A Free Guided Practice
This isn't advice, and it won't answer your question the way you expect. Six short verses — written some 1,200 years ago by Adi Shankaracharya — will walk you through everything you are not, until only the one asking the question is left standing.
You don't need any prior knowledge of them to use this. Just bring what's actually on your mind.
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Chidānanda-rūpaḥ
You began by asking:
Six times, you were shown what you are not. What is left cannot be handed to you — it can only be recognized, the way you recognize you are awake without being told.
Chidānanda-rūpaḥ Śivo'ham, Śivo'ham.
I am of the nature of consciousness and bliss. I am Shiva. I am Shiva.
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