Deep yogic self-inquiry has revealed that Reality is the true Self of us all.
Additionally, there’s an unchanging aspect to Reality and a dynamic aspect and many have found that identifying as the always real and unchanging presence aspect of true Self, while enjoying the appearance of living as a limited being, provides an experience of wholeness and freedom.
From the point of view of Reality, appearing to live as the entire universe and each of us, is an expression of its freedom. In other words, Self-Bondage or Self-Embodiment as a living being is a freedom of expression of our true Self, Reality.I invite you to enjoy the sublime non-dual experience of Being Reality dancing within its own Self.
– El Govinda Sat (Essentially Love Truth Finder Real Being), Founder, Holistic Self Yoga
This website is intended for apparent others on the path of self-inquiry. In order to understand the statements found within this website, attaining ultimate wholeness and truth about Self and reality should be the goal. Truth should be the goal rather than freedom or liberation, although ultimately, as you will discover, there is no difference between absolute wholeness, truth and freedom. It is hoped that by providing the statements found here, that the struggle to attain wholeness will be made easier for the apparent others that follow.
The essence of the Kashmiri Shaivism school of nonduality says that the One performing as the body, and all things witnessed, is the same Agent appearing to act from within the body. There is only one Agent in Reality. In other words, all agency belongs to the always Real, aka unchanging, aspect, of Reality. Now it is your job, direct finder of Truth, to determine if this is true directly and logically, for your own self and as your own Self. You must reconcile her own experience of agency with the agency behind all movement within reality. This site is intended to assist you on that journey.
This website, and the donation-based services associated with Holistic Self Yoga, was founded by El Govinda Sat (.Essentially Love Truth Finder Real Being) The following is very difficult to describe using the limits of language, but the effort will be made. El Govinda Sat considers his personhood to be a behavior of reality and not an independent entity. His Being aspect is one with the Being aspect of reality and all of his behaviors are, in an absolute sense, the behaviors, or nature, of reality. There is no independence. When engaging in the world it would appear on the surface that he has an ego, but in truth, when not engaging, his apparently individualized context of awareness and behavior has been eradicated of the false story of an independent person. He experiences a complete union of the unchanging real being aspect of reality and its behavior as his own whole Self. He’s been practicing vinyasa yoga and bhakti yoga for over 25 years under the tutelage of @bryankestpoweryoga , @govind.das.108 , and several other Los Angeles-based yogis. He discovered non-duality at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and took a deep dive into Advaita (nondual) Vedanta, but found the closest description of an all-inclusive reality that matched his experience in Kashmiri Shaivism. He is a retired software engineer that understands reality as an all-inclusive multi-threaded, dynamically generated contexts of awareness and behavior, Consciousness and an information system. He works to translate complex Sanskrit ideas into simple modern language.
Gratitude for the Shankara nature, or Self-Revelation nature, that appears present within this life path and the life path of the Real Presence performing as any aspirant of Truth. Gratitude flows from Presence hiding within this apparent context of behavior towards its own Self for revealing the truth that is the all-inclusive Self, which has only ever included its own behavior! In other words, Self revealing themself to Their own Self is Shankara nature, also called Govinda, or highest Self finder, and there is a flow of gratitude present for this process. Namaste.
– Shiva (another word for Consciousness) performing behind a mask of El Govinda Sat
