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Originally Posted by Ewwerrin
I dont understand why it is so difficult for people to understand and accept that the emotion is what it is all about.
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That's the dualistic mind's reaction to or perception of a glimpse beyond duality, and since the mind is an appearance within duality it's also subject to the full spectrum of emotion - positive, neutral and negative. It goes with the dualistic territory.
There's no such spectrum from the perspective of non-duality. We have SatChitAnanda or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, but bliss isn't what most think. It's more aptly described as fullness, completeness or lack of want. Think of the serenity of the deeper meditative states. Of utter silence and stillness. Supreme contentment.
Emotions are states of mind illumined by that Ananda and not Ananda itself. SatChitAnanda or Brahman or Source is limitless and unchanging. Anything subject to change is limited and temporal and therefore in the context of non-duality is only an extrinsic appearance of and within the limitless and unchanging intrinsic non-dual existence.
That's the non-dual Advaita perspective.
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