Chad Plante 🙏

I help you discover yourself • 10 yrs experience in contemplation & psychedelics • Tweets on self-awareness & creating your best life.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

One should not confuse love with attachment or obsession.
Single-pointed love is not the same as being overly attached or obsessed. Love is freedom. It is joy and safety. Where the entire self feels alive, healthy, good. Feeling that inner joy and wellness is spirituality. Strive for that, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Attachments or obsessions make one feel smaller and smaller. Safety, health, and wellbeing start disappearing. The mind becomes fearful and starts seeing scarcity and darkness everywhere. It becomes afraid of losing what it has. But love can never be lost. One can never be far from it. Enlightenment, spirituality, these are states of being within the self. Don’t follow someone’s story of finding spirituality or enlightenment outside. The true SatGuru leads one to the inner Guru, to complete union with God within the heart. Anyone who disconnects you from your own inner world, your intuition, your gut feeling, the truth of your health, isn’t looking out for your wellbeing or spirituality. That would just be a game of power and control. Complete independence is complete union with God within the heart. To want complete independence of self is not wrong. That is the blooming of the atma, the true self. To realize oneself, one has to let go of the obsessions and fears of the mind. The SatGuru is within one’s own heart, a pure feeling of love, there is no external shackle or necessity on the spiritual path. Only that complete freedom and joy of feeling loved by God in every moment. This independence can then be infinite because the eternal friend is always with you. The friendship with Sri Hari Narayan within one’s heart is realized. This is single-pointed love towards Bhagavan. Not an obsession of the mind which makes one go into darkness, nor an attachment of the outside which becomes a shackle sooner or later. Love is complete freedom, don’t be afraid of anything.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

How simple is your path to believe wholeheartedly and follow without problems?
The spiritual path should be something that is easy to talk about. Simple for even a new person to understand and follow. And most of all, it shouldn’t break down if logic is applied to it. Rationality and creativity, logic and faith, they are equally important parts of human life. There should never be a need for blind faith towards anything. If your spiritual path is asking for blind following, it may not be a true path towards God at all. Examine it within your heart, investigate, and allow the answers to emerge as you grow your understanding and learning. But don’t close your eyes to the answers that emerge from within and outside. Always be open-hearted and open-minded. A question one can ask oneself is, “even if all mystical phenomena were taken away from what I believe in, do I still have a path left to walk on?” If the answer is no, then it means that one has been believing the signs and wonders of the outside. One doesn’t have any strong reason to follow the path from inside. The mystical phenomena should not become the only reason you believe in something or someone. If God did not perform miracles in your life, would you still believe in Him? Would you still love Him single-pointedly with no conditions? Would you still be willing to follow Him no matter what? Be sincere with yourself. What is your reason for walking on the spiritual path? How unconditional or conditional is that reason? Even if every miracle of the outside were taken away, would you still believe, still love?

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

Learning to be okay with “I don’t know, but I’m happy to learn.”
How many people are alright with saying that? Accepting that one doesn’t know everything. Everyone is always learning, always growing. One doesn’t stop being a student. Because life itself is a school. It is beautiful to keep the mind open to all possibilities regardless of age or any other circumstances. Keep learning. Grow. Be curious. Develop critical thinking. Test your faith against difficult questions. Faith isn’t something to just close one’s eyes and accept foolishly. Faith is built on a solid foundation only when you yourself are sure that it can withstand the test of time, of difficult questions, of still loving and having meaningful discussions with those who don’t have the same thought or path as you. Even within one path, everyone is different. How can everyone be the same? It’s not possible. Each one is unique. The beauty is in accepting that. The exciting thing is to grow by learning from everyone. Love is fostered when you wish to grow with the world. You can see perfection in imperfection. You can see God where earlier you could not. It’s okay to not know everything. Life is to be lived. Loved. Enjoyed. Made extraordinary for all beings that you spend time with. This planet is so filled with life, it is actually so easy to love all the time. There are countless ways to grow your love. Make your mind curious and open. Allow it to soar to the heights of peace and joy. Let your mind become your best friend. Accept what you don’t know, but keep learning. Share your best self with the world, and allow God to take care of you in return.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The Guru does precisely how much is necessary for true positive change.
For example, if one is going to change one’s negative pattern with exactly ten points of pressure, the Guru applies exactly ten. Not nine, not eleven. He is only interested in bringing one to unconditional love as one has asked him to do. He will not do anything one has not asked. And he will not stop doing what one has asked. Until one changes one’s mind, until one’s decision changes. He will keep working the way one has asked him to do. He will always give his very best. The perfect servant leader. The perfect goldsmith, he knows how much a piece of gold needs to be cast as a beautiful bracelet. And how much another needs to be cast as necklace. It is what each one has asked him to do. One is always free to take back that request. If the change from negativity to infinite positivity is too difficult, one is always free to ask him to go slow or stop altogether. He is the perfect doctor. Like Guru Arjan Dev ji wrote, “Mera Baid Guru Govinda” - my doctor is Guru Govinda. He doesn’t do what will hurt one. But he won’t stop removing the poison that one has asked him to remove. However, if one refuses to take the medicine, he also will never force. His mercy and freedom knows no bounds. He takes the poison and the blame. But hands out only love and mercy. This is his eternal promise. The fortunate see his love and glimpse the Eternal One in his heart.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

In the moments before departing from this world, the atma is aware of all the secrets that were hidden inside itself.
The reason for coming to this world. The way it has lived its life. Who it has hurt. Who it has loved selflessly. Whose heart it has crushed. Whose heart was infused with comfort and warmth because of it. The atma becomes aware of the presence of the Antaryami fully. For a few moments. It has complete awareness. Those who have lived as true bhaktas, they carry this same state forward into their journey to Sri Hari’s lotus feet. But those who haven’t tried to walk the path of sincere and selfless love, this awareness brings them great regret and pain. The regret of not having lived well. The pain of having wasted such a beautiful opportunity to be born as a human in this world and yet having missed the opportunity to reach true freedom. Such an atma feels great sorrow knowing that that supreme awareness and knowledge will once again become dormant in a few moments. Because of its lack of ability to handle it. And it will have to start over again in a new life. The lotus feet of Shriman Narayan are extremely difficult to reach. Don’t think that the simple label of a bhakta, wearing a tilak or mala for some years, can bring you to Him. Not at all. The arduous process of removing everything except for endless love from one’s inner state is the most difficult thing. One is not guaranteed a place at the lotus feet of Bhagavan without one’s effort. Grace is always there. Especially when one has the great fortune to meet the SatGuru. But how you take that grace, how you handle its radiant beauty in your life, how you grow it and make it shine on all. That is what will change everything. The SatGuru’s grace, His love and mercy are everflowing and overflowing to all. But only those who have polished themselves to perfection through constant inner work and true positive change will reach that most exalted place. Allowing the SatGuru to lift you up towards Bhagavan is the greatest gift you can give Him. But this deep inner willingness to be humble and surrendered, and keeping that willingness always alive, is the choice of the jeevatma. The world cannot understand how much the SatGuru yearns to bring everyone to Bhagavan’s feet, where one can find everything one has ever longed for. And how much it hurts His heart to see that most are unwilling. So He just waits, seeing valuable time passing by, opportunities being wasted. And the jeevatma hurtling towards its own greatest misery; further disconnection from Bhagavan. Yet He cannot do anything because that is the jeevatma’s free choice to make. This is what the atma sees fully in the moments of its departure from this world. And for an atma that has made itself fully golden through its endless love and kindness, those final moments are filled with the most exquisite peace and joy. Blessed are the true bhaktas who have allowed their hearts to become endless fountains of selfless love to all

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

The instinct to know more about everything is a fundamentally human characteristic.
For thousands of years, humans have been exploring everything. From the ocean, to space, to the development of trees, to other human minds and their behaviors. Curiosity about the self and the environment around the self is the growth of consciousness from simply existing with basic instincts of food, shelter, safety, care, and reproduction - to higher levels of consciousness like logical reasoning, delayed gratification, costly altruism, all the way to self, life, and God-realization. This inner fire to grow in joy, to learn and be inspired, to question and humbly realize should be kept alive within you. It is the way the atma interacts with the world. It is the way one keeps expanding the consciousness. Anyone who tells you to stop questioning within your heart and not follow that deep and true intuition within you is a deluded person. Become curious about the intuition, the inner voice of the self. Where is its origin point? Does it feel like the guidance from love and wisdom? Or does it lead to fear and ego? With this repeated questioning of the self, one can polish the intuition. Allowing it to submerge into the will of the atma. Allowing one to let go of the egoistic illusion and emerge steadily into the eternal reality of Bhagavan. With the SatGuru, in the Sanatan Dharma, one is not taught blind faith. One is taught to use every resource to its highest potential with love. One is taught to respect and care for all beings like they are each a part of one’s own heart. One is taught that nothing is greater or lesser than the other. Not even other paths are judged as inferior. One is encouraged to understand one’s own deep inner intuition and follow it towards Bhagavan. And to bring that inner vision, that unrealized dream into concrete actions and intentions. Through working on the self, one helps the world. And through loving everyone, one helps oneself. Love is a beautiful upward spiral of existence.

[Swami Vishwananda @vishwananda]

People keep questioning why they are receiving pain, why there is so much suffering in the world. Why doesn’t God, Guru take it away?
But do you know that the true fight is always inside? It feels like it is outside, people, situations, and so on. But it is always the One energy which is in movement everywhere. The Oneness that is manifest within and outside you. And the fight can never be fought, won, or lost on the outside. It is always inside. What did Bhagavan Sri Krishna show Arjun? That it is the inner state which has to be controlled to actually win the fight inside and outside. It is the atma itself that is fighting the lower parts of your psyche which are strangling it. The karmas one doesn’t pay any attention to, that one is happily creating mountains of, they are like thorny vines. They strangle the tiny plant which is the atma. They compete with it for food. They steal its nutrients. They look for ways that the gardener which is you, don’t look at the tiny plant of the atma. Because it is filled with so much joy, love, and devotion that you will never look at the weeds and thorny vines ever again. You will be in so much bliss with the atma which is revealing Bhagavan to you, that you will never want to look at anything else. When you try to walk with love on the spiritual path, you give strength to that tiny plant of love inside you. The atma is strengthened to fight against the vines that are trying to keep it silent, trying to subdue its presence using any means necessary. And with your small sparks of love and devotion, the atma fights off the vines strangling it, so that you can finally have peace and love. This is the true pain that everyone goes through. The outside is always only a mirror. It is never the true battlefield, no matter how much it may look like that. The fight within is the battlefield you must enter and win. And yet who is blamed for any pain? The Paramatma who is further locked up inside the atma. Like a seed in a fruit. He is blamed for one’s pain. He has been locked up and forgotten inside since the moment the atma was formed. But does anyone care about His pain? How much He longs to jump out from within and reveal His endless love to you? A love that has been strangled and suffocated, hidden away and forced to go through so much. Yet He only loves all the time, deep and enduring love that has faced so much violence from the other parts of one’s psyche. The atma causes the self pain when fighting the inner demons so that it can free itself and release the Paramatma locked up within. But is the atma to be silenced again because you can’t handle the pain of the medicine it is giving out? Does one want to continue living in misery, in shackles, in darkness and forgetfulness of everything that’s truly good and joyful? Because that’s the outcome of silencing your atma. Look at the mirror of the outside and use it to strengthen your love and devotion. Allow your atma to finally be free. Let the Antaryami come out and walk with you after all this time of being forgotten.

[Chad Plante 🙏 @HeyChadPlante]

What's the point of life? This was a question I had to venture into and these 3 things saved my life
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@thoucreator I totally agree 🙏

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“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

~ Alan Watts

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@thoucreator Agreed 🙏

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Unpopular Opinion:

No one is coming to save you

Nothing outside of you can save you from your internal dialogue

If you want something different from what you have you need to change the inner

[Chad Plante 🙏 @HeyChadPlante]

@pmitu What is it telling you?

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Can you hear the call of your heart?

It's sending you messages

Bringing you people 

Opening you to new possibilities

The question is do you allow yourself to hear them?

[Chad Plante 🙏 @HeyChadPlante]

Because why not. 😂

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

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@dannymcmahon I love this poster great job 👏

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@theJacksonFrank Yes it is and I love how you put it

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Is life getting you upset?

Life is the way it is

You being upset won't change that

The beauty comes when we can look at these upsets and see where we are not ok with how the world is

That's where the work is

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Whatever you choose to celebrate is perfect

I wish you blessing, grace, and ease through this holiday season and into the new year

Much Love 🙏

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@The_AmandaMcC Absolutely 💯🙏

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What if life flowed easily with simple gratitude

All you had to do was be grateful everyday 

Would you do it?

I dare you to try

[Chad Plante 🙏 @HeyChadPlante]

Want the world to be a better place?

If you are pointing out all the problems in the world and not looking inwards

Well you might be part of the problems that you're pointing out

The world-changing starts with each one of us looking at ourselves