Ashtavakra Gita: You Are Only The Witness, Formless & Free
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- Let's cover a beautifully simple, yet incredibly profound teaching from the Ashtavakra Gita, which points directly at your true nature.
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Q: How is knowledge to be achieved, detachment acquired, liberation attained?
A: To be free, shun the experiences of the senses like poison. Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, simplicity, truth.
You are not earth, water, fire, or air. Nor are you empty space. Liberation is to know yourself as awareness alone, the witness of these. Abide in awareness with no illusion of person. You will be instantly free and at peace.
You have no caste or duties, you are invisible, unattached, formless. You are the witness of all things. Be happy. Right and wrong, pleasure and pain, exist in mind only. They are not your concern. You neither do or enjoy. You are free. You are the solitary witness of all that is, forever free. Your only bondage is not seeing this.
The thought “I am the doer” is the bite of a poisonous snake. To know I do nothing is the wisdom of faith. Be happy. A single understanding, I am the one awareness, consumes all suffering. The fire of an instant. Be happy.
0:00 Intro
0:33 Quote
3:53 Keep returning to the fact of witnessing
11:13 You have to put this to the test
13:30 Guided meditation
33:30 Summary of the talk
41:07 School of Awakening
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This is a wonderful teaching, thanks so much. Very precious. Yes more please 🙏🏻🙏🏻♥️
Excellent, so focused , so accurate, so simple yet so profound at what exactly needs to be done , rather undone , to embark the inner journey . Sunny Sharma - you are a blessing to people like me , who are searching so desperately for an anchor within . Bless you .
Sunny, you absolutely nailed it here. Well done and thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you Sunny! So powerful! I have no words except I must make this teaching my highest priority! 💙
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Thank you for sharing this message from Ashtavakra Gita❤
Very useful Sunnyji!!
But beings like me with limited meditation practises should go through this video repeatedly to..
Imbibe and assimilate the essence of it... to practice this kind of sadhana. Thank you very much.
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This is fantastic Sunnyji. Actually transforming. Must learn to practise this in all activities of day to day life, not only for a few minutes as we sit to practise . Great give us more awareness so simply like this.
Thank you for these videos.they keep me on track and every time I listen to them I gain better understànding. So grateful for your ability to relay this important information especially in these chàotic times.
Yes to awareness
The witnesses for God stand in His light and behold what he created.
Love that symbollism
The invisible unseen one the shapeless one - free
This is the freedom my heart's been calling me too. Thank you 🙏
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Thank you again ..Thank you❤
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Sunny you are The best.
I hear you.
Very powerful and insightful teaching of the direct path! Thank you!
More on the teachings Sunny. Thanks.
Thank you, it's truely Awakening one 🙏😌
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Yes please I want more videos on Astavakra Gita...
Very helpful dear master... expect more from sage ashtavakra..🙏
Stay well brother. I'm greatful for ur teaching.
Excellent video immensely grateful for the beautiful teaching .
I like it
It helped sunny, it is helping. Thank you🙏. I am happy for you and me.
Thank you Sonny , your teachings are so very good . I know that I am going to awaken in this life
Perfection.
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Very nicely done, well delivered and clear explanation. Love and Blessings brother🙏🏻💜🇨🇦
this is soo easy to follow thank you
I immensely liked the convincingly explaining the subject. Thank you Sunny Sharma Ji.
Thank you so much for your teaching sunny 🙏🙏 your teaching helped me so much to realize who I Am which is nothing and Everything at the same time. Many thanks 🙏
Very clear teaching. Thank you for sharing Ashtavakra and also for the excellent explanation.
Thank you for sharing this invaluable teaching, I commit to practice it daily 🤗
Please make more videos on Ashtavakra Gita.... And please share the Ashtavakra Gita Resource that u have used in ur video... I really Thankful to You..!!
When meditating a powerful thought will come to mind and take me away from my meditation. Then I realise the thought has taken me away. So I focus back on the meditation. It’s like when I’m at work, i forget about awareness and get lost in the external world. I need someone to come and hit me with a big stick about every five minutes while I’m at work to remind me, I am aware!
This is powerful meditation. ! Thankyou Sunny.
Happy it resonated Ashish.
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Thanks for explaining with so much clarity as who I AM
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Thank you Sunny, really excellent and precise teaching. Yes please re more on the Ashtavakra Gita. I now have my own copy to study and absorb❤ JJ
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In PURE AWARENESS there is no diversity whatsoever...
Your every thought is trance...a spell...brought upon Awareness...which is Peace Itself...
Identify That as the only unmoving Reality...Changeless and beyond life and death.
Grateful for this Blessed teaching,...be less. Sunny spoke the truth by pointing to the depth of knowledge and height of wisdom while remaining still. Thank you Sunny, I truly appreciate you!!!
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I have recently discovered these lectures and I feel at last I'm on the right track. However, I was wondering how do we experience beauty if we must not place any value or see any worth in form of what is experienced? Thanks John
Sonny I love your pointers , I have been on this path over 40 years following Advaita Vedanta , and and a teacher/ spiritual pastor , and you provide so much insite, namaste, Dr Timothy Gardner
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Thank you so much . Namaste ! Pls upload many more videos on Ashtavakra Gita. Thanks again . 🙏 🙏
Sure🙂
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Hi Sunny, after practicing self inquiry for some month something very weird happend to me some days ago:
Suddenly one morning I felt that reality feels not real. I can describe it like it felt like a dream. Even sometimes I felt that I dont belong to my body. This feeling was very strong and lasted for more hours. It was scary, like I would desolve or something like this. Just completly unreal. Then I forced myself to think something, to feel something, just to feel more real. Finally I listend to music and it dissapeared. I know this sounds completely crazy, but I hope you believe me. I was afraid that I become crazy. I would be interested in your opinion.
I interpret this like a warning from the Universe to go more slowly. Obviously I am not ready for this kind of massive shift in perspective. 😥 at least not if it comes so suddenly.
Thank you for your answer. 🙏
I would advise to not create such interpretations of things like this that happen to you. It is only the mind's response to changes in perception. Next time, have no fear, do not react, let whatever happens happen. Only fear can hold you back. Have no desire to go slowly. This is just a silly mental notion on behalf of the fear of losing the sense of being a person. Trust and have faith in the Self. Practice the teaching wholeheartedly, it will not mislead you.
How are we supposed to get anything done if we’re so basked in awareness ?
I’m asking this because when I’m aware of awareness then that is the only thing that prevails and am kind of way too distanced from my mind and conceptual reality . The being aware of awareness kind of takes over
That’s only in the beginning. Allow the practice to mature. Soon you realize that the doing is not on the same level as knowing and is not you or yours. For now, persist with awareness of awareness
I've had some experiential insights. However, when I listen to Tony Parsons and others like him I am totally disillusioned. The message of "I'm not here and nothing is apparently happening " scares the hell out of me. What is your take on this?
There are many “levels” to the teaching. Stick to what resonates with you and that which currently does not resonate, may attract you when you are ready to receive it
@@selfinquiryschool thank you so much. I feel like I'm in some kind d of matrix, and I'm almost ready to come out.
Ashtavakra says that children, wives, and kingdoms are dreams lasted only a few days. Does he mean one shouldn't get married or have children? Hopefully, I can get an answer.
No, that one should not attach to and suffer them. As the wives, children, wealth, poverty come and go, remain as you are...happy, free, at peace.
Sir Namaskaram
Can you 🙏 please clarify .
Being aware of my awareness, it's like subject and object, like I am aware of pen or being aware of my awareness is only the subject?
2. When I close my eyes, I feel myself as space like awareness and after sometime I feel myself as a concentrated point, how to go with it?
Thank you 🙏
Being aware of being aware is the same as being aware knowingly. There isn’t a subject object but rather being that which knows, knowingly. Try to confirm this in your experience. Don’t think further about it. Practice it and play around with it.
Second, don’t worry about what it feels like. Just keep returning to that which is aware.
1:38 Start
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5:35
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8:50 Awareness never suffers RXXXXX 9:55 Be as you are!
13:45 meditation
28:00 RXXXXX 29:33 30:33 31:55
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34:30. Summary. RXXXXX 38:15
Sunny, please tell me what is aware of awareness itself?
You! :)
@@selfinquiryschool I always thought I was the awareness itself. But if awareness can also be recognized then I'm also that... So weird...
@@nateprice999 You can never 'think' about awareness.
Sunny, you’re too young to know this kind of knowledge. 😊
@39:04 who is doing the doing?
who wrote Gita
This is info expressed for thousand of years doesn't need your input, no need for podcast mini-celbs to say one word. INTELLECT, MORE WORDS CAN NOT TOUCH IT.
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It all dissolves in that spaciousness. It really all looses it's meaning and importance in there, in the best way possible of course
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Hello can ego death feel like you are little bit high ? 😂 i know ego doest exists but 😂 feel like
Thank you, it's truely Awakening one 🙏😌