How To Make Decisions?

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

CHIMES Recognize that everything is the knowingness.

Yes,

But when I have to operate in this world,

I have to operate with this body-mind complex which is the product of karma.

I have previous karma because of which this body was born.

Yes,

I have to exhaust that karma.

If it means taking care of your child,

Your family,

Your work,

Money,

Whatever,

You do that.

But now from a new perspective,

Being knowingly the knowingness and doing what you need to do,

Even if it is stock market trading,

You're continuously there knowingly knowingness,

Knowingly awareness taking care of the child,

The husband,

You know,

Whatever work,

Making a decision,

This job or that job,

Knowingly being here instead of being here.

Are you seeing what I'm saying?

Here there is the fire of thoughts,

Emotions,

Sensations,

Perceptions.

You have been given the free will as a human being to jump into this fire and take a decision from here or be behind as the knower,

As the witnessing element and take a decision.