Sri Ramana's teachings on vasanas, enquiry and grace

[@riccardoc1711]

Sometimes Grace breaks through the vasanas of the sidebar and this video happens 😊 Thank you

[@jthepickle7]

Well said.

[@lazerlloyd1]

I keep coming back - after all the teachers instructing self inquiry I find David’s advice the best and most practical

[@Knaeben]

He explains things so clearly. It's amazing

[@pug7053]

Terrific advice David, thank you.

[@ricardomusicdoc7227]

Just listening to his talks changed my life, in a week! The part about the key broke through. Bhagawan's teachings have power when we hear others discussing them. ❤❤❤

[@amrbaidoun]

Thank you David 🙏💗 I just want to say to those who watch the video that Vairagya is not discrimination, it is dispassion - a state in which one is no longer interested in objective experience, and that indeed needs discrimination (Viveka) between Real and unreal. They both (Vairagya and Viveka) are two faces of the same coin - Intelligent Detachment, so to speak.

[@Amila108]

🙏❤️🕉️☮️☮️☮️❤️🙏🕯️

[@maicolx7776]

Attaining vairagya is the only way to achieve spiritual progress. Vairagya can be achieved by learning to discriminate between the essential and non-essential as well as by practicing the art of developing right thoughts, speech and action.

[@rajananantharaman4298]

thank youfor this by David. I

[@Puuws]

by attending to I am, they lose their appeal by itself. we only desire these lower satisfactions bc we suffer. so it works both ways in my experience. This peace will also give you the courage to look at them, fear isn't pushing them into the subconcious anymore bc yiu feel more stable in who you are

[@susanfay2213]

​@@Puuwsthat's very helpful. Strong-arming that shift with the logical intellect just doesn't seem very promising or effective. Although that effort plays an important part.

[@andrewhammond2898]

My favourite thing about listening to David is his level of humility. How many people, especially Westerners, have had the opportunity to spend so much time in the presence of such great Jnani's, yet remain so humble and only seek to pass on the undiluted wisdom of his teachers. Thank you for all your videos David, they have been a great help on my journey.

[@garydavidson1970]

David, you're invaluable conduit to the great teachers of the past, thank you.

[@penelopehicks273]

🙏 David the way you have allowed yourself to be an easy to understand and relatable expression of so many Masters work is such a blessing to all. Every video I watch I think “…..this is what I was led to him for” & still another comes…Such an exciting exploration!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 Thanks for being my Indiana Jones!!!

[@PremArnav]

It Is not so easy to find fresh and useful metapher and down to earth explanations in reggard to Selfknowledge David did it again !👍❤️☀️ Thank you Sir 🙏🙏🙏

[@ulrikeguenthercontemporary8558]

yessss so grateful for his appearance

[@RJTheMountainSage]

Thank You! 😊 For All Your Work, for your service to Bhagavan

[@guitarvorous]

David Godman's compilation "Be As You Are" is one of the best books on Ramana Maharshi's teaching! God bless him!

[@edwardkeenan7354]

This might be the best one. Great info and breakdown of important notes on the path of self-realization.

[@pathtoOneness]

So interesting. Today, I am following Ramana Maharishi and came across this. I come from E. Malaysia.

[@murielle6085]

Thank you David for this important information, I really needed it. I was just wondering last few days about vasanas and wishing for an explanation and lo and behold, the best clarification I could have. I just happened to see this video on my youtube notifications, not looking for anything at all - divine coincidence.

[@shanti9040]

Same happened to me....,🎆

[@1schwererziehbar1]

The KZbin sidebar analogy is very good.

[@PhillyTaiChi]

Thanks for all your work over the many years David, the videos and stories you've shared are extremely helpful pointers to help the mind more clearly comprehend the self via metaphor and/or analogy. The end of this video is very instructive, there is a lot to be said for the subjective mind/body experience or say temporal conditioning of the individual. A unique set of circumstances, combined with a distinct earnestness to understand life can lead one invariably to their own form of "Who am I?". A deep questioning of identity, which may be likened to 'neti neti', not this can supercede the mind and lead one to view the mind apart from oneself. One of the most helpful and profound phrases that rang out in the search for truth comes from Taoism, where it said the Tao cannot be gotten or grasped. There are many layers of wisdom lodged into that small phrase, for many, look carefully at the earnestness for truth you may have and make sure it's not a transactional pursuit. In the end, ultimately, you ARE that which you seek. You've just mistaken your true self, you've misidentified with the mind/body, it takes maturity to see past this identification. Very much like the Indian tale of the man who left his home at a very young age to find a guru and learn the great truth. He traveled his whole life, went to every guru, in every village in India. After decades of travel and seeking the man finally returned back to his home, upon seeing and entering his house he was struck by the great realization. The journey has it's use but ultimately it leads us home to ourselves. In my very humble experience, there is a feeling of childlike awareness, if you sense this, as we were all children once, you're on the right path home ❤

[@sridharspost]

A very useful session to refresh our sadana and straighten the kinks which naturally develop over a period of time. Many thanks to David for his lucidity and brevity and to the Organisers from the Malaysia Ramana Centre 🙏🏼

[@tonyclark2177]

David. Thank you , bless you . Thank you for all you do for us!!!❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@brownhorse70]

It is Bhagavan’s grace and will that we have David explaining the practice to us. Nothing is more clear than “We have to look at the ‘I’ that is looking - that is searching”. Bhagavan has said that “There won’t be an answer to self-enquiry. If there is an answer, then it is just the mind creating thoughts and ideas. The true answer is absolutely Silence or the disappearance of the one who is looking”. Without Bhagavan’s Grace, one cannot even hear about Bhagavan.

[@dreamingofnaomi]

Thank you Mr. Godman. I really needed this. Hearing talks about Bhagavan and his teachings are the only things that give my mind any peace and comfort. Otherwise my mind is very much like an angry bull, charging.

[@iansmith6205]

It's far too complicated! I just try to love everyone and everything! It's very simple!

[@FragranceView]

Thank you David, your videos are always helpful!

[@dbozzi52]

I needed to hear this just now. Thank you.

[@krousamarnhpang375]

I'm so happy to watch this video a second time.

[@balajib785]

Dear guru ji, O am not against any religion or individual person. I am just remaining you you have power with your devotees can heal the world ❤

[@OfCourseICan]

So simple but yet so profound. Thank You so much.

[@TGBahr]

Thank you so much, sir! This will be incredibly helpful!

[@RT-fr9tn]

Thank you David. Immense gratitude

[@KORKMACAN]

God man. Again you be a one of the best bridges for us to walk through Bhagavan’s grace. Thank you. Hope to see you in a short while.

[@Nrgheal]

Vedic understanding for 2023 ~ invaluable 🙏🏼

[@michaelnice93]

This is very helpful, thank you David!

[@sirg7573]

KZbin subtitles show "Vasanas" as "Fasteners" :) Very apt, I must say, for they are indeed fasteners which hold us in worldliness.

[@hs0022]

The key is to realize that NOTHING will matter if you refrain from pleasures of this world and the waking state. Makes no difference to anyone else either. Swami Sarvapriyananda: Nothing is binding us, we are the donkey near the dhobi ghat that is under the illusion that it is tied.

[@lionsloin7869]

' KZbin subtitles show "Vasanas" as "Fasteners" :) ' - Haha. The KZbin CC is a great teacher sometimes. Thanks for pointing it out. This is the first time I've seen this talk. DG is always a great presenter of RM's teachings, I think.

[@luluvdg7722]

Fascinating Q&A! My deepest gratitude to all of you & the seekers especially. Love you treasured awesome mankind family . lulu x

[@davidbentley145]

Excellent lesson here...Ty kindly brother for these analogies...the mind knows it wins by encouraging division...

[@hs0022]

Try to incorporate everything you do in the waking hour as a whole without subdivision into pleasurable acts and non pleasurable acts.

[@garycox3841]

Thank you much for the wonderful analogy’s, very helpful 🙏❤️

[@nugraharycr2755]

r 😭😭

[@katnip198]

Most grateful for this David. So helpful.

[@shaneashby5890]

Thank you Sri David, and most importantly, thank you Bhagavan 🙏

[@Lauterbachify]

Thank you very much, David ! 🙏🌷

[@MathiEesha]

From Dawn to Dusk, "I" the Mighty Mind, fought the Nap But the Nap Won! 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@violettapapala5102]

Thank you for all of your experiences and teachings you are able to share!

[@AbonneAbscent]

David without may be realizing it, has so much knowledge and inner understanding about Ramana's teachings, that he's providing them as if they were spoken by Ramana's mouth itself... Be blessed David Godman. (a very auspicious name) Namaskaram 🙏

[@chungamunga9898]

Ramana Maharshi is god himself to me. I can say I am finally at rest.

[@IanCormac2010]

A very good explanation of the latent tendencies in the subconscious.

[@rajananantharaman4298]

Many thanks for.Truth of Being as by Bhagawan Ramana. and the understanding in this

[@sjain8111]

David GODMAN sir, great to see you with a new video, will attempt to keep at bay harmful vasanas

[@ramongarcia7531]

Excellent, as usual. Thank you very much. Namaste

[@aadifernweh2911]

Thank you soo much david godman🙏🙏

[@ulrikeguenthercontemporary8558]

soo profound David! I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you give to us.

[@Acode7940]

Wonderful! This is really helpful. Thank you.

[@janny474]

Arunachala. Thank you David.

[@malaselvarajah5398]

Brilliant ❤️, love the you tube side bar analogy 👏 . Thankyou 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@seanfrank32]

Excellent. Thank you!🙏💙

[@asmallabadi]

So beautiful 🙏🕉️♥️ nothing but grace...

[@denisedamore5994]

29:53 David, This is Excellent … ❤❤❤ … Thank you …

[@faithrafter2063]

thanks David for the videos!

[@bigcheech1937]

Thank you 🙏🏾….Vassanas just burn off as you deepen your meditation.

[@vram288]

near 32.0 great. "undercurrent of silence seeps out into everyday actvities" 🙏👌

[@RosemaryOs]

Thank you, David!! ✌️

[@sanjaykh6502]

i am very happy to see the small kid in Sri Ramana Saranalayam in Malaysia taking part in such spiritual discourse. Thanks Godman

[@beamoflightongaia7856]

Big thanks and love

[@pluckpack]

the vasana youtube side bar analogy is so smart

[@hettyandmaggiespinone4893]

Thank you that was very helpful!

[@jixie_93]

Thank you for the explanation🙏

[@fifes0ul]

A few years ago i had that death of the ego moment. While lying down to goto bed, instantenously i felt i was getting pulled into , the only way i can describe it is getting pulled into a black hole, litterally my entore everything was going into this black hole, if i let myself go i have no dount the Ego I would have been destroyed but fear gripped and I pulled away. If i had known a few years later what i know now I like to believe i would have accepted Bhagavans grace and surrendered to that moment. Id not read any of Bhagavans teachings at that point and was litterally at the begining of awakening my spirtual awareness. Have had a few other experiences but realise that only with Bhagavans grace will complete annilhation of the ego I and union with Bhagavan as one so there is only he Maha-Samadhi

[@fifes0ul]

@Bernhard agree, atman vichara is my daily practice and probably my only one, like David Godman said surrending to what is, knowing it is all Bhagavans and handing over my vasanas for his Grace to disolve, i send all my peace and love to all and want to say no matter what Bhagavan is forever with us all guiding us home Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya Sri Arunachala Siva

[@lalitaescuela]

Thanks David 🙏

[@rvr447]

ഓം രമണേശ്വരായ നമഃ 🙏🙏🙏

[@leolok2632]

David distinguish between I = ego Self = real I. His point is to dissolve the ego in the Self

[@lazerlloyd1]

Excellent- I’m wondering referring to the very last question if perhaps self inquiry and surrender are not two things yet actually can work together - For instance - just the decision to try and still the mind so that one may proceed towards self inquiry requires a sort of surrendering from letting the mind ponder external objects - Usually that goes against ones current nature based on their conditioning and would that not be considered a type of surrender? And when one pursues self inquiry does that experience not make it easier for one to surrender?

[@hs0022]

Self inquiry will automatically happen if you don’t choose any more between likes and dislikes on what your body and mind should be doing. Like pleasurable activities ( weekends ) vs learning a difficult and new thing at work from a very bothersome and whiny co-worker. These are two examples to illustrate what I am saying that may be relatable to the working person who holds a day job.

[@alexdinero8284]

"Keep repeating I am the self I am not the body." 28:21

[@PaulDuBerry]

Fantastic analogies

[@Fintan33]

Really Really helpful, thank you, thank you:)

[@tarnum113]

Thank you!

[@magemaybe7612]

Thank you 🙏

[@hs0022]

What the questioners are missing is that there is no need for a desire to arise for Enlightenment because desire can only arise in a subject! There is no subject in enlightenment. No I. Everything is already preordained who will receive the blessing of Enlightenment by the creator. It’s not anything that you can generate, it will happen in the course of someone’s life if it’s meant to happen and events will transpire accordingly toward that event. We just do not have the mental capacity to judge for ourself when we are ready, neither do we have any relevant information to decide that now is the time. It’s as preset by the creator.

[@TGBahr]

My remaining vasanas I'm struggling with are especially distracting because they’re sexual. I’ve done away with the political ones and to a great extent the illusions of group identities which stole countless hours of lifetime already, but these here are persistent because they’re connected to biological functions and needs/urges. I will do my best to apply Bhagavan’s methods that you so wonderfully explained here. I see this explicit topic of sexual vasanas so rarely talked about, yet I believe most of us struggle with them, and ask ourselves how to best deal with these urges. Many suggest to supress them, yet my experience with that made them even bigger and led to a great psychological imbalance.

[@James-cz7bl]

I believe David said in this talk that suppressing thoughts doesn't work and is not self-enquiry. The desire for sex is, as all desires, rooting in a thought(s). I found it that it is better just to have sex (without making it a big deal) than to try to avoid it what makes it worse as you said. The thought of sex will eventually disappear by itself by doing enquiry. However Annamalai Swami, someone very advanced I suppose, was complaining about sexual desires to Bhagavan what shows that the idea of sex will be around for a long, long time when even he was still struggling with it in his supposedly last life time.

[@swapnildas8577]

@@James-cz7bl Can you tell me where did you find this account of his past life? Thanks!

[@notavailable708]

Your insights are a blessing sir 🙏🏼 Please use a better mic from next time if it’s possible. I hope this teachings are preserved and Reach many people.

[@nuvolasecca]

Grazie David

[@narasimhamavl6637]

Explanation of Vasanas beutiful

[@rajeshwariraj5305]

Sir Namasskaram, could you please send me the website where I can get connected with MatruSriSaradamma thankyou

[@randomstranger7751]

Fantastic

[@vaibhavmathur8696]

Really loved the bull analogy.

[@serdarkavur3742]

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[@magnusvad]

Thank you so much

[@preethikrao]

🙏🙏

[@19Marc79]

Just imagine, if there was an entry in the Guinness book of records: "Most hours of practicing self inquiry while sitting on a meditation cushion".

[@thefacilitatorindia]

🙏 🙇‍♂️

[@marijagajski9800]

Thank you

[@arunachalasiva5850]

🙏🏻

[@n-xsta]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@jazzsnare]

I think we follow vasanas because in a relativistic mind-set there is no more reason to do one thing rather than another. I often forget that there is a Self or Supreme, and I run from the little silence I do have. If everything's illusion then why is one better than another, is another way of getting at it. If the Absolute has no attributes, then how does it exist at all? Maybe it does not even exist in the sense of space-and-time. Sometimes I think I am seeking for nothing, nothingness, that which has no attributes and does not exist. What is the Absolute and why do we want it? People often despair of meaning so the question of vasanas doesn't come up for non-religious, non-spiritual people. You have to want something on the other side, so to speak, in order to even want to give up vasanas. When I return to Ramana, particularly how he went silent and sat motionlessly for years, I then remember to distinguish vasanas and use discrimination, but I go for periods when I forget and live like a modern man.

[@me_watch_youtube]

I have a moral dilemma. Please explain if you can. I am a genuine seeker and totally dedicated to the message of Sri Ramana. I understand that within the message of Bhagawan the concept of good/evil does not exist. However, presently in this plane there are forces at work who wish to undermine the health of the entire humanity. What is David's logic on this particular subject matter? I understand he voluntarily took the ykw.

[@M-i-k-a-e-l]

How do we discern between repression or healthy "no, thank you" towards the vasanas? Some teachings says we need to actually see our shadows etc, exactly what they consist of, their inverted logic and dynamics, before we can fruitfully let them go. Not to mention to also FEEL their full charge of whatever emotional content.

[@davidaubuchon]

When you are feeling fully an emotional charge, that means you are aware of it, and are therefore not it. It's consistent with the teaching of "neti neti". There is no contradiction in teachings. The neutral experiencing of whatever painful or pleasant emotion is there is what makes it "healthy". The attempt to not feel a negative feeling or to stop the receding of a pleasant feeling is what attachment is. If you feel over time that a painful emotional structure is getting smaller as it gets more and more released, then you are practicing with sufficient awareness.

[@davidaubuchon]

@@James-cz7bl Full liberation means not only seeing through the ego, but dissolving all karma. Dissolving emotional charges is a step in the right direction. I agree with you that practice is not what Ramana emphasized. It is true and valid nonetheless. Emotions arise whether people like it or not. When they do, people should know how to meet them without attraction or aversion raga-dvesa. If they don't, that is what is adding fuel to the fire, as you say.

[@davidaubuchon]

@@James-cz7bl Hi James. Yes, ego and karma are identical. With all due respect, your reply is fanatical. Ramana is one facet of Hinduism's many true paths. Ramana did not discourage people on other paths. In fact, he was careful not to advise everyone to do self-inquiry. Your nondualism is typical half-baked. You could go on gaslighting just about anything that way. Sure, partial liberation is nonsense. So is liberation and bondage. So is self-inquiry. So is typing on KZbin, ignorantly imagining that there exists other people in bondage in need of help. All your meditation occurs within Maya. If dissolving emotional charges is of no consequence, then it stands to reason that the spontaneous appearance of 1000X the emotional charges you are already have is also of no consequence. Nor would having both your arms and both your legs violently broken right now be of any consequence to your self-inquiry. Good luck. Practices that involve doership are fine and are the bread and butter of Hinduism. The scriptures say to remove one thorn with the help of another thorn. Then discard both. A moth does not reinforce his individuality by making the effort to fly into a flame. Rather he succeeds in being incinerated.

[@fingerprint5511]

I found Theravada Buddhism to completely eliminate an identification- namely a God as Sri Ramana was Hindu and the Buddha and Sri Ramana both were able to become fully awakened, meaning, no self or Vasana/ Sankhara, duality, were an issue anymore, no self or Anatta, just phenomena, but with Sri Ramana there is an identification and it is a God, so with the Buddha it is the Buddha itself, not an identification of any description but the Dhamma, the awareness itself, As 'God'. I recommend investigating Theravada Buddhism and Vipassana.

[@fingerprint5511]

@@James-cz7bl you are surprised people shop around... you mean why can't people do as you imagine they should. What that is, is ill will, borne of a self. A Guru? Show me a truly pure man and I'll show you an illusion - you just proved that statement that there can be no pure man to lead. How about your Westernized new age conditioning that dominates your words, can you recognize the defensiveness in them This? This is why Ramana did not 'teach ' with words ...

[@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc]

He realised "I" was just a voice in his head then just sat there and did nothing for the rest of his life.

[@jazzsnare]

I wonder if I could ask about the book Guru Vachaka Kovai. I see there are two translations. Was there an issue with the first English translation that would make a second translation necessary? I am a bit worried that although Ramana approved the Tamil version, this says little about the English translations. How would one know which is right, if there are more than one English translations? If there were no issue, they would not have produced a new translation, which worries me. Certain terms might not translate well from Tamil.

[@rufuspipemos]

The KZbin sidebar analogy is amazing.

[@nibin2259]

Thank you sir

[@alexandrufrandes.]

Minute 27, it is extremely hard to accomplish.

[@jayaramabbaraju7489]

🙏🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐

[@Sandrapercy]

Thanks

[@garygreffe4522]

🙏❤

[@lauragibson777]

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