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As for Maharaj, you will find here some of his early pointers for beginners but some of his later pointers that are for seekers farther along the "path." During his last years, he said of I AM THAT: "That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today" and am "emphasizing different aspects." What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of "the race" but that his final talks point the way to "the finish line."
[Note: These discussions are excerpts from a book that will be released by Amazon.com on December 12, 2011]
A visitor asked: "So what is your take on the topics that you said Maharaj discussed at the end?"
F.: Next, the "take" here will be offered on the sixth of the final fifteen topics discussed by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
THE USELESSNESS OF KNOWLEDGE (A.K.A., LEARNED IGNORANCE)
In most circles, the one assuming the role of "The Know-It-All" is usually found to be rather repugnant or even disgusting. Contrast "The Know-It-All" with one such as Maharaj that understood it all.
To have Realized Fully and to understand the functioning of the totality has nothing to do with knowledge or knowing. Of that, Maharaj said, "The knower comes and goes with the known, and is transient; but that which knows that it does not know ... is timeless."
"The Know-It-Alls" value their knowledge because they believe that the display of said knowledge enhances their image with "others." The displaying of their knowledge - be it their "always-false-worldly knowledge" or be it their "always-false-other-worldly (or 'spiritual') knowledge" - is intended to try to separate them from those they believe to be ignorant and "less spiritual" and is used to try to elevate "The Knowledge-Holder's" perceived rank or status.
Maharaj said of those types, "You are afraid that whatever so-called knowledge you have collected is being devalued." In turn, those who are proud of their accumulated knowledge also fear being devalued if they do not cling to their so-called knowledge or stop trying to share their so-called knowledge. What knowledge-based arrogance, yes?
The one that understands the functioning of the totality - and is willing to point seekers toward the Truth that cannot be stated but that can be known from within - is not one that gives knowledge but is one the frees earnest seekers of the delusion that there is more external knowledge that must be attained.
Of that, Maharaj said: "How did I get to the truth that I prevail everlastingly? I understand what my true nature is. Nobody had told me how to do it. I did not seek this knowledge externally. It sprouted within me."
He said: "There are two ways of receiving the knowledge [I AM]. One way is you are taught the knowledge, you receive it externally. Another way is, the knowledge grows from inside, intuitively."
Realize, therefore, that the True Knower (that is, the knower of the "Am-ness" and of the Self) removes both "worldly" and "spiritual" knowledge. Thus, the "take" here is that there is no "Teacher" and that there is no teaching. There is only "un-teaching," de-programming, de-conditioning, de-acculturating, and de-domesticating.
To that end, Maharaj said, "You come here because you are ignorant, not because you are knowledgeable. This knowledge I give is only to remove ignorance."
He said, "Those who come here with the idea of getting knowledge, even spiritual knowledge, come here as individuals aspiring to get something; that is the real difficulty. The seeker must disappear"
and
"Some people come here for knowledge. I talk because the words naturally come out. There is no intention behind my talks that you should get knowledge."
See? The pointers that Maharaj offered were not intended to add to one's "body of knowledge." The pointers were intended to eradicate that so-called body of knowledge (which is really nothing more or less than total ignorance - total learned ignorance).
Of ignorance and knowledge, Maharaj said in his final talks: "Ignorance will remain there for all time just as knowledge also will remain for all time. There cannot be knowledge without ignorance and there cannot be ignorance without the correlated knowledge. Both are the opposites in manifestation. One cannot remain without the other. Even this concept about knowledge is merely a concept. With a jñani, there is no concept of either ignorance or knowledge. The total absence of all knowledge or ignorance is that state prior to the arising of consciousness. But you try to interpret whatever I say with various concepts and you condition yourself with all these concepts."
That which can be pointed to with the term "True Knowledge" cannot be taught ... and need not be. It is already within and can be tapped into via the inner guru or the inner resource. It cannot be taught and it cannot be learned. It is already the Known and the intuitive Knowingness (which is unknown to those that have been programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated).
Maharaj said: "Any image you have of yourself is not true. True knowledge is to abide in your own Self. Try to understand all this knowledge which you are now gathering. The so-called knowledge you get elsewhere talks only about ignorance; it cannot talk about the Self, true knowledge. All of what is pursued by the mind, it is not true knowledge. True knowledge cannot be understood easily. If I had the experience 'I Am" before, would I care to enter the womb of my mother? Prior to entering the womb I did not know myself. There was no knowledge of 'I Amness'. "
If Marahaj's pointer was correct, namely, that "all so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance," why listen to a guru? Why read these words? To listen to the guru or to read these words is not to gain. It is to lose ... to lose all, including all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes.
Thus, one visitor to Maharaj's loft who was not ready to abandon all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes complained: "Maharaj is taking everything away from me. I have nothing to hold onto -I will fall."
In that regard, Maharaj said, "The factual state of affairs is open, very clear, but nobody wants to look at it. This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
How did that which must be taken away come in the first place?
Maharaj said: "I do not follow the spirituality of the masses. In this place spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to you. That Ultimate You can never be lost; whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. That Ultimate You knows or feels "I Am" without words. Through this "I Am" comes the 'world knowledge'."
So the first knowingness is knowing the "I AM." All else that is known comes by way of being taught, and everything that is taught is false. The truth can be known, but it cannot be stated, so all that is said - all that is stated with words - is false. Again, Maharaj said, "All so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance."
When he said that knowledge is merely learned ignorance, he was referring specifically to what he called "world knowledge" which is also the same as "religious knowledge" and "spiritual knowledge":
Again, "I do not follow the spirituality of the masses. In this place spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to you. That Ultimate You can never be lost; whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. That Ultimate You knows or feels 'I Am' without words. Through this 'I Am' comes 'world knowledge'."
He said in his final talks, "What I am expounding does not relate to worldly knowledge. You do not want to give up either worldly knowledge or so-called spiritual knowledge, and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand."
Of the accumulation of "worldly knowledge," he said to one visitor during one of his final talks: "You are very adept at word-games. While I am talking about knowledge that is beyond this phenomenal world, you are trying to understand through worldly concepts and words. Give up all these concepts and inquire into the nature of your beingness. How did you happen to be? Ponder it! The real blessing of the Guru comes when your knowledge itself sprouts inside you."
He said, "If you continue in the realm of intellect you will become entangled and lost in more and more concepts."
He added: "You have a lot of knowledge but it pertains to the practical world. So far you have not got the knowledge of the Self. I will not talk about the worldly knowledge."
At the end, that is what Maharaj offered to take away: worldly knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); religious knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); and all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes (a.k.a., "learned ignorance").
He said, "Subsequent to that 'I Am' and body-mind [that is, following the manifestation of the consciousness and the assumption of false identifications] there occurs what you call 'spiritual seeking' or 'spiritual knowledge'. This is nonsense."
That is, there is no worldly knowledge to be learned and no spiritual knowledge to be learned because the teachers of either or both are teaching nonsense. The Realized guru goes about the task of removing nonsense, not offering more nonsense.
How did that which must be taken away - that which is to be discarded, that which is no different from the garbage piled up after a holiday and that is stinking up your relative environment - come to be in the first place? And what does this have to do with a sense of bondage and a sense of liberation?
Maharaj: "You did not know your own existence after you were born. Nine months in the womb and for sometime afterwards that 'I am so and so' is absent. When you start recognizing your mother, then you also come to be aware of your own existence. That 'I Amness' comes sometime later. Mother teaches you, in ignorance, that you are the body and you begin to believe that. Your mind also starts slowly to develop. So right from the beginning, because of ignorance, the Absolute does not know itself; and because of the body, it started knowing that it is - 'I AM'. Because of the ignorance, you had to ask somebody, 'Who am I?'; otherwise, you would not have asked anybody. Even so-called incarnations such as Rama were like this, they had to be taught. The incarnations are just like you. The bondage with the body came because of wrong teaching, and then the guru came and told you that you are not the body, and then you were liberated. That is why all these births are taking place. If you knew of the bondage, you would refuse the birth. But because the 'I Amness' is absent, you are trapped. Because the 'I Amness' is a quality of the body, later on you come to know you are and that you are trapped. But once You know, you are liberated."
Thus, in his final talks, Maharaj emphasized the uselessness of knowledge and intellect and "the mind." He said:
"I have no use for traditions or traditional knowledge. If you do the slightest research on tradition you will see that it is all a concept. I am concerned with only one fact. Here I was in my wholeness, not even aware of my awareness, then suddenly this consciousness sprang up. How did it come about? That is the question which needs investigating."
He said, "What you are doing is using your mind and intellect, but what I say is not based on the intellect, but rather on whatever comes up spontaneously in consciousness. You try to fix that knowledge which springs spontaneously from consciousness into the structure of concepts you have built out of the mind and intellect. This can never happen."
Again, he said: "This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
He said, "When you get this knowledge [of the falsity of the birth and all that is inaccurately perceived in the realm of the relative], You will realize that knowledge of this world and consciousness are not even worth your spit. You can spit it out; it will be unworthy. I appeal to you with my folded hands, don't get into this spirituality. Whatever knowledge and concepts you are having, only that final spark is to be applied. You have everything; the raw material is already with you; the symbol of birth and death is already removed"
and
"Whatever you think of as spiritual knowledge was gained in the realm of consciousness; such knowledge is merely a burden upon your head and it is going to add more misery. It is nothing more than spiritual jargon."
He noted: "You are bent on having knowledge at the most mundane level, but whatever knowledge you collect is bound to disappear"
and
"Whatever you have placed before me as knowledge are all mistaken concepts"
and
"When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage you transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are in a true state of beingness. Thereafter you enter the state of transcending beingness, where the identities of the observer and observed disappear."
Then the end of knowledge can come and the fiction-filled mind can go:
Maharaj: "All my knowledge has gone into liquidation"
and
Maharaj: "Go to zero concepts"
and
Maharaj: "I have no mind."
F.: Next, the "take" here will be offered on the sixth of the final fifteen topics discussed by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
THE USELESSNESS OF KNOWLEDGE (A.K.A., LEARNED IGNORANCE)
In most circles, the one assuming the role of "The Know-It-All" is usually found to be rather repugnant or even disgusting. Contrast "The Know-It-All" with one such as Maharaj that understood it all.
To have Realized Fully and to understand the functioning of the totality has nothing to do with knowledge or knowing. Of that, Maharaj said, "The knower comes and goes with the known, and is transient; but that which knows that it does not know ... is timeless."
"The Know-It-Alls" value their knowledge because they believe that the display of said knowledge enhances their image with "others." The displaying of their knowledge - be it their "always-false-worldly knowledge" or be it their "always-false-other-worldly (or 'spiritual') knowledge" - is intended to try to separate them from those they believe to be ignorant and "less spiritual" and is used to try to elevate "The Knowledge-Holder's" perceived rank or status.
Maharaj said of those types, "You are afraid that whatever so-called knowledge you have collected is being devalued." In turn, those who are proud of their accumulated knowledge also fear being devalued if they do not cling to their so-called knowledge or stop trying to share their so-called knowledge. What knowledge-based arrogance, yes?
The one that understands the functioning of the totality - and is willing to point seekers toward the Truth that cannot be stated but that can be known from within - is not one that gives knowledge but is one the frees earnest seekers of the delusion that there is more external knowledge that must be attained.
Of that, Maharaj said: "How did I get to the truth that I prevail everlastingly? I understand what my true nature is. Nobody had told me how to do it. I did not seek this knowledge externally. It sprouted within me."
He said: "There are two ways of receiving the knowledge [I AM]. One way is you are taught the knowledge, you receive it externally. Another way is, the knowledge grows from inside, intuitively."
Realize, therefore, that the True Knower (that is, the knower of the "Am-ness" and of the Self) removes both "worldly" and "spiritual" knowledge. Thus, the "take" here is that there is no "Teacher" and that there is no teaching. There is only "un-teaching," de-programming, de-conditioning, de-acculturating, and de-domesticating.
To that end, Maharaj said, "You come here because you are ignorant, not because you are knowledgeable. This knowledge I give is only to remove ignorance."
He said, "Those who come here with the idea of getting knowledge, even spiritual knowledge, come here as individuals aspiring to get something; that is the real difficulty. The seeker must disappear"
and
"Some people come here for knowledge. I talk because the words naturally come out. There is no intention behind my talks that you should get knowledge."
See? The pointers that Maharaj offered were not intended to add to one's "body of knowledge." The pointers were intended to eradicate that so-called body of knowledge (which is really nothing more or less than total ignorance - total learned ignorance).
Of ignorance and knowledge, Maharaj said in his final talks: "Ignorance will remain there for all time just as knowledge also will remain for all time. There cannot be knowledge without ignorance and there cannot be ignorance without the correlated knowledge. Both are the opposites in manifestation. One cannot remain without the other. Even this concept about knowledge is merely a concept. With a jñani, there is no concept of either ignorance or knowledge. The total absence of all knowledge or ignorance is that state prior to the arising of consciousness. But you try to interpret whatever I say with various concepts and you condition yourself with all these concepts."
That which can be pointed to with the term "True Knowledge" cannot be taught ... and need not be. It is already within and can be tapped into via the inner guru or the inner resource. It cannot be taught and it cannot be learned. It is already the Known and the intuitive Knowingness (which is unknown to those that have been programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated).
Maharaj said: "Any image you have of yourself is not true. True knowledge is to abide in your own Self. Try to understand all this knowledge which you are now gathering. The so-called knowledge you get elsewhere talks only about ignorance; it cannot talk about the Self, true knowledge. All of what is pursued by the mind, it is not true knowledge. True knowledge cannot be understood easily. If I had the experience 'I Am" before, would I care to enter the womb of my mother? Prior to entering the womb I did not know myself. There was no knowledge of 'I Amness'. "
If Marahaj's pointer was correct, namely, that "all so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance," why listen to a guru? Why read these words? To listen to the guru or to read these words is not to gain. It is to lose ... to lose all, including all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes.
Thus, one visitor to Maharaj's loft who was not ready to abandon all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes complained: "Maharaj is taking everything away from me. I have nothing to hold onto -I will fall."
In that regard, Maharaj said, "The factual state of affairs is open, very clear, but nobody wants to look at it. This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
How did that which must be taken away come in the first place?
Maharaj said: "I do not follow the spirituality of the masses. In this place spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to you. That Ultimate You can never be lost; whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. That Ultimate You knows or feels "I Am" without words. Through this "I Am" comes the 'world knowledge'."
So the first knowingness is knowing the "I AM." All else that is known comes by way of being taught, and everything that is taught is false. The truth can be known, but it cannot be stated, so all that is said - all that is stated with words - is false. Again, Maharaj said, "All so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance."
When he said that knowledge is merely learned ignorance, he was referring specifically to what he called "world knowledge" which is also the same as "religious knowledge" and "spiritual knowledge":
Again, "I do not follow the spirituality of the masses. In this place spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to you. That Ultimate You can never be lost; whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. That Ultimate You knows or feels 'I Am' without words. Through this 'I Am' comes 'world knowledge'."
He said in his final talks, "What I am expounding does not relate to worldly knowledge. You do not want to give up either worldly knowledge or so-called spiritual knowledge, and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand."
Of the accumulation of "worldly knowledge," he said to one visitor during one of his final talks: "You are very adept at word-games. While I am talking about knowledge that is beyond this phenomenal world, you are trying to understand through worldly concepts and words. Give up all these concepts and inquire into the nature of your beingness. How did you happen to be? Ponder it! The real blessing of the Guru comes when your knowledge itself sprouts inside you."
He said, "If you continue in the realm of intellect you will become entangled and lost in more and more concepts."
He added: "You have a lot of knowledge but it pertains to the practical world. So far you have not got the knowledge of the Self. I will not talk about the worldly knowledge."
At the end, that is what Maharaj offered to take away: worldly knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); religious knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); and all identities, ideas, concepts, beliefs and attitudes (a.k.a., "learned ignorance").
He said, "Subsequent to that 'I Am' and body-mind [that is, following the manifestation of the consciousness and the assumption of false identifications] there occurs what you call 'spiritual seeking' or 'spiritual knowledge'. This is nonsense."
That is, there is no worldly knowledge to be learned and no spiritual knowledge to be learned because the teachers of either or both are teaching nonsense. The Realized guru goes about the task of removing nonsense, not offering more nonsense.
How did that which must be taken away - that which is to be discarded, that which is no different from the garbage piled up after a holiday and that is stinking up your relative environment - come to be in the first place? And what does this have to do with a sense of bondage and a sense of liberation?
Maharaj: "You did not know your own existence after you were born. Nine months in the womb and for sometime afterwards that 'I am so and so' is absent. When you start recognizing your mother, then you also come to be aware of your own existence. That 'I Amness' comes sometime later. Mother teaches you, in ignorance, that you are the body and you begin to believe that. Your mind also starts slowly to develop. So right from the beginning, because of ignorance, the Absolute does not know itself; and because of the body, it started knowing that it is - 'I AM'. Because of the ignorance, you had to ask somebody, 'Who am I?'; otherwise, you would not have asked anybody. Even so-called incarnations such as Rama were like this, they had to be taught. The incarnations are just like you. The bondage with the body came because of wrong teaching, and then the guru came and told you that you are not the body, and then you were liberated. That is why all these births are taking place. If you knew of the bondage, you would refuse the birth. But because the 'I Amness' is absent, you are trapped. Because the 'I Amness' is a quality of the body, later on you come to know you are and that you are trapped. But once You know, you are liberated."
Thus, in his final talks, Maharaj emphasized the uselessness of knowledge and intellect and "the mind." He said:
"I have no use for traditions or traditional knowledge. If you do the slightest research on tradition you will see that it is all a concept. I am concerned with only one fact. Here I was in my wholeness, not even aware of my awareness, then suddenly this consciousness sprang up. How did it come about? That is the question which needs investigating."
He said, "What you are doing is using your mind and intellect, but what I say is not based on the intellect, but rather on whatever comes up spontaneously in consciousness. You try to fix that knowledge which springs spontaneously from consciousness into the structure of concepts you have built out of the mind and intellect. This can never happen."
Again, he said: "This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
He said, "When you get this knowledge [of the falsity of the birth and all that is inaccurately perceived in the realm of the relative], You will realize that knowledge of this world and consciousness are not even worth your spit. You can spit it out; it will be unworthy. I appeal to you with my folded hands, don't get into this spirituality. Whatever knowledge and concepts you are having, only that final spark is to be applied. You have everything; the raw material is already with you; the symbol of birth and death is already removed"
and
"Whatever you think of as spiritual knowledge was gained in the realm of consciousness; such knowledge is merely a burden upon your head and it is going to add more misery. It is nothing more than spiritual jargon."
He noted: "You are bent on having knowledge at the most mundane level, but whatever knowledge you collect is bound to disappear"
and
"Whatever you have placed before me as knowledge are all mistaken concepts"
and
"When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage you transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are in a true state of beingness. Thereafter you enter the state of transcending beingness, where the identities of the observer and observed disappear."
Then the end of knowledge can come and the fiction-filled mind can go:
Maharaj: "All my knowledge has gone into liquidation"
and
Maharaj: "Go to zero concepts"
and
Maharaj: "I have no mind."
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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From Robert R.: "The Final Words" has been packing a power and succinctness, pointing to the nisarga "beingness" as opposed to the tendency to make just another cognitive exercise / understanding of Advaita Vedanta and pointing to the importance of not allowing the Advaitin / Nisarga message to become just another philosophy but to be lived, resulting in the deconstruction of any and all identification with body, mind, personality, etc.
I just wanted to thank you. "When Only Three Hours Of Manifestation Remain" is without question the most powerful, concise, catalytic piece of Your work that I have absorbed (and I have absorbed all that has been written). Just as Maharaj's teaching was refined in the latter part of his life, Your teaching has powerfully shifted (and that is no small feat given its already existing purity / essence). Peace, Light and Love, Bob
From Jo H.: My heart grows with your existence. Thank you. Love, Jo
From Ginny: Your writings are a source of comfort. Thank You for continuing to chronicle. You have important work in the relative. Know that what You have exposed has changed my life, allowed Real Life. Words are not coming out right, but please feel the Loving intent.
This is one of Your strongest pieces and allows folk to read, again and again if needed, that energy (which is Us) is Love. Real Love. So, the membrane of separation thins, till there is none.
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An online Advaita Internet Course is offered here. The price of the course includes the four Advaita eBooks used as the texts; questions sent after completion of the assigned readings; replies to your answers; and follow-up as required.
The price of the course includes the four Advaita eBooks used as the texts; questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
You will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right. To get started now now, click the pay button below and receive the $365 course for a discounted price of $325.00.
Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd
by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:
Or, if you prefer, begin by arranging a one-hour Advaita session via Skype with Floyd:
Next, you can now receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).
The price of the course includes the four Advaita eBooks used as the texts; questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
You will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right. To get started now now, click the pay button below and receive the $365 course for a discounted price of $325.00.
Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd
by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:
Or, if you prefer, begin by arranging a one-hour Advaita session via Skype with Floyd:
Next, you can now receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
2. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally. Use the Contact link for information or use the link below to pay for your first Advaita session.
You may click the BUY NOW button below to begin arrangements for your first Advaita session with Floyd via Skype and he will contact you to schedule:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
2. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally. Use the Contact link for information or use the link below to pay for your first Advaita session.
You may click the BUY NOW button below to begin arrangements for your first Advaita session with Floyd via Skype and he will contact you to schedule:
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link below to discuss details.
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