What Is A Pure Silence-Retreat? What Is A Sound Silence-Retreat?

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

🎵 There are no instructions.

There is no tape recorder going on all day or some voice going on all day telling you what to do.

Then you're stuck in the external till the mind is stuck in the five senses.

It is outward facing.

If you're listening to constant instructions,

A guided meditation,

Whether it is one hour long or four days long,

It is a guided meditation.

It keeps me outward.

Sound is outside.

Do you get it?

Sound belongs to the physical and the mental state.

Where are we going with Advaita?

The noor.

We are going deeper.

So we have to drop the sound to be in pure silence.

That is why pure silence retreats are different from sound silence retreats.

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