Love is the Manifestation of Consciousness
(10.35) Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. This video is an extract from a retreat given at the ashram on November 14, 2022
Vedantic Meditation (Part 3): The Twelvefold Path
(51:22) Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. This video is an extract from a retreat given at the ashram on November 16, 2022.
Vedantic Meditation (Part 2): The Yoga of No Association
(29:43) Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. This video is an extract from a retreat given at the ashram on November 15, 2022.
Vedantic Meditation (Part 1): The Contemplation of the Absolute
(39:22) ‘Nididhyāsana’ is a central concept in Vedantic meditation. It is about contemplating our True Nature – the Self or Brahman – and making this contemplation uninterrupted. The object of meditation is the Infinite. But how can the Infinite be an object? For this, we use a concept – a thought or ‘vritti’ – of […]
From Self-Enquiry to Self-Abidance
(21:34) Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India.
Is Purity of Mind Needed for Self-Realization?
(17:03) You don’t need the complete manonāśa – the dissolution (nāśa) of the mind – for awakening, that would be an impossible task. Moreover, through the first Awakening, most of your vāsanā-s will get eliminated because they cannot stand in the light of the Awakening. It is a process. For those for whom there is […]
The Right Practice Will Finish the Practitioner!
(5:30) The right practice is not about stopping the mind. You may enjoy that ‘zero-mind’ for some time, but then it will start again after. We speak about something much deeper in the subconscious and unconscious mind. It is the destruction of the binding vasanas – those tendencies which are responsible for the identification. You […]
How Is One to Know the Self?
(13:20) “Being the Self is knowing the Self, because there is only one Self, and not two. This Being and knowing the Self is abiding in the Reality.” (Sri Ramana Maharshi). Consciousness is free from this duality of knowledge or ignorance. The Knowledge of Self can never be the knowledge of someone about the Self. […]
The Seeker of Liberation Is the Last Obstacle
(4:57) The seeker and the ‘seeking’ are concepts of our imagination. This is the last obstacle. Freedom is already here, it is our True Nature! It can only be realized by surrender. But complete surrender is pure Grace. On this threshold, you can only be patient and abandon yourself totally to That which is inconceivable. […]
Your True Self Is the Ultimate Reality!
(34:32) In this video, Swami Atmananda Udasin comments on verse 16 of Upadesha Saram, a Sanskrit poem composed by Sri Ramana Maharshi in 1927, based on Upadesha Undiyar, his original Tamil poem. Swami Ji offered a commentary on the 30 verses at the open satsangs he shared from 27 January to 6 February 2020 in […]