Bhairitu wrote: > A good thing you never became a teacher as you > would totally confuse a beginner with instructions > like that. > So, you're confused - I thought so. But I am a teacher, and what I posted was just basic Adwaita Vedanta or the Direct Path Teachings.
First, you've got to get over the notion that you are an individual soul-monad. Then you can begin to dispel the illusion that you are a 'mind' and that your perceptions are real. You are not a mind and a body - you are eternal Spirit, One, without-a-second. Everything else is just an appearance only - dreams, illusions, and the horns-of-a-hare. All concepts of 'mind' and matter will be found to be illusory. There is no 'mind' and no 'thinker' - there's only the Transcendental Person, a witness to the Pure Consciousness. Thoughts are just the play of the gunas, the forces of nature. Mind is nothing more than a bundle of energy, constituents, no more real than a sky-flower. There's only One Pure Consciousness, not a multitude of minds with thoughts and souls. > > According to Sri Kapila: > > > > "And from the contrast with that which is > > composed of the three constituents, there follows, > > for the Purusha, the character of Being, a witness; > > freedom from misery, neutrality, percipience, and > > non-agency." > >
