Immediate Knowledge and Happiness: The Vedantic Doctrine of Non-Duality - Softcover

Levy, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159181314X ISBN 13: 9781591813149

Publisher: Sentient Publications, 2023

Synopsis

In this classic writing on non-duality, John Levy addresses the question which has always puzzled humankind: 'What am I?'

Levy enlists the aid of the essential doctrine of Vedanta, 'the end of knowledge,' and its highest aspect of Advaita, or Non-Duality:

"When I say I own a house I don't imply that I am a house. On the contrary, I cannot possibly be one. The sense of possessing a house is in no way different from the sense of possessing a mind or a body. A body, like a house, is an object, and so is a mind. But I am the, possessor of the object and therefore not the object itself, in this case the body or the mind. In other words, if l possess a body and a mind, I am clearly other than the body or the mind.

If man is not the body and mind he believes himself to be, what is he? If you rest in consciousness, you will at once be happy and free from bondage."

About this title

About the Author

John Levy was a wealthy English mystic, teacher, musician, and artist who was an expert in Asian folk music and hosted a radio program about this subject on the BBC. At one point in his life, Levy decided to give away his entire fortune and go to live for a time in India with nothing. He spent many years there with his guru, Krishna Menon, assisting him with the English translations of his guru's books Atma Darshan and Atma Niviriti.

Levy then brought his knowledge of Advaita Vedanta to the West in an accessible form through his teaching work and the publication of his books. John Levy died in London in 1976.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sentient Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 159181314X
• ISBN 13: 9781591813149
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 90