Beyond the Vessel

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Our bodies are like fragile pots while our true nature is the boundless awareness that exists both within and beyond physical form.

• The body is finite, fragile and breakable like a pot or glass
• When we realize we are the space inside and outside the pot, we transcend physical limitations
• Even when the body dies, consciousness remains unchanged
• In Advaita Vedanta, a guru helps us recognize our true nature as boundless consciousness
• All beings are like pots held within the same vast space of formless awareness
• Shifting identity from body to awareness happens when we notice consciousness perceiving bodily changes
• Nothing can break, destroy or harm your true nature as limitless awareness

Remember, don't cling to the pot - realize the limitless awareness within, and you will never feel small again.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why cling to the pot when you are the space inside
and outside it?
We often don't realise thatthis body is like a pot or a
glass finite, fragile andbreakable.
We are time bound, so death canhappen, old age, fragility, and

(00:22):
we're breakable.
Our emotions can sometimes leadus to addictions.
But what if we realized thatthe space inside the glass or
pot is like our own awarenessit's boundless, it's formless,
it's not limited to the potitself, it's it and without it,

(00:44):
not restricted in it.
And even if that pot or glassbreaks, well, that space remains
unchanged.
And if that space is like ourconsciousness, our awareness,
then do we break when this bodybreaks?
Do we die when this body breaks?
Do we die when this body dies?

(01:06):
And that's the ultimatequestion that has been asked
from the times of the rishis,from the Upanishads, and it's
been answered in numerous texts,in numerous ways, through
numerous religions and numerousphilosophies.
How do we get to understandthis when you have a guru and

(01:26):
this is the important thing inAdvaita Vedanta, you have to
have a guru that gives you theknowledge of Brahman and tells
you that this formlessconsciousness is that boundless
space of consciousness that willbe there when the body breaks
when the body dies, like thatpot, has space within and

(01:48):
without.
It remains that space remainsboundless, likewise you, as
consciousness remains boundless,and that all beings are
literally like these pots.
They're all held in that sameone vast space.
That is the formless.
And the more we come to termsthat actually maybe we are

(02:11):
formless, maybe we're not sotied up to this form, then maybe
spirituality will make a bitmore sense to us.
How do we make this practicalfor us?
How do we understand this?
When the body feels heavy, whenit feels limiting, when we find
ourselves aging, remember,you're not the body.

(02:31):
You are that vast space that'swithin and beyond it.
You are that consciousness.
You are that awareness of thebody aging.
You are that awareness of thebody in disease.
When you say that I'm feelingunhealthy today or I'm feeling
unwell today, it's awarenessthat is telling you first that
something is not right with thebody.

(02:52):
And that's when we can shiftour identity from the body to
the limitless awareness the mostin the first thing ever is this
limitless awareness.
So we shift our identity fromthe fragile container to the
limitless awareness, like thatpot that can drop and break.
We can be this limitlessawareness that, no matter what

(03:14):
happens, nothing can break it,nothing can destroy it, nothing
can harm it in any way, and allI can say is really don't cling
to the pot, don't cling to thebody.
Realize that space, realizethat limitless awareness within,
and I can guarantee you, youwill never feel small again.
You will feel like the vast,boundless consciousness that you

(03:40):
truly are.