Pip: What if the deepest question in philosophy isn’t “what is the Absolute” but “why does asking the question already miss the point?” Dippack Mistri has been sitting with that paradox, and the result is not light reading. Mara: Today we’re in the territory of the Absolute — Brahman, Consciousness, Samadhi, and what it actuallyContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE ABSOLUTE”
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Podcast Episode: Wisdom of a Cherry Tree
Pip: If you have ever walked past a cherry tree and thought, nice fruit, moving on — Dippack Mistri is here to suggest you missed the entire sermon. Mara: That is exactly the territory this episode covers — one tree, one garden, and what a season of blooming, feeding, and bare winter branches has toContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Wisdom of a Cherry Tree”
Deep Sleep is not enlightenment
Every night you enter deep sleep. the mind disappears. The ego disappears. The world disappears. No stress. You I and disappear. No Wife. No Lover. No status. No Bank Balance. Zippo. Gone with the wind. Elvis has left the Stage. Yet, when you awaken, the ego returns. The Wife returns. The mistress returns. Stress returns.Continue reading “Deep Sleep is not enlightenment”
Podcast Episode: Who Am I
Pip: There’s a question that’s been asked for thousands of years, and Dippack Mistri just sat down and wrote about it like it was the most natural thing in the world — which, depending on your answer, it might be. Mara: This episode follows one post into some of the oldest territory in contemplative philosophyContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Who Am I”
Who Am I
Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi revealed, ‘WHO AM I?’ The gross body (Anamaya kosha), which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus: chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and semen), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs (Jnanendriyas), viz., the sense of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz., sound,Continue reading “Who Am I”
Podcast Episode: The Biblical “Mahavakyas” and the Vedantic Mahavakyas
Pip: If you have ever wondered whether Jesus and Shankara were basically saying the same thing and just needed a better translator, Dippack Mistri has thoughts. Mara: This episode goes deep into one piece that maps Biblical phrases onto Vedantic Mahavakyas, tracing what non-dualism looks like across two very different scriptural traditions. Pip: Let’s startContinue reading “Podcast Episode: The Biblical “Mahavakyas” and the Vedantic Mahavakyas”
Podcast Episode: LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Pip: Dippack Mistri asks the question most of us sidestep before breakfast: what exactly is the light that makes all other light possible? Mara: This episode goes deep into that territory — the nature of consciousness as the absolute foundation of reality, drawing on Advaita Vedanta, the Gayatri Mantra, and the teachings of sages likeContinue reading “Podcast Episode: LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS”
Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS BANISHMENT
Pip: Dippack Mistri has a question for neuroscience, and it is not a gentle one. Mara: Today we’re in the territory of consciousness — what it is, whether science can locate it, and what the Hindu philosophical tradition has been saying about it for centuries. One theme, one sustained argument. Pip: Let’s start with theContinue reading “Podcast Episode: CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS BANISHMENT”
Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA
Pip: If you have ever wondered whether the universe is fundamentally made of love, and also whether a dog named Krupan already knew the answer, Dippack Mistri has been to the source and filed a report. Mara: That is the territory we are in today — the nature of Brahman, the Absolute, and what theContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA”
Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA
Pip: There is a question that has occupied mystics, philosophers, and at least one very patient dog — what is bliss, really? Mara: Dippack Mistri takes that question seriously, and today we follow the thread through the heart of Vedantic philosophy, a pilgrimage to Tiruvannamalai, and what it means to find the Absolute not inContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA”