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”
Tag Archives: meditation
Podcast Episode: THE METAPHORS OF VEDANTA
Pip: If you have ever stared at the ocean and thought, “yes, this explains everything,” you may already be halfway through a Dippack Mistri post. Mara: This episode covers one extended piece of philosophical writing — Vedantic metaphors, what they actually point to, and where they run out of road. Pip: Let’s start with theContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE METAPHORS OF VEDANTA”
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”
The Biblical “Mahavakyas” and the Vedantic Mahavakyas
REVELATION, SRI BHAGAVAN MAHARSHI RAMANA: “All the faiths that prevail in the world affirm, to begin with, (the existence of) the world, the soul and God. The two contentions, namely that One Reality is sensed as threefold, and that they are three distinct entities, are upheld (as intellectual convictions) while the sense ‘I am theContinue reading “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: 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: 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”