48 years ago I started "self inquiry". It got so I found myself already practicing as a I woke up in the morning. A self employed carpenter, I could practice all day. 2 days ago I got results. The only reason I stayed with it is that only while practicing did I feel alive. 2 days ago I got an organic feeling of the Oneness of all things.
@@sheadailey3155 I could draw on it, for a while - the feeling of oneness. But now it has faded. To know it intellectually isn't enough. Listening to NDE stories helps.
Im sure he is utterly detached from anyone saying negative things, he has no ego that can be upset. He even let these false accusations on him be printed and displayed in the bookstore because he believed everyone voice should be heard. Also the harshest critisism glued to the front off the visitorsbook
Not a word is out of place. Dear David your work is so precious and a gift to humanity. Eternally grateful to be here and listen to you talking about Bhagavan’s life and pointers.
This is exactly how Alcoholics Anonymous works. First you turn your drinking over to God, then your defects of character, then your relationships, then your will and life. In the end you are left with a spiritual awakening. The 12th step reads, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs”
Yes! And this can keep going and going. Let go of absolutely everything. Then let go of the one letting go. Once you have given up all sensations, and even the self. What's left is the natural state and freedom. Probably not appropriate to share in a meeting though, lol.
Dear David, Your videos are a profound blessing and perhaps the pathway that led me to understand Ramana. I visited Arunachala and Maharishi's Ashram last year in December, 2018 and wanted to pay my regards in-person but... If life brings me to Arunachala again, I hope you would grant me the opportunity. love and gratitude, Aditya (from California, USA)
I AM AMAZED BY THE WAY HE EXPLAINS & DESCRIBES THINGS. HE IS MORE SPIRITUALLY INTELLIGENT & CLEAR THAN ANY TEACHER ON THIS SUBJECT I'VE EVER HEARD. RAMANA MAHARSHI TAUGHT NONDUALITY THROUGH SELF-ENQUIRY IN TWO WAYS. ONE WAS SELF ENQUIRY "WHO AM I?" THE OTHER WAS SELF SURRENDER (I WILL LISTEN TO HIS VERSION LATER I'M SURE IT'S GOOD) IN SELF ENQUIRY - IT SOUNDED SO COMPLICATED I LISTENED AGAIN & AGAIN & DIDN'T QUITE GET IT. THEN I TRIED IT. JUST THE WAY HE EXPLAINED. I THOUGHT ABOUT SOMETHING, THEN I ASKED, "WHO IS THINKING THESE THOUGHTS" & MY MIND CAME BACK TO ME - THE I RETURNED TO ITS SOURCE. WHEN IT RETURNED I REALIZED THERE WAS NO "ME" - MY THOUGHTS BELONGED TO A PERSONALITY THAT IS MANUFACTURED BY ME. ALL MY PERSONALITIES ARE ACTS, THEY ARE ASSUMED LIKE CHARACTERS IN A PLAY. JUST LIKE HE EXPLAINED. WE PROJECT THESE PERSONALITIES ONTO THE 'THEATER OF LIFE' - EACH PERSONALITY HAVING A SET OF THOUGHTS & FEELINGS - IT FEELS LIKE ITS REAL BUT IT ISN'T REAL IN AN ULTIMATE SENSE, IT'S A PLAY, A SORT OF 'PRETEND GAME.' WHO IS THE REAL ME? HE CALLS IT THE "SELF". IT'S THE SOURCE OF LIFE, THE GOD-SELF. THIS GOD SELF HAS NO 'PERSONALITY' OR FEELINGS SUCH AS WE HAVE ON EARTH. ONCE I DID THIS SELF ENQUIRY I SAW HOW INCREDIBLY EASY IT WAS.
I just love the salami approach of handing over our worries bit by bit. Yes it's like we are in the train which is anyways going in a particular direction (our Prarabhda) n here we're sitting with some 5 parcels of luggage on our lap. We can slowly put down one piece of luggage starting with the lighter ones n then realise that the luggage is safe and is anyways going to reach it's destination along with the train. So then we get more confidence and are willing to put down more of our luggage until we put down our final piece. Thank you David for this salami approach which further led me to extrapolate Bhagawan's theory of the man on the train with luggage on his lap. Hope I'm on the right track.
I like your analogy even more than the one given by David Godman. Why fuss with holding luggage when both you and the luggage are being carried by the same train?
@@vanglover6030 Thank you for your kind comments. At the end of the day it's all Bhagawan's grace which helps us understand his teachings better. It's very important for us to understand that all is Prarabdha. The Prarabdha theory helps us to Surrender to Bhagawan. The challenge is when we forget to do so when the real test of time is in front of us. That's when we start thinking Oh! I have to do this n I have to do that. David has explained this point very well in this video where he says once you surrender you surrender completely. Then you don't keep going out n bringing the garbage back into your house. Our problem is we do selective surrender. May Bhagawan's grace help us all in surrendering completely. 🙏
David, thank you very much for shedding light on Bagavan's teaching and experiences. These videos help cement the truth in me little by little. I wish I will be able to look into the eyes of such a being as Bagavan, someday. You are truly doing god's work. Also, watching the videos you talk in gives me a sense, that you would emanate more presence through them, if you took longer pauses between words.
@@zoharflax6363 I agree with Vicara Vitakka that your grandmother tried to teach you "not" to worry! Jesus on the cross: "My father, thy will, not mine, be done". Our little brain is so structured it has very limited power to comprehend ourselves and the universe, space and time. By surrendering to God(or SELF), you are allowing another unproportionately infinite power to flow through you and your world; you do not let that little ego get in the way of karma's big operation.
@@vicaravitakka8332 I started to realize, longevity only buys time for us to work towards Self Realization. Once we realize SELF, there will no life or death. Even the great scientist Albert Einstein understand space and time are all illusions (but only intellectual understanding, not enlightened like Ramana Maharshi).
NO ITS EASY. REALIZE THAT YOUR WANDERING MIND OR THOUGHTS COME OUT OF A PERSONALITY YOU ARE CREATING, MANUFACTURING. JUST TELL YOUR "I" - COME BACK TO THE SOURCE. IT WILL RETURN, & THERE YOU WILL FIND ONCE AGAIN THE 'GOD-SELF', THE REAL YOU - THE OTHER THING YOU CREATED SEEMS REAL, BUT IT'S NOT THE ABSOLUTE YOU. THE REAL YOU DOES NOT HAVE THE THOUGHTS & FEELINGS OF THE EARTH PERSONALITIES YOU CREATE. IT'S NEUTRAL I THINK. (IF I ERR IN MY EXPLANATIONS REFER TO DAVID GODMAN AGAIN.)
I like your concise explanations, listening for example to questions and answers referring to Nisargadatta are often long winded and sometimes incomprehensible but you manage to simplify things and yet remain accurate ( an author who understands his craft) Nisargadatta's talks on prior to consciousness sounds like an atheist talking, death means death, without awareness there can only be death, a wave merging with the ocean sounds like death to me.
I find it interesting that people, the people who are awake in their heart, seek so much to connect with "God" I did this and still do, but at the same time have come to a place where probably daily I feel to clearly be in the presence of the divine and have come to somewhat take it for granted. As in I witness the divine mastery of creation doing things beyond chance, showing vision/ intervening with intricate precision that only a god could do, intimately present, aware of the slightest nuance, and also the bigger picture. Yes God is always present, yes we are all part of it. Then I lose focus and snap back into dealing with things of this world, but am learning to take it all with a grain of salt for indeed it's temporary and divine union is a constant if we awaken. Yes so I find it interesting that he say union with god when he was a child, and then Maya in its many forms distracted him, until by grace he found his way back to the reality of what some may call god. I resonate with this, i saw miracles as a child, now I realize they are happening constantly.
I respectfuly disagree with Mr David on minute 29:10. I experienced enlightenment at age 22 spontaneously. I had to take ice cold showers everyday because the little place I rented didn't have a water heater. I was too busy working days and studying at nights to worry about the future or the past. I had an experience in which I could feel every atom of the objects around me and I used to feel sorry for other people since I knew they couldn't feel the Joy I was feeling. Since in my cultural background this experiences were unknown I didn't understood what had happened to me. I was just joyful beyond words. Over the months and years I slowly came back to "normal" life since I didn't know until years later that I had achieved enlightenment without even knowing what it was. Now that I know what the experience was, I am going to start working my way back to it. I am going to start with lucid dreams and take it from there. Blessings to you all.
Question: 'Can someone be mistaken that they have realised the Self, but really haven't?" - Answer: "Yes, of course, the very thought 'I am Self realised' is a mistake, there is no 'I am this or I am that' in the natural state." - Sri Nisargdatta Maharaj.
Merci , pour nous avoir donné votre temps pour comprendre, nous espérons que vous continuerez de nous conter l'histoire d'un homme qui vécu avec tant de gentillesse, d'amour , envers ses semblables, nous commençons à ouvrir les yeux que chacun doit trouver en soi comme disait Ramana Maharshi nous sommes tous égaux, son message est universel, merci de Belgique
The Self (and Ramana) has never had any preferences, nor any plans. Ramana has stated this himself. You are confusing the Self with Ishwara, the creator of the World.
How will it benefit anyone if David tells about his personal realization experience? Please don’t treat realization like a PMP certification where everyone asking a certification holder about his / her exam experience. Bhagavaan says in ullathu narpathu if someone says “ I know myself “ or “ I don’t know myself “ both are laughable statements . How can anyone simplify self realization than Bhagavaan?
At around 11.45 to 12 in this clip you have mentioned that Devotion is not complete surrender. I want to understand then aren't devotion or yoga or maps n taps necessary before you do Self enquiry? Didn't Sarda ma also go through so much rigour with her balti towards Laxmana swami before her ego finally merged with her Self? I ask this because I feel self enquiry is a very straightforward path and I enjoy it every bit. But it worries me when I read about the difficulties gone through by the chakras like Meets hai or Tukaram. Why should it be so easy for me then?
Sometimes I heard Papaji talking with admiration about the Buddha. It is said that among his last words was the sentence: "Where is the Buddha, where is the Buddha?" Can you tell us about Papaji's relationship with Buddha? Thank you.
It is pure Grace to just hear these stories that revolve around Ramana and his devotees ! Pranams to Sri Ramanaya and all his beautiful followers !!! THANK YOU David for sharing with us !!! There is a spiritual Power in your words, that is directly absorbed by my body. Some years ago, when I soaked up your videos on TH-cam, the charge was so much, that it was too much for my head. At some point it accumulated into an experience, that felt like a "dropkick from God straight into my brain". It was very intense and quite scary. But also very beautiful :) It happened during the video "Papaji (part 1)".
Machiel van Dijk i might be insufficiently informed but from what i know at one time he was a fervent Krisna devotee www.satsangbhavan.net/papajis-biography/, also 12:05
@@Machielovic Yes, as a kid he acted as a buddhist munk and gave lectures about buddhism, just because he got inspired from Buddhas picture, even though he didn't have any idea about those things. Later he was a Krishna Bhakta big time for decades. Check David's Papaji videos+ interviews on YT, hilarious stories there. Eh...This was ment to Lawrence..☺️
Such extremity and intensity are not necessities for awakening, dramatic though such stories are. As Romana has repeatedly reminded us, the self is always present and obvious if we can but release our attention from the fixations which have claimed us and simply behold it. But because such a revelation is suspiciously simple for most, and they need to feel the experience of having made extreme effort, whether it is necessary or not, it will be for the most part, rejected and complexified, by both westerners and easterners alike. Nevertheless, what Ramana, Jesus and send Master Bankei consistently taught we're not metaphorical, conceptual, or abstract insights, but very immediate and empirical Revelations. Choose complexity, effort and time if you will, or she's playing the drama game and simply see.
If there is no I then how can I have a previous life? Also the word "self" is very confusing. Maybe it comes from a Sanskrit word that got mistranslated or something?
As far as i know, the ashram did not initiate anyone. I think David Godman is his real name. He is, if i am not mistaken, Irish. I have met him once at Thiruvannamalai when i went there to stay in the ashram.
Handing things over to a higher power to solve things seems to go against Ramana's idea that we are living life according to a script i.e. determinism. I would replace the word script with causality, life consists only of causal events over which we have no control. Even your reactions are causal because they are governed by your genetic scaffolding and nurture along with other causal events in your life; friends, workplace etc. Consider that just before the big bang all possibilities must have been present; when the big bang happened that was a causal event; from that moment on there was only one set of causal events that could happen; causality governed everything in the universe that would happen or will ever happen; whether you turned right at the junction instead of left was causality at work. Jesus could only ever have been Christ, Siddhartha Gautama could only have ever been the Buddha, Adolph Hitler had to be the fuehrer. Enlightenment will happen or not happen as a causal event; it can't be changed, you are a conduit not a switch.
Sir, I really appreciate you're work and at the same time you really have been fortunate to be with those great souls and it is possible that you silently sip the nectar of it and inspire us to be in line of that. I salute you sir.
48 years ago I started "self inquiry". It got so I found myself already practicing as a I woke up in the morning. A self employed carpenter, I could practice all day. 2 days ago I got results.
The only reason I stayed with it is that only while practicing did I feel alive.
2 days ago I got an organic feeling of the Oneness of all things.
Great job!!!
Only while practicing did i feel alive
It happened to me a few weeks ago and lost it feel like I’m in a he’ll realm now. Happy for you
@@sheadailey3155 I could draw on it, for a while - the feeling of oneness. But now it has faded. To know it intellectually isn't enough. Listening to NDE stories helps.
please don't take these down David!! thank you so much
So glad Papaji encouraged you to write Sir. Your work is an inspiration! Much gratitude🙏
Love each word David. Anyone touched by spirituality of India will benefit from your work. Thank you.
Agree!🙏
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The most authentic talks on Bhagawān’, Calm voice makes these so good to hear. Bhagawān’ is too precious for just anyone to speak about him
David also doesn’t pretend to be awakened in order to gain a following and make money unlike some others I could mention
Silly, anyone can speak about anyone.
Im sure he is utterly detached from anyone saying negative things, he has no ego that can be upset. He even let these false accusations on him be printed and displayed in the bookstore because he believed everyone voice should be heard. Also the harshest critisism glued to the front off the visitorsbook
Not a word is out of place. Dear David your work is so precious and a gift to humanity. Eternally grateful to be here and listen to you talking about Bhagavan’s life and pointers.
Thank you, David, for your tireless service for us seekers of the truth. May you be free... Love from Monika
This is exactly how Alcoholics Anonymous works. First you turn your drinking over to God, then your defects of character, then your relationships, then your will and life. In the end you are left with a spiritual awakening. The 12th step reads, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs”
Yes! And this can keep going and going. Let go of absolutely everything. Then let go of the one letting go. Once you have given up all sensations, and even the self. What's left is the natural state and freedom. Probably not appropriate to share in a meeting though, lol.
Tony, I'm glad you wrote this exact comment; surrendering via 'Thy will be done' is where I found the most relief in AA/each day. Blessings to you.
Exactly, those 12 Steps lead to Self attention
Excelent
Yep! 13 months clean
Dear David,
Your videos are a profound blessing and perhaps the pathway that led me to understand Ramana. I visited Arunachala and Maharishi's Ashram last year in December, 2018 and wanted to pay my regards in-person but...
If life brings me to Arunachala again, I hope you would grant me the opportunity.
love and gratitude,
Aditya (from California, USA)
I AM AMAZED BY THE WAY HE EXPLAINS & DESCRIBES THINGS. HE IS MORE SPIRITUALLY INTELLIGENT & CLEAR THAN ANY TEACHER ON THIS SUBJECT I'VE EVER HEARD.
RAMANA MAHARSHI TAUGHT NONDUALITY THROUGH SELF-ENQUIRY IN TWO WAYS. ONE WAS SELF ENQUIRY "WHO AM I?" THE OTHER WAS SELF SURRENDER (I WILL LISTEN TO HIS VERSION LATER I'M SURE IT'S GOOD)
IN SELF ENQUIRY - IT SOUNDED SO COMPLICATED I LISTENED AGAIN & AGAIN & DIDN'T QUITE GET IT. THEN I TRIED IT. JUST THE WAY HE EXPLAINED.
I THOUGHT ABOUT SOMETHING, THEN I ASKED, "WHO IS THINKING THESE THOUGHTS" & MY MIND CAME BACK TO ME - THE I RETURNED TO ITS SOURCE. WHEN IT RETURNED I REALIZED THERE WAS NO "ME" - MY THOUGHTS BELONGED TO A PERSONALITY THAT IS MANUFACTURED BY ME. ALL MY PERSONALITIES ARE ACTS, THEY ARE ASSUMED LIKE CHARACTERS IN A PLAY. JUST LIKE HE EXPLAINED. WE PROJECT THESE PERSONALITIES ONTO THE 'THEATER OF LIFE' - EACH PERSONALITY HAVING A SET OF THOUGHTS & FEELINGS - IT FEELS LIKE ITS REAL BUT IT ISN'T REAL IN AN ULTIMATE SENSE, IT'S A PLAY, A SORT OF 'PRETEND GAME.'
WHO IS THE REAL ME? HE CALLS IT THE "SELF". IT'S THE SOURCE OF LIFE, THE GOD-SELF. THIS GOD SELF HAS NO 'PERSONALITY' OR FEELINGS SUCH AS WE HAVE ON EARTH. ONCE I DID THIS SELF ENQUIRY I SAW HOW INCREDIBLY EASY IT WAS.
David I love all your videos and deep understanding of Ramana. God bless you a million times.
Im sorry but i think the attempt must be made to throw the whole sausage David knowing that its highly unlikely to suceed..
Excellent -outstanding talks..
What a pleasure to hear these stories from you, thank you for sharing them 🙏
I just love the salami approach of handing over our worries bit by bit. Yes it's like we are in the train which is anyways going in a particular direction (our Prarabhda) n here we're sitting with some 5 parcels of luggage on our lap. We can slowly put down one piece of luggage starting with the lighter ones n then realise that the luggage is safe and is anyways going to reach it's destination along with the train.
So then we get more confidence and are willing to put down more of our luggage until we put down our final piece.
Thank you David for this salami approach which further led me to extrapolate Bhagawan's theory of the man on the train with luggage on his lap.
Hope I'm on the right track.
I like your analogy even more than the one given by David Godman. Why fuss with holding luggage when both you and the luggage are being carried by the same train?
@@vanglover6030 Thank you for your kind comments. At the end of the day it's all Bhagawan's grace which helps us understand his teachings better. It's very important for us to understand that all is Prarabdha. The Prarabdha theory helps us to Surrender to Bhagawan.
The challenge is when we forget to do so when the real test of time is in front of us. That's when we start thinking Oh! I have to do this n I have to do that. David has explained this point very well in this video where he says once you surrender you surrender completely. Then you don't keep going out n bringing the garbage back into your house. Our problem is we do selective surrender.
May Bhagawan's grace help us all in surrendering completely. 🙏
So beautiful, David, all that you have shared🙏🙏
David, thank you very much for shedding light on Bagavan's teaching and experiences. These videos help cement the truth in me little by little. I wish I will be able to look into the eyes of such a being as Bagavan, someday. You are truly doing god's work. Also, watching the videos you talk in gives me a sense, that you would emanate more presence through them, if you took longer pauses between words.
this video is going to change me and i'm going to watch it again and again. loved how to surrender part.
Thank so much for sharing your experience and knowledge of Ramana and his devotees!
You ended it with a broad smile on my face by telling the story that all mosquitoes would be enlightened 😊
Thanks David it has been amazing to hear you !! Thanks a lot!!
🙇🏻♀️ Prayers for you Sir🙏
Beautiful and enlightening topics. Thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you so much.
Loved the stories and examples starting at 3 min. Give up and surrender the thought that I am the doer, by surrendering little things over and over.
5:21 I have being worried about my 95 year old mother for the past 4 years, what a load. Thank you David!
My Grandmother just passed on this month at 105 1/2 years and two days young. She tried to teach me to worry but I wouldn't listen. Hang in there.
@@zoharflax6363 I guess you mean she told you NOT to worry? She was blessed with longevity, peace and wisdom. May we all enjoy the same.
@@zoharflax6363 I agree with Vicara Vitakka that your grandmother tried to teach you "not" to worry! Jesus on the cross: "My father, thy will, not mine, be done". Our little brain is so structured it has very limited power to comprehend ourselves and the universe, space and time. By surrendering to God(or SELF), you are allowing another unproportionately infinite power to flow through you and your world; you do not let that little ego get in the way of karma's big operation.
@@vicaravitakka8332 I started to realize, longevity only buys time for us to work towards Self Realization. Once we realize SELF, there will no life or death. Even the great scientist Albert Einstein understand space and time are all illusions (but only intellectual understanding, not enlightened like Ramana Maharshi).
Thank you, David. When I have questions, you appear by the Grace of God and immediately answer them--love the magic and you❤️!
Thanks very much David.
Good man, Godman!
I'm very happy to see that you added these new videos last month. They are a great help! Thank you..
Thank you thank you David for your sharing.. Namaste
Thank you David for bringing this out for us who can't be there.
thank u for ur service david
Thanks dave
So beautiful!! Thank you David!
Muito obrigado! Brasil na escuta!🇧🇷 thanks!🤗🙏
Thank you for the inspiration 🙏
thank you!!
Thank you so much
💐🙏🙏🙏
Thank you..its wonderful...
May the Blessing of our Great Seer' Bhagavan Sri Ramana accompany you always. _Paul
Really helpful video. Also, helps me to realise that it isn’t easy to stop wandering mind. Its a long process, which stops me beating myself up!
NO ITS EASY. REALIZE THAT YOUR WANDERING MIND OR THOUGHTS COME OUT OF A PERSONALITY YOU ARE CREATING, MANUFACTURING. JUST TELL YOUR "I" - COME BACK TO THE SOURCE. IT WILL RETURN, & THERE YOU WILL FIND ONCE AGAIN THE 'GOD-SELF', THE REAL YOU - THE OTHER THING YOU CREATED SEEMS REAL, BUT IT'S NOT THE ABSOLUTE YOU. THE REAL YOU DOES NOT HAVE THE THOUGHTS & FEELINGS OF THE EARTH PERSONALITIES YOU CREATE. IT'S NEUTRAL I THINK. (IF I ERR IN MY EXPLANATIONS REFER TO DAVID GODMAN AGAIN.)
Thank you very much for sharing, very helpful.^
THANK YOU DAVID
Thank you Mr. Godman!
Beautiful David & Team . Great job. .
you gave new insight about Gandhiji and his devotion to Rama.
Lol, that ending was hilarious.
Thank you so much, i think this way is best for me....a daughter of god from viet nam
Great!!!!! Danke!!!yes.. stop doi g decisions.trust..you are a big Support on the way💎♥️
Wow, tremendous backdrop
Surrender is great help when enquiry seems difficult
Love this.
I like your concise explanations, listening for example to questions and answers referring to Nisargadatta are often long winded and sometimes incomprehensible but you manage to simplify things and yet remain accurate ( an author who understands his craft) Nisargadatta's talks on prior to consciousness sounds like an atheist talking, death means death, without awareness there can only be death, a wave merging with the ocean sounds like death to me.
great channel!!!
Thank you so much
Thank you 🙏
WOW. REMARKABLE.
Meraviglioso 🙏💟
Wonderful video!
I find it interesting that people, the people who are awake in their heart, seek so much to connect with "God" I did this and still do, but at the same time have come to a place where probably daily I feel to clearly be in the presence of the divine and have come to somewhat take it for granted. As in I witness the divine mastery of creation doing things beyond chance, showing vision/ intervening with intricate precision that only a god could do, intimately present, aware of the slightest nuance, and also the bigger picture. Yes God is always present, yes we are all part of it. Then I lose focus and snap back into dealing with things of this world, but am learning to take it all with a grain of salt for indeed it's temporary and divine union is a constant if we awaken. Yes so I find it interesting that he say union with god when he was a child, and then Maya in its many forms distracted him, until by grace he found his way back to the reality of what some may call god. I resonate with this, i saw miracles as a child, now I realize they are happening constantly.
Namaskar❤❤
Thank You
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5:40 Lol! When I first heard it I thought David said, "If you want to kill granny that's a bonus..."
me too
Alejandro: He said HEAL Granny!
Susie Dancer you may need to more carefully read the original comment
Bayan: OH! Yes, you are right. I didn't notice the Lol at first. Thanks for the correction! Now I see.
Or, the word 'first'. Oh man, I sure do have filters I wasn't aware of!
Very good advice! Please Use It Daily! Blessings
Good luck to them
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Thank you
I respectfuly disagree with Mr David on minute 29:10. I experienced enlightenment at age 22 spontaneously. I had to take ice cold showers everyday because the little place I rented didn't have a water heater. I was too busy working days and studying at nights to worry about the future or the past. I had an experience in which I could feel every atom of the objects around me and I used to feel sorry for other people since I knew they couldn't feel the Joy I was feeling. Since in my cultural background this experiences were unknown I didn't understood what had happened to me. I was just joyful beyond words. Over the months and years I slowly came back to "normal" life since I didn't know until years later that I had achieved enlightenment without even knowing what it was. Now that I know what the experience was, I am going to start working my way back to it. I am going to start with lucid dreams and take it from there. Blessings to you all.
Question: 'Can someone be mistaken that they have realised the Self, but really haven't?" - Answer: "Yes, of course, the very thought 'I am Self realised' is a mistake, there is no 'I am this or I am that' in the natural state." - Sri Nisargdatta Maharaj.
Merci , pour nous avoir donné votre temps pour comprendre, nous espérons que vous continuerez de nous conter l'histoire d'un homme qui vécu avec tant de gentillesse, d'amour , envers ses semblables, nous commençons à ouvrir les yeux que chacun doit trouver en soi comme disait Ramana Maharshi nous sommes tous égaux, son message est universel, merci de Belgique
Thank you! You are That!
What do you mean by 'That'?
Thank you so much for these valuable sharings. Blessed Sowdhama ..
David, i think all of us would like to know your personal experiences of self-realization.
I think David is still on path. I sometimes feel that Self has other plans for him and all the human kind :); just like Ramana.
The Self (and Ramana) has never had any preferences, nor any plans. Ramana has stated this himself. You are confusing the Self with Ishwara, the creator of the World.
How will it benefit anyone if David tells about his personal realization experience? Please don’t treat realization like a PMP certification where everyone asking a certification holder about his / her exam experience.
Bhagavaan says in ullathu narpathu if someone says “ I know myself “ or “ I don’t know myself “ both are laughable statements . How can anyone simplify self realization than Bhagavaan?
TheKStuart YES... thanks for pointing that out. How slippery the mind can be.
Maicol X777 He is sharing the Self is all his talks and his work! It is Self-evident!
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epic :)
I wonder what UG krishnamurti would say about some of these extraordinary storirs!
It’s traditional African idea of Nyame or God ,running the show ,even before Christianity
David's last name suits him well.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Mister Godman, please in spanish, many spanish speaking we need your knoledge 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
At around 11.45 to 12 in this clip you have mentioned that Devotion is not complete surrender.
I want to understand then aren't devotion or yoga or maps n taps necessary before you do Self enquiry? Didn't Sarda ma also go through so much rigour with her balti towards Laxmana swami before her ego finally merged with her Self?
I ask this because I feel self enquiry is a very straightforward path and I enjoy it every bit. But it worries me when I read about the difficulties gone through by the chakras like Meets hai or Tukaram. Why should it be so easy for me then?
Surrendering is like emptynes. You are empty in the now. Devotion is wanting. You are thinkin of something all the time. ?
Sometimes I heard Papaji talking with admiration about the Buddha.
It is said that among his last words was the sentence: "Where is the Buddha, where is the Buddha?"
Can you tell us about Papaji's relationship with Buddha?
Thank you.
When Papaji was young he immitated the Buddha is what I know.
It is pure Grace to just hear these stories that revolve around Ramana and his devotees ! Pranams to Sri Ramanaya and all his beautiful followers !!! THANK YOU David for sharing with us !!! There is a spiritual Power in your words, that is directly absorbed by my body. Some years ago, when I soaked up your videos on TH-cam, the charge was so much, that it was too much for my head. At some point it accumulated into an experience, that felt like a "dropkick from God straight into my brain". It was very intense and quite scary. But also very beautiful :) It happened during the video "Papaji (part 1)".
I had similar experience, you described it beautifully.
Machiel van Dijk i might be insufficiently informed but from what i know at one time he was a fervent Krisna devotee
www.satsangbhavan.net/papajis-biography/, also 12:05
@@Machielovic Yes, as a kid he acted as a buddhist munk and gave lectures about buddhism, just because he got inspired from Buddhas picture, even though he didn't have any idea about those things. Later he was a Krishna Bhakta big time for decades. Check David's Papaji videos+ interviews on YT, hilarious stories there.
Eh...This was ment to Lawrence..☺️
Ur name is very appropriate
again the dualistic projection
xurrender to self
I’ve read several accounts that it’s a myth that Gandhi said RAM when he was dying. It’s a romantic story but most likely not true.
This person came to me he asked who taught you to stairs like this. I said why you came to me
Such extremity and intensity are not necessities for awakening, dramatic though such stories are. As Romana has repeatedly reminded us, the self is always present and obvious if we can but release our attention from the fixations which have claimed us and simply behold it. But because such a revelation is suspiciously simple for most, and they need to feel the experience of having made extreme effort, whether it is necessary or not, it will be for the most part, rejected and complexified, by both westerners and easterners alike.
Nevertheless, what Ramana, Jesus and send Master Bankei consistently taught we're not metaphorical, conceptual, or abstract insights, but very immediate and empirical Revelations.
Choose complexity, effort and time if you will, or she's playing the drama game and simply see.
If there is no I then how can I have a previous life? Also the word "self" is very confusing. Maybe it comes from a Sanskrit word that got mistranslated or something?
The previous life comes from the subtle body composed of mind, thoughts etc and causal body which take reincarnation because of preexisting karma
Any REAL guru still alive?
Yep. Check out Mata Amritanandamayi (www.amma.org)
The real guru is you
@@anitha639 Thank you ❤️
Lakshmana Swamy and Saradamma:
mathrusrisarada.org/
Is “David Godman” his real name or ashrama initiate name?
As far as i know, the ashram did not initiate anyone. I think David Godman is his real name. He is, if i am not mistaken, Irish. I have met him once at Thiruvannamalai when i went there to stay in the ashram.
@@2sridhark You're correct; it's his given name.
Handing things over to a higher power to solve things seems to go against Ramana's idea that we are living life according to a script i.e. determinism. I would replace the word script with causality, life consists only of causal events over which we have no control. Even your reactions are causal because they are governed by your genetic scaffolding and nurture along with other causal events in your life; friends, workplace etc.
Consider that just before the big bang all possibilities must have been present; when the big bang happened that was a causal event; from that moment on there was only one set of causal events that could happen; causality governed everything in the universe that would happen or will ever happen; whether you turned right at the junction instead of left was causality at work. Jesus could only ever have been Christ, Siddhartha Gautama could only have ever been the Buddha, Adolph Hitler had to be the fuehrer. Enlightenment will happen or not happen as a causal event; it can't be changed, you are a conduit not a switch.
As far as the story goes....so that woman EXPERIENCED the ego as an entity that banged around in her head and caused her pain? C'mon.
Question your appetite for stories.
Question yours for conjecture on same.
5g of magic mushrooms should do the trick in one afternoon. Not decades of practice to get rid of the practitioner.🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄
All the jnanis in the comments suggesting "how to" realize self
Salami??? I hope you mean vegan salami.
Sir, I really appreciate you're work and at the same time you really have been fortunate to be with those great souls and it is possible that you silently sip the nectar of it and inspire us to be in line of that. I salute you sir.
Thank you David
Thank you!
Thank you.
7:56 "You can't throw the whole sausage at God." Now that is a quote, people
@Khurram Aziz nigga what?
@Khurram Aziz...then what? 🙏
I need to watch this every day.... Thank you Mr.Godman!