Tattva Bodha by Jagadguru Sri Adishankaracharya

Tattva bodha at a glance (Mind map)

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How to understand life?

We cannot understand life.

The understanding that we cannot understand life itself is the understanding. Nature has certain laws and it runs only on those laws. Whoever it might be it does not matter. Everyone has to oblige with nature's laws and it is not easy to understand nature's laws or the laws of the Universe. So, to understand the laws of the Universe, one has to become one with the Universe which simply means one has to forego all the thoughts and be in the state of beyond mind. And, when this being in the state of beyond mind happens then one will not bother about understanding anything or any happening. Whatever happens...one will just observe without any identity.

Mind-thought-world-Nothingness

The mind exists only as long as thoughts exist. The moment there are no thoughts, there is no mind and when there is no mind (no thoughts), then there is no world. So the whole world and all the happenings in the so called world are only the expression of thoughts. The world ceases to exist when thoughts cease. In that emptiness where there are no thoughts the True Existence reveals itself. The Nothing-ness state is the State and that is the True Nature of everyone of us. This Nothing-ness is the Consciousness that prevails as the Substratum of the whole existence.