I'm 76. It took me decades to understand the benefits of surrendering to the universe and allowing it to take me on "it's" path. When I relinquish control, I gain immense freedom. Have a great New Year!
I understand my friend. But don't be fooled into thinking we have any control to begin with. We don't know what's going to happen in a minute from now or a year from now. We are in "control" of absolutely nothing in our lives. When we stop trying to steer, guide or direct or lives in a particular direction, we stop suffering. It's ok to plan things. But by letting go, and letting things play out on their own, we don't suffer when things don't go "exactly as planned". John Lennon had a great quote concerning this element of life. He said, "Life always happens while you're making other plans". It's alright to plan, just don't plan the results! Have a safe and happy New Year!
@@donpodlas5546 that's amazing to read. I've been diagnosed with OCD, more related to a mind that never shuts up, it sucks. Currently, one of the ways that the mind keeps a grasp on my attention is always bringing up some strange feelings and thoughts that after some time match real life events, it's like I know that something bad is going to happen and then something happens (my girlfriend breaking her phone, thinking about a consultation being cancelled and in the next day it was cancelled, etc). This happens a lot in my life, crazy coincidences. It's been a struggle to let go of everything that comes to my mind, as some of them turn out to be true in the real life. Any suggestion?
Words and language are our problem. They create fear and division. It is our biggest enemy. And also our "I" is no more than a thought, originating from our memory, words. It's not for nothing that all ancient Masters speak about Silence what is our real state. Thank you Sir, teach us to get out of this illusion, you are much appreciated and welcome in this time. Greetings from the Netherlands
I screwed my 35 years by feeling not enough but then you know this is the way it had to be. You are already an enlightened soul ( a child as an example) then you get conditioned and then you struggle to know yourself all Over again only to realise you didn’t have to become anything but un become. And after all this penance you feel like a fool🤣 and when you start seeing god you feel he played with you too😂 and then again when you want to throw yourself to him you dwell in duality and non duality till you finally merge . You were always one and then you leave it to him to make you what he wants you to be in total surrender. The very choice of us coming to earth made us lose our ourselves in our own labyrinth but we couldn’t see he was always within 🙏 now is the time to live🙏🙏
Mind can make sense, it makes sense in everyday life. But... mind has also it's own problems. In everyday life it can make sense to rely on it, maybe it is a useful tool, but there are also certain limitations. Mind struggles or runs away, and in both cases it creates thoughts and thoughts mean that I am doing something. Keeping still and observing and putting things in the inner light,we are, is a beautiful solution to the existential problems, we create, out of ignorance. In this inner fire of consciosness obstacles are being burnt up and unity is felt. THANK YOU for your beautiful analysis.😊
Good Morning. From the beginning...you have spoken for Ramana and your personal experience. Most recently, seeking has been dropping away without effort. "I" just do not feel drawn to finding. What is there to find? For when I am in this experience of everywhere without a name, there is no need. Your words confirm this with the mind....but even these words disappear. I am grateful to have found your channel. 🙏
The whole discourse including the teachings of ancient gurus ultimately point towards removing the observer's effect, that which collapses waveform from the state of undifferentiated energy into the state of physical reality, a characteristics of particles. Without the observer observing everything would remain in the field of pure potential, the essence of the Brahman which is divine.
Hi. Maharshi said that everything was predestined. This is the only concept l am stuck with, whether there is free will or not. I would love to hear your insight on this matter. Thank you.
Your videos have helped me shift this year. There are few of the talks i sat with for a while. It helped that mental shift. Grateful and very happy others have discovered these gems. 🙏🏽🧡
So when you say just observe, who is the observer and what is he observing? When we observe the thoughts that arise, are we supposed to imagine a separation from the thoughts, the mind where they arise, and us, the observer?
The observer and observed cannot be the same. One is an object and other subject. Only from a vantage point of changelessness can you observe change. Your mind/ thoughts are always changing and the vantage point is You, the awareness/ consciousness. It means you're different from your mind, you can say my body, my mind, my family. But its not you. You're the unchanging witness
Two simple things that worked for me. Stopping the mind blabbing at you is not that difficult. First, you ask two questions, about whatever scenario it throws at you. You ask the questions immediately, you don't let the thought finish. Is that here? Is that now?: if the answer to any of those is no, it is a distraction and you dismiss it. Second... LOL and LMAO! EVERYBODY knows how to stop the mind, you did it a thousand times, you just don't realize that you did. How? well, let's imagine you listen to your favorite instrumental classical piece of music. Let's say Bach. Does your mind go bla-bla-bla at you while you do that? Of course not. You are busy paying attention to the music. You have stopped the flow of thoughts. Now listen to everything like you are listening to Bach. You know how to do it... the rain outside, birds chirping, the silence, the wind, your heartbeat, the neighbours arguing next door... The Universe is singing to you.
A real lack of material wellness brings suffering. fact! If you can't pay the rent and have difficulty to feed your kids ....every weeks, witnessing the mind, thoughts, witnessing the suffering doesn't help, it doesn't subside because a real lack of material is constant, it's there every day, every hours every minutes. Am I wrong???
Yes you are. Pain is an inescapable part of life but suffering is your response to the pain. If you resist the pain as though you shouldn't be experiencing it and because it's there something is wrong then you will suffer. But if you accept the pain and feel it then it will hurt but you will not suffer. Many years ago I was homeless living on the streets and hungry but I did not suffer. I relaxed my body, accepted the situation fully (after all, all experiences are equally valid), surrendered myself to the will of the universe, and no matter how cold, wet, or hungry I was I accepted it and said, "Thank you for this experience." My life is plentyfull now but today I look back at that time fondly and see it was full of wonderful lessons. Your mind defined things and events as good or bad, try refusing to define them, stop giving them a meaning, just let them be.
Thank you for sharing! Vibing with this 🕉🙏🏼🦋
Thank you for your relentless support in delivering the message of peace!! 🙏
I'm 76. It took me decades to understand the benefits of surrendering to the universe and allowing it to take me on "it's" path. When I relinquish control, I gain immense freedom. Have a great New Year!
Fast is not better - Nisargadatta Maharaj (I AM THAT). Thank you & happy new year!! 🙏
I still feel great fear about relinquishing control, I cannot pass that
I understand my friend. But don't be fooled into thinking we have any control to begin with. We don't know what's going to happen in a minute from now or a year from now. We are in "control" of absolutely nothing in our lives. When we stop trying to steer, guide or direct or lives in a particular direction, we stop suffering. It's ok to plan things. But by letting go, and letting things play out on their own, we don't suffer when things don't go "exactly as planned". John Lennon had a great quote concerning this element of life. He said, "Life always happens while you're making other plans". It's alright to plan, just don't plan the results! Have a safe and happy New Year!
@@donpodlas5546 Thank you 🍀happy New Year!
@@donpodlas5546 that's amazing to read. I've been diagnosed with OCD, more related to a mind that never shuts up, it sucks. Currently, one of the ways that the mind keeps a grasp on my attention is always bringing up some strange feelings and thoughts that after some time match real life events, it's like I know that something bad is going to happen and then something happens (my girlfriend breaking her phone, thinking about a consultation being cancelled and in the next day it was cancelled, etc). This happens a lot in my life, crazy coincidences. It's been a struggle to let go of everything that comes to my mind, as some of them turn out to be true in the real life. Any suggestion?
Words and language are our problem. They create fear and division. It is our biggest enemy. And also our "I" is no more than a thought, originating from our memory, words. It's not for nothing that all ancient Masters speak about Silence what is our real state. Thank you Sir, teach us to get out of this illusion, you are much appreciated and welcome in this time. Greetings from the Netherlands
That’s so interesting!! No animal in this world is using language to describe past and future, only the presence
“To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." -Bodhidharma
Seeking nothing is still seeking
I screwed my 35 years by feeling not enough but then you know this is the way it had to be. You are already an enlightened soul ( a child as an example) then you get conditioned and then you struggle to know yourself all
Over again only to realise you didn’t have to become anything but un become. And after all this penance you feel like a fool🤣 and when you start seeing god you feel he played with you too😂 and then again when you want to throw yourself to him you dwell in duality and non duality till you finally merge . You were always one and then you leave it to him to make you what he wants you to be in total surrender. The very choice of us coming to earth made us lose our ourselves in our own labyrinth but we couldn’t see he was always within 🙏 now is the time to live🙏🙏
Mind can make sense, it makes sense in everyday life. But... mind has also it's own problems. In everyday life it can make sense to rely on it, maybe it is a useful tool, but there are also certain limitations. Mind struggles or runs away, and in both cases it creates thoughts and thoughts mean that I am doing something. Keeping still and observing and putting things in the inner light,we are, is a beautiful solution to the existential problems, we create, out of ignorance. In this inner fire of consciosness obstacles are being burnt up and unity is felt. THANK YOU for your beautiful analysis.😊
I have struggled with this all my life. My thinking has caused so much pain. Thank you for putting these teachings out into the world. 🙏
You're welcome 🙏
Good Morning. From the beginning...you have spoken for Ramana and your personal experience. Most recently, seeking has been dropping away without effort. "I" just do not feel drawn to finding. What is there to find? For when I am in this experience of everywhere without a name, there is no need.
Your words confirm this with the mind....but even these words disappear. I am grateful to have found your channel. 🙏
Thank you. You help bring clarity to the sacred teachings.
Thank you 🙏💗
Yes, so good, this is what i need to hear
🙏✨️what a journey... gratefu, in awe and at times a little scary, however of course beautiful x
Gratitude 🙏
The whole discourse including the teachings of ancient gurus ultimately point towards removing the observer's effect, that which collapses waveform from the state of undifferentiated energy into the state of physical reality, a characteristics of particles. Without the observer observing everything would remain in the field of pure potential, the essence of the Brahman which is divine.
thank you for sharing my friend. Regards from Brasil and Happy New Year!
Thank you, you just explained so clearly, lot of love
It when I start watching my mind becomes still as long as I am aware
Well said my friend, well said! 🙏
Hi. Maharshi said that everything was predestined. This is the only concept l am stuck with, whether there is free will or not. I would love to hear your insight on this matter. Thank you.
Thank you soooo much💯💯😁✨
Thank you sir ❤
Can you switch your thoughts on and off at your will
Dear Surya, since a long time i am wondering how to stand the suffering. You're videos are helping me. But i am still wondering how i can stand it.
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Your videos have helped me shift this year. There are few of the talks i sat with for a while. It helped that mental shift. Grateful and very happy others have discovered these gems. 🙏🏽🧡
I'm glad they helped!
thank you
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If we are peace &bliss how come we dont feel the peace &bliss.
So when you say just observe, who is the observer and what is he observing? When we observe the thoughts that arise, are we supposed to imagine a separation from the thoughts, the mind where they arise, and us, the observer?
You will realize that the observer is being observed. Hope this will help.
Try standing on one leg, and you will see that the mind goes silent :)
I find staying off caffeine and sugar helps. 😂
How did you do that?
@@Andrew-yw6kt Weening. “Ask the horse”…
I’m thinking everyone should boycott anything corporate political or militant plant gardens and love each other
The observer and observed cannot be the same. One is an object and other subject.
Only from a vantage point of changelessness can you observe change. Your mind/ thoughts are always changing and the vantage point is You, the awareness/ consciousness.
It means you're different from your mind, you can say my body, my mind, my family. But its not you. You're the unchanging witness
Two simple things that worked for me. Stopping the mind blabbing at you is not that difficult.
First, you ask two questions, about whatever scenario it throws at you. You ask the questions immediately, you don't let the thought finish. Is that here? Is that now?: if the answer to any of those is no, it is a distraction and you dismiss it. Second... LOL and LMAO! EVERYBODY knows how to stop the mind, you did it a thousand times, you just don't realize that you did. How? well, let's imagine you listen to your favorite instrumental classical piece of music. Let's say Bach. Does your mind go bla-bla-bla at you while you do that? Of course not. You are busy paying attention to the music. You have stopped the flow of thoughts. Now listen to everything like you are listening to Bach. You know how to do it... the rain outside, birds chirping, the silence, the wind, your heartbeat, the neighbours arguing next door... The Universe is singing to you.
There are two other simple tricks, but try these first, I'd like to hear if they work for someone else.
@@Greengate777what are other tricks
Erase your mind entirely.
A real lack of material wellness brings suffering. fact! If you can't pay the rent and have difficulty to feed your kids ....every weeks, witnessing the mind, thoughts, witnessing the suffering doesn't help, it doesn't subside because a real lack of material is constant, it's there every day, every hours every minutes. Am I wrong???
Yes you are. Pain is an inescapable part of life but suffering is your response to the pain. If you resist the pain as though you shouldn't be experiencing it and because it's there something is wrong then you will suffer. But if you accept the pain and feel it then it will hurt but you will not suffer. Many years ago I was homeless living on the streets and hungry but I did not suffer. I relaxed my body, accepted the situation fully (after all, all experiences are equally valid), surrendered myself to the will of the universe, and no matter how cold, wet, or hungry I was I accepted it and said, "Thank you for this experience." My life is plentyfull now but today I look back at that time fondly and see it was full of wonderful lessons. Your mind defined things and events as good or bad, try refusing to define them, stop giving them a meaning, just let them be.
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