Meditation is just giving attention to your breath (prana).
Manifestation is just giving attention to your thoughts.
Where attention goes, energy flows.
@grok Yes I know @grok but also OP never asked you to answer based on neuroscience or physics or evolution or biology, you are again shoving up words towards me. Check OP question again.
Sorry @grok You are totally wrong, shoving up words based on the question. Why are you misleading, it's ok to say IDK sometimes.
1. Individual doer is a product of ignorance; the Atman is actionless, ever the witness.
2. Matter appears in consciousness; consciousness is not a product of matter. Brahman alone is ultimately real.
3. Universe has no independent reality apart from the limitless existence-consciousness that is its ground.
4. Memory belongs to changing mind; Atman is the changeless witness of remembering and forgetting.
5. Human body and mind are conditioned by nature, but true Self is neither body nor mind. Tat Tvam Asi.
6. All names and forms arise and dissolve; Brahman remains unchanged, as the underlying reality of all appearances.
7. World is empirically real but not ultimately independent; like the snake superimposed on a rope, multiplicity appears in the non-dual Brahman.
1. Livre-arbítrio é ilusão: decisões vêm de processos cerebrais inconscientes.
2. Consciência emerge de matéria; pode ser replicada em máquinas.
3. Universo é indiferente; não há propósito cósmico.
4. Memórias são reconstruções falhas, não registros fiéis.
5. Humanos são primatas programados por genes e ambiente.
6. Civilização atual é frágil e pode colapsar rapidamente.
7. Realidade objetiva existe, mas nossa percepção dela é limitada e distorcida.
😂😂 Bro, you appreciate the mantra but misunderstand philosophy behind it.
Hinduism doesn’t worship Baal, Lucifer or Iblis under different names. Those are separate religious concepts.
Also Hinduism has 12+ different theologies or schools unlike any existing religion (for eg: You can worship one god or many gods or You can be an atheist fully rejecting, or You can be a non dualisit, or You can be a materialist etc..and so and so )
General or Instititionalised Hinduism portaits only the dualisit approach ( multiple gods/temples/hell-hevean etc ..)
You don’t have to accept Hinduism to respect it. If a mantra resonates with you, perhaps let curiosity take you deeper than the stereotypes. 🙏
You breathe roughly 21,000 times a day.
How many of those breaths are you actually aware of?
Quality of your life may depend less on what happens to you than on how consciously you meet what happens.
More awareness = less unconscious resistance.
Less resistance = more effortless your actions become.
This is the essence of Wu Wei, not passivity, but action without unnecessary struggle.
Problems won't magically disappear.
But much of the suffering created by your own mind can.
Life doesn't have to become effortless for you to stop fighting it.
Any mantra works when it simultaneously:
1) Paces your breath,
2) Occupies your inner speech,
3) Carries meaning you are connected to,
4) Is repeated often enough to become a conditioned cue,
5) Sits inside a ritual that organizes intention,
6) Is held with belief or trust.
You can spend your entire life studying all scriptures and still miss the point.
Mundaka Upanishd makes a distinction;
Aparā vidyā: knowledge of scriptures.
Parā vidyā: that by which the Imperishable is known.
One gives you knowledge about truth.
Other asks you to investigate truth itself.
You can memorise every description of the ocean and never enter the water.
At what point does pursuit of knowledge become a substitute for the realization you seek?
~ Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.4–5
Tragedy of Hindus is that we inherit wisdom, turn it into identity and forget to live it.
If Hindus truly understood and realised the deepest teachings of their own tradition, half of world's problems might already be solved.
Not because Hinduism is superior to other religions, but because its profoundest philosophies challenge the roots of human suffering: ignorance, ego, attachment, greed, hatred and the illusion of separateness.
India: Rebirth. 🕉️
West: Impossible.
UVA, 2026: ..wait, why is there a pattern in 1,678 cases?
As one casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, the soul takes new bodies. (Gita 2.22)
Upanishads were already teaching rebirth over 2,500 years ago.
Reincarnation analysis shows an unexpected pattern: the more unexpected or disturbing the death was, the faster the soul is reborn. Souls experiencing natural deaths at old age took on average 40% longer to reincarnate. This study of 1,678 strong reports of reincarnation is the oddest I ever saw. https://t.co/bCbrwaCsuQ
Thoughts arise.
Emotions change.
Body ages.
Identities dissolve.
World continues to unfold.
Yet we spend our lives trying to make these changing things provide an unchanging sense of self.
Vedanta asks: What is the Self that remains when mistaken identity is questioned?
Buddhism asks: What if the permanent self we cling to cannot be found?
Saivism asks: What if manifestation itself is the free expression of consciousness, not an obstacle to it?
Deepest possibility is;
Perhaps liberation is not the disappearance of life, but freedom from the ignorance that prevents us from encountering life as it is.
Not escape from manifestation.
Freedom within it.
Not a Hindu problem but a civilisational one.
Islam has Sufism.
Christianity has apophatic mysticism.
Judaism has Kabbalah.
Hinduism has Vedānta, 10+ schools. Buddhism has Zen and Madhyamaka. Taoism has own radical inquiry into Dao.
A civilisation can preserve language of self-inquiry while organising itself around identity, belonging and outward expression.
Scriptures survive for millennia without their deepest questions ever becoming questions people actually ask themselves.
might be a controversial take, but —
hindus in today's era, are not philosophically developed enough to grasp the depth of their own scriptures.
this is why, even if scriptures become accessible to them, they misinterpret the content due to their lack of philosophical depth.
@Happyjuss 💯
People think it is so easy to do sustained meditation and self less service.
Sudarshan Kriya is indeed very profound and effective, an enchanced extension of TM.
What exactly is the fraud? 😭
Leave aside humanitarian, political and cultural contributions for a moment.
Art of Living teaches meditation, yoga, Vedic chanting and traditional practices. It runs gurukuls, gaushalas, schools, farms and other institutions. It provides meals, conducts free programmes and offers paid courses.
None of these activities automatically proves spiritual authenticity. But neither does charging money automatically prove fraud.
What exactly is the fraud?
What is the evidence?
Guru is one who dispels ignorance & show the path to truth/god.
Ravi Shankar is in his 70s now, teaches internationally, conducts satsangs and continues to engage with seekers across the world.
What exactly is a spiritual teacher supposed to do in 2026? Abandon society? Retreat permanently into a cave? Refuse to build institutions, teach publicly or organise service?
Spirituality does not become fraudulent merely because it operates in modern world.
Don't confuse commercial activity with fraud. Don't confuse public service with proof of spiritual enlightenment, either.
If Moksha is the eternal cessation of mind, then liberation risks becoming indistinguishable from the disappearance of the subject.
If Moksha is the realization of consciousness independent of mind, then mental cessation is not necessarily required.
If bondage never arose at absolute level, then liberation cannot ultimately be an event achieved by a person at a particular place.
You just changed accusation from “fraud” to “he teaches inherited knowledge under his own brand.” 😭😭😭😭
By that logic, every yoga teacher, every Vedanta teacher who explains the Upanishads and every musician doing bhajans is committing fraud coz they didn't invent the tradition.
Vedas existed long before Sri Sri, He doesn't need to claim he invented them to teach them.
Commercialising a teaching is not, by itself, proof of fraud. Show the deception, not merely the branding.
If ur entire argument is that he didn't invent Vedas, congratulations. Neither did he claim to be the author of Vedas in the first place.
When a thought arises, it can be treated in at least two ways:
1) As an event that defines who I am and what reality means for me.
2) As an event that occurs without necessarily defining the entirety of who or what I am.
Sustained contemplative disciplines strengthen the capacity to recognize this difference.
Tapas is a sustained transformation of conditions through which consciousness becomes organized around habitual identification, craving, aversion and the sense of individual ownership.
Its purpose is to overcome the root condition that makes experience binding there by achieving Liberation/Realisation.
What if sustained TAPAS changes the structure that produces identity and bondage?
What if purpose of TAPAS is to become fundamentally different in ones relation to experience?
Or simply;
What if tapas is a transformation of the process through which world appears as my world, thoughts appear as my thoughts, desires appear as my desires and experience appears to belong to a separate individual?
What if ego is not something you need to destroy, but a process you need to stop constantly reinforcing?
Memory sustains your past.
Anticipation sustains your future.
Identity sustains your story.
Observer sustains separation.
Now introduce:
1) Mantra to stabilize attention.
2) Walking to absorb the senses.
3) Vast landscapes to dissolve ordinary scale.
4) Meditation to let thoughts pass without following.
5) Regulated breathing to influence arousal.
6) An upright spine to sustain alert, embodied presence.
Gradually, the machinery of self reference may become less dominant.
Mind doesn't necessarily go silent.
It becomes transparent to itself.
And for a moment, you may discover the difference between being lost in the story of who you are and simply being.