Questions tagged [consciousness]
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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 come to conclude that that atman, which is his…
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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 by the mental vrittis that arise in the physical…
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Consciousness as vrittis themselves
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 true because it "responds" to that. A proton is…
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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 get associated with other body. So, the mind/soul…
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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
physical presence that it manifests. These terms…
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Freedom from cycle of ( re-birth _ death_re-birth )
Is the re-birth recurrence principle a belief or an assumption proved true by those more spiritually evolved in states of higher consciousness? Were there instances of verification or revelations in ancient or in recent times?
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Punarapi…
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