Know the fact but do not stop at the fact || On Advait Vedanta (2019)

Shuzan held out his short staff and said, “If you call this a short staff, you oppose reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now, what do you wish to call this?” ~ ‘The Short Staff’, a Zen Koan

Questioner: Acharya Ji, like this confusing Koan, a few things in your teachings are difficult to grasp for my petty, stability-seeking mind. In your song ‘Are you looking for me?’, you said it is stupid to wind your legs around your head, so I stopped the little yoga I did. My current yoga is just listening to your videos. I don’t know if peace will come just by that, but it surely has given me a better understanding on life and gives me relaxation, at least for a few minutes.

So, I queue your videos on YouTube and keep going. I see that this is conditional peace because as your video’s effect fades, my peace can fade too. I work from home now, so there is no external pollution; my mind is the culprit.

Where am I going? Am I your intellectually poor disciple who needs to stick to just one of your methods, like ‘What role am I playing now?’ or ‘Om Namah Shivaya’-japa , or observing that I am just hormones and chemicals? Please guide.

Acharya Prashant: Where is a clear description, an admission of your real and current bondages in all…