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Vedanta Examples Simplified: Non-Duality
17 Non-Dual Vedanta Examples
Vedanta examples can be confusing leaving the reader/listener with many uncleared doubts about the relationship between the Absolute Reality - Brahman and the Universe.
Join Nelson from California in this book as he travels with his college band members to the Holy City of Rishikesh in India where they meet an Acharya (scholar of spiritual scriptures) who explains to them all about Brahman using the 17 Most Common Examples used in Vedanta.
However, he makes sure to equate every example with the Absolute Reality Brahman and the Universe. This makes is easier to understand what he example says and how it relates to You, Brahman and the Universe.
This Book Covers The Most Common Examples Used In Advaita Vedanta In Very Simple And Easy To Understand Language. All The Possible Questions And Doubts Are Answered With Regard To Brahman-The Absolute Reality, God/Universe And You!
Some Of The Examples Include:
Clay And Pot
Wave And Ocean
Gold And Ornament
Rope And Snake
Desert Mirage
Ghost In The Post
Lotus Leaf And Water
Scent And Air
Space And Jar
Burnt Cloth
Butter And Milk
Fire And Wood
Arundhati Star
Monkey And Baby
The Chameleon
Two Birds In A Tree
Two Thorns
Each Example Is Put Forward In A Simple, Easy And Interesting Way To Understand Leaving No Question Unanswered.
The book is written in an interesting story format to make it more engaging, easier to understand and recall compared to a boring textbook format.
Vedanta examples can be confusing leaving the reader/listener with many uncleared doubts about the relationship between the Absolute Reality - Brahman and the Universe.
Join Nelson from California in this book as he travels with his college band members to the Holy City of Rishikesh in India where they meet an Acharya (scholar of spiritual scriptures) who explains to them all about Brahman using the 17 Most Common Examples used in Vedanta.
However, he makes sure to equate every example with the Absolute Reality Brahman and the Universe. This makes is easier to understand what he example says and how it relates to You, Brahman and the Universe.
This Book Covers The Most Common Examples Used In Advaita Vedanta In Very Simple And Easy To Understand Language. All The Possible Questions And Doubts Are Answered With Regard To Brahman-The Absolute Reality, God/Universe And You!
Some Of The Examples Include:
Clay And Pot
Wave And Ocean
Gold And Ornament
Rope And Snake
Desert Mirage
Ghost In The Post
Lotus Leaf And Water
Scent And Air
Space And Jar
Burnt Cloth
Butter And Milk
Fire And Wood
Arundhati Star
Monkey And Baby
The Chameleon
Two Birds In A Tree
Two Thorns
Each Example Is Put Forward In A Simple, Easy And Interesting Way To Understand Leaving No Question Unanswered.
The book is written in an interesting story format to make it more engaging, easier to understand and recall compared to a boring textbook format.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2019
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About the author
Sukhdev Virdee
19 books3 followersSukhdev Virdee was born and brought up in Nairobi, Kenya. Since childhood he was very inclined towards spirituality and music. After his studies he chose to take up music as a profession. He learnt how to play the keyboards and started performing live on stage at the age of nineteen. He later went to London and completed a BTEC in Music Production and Performance.
He later flew to Mumbai, India to pursue his dream of singing and composing music in the largest Indian Entertainment Industry. His debut pop-album became a chartbuster making him a popular household name in India and across the world. Mumbai became his home where he is known for his high energy live performances and this popularity took him to several countries across every continent on the planet to perform live for huge audiences.
A few more albums and singles followed after that. He was living the life that every young person looks up to even today. He had created a name for himself and enjoyed the name, fame and fortune that most singers dream of but never get to live. During all this he was totally oblivious of what life had in store for him in the coming years.
Just before his 40th birthday, when he was going through a rather rough patch in life, three of his friends gifted him the Bhagavad Gita out of the blue. These were friends that he met only occasionally and yet within two weeks three different people gifted him the Bhagavad Gita that would change his life completely. He read the Bhagavad Gita and felt Lord Krishna was speaking directly to him. It completely changed his outlook towards life as he followed the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita as best as he could.
Just over a year later, one fine morning after he woke up from his morning meditation and walked towards his temple in the house, his body completely froze and in an instant he had become one with the entire Universe. Time stood still and every particle of the entire Universe was alive and shining in bright golden light and he was the light. He was no longer limited to just his body or mind, he was everywhere at the same time and everything was one with him.
This Spiritual awakening experience turned his life upside down and inside out. All desires for anything worldly vanished, fear of death vanished, love and compassion for entire humanity and nature arose and he could feel and experience the Supreme Being in everything.
Not knowing exactly what had happened and what to do next, he sought out several resources before he was pointed towards the Upanishads that answered all his questions as to what had happened, what led to it and what to do after such an awakening.
After years of studying the Vedanta texts he is now an expert on non-dual Vedanta through not only intellectual and philosophical knowledge but most importantly with his own personal direct experience everyday.
He has put all his heart and soul into writing these books that include the highest knowledge of the Upanishads and his own direct experience and knowledge of the Supreme Being.
The series has been written with the absolute conviction that you, the reader, can realize your true immortal Universal Self too, that you are pure bliss and completely unaffected by all pain and suffering.
The promise of all spirituality is that one transcends pain and sorrow in this world, not that pain and sorrow don’t come, but that the realized being is untouched by it. One realizes that their true nature is immortal, that they are one with the Universe. Would a being that realizes that he or she is one with the Universe ever want to accumulate anything in this world?
No, the True Saint or Sage who is Self-Realized makes do with only the very basic necessities required to live an honest decent life. They don’t look to gain wealth, become famous, build an empire or any such sort of selfish activities.
Their main focus becomes serving humanity selflessly and uplifting others to help them realize their true nature
He later flew to Mumbai, India to pursue his dream of singing and composing music in the largest Indian Entertainment Industry. His debut pop-album became a chartbuster making him a popular household name in India and across the world. Mumbai became his home where he is known for his high energy live performances and this popularity took him to several countries across every continent on the planet to perform live for huge audiences.
A few more albums and singles followed after that. He was living the life that every young person looks up to even today. He had created a name for himself and enjoyed the name, fame and fortune that most singers dream of but never get to live. During all this he was totally oblivious of what life had in store for him in the coming years.
Just before his 40th birthday, when he was going through a rather rough patch in life, three of his friends gifted him the Bhagavad Gita out of the blue. These were friends that he met only occasionally and yet within two weeks three different people gifted him the Bhagavad Gita that would change his life completely. He read the Bhagavad Gita and felt Lord Krishna was speaking directly to him. It completely changed his outlook towards life as he followed the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita as best as he could.
Just over a year later, one fine morning after he woke up from his morning meditation and walked towards his temple in the house, his body completely froze and in an instant he had become one with the entire Universe. Time stood still and every particle of the entire Universe was alive and shining in bright golden light and he was the light. He was no longer limited to just his body or mind, he was everywhere at the same time and everything was one with him.
This Spiritual awakening experience turned his life upside down and inside out. All desires for anything worldly vanished, fear of death vanished, love and compassion for entire humanity and nature arose and he could feel and experience the Supreme Being in everything.
Not knowing exactly what had happened and what to do next, he sought out several resources before he was pointed towards the Upanishads that answered all his questions as to what had happened, what led to it and what to do after such an awakening.
After years of studying the Vedanta texts he is now an expert on non-dual Vedanta through not only intellectual and philosophical knowledge but most importantly with his own personal direct experience everyday.
He has put all his heart and soul into writing these books that include the highest knowledge of the Upanishads and his own direct experience and knowledge of the Supreme Being.
The series has been written with the absolute conviction that you, the reader, can realize your true immortal Universal Self too, that you are pure bliss and completely unaffected by all pain and suffering.
The promise of all spirituality is that one transcends pain and sorrow in this world, not that pain and sorrow don’t come, but that the realized being is untouched by it. One realizes that their true nature is immortal, that they are one with the Universe. Would a being that realizes that he or she is one with the Universe ever want to accumulate anything in this world?
No, the True Saint or Sage who is Self-Realized makes do with only the very basic necessities required to live an honest decent life. They don’t look to gain wealth, become famous, build an empire or any such sort of selfish activities.
Their main focus becomes serving humanity selflessly and uplifting others to help them realize their true nature
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April 15, 2023
Author has done an excellent job in treating a conceptually difficult subject of Brahman/Supreme-Consciousness realization by summarising the examples drawn from various Upanishads in a manner akin to done in our sacred scriptures.
An Acharya, quite well narrates the findings, based on queries raised by a group of 'students'. The punch lines came towards the end :
"The mind is something and Brahman is nothing. Only when we remove all things including our bodies, minds, thoughts and ego will nothing be left to be realized. Thus we cannot realize Brahman with anything...”
An Acharya, quite well narrates the findings, based on queries raised by a group of 'students'. The punch lines came towards the end :
"The mind is something and Brahman is nothing. Only when we remove all things including our bodies, minds, thoughts and ego will nothing be left to be realized. Thus we cannot realize Brahman with anything...”
August 2, 2020
Highly recommend.
Simple way of understanding consciousness. Life changing book. Strongly recommend the book. Easy to read and understand and realize the reality.
Simple way of understanding consciousness. Life changing book. Strongly recommend the book. Easy to read and understand and realize the reality.
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