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 Thanks for your good question…

All thinking is only in the realm of duality.

Nondual thinking is a contradiction in terms.

There's a very simple, yet highly profound statement of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. He says, “Identification with the body is Dvaita (duality); Non-identification is Advaita (nonduality).

It's the beginning of cessation of identification with the body that triggers the shift from duality to nonduality.

Body includes gross body, subtle body and the causal body.

Pertaining to these three bodies are the states of waking, dream and deep sleep.

All these three states are states of the mind only says Sri Ramana Maharshi. And what is mind?

Maharshi says, “Mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts. The root thought is the “I" thought. All other thoughts can arise only after the “I" thought arises. If the “I" thought is held on to and it's source sought, all other thoughts fall away of their own accord. Finally the “I" thought itself will disappear, just as the stick which is used to burn a dead body itself gets consumed.”

(In Bharat, there's the custom of burning dead bodies. When the body is burning, the bodily parts start getting scattered. A wooden stick is used to bring all these scattered parts together so as to facilitate proper burning. When the body is almost consumed by the fire, the stick too is thrown away into the fire.)

So once the attention is fixed on the sense of “I", the vagaries of the mind loosen their hold on you. You will be no longer under their grip. The first glimpses of freedom happens…

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