Consciousness is all that is

The Essence of Advaita Vedanta

Imagine yourself lying on the burning pyre, after death. What happens to you after death? Close your eyes and ask the question, Who am I ?

You are not the transient body that rots after death. Are you the mind that generates the thoughts? When you close your eyes and meditate on a single entity, random thoughts or desires fill your mind.

Chasing the thoughts or desires is sorrow. Freedom and happiness is in the thoughtless mind.

When a thought or desire arises , kill the thought immediately with the question To whom do the thoughts come for? The thoughts come to serve I, the ego, your name - your imagination of what you are. When there is no I, the name, the ego - the thoughts have no one to serve and they die. Stay in meditation with a thoughtless mind

Keep reminding yourself there is no I, the name, the ego. There is no body or mind. All that there is consciousness.

When there is no I, the name, the ego there is no you, this or that - the world disappears When is no subject, where is the object to desire for? All that there is consciousness.

A self realized person is one who always stays in consciousness - the thoughtless mind stays with the thought that everyone is the same and is humble does not cause pain to others and helps others in need has no desire on objects be it material or sensual when required focuses the mind the at work like a trance and expects nothing

The awareness that swells in your heart in the thoughtless mind is consciousness. All that there is consciousness. Stay in the consciousness and be blissful and happy.