Michael James ‘The Real Behind All Appearances’ Interview by Iain McNay
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- Michael James ‘The Real Behind All Appearances’ Interview by Iain McNay
Author of ‘Happiness and The Art Of Being - An Introduction to the philosophy and practice of the spiritual teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana.’ Michael travelled overland to India when he was 19 to help find some deeper meaning to his life. He discovered the book ‘Who Am I’ by Ramana Maharashi and went to Tiruvannamallai where Ramana had lived to find out more about him. There he connected with Sri Sadhu Om who had been a student of Ramana Maharashi and ended up living there for 20 years. He learnt Tamil and translated many books into English. He is widely regarded now as the principle scholar of Ramana’s teachings and spends his time translating his work.
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Conscious TV I really wish you had kept this interview going for another hour. You could see Michael was only just getting warned up. Can you please bring him back for a part 2? Because this is in my opinion the best interview you have ever done.
agreed, Micheal is absolutely amazing ...
This is one the best interview have heard.
I wish and request Michael to bring part 2 of the video
His "Happiness and..." is a masterpiece. And I remember how graciously he answered my questions by mail years ago.
I did forget to say a big thanks again to the people from conscious tv whose generosity of time and effort bring us the so interesting experiences of many peoples inner journeys. It is really appreciated.
I've been dreaming this interview for a long time... Michael James is one of the most captivating teachers out there... and in here. Ian and Renate have the skil and talent to bring the best out of their guests. They are probably the most professional interviewers on spiritual matters I know.
i don't think Michael has any pretensions of being a teacher+ he is not teaching/holding stasangs as far as I know; he definitely is a scholar though on Ramana Maharshi's teachings, one of the best I have listened to/read.
Brilliant! I've listened to many of Michaels videos and I am working slowly through his book. I am deeply grateful for his clear teachings.
Brilliant interview - yes please could you bring Michael James back for another talk, still much more to be explored!
Long overdue interview. Thank you Conscious TV and thank you Michael James!
Thank you so much for Conscious TV for great spiritual awakening program.
Michael is a very divine teacher. I would have loved to have heard more.
Thanks over and over
♥ Thank you
hello Ian, please have part II, interview with Michael James, we want to hear more about the dream state and waking state (dream state)...
He’s saying the body is a thing which doesn’t count for awareness but the real you is a spirit and when you become your spirit-self, you are purely aware 🤴🏿
Omg why is the interview so short, I want to listen to him again and again and again...
This guy is the best communicator of advaita I have ever heard. I have bought the book but please get him back he is gold.
Ira is good too: th-cam.com/video/RFr_dqhSbOQ/w-d-xo.html
And Swami Sarvapriyananda: th-cam.com/video/J85Q6T2OGdc/w-d-xo.html
thank you for this! it would be great if you could invite Micheal James for a second interview, I feel it needs completion, 56 minutes was hardly enough for an introduction to atma vichara, and to the fascinating life and experience of Mr. James, thank you again!
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Thank you for this program! Simple wonderful...
For self realization to happen, that passion must be surrendered also
I have Mr James' book and I heartily recommend it. Thanks to him, and to Iain and Renate McNay for this channel.
What an interview! I love the way Iain interviews people, and Michael's wonderful explanations! Thanks to you both.
grazie Michael
thank you!
simple and beautiful.
More from Michael please
Thank god for Ian. Michael can’t seem to stay on tract. He wanders off into teaching mode and Ian brings him back. For all the yrs of sadhana Michael could use a mindfulness practice to stay attentive to the here and now.
I think I understand what he is saying with my mind but probably that is exactly wrong .I am guessing that is my ego wishful thinking. Is it like bringing light into the darkness which disappears but then who knows that. Admire his dedication and honesty and his great commitment to find his truth.
Gold
Good shit -ananda.
I mean
Great interview, great answers
"Attention" - to attend to the attention, not the objects in attention. Knowing the Knowing, not the known. Inherently self aware awareness, always present and purposeless. @27:00 Embodying this can lead to authentic behaviour and creative practical activity. The "proof " is in the pudding. 😏 Thanks for this interview - good to find out about Michael.
Can there be a middle path, structured and logical, to reach your goal?
👍
In the greens
Listening to him is hard. There's some rambling happening.
*Dreamless sleep isn't the absence of awareness, but the awareness of absence.* There is waking awareness, dream-awareness and dreamless sleep awareness. But there is awareness throughout all of these, which is called "turya" or fourth. Our day cycles through wakefulness, dreaming, and deep sleep, but turya is ever-present, throughout. This is the awareness of which Michael speaks.
This is "I"
In practical terms, if we waste awareness solely on impermanent objects, goals, our "story" (the world), then suffering is sustained )I get what I don't want, I don't get what I want). When there is abidance in objectless awareness, suffering ends. It basically means that all divisions cease. Such as opinions, beliefs, expectations, desires, etc. These are sustained by attachment to thought(s). These are thought to be what makes up the "I" but actually they make up a "me." The "I" is infinite. The "me" is born and dies along with the particular body/mind.
We continually "think" ourselves up a "me." But "I" lies beneath all of that. Inescapable, seemingly hidden, but always there. And "I" is peace. "I" is love. "I" is "God." Atman/Brahman.
How do you know ''there is awareness throughout all of these, which is called 'turya' or fourth'' ?
Have you ever been ''put under'', had anaesthesia for an operation ? And really was there any awareness then at all, or truly just nothing.
@@glenemma1 profound insight
@@glenemma1 We are aware of nothingness & the happiness associated with the deep sleep stage & recognize it after we wake up. As there is no mind or body operating during deep sleep or anesthesia, that is processed & revealed only after waking up. It is possible only because awareness is present during these stages.
@@mythiligurram6696 I'm not sure I agree with you.
After I have had an operation I am simply aware again. i am not aware of the period I was under anaesthesia. There was zero awareness then.
I am awoken, there is awareness.
I am ''under'', there is nothing.
@@mythiligurram6696 When we wake up, we are aware.
Before we wake up when under anesthesia, we are not aware.
I don't know why it follows that we are aware of nothingness after we wake ''because awareness is present during these stages''. I don't think this really makes sense. There was no awareness for me when I was under anesthesia.
I believe Michael made some mistakes while explaining. Or just that he was in flow to accidentally misuse words...Or at least he meant the right things, just that the words which got used have dual meanings and need clarification...I believe Michael will also agree.
1. At 33:43, Iain asks "When you are talking to me now, is there feeling of self wareness", to which Michael answers "Its always there in the backgrond, but I dont experience it in purity now, because I am aware of other things". Here, both Iain and Michael made subtlest mistakes. One needs to be very very careful here. The self awareness cant really be experienced. Its not the feeling, as referred to by Iain. I mean its not the experience. Its us. And we experience everything else. Michael also said "dont experience it in purity now". Again to repeat, self awareness is not the object of awareness. May be the term "self awareness" itself suggest to be aware of something called as self. But its really not like that. It really means "just dont experience anything, dont be aware of anything, what will remain after negating all things out of awareness is self awareness, it not experience or effort of trying to become aware of something called as self, its just being self, without being aware of anything else. But when we say aware of self, instead of saying just be self, we are again creating another conceptual / entity called self and trying to be aware of that". Thats why there are sentences (mahavakyas) like "Just to be".
2. At 37:50, Michael says "its mixed self awareness, not pure self awareness, awareness mixed with adjuncts..."
Corrected: Self awareness cannot be mixed, can never be impure to any extent, its always pure, untouchable. At max we can say that those other outer phenomena are appearing with self awareness as a substratum...but saying "awareness mixed with adjuncts" sounds like "awareness adulterated with adjuncts". May be I am interpreting it wrong.
Obviously the Awareness of outside things doesn't include Socks ! One less thing to be worried about i suppose ! lol.
ha ha.
That was painful. Dude is just obsessed with his hobby, which is to understand Ramana's teaching intellectually. It would be much more fruitful for him to understand why he cares about understanding Ramana's teaching.
As clear as mud.
Ah, but what is it that sees its muddiness?
There is no such thing as awareness of nothing. In deep sleep there is literally no awareness.