The Great Stillness and Nisargadatta Maharaj - A Short Reading by Rupert Spira
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- Rupert explores the great stillness and silence that are the essence of all the great religious and spiritual traditions. Reading from Nisargadatta Maharaj and quoting the Christian and Sufi Mystics, he shows how sinking into the great stillness that lies - so to speak - behind the mind, is the way to peace and freedom from suffering.
As Nisargadatta Maharaj said in 'I Am That', "All the objects of consciousness form the universe. What is beyond both, supporting both, is the supreme state, a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears. It is unreachable by words, or mind. You may call it God, or Parabrahman, or Supreme Reality, but these are names given by the mind. It is the nameless, contentless, effortless and spontaneous state, beyond being and not being."
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Whatever I’m doing, receiving a TH-cam notification from Rupert stops me in my tracks and I listen.
I would love a tour through your bookshelves 😍
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
- NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Awesome!
My fave Maharaj quote by a landslide...goosebumps every time!
"I am nothing... I am everything" is a tennis ball being constantly hit back and forth, with no logical foundational home.
Planetary humans are not "everything". Humans are something. They are personalities on the awakening journey to find, know, and be with the universal source of Life.
This has poetic content and inspires tremendous feeling, but resonates only with those internal things that are so often such terrible guides...
@@steveflorida8699 Yes, but of course he wasn't a human. He was 'nothing' when relating to his source, and everything when relating to the world/universe.
✨Mahalo Rupert❤️Sharing Truth✨
I love you Rupert. Thank you for bringing me back to myself again
I AM ✨🧘♂️✨
Thank you so much
Such eloquence! Ahh. Thank you 😊 💓.
Thanks Rupert!
Summer 2009 .I searched and found this book in the library of a J. Krishnamurti place in Varanasi.
It was like a spiritual big bang for me. Since then..what a journey!ॐ ❤
🌈 The Mind is a prism, We have an infinite spectrum to choose from.🌈🪶😇 Grace Victoria 🦋💕
To The - The Great Stillness !!! Amen
Oh Rupert I have been watching your videos and reading your books for six years almost at a daily basis. Your words are so easy to understand but so difficult to put in practice !!!
I’m six years in as well with Rupert. Happy to be traveling with you🙏
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
God bless you Rupert.
wow wow wow thank you 🙏🏾
This is Great we are only In doing So🌹🌹
Feel blessed.. and at times i feel like telling one and all about the secret of our being.. as I am slowly feeling the quiet within me, but then I must halt,, as each one in his own time finds the key.
I am god and this page, this video, is a dream I'm having. If you don't want to share in this dream, never ever repeat this phrase (call it a mantra) while under the influence of a psychedelic: "This Is It . . This Is It . . This Is It . .."
PS: "This Is It" is also the title of an Alan Watts' book.
I see a copy of Daughter of Fire behind you. I was with Mrs Tweedie. Such a wonderful woman. Loved this reading. I Am That has been the one book I’ve kept close for 30 years.
Ditto on both
Beautiful beautiful beautiful ♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
🙏🏻
Om
🕉️🙏🏻🌷
Why master Rupert is not more famous...I do not understand !
Naham Deham
Koham Soham
Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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I’m not here to criticize Rupert in any way, as I love him, and I loved this video/pointing. But I was shocked to hear him say that when Nisagadatta uses the word consciousness he means awareness, as if they’re synonymous. Nisargadatta is one of the few non-dual teachers/clarifiers I’ve read who DOESN’T use these words synonymously. When he says consciousness, he’s actually saying antahkarana, which my copy of the book defines as: “the psyche, mind. Mind in a collective sense, including intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and mind (manas).”
So in the translated Nisargaddatta consciousness is basically the entirety of mind with a little “m.” Awareness is the source from which that arises. That’s why you’ll repeatedly hear him talk about “going beyond consciousness.” (Which was even part of Rupert’s selection.) If you go into Nisargadatta’s work thinking that he’s using consciousness and awareness to mean the same thing, you’ll come away VERY confused (as you can’t go “beyond” awareness).
To be fair, there are places where he does use “consciousness” in a way that could easily also work as awareness, but I’m unsure if that’s due to limited options with translating words that have no English equivalent or if, as the activity of Awareness, it isn’t misleading to phrase it that way. (I mean, either way you interpret it in those instances, it works.)
Again, this was in no way meant to be critical of what Rupert’s actually saying here. Just wanted to give people a heads up in case you ever hear someone claiming that Nisargadatta says there’s something beyond consciousness. And there are other writings/teachings that use awareness and consciousness differently. If they say something like, “consciousness is passing” you’ll know they’re not using it to mean awareness. ☮️
Agree. I have found Michael James's many many (many) videos on Ramana's writings very helpful in clarifying this. Nisargadatta's words I think can be confusing as he does not spell this all out very explicitly. But I Am That definitely stopped me short the first time I read it, many years ago. Thank you Rupert.
I think the word for consciousness he mostly used is “Chaitanyam”. In my understanding of his talks, Chaitanyam at its pure is Sat-Chit-Ananda which is the light/power of reality. He says this power takes care of the world, call it God / Self / Consciousness or whatever. All manifestation is the work of this Chaitanyabrahmam. When Brahman touched by “I am”, (the moola maya-primordial illusion), manifestation appears. ParaBrahman, the absolute reality is what remains when Chaitanyam or “I am” is transcended.
-Reality lies in objectivity.
Memory gives the illusion of continuity and repetitiveness creates the idea of causality' - Sri Nisargadatta marahaj.
❤🙏
Rupert thank you for your sharing. I wonder if I might share with you a poem set to music which I composed that reflects the teachings? I could leave a link to it somewhere if you would like.
The Heart Sutra says: "Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form, sensation. Form is exactly Emptiness, Emptiness is exactly Form"
"In the Parabrahman state the quality of knowingness is not present, nor does it have any embellishments or decorations like the manifest consciousness. The Parabrahman state does not know it is, neither does it have this manifestation." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj Spira just doesn't get this! The Absolute, in its pure state, the state prior to the self-reflexive I-AM, does not know its self. I-Am is the primordial fundamental experience from whence all else arises, but it is still an experience. The Absolute is the Self in and of its self. The Self as such.
Breath out dude, you are turning blue!
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Do people pay you money to sit quietly at your place? That's a great way to make a living.
“what is known by the mind is unknown by Consciousness “
So what’s the point of life and experience of consciousness cannot know it?
This doesn’t make any sense
Totally agree with you, Read RSR comment above yours.
It makes sense to me this way. The consciousness while shining on mind can us aware that mind is limited and mind with ego that identifies with the body and mind has limited existence. So the unlimited consciousness appears as limited only by mind
@@austin426512 but what is known by mind is not known by consciousness so it cannot shine on the mind can it! Life & experience know to the limited mind is unknown to the consciousness. So, our localised limited self is unknown to consciousness that is my understanding of what Rupert said.
@@BubbleGendut Again it is getting convoluted. Mind cannot by itself exist without consciousness shining in it, so the shining on it is independent of whether mind knows that consciousness doesn’t know. Having activated the mind with consciousness, the mind feels itself very limited unaware of consciousness that lit it.
Who is listening? Who is speaking? The notion of audience no longer has any validity.
Based on my decades of trying to reconcile Vedanta and modern physics (esp quantum mechanics) Let me respectfully offer an alternative view to Sri Nisargadatta namely "I AM NOT THAT". While I completely agree that everything in the visible universe is indeed an "illusion" (Maya, a 3-D holographic movie- etc) every "particle" and every "event" is indeed a "dream character" and sequence" that appear and disappear in the Dreamer's (GOD?) consciousness. We are there to serve EXACTLY the same purpose that actors in a movie or a play do, namely to "entertain" the audience, and in our case, an audience of ONE. I therefore believe it is erroneous to confuse the dream character with the Dreamer who is merely "observing & enjoying" our wild and crazy behaviors. Our best (and ONLY) course of action is to ACCEPT this stark reality and continue with our "virtual" existence according to the casting of our role assigned by lottery. Thus, I AM THAT can be rephrased as "I AM (for the entertainment) of THAT. 🙏
The phrase "I am that" is used by maharaj as a piinter not to label it as the final truth. He used it because of the limitation of words in explaining the Brahman. "I AM" is the closest to the truth. But the final truth is beyond the "I am". Its the awareness between and beyond the knower and known.
If you are referring knower as the " I am", you have misunderstood. The knower rises when a body is born and sets when it dies leaving an imprint of memories in the universal conousiness.
I prefer, “I am more than that” My experience comes from where I put my attention. If everything is God’s body, which part of the “body” am I paying attention to? “I am” is more accurate.
Nisargadatta Maharaj is the best
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
I want to see a series with Rupert sat by the fire with a hot chocolate, reading us the classics. You know it makes sense Rupert!
"So far you have loved so many things, but have you loved THAT which loves"
That should put an end to all seeking and all teaching.............if properly realized.......
To those who question seemingly idleness?
From " I am That" book:
Questioner:
To be content with mere being seems to be a most selfish way of passing time.
Nisargadatta:
A most worthy way of being selfish! By all means be selfish by foregoing everything but the Self.
When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All
distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in Love, pure and simple,
addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that Love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate
yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the
problems of humanity. You will know what to do. Do not ask superficial questions; apply yourself to
fundamentals, to the very roots of your being.
From: I AM THAT
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I am that" by maharaj is the holiest spiritual guidance book ; and understanding would just flow if is explained by Rupert .how I wish Rupert could read out and explain the entire book
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
@@antalperge1007 "nowhere to go... nothing to do", suggests idleness. Idleness does not develop individual character. A helpless born baby needs to develop into a moral and wise human being.
The journey of Personalities is experiences and achieving goals. Mental idleness is a lazy sunburn. What is idleness's contribution to self, family, and society?
@@steveflorida8699 True and effort is necessary for all things, but I think - correct me if I am wrong - Antal Perge's words point to the idea that "effort" (in general) will not do anything with regards to Being. You cannot "will" or "move" yourself into it, there is nothing phenomenal - any object or experience - that is capable of passing that threshold. It's a fundamental thing. Of course, the paying of the house, the providing for family still happens and needs to happen, but that's not what this is about.
I read I Am That years ago, but it never really clicked until I started listening to Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup. Now it makes so much more sense.
Initially for me it was Swami Sarvapriyananda and then Atamananda Udasin, through Advaita Vedanta (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar)
Other great teachers followed; Rupert included.
It clicked for me when I listened to
Mustardo Katsup.
Incredibly Profound
Had an NDE and did several Ayahuasca Ceremony’s, what he over views is correct.
One who has really experienced the reality can deliver it to the seeker. That's why guru shishya legacy is established since ages.
Hello Rupert. Thank you. Nisargadatta Maharaj videos on TH-cam is how I learnt about meditation and consciouness a few years ago. His words were a “total shock” to me because they were truth. He is really a revelation for me. Thx.
His book is also a must. Thank you.
Absolutely- a tremendous shock. I remember the first time I read "I Am That" and I was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Truly shaken, and there was a singular clarity.
We have similar contents on our bookshelves :)
“If you want to know your nature you must have yourself in mind all the time until the secret of your being is revealed.”
Sasha: Where did you get this quote?
This is great message.
This is by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Thank you my dear Rupert whom I consider my friend although we haven’t met I feel I’ve always known you . A million thanks you being stillness to my heart .
Thank you for this Rupert. I have been seeking for quite a while and it finally has occurred that this "me" entity, it has been seeking to improve, get somewhere, understand, figure out things and rather recently noticed that the "me", after all this time seeking, has not once even gotten close to puzzling out non-duality.
After realizing this, mind was on the precipice of being dropped, who is going to drop it and how, then there was some fear but after hearing you speak on Stillness, for some reason that sort of finalized that the "me/mind" had to be side-stepped and ignored/dis-identified with in order to be at peace. It has nothing to do with effort! That is what the mind is doing is making an effort to get somewhere, achieve something, enlightenment BUT again it has nothing to do with that, so side-step it. What a relief. What a revelation. 🙂
Nisargadatta said, "“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” Side-step the mind because it is not any help in realizing the true nature. Mind is basically traffic that needs to be side-stepped and there is peace in that.
"In stillness all things can be known." - steps to knowledge
By letting go, you gain all! Being absolutely free is beyond anything experience can bring!
رئيت افلامك في قنوات عربية كنت لا أعلم أن
لديك قناة خاصة بك الان اشتركت بقناتك بعدما
عرفتها
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing these incredible insights with us. As for "I Am That," it is definitely one of my favourite books. What a resonance I feel with the so-called "Fiery Sage" of Bombay, every time I reread his book. The love that he felt for seekers is so palpable. So, too, is yours--for everyone. Blessings. 🙏
13:45 love this fragment, very profound !!!
There is a story told by Stephen Wolinsky ( a disciple of SNM ). He says they we gathered in Maharaj’s room listened to his lectures when a well known yoga instructor enters the room and begins dialoguing with Maharaj. Maharaj asked the man “Who are you?” The man begins telling Maharaj with certainty and fervor about himself “I’m a yoga instructor, meditation teacher” etc. Patiently waiting for the man to finish telling Maharaj everything he claims to be, Maharaj looks at him and says “that’s not it”. Stephen was standing right behind the man and says it was like the man was made out of glass and Maharaj had thrown a stone right through the man and completed shattered his perceptions.
This story is a great analogy to summarize what had happened to me when I read “I am That” for the first time.
When we understand the contents of our mind and the roots of these contents, we understand we are constantly projecting our own myopic views into the world.
Eventually we begin to look at the mind so intensely that it becomes still and almost effortlessly our perception dissociates from our minds and our bodies and our true nature reveals itself “spontaneously”. It’s truly something to marvel at.
The one thing standing in the way of seeing our true nature is the mind and it’s constant mechanisms of comparison, judegement, divison, projections, etc.
Take care of your mind and body, carefully watch what you feed your mind/body, just know at the deepest “level” of your being. Your true nature stands alone and permeates peace and love through all aspects of life.
Thanks
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
When you are not attached only then can you worship❤️
"Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." John 3:1-3. "He came at night" means the silence and darkness that characterizes the interior silence Nisargadatta talks about. To be "born again" to our True Self, in other words, to the Ultimate Reality, our "false self" we must first "die". This is the realization of Bitul Hayesh (in Hebrew, "God within us"). Since in reality we can not be our "self" and at the same time be the Ultimate Reality, Bitul Hayesh is to be one-with the Ultimate Reality. Christ said in John 17:21 " that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." We don't have to try to be one with the triune God, we already are "since I formed you in your mother's womb" Jeremiah 1:5. Nisargadatta, as Meister Eckhardt are pointing to the One wiith Whom we are One, the I AM THAT IAM!
So happy that there are now 178,000 subscribers. We want to reach one million! Thank you for your invaluable channel.
I literally just bought this book… thank you. ❤
This book has completely changed my life. It has a very interesting story for entering my life which gives it a stronger significance. 🙏
What created the mind? Is it all not a part of That which is, the I Am? The creations of the mind come from somewhere. Even our "spiritual" ponderings such as this reflection, are a creation of the mind. Perhaps then in our stillness, we rest, as in the metaphorical story of God creating the world, in the bible, "He rested on the 7th day." We step out of the self as creator and rest in the Presence.
It's like seeing a bright light inside one of those chiseled crystal prisms. Everyone sees a different angle and different refraction of rainbows depending on their viewpoint. It's all very distracting, but everyone sees the same glimpse. If you turn and see the prism from different angles slowly you start to see the light is not inside. Then you feel warm and turn around and realize the sun is behind you.
What an excellent and inspirational explanation. I am excited about sharing this with others. Thank you.
Plato taught the same concepts
Be still and know that I am a millionaire
Be still and know that I am healthy
Be still and know that I am
Neville & Nisargadatta 💖
How can I get in touch with you…will go to your website perhaps. Thank you for this today. ❤
Brilliant and illuminating, as always. Thank you.
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
How does it cone everyone seems to get it but me 😢 😅
Actually, don't worry about it Lou, it will bloom when it's meant to bloom and not before. Something that Anna Brown said in one of her zoom meetings on TH-cam really hit it home, she said "You can't step closer to God, and you can't step away from God... Everything Is God, including the arising of thoughts and emotions".
@@RobbeyT1 i watch her too, well i watch almost every non dual speaker, but I just get glimpses like trying to make a fire in the rain..
Im listening to these people for like 4 years now and it seems like im just running in circles, i guess ill just have to suffer this lifetime, cause I dont get what its all about..
@@louthefou4052 Well you would feel like that, because you're on a path and seeking for something that 'appears' to be at the end of a path. This path is an illusion and is endless because it's leading you further and further away from who/what you already are... that's why you suffer. Suffering it's telling you that your True "Self" is here, Not over there at the end of some endless and futile path! What you're looking for in some future, already IS who you are now.
The fact that you are listening to these talks is evidence that you are on the path and that something in you knows the Truth. It's just our egos put up a mighty fight and don't want to close control. In time all will be revealed. Never give up!
Truly relax and you'll find what you're looking for.
जिस मरने से जग डरे, मेरो मन आनंद ।
The World is afraid of dying, I find bliss in dying
~ Saint Kabir
But that doesn’t make sense Rupert, you say that awareness’s is everything, so noise and movement must be as much part of this reality (no duality) as silence and stillness 🤷
Thanx so much Rupert. I was wondering if there’s a way I can email you to share some thing that has been happening to this character, Angel. While reading the book, Rhonda Byrne’s, “ The Greatest Secret”. For the past two years, apparently… There has been a colossal free fall. But lately there seems to be some confusion with radical non-duality speakers, Saying, that what we really are, which there is no we but that it has nothing to do with awareness or consciousness? Can you please elaborate on this, because, I don’t resonate with what some apparent radical non-duality speakers are saying when it comes to this. I understand that Words, labels and concepts, can muddy this….as it’s hard to talk about. However, then I’ve had a couple of other apparent non-duality speakers say that there most definitely is awareness and consciousness. So please let me know if there’s a way, I could speak with you sometime. Thank you….✨
An understanding towards anything enlightening will be easier found by dismissing the 'he' in any god..for its clear any fragments of holiness is apart from present day man. Her Highness is closer to the path .
I still enjoy entertaining the vision that we are entrapped in an alien camp for remedial and fallen species. If you reach Samadhi then you get to leave the planet and rejoin your parent species...
Yes the great stillness but you keep talking!!
And you too !
See "Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue" by Neale Donald Walsch
No disrespect but all gurus talk about know who you are but words don't mean anything if you don't have the DIRECT EXPERIENCE.
We can talk forever about this experience of who I am but will not experience it.
What we need is the Truth how do we experience this step by step.
Not just talk about this for hours and get more and more confused we only have a short space in time in our lives.
Thank you.
My mind still fights. It doesn’t want to let go of the image of itself. I see moments of letting go, but my god it doesn’t stop fighting. I don’t hate it for what it does, it’s trying to hold control even though it knows control is illusion, yet it still fights. It’s causing great and profound sadness in this sphere I experience. I crave connection to this stillness, yet I fight. It’s confusing and I grow sadder.
Let me try to bring you relief, Matthew. Suppose you awaken from a dream and could dream that dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW that you are dreaming. But you still wouldn't know what was going to happen or how the dream would end. Would your experience of that very same dream not be COMPLETELY different? Just because you shifted from the personal perspective to the correct perspective? Now here comes the shock. Try to apply the same shift of perspective to the dream called life. If you keep trying you discover the natural state, the great stillness where all is well.
@@GeertMeertens Thank you Geert. You have helped; Its a dream, and I am waking up to that reality. A simple and subtle shift in perspective, yet profoundly rewarding. I'm utterly in awe of it.
B4 the words,l Am.ln the beginning was the word and the word is with I,the elemental consciousness.I am That.This is lT,the time,which is born.🙏🏽
Thank you sir
I see nothing has really changed.
0:37..refract? Like a of light how it seperates when going through a prism??
Love listening to you! Although I seem to be always searching for answers about life, I find that I already know them and always have. Strange, but true.
At 9.08 he says the Caribbean beach is not really sand, sea and sky, but stillness and nothing. Who would prefer that, or the screen rather than the movie! Save those for when we're dead. We evolved to perceive the world as our senses inform us. Appreciate it.
Meditate on the I AM until you re-cognise the I AM as utterly illusory. - Nisargadatta
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A quiet mind…undistorted by desires and fears…free from ideas and opinions… clear on all levels , is needed to to reflect the reality.
Be clear, calm, quiet and detached and all simply is.
One need only remove the transient happenings to realize the pure experience of the self…neither adding to or taking away from that which is.
Somehow I read the title as the great silliness.
Rupert has two of the Longchenpa texts on his shelf. Nice.
Thanku sir very much
Make this view natural, that's a worthy aim / result.
Why are many charging money for these pointings 👉 👈 ? 🤔
انا احبك كثيرا كلامك جميل وراقي
Whomever has made any comment whatsoever in this area. Understands nothing about stillness and this entire segment right over their head
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There is a lesson here that I resist yet struggle to learn, that I am drawn to and run from as with God itself.
Thank you, this was something I needed.
Thank you Rupert. I am blessed to have found you. Thank you.
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16:09
How Beautiful!
Not sure which verse of the Bhagavad Gita Rupert is alluding to around 12:00 when he implies that the Gita teaches that “what is known by the mind is unknown by Consciousness and what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. I am somehow not persuaded that this is an accurate translation based upon my understanding of that scripture.
Per the Upanishads, which form the basis for what is taught in the Gita, Consciousness is the knower of all that can be known (my loose translation of _Ayam Atma Brahma Sarvanubhuh_ from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19). So, Rupert’s first premise that “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” contradicts this. Moreover, the above premise cannot be supported by reasoned logic. Our mind is just an appearance of Consciousness and what is known through our mind is an appearance of Consciousness as well. As such, it defies reason for an appearance of Consciousness that is known through our mind to remain unknown to Consciousness.
Of course, I am on board with Ruperts’s second premise, i.e., “what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. This can be justified by noting that Consciousness is knowing (noun) itself whereas our mind, as an inhibited appearance of knowing, is not all-knowing.
My thoughts precisely. This contradicts as well what he usually says.
He explains exactly what you’re confused about in other videos.
Rupert using poetics language and that makes confusion but it is like this,
What's known for the mind it is unknown for the consciousness but what's mind is knows ? Mind knows object and for the consciousness there's no existence of separate thing or object so object is unknown for the consciousness. And for the mind no separation or no object is unknown.
@@rathodnarendra5255 Thank you for your attempt at parsing Rupert’s words but I am still not persuaded that Rupert’s premise “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” can be supported through reasoned logic.
You say “mind knows object”. However, a mind is an object and as such it cannot know other objects by itself. A mind is just an appearance of Consciousness as an instrument through which localization of Consciousness takes place. You also say “object is unknown to Consciousness”. Well, since there is only Consciousness, objects cannot be other than Consciousness. So, objects are just appearances of Consciousness, and as such we cannot say that they are unknown to Consciousness. To paraphrase Swami Sarvapriyanandaji of the VedantaNY TH-cam channel, “All objects appear in Consciousness, to Consciousness, as Consciousness, and are not other than Consciousness”.
I have found Rupert to be very precise with the use of the English language so far but his interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita in this video seems like an exception to that for me.
Just found this new video where Rupert says Mary doesn't know what goes on in Jane's mind, check out what he says at 2:54: th-cam.com/video/00eDU0EnT84/w-d-xo.html