Ketki

@Nahm Are you an expert of dreams and their meanings?

In my opinion becoming a sage happens to people, not necessarily it's a choice that they make. Or even if it's choice, it's the one that occurs most obviously to them. On this pursuit, probably they get so much sucked into the self enquiry, that the surroundings, the societal demands start to become a botheration, a hindrance in your way. Imagine that you're deeply engrossed in solving some puzzle, and someone keeps coming and talking some nonsense to you. What do you do? You go to a room and lock yourself up, or go out where none will interrupt. While some people can also keep the puzzle aside, address what's being said to them, and then go back to the puzzle, while some others would simply keep solving the puzzle without indulging actively into the conversations. There are many other possible responses to the interruption. Now a person is driven to solve this 'existence' puzzle. 'Becoming a sage', 'ignoring the pursuit completely and going back to normal life', 'continuing the self enquiry while living a normal life', are some of the responses from different people. Most sages themselves recommend that there's no need to leave your normal life, no need to practice celibacy etc. But the point is they too realized this while they chose the other path right? Whichever path you take, you still are God. You realize it, Great! (By realizing I mean not understand, but embody it. Experience it. BE IT.) If you realize it, it's enlightenment. Then even your regular life wouldn't cause pain. You'd know the games the ego plays, even if it still plays them. It's being aware, that it's the ego, and not you. If you've chosen to become a sage and then you are enlightened after that, you still don't regret it, because you realize, that you're God! Once you're conscious, fully aware that you're the God, and are non-dual, everything is the same! Simply Being it!!

Ain't we all authentic all the time? Do we even have a choice of not being it? Well this can be put in other way as, the moment we start perceiving / absorbing / even sensing anything, we've lost the authenticity. Explaining it using words is way too much. Yet, with all of the these alterations, errors, deviation from the original are we not authentic? In fact even the Inauthenticity itself seems so pure and authentic, does it not! Not trying to make it sound complicated, in fact this is the most simplistically I can put it..

Well I think these recent videos are way too advanced! As Leo has mentioned somewhere, stressing yourself out for why I can't understand all this won't take you anywhere. If you don't understand it now, probably you'll understand it later, and that's absolutely fine! None knows advanced Mathematics in grade1..and in fact many people don't know it their whole life, and that doesn't make them any lesser! But if you really want to understand Advanced Mathematics, you need to learn addition subtraction, need to take up advanced maths as a subject in higher grades or so, you need to practice advanced Maths problem solving etc. Even then you can't learn all of it. Even the best Mathematicians don't know it all! Similarly, (While my analogy is embarrassingly poor to relate to the topics like non duality, but couldn't come up with a better simplistic explanation)for realizing the stuff Leo has mentioned in here, you need to do the basic work necessary, like Mindfulness, meditation. I think these practices make you more aware of the reality.. not how you perceive the things otherwise. But how it actually is. This helps you step out of your egotistical self, which is the basis of all duality. Now once you can see the duality your mind was creating all these years, you can open yourself to the possibility of oneness, non-duality. So these practices, the work mostly improve your chances of realizing God, but ain't necessarily the means to realize God, as there can't be any set process to it. I think I'm digressing.. The point I'm trying to make is, you can't understand Advanced Maths by watching videos, or wondering what integration means, while you haven't studied and practiced basic maths. God is a way too advanced topic. While I have understood & relate to most of the content, it's not necessarily a step towards me realizing God! Note : Personally, I respect both a Grade 1 student and any scientist / mathematician equally, and so it's nowhere I'm trying to put anyone down here. I hope my analogy isn't misunderstood in that context..