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Psychedelics are banned in most countries for a reason. Not everyone can handle it. Cheat codes can ruin the game.

Imagine the same guy making everyone believe that he doesn't need a penny he earns for himself. Anyways, the point is already made. I understand the meaning you are getting at, but what is conveyed is this: There is nothing wrong for an enlightened guy to be rich by his hard work , but to be rich by deceiving people, I suggest you stay away from such guys. This is only a general statement and not targeting any particular guru.

@Preety_India @Dodo is right. There exists a state achieved by deep meditation or psychedelics that will show you that there are no boundaries to the body and they extend to infinity. How you interpret it using your logical mind gives you the answer. Since no two logical mind is alike but the experience is, I suggest you experience it on your own and answer it yourself in the way you like. You can start by sitting simply and focussing on your breath while passively observing and letting any thoughts arising in your mind pass away gently. You can get faster results by doing kriya yoga or the mind illuminated book. Even if you don't experience anything after doing all these for years, don't worry, meditation will make your life only better.

@Applegarden sorry that you have to write so many points to justify your views, I am glad that you took your time. Here are my views to give a clear idea of my point: 1) A spiritual guru becomes popular among masses mainly because communication and technique to meditate is good ( although all techniques are modified versions of centuries old texts) Claims to have mystical powers ( only claimed but never shown, what is shown easily gets decoded as cheap magic tricks) Does or seems to do a lot of good things to society Has a firm group of believers who does whatever the guru says ( it's easy to get a lot of believers once they are open minded enough and are personally benefited by them in some way.) Has political support Personally, I will look only for the first point with an open mind like you said. For other things, I need to use my logical mind, no matter if it is Nityananda or Sadhguru ( both these guys I have seen in close quarters) or Leo. The reason being, these popular gurus also use their logical mind to justify their points. ( Like Nityananda trying to make animals speak scientifically or Sadhguru quoting pseudoscience as proofs here and there). Listening to them with an open mind is very very very dangerous for your physical or mental well being. Being open minded is the first step to spirituality and I am happy that you are, but you need to know the difference between spirituality and fake mysticism, the line separating them being very thin.

He might already have tried, maybe once, but can't tell in public because people will get addicted to them without proper knowledge, just like some people here who have got addicted and not able to come out of it. And of course it's not legal in his home ground.

Imagine an enlightened guy running a billion dollar business. That's what Nityananda is. Sadhguru does a lot of good things for the society compared to Nityananda. For me, books and self enquiry have taught a lot more than the so called gurus. The more popular a guru is, the more deception they use. One example: Even Sadhguru now and then goes into that territory, the very purpose being to attract interest in what his program offers.

That would mean it's a hallucination and not the truth and the senses aid the hallucination. If I put a red tinted sun glass, the whole world becomes red. And that would be my reality. But is it the true nature of the world? If I lose even one sense, the other senses tell me something is there in the world I perceive and it remains the same whether my senses get switched on or off. How do you justify that?

If I am blind, is it true that the world is black?

What is direct experience? Is it using our senses to experience things firsthand? Or is it something else? If it's the first case, then it would be the last thing I would trust.

If you see that the earth is round from the space, will you believe it?

Direct experience is prior. So?

This forum is not for experiencing the truth, it's for gaining insights into the nature of experience. You will always need a logical brain to process the truth and it's better to use multiple brains rather than using a single one, all just for the fun.

Trust is relative. You trust science because it gives you more proof logically. You trust direct experience because it seems realer to your mind self. Science has proved that mind cannot be trusted because it is very good in making illusions. Direct experience has proved that science cannot be trusted because it was not able to explain the logic behind consciousness and still struggles to do so. In the end, it's like this: Science starts somewhere in the middle, which is our logical brain and tries to reach the end of zero and infinity which it can never seems to achieve. Direct experience of reality puts us straight to infinity but using only our logical brain does not help to explain clearly how it gets linked with our logical world. So, to understand reality, you need to use science to grasp the meaning of direct experience, atleast to the extent human brain can comprehend.

The brain is a bunch of thoughts storing machine. There happens to be no relation between memories and consciousness and people claiming to remember past lives never give enough proof and unfortunately most tell a lot of lies. This means even if what you call 'you', a bunch of thoughts manage to go into another individual's perspective, you will not remember because you don't carry the old self memories with you. So, the only thing that gives you an individual sense of self is the brain. The only way to experience another's perspective is to clone the body and insert your old self memories into that. That is definitely possible going by the current trends, so soon the uniqueness of individuality may disappear because of science.

Yeah, for understanding it's fine but for having fun, we need the individual.

You use the glass to get water from the pot, so you can drink it. You use the body to perceive yourself from different angles so that you can enjoy it. When you shed the body, you realize that even the glass and water are no different.

Being selfish is a good thing, it helps you to take care of your body and mind. But if you wish to have deeper insights into the world, you need to be selfless. It will be a hindrance when the truth gets revealed. Don't have any regrets for what you had done. Shed them all.

That's what differentiates living and the dead. Everything is moving and the same force drives the movement. The ones with less movement are the dead ones and the ones with more 'visible' movement are the living ones. There is no denying of the movement, the only denial is the sense of an individual controlling only its own movement. Either the individual controls all the movements in the universe or no movement at all.

The whole world is one and the boundaries are imaginary. That's the base and unarguable truth. The world exists whether there is a perceiving body or not. The theory that the world simply disappears when we die is only a theory that can never be verified by experiment or insight. Then why do we have boundaries and perceptions? If you really want the truth, It is simply created by the brain to make this piece of organic matter exist for a longer time which scientists explain using evolution and survival. Why does this individual need to survive? Simply because the individuals that need not survive don't exist beyond certain time and they have gone extinct because of individuals that wants to survive. Individual pieces of matter that don't have boundaries have less chance of survival than individual with boundaries. Is there a purpose for this individual? In my opinion, there are two possibilities: 1) There is nothing called purpose, the feeling that we have some purpose is one again a result of the brain that wants to survive. All possibilities exist in the world and we are living in all possibilities except that the brain is capable of only showing us one which is again is a limiting ability of the brain helping us to survive. Whether the brain has control over choosing the possibility is debatable. 2) There is indeed some purpose in the fundamental nature of the universe but not as an individual. There is a driving force that chooses the most probable version by some kind of programming. Free will is the fundamental code that we can write using the program which the brain managed to connect with. The universe decides on which direction the world moves. We as beings with a sense of individuality and purpose have the same control as that of universe. There are lot of stuff on the universe that our scientific mind may not have discovered but the brain had already discovered unconsciously. In the end, once again, it's all theories except the first one. Everything is built around that concrete fact

It's your stupid brain playing with you. No offence, everybody's brain is stupid. It always looks for miracles. It helps you to stay alive longer. It's always better to shut down the brain for sometime if you want a better life.

Free will doesn't exist when it comes to making our day to day choices. When it comes to free will of the universe, either all the possibilities of the universe exists simultaneously and we get to experience something random or some rules define what we are supposed to experience most probably. ( Although there is a tiny connection within us that dictates what direction we proceed which ultimately can be called free will, as far as my understanding goes. But the sense of self needs to be lost and hence we can only be called an observer,)

There are only two things, what you want and the opposite of it. If we are attracting things opposite of what we want, then LOA doesn't work. Suddenly, if we seem to attract what we want and you are getting lot of coincidences, it is working. Unfortunately, people are satisfied with positive results and forget negative ones. Anyway it's all balanced out, it doesn't matter. But still, the truth is LOA WORKS. Follow these simple steps and see the results : Go into deep meditative state where thoughts stop arising and your focus is razor sharp. Focus on what you wanted but now don't think that you want it. What you desire, you will never get. Instead think that it's happening already with extremely strong belief that there is no other option. You need to break the mental shackles that drive your beliefs. Do this regularly and weird coincidences start to happen. Why LOA doesn't seem to work is because it is a very tiny thread buried deep within us, and it isn't as simple as thinking about wanting something and getting it. It need a desire less mind to work. Anyway it's all bullshit because if you don't desire something, why do you want it anyways?

Free will ultimately boils down to the fact of what 'you' choose to experience in the infinite probabilities happening in the universe. You are the creator of your own story but it's buried too deep within you that you fail to notice it and you trick yourself into believing that everything is happening because of God or karma. You can't change the things that had already happened due to the rules of universe but the future course of actions you definitely have control over. Not only the choices you as an individual make but how the whole world makes the choice.

Even direct experience has the assumption that whatever we experience directly is the absolute truth. It can be a relatively more fundamental truth, but there is no guarantee that it is the absolute truth. Just like we believe that dream is an illusion when we wake up.