Here's an youtube video on the analogy of Two Birds, by Swami Sarvapriyananda (an advaitin monk).
Here, he compares the tree with our physical body, and the two birds as our atmans. He says that there's actually one bird/atman within us and not two as the dualists claim.
By using the two bird...
This thread is inspired by a discussion I've been following in another sub-forum.
How do you perceive Brahman? What qualities does It have? Edited to add: For all intents and purposes of this thread, by 'perceive' I mean "come to realize and understand from an intellectual standpoint.
When...
Carrying the weight of past in my head
And dragging the scenes which were old and dead,
I ran to grab the bliss of the future;
The more I ran, the more was the torture..
The torture of the hedonic treadmill
Followed me as I continued uphill;
I was caught in the prison of craving
With tedious...