The most practical spiritual advice

The most practical spiritual advice;

• You are the witness to whatever happens and is visible
• Everything felt and visible is like a film, a series of events that have no substance and permanence
• Your real identity is beyond the witness state. If the thing you witness is false, the witness position too is shaky
• Adopting the witness state helps in dissociating oneself and considering another phase of reality
• What you really are is what is behind the witness state. It is called turiya; beyond the waking, sleep, and deep sleep states
• That state can only be identified with through self-realization; it is beyond words and understanding. On realizing you just become that state

But this does not mean that you stop participating in the world. In any way you will be forced to participate as you are a part of the world.

Spiritual seeking provides you a perspective. The seeking is not the end; but the path. Fascination with the seeking can result in being stuck. This is considered to be the last attachment from which one must seek to be detached from.

To say that there is a path that needs to be travelled to reach a state is also a fallacy. You are already that, always that. Therefore there is no path and no travelling. You don't travel to where you already are.

What is needed is to realize and see beyond the illusionary power called Maya that projects the created world. The mind is the projector; the senses align with it. The ego is what separates you from the truth.

You alone are. There is no duality or multiplicity.

What sages advice;

• Detach from the world and the notion that you are the doer
• Observe the mind and thoughts instead of being led by them
• Detach from the notion that you are the body. In deep sleep you forget the body and world, and yet you are truly satisfied
• Your desires give rise to endless dreams that you attract in order to satisfy them. Desires are endless
• The change in perception slowly results in desires losing hold over you

The Bhagavad Geeta combines the ferocious battlefield with spiritual knowledge and desire less action. Even battles too can be won with the right wisdom and following the guide within.

The world submits to the spiritual warrior who sees action in inaction and inaction in action.