Brahma-sūtra 1.1 Adhikaraṇa 2 Part 2—The Most Exalted Knowledge
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2024-03-26

Namaste 🙏🏼 Śaṅkarācārya's commentary on the Brahma-sūtra is—in my experience anyway—the most advanced, most exalted knowledge available on this planet. And I've been searching for a long time, ever since my studies of physics and metaphysics back in high school.

And of course, through the whole hippie thing and everything, I was a staunch meditator. I started out with Zen and then I went through so many other disciplines. And now we have like a top-down view, a comprehensive view, the esoteric teaching of Dharmasar, which is based on the four states of consciousness.

You know, you've seen the diagram a million times, right? But do you understand it? If you understand this knowledge, then you have the intellectual epistemological tools, the ontological framework to understand everything else.

Because consciousness is fundamental. It's more fundamental than science, more fundamental than religion, more fundamental than any kind of technology, even meditation. Consciousness is Brahman. And once you realize that, everything falls into place.

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Source: Brahma-sūtras with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by Gambhīrānanda Svāmī: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1APIpzWQev6PLCx495pmDljDfaz4sOI_S/view?usp=share_link