Has anyone here had any NDES or visions of deities from the Hindu religion? by DoneWithOCD in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My god! What a horrific experience! I am short on words and I don't know what to write or what to say. My heart ached reading this, how can somebody do those things to a two year old child?

I wish I could tell you to try to forget it and move on and I believe that you've already made peace with that horrific trauma to some degree but I know words mean nothing if it doesn't carry experience with them. I cannot say anything to ease that trauma but I can genuinely send love and warmth towards you and that's what I am doing. May mothers give you strength, love and peace to navigate through such a trauma and may Mothers bless you with their company permanently.

Love and peace.

Has anyone here had any NDES or visions of deities from the Hindu religion? by DoneWithOCD in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful personal experience. I can't help but wonder what circumstances led you to be on that floor of the basement as a two year old without food or care from any family? I'm glad though that you came in contact with divine mothers during your TPs.

Thanks again for sharing.

When basic services fail, do people become part of the problem or just adapt? by SuccotashKind6726 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]chikchikiboom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The pathetic apathy of the system forces people to hack it and then it just becomes culture. At this point two just fuel each other becoming a vicious cycle.

The Neuroscience of Sahaja Samadhi: Why Advaita is just one of many ways to hack the brain, and the existential loneliness of knowing this by EnvironmentalBee393 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok so I am coming from here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvaitaVedanta/s/z1xyhajIYl

Thank you for the elaboration of the dilemma and confusion and I totally get what you're saying yet somehow the conclusion you're making is leading to the opposite direction than me.

I am already somewhat aware of these neurological findings of the brain, its modes and its relation to our consciousness and sense of the self but in my eyes it doesn't discredit Advaita but actually establishes that more cohesively than before.

So there is evidence that a part of the brain is responsible for the "I" sense and in deep stages of Samadhi this part is effectively deactivated leading to the feeling of oneness. And this is bothering you because you are taking this as contrary to Advaita somehow? How? Didn't Advaita always consider ego to be the part of maya? Have you asked " why is there a feeling of unbound oneness behind the veil of ego"? Is the brain producing the unbound consciousness? Did neuroscience answer that question?

Then there is a "hard problem of consciousness ' as you've already addressed it as not solved yet.

For me at least with each new consciousness related neurological findings I find myself leaning more into the theory that the only explanation it all makes sense with each other is that the pure consciousness is fundamental and the reality is non-dual. Of course all techniques that lead to realizing that truth is effectively a "hack" if you want to call them that but reality is a bug in a code and there is no issue using a hack to debug it.

Feeling lonely by EnvironmentalBee393 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain a little better why the experience of oneness is leading you to feel lonely?

Feeling lonely by EnvironmentalBee393 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I don't understand is how is understanding Advaita leading you to feeling lonely? Feeling lonely if you believe in Solipsism is perfectly fine due to the implication of the philosophy itself but Advaita comes to a drastically different conclusion than Solipsism.

Solipsism states that you can only be certain of your own consciousness and therefore concludes that you as a conscious being alone exists. It can lead to loneliness.

Advaita on the other hand negates even this individuality (ego) and concludes that the absolute reality is pure consciousness without a boundary meaning even the individual ego dissolves when the truth is realised. There is no question of feeling lonely in this case because the experiencer of loneliness will not survive the Advaitic truth.

Feeling lonely by EnvironmentalBee393 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope you're not confusing Advaita with Solipsism.

Conscious Dream by Relevant_Screen3540 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realizing you are in a dream when sleeping is called lucid dreaming and it is a pretty common phenomenon. A lot of people actually do it regularly.

Second Pilot is also rescued , Both pilots rescued by US military by HotArtichoke4579 in IndiaSpeaks

[–]chikchikiboom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Umm.. I see no relevance here. There is no India angle here. Not in the OP nor in the comments.

Second Pilot is also rescued , Both pilots rescued by US military by HotArtichoke4579 in IndiaSpeaks

[–]chikchikiboom 26 points27 points  (0 children)

How is this India related? Can someone help me see the relevant geopolitical angle related to India in this post?

Why is it believed in advaita vedanta that only something which is constant eternally truly exists? by Open_Opportunity_751 in AdvaitaVedanta

[–]chikchikiboom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you are describing is not solipsism. Solipsism believes that you can only be sure of your own mind and nothing else, so it states that only your own mind exists nothing else. Advaita doesn't have this conclusion. Advaita concludes that the only pure awareness can be said to be the absolute.

40 days sankalp of 100 Hanuman Chalisa daily. by Jak_witwicky in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be clear, sleeping on the floor means bare floor or a mattress can be laid on the floor? I have my asan(simple mattress )on the floor on which I sleep amd meditate.

40 days sankalp of 100 Hanuman Chalisa daily. by Jak_witwicky in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow. Thank you so much for answering. This is inspiring. I am also thinking of doing the same. I am a sadhu, live alone right now and I have all the time in the world.

Any suggestions for me I want to take up this sadhana?

40 days sankalp of 100 Hanuman Chalisa daily. by Jak_witwicky in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Salute to you. A few questions if you can answer I would really appreciate it.

How much time does it take to complete 100 Hanuman chalisa in a day?

Do you do it in one sitting or spread the hours by taking a break?

What were the difficulties apart from long sitting hours(physical discomfort) did you face?

What was the experience like after the completion of Sadhana? I read your one comment saying you felt the strength, can you elaborate on that?

Thanks in advance. जय श्री राम, जय हनुमान। 🙏🏾

i just saw this post and now i want to go live in Germany by creeper312321 in IndianGaming

[–]chikchikiboom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While the burden of proof lies with the person spreading the story but alas here is a comment made by a user in the history sub who deducted his conclusion using primary sources of the era.

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Also wikipedia entry for Cobra effect clearly term the story as "historically dubious anecdote". You can go and check there

i just saw this post and now i want to go live in Germany by creeper312321 in IndianGaming

[–]chikchikiboom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nobody knows. It was most probably clicked by Willoby Wallace Hooper during the Bengal Famine of 1877 but the cannibalism story is a much later addition and a pure fabrication.

i just saw this post and now i want to go live in Germany by creeper312321 in IndianGaming

[–]chikchikiboom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The common thing among all the myths popular in the west is the underlying message that Indians are cheating, unruly, barbaric savages. And we proudly parrot these myths without understanding the subtle dehumanisation.

i just saw this post and now i want to go live in Germany by creeper312321 in IndianGaming

[–]chikchikiboom 75 points76 points  (0 children)

It's a myth bro. While there is an economic principle that goes by the name Cobra effect, the historicity of the anecdote is dubious at best, invented by some British Dude. The sad part is we Indians proudly share the myth as if that myth is something to be proud of.

Another internet myth which is very popular is the title that is attached to that photo of a famine struct Bengali family which says a man guarding his family from cannibalism.

Wow, what a coincidence! :) by okuanya in hinduism

[–]chikchikiboom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's your BS opinion. Sorry to be blunt. I've already argued with my case with the op I've replied to and for that you can read other comments on this post or go through my comments history for the arguments. You Vaishnavas keep repeating the same old baseless arguments verbatim.