Insight Is Truer Than Clarity About Concepts - 10th January 2018

Name: Insight Is Truer Than Clarity About Concepts - 10th January 2018
Uploaded: 2018-01-10
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Ananta explains why the concept 'I am the Self' can cause suffering if it lacks direct insight. Learn how to use spiritual pointers to move beyond all words.

January 10, 20184:0820 views

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Ananta clarifies that the self is not a concept to be held but a direct insight into the primal witnessing that is empty of all phenomenal qualities, eventually leading to the dropping of all words and distinctions.

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The idea 'I am the self' is as useless as any other concept without a deeper insight.

Awareness is the essence of the self; it is the primal witnessing that just is.

Words in satsang are like thorns used to remove other thorns, eventually to be thrown away.

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