Nirvana, Body & Oneness

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the pain is there because we are

expecting pleasure

so

when there is pain it does not mean that

we don't do anything acceptance is not

inactivity and that is another delusion

you see thanks for reminding me

that

pain means that

you go and do something about the pain

and then

back to acceptance

it will heal

if it is chronic pain

then you know that the body is given up

body is the disease isn't it

so

acceptance

the body is gone now cannot be

maintained

how many people do that no they resist

just like m is saying

more resistance

means longer pain bigger pain

so

the pain is not good but

and that is resistance

makes it worse

and there was a thought in my mind you

see i remembered a question from

somewhere if you think the body is not

real the world is not real

why are you protecting it

why you get afraid when

there is some dangerous work to be done

when you want to jump from one higher

place to ground or

and take up some heavy electrical work

wiring and all

wires why do you take so many

precautions

and i really don't have any answer to

that because it is not the eye it is the

it is our programming that is doing it

millions of years of programming

survival

is doing it so how can i take credit for

this

this

organism is made like this his job is to

survive so what is wrong there

it can happen

whether it is real or unreal

see what is happening has nothing to do

with reality and reality because that is

another problem in the mind nothing is

real nothing is unreal it is that which

you define to be real

using your own criteria

when we say unreal in advaith it simply

means it's not going to last that's all

it means it is very simple yet very very

beautiful the most accurate definition

of reality i've never found anything

else

better than this

so when i say unreal it may always use

this criteria that's impermanent that's

why it is unreal

that which stays is permanent is real

this is the criteria that we are using

and everybody knows why we use this

criteria the logic behind it

it is the ultimate

that is one reason

everything else will be inferior to this

criteria

so

everything that is changing is not there

actually otherwise it wouldn't change it

will remain

the base the substratum is

never changing so that's why we say that

it exists

other thing appear and disappear on it

so reality is relative isn't it more

real and less real that's all there is

these people ask this question

so why are you so obsessed about

security of the body and

so on

and

in other words they're saying why don't

you die

and i i had no answer actually but one

day i thought about this thing

and recently and the an answer appeared

which is that

we are not afraid of injury or

something bad happening to the body or

the mind

because it will cause death

that is not

the real

fear and the real fear is that i'll need

to live with this

messy situation for the rest of my life

if i am not careful

if the body breaks gets injured then

even if it is unreal it is going to it's

going to be a very

low quality of life this that's why the

intelligence says that is better to

avoid this thing

if there is death if you say just

smelling something

will cause death no problem

no problem because i won't be there to

suffer the

consequences there won't be anybody to

suffer it

that's why we take precaution when we

talk to people because a little bit of

insult is going to stay with you forever

it does not matter from whether it's

coming from a stranger

or from your own loved one

in fact the stranger you will forget

pretty quickly

but

the ones who are closer to you if they

say something bad

then it remains forever

so that's why we are very careful we

take the same precaution just like we

take precaution while

doing something dangerous

so

we don't want to live with it forever

like for the rest of the life

that's why we avoid these things

given this life

whether it is real or unreal you don't

want that experience

this is the tendency of the mind stays

away from the negative

any kind of harm

is the tendency

this is also perfect i don't see any

problems here i don't know why people

see problems like this when there are

none

what is wrong

if the mind behaves in a specific way in

maya

what is wrong with that

where is the logic failing here

it does so and that's the end

of argument isn't it

so getting rid of pain is easy isn't it

very easy

the problem is we don't want to live

with that that is the only problem it is

not it has nothing to do with being

real or unreal

let us say you are watching um

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movie

a very boring movie nothing is happening

or the same things are being repeated

that's what every movie is you know

repetition of the same story in a

slightly different way

it says a garbage story and a garbage

acting and

all the dialogues are garbage you have

heard it many times

do you want to watch the whole movie no

you simply close it start something else

so

this is how it does not mean that the

movie is

real

it simply means you don't want that

experience

you don't have that preference

that's why we stay

we don't want the pain

do we want the pleasure the pleasure is

absence of pain it's nothing more than

that

so if you get more and more pleasure you

will see that it becomes pain

it is

if there is absence of pain the body is

fit it is happy it's very very happy

that's why when people ask you know how

to be healthy what kind of yoga position

what kind of breathing for health blood

pressure i said what

these things were not invented to keep

people healthy in the yogic exercises

and all they are they have spiritual

reason

so

and to be healthy

it's only one thing

don't break your body

it knows how to remain healthy it knows

how to avoid pain

listen to the body

it is doing exactly

that which is needed

now people start breaking the body and

the reason is they want pleasure that's

all why people smoke

there is no pleasure actually in smoking

there is this social

component in smoking

i don't know what it is it's kind of

messy psychology somewhere that

they want to um the peer pressure they

want to conform to whatever others are

doing

if the big man in your school

the handsome person is smoking then you

are under pressure to do the same

and then the nicotine will take over

it becomes an addiction

so i don't know

what causes women to smoke and then i

don't think there is any pressure on

them

but nicotine has this property of

relaxing the mind just like he said

chemicals

mind can be controlled very easily by

chemicals

it's

so easy

probably that's why people get addicted

to it

but i don't think

anything is can be controlled like this

it has consequences always

always there are consequences

so people break their bodies people get

into the addictions and unhealthy

lifestyles for pleasure and sometimes

for very very stupid reasons

so people drive

like a high speed

crowded on a crowded road because

adrenaline

addicted to that

body is producing adrenaline so they get

addicted to that

and then that drill has consequences it

will break your body

it is a stressful experience

so just like the mental states will

produce chemicals the chemicals will

produce mental states why is that

it's all mind you see the body is not

different from mind it's just another

layer of the mind

it's not my body

the eye is it does not own these things

it is having an experience it is

borrowed

experience

borrowed from the universal mind

probably not even the universal mind in

the small part of the universal mind

which i usually call the greater mind

is borrowed from there

so and should i break it

should i not take care of it because all

maya is not mine

and that is another stupidity

should i go for it again and again and

again

no that is

also not

necessary so that's why i say there is

i've tried to find a reason there is

always a reason somewhere and it will be

completely fake reason but that's not

going to make any difference

just like i said

the question is not the reality or

unreality

the question is that we are playing

here

that's all

how nicely you want to play

that's all there is

to make your experience a good

experience that's all

isn't it that's what the buddha is

saying gautam said get rid of the

suffering everything else is cool

no need to mess with anything else

this ordinary life is the greatest joy

why are kings so miserable why do they

kill people in thousands

why do they make the poor farmers pay

taxes

no you should not assume that there are

no kings

they are there only only the titles have

changed

why why is their life so miserable

because ordinary is not enough

there's a delusion in the mind there is

a

mental disease there that i need to

control everything i need all land

i need all the people to lick my feet

and this is a mental disease mental

sickness

actually this is a big subject you will

say okay then

if there is no king there and who will

protect me

because there will be some other king

who will attack you and

do the

exactly the same thing probably worse

this is human nature you see

there cannot be any solution for this

the only solution is to rise above human

and for that you need to start by

realizing that we are not human

we are essentially emptiness

who has taken the form of human

now if you don't like the experience

don't try to change the experience just

change the channel

you cannot change the you cannot you

know

go to the tv studio wherever it is and

ask them to stop stop doing or put the

other program

or make this actor behave in this way i

don't want this actor to say these lines

i don't want any kings in your play

it will be a big stupidity to

to try to change the whole studio and

in their programs and setups and all

and nobody's going to like it believe me

or not

they don't like it their place

and millions of people they like it they

like their play boring play so what you

do you don't change it you change the

channel watch something else

that's what the yogi is doing

that's why we recommend

getting rid of the human life

because as long as it is there it will

trouble you

why not explore something else and as

long as

you are

exploring it is going to trouble you

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there will be better life there will be

heavenly experiences there will be

millions of years of

body free birth free death free lives

who cares

it becomes boring after a while

that's why dissolution of the mind

is recommended anyway that is going to

happen

so some people may say okay then

now cut to the chase let's go to the

dissolution directly

and such people are seekers

now

from the from this point of view you

know you are at the ground floor because

we are all humans we are all at the

ground floor

it looks meaningless

what do you mean dissolution what do you

mean nirvan

is something amazing the word is very

amazing it means

turning off

of the lamp or candle

as if nothing remains this is nirvana

that is the goal

you can call it by any name and other

traditions will say something else but

it does not matter now sitting here this

looks like total stupidity what do you

mean dissolution i don't want to be

dizzled i don't want that i want a life

i want a good life i want ordinary life

why are you pushing me

to get rid of all these things

so it is not going to make sense and

that that means you will need to do the

journey

to the dissolution

and for agani it's very easy you turn

180 degree

and the dissolution is here right here

right now it is a matter of realizing

because if you if you go forward

wherever you're facing towards

dissolution

then you will encounter very big paradox

for which i don't have an answer

actually but

the mind cannot be stopped

so what if this individual dissolves

then what

will the cycles of creation and

destruction will they stop what about

other minds

and so many things are there

which do not make any sense

and the gurus will tell you something

some circular logic you know

this is how it is and

so what you need to still

pursue

the mukti nirvan

it is not satisfactory

for a ghani this is not this is not a

big problem

there's nothing to be dissolved

there is this realization

that

i'm already free i'm already liberated

you need to just turn

this way and see

there is no

bondage there it's already emptiness

you know there is no light there is no

candle there is nothing like this

so that's why it is called path of no

effort

direct path

now this cannot be intellectual because

just like i said

if you repeat this thing

it's not going to happen nothing is

going to happen

no nirvan

no liberation no bondage nothing

not intellectual intellectual thing

so the first step is to realize

who am i you see

what is my nature what is my essence

and the self-realization

will

open up this

this kind of

liberation that i'm talking about

self-realization is nirvana in itself

nothing more to be done

even if you don't realize the oneness is

perfectly okay

is there oneness

the oneness can be defined only if you

see the two-ness only if you see the

multiplicity

once you see the emptiness

nothing needs to be realized

that's why there is more uh

stress on self-realization rather than

realization of oneness

and traditions like zen

will

make you do the do two things in one

step

no self-realization there

directly no self-realization

realization of no self

in what remains when oneness remains

because as soon as there is self there

is subject there is object

when i say no subject

well

it's like already solved the problem is

solved now when you see it is emptiness

the oneness is emptiness

and what else can be the oneness

so

what do you need to know after that

you don't even need to explain these

things oneness is infinite oneness is

like space awareness is like

love

it's it's all bs isn't it

it's like nothing

these things do not come close

there are some words that may come close

like it is perfection

it is beautiful it is blissful these

come close but

we know it's not really applicable there

some people have this delusion that i'll

get a very very grand experience of

oneness someday in future

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it may happen in future who knows but

it's not going to be grand experience

this experience is experience of oneness

it will be as ordinary as this one

probably less ordinary because now you

don't have that

very tailish expectation of oneness it

will be very ordinary

what do you do after that oh just clean

the house

cook the food

so on

watch the tv

it is this ordinary witness

there's nothing spiritual about

self-realization

and oneness

so either you can call everything is

ordinary you can call everything as

spiritual

now it is the preference in the mind

because that's why everything is

spiritual because i don't want

everybody to get

demotivated then because there are still

preferences left in the mind so take the

positive one instead of saying

everything is meaningless ordinary

purposeless

fake life

nobody is going to

listen to me nobody is going to make any

efforts nothing so what we do we

sugarcoat it a little bit

look this life is spiritual life

once you see it it does not really

make any difference there's no

difference between spiritual and

ordinary

if you're looking for something special

then i can guarantee you you will be

disappointed

the pleasure is spiritual the pain is

spiritual

the

knowledge is spiritual

the ignorance is spiritual

all this

experience that we are going through is

spiritual and the liberation from it is

also spiritual

so

it's a point of view only

in reality it's not spiritual and it is

also spiritual

both

which is same as saying it's not both

so now it becomes mysterious now it

sounds proper spiritual