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Non-duality self-enquiry talk "Emptiness" by Dr. Vijai S Shankar

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    Yes
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    Good evening to everybody
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    Yes
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    Resistance
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    Yah!
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    You want to empty
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    your house,
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    you want to empty
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    yourself
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    but there is
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    resistance!
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    Hm!
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    Would there be
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    resistance
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    if you have really
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    understood the
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    emptiness?
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    That you want yourself
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    to be empty!
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    If this understanding is total,
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    would there be
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    resistance?
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    No. Excellent!
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    Why would there be?
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    So it's important for us to
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    understand
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    what this emptiness
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    could be?
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    Hm!?
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    As I see
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    that seem to be
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    the
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    most trouble some
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    aspect of your
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    quest
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    what is it like there
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    in emptiness?
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    What is there?
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    How sets there?
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    Yes!
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    Would they have powers there?
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    Would they know something there?
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    What is it there?
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    That's seems to be
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    troubling some
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    of your most of you?
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    Isn't it?
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    Which means you clearly
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    not understood what
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    emptiness could be.
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    Hm!
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    Somehow,
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    you have an understanding
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    that
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    even there
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    I will know that emptiness,
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    I will know that bliss.
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    I will experience
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    that bliss.
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    Is it not so?
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    Which means just say
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    primarily it's a greed that
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    you want to get that bliss,
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    isn't it?
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    Hm!?
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    Ah, something better there
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    than here
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    so I have to go there
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    rely be there
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    that's the question most people
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    ask me
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    How sets there?
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    Do you experience anything there?
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    If I say "Yah!"
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    It would be a let's go for it
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    - Laughter -
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    Why should I let's go
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    this guy X enjoyed
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    let's also go grab something?
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    Which means we have not
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    understood this emptiness.
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    Okay.
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    Can...
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    It is better you are not
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    understanding
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    Yes the books will say
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    bliss full state
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    and
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    and you expect to be there
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    to experience that bliss full state
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    it's normal.
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    That expression is there.
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    God is there.
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    Oh, it's nice to have the company
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    of God.
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    Let's go.
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    Maybe he lead us for breakfast
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    or something
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    maybe in that satsang to
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    who knows?
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    So such things will come.
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    Hm!
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    Even though that understanding
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    is there
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    Why is there resistance?
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    The resistance is there
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    primarily because
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    who knows maybe it's not there?
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    At least, I know this is there.
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    People say there's so many things
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    there
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    bliss is there,
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    God is there
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    breakfast is there,
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    colostral free breakfast
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    is there.
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    Fat free diet is there
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    no problem
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    you can eat whatever
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    you want, you'll never get fat,
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    let's go.
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    And then suddenly,
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    we were all alone
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    in a group it's okay
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    I let go
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    but we're not alone
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    My God!
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    What if it's not there?
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    At least I have cake and pastries here,
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    maybe they don't know bakeries there?
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    Who knows?
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    All such things will coming to
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    the mind.
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    Then will have any resistance
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    Your mind will tell you maybe
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    all the same, this satsang is all false
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    How can it be there?
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    And then a group comes in
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    ah yes it is there
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    again,
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    so let's empty.
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    The group goes away,
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    satsang goes away,
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    the group goes away
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    My God
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    how can I empty all this,
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    no way?
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    I'm but...
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    Such things happen
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    it's normal.
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    Understand the working of your
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    mind which you are
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    have a goodness
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    is it not so?
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    For that you see what that
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    emptiness could be...
Title:
Non-duality self-enquiry talk "Emptiness" by Dr. Vijai S Shankar
Description:

"Beyond the mind is emptiness", Dr. Vijai S. Shankar
The complete talk is available as CD/ DVD at http://www.acadun.com/en/dvd.

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Duration:
07:06

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