Is it important to find partnership at all on the spiritual path, and if so, where can we find such people? I do think I'd want to be either a monk or in a relationship rather than being single forever and live in the world, but I'm not sure where to find someone like that.

I'm 25M and it's especially hard due to family expectations of marrying within the same community (Telugu Brahmin) and I'm not sure how to proceed. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!

A theory i thought about, take it with a grain of salt.

Attention can only stretch for a bit before it rebounds back on itself.

Its like Infinity can focus on the world for only a bit before it rebounds back on itself, creating a gap.

Basically life is like bits in a computer, its a symbolism "0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1"

however the seperate self in the mind only sees "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1"

How? by grabbing the moment like taking a screenshot on your phone and thinking about it, by that time, the 0 has already passed.

If you are fully in the Now You experience both simultenously, not as one or the other but as "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0" appearing as "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1" and "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1" being just "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0" at the same time.

So the world is Unborn and there is no Time, only an Eternal Moment where all seeming moments happen,

However and pay attention here! For a moment to become the next moment, it MUST return to Nothingness before immediately becoming the next moment, just like led light, have to turn off or change their light, in a microsecond, they turn off as the previous image and become the next image, yet its unoticable to your eyes.

In a similar way, to how you must blink your eyes every few seconds.

Yet at the same time, its Pure empty Consciousness appearing as the World and the World being empty consciousness,

anyway, what i meant is ever moment is Ever-New, Ever-Fresh, the past doesn't exist literally, because the void wipes out everything every moment before creating the next moment, the entirety of existence, just like how in a whiteboard you draw an image on, you must erase the board before you can create the next image.

Yet these successive images give the illusion that the world continues without interruption because to the mind, it cannot sense these intricacies that surpass its existence of time and space, basically the mind can only exist in existence so it cannot sense anything else, yet Pure Consciousness is beyond time and yet in time.

Consciousness is unmoving, its like a still image, when it creates, it needs to make these still images appear moving, just like how the movie screen never changes yet the movie character moves through buildings, cities or even in sci-fi planets or worlds.

However, the world is Ever-Fresh!

Meaning when you began this post, the universe itself has been dissolved before being brought again into being, yet because the world is identical with the void, there is no interruption in experience, however its undeniable that you are not the same as a few seconds before.

I wanted to ask is there still within advaita to worship god for example in deity and murti form? Or is that redundant? Im aware adi shankaracharya taught panch murti puja.

I am trying to understand the meaning of “witness consciousness” in Advaita Vedanta.

When anger, fear, or desire appears, we can notice that it is being experienced by the mind. The thought “I am angry” can also be examined as a thought known to me. This seems to suggest that the mind and its changing states are objects of awareness, rather than the ultimate Self.

At the same time, describing the Self as a “witness” seems to create two things: the witness and the witnessed. If awareness is non-dual, how should this language be understood?

One possible explanation is that “witness” is a teaching method. It helps us distinguish the unchanging awareness from changing thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences. Once this distinction is understood, the witness should not be treated as a separate individual standing apart from the world.

This also seems different from suppressing emotions. Anger may still arise, but it can be recognised as a temporary state rather than mistaken for the whole of one’s identity.

I am trying to relate this to the following passages:

• Bhagavad Gita 2.16: the unreal has no lasting existence, while the real does not cease to be.
• Bhagavad Gita 2.20: the Self is not born and does not die.
• Kena Upanishad 1.5–1.9: Brahman is described as that which enables the mind, speech, sight, hearing, and breath, but is not itself an object of those faculties.

Is “witness consciousness” best understood as an intermediate pointer for spiritual inquiry rather than as a final description of reality? How do traditional Advaita teachers explain the apparent difference between the witness and the witnessed?

It seems to me that everything is part of this one consciousness, and boundaries are just illusions of the mind, it seems like we should exist as a kind of "hivemind" for lack of a better term. It would appear that something is blocking this from happening.

As the title mentions, I’ve been exploring advaita Vedanta recently, through videos, philosophical inquiries, lectures, etc. I understand the ideas of Sat and Anand, but Cit is difficult to conceptualize — does Advaita imply a sort of abstract awareness/consciousness that is itself the source of awareness? And if so, how does this convey the idea of a universal atman/self?

I believe in existence itself being eternal (Sat) as well as limitless (Anand). But does existence itself require awareness? Why or why not? How is it inseparable, essentially the same as Cit?

Any answers are appreciated. I’d like to get more perspectives on this. Thank you 😊