From Awakening to Complete Recognition and Liberation

When we start this inner quest, this inner inquiry, we will definitely have glimpses. We feel the inner peace, the vastness, that utter silence that is completeness itself, we are totally fulfilled, it’s profound happiness, we call it Bliss. Yet, it is an intermediary state on the way to the complete Recognition and Liberation, but this revelation is only possible when the binding identifying vāsanās from the mind are totally neutralized. It’s not by dealing with one thought that we will be forever established in the Pure Seeing. As long as these fluctuations are there, we need vigilance, and that comes from a sense of discernment and detachment. Anything that has to do with the belief of being a person, the belief that all of our personal stories are true, can destabilize that insight and send us back to the identified consciousness. We should not contaminate the clarity of Awareness with the personal contents of the mind!
Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. In this video, Swami Ji responds to a question asked during an open satsang he shared on March 4, 2019 at Ajatananda Ashram in Rishikesh.