Pure Consciousness: Still Point at the CENTER of the Mental Storm

When the mind's turmoil becomes overwhelming, it can be impossible to maintain your attention on pure consciousness at the center of your being. But, you can discover those mental storms to be harmless collections of thoughts and emotions, as insubstantial as a soap bubbles.

Your essential nature is consciousness or awareness by which all mental activities (vrittis) are known is called atma, the true self, the inner divinity that is sat chit ananda, limitless eternal consciousness. That consciousness is reveals the vrittis of your mind (manas) without being affected by them, like the sun is unaffected by what it shines upon. Atma is the sakshi, the independent observer or awareful witness of all your thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.

Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: https://www.arshabodha.org/