2023-12-03 San Diego Ramana Satsang: ‘I exist’ is our only permanent and self evident experience.

In a Zoom meeting with the San Diego Ramana Satsang ([e-mail]) on 3rd December 2023, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings.
A clearer audio copy of this video can be listened to on Sri Ramana Teachings podcast (ramanahou.podb...) or downloaded from ramanahou.podb... and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from mediafire.com/...

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A clearer audio copy of this video can be listened to on Sri Ramana Teachings podcast (ramanahou.podbean.com ) or downloaded from ramanahou.podbean.com/e/i-exist-is-our-only-permanent-and-self-evident-experience and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from mediafire.com/file/ubl97t97xkjhcnp

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Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai sung by Sri Sadhu Om, with English translation by Michael James, can be watched here: vimeo.com/ramanahou/am000 . For advertisement-free videos on teachings and songs related to Bhagavan Ramana, please visit vimeo.com/ramanahou and click 'showcases' on the bottom left. Each original work of Bhagavan Ramana has its own showcase with explanations of Michael James.

[@sjain8111]

these are wonderful thanks so much! 🙏🪷🪔

[@BillHeilmannfritz]

Thank you Ted for hosting another great session with Michael j. We are all blessed to have this presence in real time. Truly 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@rviswanathan]

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Short Q&A videos from this channel can be watched on youtube.com/@sriramanateachingsqa

[@user-vc6no9sp2h]

Thank you very much🌹🌹.

[@christianandersson2217]

Thank You! 🙏

[@mohanbhaibhad3703]

Today’s discussion was very deep and profound, very deep and profound questions and answers. This group seems to me being elite.

[@deanyanko3326]

our anxiety is trying to preserve the false ego afraid of "dying" come back to "I AM' and the impermanence of the feeling will subside learned through experience.

[@ra_ma_na]

Brother Michael thank you very much for such a beautiful elucidation of I AM. Swayam Prakash is SELF Luminosity. Ted am truly blessed to be with such venerated jnana courtesy the video and the post. I stand corrected and will hereafter give the source for each quote I infer or post. Thanks ❤🌹🙏 once again Namo Bhagavate Sri Arunachala Ramanaya. 🙏

[@mankuthimmi]

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[@Leenyazbek]

It is becoming clear to me now the fundamental difference between J krishnamurti's view and that of Bagavhan, Krishnamurti said we should pit our full attention on anger or loneliness for it to dissolve, but the truth is that looking at anything other than ourselves actually strengthens the ego.. thank you Michael 🙏

[@rajat3311]

It seems what K said is what we are doing pretty much all the time, dwelling on our defects and problems etc. Bhagavan says no matter what happens, no matter what insurmountable seeming problems arise, just turn within, give up everything

[@Leenyazbek]

@@rajat3311 I think K said that we are NOT focusing on the problem and thats why it persists, he asked us to put our full attention on the problem, which actually only strengthens the ego, when what was really needed is for us not to do that but investigate to whom does this problem appear, this was a huge revelation for me, and what drew me to baghavn's teachings thanks to Michael.

[@rajat3311]

@@Leenyazbek and when we do what Bhagavan advises so strongly and repeatedly, then, even though the problem may not disappear (because that is already predetermined according to Bhagavan) we as ego will subside so it will become less and less important and seem to be less of a problem Still we may again and again go back to dwelling unnecessarily on problems anxieties etc, but then we need to just try to go back to Bhagavan’s teachings in UN, UU and NY and think about them and practice them, that is such a huge and unfailing help

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@@rajat3311 beautiful

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[@svarupa]

39:24 🌹

[@shilpamurdeshwar5788]

Swayam means self illuminated, darkness is completely opposite 20:13 spurana is rising probably if i understand it properly.Why shd there be a risk ,if Ramana Maharshis teaching is followed properly he has said everything is a dream n so all shd not be accepted without first putting it into practice When a salesman comes to ur door u shd not entertain them n turn them away but somewhere we feel maybe there is something for us in that then we engage with ppl n we lose focus.Hridayam is the best word for Spiritual heart.

[@ra_ma_na]

It's UNRAVELING ~ all learning. Absence of all learning no matter the how is Mind. Divorce and completely efface this learning keeping the jnani Pristine,as it is such - KNOW ' ~ Arivu in Tamizh ( Tamil) ~ IS Om Namo Arunachala Ramanaya Saranagati Saranagati Saranagati 🙏🙏🙏

[@rviswanathan]

@17:41 Robert Scot says 'dark hued...'. In Sanskrit SYAMA or SHYAMA means 'Dark Hued'. Lord Krishna is often described as the Dark Hued One. It could very easily be confused with SWAYAM (as in SWAYAM Prakasham)

[@Jo-es6kt]

Does this mean we don't need to consider a funeral plan?

[@johnmcdonald260]

Exactly! When we die (the body only of course) the dream projection of a "world" with its people instantly vanishes. There cannot be anyone who would or could mourn since these dream characters (like a spouse or son/daughter) disappear with our death, they never have existed in the first place.

[@Jo-es6kt]

Perfect! 🤣🙏🙏@@johnmcdonald260

[@rajat3311]

@@johnmcdonald260it seems then that not only is our post-death planning futile but even our relentless pre-death planning is futile! Because what does not always exist (i.e this body which will definitely cease to exist when it dies) does not actually exist even when it seems to exist. So if this body is not real then the world it seems to be part of is also unreal. So actually we needn’t bother about anything that happens or does not happen, according to Bhagavan. I think I need this reminder every day! Otherwise I get too caught up in the world

[@johnmcdonald260]

@@rajat3311 Yes indeed my dear friend. These vasanas are quite persistent, I need that reminder constantly. To wean off these vasanas (which ironically are not real too) takes quite the effort. We gave them reality for so long and now we have to look for that which is actually real. It is painful to see how much we are attached to our likes and dislikes. Namo Ramanaya 🙏🙏🙏

[@kvishnup]

Very good analysis👏👏... Sandeep reddy should visit a psychiatrist...he is normalising violence and misogyny...there is definitely something that is seriously wrong with him.

[@radhikaschwartz3499]

Michael you look like Gandolf

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