Shiva and Shakti, fully explained || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2022)

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00:00How do we understand the union of Shiva and Shakti from non-dual Vedanta perspective?

00:13And the second question is, how to surrender to Guru consciously?

00:18These are symbols.

00:22Shakti represents everything in motion, everything that can be experienced.

00:29Everything that you can think of, Shakti represents the totality of that.

00:37If Shakti represents everything in motion, one feels like asking, why is everything in

00:45motion in the first place?

00:48Why is everything moving?

00:54Let's begin with ourselves.

00:56Why does the mind move so much?

01:00Why does the individual never rest anywhere?

01:05Why are you always thinking?

01:08Why do we always want to reach somewhere?

01:12What is this quest for attainment, achievement?

01:19What is desire that fuels all our movements?

01:27We move.

01:29It seems commonsensical.

01:32So that we may come to a point where there is no further need for movement.

01:37Is that not so?

01:41No one moves to remain moving.

01:45No one walks to remain walking.

01:48No one begins a journey with no end.

01:54So if we are constantly in motion, both physically and mentally, that tells us something about who

02:03we are, we are entities deeply in desire of something.

02:13And that's why we are constantly in motion.

02:19Otherwise who wants to move?

02:22Otherwise why would there be such unrest and disquiet within?

02:30You would never find any person, even a non-human organism, that is perfectly still, whether physically

02:44or mentally.

02:50Consciousness moves.

02:53Consciousness moves.

02:55And it moves in search of a final destination, a place where there is no movement at all,

03:04a place where there is no experience at all.

03:11The clock keeps ticking so that you can come to a certain and ultimate timelessness.

03:19We value experiences so much, we want experiences of all kinds so that we may come to a point

03:28where there is no further need for experience, where we are beyond experience.

03:34We keep looking at faces, we keep meeting people, we keep entering into relationships.

03:42Because we want to come to a point where there is no further need to look at any face or form.

03:48Where there is no need to further remember any names.

03:56That point is symbolically represented by Shiv.

04:01Shakti is movement, Shiv is destination.

04:08Those who are inclined towards having the right kind of movement, worship Shakti.

04:20Those who are inclined towards the destination, those who have fallen in love with the destination

04:26itself, worship Shiv.

04:30The fact is that the two are inseparable.

04:36Are you getting it?

04:39Shakti is the totality of all our experiences.

04:43Everything that is in space-time is contained in Shakti.

04:51And space-time does not exist for itself.

04:54It exists for the sake of its dissolution.

04:58Had it existed for its own sake, you would have succeeded in somehow at any point finding

05:06contentment in it.

05:09But we do not know of any person who has managed to find ultimate contentment in anything in

05:16the field of space-time.

05:19Is there anything in the entire universe that can perfectly satisfy you?

05:25No.

05:26What does that tell you about your own consciousness?

05:30It is looking for something beyond, something transcendental.

05:35Now that something transcendental is not an object of thought.

05:43It is not something you can think of, ideate or conceptualize or imagine.

05:49That which is beyond imagination, formless, nirakar, nirgund, attribute-less, that is called as Shiv.

06:01To give a form to Shiv is not a very proper thing.

06:07It is some kind of human compulsion to always search for forms, you know?

06:20Because we cannot think without forms.

06:22We cannot think without names.

06:24So even to the formless, we assign a form.

06:28Even to the nameless, we give a name.

06:31Irrespective of what we do, you must understand that Shiv is the name of the final nameless, formless,

06:48attribute-less, shapeless, timeless truth.

06:52Why are we calling Shiva's truth?

06:58Because by definition, that which is changing, that which does not remain what it appears to be, has to be called as false.

07:08There is nothing in the world that remains what it appears to be.

07:14In fact, since things are changing every moment, and it takes time for you to perceive anything,

07:27therefore, by the time you perceive anything, it has already changed.

07:30Has it not?

07:32That's the reason why the world is called as false.

07:36It is not what it appears to be.

07:38Even stuff that we call as factual is actually not factual.

07:49Because of the gap between the observed phenomena and the observer's perception, there is a lag.

07:59And that lag is sufficient for the observed entity to change.

08:03Therefore, what is the truth?

08:07Only something that which cannot be experienced.

08:11If it can be experienced, it is false.

08:15You can understand it further to mean that the experiencer itself is false.

08:21Why?

08:22Because the experiencer places so much trust in his experience.

08:26He says, it is the truth because I am experiencing it.

08:29It exists because I am seeing it.

08:32It was said because I heard it.

08:37Because you heard it, it becomes the truth.

08:39Seriously?

08:41There are so many of you here, and I suppose I am one person saying one thing,

08:47but I am so sure that no less than 200 versions of what I am saying are being heard here, right now.

08:56The experiencer is false.

08:58But the experiencer is just too self-confident.

09:01The experiencer says, because I am testifying through my ears that such and such thing has been said.

09:10Therefore, it has been said.

09:12I am the proof.

09:13No, you are not the proof.

09:15Ask your neighbor.

09:17He has not heard the same things as you have, even in the last 15 minutes.

09:23The experience is true.

09:26Are you getting it?

09:26That is the reason why Satyam Shivam Sundaram.

09:30Shiv is called the truth.

09:33Because anything that is within the purview of experience cannot be fully trusted.

09:39Hello, sir.

09:42Sir, I want to ask a question that what is consciousness?

09:48So, how can we say that a system is conscious or not?

09:54So, whenever I try to find an answer to this question, so people explain it very abstractly.

10:04So, I don't find any scientific explanation.

10:08So, how can we say like there is a stone lying on a footpath?

10:14Is it conscious or not?

10:17So, mostly people say that living beings are conscious, whereas non-living beings are not.

10:26It is flow of energy.

10:29It is flow of energy through space and time.

10:32As Albert Einstein also said.

10:35So, sir, I want you to explain it in a scientific way.

10:48Anything that experiences is conscious.

10:54Consciousness is the entire domain of your happiness, sorrow, likes, dislikes.

11:00Everything that is rising is in the domain of consciousness.

11:06Everything that is falling is in the domain of consciousness.

11:09Who is the conscious one?

11:11The one who experiences.

11:15How do you define experience?

11:20The urge to not remain who you are.

11:25That's what makes an entity conscious.

11:30And the process of consciousness is via duality.

11:35I do not want to remain who I am using what I am perceiving.

11:41I want to change, so I want to use this to change.

11:45This is the process of consciousness.

11:48The conscious entity is the one that's experiencing this.

11:53Experiencing this in order to change.

11:56Does the stone have a quest for liberation?

12:05It's a far-fetched thing to say.

12:09So, even if you want to say that every particle in the universe is conscious,

12:15then the level of consciousness is extremely low.

12:18Who then is a highly conscious entity?

12:24The one who has a strong urge for liberation.

12:30What is liberation?

12:32Everything that limits your experience.

12:34Mind you, unconscious entity is an experiencing entity.

12:38Everything that limits your experience is a bondage.

12:42The one who realizes that bondage feels suffocated and rebels against it is a conscious entity.

12:52There is no complication, no abstraction in it.

13:01When you want to rise higher, when you just cannot remain the one you are,

13:08when you have a choice unlike a stone, then you are conscious.

13:13You are lying somewhere, you are pushed aside.

13:22You have a choice.

13:26The stone is pushed aside.

13:28The stone does not have a choice.

13:29Or even if it has a choice, it is lying very, very latent within the stone.

13:33The stone will one day become soil.

13:38The soil will one day become a fetus.

13:44Before that, it will become food.

13:48And the fetus will then turn into a human being.

13:51And that's when the stone will develop choice.

13:55So, even if you want to assert that the stone too is conscious,

13:59it's consciousness is lying greatly dormant within itself.

14:08So, the stone will have to go through a lot, undertake a long journey

14:13to come to a point where it can say it has an active choice.

14:18Till then, nothing.

14:29until then, nothing.

14:32Then the stone will have to go through a lot later.

14:34May God cover it.

14:36Sometimes, since you cannot be the final one...

14:36Have the Pisces, they'll have to go through a lot that I take away.

14:39Thanks Chase.

14:40Whenever you want people to learn.

14:42Feel it выпalmates.

14:44get hold of me too,

14:46I'm willing to mistake them.

14:48There will not go through a lot,

14:49There may be oneikutus.

14:50There may be one month tutte.

14:52The мяс NY身 is lying.

14:52There is BOYFARIS.

14:55AND STASTERS

14:56in the Spanish,

14:57Though time you breathe.

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