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Mantra, Maun, Listening and Awareness || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Awareness
Silence
Mantra
Thought
Mind
Experiencer
Scriptures
Resolution
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Acharya Prashant clarifies the distinction between the thought of awareness and awareness itself. He explains that while thoughts about awareness, such as mantras, verses, or the words of great teachers, are not awareness, they serve as the penultimate step. These divine words act as a mantra to cleanse the mind of other thoughts. Once the mind is cleaned, what remains is silence, which is true awareness. In this state of silence, the thinker himself is gone, leaving no one to think. He addresses the questioner's feeling of an experiencer, noting that it is not a superficial feeling but a final remnant that must be dropped. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that the right mantra or scripture has the nature to dissolve itself once its task is complete, eventually taking away both the thoughts and the thinker. He encourages persistence and inner resolution, assuring that just as other thoughts disappear, this final weight of the experiencer will also vanish, leading to a state of weightlessness and silence.