Ram Dass on the Process of Awakening- Here & Now Podcast Ep. 235

In this recording from 1976, Ram Dass explores the process of awakening and becoming enlightened. Featuring a musical interlude from Krishna Das and an introduction from Raghu Markus.
This episode is a continuation of the dharma talk from Here and Now Ep. 234: • Ram Dass on the Awaken...
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“The only thing that I am involved in is the game of perfection. And because of that, when I work with people, or even this teaching, I see the game as a game of moving up and then bringing up the ground with you. It’s like an inverted ’T,’ where you go up the center and then you pull the two bottom lines up with you. So that every new level of consciousness we get into, we then reassess the whole dance of life and keep it together on the physical plane.” - Ram Dass
In this episode:
- Ram Dass, in a very meditative fashion, explores the place of the Mother in the lineage of devotional tantra, talking about taking each experience in your life and redefining it as a form of the Mother
- Krishna Das takes center stage to invoke the Mother through music, inviting the Goddess to come down and bless us all
- Ram Dass gives a detailed breakdown of the process of awakening and becoming enlightened, from purification and opening the heart to quieting the mind and getting the energy to flow
“It’s very far out when you begin not to think. Or the thinking’s going by and you’re not identified with being the thinker. You really think you’ve lost something. It’s a while before you can appreciate the peace that comes from the simplicity of no-mind, of just emptiness, of just not having to be somebody all the time. We’re in training to become nobody. You’ve been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody. Which is really somebody.” - Ram Dass
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[@NomadicNirvana420]

7:49

[@samsaraa2001]

Thank you

[@kauerod013]

is it ram dass singing?

[@scottenright4894]

Thanks heaps!

[@scottenright4894]

Beautiful song, I was expecting Knocking on Heavens Door 😊

[@yvonnegreenberg6449]

What a joy this morning to be singing with KD. Thank you for sharing this amazing opportunity.

[@colmpennie4239]

Ram Dass, My girlfriend said to me last night that she wishes she had my attention the way you do, well at this stage of my incarnation it's just not happening lol Peace and Love guys ❤🙏

[@margaritadonoso8830]

this is like a medicine for me. Thank you so much

[@reme7903]

I don't know wether it's intentional or not but i got a double meaning out of that "God has come down". It's that God has come down from the formless into the form and has become human to give and recieve the gift of infinite Love. You and me.❤

[@bettywonde3051]

wow, eye-opening!

[@fannylegrand2112]

Perfection after Liberation 😭💗, and KD singing playing guitar 😭💗, never heard it before, so beautiful, incredible podcast, thank you 🙏💗, Jai Ma ❤

[@TheSssiiiddd]

Raghu! Nice to see you after a while. Much respect ❤ 🙏

[@ninjuhdelic]

So interesting, this concept of devour

[@michelesmith1170]

💚💚💚1976 the year I took the form of my present human experience. Thank you so much for sharing this message.

[@ltxdivinitus]

I love the song at the end, beautiful souls❤ we all are

[@kauerod013]

is it ram dass singing?

[@ltxdivinitus]

@@kauerod013 i think it is actually krishna das

[@ltxdivinitus]

I just have no idea what the song is, I wish I did

[@nln7ylm663]

thank you 🙏🌹currently I need to listen on compassion , love inviting to awakening videos of my great guru Ram Dass ✨❤️✨

[@seane.9937]

New subscriber. Thank you for your work. God's love and goodness always

[@marcosluna7792]

Thank you, Raghu 🙏 💗

[@theodorecbb]

A E D D (tuned half step down) Goddess come down Goddess come down Goddess come down And bless us now x2 There is a mountain Where you live in my heart And I'm gonna pray and pray and pray everyday Until I make it to the top And when I do I'm gonna sing Goddess come down Goddess come down Goddess come down And bless us now See that owl sitting high up in the tree With his eyes wide open to the moon Well I brought my eyes down into this heart of mine They're always gazing out on you Hear me singing to you Goddess come down We need you here on Earth Goddess come down Let your light shine down on us Sometime you know I get afraid And I'm lost in the darkness of the night When I do I feel you moving up ahead of me And you shining out the golden diamond light And I pray Goddess come down And let your light shine down on me Goddess come down Let your love set me free Goddess come down Bless us now Sometimes you know I feel alone And I don't see nowhere around But when I do I feel you moving right up close to me You whisper in my ear the holy sound Goddess come down We need you here on Earth my Goddess come down And we don't know what you're worth Goddess come down And bless us now Yeah there's a mountain Where you live in my heart I'm gonna pray and pray and pray and pray every day Until I make it to the top And when I do I'm gonna sing Goddess come down Let your light shine down on us Goddess come down Let it shine let it shine let it shine Goddess come down And bless us now Goddess come down Let your love flow down on me Goddess come down Let your love set me free Goddess come down Let it shine let it shine let it shine Goddess come down Let your light shine down on us Goddess come down We need you here on Earth Goddess come down Let your love flow low Goddess come down Let it flow let it flow let it flow Goddess come down Ohhhhh Goddess come down Goddess come down Ohhhhh Goddess come down Bless us now Mmmmm Ohhhhh maa Ohhhhh ma Goddess come down Ohhhhhh Goddess come down

[@DannyKeane-gp7pu]

Thankyou 🙏🌄

[@alexiarohdin879]

If someone could do a mashup of this song with Ram Dass ”God has come down” and Guns n Roses ”Knocking on heavens door”. That would be cool. ❤

[@catalinaovallevergara6461]

Glad to meet this new Chanel 🧚

[@annelevitt4793]

❤❤❤

[@worldclassvago9346]

JAI MA!

[@williamvedder1991]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@inolofatsenglekaba5026]

Raghu :)

[@JudithBullock]

Knock, knock, knockin' on Heaven's Door . . .

[@blancemoore]

Mama take this badge off of me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark, too dark to see I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door….Leave us Helpless, Helpless, Helpless…

[@jonjenkins]

The process of the activation of the ‘soul’ ( psyche )

[@theodorecbb]

Does anyone happen to know the chords Krishna Das is playing for Goddess Come Down? I would so love to learn how to play it myself!

[@theodorecbb]

Figured it out! I'll post in the comments!

[@kauerod013]

is it ram dass singing?? beautiful song

[@AlejandroMS67]

Krishna Das

[@JudithBullock]

28:00

[@kimberlysmith7311]

Does anyone know where this took place??

[@houdinididiit]

His voice sounds strange here. It almost sounds sped up.

[@jonjenkins]

Only at the beginning

[@tarabrightstar]

It's recorded on tape, they get thinner with time. I'm very grateful they all are digitized now for generations to come.

[@kauerod013]

is it ram dass singing?

[@AlejandroMS67]

Krishna Das@@kauerod013

[@Newfoundmike]

Maybe you have come to the Point where you could do your own thing a leave Ram out of it

[@wthomas5697]

Well, that's an interesting story he's told himself about the nature of things, but I don't necessarily buy it.

[@jarrodhall3686]

Very good! Carry on

[@spiritualawakeningofconsci623]

This is another OSHO 2.0

[@glenngreenstein]

Sick of listening to the introductory narrator.. he's just bullsh-t

[@noneya9035]

The laughing is annoying.

[@FauxFoe]

Only to those who don't understand why they laugh.

[@spiritualawakeningofconsci623]

And that's your teacher? Omg you will learn very little with that teacher all he knows is Hinduism and hinduism is a religion it doesn't HAVE real KNOWLEDGE or transcendental spiritual experiences

[@therealitycollective9456]

Ram dass is syncretic. He pulls from myriad traditions. Besides... Hinduism could scarcely be more experiential. Dharana... samadhi... kundalini... all palpable experiences. There's so much to be learned from ram dass and he does not propose to be a guru himself. His guru is Babaji neem karoli.

[@jarrodhall3686]

Who are you talking to? 😂

[@AlejandroMS67]

I'm not a big fan of Ram Dass or of Hinduism, I'm here mainly to just learn, but what I can tell is that you are so full of judgment that you blanket judge and condemn over 1 billion people in one sentence. Clearly your ego is too big to ever learn anything of any REAL value which will prevent YOU from EVER having any REAL spiritual growth.

[@spiritualawakeningofconsci623]

Ram Dass is a complete ignorant about spirituality and evolution of consciousness

[@jbdebo3507]

That's a wonderful opinion buddy. Thank you so much for blessing us and sharing it 💖.

[@HardCoreNonDuality]

Wrong! Ram Dass brought me to source

[@mrbontful]

Hard to describe something when its subtle, kind of like a type of Individuation by which the self is formed by integrating elements of the conscious and the unconscious mind. Kind of like the holy grail by a internal one. that's is all I have to offer.

[@MatthewForsytheHi]

Today, God came in drag as a youtube troll and almost got me 😂. Thank you!

[@jamessloan2680]

I don't agree.