[Advaita-l] WHAT ARE YOU?

[KAMESWARARAO MULA]

 Dear Sh. Ryan Armstrong,
 Absolute answer you gave , may be we can take it as definition.

regards
kameswara



     On Wednesday, 22 July, 2020, 11:55:46 am IST, Ryan Armstrong via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 Namaste
When this knowledge is fully embraced, one reacts to what is directly
perceived - not what the mind presents.
Ideas of "my life" and "my actions" are gone from the mind.
The desire to "do things"  too does not manifest.

When the actions are performed thus, one see kindness having manifested by
the reactions of those served.
Here, these observations are often claimed by ahaMkAra and ideas of "I'm so
kind" are played with after the fact.
But the actual actions become effortless and free from ideas of results.

Of course this is all when the knowledge is fully embraced.
Kind Regards
Ryan

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 16:06, smallpress via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Thank you for this post. May I ask the group this question:How does this
> knowledge, once fully embraced, align with the way you live your life?In
> other words what has changed in the way you act, react, and face the world
> daily?How does kindness Manifest?Thank you
>    On Monday, July 20, 2020, 09:20:35 PM EDT, sreenivasa murthy via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Dear friends ?
> What are you or What am I ?That is the  ONLY  Vital  question for  a
> mumukshu.
> The  answer  is:
> The  Self  is  Immutable.
> While  it  is  immutable,  everything  other
>  than  the  Self  is  subject  to  change.The  Self  which  is  eternal
> awareness  pervades,
>  as  it  were,  all  the  perishing  functions  of  the  mind.The  Self
> is  the  WITNESS  of  the
> mental  states  like  pleasure  and  pain.
> The  Self  is  the  constant  factor
> in  all  mental  modifications
>  likememory, confusion, ignorance
>  and  also  in  the  different  states  of  experience,
> viz. waking,  dream  and  deep  sleep.
> The  Self  is  not  affected  by  anything  external  to it,
> whatever may be the state ofexperience.The  Self  is  self-evident ,
> self-luminous,
> self-existing  and  nirvikAri.
> The  Self  is  the  unchanging  WITNESS  to
>  the  thousand  modifications  of  the  intellect.
> TheSelf (Viz. Brahman), the ultimate Reality,
> is  one  and  non-dual,  and  is  devoid  of
> sajathiya , vijathiya  and  svagatha  bhedha.              THAT SELF ART
> THOU.
>                                      *
>
> One,  who  is  at this moment unaware  of  the  above .
>  if  he  cognizes it  within  oneself  by  oneself
>  he  will  be  an ATMAVIT  or  Jnani  for  sure.It  is  so  simple  and
> direct.It  is  svasAkShikam  and  svAnuBavagamyam.
> Why not  do it and be kRuthArtas?
> With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy.
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Ryan Armstrong
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