ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt158

[The Teaching  of Non-Duality has been adapted from Master Nome, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi.]

The view of Qualified Non-Duality is that the Absolute is of the same nature as oneself, one's self being of the same nature as it, though there are distinctions, such as a difference in vastness, steadiness of experience, and such. It is said to be as a glass of water and the ocean. They both are water, the same thing, yet they are not the same. One's understanding can extend to the point of viewing the Absolute as a background of all, as a substrate of all, as that from which everything arises and to which all will return, & even as that which pervades everyone & everything with a distinction between the Pervader & the pervaded. There can be experience of union, but this will be followed by separation again, though there can be a memory of the union while differentiation resumes. The individual experiencer remains, for whom all else arises, who thinks, who feels, who acts, and such. With the view of qualified nonduality, spiritual practice will be one of attempting merger or union. The Absolute is viewed more impersonally, as a greater intelligence or as some all-pervading presence.

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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”
–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

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