1. Which statement is most accurate?
a. Reality is non-dual
b. Reality is dualistic and/or pluralistic
c. Reality is neither non-dual or dual
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
f. Reality is how one sees things.
2. The statement ‘I am not the body’ means:
a. I am a disembodied spirit
b. I am my feelings
c. I am what I think I am
d. I am the knower of the body/mind.
3. The statement ‘I am enlightened’ means
a. I am very intelligent and know more than most people
b. I am always experiencing Awareness.
c. I am spiritually ‘awake’
d. I operate from experience and reason
e. I am always ‘in the light’ of Awareness
f. I am limitless non-dual Awareness
4. The ‘truth’ is:
a. What happens
b. How I see myself and the world
c. What never changes
d. What is
5. Which statement is not true:
a. The world is an object of Awareness.
b. The world is me
c. The world is an apparent reality
d. The world is not real
6. The meaning of the statement ‘the world is me’ is:
a. The world is what is created by my thoughts.
b. Because reality is non-dual Awareness, the world is not separate from It and because I am Awareness the world is me.
c. I experience the world in Awareness and there is no separation between what I experience and myself
d. None of the above
7. Ego loss is:
a. The goal of spiritual life
b. A precondition for enlightenment
c. Impossible, because there is no ego in reality
d. Possible through surrender
e. Enlightenment
8. Enlightenment is:
a. Being in the now
b. A mind with no thoughts
c. The fourth state of Consciousnesss
d. The nature of the Self
e. The knowledge “I am limitless Awareness and not this body/mind.”
9. “Nothing ever happened“
a. is a clever spiritual cliche
b. means I wasn’t paying attention so I missed what happened
c. means the world doesn’t exist
d. means reality is uncreated
e. is the statement of a person in nirvikalpa Samadhi
10. The Self is
a. made of many parts
b. the forth state of consciousness
c. a void, a nothingness
d. a partless whole
e. the person indicated on my driver’s license
f. my body, feelings and emotions
g. my soul
11. “The body is me but I am not the body” means
a. I am beyond the body
b. The ‘I’ is sentient; the body isn’t
c. I am my personality
d. I’m schizophrenic
12. “I am not the doer” means
a. I have no arms and legs
b. I am lazy
c. There is nothing you can do to get enlightened
d. I am actionless Awareness
e. I am an enjoyer
13. What happens
a. is created by my thoughts
b. is a statement about who I am
c. is caused by the world in which I live
d. is the result of my past actions
e. has nothing to do with me at all
14. Surrender of my ego to the Self will not help me get enlightened because
a. I am already the Self i.e. enlightened
b. If I surrender my ego who will be left to get enlightened?
c. Everything is the Self alone so there is nothing that belongs to me that I can surrender
e. Surrender is an activity and no activity will produce limitlessness
f. Enlightenment is only possible through knowledge
g. All of the above
h. None of the above
i. B and C
15. Enlightenment is experience of the Self. True or False?
16. Enlightenment is a state of desirelessness. True or False?
17. The Self is hidden behind the mind. The mind must be removed so the Self can be revealed. True or False?
18. Why is the statement above false?
a. Because the Self is self revealing
b. Because there is no mind
c. Because the mind cannot be removed
d. Only knowledge, not action, can reveal what is already present.
19. Which statement is true?
a. Enlightenment is the experience of the Self
b. Enlightenment is knowledge of the Self
c. Enlightenment is the knowledge “I am the Self.”
20. Why is Enlightenment for the mind alone?
a. Because the mind is ignorant of its nature
b. Because the Self is already enlightened
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
21. One’s activities are caused by one’s past karmas in the form of one’s likes and dislikes. True or False?
22. Why can you not be killed?
a. You are meant to die peacefully in your bed in old age.
b. Because you are immortal
c. Only objects can be destroyed
d. You are protected by attack dogs, body guards, an electronic
security system and body armor
23. Enlightenment can be transmitted from an enlightened person to an unenlightened person. True or false?
24. A guru can give enlightenment by destroying your ignorance.
True or false?
25. Enlightenment is the destruction of all concepts. True or False?
26. If enlightenment is the destruction of all concepts an enlightened person could not function in this world. True or False?
27. An enlightened person is free of suffering because
a. He or she is protected by God
b. He or she knows the difference between what is apparent and
what is real.
c. He or she lives a pure life
d. He or she has special healing powers
e. He or she eats vegetables, exercises and takes vitamins
28. There are no enlightened beings because
a. Mankind is too materialistic these days
b. The few there were, like Buddha and Jesus, are all dead.
c. They leave the earth because it is too low for their vibrations
d. Being is a partless whole and cannot be split into many
e. God is waiting for the right time to send them to earth so they can save us
29. The experience of enlightenment can be made permanent
a. with enough practice
b. is impossible because enlightenment is not an experience and if it was it could not be made permanent because no experience is permanent.
c. by the grace of the guru
30. Self inquiry
a. is a technique that produces experience of the Self
b. is a method of analysis that reveals that the doer is nothing but
consciousness, the Self.
c. is asking ‘who am I?’
31. When you see yourself as a doer you cannot escape the results of your actions because the results of actions accrue to the karmic account of the doer. True or False?
32. Why is this statement true? I am neither enlightened nor unenlightened.
a. Because you can only be one or the other.
b. Because enlightenment and ignorance are only concepts and the Self is free of both knowledge and ignorance
c. Because only Buddha and other great beings were enlightened.
d. Because I’m only a normal person.
33. Why is the Self beyond both the individual and the Creator?
a. Because reality is non-dual. In a non-dual reality there is no creation and therefore no individual.
b. It is the consciousness because of which both the individual and the creator exist.
34. When you see yourself as the Self your karmas are nullified because your karmic account is closed with the renunciation of the doer through Self knowledge. True or False?
