@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 3:35

Is there a "theory of everything"?

So as I understand it, and I see it in my life experiences, maybe I can start from why do we call it nondual instead of just calling it one? Right? Because if it is implying that there is only one thing out there, why not call it one instead of saying nondual? And that's interesting. And this is not my understanding or anything. It's something that I heard in a lecture

#philosophy, #existentialism, #advait, #spirituality

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@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 2:38
I guess as I went through life, I would try to understand and keep things in perspective and sort of try to explain all my experiences. And as my effort went along and as I became exposed to various thought patterns and philosophies and various lectures and books that I've read, everybody probably has their own explanation for that
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 2:48

#advaita vs #dvaita

And then otherwise I could have said no, you are God. Pretty much you are everything. And that's why it can't reconcile all of that together, if you will. Again, this is Philosophy 101 from might get some facts wrong there, but my question to you really would be what is the system that you feel like? This one thing is to talk about different experiences and use your school of thought to kind of explain to them
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 3:37
If you really can have a point of view, because as long as you identify yourself as an individual, that's the only world view you can have is from the perspective of that individual. But if it is possible to kind of not be an individual and have an objective view, if there is such a thing possible, even there wouldn't be any meaning and all conflicts and all debates and whatnot are all essentially a debate between one world Vivek versus another
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 1:38

https://app.swell.life/swellcast/Rbja

Right. So Dostoevsky's, Crime and Punishment and Camus The Stranger are amazing works of fiction and philosophy, and they're worth reading just for that. So anyway, I thought I'll just kind of add that also, you talk a bit about individuality and how an individual perceives the world. So I thought I'll mention the others. I started on Individuality and the new research that is being done exactly on that question
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:27

The journey is worthy #physics #poetry #religion

I know for me poetry not so much religion, but poetry has always sort of dropped me into a calmness. I studied Rumi a lot when I was in College, and that sense of chaos within one's own heart. But yet finding language for it was very calming to me. But in terms of one thing my father said that had to do with this idea of the philosophy of life and the theory of everything
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@Vivek
Vivek Ranjan
@Vivek · 4:40
Hello. Hi. This is a very interesting conversation. I know it's a lot of things have already been talked about a lot of people here, and some of the views expressed are very deep. I'll try to do my best to, and I hope that I don't drift into a conversation, which is my habit. So let's keeping to the focus. Physics existentialism advanced. And I hear these three things being spoken right now
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@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 3:35
I'm just catching up on this thread. And first of all, thank you, Deborah. I think your response was very well articulated, and it captures exactly the spirit in which I started this. Well, there's probably not a whole lot of value in trying to compartmentalize things and kind of defining what exactly or precisely physics is versus existentialism is or otherwise or whatnot. Because life in general is a continuous process
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@MysticScientist
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientist · 1:25
That's very Zen, like cone, like where you know, like it's the paradox is actually that's where the beauty is. So maybe we're not supposed to actually be able to call it anything. And that's the paradox
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@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 5:00

Surrender or enquiry - what works for you?

And then when the knowledge comes, the final step has to be the surrender kind of like in Buddhism, the term users. Once you seek in your quest for knowing what is that, you keep doubting everything because that is that path, right? That path of seeking that oneness through knowledge and not through surrender requires you to challenge all your assumptions, all your conclusions. Most of us end up sort of stopping our questioning when it comes to challenging your own beliefs and biases
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@Wordsmith
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:52

#whole=sumofparts

Hi, I'm relatively you know, you could call me an amateur as far as this topic is concerned. But my understanding from what I have read so far is that that this whole concept of Advaita would be there is a hole and there are subsets to that whole. So therefore, when you look at it that way, there is no difference. Right. Because we are all subsets of the whole matter becomes a subset of the whole as well. So therefore, there is no duality
@vinod
Vinod Narsiman
@vinod · 5:00
So if you can understand your pure self either in the form of a meditative practice or a yogic practice, and you move closer to your pure self, your real self as they put it, or the wise ones put it, then probably so we would be in a better position to understand where we all came from and what happens after this. Where is everything
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@vinod
Vinod Narsiman
@vinod · 2:01
Hello. Hi again to end what I was talking about. The topic of the pure self has been talked about in the openssads. It has been talked about great ones like Lord Krishna and the Baghdad. Krishna has dwelt a lot on the self. And then, of course, I think one of the greatest treatises on the self is in the sivasutras. Lord Sava teaches Parvati. Lord Sava teaches Parvati, the Siva Samita, the Guru Gheta. And finally the sivasutras. So the sivasutras talk about oneself
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@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 1:58
And from that understanding or that intellectual understanding, you start to change your attitude towards life or your actions and whatnot. But in reality, I think it works the other way around. As in like you said, the duality is what keeps the game going. And ultimately, it's through this experience of duality. That realization comes. So the understanding, even though the intellectual understanding can happen first and then you can try to change your behavior
@sshekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 1:16
I don't know. I feel like it's the game where all the fun is, and that's where all the learning happens without the actual experience and the experiential learning. The intellectual indulgence is nice. But I feel like there is more to it than just logic and reasoning. You have to experience that. And that only comes through the duality of that. We all experience. So that's all I can think of right now. But we have to keep this going. Bye
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@Arduous
Jeremy Bouchey
@Arduous · 1:40

Simple. Sorry?

And that's pretty cyclical and doesn't really get anywhere and just die misery. So there's that. And then there's you got to have, like, three kids. And then you got to figure out how you're going to be able to exercise respectfully to however you sculpt the Earth for the human body to fit correctly. And then that's about it. I did mention you got to have three children, right
@Arduous
Jeremy Bouchey
@Arduous · 0:20

https://youtu.be/Q7qWkdhGrqU FTX_Arduous

If you check out my YouTube channel FCX underscore Arduous, I have the meaning of everything in like a robotic voice to get that kind of YouTube flavor. So check that out
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