THE CONDITIONED EYE: Part 3 – SITE CO-HOST LOUISE STERLING

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

(Please note: The Annual Fall / Winter Season Book Sale is now under way. Most Non-Duality eBooks at floydhenderson.com are on sale at 30-50% off regular price.)

This morning in Cape Town, the sun is already baking hot and temperatures are set to soar on this mid-summer day. I eat a piece of ice cold watermelon for breakfast – enjoying the sweet, cold, pink fruit. Everything here is experienced and enjoyed through the senses. Without the sense of sight, how is the pink colour of the watermelon perceived? Without taste, how is the sweet juice tasted? Without touch, how is the cold skin of the watermelon felt against the lips? Without hearing, how is the soft crunch of teeth biting through the fruit heard? In this moment – is there any way to separate the woman, the watermelon and the eating of the watermelon? Where does one begin and the other end? Really – it is one movement. One movement in consciousness. What is consciousness then, but an endless procession of movements like this one?

The Conditioned Eye identifies personally with some aspect of consciousness. Usually, entrained by society’s conditioning, the identification is with a personal “I” or the subject of the movement. This identification means being drawn into the play of life. The personal “I” is cast as the leading player – and is therefore subject to all the vicissitudes of the play. The movements in consciousness involving the personal “I” are perceived as more significant or important than other movements involving other players, other personal “I”s. This is the world of duality, of fragmentation, of suffering. This ego-centric, individualized mode of perception is also the one that is taught by society; you are conditioned to “see” this way.

Yesterday, the pointer was offered that conditioning is like a fog and cannot be removed by direct engagement with the “fog” or conditioned mind stream itself. Instead, the Advaitin Teachings invite you to create the conditions for the fog to dissipate. These conditions are created by resting in the sense “I Am”.

Look at the “woman eating watermelon” scenario offered at the beginning of this post. When identified at the level of personalized or individualized consciousness, this simple movement in consciousness is accompanied by a mind stream or mental narrative of thought, feeling, concept. (You can try this yourself by simply bringing the attention to any simple subject-object-action triad involving “yourself” and observing the mind stream as it flows.) It is experienced from the point of you – or the point of subjective individualised experience.

When identified at the level of impersonal consciousness, or the sense “I Am”, this simple movement in consciousness is seen just as it is. The subject and object and the relationship between them are perceived including their attributes. Thoughts, feelings, and impressions may arise but are simply noticed without attachment. This is subject-object witnessing: an impersonal stance. The eating of the watermelon is enjoyed with all of the senses, but there no personal attachment or identification. There is no “good” or “bad” or “me” or “mine”, no entitlement, no agenda.

However, this is also simply a temporary resting place. Ultimately, even the sense of a world of subject and objects will fall away. Resting here in the silence and stillness inherent within the ongoing movements of consciousness, the intuitive sense of what lies beyond will become apparent. What is that sense of life that moves through all manifestation? That unified thread – unseen and unspeakable – may be discerned. It expresses as emptiness, a mystery, unknowing and unknowable, not perceived but intuited.

What is any apparent object actually? What is a woman, a watermelon, a coffee cup, a patio chair, a field of agapanthus? Simply temporary forms resulting from elements coming together in particular combinations. There is an outer appearance of difference from a handful of common elements. From this stance, the movement of consciousness into and out of manifestation is still simply witnessed. But there are no longer any illusions about separation, duality, subjects and objects. One movement – consisting of a myriad of micro movements. One breath breathed through a myriad of breaths. One awareness expressed as a myriad of awarenesses.

The Advaitin Teachings invite you to trace the path back to the source, back the way you came. Now, you are identified, trapped within the conditioned filters that cast you as a separate individual on the stage of life. This is the conditioned or individual / personal view. Track back and abide in the sense “I Am”. Allow this temporary resting place to naturally and spontaneously unfold to reveal the truth of Who You Are.

For a precise description of the journey from the Conditioned "I" to the Source, see the ebook From the I to the Absolute.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, 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.
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Now you can 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 Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]

2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
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NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)

You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.

3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes

Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:

I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.

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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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.

The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."

You may purchase your copy of the ebook version of THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS then start reading within minutes:

The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS

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THE CONDITIONED EYE: Part 2 – SITE CO-HOST LOUISE STERLING

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

(Please note: The Annual Fall / Winter Season Book Sale is now under way. Most Non-Duality eBooks at floydhenderson.com are on sale at 30-50% off regular price.)

Everything perceived is born out of your conditioning. Nothing is seen fresh and untainted by knowledge and experience. You can see this for yourself. Choose any object that surrounds you. Are you capable of perceiving that object without your prior knowledge about it? No. The instant the object is perceived, the memory bank is activated and the attributes start to flow endlessly whether you want them to or not. Cup, white, coffee, Columbia, hot, liquid, sweet and so on. The senses and the attributes function together to create this fixed image of the object. You do not see what is in front of you. You see an image – created of memory and learned or acquired knowledge.

If it is a cup of coffee, your senses do not function naturally and spontaneously. They respond to this dead image you have – comparing the sensory experience to what has come before. The coffee is too cold, not strong enough, perfectly brewed, just right, better than yesterday. How would you know? You know by comparing the experience right now against the memory / prior knowledge of every other cup of coffee you have sipped. This means you have never actually drunk a cup of coffee – except for the first time. Thereafter, all you have done is re-experienced your knowledge or learned ignorance. This is the Conditioned Eye. (This term “The Conditioned Eye” implies the visual sense but is intended to incorporate all the senses -- the conditioned sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing).

How do you know anything? Trapped in the fog of conditioning, you understand only from the point of view of your prior knowledge. In this society, this is called adaptation and intelligence. Yes, it is helpful to know not to put your hand in the burning fire a second time. However, this limited and “helpful” function of memory that evolved to ensure survival has become a virus called the mind that keeps you trapped in conditioning and that prevents clear seeing.

You are reading this post because you have a sense of a state you would like to acquire. How do you know that this state exists? What is it called? What are the attributes? Self-realization? Enlightenment? Attributes of freedom from suffering, bliss, freedom? Can you see that you have an “image” of self-realization, just as you had an “image” of an everyday object in front of you earlier in this post?

You have an image or a picture in your mind consisting of a label and attributes. Where did you get this image? Was it there when you were a baby or a toddler? Perhaps there are fleeting memories of a child-like freedom before the dualistic mind was created that fuel this image? Mainly though, the image you have of Self-Realization has been acquired through learning. You have an image produced by knowledge and memory, and whatever is perceived or experienced is held up against this image and evaluated as true, false or indifferent.

In other words, there is a separate self and an external object. Can you see that the external object (whether it is a coffee cup or the state of Self-Realization) is entirely conceptual? It only exists as “separate” and “out there”, because of the ideas you have about it. Can you see that the perceived separate self is also simply a concept – an idea you have about yourself. A label “me” or “self” with attributes “male, female, etc). This too is the view of Conditioned Eye.
You create your own imprisonment by limiting yourself into the form of a body and searching for freedom with the conditioned mind. Freedom is not external from you. It is your own nature. It cannot be labelled or described.

Understand that the mind that consists entirely of concepts creates your prison. How do you know yourself as a separate individual in the world? Only your concepts give you this message. You think your situation is unique – but every person conditioned by the society reaches the same false conclusions about themselves and the world. You think you are investigating. All you are doing is sifting through the concepts and images you have acquired.

As Maharaj explains:

The individual, the world and the supreme Self are all concepts.

If you try to reach the Self, you remain separate from it. You are the Self; so there is no question of attaining it.

Can you see how your “image” of Self-Realization creates the dualistic split of “ignorant self” and “state to be acquired”? All are simply concepts – ideas generated by the mind from the storehouse of acquired beliefs and knowledge. So what then is the “seeker” to do?

Yesterday, the pointer was offered that when certain geological conditions are in place, the fog clears naturally and effortlessly. A temporary device that creates these “geological conditions” is to rest in the sense “I Am” without attributes. This is not your true nature – you are prior to consciousness. However, this state is a stable temporary resting place – as it is the primary concept that is the root of all the misunderstanding and confusion. It is the root or seed state, before the addition of concepts. Resting here, the fog of the conditioned mind will dissipate.


Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, 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.
Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Louise

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Now you can 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 Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]

2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.

NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)

You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.

3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes

Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:

I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.

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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.

The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."

You may purchase your copy of the ebook version of THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS then start reading within minutes:

The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS

For a paperback or eBook version of the book, click:

The Board of Directors of Wars

[THE YOUTUBE ADVAITA VEDANTA VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE IN LARGER FORMATS BELOW WHICH MIGHT PROVIDE MORE COMFORTABLE VIEWING FOR SOME SITE VISITORS]

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The Conditioned Eye: Part 1 – Site Co-Host Louise Sterling

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

(Please note: The Annual Fall / Winter Season Book Sale is now under way. Most Non-Duality eBooks at floydhenderson.com are on sale at 30-50% off regular price.)

Having never left the house you are asking for the way home. Get rid of wrong ideas, that is all. Collecting right ideas also will take you nowhere. Just cease imagining.....Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. -- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Seeing with clear sight means seeing without the filters of conditioning. Imagine a colored lens is placed over a film projector. The projected film that is shown takes on the hue of the colored lens. So the film images are tinged with blue, green, red, yellow – whatever color lens is used. The layers of conditioning are synonymous with colored lenses. This is the Conditioned Eye – the gaze of duality or separation.

The Conditioned Eye is habituated. The perceived view seems natural and normal; it seems fixed and solid. Yet, the view is not natural and normal. Persons are conditioned by society to accept as natural and normal a collection of false beliefs including the false concept of a separate self, of a conditioned “I”. The conditioned mind functions to neutralize discomfort; to downplay fears and suffering; and to foreground memories or dreams of desire fulfilment. In this way, the perceived view of duality and separation is seen as natural and normal by millions of persons; the colored lenses that distort the view are unseen and unnoticed.

Let’s examine these colored lenses or filters of perception in more detail. For many persons, the way the world is perceived is in constant flux. This is because the so-called perceiving entity or observer is in constant flux – consisting entirely of a shifting collection of thoughts, feelings, desires, fears, beliefs, opinions, and concepts. As this conceptual collection shifts and changes, so the way the world is perceived shifts and changes. Take the scenario of falling in love. The predominant ideas, feelings, opinions are like these: “I will be happy for the rest of my life.”; “I have met my soul mate.”; “I will never be lonely, unhappy or frightened again.” “She/he is the most beautiful / handsome, fascinating, kind, supportive human being.” The Conditioned Eye or the filter of perception is rose-colored – the thoughts and feelings of happiness are projected outwards bathing the world in the glow of happiness. However, if at some point falling out of love or boredom / habituation takes place, the predominant thoughts and feelings will shift to ones like these: “I am bored and frustrated in this relationship. It is not making me happy.”; “Perhaps she/he is not really my soul mate.”; “I am lonely, unhappy and misunderstood.” “She/he is a boring, mediocre, irritating, unattractive (fill in the relevant adjectives) human being.” The filter of perception is dark-colored – the ideas, opinions, thoughts and feelings of unhappiness are projected outwards making the world appear dull and unhappy.

Trapped in personality, with its volatile fluctuations, most persons live in a dramatic world of roller coaster highs and lows. The conditioned filters are constantly changing and the world “outside” as a result is always shifting polarity from positive to negative and all the ranges in between. For long-term meditators or practitioners, perhaps the attachment to thoughts, opinions, and concepts is less entrenched, and the feelings less volatile. In this case, the conditioned filters may not change so regularly and dramatically. However, whether the view is predominantly “stable” or “volatile”, there is still a conditioned or conceptual filter in place distorting the view.

When seeking for liberation with the conditioned mind, the seeker cannot see this. There is a sense that the learned “knowledge” of false ideas (conditioning) can be replaced with the learned “knowledge” of true ideas. So, the seeker will read more, find more teachers, learn more, and ultimately acquire a more refined or different set of ideas, opinions, concepts, etc. Will this result in a different way of perceiving the world? Quite probably. However, this is not Self-Realization. All that has happened is that the seeker has replaced one colored filter with another.

The invitation of the Advaitin Teachings is to step outside of this entire construction. The layers of conditioning that distort cannot be identified and eliminated piecemeal. The conditioning is like a fog. How can one “piece” of fog be removed? Any fog-free space is immediately and instantly filled with more fog. Only when the geological conditions change, and the weather clears to produce an environment that is fog-free – does the fog disappear entirely. The false perception of the conditioned mind is like this.

As Maharaj explains: It is useless to search for the truth, when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, 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.
Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Louise

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Now you can 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 Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]

2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.

NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)

You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.

3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes

Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:

I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.

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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.

The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."

You may purchase your copy of the ebook version of THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS then start reading within minutes:

The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS

For a paperback or eBook version of the book, click:

The Board of Directors of Wars

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KNOWLEDGE THAT BLOCKS REALIZATION AND REINFORCES BELIEF IN WORLDLY CONCEPTS

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

F.: A sanitation company passes through the neighborhood here on Mondays and Thursdays and collects the garbage. Two days ago, when one of that company's workers approached the side of the house where the garbage is stored, gratitude was expressed for his service.

All that was said was, "Thank you very much." His reply: "De nada." How very accurate. Rather than, "You are welcome," the Spanish words used translate literally to, "It is nothing."

On occasion, people send thanks here. A more accurate response than "You're welcome" would be ... "de nada."

In the end, it's all much ado about nothing. It is nothing. Talk of the body, the mind, the personality, the roles played, the ego-states assumed, the personas adopted, the stage characters that strut about in The Theater of the Lie - it's all about ... nothing.

The exception might be the elemental body / matter / energy, but even that is not what it seems. All of the rest of the talk about mirages is talk about nothing - about an image, about things misperceived by the masses, about things taken to be something when, in fact, it is all nothing.

Here, after all that is nothing has been seen to be nothing, then the final talks end with a discussion of ... nothing. Everything in between the manifestation and mahasamadhi is much ado about nothing, and all of the knowledge gathered in that span is also good for ... nothing (except to the degree that it can eradicate ignorance and can then be discarded as well).

Thorns pushing out thorns, then useless thorns all discarded. In the end, de nada.

All of the knowledge that persons bring here that they are advised to discard and all of the knowledge that they have gathered up that they think is religious or spiritual knowledge, all of it is less than useless. It is actually detrimental if there is any attachment to it at all.

Maharaj: "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 those worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand."

Note that he did not refer to worldly knowledge alone as "worldly concepts." He applied the term to both worldly knowledge and so-called spiritual knowledge.

Both worldly knowledge and so-called spiritual knowledge are nothing more than worldly concepts, even as so-called spiritual people think that they are talking about things that were not dreamed up by persons coming up with so-called spiritual concepts that are actually worldly concepts, that are mere "upgrades" of worldly concepts.

Consider the implications of one exchange that was pulled from the transcripts of a series of tape recorded satsang exchanges and shared in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE:

Questioner 2: “I think your problem is that you must have been given a negative concept of God along the way. I came up with a God of my own conception. If you can’t like that God you were raised with, I suggest you come up with a God of your own understanding that you can be comfortable with.”

F.: “Yes, I’ve also read that book, but after making that suggestion to choose your own idea of God, it tells you to ‘cast aside all ideas.’ So which is it?”

Q. 2: “I don’t care what you say. The bottom line is, I have a Power that you don’t have.”

F.: “Actually, you’ve proved that your Power doesn’t exist.”

Q. 2.: “Hardly.”

F.: “You told us that you have chosen your own conception of god, that you 'came up with a god.' You created god. That itself is a very interesting twist in the dogma. But more to the point, you admit that your god is a concept—an idea fabricated by a conditioned mind. You’re admitting that you dreamed up a concept and now believe in the dream. If one dreams that he's sleeping with his favorite starlet, he's no less alone. If he awakes from that dream and still believes that she’s there, a delusion exists. We’re supposed to be moving away from the dream state and to the awakened state. All concepts are just notions or inventions or conceits. We’re on the path to no concepts, not more concepts.”

When millions around the globe are told in their so-called spiritual step meetings to "come up with a God of your own conception," what clearer evidence is there of what Maharaj was warning against when he made clear that so-called spiritual knowledge is based just as much in worldly concepts as worldly knowledge?

And interview the billions on the planet who claim a religious affiliation (97% in total) and see the diversity in their concepts of their god(s). For some, their god is mean and punishing; for others, their god in kind and giving. For some, their god is a god of creation; for others, their god is a god of destruction.

For some, their god is a celestial Santa; for others, their god is a heavenly Hitler, wiping out thousands - and later millions - of "his children" as a result of his co-dependency, allowing them to determine how he feels, allowing them to make him angry. For some, their god is forgiving; for others, their god is a record-keeping god that will exact punishment for sins at some point, either now or later or both.

When there is that much diversity in the image / images of god that religious people fabricate mentally, how could it not be seen clearly that it is all about image and nothing more?

Yet, as Maharaj noted, some people might be willing to cast aside their worldly knowledge, only to replace it with so-called spiritual knowledge, both of which are based in worldly concepts and both of which are, ultimately, not unlike the garbage that is hauled away from this house regularly.

Now garbage might be allowed to rot away and fertilize a garden for a time, but beyond providing nutrition for plants that can sustain the plant food body, what good is garbage? So, yes, use the garbage for a time, but then be done with it. Furthermore, who is willing to cast aside one type of garbage, only to become preoccupied with gathering up garbage of another type?

The conversation here two days ago did not go like this:

F.: "Here are two bags of garbage. Thank you very much."

The Collector: "De nada."

F.: Now what I would like to do is exchange my two bags of garbage for two of the other bags of garbage that you have on the truck."

Would not his sane and logical response have been:

The Collector: "¿Cómo?" ["What did you say?"]

Other Collectors: "Pendejo!! Hahaha." [Idiot, or worse.] "He is not willing to give up all garbage! He merely wants to exchange his old garbage for some new garbage. Hahaha!!"

Let your new garbage serve as a "compost" for a time. Let it be used for a time to fertilize plants that can be used to eliminate hunger, including the hunger for the type of knowledge that can be used to eliminate ignorance.

But in the end, once knowledge has eliminated ignorance, toss it out. All knowledge in the end - be it worldly or spiritual - is still just an accumulation of worldly concepts dreamed up by persons either to satisfy their wants and desires or to alleviate their fears.

The fact is that no matter how worldly or spiritual one claims to be, desires and fears will continue as long as any persona is adopted as an identity, be that the persona of "a man or woman" or the upgraded version of those personas that take themselves to be "A Highly Religious Man or Woman" or "A Highly Spiritual Man or Woman."

Pride over any type of accumulated knowledge is ego-based, and ego-states are all illusions that, ironically, can still generate negative effects, relatively speaking. And what greater ignorance can there be than to try to differentiate between the phenomenal and the noumenal when both are based in worldly concepts?

These teachings (un-teachings) result in an understanding of the no-concept, non-dual reality, not in the accumulation of more concepts and more dualistic beliefs, especially those concepts that lead to beliefs about being "better than" while others are "worse than" and those concepts about being "different from" (including "different from the way I was" and "different from them, now").

You cannot be different from what You have always been, and You cannot be different from anything else. Any sense of difference is all based in misperception and in the kind of knowledge that blocks Realization and reinforces belief in worldly concepts.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

For those seeking the full explanation of the topics addressed here, there are more than a dozen non-duality books available at http://www.floydhenderson.com/ .

There are another half dozen titles available at http://www.amazon.com/ for those with a Kindle Reader, and the following titles are available through Amazon.com only:

The Final Understanding

The Ultimate Sickness, The Ultimate Medicine

I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")

Freedom From Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness

Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full

The Myth Of Death

What BLISS Is and What BLISS Is Not

(If you do not have a Kindle Reader, you can still read Kindle books by visiting Amazon and downloading one or more of their five free applications so that you can read Kindle books on your PC, iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, or Android.)
[PLEASE NOTE: If you are receiving this post via an RSS feed, it is recommended that you view the actual article because the content is often modified or added to after the initial posting.]

Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, 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.
Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Louise

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd

by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Now you can 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 Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]

2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.

NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)

You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.

3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes

Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:

I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.

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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.

The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."

You may purchase your copy of the ebook version of THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS then start reading within minutes:

The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS

For a paperback or eBook version of the book, click:

The Board of Directors of Wars

[THE YOUTUBE ADVAITA VEDANTA VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE IN LARGER FORMATS BELOW WHICH MIGHT PROVIDE MORE COMFORTABLE VIEWING FOR SOME SITE VISITORS]

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YOUTUBE ADVAITA VEDANTA YOGA VIDEOS

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