If you’re new here, this recent conversation offers a gentle entry point into the heart of what’s explored on this site.
In dialogue with Raman Mittal on Idanim Inspirations, Teja reflects on meditation, self-inquiry, the nature of the mind, and the question of who we take ourselves to be. Rather than offering conclusions or techniques, the conversation unfolds as a shared inquiry — inviting you to listen, notice, and explore for yourself.
There’s no need to agree with anything that’s said. Simply listen, and see what resonates.
There is no ‘personal enlightenment.’ It’s a myth. There is nothing to attain and no one to attain it. There is only Being. This is the message being shared here.
This message may seem in contrast or conflict with most of the advice being offered by ancient scriptures, revered teachers and the seeker’s desperate-but-misguided questions about how to transcend this world and their suffering through ‘spiritual awakening.’
“How do I attain ‘enlightenment/moksha?’”
“How do I deal with ‘karma,’ and how many lifetimes/incarnations must I experience to resolve all my ‘karma’ and attain nirvana?“
“Will ‘getting enlightened’ end all my suffering?”
“How can ‘I’ (ego) eliminate my ego“
“How do I find a true ‘guru’ who can lead me to liberation?”
“Where do our ’souls’ go after ‘enlightenment’ or ‘death?’ (Do we even have ‘souls?’)”
“Can I eat meat or enjoy sex and still attain moksha?”
“Does this or that spiritual path, or choosing monkhood over a householder’s life, lead to ‘enlightenment’ better, quicker, more reliably?”
How come various ‘enlightened sages’ die from human disease? Couldn’t they cure themselves through the power of mind or body control, gained from meditation and ‘being ‘enlightened?
“I keep seeing a light, or certain numbers, in my meditations. What does it signify? Does it mean I’m ‘awakening?’”
Initially, I felt moved to persist and ‘edify’ the misguided questioners with this Absolute message, hence setting them free. To ‘liberate’ them from their futile search for something that could never happen. Indeed, something that doesn’t even need to happen.
Simultaneously, I realized that every dream-character is exactly where “they” belong, acting out that apparent part of The One Being’s dream. Obviously, this must include any apparent wisdom or ignorance about imagined ‘spiritual paths’ and “their” adamant insistence that this ego-based, misleading promise of ‘enlightenment’ was the most real and most ‘noble,’ of all life’s pursuits.
This is a radically different message. It’s not for every dreamer.
In Being’s dream, the ‘dreamers’ function is to be misidentified with their illusory ‘self’ and lead an ‘ordinary’ life, or occasionally become ardent enlightenment seekers, asking these ego-deluded questions. Others become dream-teachers who insist the most ‘compassionate’ thing is to ‘help’ these dream-seekers by giving “them” hope, techniques, and the false promise that the ‘personal enlightenment’ they are longing for is real, attainable and at hand. As if the ‘seeker’ has any agency. All part of the dream.
Here, only the Absolute Reality is revealed:
There is no one and nothing to attain. Nothing needs to change. It’s all perfect, because it’s all What Is.
As Ramana Maharshi clarified: “The Self, Being, The Whole is always ItSelf, always perfect, and there is no such thing as ‘attaining it,’ awakening to it. “Who” is to awaken to what, and how, when all that exists is Being?”
Indeed, if there is only the Singularity, the One Essence, “who” is to have ever become ‘separated from That and need to somehow re-realize, re-join or re-merge with Itself? Being appears to be projecting a dream-of-separateness, so it appears there are actual separate entities that need to ‘attain’ something, to become un-separated. But it’s just a dream, an illusion. Just as there seemed to be scores or hundreds of real people, activities, structures, etc. in your dreams last night, when in fact they were all just hallucinatory appearances projected on a screen you cannot find within your mind.
Our website opens up this Absolute conversation, welcoming anyone to join in.
Here we will focus only on those points, questions, and answers already beyond these unaware discussions & delusions about “attaining enlightenment.” Here, we will look beyond traditional misguided questions about paths to ‘liberation,’ proscribed spiritual practices, karma, reincarnation and any need to attain freedom from anything, for those ready to hear, and fully resonate with the obvious and infallible transcendent message that there is nothing to attain and no one to attain it. All are welcome, whatever you ‘believe’ and wherever you think “you” are on some path..
There is only Being, only What Is, and it’s already perfect. Are “you” ready to let go, to truly realize that. Or do you still feel compelled to ‘seek’ and ask questions about how to ‘attain?’ If there is a readiness to totally cease “your” illusory seeking for enlightenment – to consider and truly receive that neither enlightenment, any path, nor any “you” actually exist – the dream-character Being is playing as “you” may find this a welcoming Space.