The Paradox of Enlightenment in the GREATEST Spiritual Story Ever Told

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Jason Gregory

Jason Gregory

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The paradox of enlightenment is a revelation one only understands after the spiritual process has gone beyond the border of conventional thinking into the unknown realm of enlightenment. In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from the Ashtavakra Gita, a text one is ready to assimilate after enlightenment. The Ashtavakra Gita is for those who want to absorb themselves in the presence of the Ultimate Reality after awakening.
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@JasonGregoryAuthor
@JasonGregoryAuthor Ай бұрын
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@BobbyFriston
@BobbyFriston Ай бұрын
Normally, I fall asleep at the mention of the word "scriptures" but Jason and Gayoung breathe new life into them. This is one of my favourite channels. I hope it continues to grow.
@That_Freedom_Guy
@That_Freedom_Guy 29 күн бұрын
Yes, I think so too.👍🏻
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 29 күн бұрын
I hope you dont often fall asleep during meditation tho, otherwise you wont get anywhere😜😜
@dianesmith8183
@dianesmith8183 Ай бұрын
It is what it is, it's how we deal with it...not reacting, not 'doing' something about it...observe and learn. Much love Jason and all truth seekers ❤
@EnergiCodes
@EnergiCodes Ай бұрын
One of the first books I read after my awakening. It literally blew my mind. I had a lot of fear reading it as confirmed what I was experiencing - that I don't exist and that I was never born or can die. Once my ego settled down the book become very powerful and beautiful to read.
@tobinharris8107
@tobinharris8107 28 күн бұрын
The term “witness consciousness” is very helpful. Thank you for all you do Jason 🕉👍
@HACKETT3.14
@HACKETT3.14 Ай бұрын
Thanks Jason
@awakenotwoke7949
@awakenotwoke7949 Ай бұрын
It is almost impossible for the average seeker to relinquish body identification and as the doer. One can intellectually understand. but Ego illusion will hang on for dear life, literally.
@mayasamsara
@mayasamsara 29 күн бұрын
Thats my people confuse meditating with seeking enlightenment.. Meditation is many things but foremost to absorb the world as is in the moment with the given senses, understanding the dual and limited nature of the self.. Doing this lets go of the ego and holding on.. 🙏
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 28 күн бұрын
That all has to do with fear and other negative emotion, in my experience. Accept, accept, accept! Feel them fully, exactly as they are. Let be, let be, let be. Let go, etc. All of that stuff :) Theres a big problem with negative emotion in Advaita, imo. No Spiritual Bypassing! Let it all be. Feel it all as it is. This can be hella uncomfortable at times but it needs to be done to 'dissolve bindings' so to speak. Dig out the subconscious. Let be what wants to come up. This is fundamental imo.
@awakenotwoke7949
@awakenotwoke7949 27 күн бұрын
@@JorisWeima 🙏
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 27 күн бұрын
@@awakenotwoke7949 I recommend the teacher Vishrant. He talks about these 'methods' a lot, has been Enlightened for 25 years, gives free online satsangs that u can attend with questions and he has tons of videos. He's more of a Buddhist teacher (but knows Advaita too) but in my experience the methods I mentioned are a GREAT addition to Advaita. Faster progress!🙏🏼
@suzannecarter445
@suzannecarter445 Ай бұрын
Very fine video - you say it so many times in so many ways. Something is bound to get through with this repeated communication from different angles.
@ezreality
@ezreality Ай бұрын
Nailed it! Thank you...Jason
@GreatPlainsRambler
@GreatPlainsRambler Ай бұрын
I feel like I've had a spiritual breakthrough recently. And I just want to thank you for your videos. They are truly beautiful and have helped me tremendously. Much love, breathe deep and seek peace.
@Raul-nv7rr
@Raul-nv7rr 29 күн бұрын
Great content and very professional and engaging delivery-WELL DONE!! 👍🏻
@GraceCoolBreeze
@GraceCoolBreeze Ай бұрын
Bravo Jason 👏🏼👏🏼 Much appreciated!
@sakurablade333
@sakurablade333 24 күн бұрын
The ultimate expression I believe is doing service to man without being attached to the outcome and let the Divine Will flow. Just being a full witness without doing anything I feel is not an expression of Divine Love that we are meant to embody. ❤
@0anant0
@0anant0 Ай бұрын
I used to chop wood and carry water, and now I still do :-)
@zlatomirravic3780
@zlatomirravic3780 Ай бұрын
Dependent origination. Thank you. Supreme blessings Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
@mariameere5807
@mariameere5807 Ай бұрын
WoW!! So profound yet simple in essence…. once we understand. Eventually forgiveness becomes organic when we see a broader perspective and the level of going deeper and deeper into the understanding of Life and there’s no limits to how deep we can go into the understanding of something! So eventually we realise that practicing forgiveness is not even necessary anymore because we understand that in actuality there’s absolutely nothing to forgive because it’s not even real and never was!!! It’s just illusion because Love and light is all encompassing, however, had I not said “I am willing to forgive” because I was so upset that I couldn’t say I forgive and believe it!!! So saying I was willing to, it helped me because the universe did the rest and then the sting would be gone and I could say ‘I forgive for they know not…’ and even that “they know not what they do” was said with subconscious bitterness initially! Lol 😂 ! So now I am understanding the whole thing in a leading edge way, yet I make peace with not knowing too…. I empty my mind before I write and that is when the good stuff comes through… the stuff that gives me angel bumps (goosebumps)! They say that when the student is ready the next teacher/teaching appears and my inner teacher picked this video out of so many (honeymoon period of awakening I was over enthusiastic and way oversubscribed to WAYYyyyyy too many channels!!) (spiritual channels used to be so rare even 15 years ago so you can’t blame me for subscribing when I saw someone else that was awakening!) I don’t believe that we can ever say one is awakened bc we are always learning and evolving even after death… I wonder do you agree with whether after death we still evolve!? Forgive the length of the msg, I was carried away bc the level of awareness that you speak from is so rare to see/witness and it’s an in the moment thing but I would say that you spend most of your time coming from the vibrational frequency that I call “perfect pitch” because you never go off track vibrationally! Awkward analogy there but even really popular teachers sometimes I notice them going slightly out of tune and then come back into full alignment with the Self/LIFE/Consciousness! Thank you so much for your patience if you read this and may all of your hearts desires manifest in perfect divine timing! Love, light and the brightest of blessings upon you!🙏 🌟✨💛✨🌟
@dianesmith8183
@dianesmith8183 Ай бұрын
That was written from the heart, not with the mind. Blessings of contentment and joy for your beautiful soul. May light, love & peace guide you ❤
@mariameere5807
@mariameere5807 Ай бұрын
@@dianesmith8183 Aww 🥰! Thank you so much for that! What we see in others is also in us, so you too are a beautiful kind soul and I am honoured to receive your lovely reply! Brightest of blessings from London! 🙏 🕊🤍🕊
@aum82
@aum82 Ай бұрын
❤️
@colinjohnrudd
@colinjohnrudd 28 күн бұрын
A beautiful and wise response in my humble opinion, thank you. x
@joesanchis1
@joesanchis1 29 күн бұрын
Even consciousness is a concept 😉
@DatCuDlife
@DatCuDlife 25 күн бұрын
The cosmic joke is the greatest paradox to our mind I’ve experienced it
@jerriharvey4641
@jerriharvey4641 Ай бұрын
Thank you ! 🙏
@adriandeasy8810
@adriandeasy8810 Ай бұрын
Attachment is the root of all suffering, no want is the greatest bliss detachment is key and abidence in self atman brahman shiva beingness krishna consciousness Buddha nature christ consciousness it's all the same there is no separateness in the what is that wich is beyond the body mind beyond concepts beyond idea's imagination beyond even beyondness the isness of beingness sahaja our natural state of beingness namaste 🙏 let there be peace let there be love for all beings universal om 🕉 shanti shanti shanti 🕉 🙏
@jamesvance8114
@jamesvance8114 Ай бұрын
Thanks friend!❤😇👍🏿
@MrMoneyHelper
@MrMoneyHelper Ай бұрын
Something is missing in this lesson. Not from Jason, but the information itself. If I laid on my bed and gave up trying to control life, what would happen? The body would still function and need food, water, and to empty the bladder and bowels. It would need sleep. Would it begin doing things without _me_ giving it instructions? Would I become the observer of the body moving, talking, working, eating, and so on? I don't think so. Some kind of mental release or specific decision must happen first, for Buddha level understanding to happen. Long ago I left my body for a few moments while sitting on my bed. The intention at the time was to just be me. I had no idea about leaving the body. In the moments I was out, my perspective was the same; but I felt separate in space. Thinking was faster than lightning as I noticed that instructions to move parts of the body were considered and then the body complied. Yet I had no realizations about my true nature. There was no enlightenment about the universe. Such an experience has not happened again. Over decades, many different spiritual experiences have happened. All were brief. Perhaps there is a list of experiences that must occur before one can abide in the true nature of the universe. I have no idea how many there would be nor how to trigger them. I just know that having knowledge about what is supposed to be the truth of the universe isn't enough to cause enlightenment. Saying that we already are it, doesn't actually make _it_ happen. There aren't enough enlightened teachers to go around.
@sen5i
@sen5i 29 күн бұрын
Refrain from overthinking it, just eat when you're hungry sleep when you're tired and help when you can.
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 29 күн бұрын
You are right that this 'knowledge' isnt all thats needed. Its just a method to get u very far along the path. This is easy to see if u consider all the different methods/traditions. They all have different stories dont they? And regarding ur first paragraph; if u refrain from doing anything, at some point inevitably 'ur system' will take over and u will start to go get some food, drink, take a shit etc. The Advaitan/Vedantic methods are just METHODS! But some of the very best around. Even those often need to be let go of near the end of the path, in order to reach. In my own belief, what exactly Liberation is is NOT truely what the traditions say (just like "lightning and thunder is caused by Thor smithing in the heavens") but something yet undiscovered, not yet understood by humanity, something that actually makes a lot of sense.
@johnfoster2584
@johnfoster2584 29 күн бұрын
Fasting seems to be very uplifting.
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 29 күн бұрын
Perhaps u normally eat a bit too many unhealthy foods, or not what ur body is asking for? Even if its just a bit, that could already be too much. Could be a factor.
@melissaqualls5774
@melissaqualls5774 Ай бұрын
Yes!
@chanmeenachandramouli1623
@chanmeenachandramouli1623 Ай бұрын
BUT...Sir...To realise one as PURE ATMAN/CONSCIOUSNESS is the most difficult task given to humanity & to abide & live in THAT, is it possible that easily, Sir?. Not at all. MeenaC
@jamiemills2645
@jamiemills2645 Ай бұрын
it is so. 🙏
@user-py7gw2tg5q
@user-py7gw2tg5q Ай бұрын
All our actions are reactions (human body = automaton) When you see new information: NPC: Reject information if it doesn't come from the TV A chosen one: Verify the information and integrate it if true Ex: there is no virus (verified info), so the dart must be p o i s o n (also verified)
@JorisWeima
@JorisWeima 29 күн бұрын
"chosen one" is quite the loaded term imo. Id say the ones who break free or get very far also just "owe" it to their 'reactions' like u called it. Its probably all just a matter of factors, factors, factors! Genetics, upbringing, etc etc etc.
@lgroves336
@lgroves336 Ай бұрын
Be in the world but NOT of the world.
@jasmineh8482
@jasmineh8482 Ай бұрын
The mind cannot grasp the truth, it must be experienced and then embodied
@Ednajeremy798
@Ednajeremy798 Ай бұрын
*I love the grounded reality of this channel!!!* Retirement took a toll on my finances, but with my involvement in the digital market, $27,000 weekly returns has been life changing. AWESOME GOD❤️🎉❤
@Nelsonharris285
@Nelsonharris285 Ай бұрын
I'm in a similar situation where should I look to increase income? Do you have any advice? What did you do ? Thank you
@andrestremols6461
@andrestremols6461 28 күн бұрын
hmm.. there are 5 koshas or layers of existance and they are everywhere in vedanta,, buddhisn, kabalah, manicheism. the thing is.. the illusion of intellectual understanding is one of these layers. Imagine that you never experienced drinking water and read books about its properties.. it will be pure imagination until the real water is tasted.
@jaredkaye3669
@jaredkaye3669 29 күн бұрын
What do you call a traveling pacifist? A No-Mad.
@Mantra-Ananda
@Mantra-Ananda 24 күн бұрын
Took me a while ... 😂
@ptkettlehatsandthegang
@ptkettlehatsandthegang Ай бұрын
4:51 I hate you Jason, I'm gonna comment on your videos for years until you see me
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