He considered it a pitfall to shout all too soon that ‘everything is Consciousness’ in a worldly or relational environment, and he continued pointing out ‘difference’ as long as this was the true state of affairs to the student. Thus, he did not think it to be helpful at all to honour the ‘differencelessness’ or non-duality in his actual activities as teacher and police officer. In other words, he did not have the illusion that that which he outlined to be ultimately true, was already true for his students or readers in their activities. “Atmananda’s emphasis on radical non-duality does not mean that he construed that in the day to day contact between people, the ego has already totally dissolved, and that this was also the case in the contact his students had with him as their teacher. Just seems to me a shining example of the Guru-Shishya relationship at its most toxic, and I say that as a Shishya, no less.
I read the following extract linked here and was deflated…When a feller starts talking about the “applicability” of Advaita, I give up.
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