2024-07-03 Sandra & Michael part 2a: We are pure existence-awareness and infinite perfect happiness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Following the book launch in August 2023 of Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is, a compilation of the writings and talks of Michael James on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, Michael and Sandra have started a series of talks in which Michael explains the essential import of these verses and all of Ramana's teachings in 8 key points -- 8 talks (videos). This is the second talk with the second point: what we actually are is just pure existence-awareness (sat-cit), which is what always shines as our own being, our fundamental awareness ‘I am’, and which is the infinite fullness of perfect happiness (ānanda). After explaining the second point, Michael answers questions related to Ramana's teachings.
FREE SAMPLE OF THE BOOK:
You can find the 8 key points in the introduction that Michael wrote to this book (pp. xxxi-xxxii), which is also part of the 108-page free sample that you can download here: u.pcloud.link/publink/show?co...
There was also a reference made in the video to the following article, in which Michael is included regarding Bhagavan’s teachings (page 123 in the PDF version): “A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications" by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, host of the PBS show Closer To Truth, in 'Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology': doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio....
A clearer audio copy of this video can be listened to on Sri Ramana Teachings podcast (ramanahou.podbean.com) or downloaded from ramanahou.podbean.com/e/we-ar..., and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened on the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from mediafire.com/file/ykwzvgu9ov...
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A clearer audio copy of this video can be listened to on Sri Ramana Teachings podcast (ramanahou.podbean.com) or downloaded from ramanahou.podbean.com/e/we-are-pure-existence-awareness-and-infinite-perfect-happiness, and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened on the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from mediafire.com/file/ykwzvgu9ov8rwes
Thank You! 🙏
These videos are a great supplementary to the book, much appreciated 🙏❤️
One form of happiness not mentioned. - The happiness of listening to Michael, Sandra & Sean talking together about Bhagavan's teaching.🙏😊 I went and searched the word ‘dead’ in
‘Talks with Ramana Maharshi’,
after watching the TH-cam,
and this section from Talk 32 stood out. ---
Take the essence; reject other learned theories as useless…….
…You are not the body; what does it matter if it disappears in one way or another? There is no great merit in such phenomena. In what does superiority or inferiority consist?
Achievement of the Real alone matters.
The loss of the ‘I’ is the main fact, and not the loss of the body. Identity of the Self with the body is the real bondage.
Leave off the false notion and perceive intuitively the Real.
That alone matters.
If you melt a gold ornament before testing it to be gold, what matters it how it is melted, whole or in parts, or of what shape the ornament was?
All that you are interested in is if it is gold.
The dead man sees not his body.
It is the survivor that thinks about the manner in which the body is parted from.
The realised have no death with or without the body, the realised man is equally aware and sees no difference.
To him the one state is not superior to the other.
To an outsider also the fortunes of a liberated one’s body need not be of any concern; mind your business.
Realise the Self; after realisation there will be time to think of what form of death is preferable to you.
It is the false identity of the Self with the body that causes the idea of preference, etc.
Are you the body?
Were you aware of it when you were fast asleep last night? No! What is it that exists now and troubles you? It is ‘I’.
Get rid of it and be happy.
Arunachala, Sadhu; Munagala, Venkataramiah. Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (p. 43). Sri Ramanasramam. Kindle Edition.
Thanks for all your work Micheal
Om Namo Bhagavate Shri Arunachala Ramanay 🙏
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Short Q&A videos from this channel can be watched on youtube.com/@sriramanateachingsqa
Sorry, just saw that the first part of this series was put up one month back. Thank you so much.
th-cam.com/video/sdce7djsRpc/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
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Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai sung by Sri Sadhu Om, with English translation by Michael James, can be watched here: vimeo.com/ramanahou/am000 . For advertisement-free videos on teachings and songs related to Bhagavan Ramana, please visit vimeo.com/ramanahou and click 'showcases' on the bottom left. Each original work of Bhagavan Ramana has its own showcase with explanations of Michael James.
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Bhagavan on July 21, 1936:
"[...] Total surrender [...] Of course it needs extreme vairagyam. The desperation to do it must equal to one whose head has been pressed underneath water trying to rise to the surface to breathe, or to one whose body has been doused in kerosene and set ablaze trying to find water to fall into.
Then, and then alone, is [self-]realization made possible. Others are merely wasting time in useless prattle."
Seems nobody reading this has arrived at that stage of extreme vairagya, yet. 🙂
It's Never a little me with an interior life. That's the seeming. The seeming isn't the actuality.
46:30 Michael James: “Many things seem to us to be paradoxical. But paradox is all in the mind. When we go beyond the mind, there are n- That is, […] people say ‘oh, when Bhagavan says this, this is very paradoxical’. It seems paradoxical from our perspective because of how we view things. But actually, Bhagavan’s teachings are the resolution to all paradoxes.”
1:38 Michael: […] “The truth is, not that consciousness exists in the waking state, but that the waking state exists in consciousness.”
“And the consciousness in which waking state exists is not the pure consciousness, the pure awareness, it is only the consciousness or awareness that is called ego.”
Namo Ramanaya
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Where can we get the first part of this series.. thank you so much
When Bhagavan said ' good ' on hearing of someone's death , this is a teaching relevant to ' advanced ' seekers. On many other occasions Bhagavan would weep , out of love , with the bereaved . Did He weep at their sadness for their loss or for their misunderstanding of the situation? Maybe both ? 🙏🕉️
Actually what people "saw" was not Bhagavan crying, it was a projection of ego that was crying and that fact is relevant for all seekers and not only for so-called 'advanced' ones. *The crying was "created" by ego!*
Atma-swarupa does not cry nor have any emotions. I wonder when that will become clear for people who claim to be on Bhagavan's path?
Again, even Bhagavan, the body people saw, was not real and any emotions by him were not real too. These observed emotions may play a role within lila for immature aspirants and it may inspire them within the dream, however this is all irrelevant for aspirants who practice atma-vichara.
Sir Michael James, thanks my dear, my question always remains is that accordingto ek jiv vada There is only one Jiv or ego. Even ego is enlightened. Every other people seem to be e😊go. Should get enlightened every other seem to be other egos should get enlightened. Bhagwan is enlightened. We must have been enlightened . But Then why we are in ajgnana/ ignorance Why are we suffering?
no body of the above is enlightened why: jiva, ego, ppl, bhagavan are ideas, concepts, sentences in your language while you dream all these
@mohanbhaibhad3703: Your question is answered here:
'Other people seem to be real because we seem to be a person': happinessofbeing.blogspot.com/2021/09/other-people-seem-to-be-real-because-we.html
Once absorbed into the Absolute forever, do I come back to the body-mind and world, seeing it as illusory, or do I never regain consciousness of this unreal body-mind and world whatsoever?
I suppose that's like returning to a dream you were having upon waking up.
From the perspective of the dream, it's a nice idea that allows for the continued existence of the ego. But when was the last time you pined to return to a dream at the expense of the waking state? The idea itself can only be seriously entertained in the dream state, and would become redundant upon waking up.
Sri Ramana taught ajata vada, which is to say that the 'dream' ends. It also means Sri Ramana is a character in the dream whose purpose is to spur the dreamer into action, and not one of many enlightened beings who have awakened, as there can be only one awakening - the dreamer's.
In truth, no one can tell you anything about your nature beyond this waking state with any authority. The best recourse is to observe the shift from dream to waking state.
It won't tell you what you are, but it points to the idea that you may not be what you seem, which is a starting point for all.
One might then view Ramana and his teachings as an aspect of your self who tells you what you want to be told to finish up this game of hide and seek once and for all.
@vicvinegar6787 Upon waking from a dream, night time dream, the thread slips upon "waking." Really, the wake state could be thought of as another dream. Neither is permanent nor real, although both can be quite convincing.
@@kodyrrr Precisely. Not only quite convincing, but while in the dream state it is 100% convincing, and only seen for what it is once awake.
It's likely why Ramana used this analogy, as it should be obvious to anyone the parallel being drawn on an experiential level.
To the original commenter, ajata vada is clear: there is no creation. This was Ramana's teaching.
Not everyone can accept this. And why should they? It's at odds with their experience. From the point of view of the waking state, the idea of the 'fourth' state is illogical and incongruous with the current experience.
And that's why the experience of the dream state is key. It offers a glimpse into how a seemingly real world can, in an instant, become a phantom memory, leaving nothing but the dreamer...not even the character the dreamer identified with in dream.
@@vicvinegar6787 If you could enter that state, that one-way ticket, would you do so right now?
@@jazzsnare While I'd like to say yes, the answer is probably no. My suffering has not yet pushed me to the edge.
I chose 'no' some 15 years ago when the opportunity presented itself. In a split second, despite the comfort of the bed, I was certain I was going to die if I didn't jolt myself out of what was happening. Incredible fear took over, I freaked out, and it stopped. I failed then and would probably fail again.
This is what Michael is always referring to. The answer is simple and obvious. We can go whenever we want. But I personally don't have the will or courage to see it through, no matter how much I think I want it.
The practice, then, is to cultivate that love to let go. And it seems that life has a habit of putting you in circumstances that get you closer to desiring that love above any experience you could have here.
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