nothingKnower1993

Like the sun, oceans, earth seem non living, so “non living” that they don't seem to have emotions, they just continue being, doing what their qualities, characters make them do, atma is also the same. Human Emotions are incidental, but powerful. To conquer them, “to identify with atma” which is one's true nature, is the highest human goal. Bhakti helps keep the qualities of atman like Chaitanya swaroopah, swatantrah, nityah, sarwagatah, ekah etc, be reminded to the seeker as often as possible, slowly making him become that i.e., identify with it. Karma and upaasana yogas help one maintain, focus his mind on these qualities of atman, because only continuous laser like focus on it, can help one identify with it eventually. Then one realises that everything we perceive, sense are all just like the movies we watch, audiobooks we listen to etc, except there's no "person" sitting on couch "doing" all this. There's just continuous, ever present, by stander, camera like watchfulness which is the real me, the Self. It may seem non living, bcz it, by itself, doesn't have any qualities of hearing, seeing, feeling etc, it's all happening in the body, mind, intellect, senses "appliance", but it is what makes this appliance work. Emotions are generated, just like likes, dislikes are habitual patterns that are created since birth, when one sees this "collection of individual components which have their own tendencies, swabhava" as one unit!

First step is to break this habit. Second is to realize that body, mind, intellect etc are inert by themselves, just collection of the 5 elements, it is me, my real self, that powers this "setup".

Living life, "seeing" this truth even in deep sleep is the final step. Once that's reached, identity is reset, I become a jeevanmukta and no more "work" is done by me anymore, even though this body "has to work" bcz of its qualities.

Please let me know if I got this right.

I am working as an SAP Developer. Been using company laptop for every thing for quite long now. Now I want to buy a personal laptop to:

• Store multimedia content offline

• use Obsidian for notes

• simply watching video/movie etc

• maintaining Kindle books library

• if in any rare case, office laptop stops working, would like to install SAP GUI or some IDE on it to resume with temporarily.

So basically I'm looking for a laptop that has a good battery life, good memory storage, doesn't have to be the best at performance (not much of a gamer, if basic games work that's enough), good service at Hyderabad, future proof (it doesn't get 'outdated' too soon), with a budget not more than 40-50k.

Please suggest.