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It is hard to find any spiritual tradition or spiritual teaching that does not constitute ‘teaching of non-duality’. Rather every lines of teaching of every sect and path lead to destination of ‘non-duality’. There can’t be anything after this, it is ultimate. It is true that ‘non-duality’ can’t be defined in the same way you define scientific terms, there’s no single definition that everyone would agree upon. It is not because that it lacks words to define but because it’s not about words. It’s about understanding, realizing and living.
Listening is the easiest step and thus most of people do it without any problem. After this comes the next level, step of understating. This requires little effort of only mind, in this we need to think and rationalize the words what we listen and try to understand the true meaning. This need time and balanced thought process, obviously people try to understand but not everyone who listen try upto this level and those who even try not necessarily succeed. Only few people starve for the third stage which is realizing what they listen, but realization requires effort from both mind and body. Only who could dare to sustain the problem they qualify for the fourth and final stage of living.
Fourth stage of living can be called synonymous of enlightenment. ‘Only he can live, who is enlightened’ or also we can say that ‘who starts living, become enlightened’.
Non-duality in general form can be defined as, “not seeing the two, only seeing the supreme power in different forms in whole existence.”
Non-duality is a teaching, which point directly towards the truth that in reality there is only one undivided consciousness appearing as everything.
Swami Vivekananda in book (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v.3) says that,
“There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you; all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. 'God created man after His own image.”
A story depict that how one can live the non-duality.
“There was a monastery in a certain place. The monks residing there went out daily to beg their food. One day a monk, while out for his alms, saw a landlord beating a man mercilessly. The compassionate monk stepped in and asked the landlord to stop. But the landlord was filled with anger and turned his wrath against the innocent monk.
He beat the monk till he fell unconscious on the ground. Someone reported the matter to the monastery. The monks ran to the spot and found their brother lying there. Four or five of them carried him back and laid him on a bed. He was still unconscious. The other monks sat around him sad at heart; some were fanning him.
Finally someone suggested that he should be given a little milk to drink. When it was poured into his mouth he regained consciousness. He opened his eyes and looked around.
One of the monks said, “Let us see whether he is fully conscious and can recognize us.
“Shouting into his ear, he said, Revered sir, who is giving you milk?”
“Brother," replied the holy man in a low voice, “he who beat me is now giving me milk.”
Modern psychoanalyst and psychology say that, what we say in un-conscious state is our true nature. In above said story the holy monk even in unconscious state says about non-duality. It means that it has become his nature. The person who cannot think of duality even in such state of mind is not less than enlightened. Non-dual teachings emphasize that, the truth that we seek is the very one who is seeking for it, and this can be realized right now since the truth is already what we are rather than something we will one day become through our efforts. Tony Parsons has truly said that,
“There is no me and no you, no seeker,
no enlightenment, no disciple and no guru.
There is no better or worse, no path
or purpose, and nothing that has to be achieved.
All appearance is source.
All that apparently manifests in the hypnotic
dream of separation – the world, the life story,
the search for home – is one appearing as two,
the nothing appearing as everything,
the absolute appearing as the particular.”
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