Vedanta - Duelling Duality

SUDARSHAN DHEER





It is very easy to advise others.Only the one who suffers knows the extent of the pain. At the same time, there is no difference between one person's pain and another's. No sermon or philosophy will help relieve that suffering immediately. However, at the core of any pain-causing conflict, there is duality . We are part of a cycle that contains both pain and pleasure, creating a split between mind and body , delaying the healing process. Duality is all-pervasive. It is also our own creation.We describe breathing as something that involves inhalation and exhalation. But actu ally, there is only one breath. There is no `day and night' since the sun never sets. There is no `beginning and end' or `birth and death'. Tantra believes in oneness and wholeness, that there is no duality .In tantra, there is no split, but a merely acceptance of reality .
The child's mind is in a nondual state. Its personality is still whole, the split eventually imposed by adults around the child and by the society in which the child lives. Ultimately , when she grows up, she is not the real one or the real self.
In order to get back one's real self, one has to go inward where there is no past, no future, but only the present. In this state of meditation, one may get in touch with our inner being, the non-dual state. This is nirvana or enlightenment, where there is no duality but only completeness.