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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Discover the Underlying Unity

Explore how to go beyond duality to living in Oneness

The realizations of jnana yoga are not just mental conceptions. They are realities which can be experienced by becoming absorbed in Spirit. Discover how to seek the freedom and realization which comes from knowing the unity which underlies the diversity. These quotes are from the Mandukya Upanishad:

Jnana Yoga
  • Even when the mind moves in the physical plane, it attains peace by discovering the unity underlying diversity.
  • The highest bliss is experienced when you truly know that Spirit is the essence of all things. 
  • Diversity is realized to be nothing but the non-dual Spirit. The notion of separateness is unreal. 
  • It is through maya or ignorance that one regards the manifold universe as separate from Spirit. 
  • Diversity being the cause of misery, the non-dual Spirit alone is the highest bliss. 
  • Only an immediate and direct experience of non-duality can destroy the illusion of duality.

The Highest Bliss

Bliss is real. It is within us. It reveals Itself as we stop being lost in all the differentiations of life and begin to find the unity underlying the diversity. The highest teaching of Vedanta is that Spirit alone is real. All things and living beings are Spirit expressing Itself. What some may see as diverse phenomena, the yogi sees as Spirit revealing Itself in infinite ways. The highest bliss is experienced when one realizes all things are Spirit — Spirit manifesting Itself in countless forms. 

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