Advaita SE Meditations - Satchidananda

Listen to Ektaji guide us through an Advaita self-exploration meditation, ‘Satchidananda’. Empty out the mind and be the Nothingness, the Sense of Being. The Sense of Being is the eternal NOW. I am Sat. The Sense of Being knows itself as I am. It is Knowingness/Consciousness itself. I am Chid. The Sense of Being is a quiet calm field that is devoid of the distinctions of I and You. I am Ananda. Satchidananda is who I am.

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Let's do a self-exploration, An inner self-enquiry to examine our own nature and figure out experientially if we can recognize the meaning of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Let's close our eyes. Let's empty out the mind. Empty. No thoughts required, No sensations, No perceptions, No feelings. Empty out the mind of all the noise and just be. In the sense of being, There is only a void. Be the void. Empty the room of the mind of everything. Just be. Be the no-thingness. No-thingness is the absence of all physical and mental objects. Empty out the mind and just sing in. Be the no-thingness, The void. In the sense of being, There is no I. There is a quiet field that just knows everything. It is a field of no-thingness. Recognize that this field of no-thingness is devoid of I. This field of knowingness knows itself. This field is the field of the eternal now. There is only the now. I cannot step out of this now to experience something called the past. Everything arises, Plays and vanishes in the now. I cannot step out of the now to experience anything called the future. Everything arises, Plays and vanishes in the now. Recognize that in your true experience, There is only the now. You cannot step out of this now to experience the beginning of the meditation. Even if this meditation gets recorded and you stop it and go back to the beginning, The beginning will happen in the now. If you paused the recording and went all the way to the end of the meditation, That will still be experienced in the now. In your direct experience, There is only the now. Past and future are simply labels given by the mind. Stay in the eternal now as the eternal now. The eternal now is the sense of being. The eternal now is the sense of existence. The eternal now is the sense of I am. This is called sat in Sanskrit. Sat means that which is. Sat is not a dead sense of being. It is alive. It is conscious. It knows itself as I am. It is knowledge itself. Gyan matra. Knowledge itself. It is called knowingness. It is called consciousness. Knowingness or consciousness in Sanskrit is called chid. I am sat. I am chid. I am aware that I am. I know that I am. When you hear the words that you are sat, Chid, Examine who is knowing. Does that knowingness have a form? Does the knowingness say I? It is a quiet, Silent field. Devoid of duality. Devoid of distinctions of I or you. It is simply quiet. That quietness. That calm. That is you. Be that calm. That calm and quiet is called ananda in Sanskrit. Sat is being. Chid is knowing. Ananda is the peace. Knowing your own being is peace. Sat chid ananda. That is who you are. That is who I am. That is who he is. That is who she is. I, You, He, She are only words that create duality. In the background, Notice that we are all the same sat chid ananda. Advaitam, Non-duality, Is the only truth. Sat chid ananda is the only truth.