Advaita SE Meditations - Drg Drishya Viveka Self-Inquiry

Listen to Ektaji guide us through an Advaita self-exploration meditation, "Drg Drishya Viveka Self-Inquiry." Through direct inquiry, discover that every thought, sensation, sound, and perception appears in the same field of Awareness. From this recognition, contemplate the truth of "I am Brahman"- that all objects borrow their existence from Brahman, while the mind, intellect, memory, ego, and body merely reflect Consciousness and mistakenly claim, "I am Conscious."

Finally, rest in the direct recognition of the pure sense of Being: I Am.

Transcript

So today we will start. With a very simple meditation. Very simple. Keep all your previous thoughts, Previous ideas about Advaita aside. Keep all your conditioning about the spiritual path aside. Like a small baby just absolutely new. To this knowledge. With an open mind, We just. . . Are here. That's how we begin this meditation. In this meditation, We'll do it partly with closed eyes and partly with open eyes. So when I tell you to open your eyes, Please open your eyes. So now we will start with closing our eyes. Let's close our eyes but not get lost in thought. Let's all close our eyes, Take a deep breath in, Relax the body. Relax your shoulders. Relax your glutes. Become aware. As thought. In the form of sensation or words inside your mind. Maybe my only voice is echoing. My words are echoing in your mind. It's a thought. Become aware of that. Ask yourself this question. Where does this thought appear? Does it appear in the field of my awareness? Take your attention to a sound in the environment. Any sound. If there is no sound, The sound of my voice. Is still a song. Now take your attention back to the thought. And toggle between the thought, And the sun. The thought appears in the field of my own awareness. Now become clear. Does the sound also appear in the field of my own awareness? Good sound. And stop. In the field of my own awareness, In the field of my own consciousness. In the same witnessing consciousness. Now let any thought, Any sensation come up, Whatever is coming. Is there any thought, Any sensation, Any sound? Any touch. That is not. In the field of awareness. Is that possible? Every experience of mine. Happens in this field of awareness. It is born in this field of awareness. It stays for a while and it dies in this field of awareness. Can open your eyes now. We thought that my tort. Happens internally. And the world of experience of sound, Sight, Taste, Touch, Smell is external. But this is only conditioning. In my pure experiencing, There is nothing out of the field of awareness. There is nothing out of the field of consciousness. Now look around in your room. Is bad. Anything outside the field of your awareness? Can you find anything outside awareness? Is it even possible? Nobody. Can find any object outside the field of awareness or consciousness. Now look outside your window. Or do you see right below your window? Probably some of you see grass. Alone. A little garden in front of the window. In front of that probably you see some buildings. What do you see? Beyond that. Some lucky ones might see some mountains. What do you see beyond that? Keep looking, Keep looking. If you miss this, You miss it totally. You see the sky probably. And what you see beyond the sky. Beyond that is just me. Buonavergnes! It's me. It's me. It is all me. It is so simple. I am number one. Everything arises within this Brahman and everything dissolves within this Brahman. I do not experience. A so-called objective world outside. It is me, It is my awareness, My field of awareness. There is nothing else outside of my own field of awareness or my own field of consciousness that I can ever know. Nothing exists outside from within. So when I am only brahman and everything is in brahman And where is the room for all these illusions, These ragas and vishas? This is all petty. I am Brahman. What is the quality of Brahman? It is there everywhere. So it is existence. It exists. Lends its existence to objects in the world. The objects or this creation borrows its existence from the world. This existence that I am seeing. That is who I am. I am Brahman. Step. Brahman exists and it exists. Lends, Like a bank lends money, Like that. I mean, Really. Lends its existence to objects. Objects borrow existence from Brahman. The way you go to a bank and you borrow money. Can you feel I am rich? Are you rich really? Exactly the same scenario has happened. This subtle body, Which is the mind, Intellect, Memory, Ego, It has borrowed its feeling of existing. Feeling of being conscious. From that witness. And what does it think? I am a lady. A subtle body. Is in this illusion that I am conscious. Subtle body has a very beautiful quality of transparency like a dew drop. It can reflect The sun. Perfectly, You'll see a mini sun in that little dew drop. So it does its job of reflection so perfectly. It starts saying, I am the sun. The subtle body has started now feeling, I am conscious, I am alive. And that is what gives you the eye sense. Mind. Intellect, Memory, Ego along with the physical body. This is the false I. I am Grandma. I am Bramwood. I am Drama. I am Bramwood. I am Brahman. I am Bramwell. I am Bramwood. I am Bramwood. I am Brambley.