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Introduction There is a point beyond which physics cannot venture: the event horizon, a region of space-time where phenomena cannot be registered. The event horizon is a bodiless border on the edge of a black hole; anything that the black hole’s gravitational field attracts beyond this border will be unable to come back. All possibility of exploration stops here: no unfortunate astronaut who free-fell into the black hole could ever return. We do not know what lies in the black hole, beyond the event horizon. Science has never reached the other side.
But spiritual seekers who make a leap beyond—yes, they know.
Sri Ramana Maharshi explains this well: if the bucket (the ego) dips into the well (the self), but the cord is not severed, the ego can return, even after years of absence. In sahaja, though, one’s natural state, this cord is finally severed and the ego cannot return. Here, in this book, Avikal takes us down into that well and shows us how to go about severing that rope.
the drop dissolves into the ocean and with it the illusion of existing as a separate entity from the universe.
gate, gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha … gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, may the Awakening come!
Osho unveiled to us in his years of teaching, meditation, and silence; and how this can be done only by accepting our dark side, transcending opposites and integrating all our resources of Being. Like a bodhisattva, Avikal alerts us to the obstacles used by our mental conditioning to prevent us from unveiling ultimate reality, a reality not divided, not dualistic, but all
embracing: the eternal “I am” beyond the individual, the immovable center of the experience of reality, external and internal.
Chapter 1 The drop
Chapter 2 Dhammam sharanam gacchammi
That, are you sure? Is it the thing for you to do? Is this the place for you to be? The questions leaves not even for a single moment. And this is as deep as anything can be in you, at the very core of your being. This is the agony, that the meaning is not known, that the purpose is not known, that the goal is not known.
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When the Ocean Dissolves Into the Drop by Avikal Costantino presents key insights from the Advaita Vedanta tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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