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”
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: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION: YOGI NIDRA
In this episode, Pip and Mara explore the concept of Consciousness Expansion through the lens of Yogi Nidra, inspired by Dippack Mistri’s vivid experience with a Himalayan sage on a terrace in Spain. They argue that what is often referred to as Consciousness Expansion is, in reality, Mental Expansion, where the true self, or Seer, remains unchanged. The discussion highlights historical precedents of similar experiences and concludes that genuine enlightenment lies in transcending the mind itself, moving towards abidance in the Self.
Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA
Pip: There’s a post on Dippack Mistri’s site that opens with Moses, takes a hard left through ancient Sanskrit, and lands somewhere most legal scholars probably weren’t expecting. Mara: The territory today is justice, karma, and what a phrase most people think they understand actually means when you follow it back to its source. Pip:Continue reading “Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA”
EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA
What did Moses’ commandment mean? What does the world of internet surfing make of this riddle? Here we go: The phrase “eye for an eye” comes from laws attributed to Moses in the Hebrew Bible, especially in books like Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. What it meant originally: “Eye for an eye” (Latin: lex talionis, orContinue reading “EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA”
Seeing God As He Really Is
Let us look at the sovereign statement from a conceptual or lowe perspective SAT-CHIT-ANANDA. I also know That Which Is as SAT-CHIT-ANANTA. In English, BEING/EXISTENCE/LIFE-ABSTRACT INTELLECT/CONSCIOUSNESS-BLISS/HAPPY/PEACE/INFINITE/BOUNDLESS/ETERNAL. What do these concepts/attributes mean? They mean “That Which Is” is neither ASAT nor ACHIT nor DUKKHA. Nor SIMITAM. In English, That Which Is is neither non-being/non-existent/insentient/lifeless nor unconsciousness/comatosed/inertContinue reading “Seeing God As He Really Is”
I Am: Beingness; Is “Seeing” God as He Really Is
This is a blog on the attempted explications (insightful) by Swami Ishwarananda/ Dippack Mistri on Bhagavan Maharshi Ramana’s 42 verses on Reality (Ulladu Narpadu). Swami Ishwarananda is the author and Dippack Mistri is the editor-publisher of the book, SEEING GOD AS HE REALLY IS Swami is located currently in Europe. Seen to have taken birthContinue reading “I Am: Beingness; Is “Seeing” God as He Really Is”