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Morals are an attempt at reducing conflict within oneself. It's not hard to see how lieing, stealing, being violent, lustful, greedy, prideful, etc. can lead to internal conflicts, not just by effect of their own nature but also through the effects of their outcomes. It's not a coincidence that when you are successfully moral, you feel comparitively more relieved and relaxed. Morals, for the most part, do not promote unity/integrity within oneself, but rather preserve it from fragmentation. Integrity is increased through self-discovery and authenticity. There's not much more to it than this here. Based on the above information, it becomes quite easy to see that virtue signalling comes from a place of conflict and is not moral, even if the acts done outwardly appear to be. Sincerity is a by-product of integrity. This also explains why enlightened beings, like Krishna, acted in immoral ways such as deception, despite them being the epitome of righteousness. It's because they do not require morals to preserve their unity any more, they are already at one with everything. By nature, any act such beings perform, is therefore right.

@Princess Arabia oh I didn't read your post. Just did. I responded after only reading the OP, since he was talking about manifestation and subconscious reprogramming. I see your point though 👍

From what I know it definitely isn't all mental belief. Speaking in a more practical and finite sense. In my logic, just like how you can't squat twice your body weight without training and physical training. There has got to be some other dimension of your existence that you must train, understand and endure tapa towards to perform these feats. We often tend to mix up occult/unknown fields of life with non-duality, truth seeking and what not. These are very different. These awakening only tell you the truth that it's possible, but unless it's something exceptional, I doubt you'll get there without certain practices.

It's a great place if you have the money, the connections and the knowledge. I am Indian, living here my whole life and I love this place. However, I have to tell you the negative sides so you may balance your perspective and improve your descison making. It is often really dirty and it's not all that spiritual as it is made out to be. Especially places like Varanasi and other areas. The image you have of it's spiritual side is probably outdated by almost 70-100 years. Don't get me wrong, it's most likely still the most spiritual out of everywhere else in the world. It's immensely beautiful if you visit ganga somewhere where most don't go. For example, certain banks of Ganges in Rishikesh that are walled in by mountains. It's like a high fantasy scene come real. Most westerners visit with ideas such as presented in Autobiography of a Yogi. It's barely like that anymore. One of my father's friends was devasted when he found out his teenager son had left the family on a spiritual pursuit for enlightenment, instead of taking on the family business. Much like Yogananda Paramahansa, he was found and brought back after several months. He travelled from ujjain to Mathura to Vrindavan to even Kashi(Varanasi) and many other places. When brought back home, he described his travels and he told them that every single one of those "sadhus" and "saints" he met were engaged in malpractices. Tricking people into drugging and raping them, selling illegal drugs(not psychedelics 50/60 percent of the time) and many other corrupt behaviour. Not really what you'd expect of a saint. The current India is a lot worse spiritually. This is why I want to warn those who intend to travel here for some otherwordly experience. To recount my own experience. I recently visited Neelkanth Mahdev Temple. It's a extremely sacred temple of Shiva, sitting at about 1675m above sea level in the mountain ranges of Nar-Narayan about 20km from Rishikesh. You'd expect the people to be spiritual there right? It's not even the most visited compared to many other temples. I saw a guy kicking a cow from in front of his shop right around the entrance. This is peak Kaliyuga. Cow is supposed to be the most revered when it comes to temples, most specially around Shiva temples. But, that doesn't mean there are not hidden gems of extremely spiritually advanced people over here. They are here, a fuck ton, but over years they have become even more reclusive and hidden. In a way, it truly has to be in your destiny to find someone like that over here. So please, be extremely witty and save your money, visit places where most don't go, and always practice a healthy level of scepticism when visiting India. It's a beautiful place which most certainly has the potential to change one's life in a spiritual level. You just need to know what you are doing.

300, possibly more. I do not think even a 100 years is enough to explore this human life. I am going to make full use of, or will fund them myself, anti-aging technologies. I do not mind dying after 70. But I really want to experiment and meditate for like 50 years and see what happens, without actually wasting half of my life.

I am just gonna go all in, I'll let you know.

Note: I only remember this experience, I do not experience it right now. This was a few months ago. An annual event occured called Mahashivratri, a night upsurge of energy. I heard somewhere that if you do japa of "Om Namah Shivaya" on this night, you gain immense fruits. I was already doing Hanuman's japa so I thought I'd give this a try. It gave me a wild experience. Context: I was sitting in front of Shiva's Picture, in padmasana, with diya lit up and all the other karmas that you do in Hinduism as are prescribed. I chanted the mantra for 108 malas. Each mala contains 108 beads. So I chanted it for 11,664 times which took about 4 hours. Here's what I experienced. It was done all sober, although many take marijuanna with this particular pooja. It started slow but I felt my awareness get sharper. It was like I was seeing, hearing and feeling things in 4k. My previous experience felt like a 144p video compared to this. Over time, I started feeling like I was detaching from my body, like a flame is to the wick of the candle, I was to my body. Moving around, almost escaping, but nonetheless attached and dependent. This was when I decided to direct my awareness on my self and the world around. It hit me suddenly I was fake and so was the world. But at the same time, this as real as it could get. I could see, I saw that Shiva was the entire universe, time and space. The world was created out of Shiva, and the forms took shape out of dynamic energy, or Shakti. But they were both the same. Shiva weaving entire realities into this present moment. My body didn't even feel my own and it was as if I existed as air. It dawned on me that there was nothing beyond the present moment and what I experienced, and that there was no witness. The entire thing is just Shiva, and he's meditating. I did not care of my life story, my past, or my future, it was all as if I just imagined those stories. Therefore could be disregarded and forgotten. Only thing mattered was Shiva. Now, suffice to say, it was pretty mind blowing, but this not where it stops. I directed my attention at the idea of others, and sure enough, they were illusions too. In fact, Shiva was the one creating them, just like he was creating me. Others do not exist, just like the self. But I do not experience that anymore. I post here because I remember someone talking about this. I could actually see how Shiva constructs reality and how he is doing it every moment. There's no consistency between the past and the present. We think it does, but the logic we use to define that consistency has no ground. Logic is in fact, completely illogical and indistinguishable from it. I am as stupid as reality can get. Shiva is absolute null but it's not like there's anything other than Shiva in this world. All comparisons fail, you cannot compare something which is every thing. Question is, Others don't exist. Makes everything feels absurd. It makes my heart feel empty and groundless. At the time I remember feeling complete and still. But now, I just feel disoriented by that idea. What should I do?

You are not supposed to just tell yourself you are not something. You need to observe what you think you are enough that you get how you can't be it. You detach from it. It's very logical. I did it for about 6-7 hours straight and that got me to no-self. It definitely works.

I really appreciate your replies but truthfully, I do not understand. If there's a simpler way.

Vikings used to believe earth was made out of the corpse of a giant. The rocks the teeth, the ocean his blood, the mountains his bones and the ground his flesh. Stage Purple doesn't care that much for logic. As long as it works. That's the only thing I can think about.

@mmKayIt's not that hard to download. Takes around 5 mins. There are many videos on YouTube where you can see how. If you want technology to suit your growth, you must get used to stuff like this. If you shy away from simple download procedures like these, you're limiting your technology use to easily downloadable services. There's a lot of good stuff out there if you're willing to put in the effort.

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Health is a big factor. While that's obvious, many times we don't realise how important it is. After months of severe anemia I got myself checked and realised my diagnosis. So I fixed myself. Due to that, I also started investing in supplements that specifically target brain health and found out about Dual-N-Back. Although I do admit I can be using my head in better and more complex ways, I have never felt smarter. That's big, because I am 20 and everyone I know that's my age, would describe their mental prime to be around 14-16. Another big factor is your diet. Not just food but also content. Short form content literally makes you dumber. The model of a Satvik lifestyle is one of the best imo, for achieving very efficient body and brain functionality. I believe there are ways where one can incorporate non-vegetarian aspects as well, but personally being Satvik has worked the best for me especially since I do Bhakti of a particulate deity and it's required.

It says that I clicked disagree to many times so I must have multiple personalities

I'll be 20 in two months and have some of the most important stuff of my life coming up in the next few years. I have it all planned out. The next 5-15 years all planned out to the appropriate degree. The only problem is execution. I am so inconsistent, hypocritical, undisciplined and honestly non-serious about my life that it hurts. I know I am the one doing this to myself yet I feel like a victim to my own laziness. I have made countless action plans, do overs and even spent money in implementing these plans. Yet I fall back to the life of least resistance after some time. It has made me lose hope over this year and it has made me cry at nights. I need to study, and I need to study seriously because the exam I am trying to pass needs A LOT of hardwork. I never worked hard in school and passed by studying the night before each time. I have never failed a test once in my life and that has made me lazy and arrogant. In fact, I passed the first level of my current course by studying only 11 days earlier. Less than 24% of the people who gave that exam that day passed it. But I have reached my limit now, I cannot pass this one by simply studying it even if it's 2 months earlier. This is why I decided to study from January this year. But I procrastinated entire weeks. I have only covered 40% of the syllabus and my exams are in 1.5 months. However, I know for a fact I can cover the rest in this time ONLY if I study 7-9 hours everyday without procrastinating. Yet, I am STILL procrastinating. Even if I pass this exam, it doesnt improve my personality and mindset of being lazy about my future. I don't give a shit and I really want to. I feel like I can do it without a lot of effort, and logically I know I can't. I have plans for my life that I can't follow through with this lazy mindset, habit or pride. So, I know what to do broadly in the next few years. I am even mentally capable of creating in between stepping stone goals and plans to achieve them. But I can't execute, at all. How do you become a serious man? (Please also suggest me some of Leo's old videos that deal exactly with this issue if you know of anything)

Thank you all for your support. I guess it'll get better on its own with time, I'll keep trying. Just pass this exam. That's all I want at the moment. But I keep escaping through procrastination. I don't even know what it is I am fearful of.

As much as I would love this conversation, if JP simply gets hostile then the whole thing would serve no value but drama. I'd rather Leo make a new video if that is what's going to happen.

Don't feel down about it. I know with things like these it's hard not to, even if everyone tells you it doesn't really matter. Deep down it still feels like having higher IQ would have been so much better. So know this, it's ok. IQ doesn't measure your intuition your awareness, and even if it did so what? You can develop that. Because ultimately that's what really matters. Realistically you only need enough IQ to survive. Your not some dumb low functioning human, it's just that dumb low functioning humans also happen to have low IQ. I don't think you'd be low functioning if you were on this forum and moreover had enough confidence to post your score. So don't stress it.

Honestly I couldn't tell just by looking at someone.

Only works for people who have already deconstructed the idea of having a back.

Demonizing pedophilia would be acting like a sheep, but I wouldn't call it 'wrong'. It's the right thing to do, because I do not want to live in a society where pedophilia is normalized. You might argue there is a grey area, and you would like to live in a society that is more aware of pedophilia and would help these people out without demonizing them, but that's a fantasy. Demanding that is demanding a stage Yellow society which is a very big ask. It's so far into the future that it's not worth discussing right now. Therefore I believe it to be the right move to demonize pedophilia, because the masses move in terms of extremes and not greys, and I like the current side of the extreme better than the other side. Once society enters the grey, the pendulum is bound to swing all the way. As for pedophilia itself, I don't believe that anybody is simply born a pedophile as if it's a sexual orientation. You become a pedophile due to circumstance and habits. One way, that I believe is quite common, is through porn. Most of us do not get affected by this, but some keep going deeper down the rabbit hole and before they know it, they are into kids. I believe it takes years but it happens. There view of sexuality gets so deconstructed they do not care now if it's a kid or not. Look, you can deconstruct your sexual orientation to a point where you are attracted to stone or a table, that does not mean you should do that, the same applies to kids.

My lifestyle lead to severe anemia recently and had to do blood transfusions to stay alive. I have decided to change my diet completely since. Eat like a Sannayasi only if you are living like one. Eat according to your lifestyle or it'll lead to problems. In my opinion, for a Grihasta guy, eating two meals a day, filling 3/4th of the stomach, and not drinking water during or after eating for 40 minutes, is enough. Not eating after sunset is also one of the big changes that leads to better sleep. Eating the right food is also essential, variety is very important. I now genuinely think that if you can afford to be vegetarian(not vegan), then it's the best choice.

I think of intelligence as having better clarity in a certain area of life. If you are gifted with IQ maybe you have amazing clarity regarding mathematics, geometry and space. But there are other fields, such as people, emotions, or metaphysics. If you have clarity in spiritual matters, only then might you achieve awakening without anyone telling you about it. High IQ doesn't imply high clarity in metaphysics, philosophy or self-awareness.

Understanding is creation. The urge to understand alongside the urge to explore stems from the root urge to create. Your urge to create because God creates all the time. When you understand something, you are able to see it, create it within your mind. Your mind expands, and within, you can hold the object you have understood. Creation entails setting up of biases, boundaries, limits, structure and relationships among the various distinctions within the object. This is the exact process when understanding something. Understanding feels liberating, it feels free, because you create. Creation is liberating. The more you create/understand, the larger you are. The more you can escape your previous frame of reference. The cosmic movement towards God and dissolution in God is what fuels the urge to create.