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Misconceptions about Enlightenment: It gives you mental certainty (3 min video)
October 13, 2017
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Akilesh Ayyar
Misconceptions about Enlightenment: It gives you mental certainty (3 min video)
Akilesh Ayyar
October 13, 2017
Video

Misconceptions about Enlightenment: It gives you mental certainty (3 min video)

Akilesh Ayyar
October 13, 2017
Video

One of the misconceptions about enlightenment is that it lets you know, in the way you know anything else, what you really are, and the answers to all the existential mysteries. It does no such thing. Though enlightenment DOES give you certainty... of another kind.

Tagged: nonduality, advaita, Misconceptions about Enlightenment

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