A GUIDED MEDITATION Based on Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - Song of "I Am" - Advaita

Formatted for guided meditation purposes and based on the text: "The Nisargadatta Song of I Am" - original text compiled by Maurice Frydman.
This compilation of excerpts by Jerry Katz provides an excellent introduction to the book "I Am That." Recording intended for use for deep, guided meditation.
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[@garypuckettmuse]

Maurice Frydman did the world a great favor and this is such a lucid, accessible and profound translation. How many would even know of Sri Nisargadatta Mararaj Ji were it not for the painstaking work of his translations? And first for knowing that the world needed access to Nisargadatta's luminous, profound and accessible teachings. Two of the most significant people in my life. Namaste.

[@adrianfranco1028]

Same here, each word is powerful

[@madhima]

True

[@edwinvv010]

Yes, i feel it the same way. If you here nissargedatta speak, you almost think he s rambeling some words out of the blue. But when you listen to his audiobook i am that, you can't find a word that has fluf in it. All words consist truth as an expression of that oneness he speaks about. It's just perfect and I imagine that s extremely rare to find it in a book or elsewhere

[@tyanite1]

I can state without reservation that this is the most profound teaching I have ever encountered.

[@arunachalashiva1878]

it's just really beyond beyond.. what grace we have been gifted to be able to listen to this rendering .

[@oscarmoncada2129]

@@arunachalashiva1878 the deepest of the deep, the sweetest of sweet, the purest of the pure.

[@johnmc3862]

Paradoxes wrapped in profundity from the point of the absolute.

[@julieaha2847]

Who knew anyone could explain the process of personal evolution so lucidly! Hard to stray when we have such clear, gentle instructions. And the calm delivery is artistry; transmits as pure love ❤️ Endless thanks for your generosity!

[@ushagoel9294]

🙏🙏🕉️☮️☮️🕉️🙏🙏

[@ushagoel9294]

Drop by drop falling on my real self … each word meant …. My journey to I Am …. 🕉️🕉️🕉️

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

🙏❤️‍🔥♥️💯

[@AMIR-zp4ww]

He is ever with us, How he could not be, HE IS US...

[@vrilmaxxed]

No lmao

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

But who is he? Who am I?

[@johnmc3862]

No movement no consciousness. He was.

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

Yes! I Am! He is I Am! You are I Am! We Are All I Am! There is Only I Am! 🙏♥️🫡

[@ashleygood2541]

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 You figured it out already as I read your name : You are. WHAT you are looking for. 🙏🏿🌞 That IAM beingness that I am here, is the same One Being up there. As above so below. Nothing else exists other than that, the world is just like a picture. Peace be upon you 🌞

[@litao3679]

"Having never left the house, you are looking for the way home". Wow! To be able to see through the eyes of this wonderful teacher would be such a gift 🙏

[@ashleygood2541]

"Having never left the house you are looking for the way home. "💗 the answer for all questions

[@oxherder9061]

Though you do not think you know it, you already do see through the same eyes.

[@litao3679]

@@oxherder9061 yes 💛🙇‍♀️🙏

[@kamalvipul9213]

Rumi puts it in other words, it goes something like this; ‘I’m knocking at the door, it finally opens. And I see that I was knocking from inside’.

[@litao3679]

@@kamalvipul9213 yes. I’ve heard that. Incredibly simple but so hard to accept

[@dolph581]

Thank you, your spacing of words are a breath of fresh air. It gives you a chance to be aware of the space.

[@kevinlee8011]

Agree...Your slow precise cadence transmits the essence behind these Gurus’ writing ✍️ clearer than anyone I have every studied under, including my university professors in comparative religions and my teachers in India and Nepal!!! Thank so much for opening there precious and auspicious gems 💎!!

[@AuthenticSelfGrowth]

Listening to these meditations everyday are having a profound effect. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@carrywater7758]

Yes, they do 🙏

[@claudelebel49]

This is it. Nothing more is needed.

[@edwardkeenan7354]

I agree

[@atur42]

agree

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

​@@atur42I agree! ❤️‍🔥

[@Bmarker299]

Beautifully read. Thank you so very much for your efforts. I don’t have words to describe how beneficial your readings are in daily spiritual work

[@harrybellingham98]

i look back through all my worst experiences and I look at all my fear. now those experiences have made me smile for the first time, because i see that I have never changed through any of them. I will never change. The I have always called myself, the ordinary sense of being, will never change. I am I.

[@otterrivers3765]

Perfectly spoken. I also confirm that insight from my own experience. What an absolute relief!

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Yes it is so.

[@cedarraine7829]

Deep gratitude. The highest gift, the clearest pointing. OM Shanti

[@ommanipadmehum3143]

For the liberation of all sentient beings

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

❤

[@havad3938]

I know this to be true. I have found just a drop of peace - from seclusion and hermitting the last 2 years, in some extent. Thank you for this

[@ashleygood2541]

Thank you 🙏🏿🕊️🌞

[@markcomerford3208]

My profound thanks. This is simply wonderful.

[@paulstoran7183]

Thankyou for your service, namaste 🙏 ❤️ 💖 God bless 🙏 💖 🙌 ❤️ all

[@camillion100]

Thank you for voicing these holy words 🙏

[@kalliyoga]

This is a Treasure for all. Heartfelt gratitude for your gift. Namaste

[@kalliyoga]

❤

[@petervisen]

The most life-changing video I have ever watched. Om shanti.

[@bradleyarunachala9297]

Om Arunachala Shivaya 🙏

[@jkd6969]

Priceless words from Maharaj, fresh and new each time we hear them. He spoke no English, yet this message has come through! The Self crosses all boundaries and delivers to us what we need. Gratitude, Gratitude, endless Gratitude from the heart to the Self. ❤️❤️❤️

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Yes. I could not understand his message in Marathi. The translator is well understood being.

[@habtommusie2568]

❤❤❤❤❤ what a service May god gives you Joy and happyness

[@christinatodd3912]

Thank you. Listening again. Beautiful. Love gratitude peace always. 💛🌟

[@Troy0412-mbf]

Again and again, thank you so much 💛

[@atur42]

Thought of i am is really something deep to experience prior to consciousness.

[@ingridwright5927]

Greatfull for the teachings, simply too the point which is priceless .

[@criddycriddy]

Thank you for these beautiful words ... love to all

[@claudelebel49]

"For to be, I do not need the world. The world needs me"

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Yes. A big yes.

[@FunkmeyersShow]

THE BEST of the Best Sri Nasagardatta teachings condensed here by someone who understands. I listen to this piece over and over again until I get it. Thank you, dear Nun. 💞🙏

[@briandonovan5687]

That was amazing. I found myself in another dimension of existence for the first time

[@carrywater7758]

That is wonderful 💎

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

Yes!!!! ❤️🙏💯🐛🦋🕊💥🌼🫡😉

[@Bmarker299]

Such peaceful reading. Thank you. Helpful selections of Maharaj’s words.

[@claudelebel49]

"The mind happens to me. I do not happen to the mind."

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Yes. Nothing observes something as nothing.

[@jenniferbarnes5312]

This is just incredible! I feel like the richest secrets are being whispered to me. I’m so happy you went out to find them, and then told us! I feel the struggle but I see where I’m going now. I’m in the middle of the struggle but I’m not forgetting where I am. I’ve been walking away and coming back, I get intensely restless. Looking out there for what I loose sight of in here. Thank you for shining the light again, I so enjoy your company. Be well and happy 🙂

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

Well said!!! 💯🙏❤️🐛🦋🕊

[@paulritz5655]

Somehow about half a lifetime ago there His book appeared. What a giggle Guruji seemed to be. Was already meditating a lot and deeply while living in the desert. So,.. we meditated deeper. SatChitAnanda. 🌈🙏 Gratitude. Enlightenment is instantaneous, the deepening is endless. Papaji

[@otterrivers3765]

He says "By repeated attempts you will stumble upon the right combination of attention and afection and you will be permanently established in I AM." This "balance of attention and affection and "I am" are an explanation of SatChitAnanda. (Truth/being-awareness/consciousness - Joy/hapiness.

[@otterrivers3765]

He says also (not in this recording but in another one I often listen to) "Just be aware. And affectionate, intensely" Be=Sat. Aware=Chit. Affectionate=Ananda. "I AM" = Intense being/awareness/affection is SatChitAnanda. Those 3 Sanskrit words are put together as one word To express that they are 3 qualities that radiate from one source. "I AM". -Awareness IS being/truth and perfect contentment. - Being/truth IS contentment and awareness. -Loving contentment IS true being and knowing consciousness. They are inseparable. We know nothing about any feeling or sense perception without awareness and we can't "be" aware without being. And that being aware is also peaceful content lovingness. Not love given or love received but just the experience of loving while also receiving that love. Why even say any of this or make these points? I find lately that 'being' itself or awareness of anything is loving joy itself. It's so simple I overlooked it my whole life. That simple pleasure we enjoy in deep sleep we can enjoy consciously. It might seem like I'm just making an academic point and trying to sound smart (sure Maybe I'm doing that too haha) but here is the value of my point: Say you feel pain or confusion or disappointment or even suicidal despair. There is no knowing of those feelings without awareness. Before any of that cognition can happen there must first be awareness. And that awareness itself is the True perfection of contentment. So I can actually USE any good or bad or neutral experience to reach true peaceful happiness by following it backward into *I Am*. This is also true for any blissful feeling. These are also dependent upon SatChitAnanda which is much more perfect and which depends on nothing! Yet all the experiences we consider pleasant must eventually become experiences of pain just as any painful experience must give way to pleasure once again. But this SatChitAnanda is dependent upon nothing but the absolute reality itself. I'm not a spiritual teacher. Just another guy like most of you. I don't usually write lengthy diatribes like this. I just want to share what seems like a VERY helpful insight to me. It seems like a lot of words for such a simple idea but I just want to make sure I say it as clearly as I can. I am often experiencing pain and depression and every time I investigate using this method, I find this does inevitably lead to peace. It's the reason that "I Am" is the answer to all problems. I didn't just come to this conclusion today. I've been testing it out for over a year through some very tough times. I know this is not the perfection of awakening but I find it is a way out of any suffering if I am brave and honest enough to apply it to the situation. So I just can't help but want to share this!I I also understand this is not anything new and that teachers have been teaching this since ancient times. But it finally became clear to me and I just want to share it in the particular way it occurred to me. If it helps you as well, then fantastic! I humbly submit it for consideration. If I'm wrong I hope someone corrects me soon. 😇

[@carrywater7758]

Exactly 🪷

[@carrywater7758]

@@otterrivers3765 not ridiculous at all 😉

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

​@@otterrivers3765Sir, you are absolutely right. Every body will define in their words. Words are nothing but the clarity you have derived from your experience.

[@arunatamang3783]

Must make the I am the acquired flavour whereby other stimulus is not needed.the journey to come home within has to start.

[@DrMusicStarr]

The potent teaching 🔥, your reading, and music 🎶... launch Sat Chit Ananda into my Heart ❤ Thank you, dear😊

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@@Anorectic.Bumblebee look inna mirror bro

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@@Anorectic.Bumblebee .... Right ..

[@claudelebel49]

"The I am that pursues the pleasant and shuns the unpleasant is false. The I Am that sees pleasure and pain as inseparable sees rightly."

[@michaelg.8935]

Thank you for this!

[@sundaricolombero6731]

Beautiful! His words….your reading of his words….the background music… thank you so much.

[@carlkligerman1981]

Listening and practicing daily. It is not so much about these words, beautiful as they are, as the experience of their meaning. I am grateful, but much more than that I am.

[@atur42]

immense gratitude

[@robertjameshanrahan]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Sat Chit Ananda 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@kalliyoga]

Dee gratitude🙏🙏🙏

[@ronrambo4970]

Thank you for your efforts , just what I needed today!

[@jigold22571]

ThankU, Eternal Gratitude and Appreciation for sharing and posting 2U.Namaste.💛

[@Lauterbachify]

Wonderful done ! Thank you very much ! 💛

[@dabrupro]

"Obedience is a powerful solvent of all desires and fears....There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happen as they happen. Not because I make them happen; but it is because I Am, that they happen. In reality, nothing ever happens."

[@javaidkhan367]

Sublime.

[@niksy4]

One of the greatest and simplest pointers iv ever heard! Thank you! 💗

[@iconicshade]

Your work is invaluable. Thank you very much.

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

अमूल्य

[@Aum-d8v]

Thanks you pinned Sameneri Jayasara master teaching 🙏 🙏

[@miket8266]

Peaceful recognition of I am.

[@sureshraspayle]

Clear precise piercing deep practical wisdom , brings peace . Samaneri your voice and Nisargadatta's words are transformative. Namaskar to you both

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

On Philfilm channel there are 25 parts of readings. I used to listen so many times. So profound.

[@josemagurascier]

Sooo profound...thank you Sister. The good that you're creating with your work it's immeasurable. 😇❤

[@manfreddevries8454]

Grace, beautifull, Love and Thanks, Danke!

[@zain4019]

"What do you love now? The I Am. Give your heart and mind to it. Think of nothing else. This, when effortless and natural, is the highest state. In it, love itself is the lover, and the Beloved."

[@drdheerajananda]

Immense love and gratitude.❤️

[@davidalaine3101]

beautifully read as usual, sublime and wonderful. Deep thanks and appreciation xxx

[@amritahansra7983]

Thank you so much. This is phenomenal and life changing. You are truly a gift for a of us who resonate with this ❤.

[@gaspardbnt807]

So powerful guided meditation... Thank you so much Blessings

[@josemagurascier]

Thank you so much for bringing this invaluable teaching!! 🙏

[@katesarinekirkland7409]

Transmission of pure love. Sat Chit Ananda

[@paulstoran7183]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou

[@moksha2280]

Thank you thank you thank you

[@sachaitanya]

Thank you for sharing and I offer my love and gratitude to you

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🙏🙂

[@katnip198]

Thank you for these beautiful videos. So helpful....so peace giving.

[@floryniculescu]

I bow 🙏 Thank you for all your huge contribution in our path towards the Self 🙏🕉

[@stasiandme]

When you don’t know, you really know. The state of witnessing the body and the mind is just that..heaven on earth. The realization that the observer, the observed and the act of observing is one and the same, is the end of game, aka entertainment.

[@sureshgaikwad5004]

Yes my dear. We should meet at a place.

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I saved this to my favorites playlist 🥰🤗

[@josemagurascier]

Thank you thank you thank you!❤

[@Amorcomacento]

Obrigado! ❤

[@paulstoran7183]

Thankyou 🙏 namaste God bless 🙌 💖 all

[@georgea1706]

I’m sure God directed your readings and spacing in between and also the choice of music. Thank you

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Thank you 🙏😊🙏

[@fractaled3129]

Beautiful, I've really been enjoying this the last week, thank you. :)

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Wonderful❤

[@satgurunarayana9911]

Jai Maharaj ji

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I appreciate you so much! Bliss be with you always🙏✨

[@chrisgill1755]

What more needs to be said. 🙏🏼

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Beautiful! Thank you! 🙏❤️

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This is beautiful, thank you.

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Great alias you have 👌🏼

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Simply beautiful ❤

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Beautiful!!

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[@Darksagan]

This is sooo good. Went super deep on this one. Thanks

[@noahleggett2336]

The ego is undone by the movement, to be with, our selves, I am

[@kfwimmer]

Just beautiful! Thank you

[@kamaray1151]

201 gratitudes

[@sanjithmenon7976]

Who am i ? Iam an eternal consciousness having a human experience. While i type this , sitting along side is my dear labradog brando. Brando is also an eternal consciousness having a dog experience.

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eternal consciousness uses our limited consciousness to grow to itself unlimited. we are that moving to ourself without doing. what a game we play!

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Heeeyyyy Brandoooooooo !! Who's a good eternal consciousness? YOU are!!!

[@OzRabten]

Sister thank you for all these. We are so grateful for your efforts doing these. May you be blessed with tremendous good karma :)

[@witness64]

wonderful!!

[@neetuvaswani9021]

Thank you so much, really appreciate your efforts for sharing this, I will keep contemplating on this ‘I AM’ thanks once again

[@criddycriddy]

I am ... Love

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