2023-10-14 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: What is pure awareness?
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2023
- In a Zoom meeting with the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK on 14th October 2023, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings. He started with:
Question #1: In deep sleep only awareness remains. You said awareness knows awareness only. My question is why I don't know myself in deep sleep? Kindly Reply.
Question #2: What is pure awareness? If it is aware of anything, it is impure. So, if awareness is aware even of itself, being aware, that is already impure, since awareness has an object (itself). So, pure awareness is awareness of... what?
And, anyway, as soon as you notice it, it would not be pure awareness any longer, since now there is a duality: awareness (apparently of nothing) and the awareness of awareness. My point then is, what good is pure awareness, since it is aware of nothing, and cannot even know itself without disturbing its pure awareness?
If you are it, you cannot know it, and if you know it, you no longer are it. I do not see a way out of this. Has anyone ever recognized pure awareness? If so, they are separate from it. But, it also cannot be aware of itself, or for that matter anything at all. And this is supposed to be the highest knowledge no less? Knowledge of what, exactly?
Question #3: Philosophy, Sartre in particular, would deny that there is anything such as intransitive awareness. Awareness must be of something, or what is it awareness of? As soon as you are aware of even just being aware, now awareness is the object, and you are observing awareness. I do not think we are aware of our sleep. I think we infer it. We can recall our dreams, and we might say we did not dream all night, so there must have been a period of sleep, but that does not mean we were aware of our awareness. Also, the fact that we are not aware of the world while asleep is particularly unconvincing when it is argued that therefore the objective world arises when our ego arises. That is far too solipsistic for my tastes. We blink and the sun disappears, for us. No one believes the sun disappears; similarly, we sleep and the world does not disappear. Where is the evidence one can see pure awareness, or failing that, that awareness of nothing exists. And so what if we can have pure awareness of nothing at all; what does that prove, exactly?
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Thank you Michael. This is “the” most exquisite explanation of how we are to bring an end to our egos. If we took this one teaching of yours to heart you would have accomplished your mission. Thank you for your faithfulness to your mission. We
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I’m truely convinced that Michael is the speaking voice of Sri Bhagavan 😇 This video is gold 🙏🏼 I pray my SadGuru Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda that one day I MUST become a great devotee like Michael 🙏🏼
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pure awarenes is not to be aware of live but be live
Sri Ramana Maharishi teachings are very clearly and simply explained by You. Feel that Sri Ramana Maharishi is speaking through you. Thank you Thank you.
My Pranams to You.
Om namo Bhagavathe Sri Arunachala Ramanaya
Michael is really only saying one thing - Turn Within. Until you do this, you will not experience the clarity of yourSelf, in which all your questions will be answered. 🙏
Please ignore this comment and watch the whole thing
@@dannathan5482Hello, My comment is not meant to be derogatory. After listening to Michael for a couple years now, I realized what he is feverishly trying to express to all devotees…Turn Within. This is the only way you can experience the teachings of Sri Ramana. The pertinent question is, will you follow Michael’s lead? 🙏
Pure Awareness in sleep is just a pointer and not reality for your real being is inexpressible in words. Awareness in sleep metaphor is not to be taken literally. Pure awareness cannot be described.
Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai sung by Sri Sadhu Om, with English translation by Michael James, can be watched here: vimeo.com/ramanahou/am000 . For advertisement-free videos on teachings and songs related to Bhagavan Ramana, please visit vimeo.com/ramanahou and click 'showcases' on the bottom left. Each original work of Bhagavan Ramana has its own showcase with explanations of Michael James.
Many thanks.
Namo Ramanaya
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Short Q&A videos from this channel can be watched on youtube.com/@sriramanateachingsqa
Thank You! 🙏
Thank you Michaelji. Even though our real nature is God, we perceive ourselves as the Ego. Hence, we as Ego, need to pray or cry out to God or Self to shower His Grace and reveal Himself. That constant Bhava or pleading is required to Love Him and remain continuously in His thought in the mind to prevent it from going outside towards the world and push it inwards towards Him. Bhagavan said Bhakthi is the mother of Jnana.
In Nan Yar, Bhagavan says repeating 'I' will take you to the place where 'I' rises. Or investigating from where I rises, will assist. So I keep contemplating that my Guru Bhagavan is shining in my heart as I and bequeath Him to swallow my Ego and shine forth and reveal Himself.
Is this the Love or Ichashakthi to turn within you mentioned? Please advise. Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri Arunachala Ramanaya!
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It seems we are more awake in sleep than when we are awake during day. Everything upside down. Waking is sleeping, sleeping, waking? Is pure awareness truly Self or rather no-self? I cannot see how pure awareness could have an "I".
Longing for love is the reason for all...love contains all...love is all♥️🙏
Yes and awareness will reveal that to us if we are ready to awake
The dream is assumed to be a dream, based on what we call the waking state. We assume the waking state is not a dream. But that does not mean it is a dream. To say that it is a dream is another assumption. Also, upon waking up from sleep, we have a sense that there were parts of sleep when we were not dreaming. But that could just be a residual sense in the bodybrain of the duration of total sleep time as compared to the dream time of sleep. Looking inward at awareness seems to be comprised of flashes of awareness in very recent retrospect. Like a half of a second ago. It's not direct/ immediate awareness of awareness. Although it seems that way.
On the question how to turn within, let me just say that I have found great guidance in the instructions from Michael Langford via his awareness watching awareness instruction. You can find it in book form or UA-cam. Michael James himself has said it could very well benefit many people. It would be great if Michael James could talk about this approach also. I have seen him comment on it in his blog
did u mean ,,the most direct path to eternal bliss?
@@nikibotev5478 correct
Pure awareness is after nirvikalpasamadhi when all is one and you see the karma moving in Wax like the riksho ask you to jump on his bike while someone tells you in your back that you have to go here and there while y turn around and do what you have been told realising that y are not breathing and having no heartbeat.
Supercouncious stage.
After having nirvikalpasamadhi.
In one of the question, somebody has asked to elaborate or explain on Navratri is nearby preps Shalini & answer Michael James have gotten to earlier part of that question can it be elaborated? Explained the next time?
Can pure awareness be described as the witness and/or pure subjectivity? is pure awareness Atman? Swami atmananda udasin says awareness is the purist foremost expression (modification) of conciousness, Atman is one and the same as Brahman in essence? so there an individual I which is ego then there is the I prior to the individual I (aham aham) the (I-I), pure awareness, then the self- Brahman where there is no more I?
So the one saying what is the achievement of knowing awareness,the person who is enjoying the game will not understand Maharishis teaching
1 ego many persons. If in my dream someone fall asleep which ego disappears cause there's only 1? I'm confused.
Once understood it is not that complicated. Every person you see is not ego but a projection by "you" (the one ego). Thus if you see someone falling asleep no ego is disappearing but that what you imagine to see just changes postures. In all reality there are no other "persons", they only exist as an imagination.
So you've understood the ego then john have you? Youve claimed its not complicated!! cx
Ego is duality and I doesn’t exist. In his dream he see others. When she wakes more people are seen. The I amness is happening only in this dream. cx
@@jobbob6031 it's still complicated or let say difficult to detach from believes. I had some sort of idea circling around his answer I just liked, but was unable neither to quest him nor answer. My ego (or not my, i have no ego, right?) is stunned through me but stll survives. "The force is strong with him " :). i can't reply nothing so far. Thanks both for your attention, there's nothing around me i can relay on, only these videos trying to grasp.
@@nikibotev5478 the force, lol, is strong in all & so it arises.
We’ve come to believe in this life, where the idea of my ego is I am is in reality existing,
Michael’s videos are a way to hear more about arunachala and bhagavan who oneself is already perfect awareness. cx
1:14:22as ego the body is aware of its surroundings and other thing. Identifying I am with the human experience is acknowledging ego’s existence. cx
Everything nameless and formless is nothing.
The desire, lusting knowledge seeking, intellect, will, mind body i-thought I am, is false knowledge an other, I am exists cx
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Thank You! 🙏