👋 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT & FREE SAMPLE: Michael and Sandra announced in the Q&A video on 5th August 2023 the book launch ‘Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses on What Is - The ultimate truth on being as you actually are’: th-cam.com/video/5Um4S63wClc/w-d-xo.html 🎁 A free book sample is available (includes ‘Introduction by Michael James’) on u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZol6NVZvajJMSyzNgz6hM4lY75mkzrbjgY7 The book is available in print and e-book through Amazon. Namo Ramanaya 🙏🙏🙏
I wanted to share examples of living in the world, but not of the world as the witness, as far as having a family...Once I became identified as the witness, Mothering still happens, dog walking happens, dish washing happens and so on, but instead of feeling anxiety, stress, or doubting my abilities, I live from a place of trust and assurance that divinity is just happening through me. There is a lightness to life. I love this way much better now that I am adjusted. The deep love and assurance inside keeps growing. Life is beautiful when you just let it happen and let go. The mind will tend to overcomplicate this process.
Dear Michael If Michael’s computer breaks down, he cannot communicate with us. That requires energy and planning for Michael to rectify the situation. How is this possible if Michael does not identify - on such an occasion - with ego.
I am glad that you are now adjusted and a conduit for the divine. You have left the personal perspective and now enjoy life as consciousness, our essential nature. We're all very familiar with leaving the personal perspective after awakening from any dream. Just before we slip back into the dream called life. You awakened into the dream called life.
By effacing ego through Atma vichara or Self surrender it is very peaceful to live in this world without any limitation of the form or body mind or objectivity at the highest plane of consciousness and to expend the remaining Prarabda vasanas. Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri Arunachala Remanaya! 🙏🙏🙏
Many of us family guys would do good starting with the Bhagvad Gita (karma yoga)... and simultaneously looking to Ramanas direct teaching. Else a sense of insenserity seems to arise when we ask the mind to start looking for its own destruction when it has not reached some level of purification from thought. The Gita is a sadhana for householders that will make this final enquiry sincere by slowly introducing you to the Truth by means of selfless action (the long route, but much less steep!) Krishna and Ramana are the same. Both came to show us something in different ways. Don't feel bad. Don't chase realization. The chase itself is another chain of the mind. Read the Gita. Live a simple life and walk towards Ramana. Sometimes the scenic route is also nice. Maybe ultimately false but still nice. The dream was false but we cannot deny it "happened" right? I think if conciousness is infinite, these dreams are not merely a bad trap to be escaped, but a journey to be experienced. Be happy. We are all Ramana whether we know it or not.
you seem to be trying to justify your decisions/views to yourself. as if to say, we are all ultimately enlightened, so what does it matter if i realize it sooner, or later? your choices and your life are your own, of course (to the extent to which you exist, which in reality is not at all), but be aware that there is a cost to every choice. the sooner we realize the self and abide in it, the sooner our lives are free from worry, doubt, pain, fear, suffering.
@oln3678 I hear you. I'm a "family guy", God knows it's NOT my thing, but I ironically fell into it. Thank you God, I really appreciate the joke! And it's a hell of a surrender to internalize the mind and starve the ego.
@@michaelgusovsky most of the time Ramana gave a solid empiric basis to the confused visitors by telling them: "you can't deny that you exist". In the crowd of followers of advaita/ramane there's a strong atmosphere of fanaticism mixed with the self satisfaction of neo-advaita "nothing exist blablabla" wich doesn't sound like comprehension of the teaching but rather an obsession of a different colour, (self realization, awakening, you name it) driven by the aversion for pain, so still ego at play.
@bernhard1071Hi bernhard, you wrote "That journey is a nightmare ", but whose nightmare? "The body must accomplish the task it has been created for", "if you have things to do according to prarabdha, you won't have the choice to do it or not" etc etc. These things to do are opportunities to observe the way ego works, and so take distance from, else what? Are you going to refuse something? Who refuses anything?
@@olivierantoine8613 not sure what you are getting at. the more we abide in the self, the more deeply we understand who we are, the more pain and suffering are diminished, the more ego subsides. for me, life is relatively pain-free, and it's the bliss of union experiences which drives me, not aversion to pain. to suggest that one shouldn't do sadhana because one still has ego...well, that's your right of course, but, why bother reading bhagavan's teachings if not to practice it? it's not a fiction novel to be read about, but a reality to be experienced.
In jagrat sushupthi ..one is awake to the SELF and every activity we have to do in the workd goes on automatically and perfectly .Once we fully realise the SELF , then either 1.. we live in the world ..by hanging on to a thread of the ego which thus holds the body here ..and live here till prarabhdha karma is completed .then we drop the body .OR 2...once SELF is realised ..one becomes videhamukta ..ie he stays immersed in bliss of samadhi and drops the body within 21 days . Please let me know if my understanding is correct Michael ? Thank you .Lalitha
When you abide as yourself the person that travel in past and future disappears...you steel you as always inside the dream of wakem state...but this time in peace here and now aware of yourself...is not like in sleep ...olso i think there no such thing as a sleep altogether... it is just "time" jump in the dream story...in sleep or physical death awareness must move so new dream always created...there no such thing as pure awareness at rest ..do no realy a sleep or death
The frustration of this woman only goes to show you why this domain of ego investigation is vastly if not exclusively possible for men! There's a reason why all gurus are men. Not because of discrimination but because our minds are wired differently
These words are based on the ego’s dualistic delusion of perceiving men and women, illusory differences, and ego then creating hierarchies of one higher than the other. In other words, the ego mind takes gender and all its dream beliefs about it so seriously. People themselves aren’t real, are only imagined figures in the ego’s projected dream, and yet the ego wants to make differences between dream people so important. Yes this woman is confused but this is only a reflection of the ego deluded mind that doesn’t want to wake up and wants to continue complicating such a direct and simple teaching. Most gurus are not teaching the truth, only dualistic nonsense just like in an Alice in Wonderland dream. All outer forms of gurus are projections of the deluded ego mind, but Bhagavan is a projection of the light of truth in the mind
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👋 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT & FREE SAMPLE: Michael and Sandra announced in the Q&A video on 5th August 2023 the book launch ‘Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses on What Is - The ultimate truth on being as you actually are’: th-cam.com/video/5Um4S63wClc/w-d-xo.html
🎁 A free book sample is available (includes ‘Introduction by Michael James’) on u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZol6NVZvajJMSyzNgz6hM4lY75mkzrbjgY7
The book is available in print and e-book through Amazon.
Namo Ramanaya
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Thank you.Michael..💗🙏
This is one of the most significant clips I've heard ❤
Wow! I had this question for a long time, which was resolved today.
I wanted to share examples of living in the world, but not of the world as the witness, as far as having a family...Once I became identified as the witness, Mothering still happens, dog walking happens, dish washing happens and so on, but instead of feeling anxiety, stress, or doubting my abilities, I live from a place of trust and assurance that divinity is just happening through me. There is a lightness to life. I love this way much better now that I am adjusted. The deep love and assurance inside keeps growing. Life is beautiful when you just let it happen and let go. The mind will tend to overcomplicate this process.
Dear Michael
If Michael’s computer breaks down, he cannot communicate with us. That requires energy and planning for Michael to rectify the situation. How is this possible if Michael does not identify - on such an occasion - with ego.
@bernhard1071 She writes 'witness' but it is obvious she means 'witnessing': consciousness.
I am glad that you are now adjusted and a conduit for the divine. You have left the personal perspective and now enjoy life as consciousness, our essential nature. We're all very familiar with leaving the personal perspective after awakening from any dream. Just before we slip back into the dream called life. You awakened into the dream called life.
By effacing ego through Atma vichara or Self surrender it is very peaceful to live in this world without any limitation of the form or body mind or objectivity at the highest plane of consciousness and to expend the remaining Prarabda vasanas.
Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri Arunachala Remanaya!
🙏🙏🙏
Many of us family guys would do good starting with the Bhagvad Gita (karma yoga)... and simultaneously looking to Ramanas direct teaching.
Else a sense of insenserity seems to arise when we ask the mind to start looking for its own destruction when it has not reached some level of purification from thought. The Gita is a sadhana for householders that will make this final enquiry sincere by slowly introducing you to the Truth by means of selfless action (the long route, but much less steep!)
Krishna and Ramana are the same. Both came to show us something in different ways.
Don't feel bad. Don't chase realization. The chase itself is another chain of the mind. Read the Gita. Live a simple life and walk towards Ramana. Sometimes the scenic route is also nice. Maybe ultimately false but still nice. The dream was false but we cannot deny it "happened" right?
I think if conciousness is infinite, these dreams are not merely a bad trap to be escaped, but a journey to be experienced. Be happy. We are all Ramana whether we know it or not.
you seem to be trying to justify your decisions/views to yourself.
as if to say, we are all ultimately enlightened, so what does it matter if i realize it sooner, or later?
your choices and your life are your own, of course (to the extent to which you exist, which in reality is not at all), but be aware that there is a cost to every choice.
the sooner we realize the self and abide in it, the sooner our lives are free from worry, doubt, pain, fear, suffering.
@oln3678 I hear you. I'm a "family guy", God knows it's NOT my thing, but I ironically fell into it. Thank you God, I really appreciate the joke! And it's a hell of a surrender to internalize the mind and starve the ego.
@@michaelgusovsky most of the time Ramana gave a solid empiric basis to the confused visitors by telling them: "you can't deny that you exist". In the crowd of followers of advaita/ramane there's a strong atmosphere of fanaticism mixed with the self satisfaction of neo-advaita "nothing exist blablabla" wich doesn't sound like comprehension of the teaching but rather an obsession of a different colour, (self realization, awakening, you name it) driven by the aversion for pain, so still ego at play.
@bernhard1071Hi bernhard, you wrote "That journey is a nightmare ", but whose nightmare?
"The body must accomplish the task it has been created for", "if you have things to do according to prarabdha, you won't have the choice to do it or not" etc etc. These things to do are opportunities to observe the way ego works, and so take distance from, else what? Are you going to refuse something? Who refuses anything?
@@olivierantoine8613 not sure what you are getting at.
the more we abide in the self, the more deeply we understand who we are, the more pain and suffering are diminished, the more ego subsides.
for me, life is relatively pain-free, and it's the bliss of union experiences which drives me, not aversion to pain.
to suggest that one shouldn't do sadhana because one still has ego...well, that's your right of course, but, why bother reading bhagavan's teachings if not to practice it? it's not a fiction novel to be read about, but a reality to be experienced.
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In jagrat sushupthi ..one is awake to the SELF and every activity we have to do in the workd goes on automatically and perfectly .Once we fully realise the SELF , then either 1.. we live in the world ..by hanging on to a thread of the ego which thus holds the body here ..and live here till prarabhdha karma is completed .then we drop the body .OR 2...once SELF is realised ..one becomes videhamukta ..ie he stays immersed in bliss of samadhi and drops the body within 21 days .
Please let me know if my understanding is correct Michael ? Thank you .Lalitha
Separate from the person,happenings will happen without. Ego.
2:30 = waking sleep;
When you abide as yourself the person that travel in past and future disappears...you steel you as always inside the dream of wakem state...but this time in peace here and now aware of yourself...is not like in sleep ...olso i think there no such thing as a sleep altogether... it is just "time" jump in the dream story...in sleep or physical death awareness must move so new dream always created...there no such thing as pure awareness at rest ..do no realy a sleep or death
The frustration of this woman only goes to show you why this domain of ego investigation is vastly if not exclusively possible for men! There's a reason why all gurus are men. Not because of discrimination but because our minds are wired differently
These words are based on the ego’s dualistic delusion of perceiving men and women, illusory differences, and ego then creating hierarchies of one higher than the other. In other words, the ego mind takes gender and all its dream beliefs about it so seriously. People themselves aren’t real, are only imagined figures in the ego’s projected dream, and yet the ego wants to make differences between dream people so important. Yes this woman is confused but this is only a reflection of the ego deluded mind that doesn’t want to wake up and wants to continue complicating such a direct and simple teaching. Most gurus are not teaching the truth, only dualistic nonsense just like in an Alice in Wonderland dream. All outer forms of gurus are projections of the deluded ego mind, but Bhagavan is a projection of the light of truth in the mind
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