A compilation of questions

Shrividhya

• 1 - What is path of knowledge? What is its goal?
• 2 - What is knowledge?
• 3 - Which qualities can be cultivated, which ones cannot be cultivated?
• 4 - Why is all that changes false?
• 5 - If knowledge comes from experience, which is false, how can we say that it is knowledge?
• 6 - Why is the experiencer limited by experience?
• 7 - What is the definition of nature? What happens when it changes?
• 8 - Experiencer knows itself via many forms, but why does it need so many forms when it can know itself with one form?
• 9 - Establish the illusory nature of all forms.
• 10 - How can we say there is only one experiencer?

Muni

• 1. What happens when the seeker does not have required qualities and still tries to practice?
• 2. When we get knowledge, what do we get essentially?
• 3. Why is a guru not a valid means of knowledge? Why do we still need a guru?
• 4. Who is transformed by Self realisation?
• 5. What is nondual truth?
• 6. What is memory?
• 7. What is the difference between waking, dreaming and projected states?
• 8. Which layers are needed for awareness?
• 9. How to go beyond the illusion?
• 10. How can the limited know the unlimited?

Nick

• 1. What is the goal of the path of knowledge and what is gained here?
• 2. What is the universal truth which is accepted by everyone?
• 3. What is the nature of the Existence?
• 4. If it is not an object, how is the Experiencer known?
• 5. When the Experiencer is without any qualities, why do we say it is blissful?
• 6. If it is all Emptiness, how can things exist at all?
• 7. What is the evidence for Vibration?
• 8. The layered structure of memory is evolving, what happens to it in the end?
• 9. After knowing my nondual nature, what should be my behaviour, how should I conduct my life? What is our goal here as a human being?
• 10. What is unconditional love, how is it related to my true nature?

Sandhya

• 1. What is the difference between knowledge and truth?
• 2. Can we get knowledge from scriptures or books?
• 3. What is the difference between your true nature and nature of a rock?
• 4. Are you a body?
• 5. Where is the experiencer in this body?
• 6. If I am the whole existence, and all experience is also existence why can't I know all the experiences?
• 7. What is the meaning of illusion?
• 8. What is awareness?
• 9. How can we know the nondual nature of the existence?
• 10. How to be blissful always?

Sushant

• 1. What do we need to do on the path of knowledge to get knowledge?
• 2. What is known? What is the knowledge of?
• 3. How to find out what is true and what is not?
• 4. What is emptiness and if the Existence is empty why are there experiences?
• 5. How is the Experiencer perfect in all ways?
• 6. When were you born?
• 7. Why do we have a body, why are we trapped in it?
• 8. What is the key to any kind of science and technology?
• 9. What are senses and what are they doing?
• 10. How can it be shown that I am the Existence?

Swarna

• 1. Why is the path of knowledge also called a direct path?
• 2. What are the best sources of knowledge?
• 3. How can we get rid of the ignorance without a Guru?
• 4. If truth is so important, why is that not our goal?
• 5. During progressive elimination, when all that can be experienced is discarded, what remains?
• 6. Why is any experience not my essence?
• 7. All experience is nothing but a memory. Explain.
• 8. Nonduality is merely another concept. Justify or refute.
• 9. Existence is emptiness. What is it empty of?
• 10. How can an action happen when there is no doer?

Pandurang

• 1. What are the characteristics of the path of knowledge? How is it different from other paths?
• 2. What is your best quality as a seeker and which qualities do you lack?
• 3. Why is knowledge ultimately ignorance?
• 4. If truth is subjective and arbitrary, is anything really true?
• 5. Why is the Experiencer confined to a human body?
• 6. All that changes is illusory but what is it that remains consistent about the illusion?
• 7. Worlds, bodies and minds are just vibration, but why do they need to obey laws?
• 8. Which states are conducive for spiritual seekers?
• 9. Who divides the unity of Existence into multiplicity?
• 10. After knowing that I am the Existence, what should I do to be in that state?

Parteep

• 1. Who are fit for the path of knowledge, who are not?
• 2. Why is logic, which is intellectual, a means of knowledge but not the direct experience of trusted people or great masters?
• 3. Truth can be misleading. Explain.
• 4. How can nature of something be known?
• 5. What are the positive qualities in the Experiencer?
• 6. What are the implications of self realisation?
• 7. Why is there change? Why does it appear orderly and lawful?
• 8. Refute the causal nature of the Experience?
• 9. Nonduality cannot be experienced directly. Explain.
• 10. How can a seeker abide in Oneness? What are some practical tips to remain as One.

Andy

• 1. What is the main cause of ignorance and how can the path of knowledge rectify it?
• 2. If a book says something which corresponds to my direct experience, is that book a good means of knowledge?
• 3. Should we believe in the truth?
• 4. What is the essential truth?
• 5. How can a person become the experiencer and which practices are necessary to reach that state?
• 6. If there is only one experiencer, why is there no common experience at all among different people?
• 7. Which layers are responsible for knowledge?
• 8. Which states are dominant in an ignorant person and which ones are found in someone with knowledge?
• 9. What causes the duality?
• 10. If I am the existence, why am I not free to do anything I wish? Won't it be totally ethical to cause destruction as I am doing it only to myself?

Shrilakshmi

• 1. What do we gain on the path of knowledge? What do we lose?
• 2. Which qualities are mandatory for a seeker to walk on the path of knowledge?
• 3. What is the cause of change of essence of an object or a person?
• 4. Can animals achieve self realisation?
• 5. What qualities are present in the experiencer?
• 6. What qualities are present in the experience?
• 7. How does the illusion decide which laws to make?
• 8. That which is, is never seen, that which is not, is seen. Explain.
• 9. What happens to the existence after death?
• 10. Describe your nondual nature.

Ranjan

• 1. What is negative knowledge?
• 2. If ignorance is also an illusion, why should we try to remove it?
• 3. What is the difference between truth and essence?
• 4. How is it possible that while being dependent on the body, the experiencer is everywhere?
• 5. What is achieved by self realisation?
• 6. What is the basis on which the layered models of the illusion are made?
• 7. Why is the state of sleep special?
• 8. How can we stop the negative activity of any layer?
• 9. What can be known in oneness?
• 10. How can the path of knowledge transform an individual, and does it really matter as there is no individual?

Bitopan

• 1. What is knowledge? Which process is responsible for knowledge?
• 2. How is spiritual truth different from worldly truth?
• 3. How to remove ignorance?
• 4. Establish that the Experiencer is nontemporal.
• 5. Refute the locality of the Experiencer and the Experience.
• 6. What is the role of senses in generating the Experience?
• 7. How many layers are possible in the memory structure?
• 8. Why is a human form special?
• 9. Which came first - the Experience or the Experiencer or the Existence?
• 10. What is the reason for infinite potential in the Emptiness?

Sanjay

• 1. How to differentiate between knowledge and ignorance?
• 2. Why do people assume things and imagine truths or blindly believe something?
• 3. Which is a more important quality- critical ability or surrender?
• 4. What are the implications of falsification of the individual?
• 5. What remains when the Experiencer is taken away?
• 6. What does the Experiencer lack?
• 7. What means are available in order to experience other than senses?
• 8. What causes dwelling in the lower states?
• 9. Which activity is responsible for reincarnation?
• 10. Is the statement "I am Emptiness" true? How?

karish

• 1. What qualifies a student for the path of knowledge? What do to when the required qualifications are absent?
• 2. How to decide what is true and what is false? Justify your choice.
• 3. What are the symptoms of ignorance?
• 4. What is the method to arrive at the essence of who you are?
• 5. Why can't the experiencer change just like every other experience?
• 6. What is memory?
• 7. What is a memory bridge? Why do we need it?
• 8. How is a pattern maintained in spite of impermanence?
• 9. Which method is used to arrive in the nondual state?
• 10. Am I with qualities or without?

Ruchika

• 1. Why is knowledge ignorance?
• 2. Is direct experience via senses a valid means of knowledge?
• 3. Can we rely on truth for conducting our actions?
• 4. How is the experiencer omnipresent?
• 5. What is the way to know the experiencer?
• 6. Where are all the past events when they are not being recalled?
• 7. Establish that the waking state is also a dream state.
• 8. Why does the memory structure change states?
• 9. By which process can we merge the experience and the experiencer?
• 10. When all that is, is removed, emptiness remains. Is this statement right or wrong?

Sweety

• 1 - What is the most essential knowledge?
• 2 - Why is cultivation of qualities a sub-goal for a seeker?
• 3 - Is there an absolute truth or is it always relative?
• 4 - Define and establish Existence.
• 5 - Elimination method reduces me to nothing. True or false?
• 6 - What are the consequences of ignorance of our true nature?
• 7 - What are the consequences of self realisation?
• 8 - If everything is one, how did duality arise in it?
• 9 - Is memory real?
• 10 - What is the reason for taking a human birth? Who takes it?

Graham

• 1 - What are the main reasons for taking up the path of knowledge?
• 2 - What are the most common misconceptions about Truth?
• 3 - Unknown contains all the known and known contains all the ignorance. Comment.
• 4 - Is the Experiencer nondual?
• 5 - How is Experience nothing but change?
• 6 - What makes the patterns in the memory stable?
• 7 - Which layers are only found in humans?
• 8 - Right now is your state that of waking, dreaming or of sleep?
• 9 - Ignorance is also not knowing the truth and agnosticism is also that. What is the difference?
• 10 - What efforts and practices are needed to be established in Experiencing?

Madhavi

• 1 - How is knowledge just refined ignorance?
• 2 - Show that all means of knowledge reduce to direct experience.
• 3 - What are the best criteria for relative truth?
• 4 - What are the differences between a person and the experiencer?
• 5 - Do we necessarily need a body to know what we actually are?
• 6 - How to find out the essential nature of objects?
• 7 - What is the third thing in existence besides the experiencer and the experience?
• 8 - Are the layers of the memory purely imaginary? What is their evidence?
• 9 - When everything is impermanent why do we cling to life and a body or worldly things?
• 10 - Once you get knowledge what is your duty in this world?

Rajit

• 1 - How can one detect ignorance in oneself and in others?
• 2 - Is it necessary to take the path of knowledge if you are already happy and free?
• 3 - How to know the nature of something?
• 4 - What precautions are needed while choosing criteria for truth?
• 5 - Experiencer knows nothing. True or false?
• 6 - Experience appears when a body is born, not the Experiencer. True or false?
• 7 - What causes self organisation of vibrational patterns?
• 8 - Is waking state same as dream state? If yes, how?
• 9 - What is Existence essentially?
• 10 - How does knowledge of nonduality lead to surrender and equanimity?

Varun

• 1 - How is knowledge acquired?
• 2 - Who is a worthy student?
• 3 - How to find the essence of anything?
• 4 - If survival happens in total falsehood, how is it useful?
• 5 - What happens to the world in absence of the Experiencer?
• 6 - Which is bigger - The Experiencer or the Existence?
• 7 - Vibration is change. What is changing?
• 8 - Higher states enable knowledge and liberation, but what is the utility of lower states?
• 9 - Which actions are best for a seeker?
• 10 - Experiencing is the only possible state. True or false?

Joydeep

• 1 - Why does path of knowledge require surrender?
• 2 - Where is knowledge and how is it acquired?
• 3 - Why is it necessary to know your true nature?
• 4 - If I am beyond senses why can't I simply know myself without taking up a body?
• 5 - What is the nature of illusion?
• 6 - What is true in case of the illusion?
• 7 - Can the memory be found without any layers or a different design of layers?
• 8 - What converts the nondual existence into duality or multiplicity?
• 9 - Which practice is best for abiding as Emptiness?
• 10 - How does a person change as he or she progresses on the path of knowledge?

Aprajita

• 1 - What is the main purpose of the path of knowledge and what are its fruits?
• 2 - Why is there ignorance?
• 3 - What are various opinions about truth?
• 4 - Existence is the Experiencer. How?
• 5 - How can you exist without taking birth?
• 6 - If this body is not essential, why am I bound to it?
• 7 - Which experience is the experience of truth?
• 8 - How do layers of memory form out of pure potential?
• 9 - What is evolution?
• 10 - What is the cause of unethical behaviour among people and how to correct it?

Vickesh

• 1 - When can we say knowledge ends?
• 2 - Can an ignorant person know that he/she is ignorant?
• 3 - Which qualities of a seeker make him/her an exceptionally gifted seeker?
• 4 - How is knowledge achieved systematically on the path of knowledge?
• 5 - Which book has complete knowledge?
• 6 - Experiencer knows nothing. Please comment.
• 7 - Experience is dependent on the Experiencer. State your opinion.
• 8 - Why is the layered structure repeatedly going through the cycles of incarnations?
• 9 - What causes mental distortions?
• 10 - We are not complete without knowledge yet the Existence is already whole and complete. How is this contradiction possible?

Shreyashree

• 1 – What are some unique characteristics of the path of knowledge?
• 2 – Why do people find ignorance more comfortable and easy?
• 3 – Is knowing the truth optional?
• 4 – Where is the Experiencer when it is not manifesting in the world?
• 5 – What takes birth – Experience or Experiencer?
• 6 – What divides the nondual into dual?
• 7 – Can the true nature be known before knowing the illusion?
• 8 – How can a seeker experience oneness?
• 9 – Dependency, insecurity, emotional attachment, demanding nature etc – are signs of which substate of the waking state?
• 10 – Which state offers unlimited Experience?

Raja

• 1 - What are the achievements of a seeker on the path of knowledge?
• 2 - What is knowledge and how is it different from information?
• 3 - How to detect ignorance and how to remove it?
• 4 - What makes the Experiencer eternal?
• 5 - What does the Experiencer know?
• 6 - When does Experience end?
• 7 - Name 5 major processes of the memory.
• 8 - What is the most important task to do after self realisation?
• 9 - What should a seeker study after getting the knowledge of nonduality?
• 10 - How are possibilities in emptiness being manifested?

Rahul

• 1 - What can not be obtained on the path of knowledge?
• 2 - What is the difference between truth and nature?
• 3 - What are the major sources of ignorance?
• 4 - Is Existence blissful?
• 5 - Why is the Experiencer immutable?
• 6 - What is the nondual truth?
• 7 - Time and space are illusory but motion is real. True or false?
• 8 - Why does Existence appear as illusory experiences?
• 9 - Is memory eternal?
• 10 - What are the advantages and disadvantages of the multilayered memory model?

Vinay

• 1 - Path of knowledge provides only verified knowledge. True or false?
• 2 - Is anything knowable?
• 3 - What are the limitations of the criteria for truth?
• 4 - How are qualities of a seeker different from those needed for survival?
• 5 - What does the Experiencer do when it is not witnessing an Experience?
• 6 - Experiencer relies on the Experience for its own knowledge. True or false?
• 7 - If oneness cannot be known is it imaginary?
• 8 - Which layers are essential for higher wisdom?
• 9 - What is the true state of the Universal Memory?
• 10 - What senses in the sense pyramid provide us most knowledge?

Monika

• 1 - Can we teach the path of knowledge in schools or colleges?
• 2 - If the guru is not a valid source of knowledge, what is his/her role on this path?
• 3 - How can we know the nature of anything?
• 4 - What is the difference between criteria of truth used in daily life and criteria in nondual philosophy?
• 5 - How to get the direct experience of universality of the Experiencer?
• 6 - Where is the Experiencer when no one is watching it?
• 7 - What do senses show ?
• 8 - Which experiences are most reliable for knowing the ultimate truth?
• 9 - We know only nonduality not the oneness. True or false?
• 10 - If I am unchanging, how do vibrations arise in me?

Leyla

• 1 - When can we say knowledge ends?
• 2 - Can an ignorant person know that he/she is ignorant?
• 3 - Which qualities of a seeker make him/her an exceptionally gifted seeker?
• 4 - How is knowledge achieved systematically on the path of knowledge?
• 5 - Which book has complete knowledge?
• 6 - Experiencer knows nothing. Please comment.
• 7 - Experience is dependent on the Experiencer. State your opinion.
• 8 - Why is the layered structure repeatedly going through the cycles of incarnations?
• 9 - What causes mental distortions?
• 10 - We are not complete without knowledge, yet the Existence is already whole and complete. How is this contradiction possible?

Siddharth

• 1 - Why is knowledge necessary?
• 2 - What is the biggest cause of ignorance?
• 3 - Which truth is more important - relative or absolute?
• 4 - Experiencer is not an object, but nothing is an object. True or false?
• 5 - If you are the Experiencer, are other people lifeless puppets?
• 6 - Which Experience is unchanging and why?
• 7 - Why is illusion not random? If it has laws, it should be called reality not illusion?
• 8 - Layered structure is universal, so why are there differences among people, animals etc?
• 9 - How to remove the unwanted states?
• 10 - Existence is continuously evolving towards a better Existence. True or false?

Paramjit

• 1 - Mention 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the path of knowledge.
• 2 - Which qualities are desired but are not absolutely necessary for a seeker?
• 3 - What is truth? Can there be subjective truth?
• 4 - What never changes?
• 5 - Why is Existence empty?
• 6 - If my essence is unchanging, why are there changes in me such as old age, happiness, suffering, thoughts etc?
• 7 - When will the Experience stop?
• 8 - What can be known about the illusion simply via observation?
• 9 - Which experience proves that there is only Vibration?
• 10 - Which memory is most limited and which one is the biggest?

Siddhant

• 1 - What is the final result or destination of the path of knowledge?
• 2 - If there is perfection in the existence, why is there so much ignorance?
• 3 - Names are forms are always present with the essence, then why are they false?
• 4 - Existence has no form or start and end, then how is it known via direct experience?
• 5 - Experiencer is everywhere. True or false?
• 6 - Why are all Experiences localized in the head?
• 7 - What takes form?
• 8 - How do we know that the vibrations exist?
• 9 - In which world do we find the layers of the memory?
• 10 - Where does the evolution of the layers lead to?

Kapil

• 1 – How does path of knowledge augment existing knowledge of a seeker?
• 2 – What is the subgoal on this path?
• 3 – What is the difference between knowledge and perception?
• 4 – How can we say the experiencer is omnipresent when it is invisible?
• 5 – What is the role of a person in knowing the experiencer?
• 6 – In how many ways experiences can happen?
• 7 – What causes vibrations in the illusion?
• 8 – Objects are also a layer in the mind, but why are they separate from me and appear solid?
• 9 – What happens to the existence when we are not perceiving it?
• 10 – Which is better – evolution or dissolution?

Sathya

• 1 - What causes ignorance?
• 2 - Where is knowledge?
• 3 - Knowledge can destroy mental suffering, but not bodily suffering. Why?
• 4 - Who knows the knower?
• 5 - Experiencer resides in a separate dimension, not in this world. True or false?
• 6 - Everyday new forms appear in the Existence. Then is it right to say that Existence is already whole and complete?
• 7 - Experiences are ever changing, but why are the person and the world are so stable?
• 8 - Which state remains when all other states come and go?
• 9 - Which part of the Existence is not explained by the model of the illusion?
• 10 - What makes the illusion so beautiful and captivating?

Poornima

• 1 - What is the role of intuition in gaining knowledge?
• 2 - Will knowing too much cause insanity?
• 3 - Truth cannot be experienced and knowledge happens via experience, then how will we know the truth?
• 4 - Emptiness causes Existence. Establish this via logic.
• 5 - Is it true that simply knowing what you are will liberate you?
• 6 - If the senses lie, how can they be a source of direct experience and hence knowledge?
• 7 - How can senses create vibrations via which we perceive, when senses themselves are patterns of vibrations?
• 8 - How do destructive processes destroy vibrations in cycles?
• 9 - Existence knows itself and Existence is also the Experience, so Experience knows itself. True or false?
• 10 - Does evolution happen in steps or is it gradual?

Riddhi

• 1 - Where is knowledge stored?
• 2 - What preparations are necessary before joining the path of knowledge?
• 3 - Experience or logic – which one is more important for gaining knowledge?
• 4 - That which is seen is false, this means the unseen things are true. True or false?
• 5 - Why did the Existence divide into two?
• 6 - The Experiencer is everywhere, then why do we only see experiences everywhere, not the Experiencer?
• 7 - Events have a beginning and an end, but the Experience has no beginning and end. True or false?
• 8 - Vibration is the cause of all experiences. Explain.
• 9 - What are the processes that make the memory semi-stable?
• 10 - Which states are necessary for faster evolution of the layered structure?

Akhil

• 1 – What is achieved on the path of knowledge?
• 2 – What is the use of truth?
• 3 – Where is your nature after death?
• 4 – The Experiencer wants happiness and freedom. True or false?
• 5 – How was Existence created?
• 6 – If all experiences are mental, how can others have the same experiences as me?
• 7 – What causes formation of layers in the memory?
• 8 – Where is this creature evolving to?
• 9 – Which part of the existence is not explained by vibrations?
• 10 – Which states are true states of memory?

Anup

• 1 - What are the main sources of knowledge?
• 2 - How is truth verified?
• 3 - What is the difference between nature and truth?
• 4 - Existence cannot be absent. Why?
• 5 - What causes the Experiencer to take forms?
• 6 - Experience is Existence itself and is always present, then how can it be false?
• 7 - What requirements must be met by any model of the illusion?
• 8 - What is absent from illusion?
• 9 - How do patterns persist?
• 10 - What is the final goal of evolution?

Chongeswar

• 1 - Path of knowledge completely destroys a person. True or false?
• 2 - Only false can be seen or known. True or false?
• 3 - If ignorance causes suffering, how are many ignorant people happy?
• 4 - How does emptiness become existence?
• 5 - Experiencer never knows anything. True or false?
• 6 - Why is the experiencer tolerating bad experiences?
• 7 - Experiences are of one kind, then why is there a difference in their qualities?
• 8 - How do senses convert vibrations into irreducibles?
• 9 - Which layers are responsible for happiness?
• 10 - When existence is whole and perfect, why is there a need to evolve?

Jharna

• 1 - What makes the path of knowledge unique?
• 2 - How to differentiate between knowledge and information?
• 3 - If truth is subjective, how will anyone know the final truth?
• 4 - If knowledge leads to unknowing, what is the use of knowledge?
• 5 - How do we know that the existence is infinite?
• 6 - What are the advantages of being the experiencer?
• 7 - What is being experienced right now?
• 8 - How can we use illusion?
• 9 - Which layers in the memory produce the illusion?
• 10 - What causes a person to evolve?

Harish

• 1 - What precautions are needed on the path of knowledge?
• 2 - Truth is only a thought. True or false?
• 3 - If knowledge needs memory, which is illusory, how can it be absolute knowledge?
• 4 - Existence needs a human to be perceived, else it is not there. True or false?
• 5 - Experiencer is omnipresent, so why is it not seen everywhere except inside me?
• 6 - If only one Existence is appearing as Experience, why is it different for everyone?
• 7 - What causes changes in illusion?
• 8 - What ensures stability of memory?
• 9 - How many layers are possible?
• 10 - What is gained via evolution?