Bondage or Liberation Do Not Apply to Consciousness!

Bondage or Liberation Do Not Apply to Consciousness!

(14:46) What is the relation between ‘jnāna’ (direct Knowledge), ‘moksha’ (Liberation) and Consciousness? Is there any ‘moksha’ in Consciousness? Is it Consciousness that you have to liberate? If there is bondage and suffering, then of whom are they? Of the mind! Suffering is only in the mind. You can’t find suffering in Consciousness. Concepts of ‘bondage’ and ‘liberation’ do not apply there. In your pure Presence you are free from suffering already. For the mind, however, when ‘jnāna’ arises, there is ‘moksha’. But is there anyone that has been liberated? Who is the ‘mukta’? Is there anyone now who stands free? No! Because ‘jnāna’ in other words means the realization that all there is, is Consciousness, that there was never an individual being existing by itself. So therefore, in absolute terms, there is no ‘bandha’ (bondage) and there is no ‘moksha’ (Liberation). These categories belong to the journey of the seeker, because a seeker starts from a place of incompleteness. When the dream of being someone is totally dropped, all you see and experience is that one Reality beyond words.

Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. This video is a third extract from a retreat given at the ashram on October 23, 2018.

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Swami Atmananda Udasin

These Satsangs are coordinated by the Ashram Team and ‘Les Amis d’Ajatananda Ashram’, in partnership with Eveil Conscience, and will take place in French, with simultaneous translation into English. You will therefore be able to listen and see Swamiji in full screen and follow his teaching which will be based on a text from the Advaita tradition and followed, as in every Satsang, by a question and answer session.

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These online Satsangs are coordinated by the Ashram Team and ‘Les Amis d’Ajatananda Ashram’, and will take place in English, with simultaneous translation into French. You will therefore be able to listen and see Swamiji in full screen and follow his teaching which will be based on a text from the Advaita tradition and followed, as in every Satsang, by a question and answer session.

Please note! In order to participate, your registration is mandatory. Please click on the ‘Register Here’ button below the description of the event to access the registration form.

To support the teaching of Swamiji and the Ajatananda Ashram, we will maintain the principle of conscious donation. If you wish to do so, you will be able to make your donation at the time of your registration.

The Zoom link, guidelines for the meeting and the text that will be commented on by Swamiji will be sent to you the day before the event. We suggest you either print the text or display it on an additional device during the Satsangs.

We invite you to keep your camera on and display your first and last name as your username for the duration of each Satsang as a sign of your full participation. Please kindly read our Additional Guidelines here.

If it is impossible for you to attend any of these Satsangs due to your professional obligations or time zone differences, please feel free to contact us by following this link. We will do our best to offer you an alternative option.

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