Exploring the Essence of Advaita Vedanta

In this conversation Rupert and Dr Tony Nader talk about the essence of Advaita Vedanta. Dr Nader is a neuroscientist, author and head of the international Transcendental Meditation organisation in over 100 countries. The discussion explores the Vedantic perspective on topics such as consciousness, the true nature of reality and how that relates to the self.

They also discuss concepts such as sat chit ananda, maya or illusion, moksha and how ultimately this ancient non-dual teaching can help us to live better lives.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Defining Advaita Vedanta
5:15 Sat Chit Ananda
8:49 Ultimate Reality Is Blissful
11:13 Defining Consciousness
15:08 Descartes' Evil Demon
21:23 Exploring The Dream Analogy
31:21 Is The World Maya?
33:58 We Are All The Same Perceiver
38:23 Moksha
40:08 The Price Consciousness Pays For Manifestation
42:27 Consciousness Never Loses Its Peace.
44:41 Lucid Waking
45:44 The Purpose Of Manifestation
48:09 What Is The Nature Of Awareness?
48:58 Can Consciousness Know Itself?
50:07 The Process Of Self-Knowing
53:08 Consciousness Knows Itself By Being Itself
53:28 How Can The Finite Mind Know Itself?
58:05 Illusion And Reality
1:09:41 Can Consciousness Perceive A Universe?
1:16:51 Everything Is Consciousness
1:22:02 Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum

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[barathvenkatachalam]

Hare Krishna 🕉️🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼🕉️
Nama Shivaya 🕉️🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼🕉️

[SizzWaz]

A tell tale sign of these teachings is that you can watch this without sound and still feel rewarded, simply by the love shared by the shine in their eyes and the gentle smiles.

[intradaywolves]

Rupert, clearest views and explanation on Advaita i have ever experienced in my life.... Being a seeker of truth, had been researching Upanishads, hyms and commentaries of philosophers... But one video of you cleared many of my doubts in just 1 hour of time.. Thank you so much.. Regards from a seeker from 🇮🇳.

[mirelakondi]

Rupert we are blessed for having you ❤

[DawnyDarko]

Rupert really has a gift to explain in simple but detailed understandable terms and concepts of what he is relaying. I have been an avid listener of Swami Sarvapriyananda who also is a gifted speaker and am grateful for this introduction to Rupert on the Eternal Journey🙏

[Cornflower]

What an amazing talk between two experts in consciousness! ❤️ I loved seeing the respect that they both had for each other

[henriette...]

It's interesting to hear the contrast between someone who speaks from experience (Rupert) and someone who speaks from ideas/concepts.

[p.s.]

Such a beautiful meeting and talk. Where there is so much peace and joy there is truth.

[martinaamengual]

Wonderfull! Fascinating !
Thank You to Both of You,
Ruperto & Toni
Thank You!

[abababa]

Beautiful talk of father and son :)) Thank you dr. Tony and Rupert

[ascendingkevin]

Very important conversation in recognision of the one.

[Meditation]

Wow!! The best way to spend a night during Memorial Day weekend ❤😀😀😀🙏

[bensmithy]

Ah been waiting for this for long..
❤

[euroitalian]

Thank you Rupert for defining "illusion". That alone has been enlightening for me.

[JamesBS]

Wow, trees in Paris have eyes. I have to visit.

[ghanem.sbaih]

WoW WoW so important 👍👍👍 thank you both so much
sometimes Mr. Tony attached to Terms

[blissfull]

No ‘MD PhD’ with all their theories and proud scientific minds would ever become free. By definition ☺️

[observer]

consciousness is not in body but body is in consciousness

[davidmickles]

If it brings any comfort to readers I would like to share this.

Om 🙏, Here is the actual case of our experiencing:

Ordinarily we believe in the "true existence" of a world seperate and distinct from our experiencing of it. But through close and subtle analysis of this experience, in addition to certain special practices of disciplining the mind and calming the emotions, it becomes clear that such an apparent "dualistic" view of reality cannot be upheld as being ultimately true.

What distinguishes us from machines? What distinguishes us from machines is our **awareness, ** our "consciousness", our "experiencing." Awareness is synonymous with consciousness or "experience." Machines and inanimate matter can move and can even be said (eventually) to "calculate." However, only living things (beings) can "experience." Living beings are "alive" due to a life energy ("shakti") that drives both their birth ("beginning") and their evolution. This energy (shakti) is not measurable by physical means as it is infused in and with consciousness ("Brahman" - which is fundamental and not objectively observable). What we are in reality is this union of awareness & life energy. These two are inseperable.

Within our awareness there are appearing forms (experiences) or "planes" of experience which are basically intensifications ("peaks or solidifications") in the field of conscioussness-energy. As humans we are exactly this "awarness-energy" that is "embodied" or "existing" in such a plane we call material or "physical reality." Such planes of experience (consciousness-experiences) manifest from our karma, (residual trace ripples of effect in consciousness) due to impulsive grasping & aversion based on ignorance.
Our "human" experiencing of limitation and suffering arises from this process.

These appearing ripples in the fields of consciousness are "dualistic" planes of experience - in that we erroneously see a distinction here between subject & object, between "ourselves" and the appearing environment. All experiences (all that appears) are simply vibrations of this energy of consciousness.

When consciousness is finally stilled (settled in pure awareness or "pure being") there is no more a distinction in time or place, self or other, and only an undivided, non-dual wholeness which is true peace.

So please relax and enjoy your being, there is nothing but experiencing.

[benjaminchew]

Hi Rupert, ever since I started watching your videos, I was able to tap so much into my consciousness and discover that I am Awareness and it all felt so good, but now my mind seems to be clamping down really hard, and it's like there's an entity in my head that's constantly over-reactive and causing all sorts of clenching or tightness in my body, it makes me unable to burp or fart or poop easily, it's amplifying the pain I feel from all sorts of things and feelings, and it's affecting my life really much. When I try to talk to this entity, I always get the same answers, it wants me to suffer, and the reason it is here is because of all the consciousness work that I did, and that it is killing it, so it wants me to stop, but I have already stopped for so long, almost weeks, but this entity is still here, and it's just making life harder and harder by the day, I'm like having constipation and bloating just from the fact that mind is so tight that it won't let me release, and my entire life is now centered around finding ways to burp and fart and poop. No matter how hard I try to make peace or be friends with it, it just stays silent, and gives me no answer, and whenever I even think about anything that's slightly triggering to it, like abiding in God consciousness, or meditating, or simply being jolted by sudden movements, and noises, it just goes absolutely nuts, and clenches up completely, making the top of my head feel like there's a clamp on it. I really need help on this, have you or anyone here encountered such a phenomenon before? And what would you guys recommend I do to put an end to this? Is there a way to come to peaceful terms with it? A way for it to just let go if I would stop the meditations? Do I just give it time to calm down? It seems worse and worse each day. Do I keep on practicing meditation regardless of how painful it is and maybe it will be gone forever? But it just feels worse and worse the more I do it, and it always comes back, and it feels wrong to be forcing things like this. I feel like my life is really going to end if I don't find any solutions, anyone who has any idea what's going on and what I should be doing, I would be so grateful to hear from you!