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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vi vekananda
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http://www.vhp.org/
http://voiceofdharma.org/
http://www.advaita.org.uk/inde x.htm
http://www.atmajyoti.org/me_om _yoga_book_05.asp
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http://www.geocities.com/neove danta/a36.html
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Arise, Awake, and Stop Not Till the Goal Is Reached!
This clarion call of Vivekananda is essentially a mantra for the modern man. Vivekananda placed great emphasis on awakening; so what exactly does this awakening constitute? The fact that you are reading this article indicates that you are awake, right? Nay, that is being awake at the physical level. Real awakening is when one wakes up to the beauties of ones own inner self. It is the realization that ones body is a temporary shell and the real self, the inner you, is Atman [soul].
**** HINDU SITES Click below****
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vi vekananda
http://www.rss.org:8080/New_RS S/index.jsp
http://www.vhp.org/
http://voiceofdharma.org/
http://www.advaita.org.uk/inde x.htm
http://www.atmajyoti.org/me_om _yoga_book_05.asp
http://www.swami-krishnananda. org/home.html
http://www.geocities.com/neove danta/a36.html
****************************** ****
Arise, Awake, and Stop Not Till the Goal Is Reached!
This clarion call of Vivekananda is essentially a mantra for the modern man. Vivekananda placed great emphasis on awakening; so what exactly does this awakening constitute? The fact that you are reading this article indicates that you are awake, right? Nay, that is being awake at the physical level. Real awakening is when one wakes up to the beauties of ones own inner self. It is the realization that ones body is a temporary shell and the real self, the inner you, is Atman [soul].
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To attain self realization, one has to awaken to truth—higher levels of wakefulness. There are four such levels. The first is the apparent wakeful attentiveness with which we move about and busy ourselves everyday. We are very much like others, alert and aware, when thus awake. But Vedanta reveals four categories of wakefulness: the fully awake, the wakefulness of the mind only (as while dreaming), the wakefulness of the self alone (as in deep sleep), and the illumination of the self (awakening into the Over-self). These are named as Sthoola, Sookshma, Kaarana, and Mahakaarana [The Gross, The Subtle, The Causal, and the Super-cause].
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This idea, which is the fundamental idea of the Upanishads on which Advaita is based, can be expressed in the form of an equation:
Atman = Brahman
Advaita asserts that since there is only one Brahman, there is only one Atman. There's only one UNDIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS and we all share it. We're all one — Brahman.
There is only one awareness, Brahman
The most important way that maya fools us is with regard to our selves. We think we are our bodies, our thoughts, our desires, and so forth. But those things are maya. They seem to be us but this is an illusion. Actually, our awareness (the part that is really conscious) is something else: Brahman.
This is an enormously strange and radical idea. It means that you aren't you; you aren't any kind of person, really. You are the supreme reality that underlies the entire universe. The person who seems to be in your head, the person you believe yourself to be, is merely a psychological illusion.
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The attainment of the state where the atman knows itself for what it is and realizes that it is naught but Brahman, is the goal of Advaitism. This state is one of direct experience and, as Shankara has made abundantly clear, it cannot be attained merely by ratiocination, the reading of scriptures or the performance of rituals. It can come only through the pursuit of yoga, and the essential thing to be remembered is that Advaitism by itself is not a yoga but, strictly speaking, represents the philosophy of yoga at its subtlest and profoundest.
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All states of samadhi, the one in which the individual atman lost its identity in the Brahman (called Nirvikalp Samadhi), was the highest.
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