Asparsha: No Relation with Anything Whatsoever!
(15:13) ‘Asparsha’ means ‘no contact’, ‘no relation’ with thoughts and objects of experience. That means remaining in the seeing, and not touching any objects that are seen. That is called ‘pure seeing’. If we remain as the pure attention, we withdraw from the mind, and eventually we come to realize the essence of the mind. […]
Grace Is What You Are!
(8:01) Grace is not ‘something’, nor ‘someone’. Grace has no form. Grace is undefinable. Yet, Grace is what you are! Grace is the Divine. Grace is Consciousness. It is all there is. Even though the mind cannot understand the way It operates. How can one say that Grace is absent? And who says that? Only […]
Three Sure Ways to Awakening!
(27:52) Swami Atmananda explains here in a few simple words, yet in a profound way, three approaches that lead to direct Awakening to our own true Nature: Self-Enquiry, Pure Witnessing and Contemplation. If you have the courage to dissociate yourself from the attributes of your personal ‘I’, you can’t escape from the direct recognition of […]
Guru Is Your True Self!
(37:57) Most spiritual seekers believe that Guru is a person. Since you imagine yourself to be ‘someone’, you can only project a ‘person’ on the Guru. Truly, the essence of the Guru is the Supreme Unique Reality without-a-second that manifests Itself as the Universe, as your phenomenal form and as the form of the Guru. […]
Can the Wave Surrender to the Ocean?
(31:36) What is the meaning of surrender? It means taking complete refuge in the Self, in your own Pure Presence. Ultimately, the sense of ‘I’ has to surrender itself to Consciousness, which is the very source of this ‘I’. But how can this ‘I’, which does not really exist as an independent entity, surrender to […]
Bondage or Liberation Do Not Apply to Consciousness!
(14:46) What is the relation between ‘jnāna’ (direct Knowledge), ‘moksha’ (Liberation) and Consciousness? Is there any ‘moksha’ in Consciousness? Is it Consciousness that you have to liberate? If there is bondage and suffering, then of whom are they? Of the mind! Suffering is only in the mind. You can’t find suffering in Consciousness. Concepts of […]
Only Silence Can Hear Silence!
(32:40) True Silence is not the absence of thoughts within the mind or the absence of noise outside. You can be in profound Silence and still watch some thoughts coming, and you can hear sounds. The true Silence is the silence of the primal Consciousness. It is the one that never changes. Phenomenal silence is […]
That Sacred Aloneness Is the End of Loneliness
(15:08 min) ‘Aloneness’ in the mystical language is quite different from loneliness. It is the Aloneness of ‘That which is One without a second’. It is blissful and totally fulfilling. It is the experience that there is no ‘other’. Nothing is separate from you. In that Aloneness there is no loneliness. You can call it […]
Awareness is the Gateless Gate
(40:33) All paths of major religions have led seekers of truth to Liberation. It is a fact, that in every tradition there have been great mystics, who came to the non-dual state. If you read from their poems, their expressions, you can recognize that one unique ultimate non-experience, which means direct Recognition of the Absolute. […]
Insights on Awakening (Part 2)
(40:48) The moment Consciousness vibrates, it expresses itself through limited forms. The Infinite expresses itself as the finite. The Timeless, the Eternal, the Unborn expresses itself as the born, the time, the form. The Infinite assumes the finite within Itself and all you ever see through your phenomenal perceptions is actually Consciousness. We clearly see […]