Thanks so much, really uplifting and inspiring guidance Michael . Truly quite needed right now :)
@katebeatham333Күн бұрын
Thank you so much.💗🙏
@kenjones102Күн бұрын
Stuff exists, but it's not permanent compared to the Self, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Brahman, or Atman.
@hemamalinirs1002Күн бұрын
Beautiful , thank you so much for this explanation 🙏❤️
@vish6306Күн бұрын
Just be without meditation means be free of thoughts. No need to complicate it further.
@maicolx7776Күн бұрын
Hmm, not exactly
@vish6306Күн бұрын
@@maicolx7776 Fine. Be with thoughts.
@maicolx777613 сағат бұрын
@@vish6306 one can't stop thoughts without self inquiry. Thoughts will come but you can ignore them while doing self inquiry/just being.
@vish630610 сағат бұрын
@@maicolx7776 Try to understand the lady’s question and Baghwan’s answer. Doing self enquiry is Not the same as Just be. Self enquiry uses thought. It is the means to the end which is a state of being (without thoughts).
@niallmacceide4603Күн бұрын
Yawn
@christianandersson2217Күн бұрын
Thank You!🙏
@D.K.TyagiYT2 күн бұрын
🙏
@michaeldillon31132 күн бұрын
🙏🕉️
@eugemaronna2 күн бұрын
THANK YOU MICHAEL 🙏🏼
@rviswanathan2 күн бұрын
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@sriramanateachingsqa2 күн бұрын
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@katebeatham3335 күн бұрын
Thank you Michael. I have found this to be true.🙏
@Lolly88635 күн бұрын
Michael I read Romana say, our first thought is 'I' and from that original thought, all other thoughts arise. Can you expand on that, because I cannot see that in my experience. When I wake up, my first thoughts may be, its cold. Or when I observe my thoughts, saying I'm looking out of my window and see the sun, thoughts of, its sunny today. So, there is no first thought 'I. If i think, ' I am cold' then yes the first thought 'I' is there, but that first thought 'I' isnt apparent with all my thinking. Am I taking the first thought 'I' to literally? Can you explain, how I can identify that all thoughts follow the 'I' thought, even if the thought 'I' isnt literally expressed. Thank you.
@Lolly88635 күн бұрын
@@bernhard1071 told you before not interested in your replys or comments, why persist? Not even reading them, so dont waste your time
@sriramanateachingsqa5 күн бұрын
@Lolly8863 You might be interested in: Is the ‘I’-thought the one to all other thoughts appear to? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6ucm3h7oqaebM0 2023-09-03 San Diego Ramana Satsang: How to distinguish the pure ‘I’ from the thought called ‘I’? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaLUiaeZqq6YnLM Namo Ramanaya 🙏🙏🙏
@Lolly88635 күн бұрын
@@sriramanateachingsqa Thank you much appreciated, I will take a look.
@sriramanateachingsqa5 күн бұрын
@Lolly8863 In Nan Ar? (Who am I?), paragraph 8, Bhagavan says, “The thought called ‘I’ alone is the first thought of the mind; it alone is ego.” Michael explains: “The term ‘mind’ sometimes refers to the entirety of all thoughts, yet all thoughts, except the first thought ‘I’ (the thought called ‘I’), are objects, while the first thought ‘I’ is the subject. Other thoughts cannot exist without the ‘I’-thought, as it is the ‘I’-thought that thinks all other thoughts. Therefore, the mind essentially is this first thought ‘I’, which is ego. Thus, when Bhagavan refers to the mind, he generally means ego.” I would say it like this: Mind can be interpreted in two ways, 1) all the thoughts (objects), or 2) the subject to which all thoughts appear. Every thought we have is known by a knower, this knower is the subject, also the first thought ‘I’ or ego. You are aware of the thought ‘It’s cold’, that which is aware of the thought is the first thought ‘I’. The substratum of the first thought called ‘I’, the false awareness, is the pure awareness ‘I am’. Namo Ramanaya 🙏🙏🙏
@Lolly88634 күн бұрын
@@sriramanateachingsqa Thank you that is so helpful much appreciated. I guess we could say the first thought 'i' isnt necessarily obvious, almost spontaneous as ego or mind arises upon waking up from sleep so to speak. The fact upon waking up, mind has already risen, then the ego mind being the first 'I' thought kind of spontaneously appeared. Feels like the first thought 'i' is more of a 'sense' of 'I' rather than a actual solid thought of 'I' as an object, if that makes sense. Anyway, I will contemplate what you said. Blessings and thank you for sharing you understanding.
@FlexPot5 күн бұрын
But what do we do if we can’t practice and cling to self attentiveness due to the vasanas…? Everytime I try to practice I’m compelled to do something. Either to get up and move, find a job, battle my mind that’s says I’m wasting my time, battle chronic pain etc
@rammachiraju5 күн бұрын
Thank you for the question Swamiji. Thanks for the answer Michael. 🙏
@D.K.TyagiYT6 күн бұрын
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@rviswanathan6 күн бұрын
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@michaeldillon31136 күн бұрын
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@user-qk6iz4fx7b6 күн бұрын
❤
@sriramanateachingsqa6 күн бұрын
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@kenjones1026 күн бұрын
So, the physical world "seems" to exist.
@bernhard10716 күн бұрын
Yes, the term "seeming' is used since it is not real and does only exist in the view of ego. For ego the world is very real, that is the illusion. However if we look for ego, properly investigate if ego (and with that a physical world) really exists we will discover that it really doesn't. If we fully realize that the "physical" world and all other worlds, all phenomena, will disappear.
@shashipalhan33627 күн бұрын
The world remains but the vision of the Self realised transformed, jivan Mukta sees Brahman everywhere in everything. The world is not different from Brahman, its the expression of Brahman alone. There is cause and effect relationship between Brahman and world. Brahman can exist without the world but the world can not exist without Brahman.
@thetransferaccount45868 күн бұрын
arunachala siva arunachala siva
@katebeatham3338 күн бұрын
Thank you for this clear explanation.💗🙏
@maheshseshadri4908 күн бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@holgerjrgensen21669 күн бұрын
You cant leave the state of Being, but if the Eternal Life, didn have the Life-Desire and the Ability to renew and Develop it self, there would Never had been any Life-Experience, at all.
@ratinhoembondeiro6469 күн бұрын
Thank you Michael for this! This is very clear and clarifies a lot of misunderstanding I sometimes I had with your explanations. I sometimes feel that you seem to indicate that an ego has "really" risen or taken a substantial existence apart from the self. When truly it just "seems like" it has risen because of not investigating the nature of this seeming existing ego! Having this explained before talking of ego could really help avoid a lot of confusion and misunderstanding when we talk about the ego specially for those new to Bhagavan's divine teaching.
@kvf4569 күн бұрын
Thank you, we never left - but why do we have the illusion and experience separation?
@bernhard10719 күн бұрын
Because we want to: Instead to choose God or pure awareness we choose experiences like sex and other pleasures like good food. We also have many dislikes which distract us from that what we truly are. That what has never left is that what we truly are. However that what we believe to be now, a person with a certain individuality, has taken over like a bad disease and is undertaking a journey within the imaginations of mind. Everything we experience is an imagination and that imagination is solely our (ego's) doing.
@ratinhoembondeiro6469 күн бұрын
Don't go into the depth of reasoning to find out. The answer would be easier and given if you just do the practice. We're not trying to resolve all of our questions mentally but experientially and have the real answers. Any answer given by the nind and with words is always flawed in a way. Don't look too much at the finger pointing to the moon but directly to the moon if you want to know what the moon looks like.
@ratinhoembondeiro6468 күн бұрын
@@bernhard1071That is an explanation. But it's still not explaining logically "why" that happens. It just explains "how" it does. Though I undedtanf the explanation given, I can get why it can still be confusing. The solution is just to practice atma vichara and forget answering that question mentally. So far only Kashmir Shaivism has been able to give me a satisfying and logical to as to why it happens. But at the same time going into that path will also raise other questions. So better just practice holding to the self as it's the essence of both teachings and our own being.
@bernhard10718 күн бұрын
@@ratinhoembondeiro646There is no “why”. Even Kashmir Shaivsm is just giving an idea, not the real thing. The reason why there is no and can’t be an answer to why is the paradox of ego. Ego only seemingly exists but does not really exist nor has it ever existed. Since ego truly does not exist it cannot have a cause or reason why it could exist. The paradox is that we, as ego, imagine to exist and that imagination alone gives ego its seeming existence. Starve ego of any attention and it will disappear and then it will be clear it never ever has existed in the first place. Alas that will be only clear after self realization. That’s why Bhagavan’s answer to that question was always, “look for that ego and when you find it we can discuss its origin.” Since there is no ego (just in ego’s own view) it can’t be found and therefore there is no need for any discussions about its origin. Thus let’s look for that ego. Does it really exist? Only atma-vichara can give us the answer….
@shanti90409 күн бұрын
💐💕🙏🕉
@carlo_nd9 күн бұрын
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@AshaRenWooly9 күн бұрын
The highest teaching is. ........ Silence
@AshaRenWooly9 күн бұрын
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@michaeldillon31139 күн бұрын
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@generalusearch9 күн бұрын
Yep.
@rviswanathan9 күн бұрын
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@godisgooey9 күн бұрын
✨💖Anbe Sivam🙏🏽🕉️
@D.K.TyagiYT9 күн бұрын
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@shaneashby58909 күн бұрын
Michael, thank you for reminding me that all I need is to keep my attention on and in my I-Am 🙏
@sriramanateachingsqa9 күн бұрын
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@ellenrule31899 күн бұрын
Looking within is everyone’s choice.
@ellenrule31899 күн бұрын
‘Surender to myself ‘as I’m at arunachalara!
@rammachiraju9 күн бұрын
So basically, the mind-body will do what it is destined to do. What we can do is either identify as doer (which is fake) or surrender the doership to Supreme and have the mind-body as a mere tool of the Supreme. Doership leads to bondage, Surrender leads to liberation.
@peterseubert329110 күн бұрын
Quote: "There's only one Jnani. You Are That. Know Yourself." Thank you, for this uncompromising truth. Circumstances and places are relative. "Know Yourself " can be done immediately, whereever, whatever, whenever. Don't delude youself with allegedly requirements.
@fur1na__111 күн бұрын
When you abide as yourself the person that travel in past and future disappears...you steel you as always inside the dream of wakem state...but this time in peace here and now aware of yourself...is not like in sleep ...olso i think there no such thing as a sleep altogether... it is just "time" jump in the dream story...in sleep or physical death awareness must move so new dream always created...there no such thing as pure awareness at rest ..do no realy a sleep or death
@bigcheech193712 күн бұрын
You can’t annihilate a mirage
@gireeshneroth712712 күн бұрын
Because you slipped into living a mind wake just like slipping into sleep and living a dream.