The Difference Between
Knowing and Being

by Shantanu Nafrey

For many years I have been drawn to studying Vendanta, (Veda - knowledge, Anta - end) the culmination of all knowledge, or the knowledge of ultimate truth.

My studies made sense and withstood all tests as they have from time immemorial. But there was a growing feeling from within, “Are these just written words about words about words? Books about books about books?”

How do I put this all into practice? When do I begin to explore the truths, to feel the truths? Will I ever get down to explore what I have learned?

For some reason, at this time in early March 1998, an Avatar Master named Russell Monsurate came to my office unannounced. He had been absent from our Vendanta studies for the past three years. He had come with information about a course called Avatar.

I did the first section of Avatar that month, but not without a little skepticism. In a short while I knew I was onto the path that had been eluding me through all those years of words about the ultimate truth. Here was a technique that effortlessly put into application the knowledge I had gathered in books and seminars and even more books and seminars I had yet to attend and study.

Where was this technology all those years, centuries?

Science is the systematic study of a subject. Art is the application of the science. Here was the art of application of ultimate truth that I had studied for all those years.

My experiences after the first section of Avatar, called ReSurfacing®, were amazing. The application of the techniques really worked.

I went on to Sections II and III where everything I saw and experienced was suddenly cast in a new light.

Who creates these experiences?

Who else?

I am the source that creates the labels. Having put them on things and people, I suffer.
Didn’t I know these things before doing The Avatar Course? Didn’t I know a lot of other things too? But then, I only knew it.

I had studied that two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen makes one molecule of water, but when did I get the joy of creating this molecule? Finally in a lab, I heated a small test tube containing hydrogen gas. Up went the flame and down trickled drops of water—out of the fire!

It is very simple, but someone had to show me how to do it. Someone had to put me in a lab. Avatar was the lab.

The study of Vedas told me time and again, “I am the creator.”


The study of Avatar has shown me, “I am the creator.”

I feel it.

Shantanu Nafrey, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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