Dave Gilibank interview with David Godman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- On January 24th 2021 I was interviewed by Dave Gilibank. He runs a group for recovering addicts that focuses on surrender to a higher power. His TH-cam channel, entitled 'Here's Tom with the Weather,' includes interviews with several spiritual figures on the topic of surrender.
His channel is here:
/ @herestomwiththeweathe...
Dave started off asking his own questions, but as the interview progressed, he included queries sent in by viewers who were watching it live.
In two places the film jumps a little. This is because of technical issues, one with the internet and one due to a slight camera malfunction. Apologies for the slight lack of continuity in these places.
I have read all of David’s books and blogs. I have watched all of his TH-cam videos and for me David is my teacher. For me when David speaks I can hear Bhagavan talking through him. The amount of insights and clarity he has given me I will never be able to put into words. David is a true gift from Bhagavan. Thank you David, but most importantly, thank you Bhagavan 🙏
He speaks straight forward and doesn't put on the whole "I'm as calm as a Buddhist monk in touch with another realm" act so many so called gurus do.
@@chiefcheeser Agreed and well said.
Agreed!! Me too!
@@shaneashby5890where have u reached
As soon as l heard David Godman speak with the voice of Bhagawan, as it were, my life changed and it's unrecogniseable after just a few months. I haven't ready any books yet, although l've bought a few ❤
The Future will give David all the credit he truly deserves, for all his work. Invaluable. Thank you so much, David!
I don’t think he’s after getting any “credit”. Thank you David!!
If such a brave woman tells it like you, it will give. :)
He has it now 🙏
David Thank you
The Now will too. 🙏🏻 Namaste, David.
May you be blessed a thousand times, David. What a pleasure to hear you flow like this...
follow a channel name called "kanth Risa".... he actually tells about the ramana maharshi and other gurus...he himself is an enlightened man... but it is in telugu... but u can call his number or talk to him on youtube comments... he can speak english as well... he will give u the way to do self enquiry...
David Godman's compilation "Be As You Are" is one of the best books on Ramana Maharshi's teaching! God bless him!
In my 20s I ploughed through Buddhist books from different schools of thoughts and got more confused than ever - what is right, what is wrong, what is the middle way?; then was bingeing on Conspiracies stuffs and watched most of the videos on Gaia. Then I stumbled upon Mooji, then Papaji and Ramana Maharshi. Throughout my life since the start of 20s when I start university there is this deep sense of spiritual hunger. After immersing myself with Ramana's materials, the "I" now can't help it but BE quiet. I no longer have opposing thoughts in my head about the matters of career and relationships. Surrender and let things unfold. Everything is done, just enjoy the ride. I would like to thank David for this channel and the books you wrote.
Also recommend Krishnamurti
@@lioninvesting4676 yes his teaching is the same,talking of teachers my mother(who is our first teacher) met him (Krishnamurti)
@@lioninvesting4676 Krishnamurti never gave straight answer to anything. He answers everything with a question.
The I is mind(mine) created from sensory experience in the brain,to continue it becomes the observer as someone a individual any teaching will strengthen the allusion of the individual
What David said about being led to Ramana is true for me. I was following another method for many years and then 22 yrs ago I had a vision of Ramana, I didn’t know it was him. I was then re connected to a previous meditation teacher I had in 1982, and he introduced me to Ramana! I haven’t looked back!
follow a channel name called "kanth Risa".... he actually tells about the ramana maharshi and other gurus...he himself is an enlightened man... but it is in telugu... but u can call his number or talk to him on youtube comments... he can speak english as well... he will give u the way to do self enquiry...
'Classic addiction' to spirituality. The only addiction that truly matters. Thank you for sharing🙏🏼
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Then you better NEVER listen to Paul Hedderman !
The way I took it he was referring to the thinking mind thinking he can figure out what can’t be figured out by reading more books on spiritualism.
David you're a blessing to us! Thank you
follow a channel name called "kanth Risa".... he actually tells about the ramana maharshi and other gurus...he himself is an enlightened man... but it is in telugu... but u can call his number or talk to him on youtube comments... he can speak english as well... he will give u the way to do self enquiry...
David - an immense gratitude for your dedication, hard work and kindness in sharing the teaching of the great masters: Ramana, Papaji, Sri Nisargadatta, Annamalai Swami, Sadhu Om and others. Immense, immense gratitude.
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Thanks a lot David. Your talks, interviews are really helpful in understanding the essence of Bhagavan s teachings. I don't miss any of them. Thanks again!
Thank you David for all that you do. 🙏
Many thanks to both of you for this great interview. A rare insight into David Godmans's own perspective, very inspiring. Also , a certain other interviewer of spiritual people of could take lessons from Dave Gilibank into how inquire without making it look like a grilling. There are three interviews on the interweb of David Godman that made me feel very uncomfortable with his almost aggressive approach. So kudos to you Dave G for your gentle style.
I believe you are referring to Buddha at the gas pump dude?Rick Archer? If so I agree. He is super passive/aggressive. Am I correct?
@@keithoyoung34 In my opinion Rick Archer, like Dave Gilibank, did an excellent job of interviewing David.
I very much appreciate that Rick has interviewed David more than once. I enjoy those discussions very much.
@Bernard Times are different; we must exert care not to toss out the occasional baby with the (TH-cam) bathwater. Sometimes, a person describing an illuminating experience isn't professing enlightenment; they're just telling were happened. These can be beneficial to the traveler on the path.
Big hug from Chicago David! Thanks gor your work!
Can't thank you enough, whenever I have doubts I hear you speak u have made Ramana accessible to me 🙏🙏🙏🙏
💫✨💖✨💫Infinite thank you dear David Godman and David. Always a delight to hear from you. We are blessed to get guidance from you in this era.
🎵💖🎵There is something about Mr Godman that makes us feel Maharshi's infinite blissful presence, beyond names, words, etc. But definitely efforts for self realization speed up with your guidance. Om Tat Sath. 🙏💖💜💟💝💙💚💛💖💫✨🌟
How cool to hear the 12 steps mentioned in this spiritual light. They saved my life decades ago and Step 11 is my absolute favorite.
I discovered David Godman via Anthony Chene's channel and have been reading him ever since.
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Paz y luz, everyone.
When you have grown up all your life being treated like you don't exist its hard to even believe you exist! How beautiful it is to find out you not only exist but are all one giant essence of awareness now just to give the thoughts and past over.
Thank you David for all the things you've done to clarify Sri Ramana's teachings, I just couldn't understand any of them until I jumped into all the books and interviews you've done. Before that it was like trying to grasp water...
And Guru Vachaka Kovai is a supreme masterpiece, wow!
follow a channel name called "kanth Risa".... he actually tells about the ramana maharshi and other gurus...he himself is an enlightened man... but it is in telugu... but u can call his number or talk to him on youtube comments... he can speak english as well... he will give u the way to do self enquiry...
I had the wonderful pleasure of communicating with David,, purchasing one of his books that he personally mailed from India. Such a short personal contact still cherished
Thank you, David🙏🏻😌
Excellent presentation
Bhagavan Ramana ‘s teaching the ultimate highway path for happiness 🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺
David, thank you for all you have given us. I have watched all your videos and have many of your books. You have kept the words of the Master alive more than anyone else. You deserve a rest, I hope you go and enjoy the rest of your life. I have enjoyed every single word you have spoken or written. God bless you my friend.
It's not hard work, and I don't need a break or a rest from it.
@@David_Godman Good, because as long as you publish information I will consume it.
Thanks for all that you do.
@@David_Godman i have been lucky to of known some enlightened people,and i have been there (although my self stu was dropped on the way) many times,but im still stu most of the time. once a master said to me "i am you just at a different time" then light shone from his eyes,and i knew every book in his room of book cases and where each item in the room came from his travels,all these people thanking you should know "they are you" as we are all ramana,just at a different time,no need to follow anyone,but great words and ideas can help us remember if you like.... stu (son of eric mcgough the theosphist)
🙏🏼🌿🍃pranams david godman always so wonderful to see you and hear you
Very interesting and inspiring conversation. Thank you so much David!
Thank you from Maribor, Slovenia.
Thank you from Manila, Philippines.
I liked the story about the guy who had a house falll in his lap. That story was helpful to me.
All of your answers validated my own understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings, point by point.
Thank you for this presentation.
Lovely discussion. Thanks 🙏
Thank you so much for your prescious work. NOWADAYS It may even save lives... thank you again and again Elisabeth from Austria
Beautiful 😍 thank you so much! Much love and gratitude 🙏
Terrific talk and many pertinent questions. Thank you.
GVK by Godman et al is my all-time favorite book also. Power radiates from the words.
Here are just some of the many points that jumped out at me in this video that others may find interesting:
32:12 hold onto "I"
36:50 surrender problems to a higher power
41:15 free-will
45:15 be aware of the subject “I”
Thank you so much. GRATITUDE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
For some unknown reason I love listening to David Goldman I don’t even know how I came across him
Yes, I'm so glad I did. I'm so grateful. Will savour his words.
Keep the videos coming David. Love your work
Thank you David, I just purchased the book from your website!
I have been searching for the way to practice going within and David you have just explained that brilliantly. Something about Sri Ramana is pulling me in like a magnet. I have spent the last month watching and listening to Sri Nochur’s talks on Aksharamana malai, and just want more and more. I prayed and said help me clarify the practice and the next morning, your interview and talks came up on my screen. So last four days, I have been watch all your talks on Bhagavan. Amazing. And today’s interview is the icing on the cake. Thank you so much David. You have been sent down By Bhagavan. 🙏🙏
Really good interview. Good job, Dave Gilibank.
I was introduced to Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi by David Godman. I was born in India and I did hear of Bhagwan many times but did not know much about his teachings. Now I know Bhagwan through David Godman and Arthur Osborne. I have many of David's books. I have watched all of David's videos on TH-cam. David explained how to practice faith by handing over your problem to the higher power. I have full faith in David Godman's words and Bhagwan's grace. So I paused this video and just passed on my problem that has left me broken and defeated over the last one and a half years. My numerous attempts got me no success.
Bhagwan it's all yours now ....do whatever you want with it 🙏
Thanks for your inspiration David. Much appreciative of how you explain things so clearly. I'm enjoying one of your books, 'Be As You Are'. Also found the documentaries you helped with of Sri Ramana's life extremely moving.
Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much, David!
Thank You so very much David 🙏❤️🌹
Simply amazing, every time I listen to David
David must be born for this message for people around world, he just didn't know it when he was a baby. his messages wake up people from just eat. sleep. Work. having kids ,,,,,,,,, keep shining through Ramana, bravo
I love this podcast!!!
Thanks a lot for adding the captions.. Excellent.
Subtitles haven't appeared yet, but I hope they will be available soon.
Thank you. I have enjoyed this interview. It gave me invaluable resources. 🙏
Well said, that man!
great interview, thank you...
Great!!! Thank you 🙏🏼
More I listen to David more strongly I feel that he is like crtitical "bridge" between self-realized beings like Ramana Maharishi and common folks like me. He is that essential link and I feel lucky to have heard to his words, hints & explanations.
David is one of those real diamonds. He do not promote himself as many well known teachers on the west, he is just the guy who wrote some books but in reality he is the real deal !
So right !
I think a more direct and succint answer to David R's ("from west coast as well") question is: yes we circle back to "ego I". After all there is only one "I". As Ramana says (in the booklet "Who am I?", p.19, answer to Q.10) "... like a stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then there is Self-realization." In this statement stick is the analog of "ego I." I may be wrong.
Brilliant interview.
Great questions and answers!!
Thank you!
I met David Godman some 5 or 6 years ago when i went visiting Ramanashrama at Thiruvannamalai.
A great person. Very humble.
Feels like David was born to bring Ramana to the western world. Pranams.
A great blessing from Bhagavan using David as a conduit in helping seekers and non seekers find the one true eternal path back to Swarupa
Thank you so much, I learnt alot from this 💙🙏
Respect to David
the animals are so friendly with RAMANA because ramana maharshi think of them as self, we are all in one. treat them as you want to be treated, and he understood we are as compassion being! priceless expensive video and never asked for money on us to understanding of possession of true wealth as a person. just like ramana and papaji. celebrating
Ramana barely spoke to visitors. He sat in silence. Bypassing ego, intellect and the usual barriers of approximate language.
yes what a way,when visitors ego came wanting to pull him apart to get his answers,and no dout got themselves pulled apart ;-)
Namasté, Gracias y Saludos
37:00 - 44:31 Practical Way to handle problems 🙏, Gratitudes to you ❤.
Thank you Sir
In the style of Bhagavan
You've given a lot a clues
How to surrrender everything and myself to Bhagavan.
Again
Thank you very much
Om Namo Bhagavathe SriRamanaya
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blessings.....
If you "Do" self-inquiry, you will do until your death. In doing there is a doer, that is, MOTIVE. Do you SEE how thought has tricked you all?
I have heard David Godman say in one of the videos that once a man asked Bagawan,"I have done self-inquiry for last 25 years and I have not attained anything, and Bagawan seemed to have replied, in that case, do it for another 25 years".
The only fact Bagawan is trying to help you SEE is the fact that "I" is just a thought, it is NOT independent of THOUGHT.
When thought is not there, is there a thinker? Thinker and Thought are one and the same. For example, a computer that you use or a mobile phone exists whether you think about it or not, but the "I" is there when there is no thought? "I" exists as long as thought exists. The final answer is "I" is just a THOUGHT. It's not a reality. Just grasp this TRUTH and be extremely alert. The day will come automatically but you may not know when and where. Alertness! Alertness! Alertness! That's all you can do.
Thank you
Thank you!
Enlightenment is not caring about enlightenment...don’t be so concerned with having all the answers...live your life instead! ❤️
You will be lived anyway whether you think your choosing it or not
@@omnpresentevidence this is true
David is the greatest.
I will be forever grateful for the "surrender technique", haha !
❤thank you 🙏🏼
True Art....Transforming thoughts into Pure Awareness...The substratum...
It’s hard to keep saying no but I can do it. Thank u
Thanks Sri
Cease your wandering mind and perverted ways-Ramana Maharshi would often remark.❤❤❤
Jai Bhagavan🕉💜🕉
Thanks David🙏
I left a long comment this morning. Now it is gone. Oh well... I wish I had copied and pasted it somewhere so that I could repeat. I'm really disappointed. Nonetheless, thank you David. You're a blessing to me.
Всем намасте ❤️. Хотела бы спросить у Годмана (надеюсь что он живет ещё в Лакнау) есть ли такой мастер как Пападжи сейчас в Лакнау. Буду благодарна ❤️🙏
Re: 36:20 Suffering leads to surrender. No surrender from position of comfort.
Coming out the other side, we bless our suffering.
"...ruthless self dissection " - Yogananda
DEAR DAVID. PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON ROBERT ADAMS. AS I HAVE READ HIS BOOKS AND FIND HIM THE CONTINUATION OF BHAGVANS RAMANA TEACHINGS. 😇💞💗💫💥🤝🙏
@Bernard THIS IS ALL HEARSAY. I HAVE READ THE COLLECTED WORKS OF OF ROBERT ADAMS WHICH IS 2355 PAGES VOLUME. HIS TEACHINGS ARE SAME AS WHAT RAMANA THOUGHT. YOU CAN GET THE PDF COPY ON GOOGLE. PLEASE READ IT AND THEN COMMENT.
THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK.
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@Bernard PAPAJI ALSO QUOTES FROM ROBERT ADAMS BOOKS. 😇🙏🤝💫💞
@@sebastiandsouza5916 From the decades of association with my Satguru Ramana whom 'appeared' to me since 1977 in USA, Puerto Rico and India ..i haven't seen His stature in any of later personalities like Nirsagadata, Papa (Poonja/ i left out the 'ji' which is not part of a name, but self promotion. Like Moo 'ji' )
He that feels the Divine Presence of Lord Ramana does not need nor gets interested in nonIllumined so called physical 'Gurus'.
Only unripe sadhakas feel that they 'need' a physical and doubtful Guru.
If they concentrate on a Satguru Ramana ...He directs them to 'turn' to the Real and Divine Guru of one's true Self ...WITHIN.
Ommmm
"Sacred Cow Yoga" {my TH-cam}
@Bernard thoroughly mistaken !
Just a comment - The host, at the end, just shouldn't have announced who the next guest is going to be while David Godman is still on, it just commoditizes the whole talk/experience, which has been so special all along. Might well could be a cultural issue tho, but my 2 paisa FWIW.
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Brilliant insight at 1:10:00 about the ego/ mind being like the TH-cam algorithm.
Absolutely
Hello good people. David mentions the name of a swami I've never heard of before (at 17:47). He spoke of him as being the last of the direct lineage. Could someone please tell me how to spell his name. Thank you
Maybe you have already found the answer but David is talking about Lakshmana Swamy.
It's important to understand that Ramana left no lineage. The individual Lakshmana Swamy was simply the last remaining old devotee that was at the ashram when Ramana was alive. Ramana did not have successors, not did he claim any living person to be Self realized. He authorized no teachers to carry on his teachings. Not Papaji, Not Lakshmana.
Thanks from Madrid, Davids.
I remember after the awakening…needing a guru…I went to a website called the gurus feet….so many wanted money….then the picture of Ramana….bammm…and no moneies were asked for….13 years later….my beloved Ramana…
Thank you David. My only concern is that, if life is really good for 99% of the life, and only 1% of suffering, why would I want to be liberated? I’ve not quite decided if I want to be liberated or not. I do feel like I have one foot in the material and one in the spiritual- I’m quite confused tbh
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great. thanks!
You are so much like paramahansa Yogananda
"Arunachala is truly the holy place. Of all holy places it is the most sacred! Know that it is the heart of the world. It is truly Siva himself! It is his heart-abode, a secret kshetra. In that place the Lord ever abides the hill of light named Arunachala." - Ramana Maharishi
I prefer to do enquiry when out walking, starting with visualising the mind being put to one side on a shelf. After about an hour the level of thinking is reduced to a trickle. Then I do enquiring - something happens which I can't put my finger on but when I have to start thinking about worldly things again, it's like putting on an ill fitting suit! Quite uncomfortable!
At which minute mark does David describe his own practice? Thank you.
Can someone tell me who the cranky guru who sold cigarettes was? Keep missing the name
Nisargadatta.
@@jazzsnare thank u
God is a conscious singularity and the consciousness within all sentient being is of the same essence .
I wonder if Lakshmana Swami still lives in the Ashram now in 2024
We might be battling the unknown if they don’t - Once you know Father Christmas isn’t real, you can never get back to believing he’s real again ??? Not knowing what had happened would have been intolerable - I’m finding that there’s something else going on, nothing to do with reading a book ??? - It’s strange, it’s like it’s not in the words but maybe it wouldn’t be happening without the words ??? - It’s definitely not in the ideas and yet maybe it wouldn’t be happening without the ideas, maybe it would be, people go on silent retreats !!! And that’s the system itself - The things/objects are over (Cloak) emphasised and the awareness is under-played - (Thus awareness is not being conscious, it’s what we’re conscious of - To tell you your trapped by inferring that there is a you which could be free to think there’s a better way -
But there’s an ideation of an image called selfing - The mental state points to the after as being the before - (Language emphasis there is an us and uses the subjective experience to make an object of ideation IE: Your the all that’s been thinking about)
But there isn’t a self doing the selfing that implies there’s a self doing it - There’s a mechanical system doing: Thus is reinforcing the nouning that your not - Not. ‘Knot’
Mamma has died in the night - Looking from the bondage of self (As self) - Contracted energy or pseudo eye strap from chest to head over cloaked by a superimposed phantom which orchestrates the Trinity which actuates the body.
It may have a real importance to being wrong because it will be right about how wrong it believes you are, so your wondering why your messing things up because then it can be right about how wrong you are. Narcissus and Hermes Trismegistus),
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