It Is Before 'I Am' (Ashtavakra Gita 11.5-11.8) - 22nd November 2016

Name: It Is Before 'I Am' (Ashtavakra Gita 11.5-11.8) - 22nd November 2016
Uploaded: 2016-11-22
Duration: 27 min 43 s
Description: Explore the depths of the Ashtavakra Gita as Ananta discusses the nature of awareness, the end of doership, and how attachment to 'caring' creates misery.

November 22, 201627:4352 views

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Ananta explains that misery arises from the mind's resistance and attachment to appearances. By recognizing oneself as awareness rather than the body-mind, one transcends doership and abides in the stillness of the absolute.

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To believe a thought is to resist because all thoughts are in resistance to what is.

I am not the body nor is the body my possession; I am awareness itself.

Right now you are free from identity unless you start giving belief to a concept.

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