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Difference Between Purnata [Fullness] And Shunyata [No-Thingness]

by Ekta Bathija

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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.

AdvaitaNon DualityExperiential UnderstandingTruthDissolutionNothingnessSilenceFullnessBrahmanConsciousnessImpermanenceShunyataFullness From NothingnessBrahman ConsciousnessMetaphorsOcean Metaphors

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Music So,

When you do the coming from the scene back to this year,

Coming back to this year and recognizing the witness,

That witness seems at first like Shunyata,

Nothingness.

There is absolutely nothing there.

Silence,

That silence is a witness and it does not feel like anything more than silence at first.

But when you start relaxing into it,

Embracing it more again and again and again,

And you start feeling,

Oh,

It's not like a background screen that I thought it was,

It's almost like the tsunami wave percolates into everything.

Oh,

It's like an ocean.

I experience this like an ocean and it is there.

I cannot put a border that,

Oh,

That awareness or witness is limited to my head or my brain or limited just like six inches from my body.

No,

It is there.

It is limitless.

Yeah.

This experiential recognition may happen for a second.

That's fine.

But you recognize it.

That's fantastic.

And you recognize it as a big space rather than a screen at the back.

So first,

Your understanding is nothingness or silence.

And then it's more like an ocean of silence.

And this ocean of silence has everything,

Even this good person,

Even this not so great person,

This computer,

This TV,

This lamp,

Oh,

Everything.

It's like waves of the ocean,

But very silent waves we can see.

It doesn't have a bottom.

It's a bottomless ocean.

Everything is in it.

And that's how you go from nothingness to fullness.

Everything is in it.

Everything is made up of it.

Everything is born in it.

For some time,

Everything has an apparent life.

People,

Animals,

Insects,

Birds,

Even things.

And everything finally expires.

Everything dies in it.

There is no outside of it.

Oh,

It is pure now.

It is full of energy.

It's more a recognition,

A cognitive recognition rather than you feeling a magical thing.

No magical thing is going to happen.

It's cognition.

Being able to now see the Brahman that is everywhere,

Rather than just seeing things.

Things are there.

I'm not saying they are not there,

But recognize that the things are in Brahman.

Yes,

Brahman and things are intertwined.

He said,

So this object which I think has arisen in this nothingness,

In the stillness,

In silence,

How can this be something?

It is also nothing because it goes back into that stillness,

That nothingness.

So in the end,

Everything is nothingness,

Arises in nothingness and dissolves into nothingness.

Buddha closed the loop one step ahead.

The Gampurna stuff also will finally end.

None of these things that are there,

None of these people are permanent.

They will end.

And what do they end into?

The same silence,

The same silence.

So it is all shown near them.

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