"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect".

Sri Ramana Maharsi received many visitors daily. He was was asked by guest from Italy, “What is samsara?” Sri Ramana seemingly ignored the question. Many days later a notable politician who advocated for release from English colonial rule appeared at the gate of the asrama and all the spiritual seekers left the darshana hall and went to the front gate to see this political figure except for this visitor from Italy. Addressing him all alone, Sri Ramana said in the observation how everyone quickly gave up their spiritual aspirations and ran off, “Now you know what Samsara is.”

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In samsara, one is with the body and the mind, both suffer from pain and suffering, therefore releasing from it becomes a process of relief and escape from the predicament! It is  Mukti, ie: escape from pain and suffering!

Opposite of death is not life!
Opposite of death is birth !
There is no opposite of life !
What a great statement of fact, so obvious but never occurred ! Thank you so much for sharing this great thought of Eckhart Tolle 🙏

The tendencies mentioned is the Samskaric impressions, those impressions on the consciousness that comes from the senses interacting with the environment.

I am on the edge of my seat for the next videos. In this moment I am wondering if we really ever break free of maya while in a body, seeing as how it is maya that brings the phenomenal world into apparent existence. I might gain a conceptual understanding of Brahman that is my essence, and perhaps lose fixated attachment to my relative identity, but is moksha ever more than a moment by moment "day job" of re-membering? I appreciate your videos.

Incredibly mind cleansing and very articulate. Thank you for making this.

I love what you were saying at the beginning, about how reality isnt a domino effect (a very western theory) one thing doesn't simply cause another thing, there are many factors as to way things occur. Not too long ago I had a curious thought pop into my head, "what religion is closest to science?" and upon Googling it I found out that Buddhism was! "everything is connected" is just ecology! And I love the Western postmodern/poststructuralist philosophers because a lot of their material and theories just circle back around to Eastern philosophy, although it could also be seen as appropriating 😬, but that just adds to the notion that everything is a cycle! (I'm sorry this is just exciting realizations I'm having lol) the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, if you're familiar with his works, has SOOOO many similarities with Zen philosophy. From impermanence or as what he liked to call "Difference" (he does a lot of critique of Western philosophers who emphasize that which is stable or enternal over that which is in movement (YouTube Channel called Then&Now has a great analysis of him), to thought being an inadequate representation of reality, and circling back to "Difference" but relating more to the idea that "everything is connected", I highly recommend the book (if you haven't read it, although you probably are already familiar) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the keywords to remember are "freedom", "Difference", "Nonlinear", and "Everything". It focuses on comparing society to Rhizomes (like a ginger root). In the first chapter Deleuze, along with French psychoanalyst Felix Guattari, write, "Any point of the rhizome can be connected to any other. It is non-heirarchical.", "Rhizomes have the principle of multiplicity.", "There are no central points.", so on and so forth.

I just find it incredibly fascinating how ahead of it's time Eastern religions were, so far ahead of it's time that we here in the West had to analyze everything to death and put it under a microscope, just to circle back around and say, "looks like yall were on to something over there". The one thing that's missing from postmodern philosophy, that Eastern philosophy has though is, where they both believe that truth cannot cannot be grasped intellectually, Buddhism believes that there is a truth beneath the web of meaning, whereas postmodern/poststructuralist philosophers would look just as cockeyed at Buddhism and its claims of finding enlightenment as they would traditional Christian claims. This is because they don't believe there's anything beneath the web. Where one says "the truth cannot be grasped" its speaking of the limits of the intellect and the nature of Truth, whereas the other just means, as a whole, the truth cannot be known or rather, there is no truth.

Although I appreciate postmodern/poststructuralists critiques and its deconstruction of modernity, I think this "God is dead" mentality is severely hurting us as a society. People are lost and confused and hurting. I was getting a bit nauseous because the floor was always moving. I'm glad it catapulted me into rediscovering the spiritual side of life.

Please correct me if I got any of this wrong or if I'm way off-kilter. I have only 1.5 years of community college under my belt so I know I'm not well versed on any of this but it really is so interesting to me and I'd love to learn more or different perspectives.

Im binge watching your videos! I’ve said it before to you. It is so wonderful that you speak with such love and compassion and no judgment. I feel blessed that I learned English to be able to listen to your words. I was shown something interesting when I was 6 years old. I went into a coma and traveled 2 lives back. Emphasis was on eyesight. I had no problems with my eyes then. I was blind for 2 lives. I carried an immense bitterness due to being blind. First blindness was a result of violence. Second time I was born blind. I felt all the emotions in those bodies. It was intense, but while in it, I didn’t remember being the current me. I was that person completely. But the message was that this bitterness and anger led me to keep repeating the experience of no sight. Eventually I became vast and the 6 year old me, but somehow much larger I guess. I couldn’t see anything but brightness. Indescribable one. I asked why emotions hurt so much even though we are so tiny. The answer was that because only a small piece of me was on earth, but the rest of me could still feel everything too. My next question was when I could go to God. The answer was shown to me in a form of doors. 7 doors to be precise. Only one was opened. The message was that after all 7 are opened. It took me a long time to take this message seriously. I was too young I guess. Thought I’d share.

You explain far better than my teacher

Brian Weiss has seen it all, and so does the millions of psychologists practicing past-life regression therapy.

Great video! A bit late to the party but thank you for sharing.

These videos are amazing!! Thank you so much!!!

Actually if it’s raining hard enough the raindrops join together as a layer of fresh water on top of the ocean (because it’s lighter than salt water) until the wind and waves mix the rainwater into the ocean. Perhaps that’s a metaphor for the bodhisattva or jivanmukti.

Saiva Siddhanta through scriptures Thiruvasagam and Thirumantiram elaborated on evolution of atman from single cell being to human and higher consciousness being. It shows the progress of consciousness states based the karmic processes. If not mistaken Buddhism also reiterate it.

man idk where in the woodwork did u come from -- but truly i am glad to have found U!! thanku, ThankU -- i have studied Hinduism for seven years and am happy to finally connect -/ THANQ

I keep coming back to your videos. They are always such a pleasure and so informative.

Beautifully described! Thank you!

It is interesting that incarnation starts with an I and reincarnation starts with RE. Perhaps I and RE are one ☝️ and the same?