QnA On The Trignosis Program

Tarun Pradhaan

## Questions on Self-Knowledge

#### 1 - How will we get the proof that I am not the body, but I exist even without the body?
I exist without the body
Knowledge that I am not dependent on the body
Without the body there will be no intelligence, no knowledge
Instruments are necessary for knowledge, not for my existence
How to know if there will be a screen without the picture?
There will be no one asking for proof
Belief - Knowledge is possible without the body, mind or intelligence

#### 2 - Everything can be removed but not the brain, so am I the activity of the brain?
It can be removed (a part at a time)
Many creatures do not have this organ
Which activity? I am one, not many
Gradually, on removing the brain, the experience will change, not the experiencer
On removing which picture will the screen disappear?
Essence does not arise from form, wood from the table
Belief - Experience is the cause of the experiencer

#### 3 - If memory is removed, I will not exist. So is my memory me?
Self knowledge will also disappear
There will be no one to say whether I exist or not
There will be no proof, nor anyone to take proof
It is not me who is born from memory, but my knowledge
If memory is removed gradually, the experience will change, not the experiencer
Many memories have been destroyed
Which memory? I am one, not many
Belief - The experiencer and its knowledge are the same

#### 4 - I am immortal, but how will we get the proof that I will exist after death?
Who will get it?
If the person still exists, then by progressive elimination
By direct experience and logic
Then it is not death, it is life, in another form
The proof of immortality is found in present not in future
What is it that will die?
There will be no knowledge without the instrument
Even the experience of tomorrow cannot be known, how about death?
Belief - The event that will happen in the future can be known today

#### 5 - If I do not exist in sleep, does it mean that I am changeable? 
Sleep is a state, the state is changeable
Sleep is also an experience, coming and going
The body is active, so is the mind and the senses
There is no memory of sleep state
I cannot remember an incident from 10 years ago, but I was there
When the previous image is erased, does the screen also disappear?
Belief - I am dependent on memory or state or any other event

#### 6 - How can I experience myself if not through the senses? Will that experience happen in a subtle state?
It will not happen
What will experience it?
All experiences will happen through senses
The screen cannot appear on itself, its false form can appear
All experiences are me (non-dual level), I experience only myself
Belief - I am some special experience

#### 7 - If all experiences happen to me, then why don't I know the experiences of other people?
People are experiences
There is no one else (Nondual level)
Experience is had, it cannot be known
Knowing means knowledge is in the memory, all people have their own memory
There are many experiences, which the person himself does not know
Even after knowing everyone's experiences, the basic knowledge remains the same
The screen is just the background of all the pictures, there is no memory in it
Belief - I am a person, I am different from others

#### 8 - If you are also me, then why do I not experience your thoughts?
The thoughts are neither mine nor yours, I am the witness
Example of windows
Many mental processes are not experienced
Even after experiencing everyone's thoughts, the knowledge is the same
Even after knowing everyone's thoughts, there will be a doubt that the witness is different
Belief - It takes a strange experience to prove that the essence is one and the same

#### 9 - If I am not any experience, then why do I have a body, why do I have this mind, feelings, thoughts, or why is there a world?
You do not have these
All experiences are causeless
Arbitrary reasons can be given
All these are also me, false forms (Nondual level)
If there is a screen, there are pictures, if there are pictures, then there is a screen
Clay does not have a pot
Belief - If I am not an experience, then there should be no experience

#### 10 - If I am bliss, then why don't I always experience bliss?
Bliss is not an experience, it is your essence
Bliss is me
There is always bliss
Activities such as happiness and sadness come and go
Belief - Bliss is a pleasant experience or a state of the mind

#### 11 - Why is knowledge not permanent? Why doesn't the mind become stable on its own?
It will not take effort for a man to become a man
Ignorance, doubt, distrust, superstition
No path, knowledge is not the life goal, no Guru
Impurities, suppressed desires, disorders

#### 12 - All is me, this is true love, then why is there only hatred in everyone, why is there no love in the world? If all are one, how is everyone's behavior different?
Behavior or impression are of the body-mind machine
I have no qualities
Love is not a feeling or conduct, it is my essence
People are ignorant
Belief - Essential nature has impressions, qualities or conduct

#### 13 - I am neither able to do anything nor do I feel any happiness or sorrow, so am I lifeless?
Life is due to me only
The bodymind is inert, I am conscious
The liveliness is due to being a witness, not due to actions or tendencies
Belief - Life means actions or feelings etc.

#### 14 - What should I do after self-realization?
I am not the doer, I am the observer
Whatever the body-mind does will happen
That which is necessary or practical and natural
Guru's command
Belief - After knowledge, I have to do specific actions, or change my behavior

#### 15 - Who is my creator?
I am uncreated
Creation can be of objects, which is just a change of name and form
Creation means change, I am permanent
Matter, change and form are necessary for creation
Existence = experience + experiencer, experiencer is not created by experience, experiencer is one
Belief - I am an object or a special experience

#### 16 - Neither am I a living being nor is this my life, then what is the meaning of my being alive?
The living being is alive, the living being dies
Meaning is also not mine
The living being itself determines the meaning, not the witness
In the end everything is a play, meaningless
Belief - Witness has some use, purpose or meaning

#### 17 - Will I forget self-realization after death?
Not my death
I do not have memory
Even if a clay pot breaks, it is clay
That which is mortal, even if it remembers, it is mortal
I cannot remember the food eaten many years ago, but it was necessary
Belief - I am the mind body and it is possible for me to remember enlightenment, even after it is destroyed

#### 18 - How to keep this knowledge?
Not necessary
By the practice of witnessing
If I am a man, how can I remember, how can I remain a man?
Not effort or action, love and interest
Not a method, proof
Not being what I am not
Repetition, deep impression, resolution
There will be no miracle

#### 19 - Why is everyone not enlightened?
No desire
Beliefs, superstitions, stupidity
Everyone will have it in the end

#### 20 - How will I get more knowledge?
You will not get it
This is the final one
You will get more details, nuances
Essence of knowledge program
Science or Tantra Bodhi program

## Questions on Illusion
#### 1 - Which experience is true and when and how will it happen?
None
Whatever is changeable is experience and that is false
All experiences are created by the mind and generated by the senses
Belief - Experience of truth is possible, truth is a special experience

#### 2 - Which sense shows the truth?
None
The function of the senses is to keep the living being alive, not to show the truth
The senses react to change
Belief - A special sense is needed to see the truth

#### 3 - If my food is false, then how am I alive?
The creature is also false
The body is an object, is an experience
Belief - One object is false, the other is not

#### 4 - Experiences change, but I remember what it was, so whatever it was at that time was true.
Memory is also false
A shadow of false
Double illusion
Anything can be remembered
Belief - Whatever happened was true because it is remembered

#### 5 - Is death an inevitable truth?
Change, 
An event, 
Change of dream
Belief - A particular experience is true if it is inevitable

#### 6 - If bad experiences are false then how can there be suffering?
Emotions like happiness, sorrow etc. are also false
The mind's attitude is false
There is neither happiness, nor sorrow, bliss or peace
Whatever reacts to these is also false
Belief - Emotions or thoughts are true

#### 7 - If life is false then should I commit suicide?
Illusion does not end
There is no death
The dream will become bad
Use of life is wisdom, end is foolishness
Belief - If life is not true then it is not useful

#### 8 - Who created Illusion?
No one
It is not a creation, it is just a change
The creator is also illusion,
Illusion is the creator and the creation
Belief - There is some reason for experience

#### 9 - Objects change, yet they exist. How can they be false just by being temporary?
Objects are experiences, they are just appearances
It is an illusion, even if they do not change
Like the bee
The intellect imagines the object (name)
If it changes sooner or later, the intellect calls the object false
Belief - What changes is permanent in some form

#### 10 - Will there be experiences of truth after death?
Never
Death is also false, birth is also false
Belief - The body or the world is false, but the truth is seen in the future

## Questions on Oneness
#### 1 - Why is there no third?
There are only two categories - experience and the experiencer
This is necessary
Ultimately, counting is not possible, it is zero
Belief - There must be something other than experience and the experiencer

#### 2 - Why has unlimited oneness taken limited forms?
Form means limitedness
Form is not the truth, it is not taken
One form is limited, but there are infinite forms
Belief - Infinity has changed into smaller forms

#### 3 - Is it not arrogance to call oneself ultimate?
Oneness means not having an ego, becoming complete
The ignorant considers himself and others as body
Calling oneself a human, or considering oneself different from one is arrogance, ego
Belief - A wise person is a person who considers himself as ultimate or superior

#### 4 - Despite being the whole, why can't I do what I want?
This creature has neither desire nor action
All desires/actions appear to be in existence only
Belief - Being the whole is like getting some special superpower

#### 5 - How did one break into two?
It did not happen
It is the dividing tendency of the mind
Is useful for study
Belief - There is division in oneness, dualism is the reality

#### 6 - How to remain in the state of oneness?
It exists all the time
This is the only possible state, the rest of the states are illusory
Belief - The state of oneness is a special state, which can be reached by action

#### 7 - Existence, Brahman, Emptiness, Advaita, Perfection, Potential - what is the difference between them?
They all are the same
Traditions and philosophies are different
There are many names which help in establishing oneself in knowledge

#### 8 - What should be done after attaining knowledge of nonduality?
There is no action, no actor
Whatever is necessary
Whatever one likes, according to one's own will
Simple, beautiful, truthful, ordinary life
The seeker himself decides, there are no rules

#### 9 - Is unity the final truth?
Truth/falsehood are defined at the level of duality
Nothing is true, nothing is false, and everything is true, everything is false
Expressed as great sayings or formulas in nondualism
Belief - Knowledge is attained simply by listening to a few sentences