Indian Philosophy Is Your Path to Eternal Freedom — Explained in 3 Minutes
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You have probably heard about Indian philosophy but don’t know where to start because it’s such a large topic.
For ease of explanation (and because I have studied it), I have chosen Advaita Vedanta to be the vehicle.
So you have done some of the prep work like being vegan, yoga, juicing, enemas, sweat lodge session, art therapy, affirmations, timeline therapy, color therapy, neo tantra, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, or sound healing.
But still you feel a sense of incompleteness. You are no closer to being Enlightened and don’t even know how to get there.
Lets begin.
You see yourself as being incomplete. I say that because you keep trying to acquire things.
To satisfy this sense of feeling insufficient your actions have 4 ends. They are ethics, securities, pleasures, and enlightenment.
- Security — refers to wealth, power, influence, and fame.
2. Pleasure — is enjoyment through the senses.
3. Ethics — these are the various values through which you seek security and pleasures
4. Enlightenment — is complete freedom from human pursuits. A realization of your nature as being absolute.
The fundamental problem
When you see something but you don’t recognize it for what it is, you think it to be something other than what it is.
Read this again. Slowly. It’s important.
You see a hose in a dark room and think it’s a snake.
You see yourself as incomplete. You see yourself as the hose.
Because you see yourself as incomplete you use security, pleasure, and ethics as a means to be complete.
The completeness that you get from these things is always temporary in nature. Thus you are always left with that sense of incompleteness.
A mature person reflects on the transitory nature that is derived from objects outside themselves. And that the problem is centered on oneself.
Enlightenment is freedom from the sense of inadequacy.
Nature of achievement
There are two types of achievements:
- achievement of that which is not yet achieved.
- achievement of that which is already achieved.
An example of the first is the achievement of your own home. This can be achieved by effort and within time.
An example of the second is you sit down at the table to read the newspaper. You look on the table for your reading glasses. They are nowhere to be found. You turn to your partner and ask if they have seen your reading glasses. They reply they are on your head! You had the glasses all along but you didn’t know.
Freedom from inadequacy
The first 3 ends of action relate to the achievement of a goal that is not yet achieved.
Enlightenment relates to the other type of achievement.
To know what you do not know requires a means of knowledge.
Advaita Vedanta (Indian philosophy) is a means of knowledge. This means of knowledge dispels ignorance.
Due to self-ignorance, this is unknown to you. Like the glasses on your head.
Vedanta reveals that your essence is infinite and complete.
Enlightenment is the recognition of yourself as being absolute and having no limits.