My maths teacher would brand students who failed to answer his questions, as ‘dabbas’. Looking back, I realized that this rude remark, meant to signify those he considered lacking in grey matter, has ever been turned on its head in Indian homes. My mum, for instance, stored her sewing paraphernalia in a big Britannia biscuit tin, our pencils and pens in an old dry-fruits box. Reusing these containers, otherwise rendered useless, made their existence purposeful, and returned prestige to the word, otherwise used to describe someone slow, empty. This legacy lives on in several flower pots in my garden that were once old oil jars, paint cans and grocery cartons. May there be no end of recycling on earth! Prafull Chandra Sockey, Hazaribagh

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Instead of saying “What are you doing?” my twoyear-old goes around asking in a haunting voice, “What have you done?” — @BESSBELL

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Every living being is under the governance of Maya (Illusion). To liberate him from the clutches of Maya and place him on the authentic, solid ground of the soul, to awaken his dormant spirit so that he might cover the distance from God, the Supreme Element, to enable him to perceive the Supreme Being through the divine touch, is the sole objective of the Spiritual path and this is known as Bhakti (devotion). Only in it lies the eternal welfare of the living beings. Lord Krishn said, ‘‘Arjun! Neither through the Veda, nor through Yagya, nor through offerings, nor through penance, I can be attained. I can be attained only through total Bhakti (devotion) depending on none else except Me.’’-

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Our reality, according to Chalmers, exhibits Dualism—the properties of our subjective conscious experience (hereafter: “experience”) are distinct from the physical. For this reason, experience cannot be explained by physical brain processes. The hard problem, then, ultimately arises from ontological Dualism. And the implications of this proposal are wide reaching. The possibility that some natural states are irreducible to the physical challenges the scientific understanding of matter and poses principled limits on the scope of scientific explanation.

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THE PATH TO BLISS, AS WISE MEN HAVE SAID, CAN BE FOUND IN THE ART OF NOT JUST LIVING, BUT ALSO OF GIVING

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Nearly a quarter of all bones in our bodies are in our feet.

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Open Invitation A man was invited to a wedding. When he reached the hotel, he found two doors. The sign on one said ‘Bride Relatives’ and the other ‘Groom Relatives’. He entered through the Groom door and found another two doors. One had ‘Ladies’ on it, and the other ‘Men’. Entering through the ‘Men’ door, the man came to a choice of doors called ‘People With Gifts’ and ‘People Without Gifts’. He selected the ‘People Without Gifts’ door and found himself back outside the hotel.

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My wife likes to keep the mystery in our relationship. For example, I never know what is going to arrive for her from Amazon today. @wildchargeart

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mumbai flamingoes 

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BK. I am a particular expression of Nature manifested

BK. Scholastic philosophy v Analytical philosophy

ED AUDIT READINESS

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UNDYING DIFFERENCE 

Another way of looking at this statement is: the real mystery is that there is so much. Everywhere the human eye looks, everywhere the human mind turns, there is a huge panorama of diversity; the difference that lives in everything and between everything, the fact that no two stones, no two fields, no two faces or no two biographies are the same. The range and intensity of this difference is quite staggering. This is not an abstract thing. People who live in small farms in country areas could spend hours telling you about all the differences they experience between two places in the same field. Patrick Kavanagh spoke of the "undying difference in the corner of a field."

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KRSNA DID LISA AGN

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It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters."

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AMLO WHOOSH EFFECT?

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"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson

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No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.

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That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.

“Once you know something, you forget what it was like to not know it.”

“sometimes we screw up, and sometimes the system screws with us, but if you live your life with enough passion and boldness, then that’s what you’ll be remembered for. Not the crap that happened along the way.

“We humans have an impulse to mark our existence in some way that feels permanent. We scribble ‘I was here’ onto our desks at school. We spray paint it on walls. We carve it into bark. I was here. I wanted this sculpture to do to the same, to let it be know that these people lived. A testament to the fact that these humans — with their long strings and medium strings and short strings — they were here.”

No matter what happens, I still feel the same,”

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Qualia is de facto evidence of Consciousness being non neural

Qualitatively different. That is called Qualia

Qualia. Subjective. Ineffable. Private

Chalmers. HPOC. Qualia. Redness of red. FPE. How 86 be neurones in brain produce qualia

Unified Qualitative Subjectivity. Core subjective I. Among all beings

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Acedia: Lack of concern over your spiritual life or "mental sloth"

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VRITTI

"A tendency has its own momentum. It cannot be broken so easily. Often, we have trouble diverting the mind from its tendencies. Their pull is too strong! Instead, we usually fight with them. But that’s like mud-wrestling an oiled pig—there’s no way to win! If you want to change yourself, you cannot focus on the thing you want to change." Daaji

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Go to philosophy for q. Go to science for answers

Consciousness. That annoying time between naps

Vertigo of eternity

UNIVERSE ALREADY A MULTIVERSE

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A general philosophical point, which these considerations illustrate, is that the world does not provide its own unique interpretation. The world offers many possibilities for different sensory universes, which support very different interpretations of the world’s significance. In this way our so-called Universe is already very much a multiverse.

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 ‘‘ওঁরা নিজেরা কাজ করতে চান না, কাউকে কাজ করতে দিতেও চান না।’’

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the essence of all stringed instruments, whether ancient lyre or modern guitar, cello, or piano, is the same: they produce sound from the motion of strings. The exact quality of sound, or timbre, depends on many complex factors, including the nature of the material that makes the string, the shapes of the surfaces—“sounding boards”—that vibrate in sympathy, and the way in which the string is plucked, bowed, or hammered. But in all instruments there is a principal tone, or pitch, that we recognize as the note being played. Pythagoras—the real one—discovered that the pitch obeys two remarkable rules. Those rules make direct connections among numbers, properties of the physical world, and our sense of harmony (which is one face of beauty).

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Character is much easier kept than recovered."

- Thomas Paine a An infodemic is an epidemic-like circulation of fake news, videos and images that is highly contagious and grows exponentially. a SRM  A a Plato’s successor and rival, Aristotle, was in some ways a truer student of Nature. He and his students collected biological specimens, made many acute observations, and recorded their results honestly and in detail. Unfortunately, by focusing from the start on very complex objects and problems, they missed the clarifying simplicity of geometry and astronomy. They did not seek, nor could they hope to find, the mathematically Ideal within those gnarly branches of the Real. They emphasized description and organization, and did not strive for beauty or perfection. When the Aristoteleans turned to physics and astronomy, they limited their ambitions in the same way. Where later (and earlier) scientists would demand precise equations, they were content with broad verbal descriptions. A When a soul goes on its journey to the spirit world, is it sad? The soul can't be happy or sad. The soul is, with or without a body and mind. The soul is a spiritual term we use for awareness. The soul is absolute. It is the fabric of the universe. Neither it can be created nor it can be destroyed. a A ONS निर्विकार ओमकार अविनाशी, तुम्ही देवाधि देव, जगत सर्जक प्रलय करता, शिवम सत्यम सुंदरा ॥ A

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In Buddhism there are “three marks of existence” which are suffering, no-self and impermanence. As you sit in silence for prolonged periods of time (or, as we’ve seen, even as little as 15 minutes a day), you can directly witness these different flavors of reality and have some very interesting — and potentially frightening — experiences. These can bring you closer to the whole point of meditation, which is awakening and dissolution of your egoic self. Although having these cool/scary experiences isn’t really the point, they’re more like side-effects along the way and they do happen the deeper you go.

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The Buddha takes dukkha as the starting place for the spiral to freedom. This is the condition that we find ourselves in. We find ourselves in the world in a state of dissatisfaction much of the time. We take that existential condition—the way that we find ourselves ordinarily in the world—and ask: what do we have to do to create freedom in our lives?

John Peacock

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Meaning and explanation of Bhagavata Purana chapter 14 verse 22 and verse 23.

"The universe appears by Maya in you, the Infinite, the eternal Bliss-consciousness. Though the universe is only like things seen in a dream (and so unreal), and is devoid of consciousness and ever full of misery, it appears as real (and also conscious and blissful)". (Bhagavata Purana Chapter 14 Verse 22)

In Vedanta Reality is defined as that which does not undergo any change whatsoever in all the three periods of time, i.e., past, present and future. Brahman is the only Reality. Because of Maya, Brahman appears to us as the universe of names and forms. Maya conceals Brahman and projects the universe. Just as everything seen in dream ceases to exist as soon as the dreamer wakes up, the universe ceases to be real when Brahman is realized. The universe appears to be real only as long as we are under the spell of Maya (or Avidya or ignorance). The fundamental principles of Advaita Vedanta are brought out in this verse, namely, that the universe has no absolute reality, it is only a superimposition on Brahman and appears to be real only because of our ignorance of the substratum, Brahman, just as a rope appears as a snake in dim light when its real nature is not known.

You (Krishna, the supreme Brahman), are the non-dual Self, the primordial Person, the Reality, self-luminous, infinite, the first Cause, eternal, imperishable, ever Bliss itself, taintless, perfect without a second, devoid of all adjuncts (Nirguna) and immortal. (Bhagavata Purana Chapter 14 Verse 23)

This is exactly the description of the supreme Brahman as contained in the Upanishads. The expression "devoid of all adjuncts" indicates Nirguna Brahman or Brahman without attributes. The concept of Nirguna Brahman is peculiar to Advaita Vedanta.

Bhagavata Purana Chapter 14 Verse 25 to 28

Those who do not know the Atman as their own Self, look upon the entire phenomenal universe as real because of ignorance, but the universe disappears when Self-knowledge dawns, just as a snake seen on a rope disappears when the rope is known. Bondage and liberation, which are both products of ignorance, have no existence apart from the Atman whose nature is Truth and Consciousness. For, rightly considered, there can be neither ignorance nor bondage, and neither knowledge nor freedom from bondage for the supreme Self that is eternal and absolute Consciousness, anymore than there can be night and day for the sun. Taking the Atman for something else, and something else for the Atman, the Atman is sought for outside oneself; how marvelous is the folly of the ignorant! Men of discrimination seek the Infinite within the body itself, negating the unreal; without negating the unreal snake first, how can one know the rope, though it is very close?

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• Awakening/Enlightenment is our natural state, simply What Is at any given ‘moment.’ In that ‘state,’ there is no judgment, no path, no concepts or verbal descriptions, and no separate “you” experiencing something ‘special’ or hoping to sustain that experience into the ‘future.’ Only What Is, Now and Now and Now. Indeed, it is not having any ‘experience’ at all, just pure Being or Is-ness. It is not being aware of something that’s happened or is taking place, like “I am awake or now enlightened.” It is simply Awareness Itself. In that sense, no distinction, terms or labels are possible, so you could definitely say “awakening” or “enlightenment” are lies, and believing they are real could lead you down a path of false hope.
• When still in the veil of the separate identity, the illusion of the separate “me,” Awakening/Enlightenment can only be concepts and hopes in the mind, and as such, be lies.
• If & when the veil falls away (through no volition of “your” own, sorry,) the first and most impactful thing you realize is that you are right back in your natural state, where You always were, immediately rendering any distinctions like awakening or enlightenment and any ‘path’ to it also a lie, an attainment or achievement that never was. (It’s quite common, at this point, to have a good laugh at yourself :-)

That said, simply Being in & as What Is, Now and Now and Now, is the ultimate Truth of existence.

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RM 

We have filters on the brain that block information not conducive to survival. However we can bypass the filters via dreams, hallucinogens, NDEs, OBEs, using hypnotherapy, mediumship or meditation.

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