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The A Question on Consciousness from Nandita S and Prasant B.

I saw your videos regarding Vela Vodanta, but I have one doubt.

If the consciousness, Turia, is the only reality, is this consciousness present in non-living things like chairs, tables, etc.? If bliss is Brahman, then what about non-living things like chairs, tables, etc.

If bliss is Brahman, then what about non-living matter?

Are they not Brahman?

All right.

Look at the language.

If consciousness is the only reality, Turi is the only reality, is it present

in non-living things, non-living matter.

Now if non-living matter is real, then consciousness is the only reality, so consciousness

should be present in non-living matter, and yet we find a kind of dissonance in this thinking,

because we feel

that we are conscious and the chair and the table are not conscious.

Let's go a little deeper into this.

Vedantah has a very precise way of considering these things.

What is a living being in the Vedantic sense?

A living being in Vedantic sense is a body like this with prana.

The very word living being, living, being is anything that exists.

But living being, the word living is, if you translate it into Vedantic terms, it means prana, life forces, vitality.

So, when you consider yourself, when you consider a living being, what you see is first a body, and then when you look inside inside yourself you have a first person experience inside

of thoughts feelings emotions ideas that's what's called a subtle body and there's something called

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