🌟 Everything I am bliss itself, anandam, and I am shantam if a mind is full. 

📘 Story of Carl Friedrich Gauss: At nine years old, Gauss astounded his teacher by quickly solving the sum of numbers from 1 to 100 using a shortcut formula, impressing with his mathematical prowess.
📚 Book on Shortcut in Life: Marcus du Sautoy's book explores the concept of shortcuts in mathematics and life, contrasting with traditional approaches to achievement.
🌌 Advaita Vedanta - The Shortcut to Enlightenment: Advaita Vedanta proposes that consciousness, unchanging and ever-present, offers a shortcut to spiritual awakening, bypassing lengthy spiritual practices.
🧠 Nature of Consciousness: Advaita Vedanta teaches that consciousness remains constant across waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states, illuminating all experiences without itself being changed.
🔍 Consciousness vs. Objects: Consciousness is distinct from objects and experiences, which it illuminates, highlighting its fundamental nature as unchanging awareness.
🕉️ Advaita Vedanta's Assertion: Consciousness is the essence of self (Atman) and reality (Brahman), offering a direct path to understanding one's true nature beyond transient experiences.
🌌 Consciousness is likened to a screen behind all experiences, including the sky, vehicles, and characters in a movie.
🧠 Yoga practices aim to calm the mind to reveal this background consciousness.
🕊️ Vedantic teachings focus on discerning between consciousness and the activities of the mind and senses.
🧘‍♂️ Effortless realization of consciousness is compared to instantly recognizing one's current location.
⏳ Consciousness remains unchanged by the fluctuations of life such as birth, growth, and death.
🎭 The universe and its objects are appearances in consciousness, not separate from it.
🌟 Realizing consciousness leads to a recognition of its infinite and changeless nature.
🏞️ The vastness of space and time are experiences within consciousness, not limitations to it.
🌟 Everything I am bliss itself, anandam, and I am shantam if a mind is full.
🌞 Clear blazing sun-like realization in the mind leads to a profound life.
📸 Faces of Srirama Krishna, Mashaaratha, Swami Vivekananda radiate eternity.
🙏 Blessings sought for realization and its peaceful results in this life.
🕉️ Om chants resonate with the pursuit of inner peace and bliss.