The Path to Lasting Peace and Fulfillment
The approach to experiencing lasting peace and fulfillment through Nondual-Knowledge can be broken down into two clearly defined aspects: 1) Self-Knowledge and 2) Self-Inquiry. These nondual aspects of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality) are the very methods that Nobel scientists, specifically Erwin Schrödinger, were guided to through their scientific discoveries, the path that bridges one's restless mind into their content Heart.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Truth."
—Sherlock Holmes
The nondual investigation of eliminating the impossible to reveal the improbable remains of Reality can be compared to attending a university class with a corresponding lab. Self-Knowledge is like the lecture portion, where conceptual understanding of a subject is acquired, while Self-Inquiry is like the lab, where that conceptual knowledge is rigorously examined and tested to reveal its truth. What is discovered in this classroom-and-lab setting is that Reality itself is Happiness: when one experiences the Reality of the Self, lasting happiness naturally arises. In essence, Reality equals Happiness.
Nonduality will never ask you to believe in anything, follow anyone, acquire anything, join anything, attend anything or become someone you are not. Any Nondual-Knowledge will come directly in the form of inherent-knowing and/or direct-experience, which are both prior to any conceptual knowledge or understanding your mind can comprehend or intellectualize.
Self-Knowledge
Self-Knowledge dispels the misinterpretations of how you perceive the world, that is, how you take yourself and the objects in the world to be physically real and separate from one another. It delivers the world back to you in its actual, One seamless, unitive form.
Self-Knowledge removes you from the misconception that the multiplicity of objects you witness in the world are independent, material-based things with their own separate existences, and moves you into the One-substance of Reality, where there is no separation among the multiplicity. By knowing yourSelf directly, you know the One-substance of Reality, in which this singular Reality is experienced as the loving wholeness of ever-present happiness.
Self-Inquiry
Self-Inquiry is the effortless practice of absolute attentiveness to yourSelf (the One-substance of Reality), to the point where you recognize and know only yourSelf, thereby abandoning the restless egoic-mind and leaving you standing as permanent peace, happiness, and love.
Self-Inquiry simply “lets go” of all the egoic identities and tendencies that create human suffering. By letting go of a lifetime of identities and tendencies and gently rescinding inward to the Self, your true-Self is regained. The more willing you are to effortlessly let go of your identities and tendencies and relax back into the stillness and peace of yourSelf, the more ever-present happiness is experienced.