Tag: advaita
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The Great Methods of Advaita Vedanta: A Journey Through Its Prakriyās
“Like stepping stones across a river, each method of Advaita guides us from confusion to clarity, from appearance to truth, from bondage to freedom.” Advaita Vedanta, the crown jewel of India’s spiritual philosophy, doesn’t teach by dogma. It teaches by methods — carefully crafted, time-tested methods called prakriyās. These are not just dry academic tools,…
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The Conversation That Might Just Shift the World: A Meeting of Minds on Consciousness, Science, and Reality
Imagine a world where science and spirituality are no longer strange bedfellows but companions in the same inquiry. Where the age-old questions of “Who am I?” and “What is real?” are not dismissed as abstract musings but approached with the same rigor and reverence as particle physics or neuroscience. That world doesn’t just exist in…
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The Am-ness of Self and the Is-ness of Things: On the Unity Beneath Experience
There is a subtle yet profound thread running through our experience of existence — a thread that weaves together the quiet awareness of “I am” and the simple presence of the world around us. The phrase “Am-ness of self is the same as is-ness of things” invites us to pause and feel into this connection.…
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The World is Not Physical: Understanding Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism
Most of us assume that the world around us is made of solid, physical things—matter, atoms, and forces interacting in space. But what if that assumption is wrong? What if the world is not physical at all, but entirely mental in nature? This is the bold claim of philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, who argues for analytic idealism,…