How fascinating! Adya was never my deal in all these years. When I first got in touch with Advaita Vedanta in the late 90ies, I only went to direct disciples of Ramana and Nisargadatta.
Papaji left his body in 1997 and took "me" with him. What followed were months of no mind, no world and no "I". 2 years later (and because of unresolved s…
How fascinating! Adya was never my deal in all these years. When I first got in touch with Advaita Vedanta in the late 90ies, I only went to direct disciples of Ramana and Nisargadatta.
Papaji left his body in 1997 and took "me" with him. What followed were months of no mind, no world and no "I". 2 years later (and because of unresolved samskaras) my body started to go nuts - panic attacks and MCAS (which was unknown back then) started.
I also started with SSRIs back then, which just gave me a basic stability on a bodily level.
We have to stop thinking of SSRIs as a treatment for "mental illness" - it's just on a physical level. It was and is the wrong treatment though - at least in my case. Anti-histamines and treatment of my MCAS would have been right - just medicine wasn't that far 25 years ago.
Overall medication doesn't say anything about the depth of realization of someone.
...and I don't consider Adya as "enlightened" - he is not even teaching non-duality but an awareness teaching like so many other Satsang teachers.
If you are interested in the real hot s*** then listen to Jim Newman or Andreas Müller ;)
In non-duality there is no room for awareness - there is noone aware, nothing to be aware of and also no awareness in between....
How fascinating! Adya was never my deal in all these years. When I first got in touch with Advaita Vedanta in the late 90ies, I only went to direct disciples of Ramana and Nisargadatta.
Papaji left his body in 1997 and took "me" with him. What followed were months of no mind, no world and no "I". 2 years later (and because of unresolved samskaras) my body started to go nuts - panic attacks and MCAS (which was unknown back then) started.
I also started with SSRIs back then, which just gave me a basic stability on a bodily level.
We have to stop thinking of SSRIs as a treatment for "mental illness" - it's just on a physical level. It was and is the wrong treatment though - at least in my case. Anti-histamines and treatment of my MCAS would have been right - just medicine wasn't that far 25 years ago.
Overall medication doesn't say anything about the depth of realization of someone.
...and I don't consider Adya as "enlightened" - he is not even teaching non-duality but an awareness teaching like so many other Satsang teachers.
If you are interested in the real hot s*** then listen to Jim Newman or Andreas Müller ;)
In non-duality there is no room for awareness - there is noone aware, nothing to be aware of and also no awareness in between....