Category: Yoga for Spiritual Awakening
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Awareness – Beyond the Seen
A Narrative Commentary on Non-Dual Consciousness 1. Contextualizing the Quest: Prince Rama and the Yoga Vashishta The journey into non-duality (Advaita) rarely begins with a peaceful meditation; it often begins with a crisis. We see this in the young Prince Rama of the Yoga Vashishta. Despite his royal privilege and impending coronation, Rama falls into…
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Who am I?
1. Introduction: Beyond the Label When someone asks you, “Who are you?”, what is your go-to answer? Usually, we reach for a list of nouns: your name, your year level, the sports you play, or maybe your group of friends. The world around us tells us that these labels are who we are. We’re taught…
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What is Nonduality
The Illusion of the Individual We often carry the heavy weight of our own boundaries, feeling like a solitary island in a vast, indifferent sea. This sense of being a completely separate, isolated individual is perhaps the most common human experience, yet it is a perspective that obscures a more profound reality. Nonduality offers us…
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Life as a Whirlpool
Understanding Your Place in the World Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought of your body as a solid, permanent object—like a brick or a piece of furniture? Most of us do. But if we look closer at the science and philosophy of life, we find a much more exciting reality.…
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The Whirlpool Paradox – Why You are a Process Not a Person
Most of us navigate existence as if we were isolated islands—limited, localized forms adrift in an indifferent environment. This sense of being a “closed system” is the primary engine of our modern anxiety, fueling a profound feeling of disconnection from the world around us. We treat our “self” as a static object to be protected,…