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Is every leaf on a tree its own jiva?
Keep coming across these weird sayings in Hinduism texts translations I am reading where they say stuff like
"Every blade of grass will be enlightened"
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Does Kundalini automatically got awakened when a person realize God(Brahman)?
I have read in Ramakrishna Paramhansa teachings that Kundalini gets awakened by default when one realises God(Brahman)?
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What is Maya in Hinduism and how the rope appears to be snake according to Adi Shankaracharya, how this analogy is related to Maya and Brahman(God)?
I know the word meaning of Maya is illusion. But what it is in reference to Hinduism? How it is related to the analogy of snake in the rope?
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How can I become a Jivanmukta (liberated while living in the body)?
I want to become Jivanmukta i.e liberated while living in this body. How to achieve this state?
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How to get state of Sthithaprajna as mentioned in Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 i.e. well established in God-Consciousness(Brahman)?
I have read Chapter 2 in which Lord Krishna explains about a man who is Sthithaprajna, means well established in God Consciousness (Brahman). How to achieve this state?
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How can I be above body-consciousness?
I have heard that one has to be above body-consciousness in spirituality. How to attain it?
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How can I become intensely virtuous and have ethical perfection to attain Brahman(God)?
I want to be full of divine qualities and divine virtues and ethics. How to cultivate them?
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How to make mind absolutely quiet so that Brahman(God) can be realized?
I want to make the mind quiet and purify the mind to a great extent so that I can have glimpse of God. How to quieten the mind more and more to 100% quiet and purified mind?
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How can I become a true devotee of Brahman (God)?
I want to be a true devotee of Brahman, the One, the formless.What can I do to achieve this?
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What is the difference between Brahman and Lord Krishna?
I have heard that Lord Krishna is form of Brahman. Is there any difference between Krishna and Brahman?
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Can meditation alone make a person Jivanmukta? Isn't it Jnana even after Samadhi in Meditation that leads to Jivanmukti?
I have heard that in deep meditation, we realise Brahman(God) but can that spiritual experience alone can make a jiva Jivanmukta? Isn't the jiva has to think after Samadhi in Meditation with respect ...
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I know that we are not the Body, Mind and Intellect. We all are Brahman. But Are we everything or nothing?
I have heard from a saint that a Jnani says that He is everything and a devotee says that He is nothing. Which one is right?
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Were avatars just gods in disguise or individuals that shared the same consciousness with a god?
Were Hindu avatars like Krishna individuals that were aware that they were avatars or was it just a god in disguise? Did Hindu avatars have their own personality (thoughts, motivations, feelings, etc.)...
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How does naam-rupa arise?
Naam-rupa is part of Hindu thought as given in the wikipedia :
The term nāmarūpa is used in Hindu thought, nāma describing the
spiritual or essential properties of an object or being, and rūpa the
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If absolute consciousness cannot be objectified ,what is the way to realize it? How to know it exists and all 5 sheaths appear to it and not the mind?
Advaita Vedanta says, Pure Consciousness (Chit) cannot be known as an object unlike Reflected Consciousness (Chidabhasa). How can we understand that all things appear to Pure consciousness but not the ...
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How does Vedanta differentiate between reflected consciouness(Chidabhasa) and pure consciouness(Chit)?
Pure consciousness is said to be the source of reflected consciousness. How does Vedanta try to separate the mixture of mind and reflected consciousness from pure consciousness and establish the "...
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For which deity is the Gayatri Mantra? Why do we chant it, and what exactly does it mean or signify?
To which deity is the Gayatri Mantra addressed? What exactly does it mean or signify? Why should we chant the Gayatri Mantra ?
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How does Advaita Vedanta assert and prove the eternality of cognition of Non dual Atman?
This article [1] says
Śāntarakṣita has however refuted the Upanishadic non-dualism in the
Tattva Sangraha’ chapter 7, section 5. In his refutation of the
Upanishadic view he has referred to the ...
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Difference between Atman, Chetna and Chaitanya?
In my understanding of the scriptures, it's mentioned that Atman, a small part of Brahman, resides within every living entity, giving rise to Chetna, which we can equate with consciousness.
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Is experience of Self/Atma not a mystical experience as per Traditional Advaita Vedanta? If so how can it be experienced?
Padmapāda, in his commentary upon Sankara’s introduction to the
Brahmasūtras, explains that there are two factors involved in the very
notion of ‘I’: there is the ‘not this’ (anidam amid) aspect which ...
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How does a Jnani forbearer various unpleasant events from perspective of Atman?
Swami Sarvapriyananda while quoting Gita 2.14, 2.55-57, writes , "Events which would make most ordinary men miserable, leave him unshaken, for he sees the same infinite Atman shining through (or, ...
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How to experience consciousness in every experience?
Swami Sarvapriyananda writes in "Sat Chit Ananda: The Philosophy of the Upanishads
", " Your true Self Chit , is not an experience, yet all experiences shine in Chit.Chit
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Who is the Sakshi/Witness-Consciousness that watches the mind? How to realize it or be situated in it?
Drig Drishya Viveka says I am aware of the contents in my mind and hence I should be different from my mind. But that awareness of being different from the mind or watching the mind only comes when I ...
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Why are 'HUMAN BEINGS' different, according to Hindu Philosophy?
All of us inherently recognise the concept of fundamental human dignity - that human beings are BORN FREE and EQUAL. But why are they, what is its philosophical basis in HINDUISM?
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If everything is a fairytale(vijnana bhairava tantra) then aren't all religious disputes just people arguing about which fairytale is better?
Hare Krishna,
Recently while reading the english translation of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, i came across a verse..
अप्रिद्धु मतीनाम एता िाऱविभीवषका्
मातृमोदकित्सिं प्रिृत्त्यथ धमदु ाहृतम १३ ॥
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Are the seven stages of understanding existence as per Advaita correlated to the seven chakras?
I was wondering about the correlation between the seven stages of understanding existence as per Advaita and the seven chakras.
The universe as it is- Root Chakra
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Was Adi Shankara Really aware that plants & trees are as much alive as any other living beings?
I've heard that Adi shankara believed that 'immovable (apparently inanimate) objects (like the tree) are endowed with sentience'. Evidently, Adi Shankara viewed 'the tree' as an object like the '...
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Is there anything in Hinduism to refute the idea that plant species are controlled by a single soul?
I feel like the most sensible answer to how plant souls work when plants can have cuttings is to say plants are single souled and the entire species is controlled by one soul. This makes sense with ...
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How can consciousness and or Brahman be attached to maya?
I am confused by the whole mechanism of enlightenment or self realization. If one's self is actually the universal self or brahman which is beyond maya how can it get attached to it?
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Do we remain unconscious or conscious after death
While I was searching about Hinduism on the internet, I got to know 2 contradictory facts.
One said that we get unconscious after death for 2 to 3 months as we become while sleeping,
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Is there any guidance in Hindu scriptures which describe how to know what is presently in the collective subconsciousness of the human community?
I am not talking about reading news to know the current consciousness/awareness, but about the collective subsconscious mind of our planet, is it possible to tap into and find out what are the matters ...
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With respect to the concept of Advaita, why is there separate Karma for different people?
According to the concept of Advaita, we say that 'Turiya', the supreme observer illuminates all the 3 forms the waker, dreamer, and deep sleep form of a human being. And also that every living being ...
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Is paramAtma/brahman just consciousness (awareness) OR is both, consciousness plus sentience (ability to perceive & feel)?
The current understanding is that that brahman/paramAtma/bhagawAn is that universal, inter-galactic & inter-multiverse consciousness. But is sentience ALSO an attribute of that paramAtam/brahman/...
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How is consciousness insentient without recognitive apprehension or vimarsha?
Utpaladeva argues that if consciousness did not have vimarsha,then it would be inert and dead.How is this the case? and during pralaya is vimarsha active?
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What is the reason for which Advaita must exist? why can't Consciousness be many?
if we presume that matter is derived from consciousness(and this seems most likely),for what reason is this consciousness one instead of many?one could say that a world perceived as the same by all ...
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How to increase Memory? [duplicate]
Is there any practice, mantra/stotra in Hinduism to Increase Memory.
I want to read about Smriti-Sakti, Jnana-Sakti, Buddhi Sakti, Kalpana Sakti, Pratibha Sakti...
Im trying to collect everything in ...
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Lord's Lotus Feet
Among all the bodily limbs of Lord Krishna why His Lotus feet is given so much prominence in Krishna consciousness? what is the logical reason for this?
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If we think thoughts about consciousness with the mind, does it imply mind is aware of consciousness? [closed]
We think everything in our minds. Even when one talks about pure consciousness he is referring to one's own thoughts which are products of mind. Now consciousness is the changeless perception of these ...
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How does one come to realize that atman is brahman?
Perhaps everybody has asked this question, but risking repetition, I'd like to ask, that once we realise the nature of our first person subjective awareness that experiences everything, how does one ...
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Understanding Nirguna Brahman
The meditation method of neti neti, is something that took me a while to grasp but I think I have understood it with some help. Consciousness has been seen as a clear crystal ball, which gets colored ...
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Consciousness as vrittis themselves [closed]
I have been pondering the nature of vritti and it seems that self awareness is a natural condition pervasive throughout the universe. A matter particle is aware of gravitational field. We know this is ...
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Regarding showing that universe is in the consciousness in Shankar's Aparokshanubhuti
In Aparokshanubhuti, Shankara shows that we are not the body nor the mind by giving various techniques like Drig, Drishya, Viveka etc.
But after that, he discards whatever he said and by giving ...
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Why, when and how did the Atman acquire body consciousness?
I know Atman is self aware but I don't know why that Atman lost his self awareness that he is unlimited and beginning-less and instead acquiring limited body awareness.
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What are the 14 layers of the mind
I had read somewhere that in the vedas the awareness can be divided into four categories, i.e chitta (consciousness/conscience), manas (heart/want/desire), aham (ego) and buddhi (intelligence).
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Does Samadhi mean that the soul never gets reincarnated?
It is said that the cycle of birth and detach continues until one's mind merges with infinite consciousness. Does it mean that once the mind merges with infinite consciousness (samadhi), it doesn't ...
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Has any Vedantin criticized this teaching of the Buddha?
According to Vedanta, a single self or jIva is the seat of consciousness. jIva as a single unit, is not further divisible.
Buddhism, on the other hand, does not subscribe to the doctrine of a ...
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Remain conscious while dying?
This question is continuation of What can one do to enjoy death or the dying process? . From answers I learned devotion can be the mArga to enjoy death process. Now my question is How to remain ...
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Is time taveling possible according to Hinduism? [duplicate]
Not necessarily sending body to past or future but also transferring consciousness to different time periods.Is it supported in Hindu scriptures?
The only time I know about transfering consciousness ...
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What is the difference between consciousness and matter?
I want to know the difference between consciousness, awareness, energy and matter. Also how could we define if any thing is consciousness or not?
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Is Brahman sentient in Advaita Vedanta?
If Brahman is Consciousness and Omniscient, then he should be sentient also since both are indiscernible.
