An young being

Yeah, I am trying to understand this reality, but what if we are led to experience non duality because we already had firm belief that non duality can be the only truth and our consciousness is projecting an illusion of the same, which is what we wanted it to be.

But are there any experiences by such people which is documented? Like people sharing their experience after having psychedelics which is related to the experience of non dualism?

This is not true for me most of the time. I have a blank mind most of the time and I can spend hours alone silently doing and thinking nothing. I don't know if it's a boon or a bane. It's like my mind doesn't want to work. It has become so lazy that it doesn't want to think at all.

My aim here is not to prove or disprove theories, but I just wish to understand Mahasamadhi and the truth behind his claims. I really loved Sadhguru and his videos very much, but when I saw this interview, doubts start arising in my mind to how much extent I should believe in his words. He sounds legit in his words, but I also notice him struggle a tiny bit which I had never noticed him do. What do you guys think? Further questions arise in my mind like : To how much extent should we believe in such popular gurus ? ( Including Leo ??) Is learning and experiencing directly the only way to know the truth? What about things we can never experience until, maybe, after we die? Are enlightened gurus 'successful' because they know the truth and at the same time they know deception techniques for marketing as well?

Is this discussion spiritual or philosophical? Within this limited perspective, what we experience is logical, everything else is not, according to my logic.

Can you explain Neo advaita trap in detail?

I strongly believe that the mind and body are interconnected, but I don't know how to establish the connection strongly. Can people suggest some meditation techniques to make pain disappear? ( healing the cause of pain will be even better)

Sure, will try that.

I do meditation for around 20 to 30 minutes in a sitting.I understand meditation benefits extend as much as I spend time on it mentally and spiritually but, going beyond that does sitting for long sessions cause any harm to body physically?

Yes I have done a recent mini surgery in my toe and I don't want to keep taking pain relief medicines since it may have side effects.

Sounds like a good solution! Will try it and update the results.

Yeah, I believe doing meditation in smaller chucks of 20 minutes with little breaks comes closer to a full one hour sitting. I don't have such a strong determination like Om Swami, but I have enough to atleast sit for 20 minutes everyday. ?

Yeah, right, I am studying the mind illuminated book techniques for improving my meditation practices. I am in Stage 2 now, let's see how it goes.

Great, thank you for helping me out. Will try with the pillow and see the results.

Right, I think using a stool type chair is a better choice in between the cross legged and chair poses. Whenever I lie on my back, I drift into a very comfortable nap! And yes, I definitely have to improve my strength and flexibility.

Thank you. I don't have difficulty with lotus position ( because I am from India and sit often in the floor in a position similar to that), but sitting too long in that pose definitely hurts. Definitely, I will try normal sitting posture for long durations.

Thank you for your views. Once I was doing meditation cross legged for around an hour and after that I had walked a bit. After a day, I felt sharp pain in both of my knee muscles and it was there for a whole month. After that I stopped meditating for long sessions. But I feel this depends on our physical strength also since I was very weak at that time.

Astrology is a game of probabilities. Or just a mind game.

All we will ever know, that's right. Even if we had reached the highest state of awareness, we see that's the truth because it is something we have not experienced earlier, something advanced. If a cell in our body somehow finds out that it's a part of a much bigger system called human body, it is enlightened. Similarly if we find out that we are entirely something different, we are enlightened, we experience it and that becomes the truth. But truth itself is infinite. One day in the future, our mind will evolve and we might have the capability to see things much clearer. Then that experience becomes the truth. This might go on till infinity until...? Until maybe the experiment is over

Have you understood reality or experienced it?

Hi people! For people who believe karma across lifetimes is real, has anybody had insights on what is determined by genetics (obtained from our ancestors like our appearance) and by our past life actions?