Kingdom of Light
" When a stage is reached that one feels deeply that whatever is being done is happening and one has not got anything to do with it, then it becomes such a deep conviction that whatever is happening is not happening really. And that whatever seems to be happening is also an illusion. That may be final. In other words, totally apart from whatever seems to be happening, when one stops thinking that one is living, and gets the feeling that one is being lived, that whatever one is doing one is not doing but one is made to do, then that is a sort of criterion." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Reality is an ineffable state or realization. It is not a physical nor mental state.
This Ultimate Reality has many cultural names like; "God",
"Spirit", "Brahman", "Shunyata" (Emptiness), "The One", The Self", The Tao", "The Absolute" , or simply "The Nondual", to mention a few of the key terms, any phrase will do.
Technically, these explorers of inner space will point out, there can be no such thing as a nondual perspective, experience, or theory, only a realization of Oneness or nonduality.
One cannot accurately claim to experience nonduality, because the concept of experience depends on the subject-object distinction, which is a duality.
The subject experiences an object, which is something separate from the subject.
This is incompatible with a truly nondual realization.
Thus, technically, there cannot truly be an accurate verbal account of this union, only words that insufficiently point to the realization.
This is why often you here that this realization is more a remembrance or recognition, a state of consciousness of what is all ready the case.
Again, concept and cognitive awareness of this actuality is not possibly because it is empty of other, hence selfless.
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