Can One Feel Stuck On The Spiritual Path?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

Transcript

Outrageous seal This is actually,

Awareness is very experiential.

That is why it is like the core teaching in every scripture.

It's very experiential.

The knower is very,

Very experiential.

It's not a belief.

You cannot believe it.

So it is something that people can experience,

But then some people just get stuck.

You see,

Are you stuck in just words and learning the words or,

You know,

There is a beauty in words.

So you check.

I don't know.

You will have to do a little examination.

So I'm just telling you where people get stuck.

So some people get stuck in the beauty of the words.

Some people get stuck in the intellectual reasoning.

So there's a big difference between intellectual reasoning and actually experiencing it.

When the actual experience comes up,

The intellectual reasoning seems very pika,

Very bland.

It falls off and that needs to happen very naturally.

So if you are just stuck in intellectual reasoning,

You should make an attempt to move towards the experiencing of it.

This is very experiential.

Being in the knowingness is very experiential.