2.22.23

Notes by Rishaan Sachania

• Recapped previous lesson about independence, joy, and infinity

• Our nature is joy, how? Our nature is also infinite and so is the universe
• If I am a part of the universe, there must be some aspect of me being infinite too

• How does infinity = joy? 
• Infiniteness is when there is no more desires and when we experience completeness
• That feeling is born from “I don’t want anything else”

• Why don’t we feel infinite? 
• We think this world and body are real
• According to Vedanta, only things that are changeless are real

• What is real? Only existence. How?
• By pointing or identifying something, we are already implying that it exists, one cannot point to non-existence 

• “That which is known cannot be the knower” 
• E.g. the pencil (known) is not the knower (you)
• If one sees the body, that means we as knowers are not a part of the body because it is known and not the knower

• Conscience is the ability to see our thoughts
• We are living in our own individual subjective worlds
• “I was born”, prior to birth we did not exist
• If this is true, how to we experience our own birth?
• I only know I was born because of what people are telling me (implications)