NONDUALITY: IS THERE A CAUSE TO AWAKENING?

This is a great question.  To me there is no answer. How could a single cause be pointed out? But I am sure others might differ. Maybe somewhere a guru touched a disciple’s head and voila! - He or she came home. So to me, I don’t think there is a way that someone can do something to become awakened. My view and feeling on it is that the person was never not awakened, but clouded over by culture and idea, and sort of programmed. The program can run out, and then there is what is called awakening, though it is for nobody. It is just existence waking up again to what already is because a veil has been lifted and the ‘dream’ is over. Something like that. So I would say there is no cause. But, that could be wrong. There could be something that does it within everything. I think people should say the truth, which is ‘I don’t know, but here is my impression and experience.’ So I say no but I am open to a cause. For instance, I met Mother Meera, in Toronto Canada, about a year before, the late summer a year before, and received darshan. She is a divine mother I wholly believe in who works in silence. Perhaps that had something to do with it. I do not know. 

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