Gangaji Interview: A Life of Service to Spiritual Awakening

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[@shawnmariestanton]

As a student of Gangaji's teachings for over 20 years and a newcomer to Angelo, I must say this conversation is the perfect spiritual Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

[@cheesesteakpizza]

I second this 😻😻

[@nancybrunet7888]

So we have a full meal here : cheese steak pizza and Reese's peanut butter cup ! 😂😁

[@katehiggins9940]

@@nancybrunet7888 sounds like my diet!!!❤️❤️

[@sheelashivraman7181]

Which Babaji is she talking about . There are so many Babaji.

[@CastieauSt]

@@sheelashivraman7181 Papaji

[@kas8131]

The sheer volume and quality of Angelo's output will awaken us all!

[@joannewebb9278]

Brilliant, she has such warmth. I know it sounds superficial, but she looks and has the energy of a much younger woman. It's hard to believe she's 80.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I totally agree

[@Cp_9900]

Wow, I was trying to do the maths around her being in her mid 40's when she met Papaji and couldn't even imagine she could be 80

[@ravenwild5184]

I've seen many interviews of awakened beings by interviewers who are not awakened or not as awakened as one interviewing. These interviews your doing Angelo are so incredibly fresh because it's obvious Awareness is speaking to Awareness. Thank you, endless gratitude and blessings 💖

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

✨✨🌈

[@theawakeningfather]

Wow , I can't believe I just got to watch that for free on the internet. Electric conversation! Absolutely beautiful.

[@ElizabethUrabe-lh3ki]

The discussion toward the end of the interview about meeting our greatest fear - whatever it is - is what I call the Original Wound (OW). The most common ones are abandonment, unworthiness, a sense of being wrong, inadequate, etc. Our unique original wound is clearly visible in the breath and very fabric of our whole life story and it is also where our greatest gifts lie. The original wound represents the moment in time where we believed that we successfully separated from God/Source and the seemingly endless nightmare of illusion began. The reason it is vitally important to meet our original wounds is that our ability to truly be of divine service will be crippled if we don't. Angelo, I just want to say that I've been a huge fan of Gangaji for about a decade and I've never seen anyone "dance" with her in an interview quite so consciously as you did 🌹⚡👏

[@cosmogang]

I love Gangaji, and I didn’t know she was also from Mississippi 😂 as a former Mississippian, I can say it is a beautiful place, but there are many hurdles to awakening.

[@riznah]

Killing it with the interviews lately, Angelo. This is phenomenal. She’s luminous.

[@catherinestokoe3880]

Thank you Angelo! The coming together of all the masters and teachers is powerful and very much welcomed. Awesome conversation with beautiful Gangaji and wonderful you. ❤

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

[@nancybrunet7888]

I just began listening to Gangaji's story and you're right, the BURDEN we carry as a child when we feel something is wrong and we carry it for a very long time after childhood, at least I did. 🙏

[@maryannscanlon8655]

So many of us have had that childhood experience of knowing something wasn’t right and being unhappy. Really unhappy.

[@geoffreylevens9045]

I've loved Gangaji's teaching for many years but have never before heard "the story". This conversation is a gem; powerful transmission!

[@Livingsamsara]

Gangaji is a blessing to this planet. This means that you are as well. Will you listen? Some people (in this life) are not (yet) called. If anything of this speaks to you, you ARE called NOW. Blessings & Namaste.

[@karen6778]

🥰🥰🥰 What a beautiful conversation. I love how it flowed so naturally. She has such a lovely and soft and caring voice. Thank you for asking the questions that you asked, Angelo. This was such a joy to listen to. 🙏💕

[@ky1775]

This is an incredibly beautiful interview! Gangaji was my first teacher 30 years ago and I still sit in heart-opened silence and joy in her presence. What a gift to see you both together. Thank you so very much for this offering!

[@tahchridaya]

Many years ago when I “woke up” out of the spiritual tradition I had been immersed in for many years, Gangaji was there for me with her clarity, precision and simplicity. What a difference she made! Thank you Gangaji ! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

[@ptanji]

Profound! I stopped the video a couple of times to drop into what was being spoken. 5 minutes in front of a mirror and "What do I want?" all very powerful!

[@infinitenothingness]

So beautifully put [15:02] you lose it all, lose your gender, lose your nationality, lose your ranking, and what's here... what's here that is always here? I love it. 🙏 ...and wow! She mentioned Mill Valley. I grew up in Mill Valley, and probably skated 🛹 by her acupuncture practice dozens of times as a child. 🏡

[@mitrarashidi4945]

Thank you Angelo for all you have done and doing with interviews and talks! Deep gratitude! 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

[@Pam74055]

47:19 ❤Very powerful. Wow. I have heard of Gangaji, but have never listened to her speak. Her transmission is very powerful ❤Thank you Angelo. This was wonderful.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, she's a potent catalyst

[@gloriasilence]

Thank you... 🤗

[@RichardBoyer]

Gamgaji most direct awakens possible

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😊

[@Pam74055]

51:45 Wowzer 🤩🤗❤️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

[@susanamos6237]

Fantastic thank you.. have read Gangajji’s books and followed her for years, and hours and hours of papajji too, including others as well… I remember being about 5 years old sitting digging in my sandpit and felt so desperately miserable… in my language of now it was “is this fucking it?” later on sitting on my window sill at age 6 looking out watching a man go by walking his dog, and just felt this is what life is..? All my life I had been depressed and lost and confused… but had various glimpses..

[@meli6181]

So happy to see Gangaji here! What an amazing interview, exchange and gift of love to us all 🙏💓

[@Arahat..]

Definitely

[@christinaguimond1706]

Thank you Angelo and Gangaji. Loved this interview! The discussion about the difficulty of communicating / inviting surrender was wonderfully done. I have a feeling people will experience shifts listening to this.

[@keena1487]

Just beautiful ❤ And your smile…. You look like a kid on Christmas morning 😄

[@chandihridaya5204]

Thank you so much Ganga Ji for your love and generosity 🙏❤️🙏 Thank you so much Angelo for this beautiful interview... So kind of you to bring Ganga Ji to speak to all of us... Loved the 'eye gazing' part... Beautiful....🙏🌸🏵️🙏

[@song-signs]

21:22 examples of inflated teachers? I love Gangaji and your work. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@ardi-x]

Thanks for exposing me to so many wonderful people and their unique ways of expressing. Appreciate you both. These conversations are so beautiful and wholesome man. My thoughts try to taint it by attempting to grasp ‘it’ and end up over complicating everything but I guess that’s just part of the seeking. The thing that seems to be most sticky here is doubt. It seems to have more pull than other types of thoughts. Most often in the form of questioning whether I’m inquiring the right way into who I am. I’ve heard you say there’s really no wrong way to do this process, and yet the conditioning has more pull than the ability to surrender the doubt. Im somewhere between feeling inadequate and having faith that this will clarify on its own terms

[@agnieszkag.5170]

So wonderful to see beloved Gangaji. I must also say that the picture of Ganges behaind Gangaji is so magnetic, so beautiful and mysterious. I must have the same picture, it gives me this feeling of mystery I love.

[@PinkyBar374]

Oh my god what a beautiful beautiful interaction to two like minded souls. Thank you for sharing 💕❤️🙏🏽

[@dethtrain]

She has a soothing voice

[@rachelp3345]

Perfect talk at the perfect moment ❤️🙏

[@richardbelisle4807]

One of my first teachers…

[@StephenAndersonSACreate]

Love Gangaji. So happy you had the opportunity to speak with her like this and share it, Angelo.

[@aleaffalls]

Thanks!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

[@dar_jada]

This conversation is such a gift. Thank you both so much. 💕

[@nikolascend]

What a touching meeting. Gangaji was my first encounter with this realm of spirituality. Bless her.

[@LunaticAstrology]

I sat with this beautiful soul in sept 2011. I woke up in October. In the weeks between my mind stopped. I was strangely quiet. Her transmission field is huge. Her presence genuinely still. Thanks for this wonderful interview. Sharing!

[@evelinel.9827]

What a great interview--I love Gangaji!

[@Pam74055]

54:45 Just wow ❤

[@lucyhartman1501]

A very pleasant interview. It should be stated that there really is no such thing as "transmission". If Ramana's name is going to be brought up, then we have to look at his actual teachings. For him, you are already the Self. This can't be "transmitted" or given. Therefore, Papaji wasn't "handing down" something he "got" from Ramana. In Avaita Vedanta, it's a done deal that the Self is already present and complete. What Papaji's Neo Advaita did however was to ignore that work still has to be done. The practices Ramana stressed were to eradicate the vasanas that occluded, or covered the Self (they weren't to become something that you weren't already) So, looking at the history of Neo Advaita, it ignored the neccesity of these practices which left a lot of Papaji people just "thinking" they were Self realized. It is good news! That you're already "It!" But just grasping that intellectually, or agreeing with it or believing it, isn't Self realization. I would suggest people interested in this general subject to take a deep dive with Ramana's teachings, and they'll see that indeed there is work to be done, you're not yet literally "free".

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Transmission indeed happens. Sure you’re the Self, everyone is the Self, but fat lot of good that does you to know it if you haven’t realized it. So how does one realize it? Well one good way is to spend time interacting with someone who has. There are many reasons this works. Why do you think so many people gathered around Ramana, Papaji, Buddha, etc etc etc? That isn’t to say that the role of inquiry is not just as important, bc it definitely is. Transmission is quite like Tolle describes in that placing a flaming log by another flaming log it tends to catch on fire. At some point it burns on its own.

[@lucyhartman1501]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake It can "feel" like transmission, but such wording implies lack, and that someone special has something you don't, and that they can "give" it to you (ending your lack). "Resonance" would be a better word. When you put one ringing tuning fork next to a still tuning fork, the still one will start to ring. Nothing has been "added" to the still tuning fork, it just starts to ring because of resonance. It's good to hang around people that have actually realized the Self (if you can find them!) but I do think it's important to bust the myth of some kind of "line of transmission" or special "lineage" from Ramana (to Papaji, to Mooji or whomever etc. etc.). "Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person." - Ramana Maharshi All a teacher can do is to help remove obscurations covering what is already there in full. So, it may just be semantics, but I think clearing it up helps people to not put spiritual teachers on a pedestal, with the notion that they have a magic elixir they can "give" you (that you don't already have in full)

[@Samuel96889]

Omg I love this lady❤

[@laurat6580]

Thank you 💫this is very powerful. Thanks for bringing us back to the simplicity of it all

[@erinnewlin3071]

OMG!!! Absolutely no words. The transmission of what was just offered struck in a way that I’ve never experienced. YOU ARE THAT WHICH YOU SEEK. I have heard this said a million times in a million different ways, but never felt the profundity, until now. 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful to hear! :)))

[@charlotteegli1866]

Same here, thank you so much for expressing that so nicly😍

[@n-xsta]

Omg Gangaji 😍😍😍 Awesome Angelo ❤

[@jahoffm1]

Wow. This was wonderful. Thank you Angelo, what a gift to hear and see Gangaji!

[@drsquirrel81]

wow! this has been like watching a great match of tennis or chess but whose goal is not victory / defeat but understanding / love

[@billromas]

yes...felt like it could go on forever..and be forever fresh!

[@robertyates]

You can be assured there’s no monster under the bed, and truly believe there’s no monster under the bed, but you won’t find peace til you take a look. How good is that?! Beautiful, thank you for this conversation Angelo 🙏🏼

[@bkny108]

Such an amazing interview! Love Gangaji so much❤❤❤

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Me Too :))

[@katehiggins9940]

what a beautiful sharing! you both were glowing. i was moved deeply quite a few times….. this interview is bathed in presence……. newness…… love……. thank u…..❤️

[@lidsss1]

Thank you!!! A balanced, loving exchange of the feminine and masculine aspects, so beautiful and powerful to witness.

[@dianespencer8057]

What a sweet interview! Love Gangaji, and her sweetness does always radiate. First time I've seen Angelo quite this awestruck and excited to talk with someone.

[@ivonakorbler8979]

So beautiful to see how is the interviewer affected by Gangaji💞 deep and true meeting 🙏

[@mirandasohn9366]

Oh man. Warm. Beautiful. Thank you, Angelo. You introduced me to Gangaji during retreat last year and she’s been so helpful.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!

[@dipdip2481]

Two super awesome people…….amazing conversation……I’m floating in the bliss of transmission……….much gratitude Angelo and Gangaji 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🫠✨✨✨❤❤

[@tippieyanez8289]

I love you Gangaji❤

[@Hanna-Nyasa]

YAY!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍🙏 this combo. Love you both

[@majjohansen8]

Absolutey a great talk. And again with the mirror ... when I was a little girl I was SO affraid. - and especially of looking in the mirror at night because I was affraid not to see anyone there.... oh how beautifull life is

[@nyingpo]

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wonderful Gangaji.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

💥

[@satsitananda]

So appreciated this ❤️. Like diamonds reflecting diamonds

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

💎

[@siobhanmacm]

When Gangaji mentioned ugliness I felt a piecing in my being and a wave of nausea. Will be doing inquiry around this. Thank you! ❤

[@siobhanmacm]

Surrender in openness- powerful!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Best of luck!

[@gracefrazier4775]

Gratitude.

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thank you!!!!!! Loving this!

[@DavidBee]

Wow! So beautiful, clear and such heartfelt teachings. Thanks for this interview, Angelo💞

[@Charpanda]

“To be human is to be inadequate”. Holy shit, that’s powerful. Never heard it said that way, so clearly acknowledging the practical reality.

[@AshleyStuart]

This was truly special to be able to watch you both have this conversation with each other. I was laughing at times, crying at others, just incredible!! Thank you both so much!

[@Marphale]

Great interview. I'm so glad that the people who are enlightened are the people who are enlightened.

[@2realizeu]

This hit the sweet spot. Thank you. I will certainly watch again and again! 💗

[@peacelilly739]

Love, Love, Love........💓💓💓

[@collettewhiteman]

Tumble the mind.❤What a beautiful interview 🙏🏼

[@supeshalawithinwithout]

This was beautiful. Thank you 💕

[@kittycatgraham]

Sparkley!! Both of you! 💖

[@life.withkyle]

Beautiful interview, thank you both! ❤️❤️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cherryb33]

So beautiful 💗💗💗 thank you.

[@Sam-nl7nz]

"its held together by the strategies" wow , she so good!

[@kimtaylor4480]

Oh awesome! Going to watch it now. ❤️👍

[@TheInnerCastle]

Lovely interview! Powerful stuff

[@ericmunn330]

great chat - much love♥🔥

[@michellecall6464]

What a beautiful conversation between two incredible people. ❤

[@inFAMOUSBlastshards]

I would love for you to interview Roger Castillo one day. It's probably currently not possible since he's taken a step back from teaching and public appearances for the time being, but hopefully it can happen in the future.

[@MrSA1829]

Great interview ❤

[@elizadaphne5501]

🙏thank you Ganga ji

[@francesb-p2441]

love this video

[@movementandrest]

Just delightful! ❤️

[@chrelfistelfinelfe]

Oh my God, thank you so much!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤ powerful, love, nowness, thank you

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You are so welcome

[@szucsyp]

Beautiful interview! Thank you!❤️

[@laurarubinsteinmedium]

Thank you, beautiful questions! I enjoyed a lot!

[@NectareanSpirit]

Wow! Just Wow!!! Deep gratitude for this beautiful sharing🙏🤍🕊

[@scottrower2095]

Two of my FAVORITE spiritual teachers in one place! I was so excited to see Gangaji show up here.

[@vincentsundgren]

This was amazing! Amazing to experience

[@mouniazitouni]

What a conversation!

[@tyvrymch]

Thank you Gangaji

[@lukystaify]

ah, what can never be sought :D love it. thank you for this. its just such directness and that diamond sharp sincere inquiry, presence, transmition whatever it is. such a gem. I loved your questions and the spontaneity of the Gangaji. it just cuts right to the heart for me again and again. Like its not about accumulation, whats here :D what do you want. so simple yet so profound. thank you again and again :D to be still

[@vdboor]

yeah that really messes up the seeking mind: what can never be sought? So powerful 😀

[@amazias9213]

Thank you so much.

[@jamesthomas1244]

Beautiful interview. Thank you both so much.

[@jamesthomas1244]

I second that.

[@katnip198]

Beautiful interview. Two wonderful people.

[@carriesewell3460]

A beautiful conversation. My heart is full. Thank you 🙏🏽❤️

[@navaneetjeevan2554]

Gratitude for doing this interview. ♥️

[@rachaelgarside6932]

Oh my. Such beautiful energy here. I love following you both. Such wonderful teachers. Thank you. X

[@ketiblum]

I love you somuch gangaji❤