2023-04-02 San Diego Ramana Satsang: How to practice self-investigation during our daily life?
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- In a Zoom meeting with the San Diego Ramana Satsang (ramana-satsang-sd@googlegroups.com) on 2nd April 2023 Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings, particularly about the practice of self-investigation in daily life.
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Masochism is indicated by the existence of envy in person who has free will.
Love this! This is wonderful!
This lecture is a hallmark. These lectures are in itself “Atma Vichara” As Michael mentioned moments spent in Self attention are moments of Self surrender 🙏🏼 By hearing these lectures grace shines in my heart, overtakes ego and makes me self attentive. ❤ Om Tat Sat 🙏🏼 Jai Bhagavan ⭐️
Michael James may God bless you all the time so that my head can touch your feet.
Head and feet are one, this is advatha
Thank u hope to see u at the ashram
Thank you Michael for another blissful session on Sri ramana’s teachings. To be able to listen to his teachings through you is nothing but grace and Bhagavan’s blessings on us🙏🙏🙏
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Cant find this clarity from any other Guru. Vedanta is quite a complex subject and Michael jis exposition of Bhagwans teaching is absolutely crystal clear. Very fortunate for us to be here.
It is truly Bhagavan's grace that we are drawn to and have been given access to his teachings through Michael and not any other teacher. This satsang is yet another gift that I am totally unworthy of 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you Michael, Ted and all my fellow seekers. Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanayya 🙏 🙏🙏
Bhagavan
Dwelling in the teachings everyday
His Grace wells up from within the mind
As He stacked it in the words that He spelled like the beautiful smell in a rose flower
Fell as a prey, tell me please Could any escape
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Namo Ramana
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Pujya Michael ji,
Your deep love for Bhagavan and your exposition of His teachings with such clarity and love fills one with strength and fresh inspiration to continue to pursue this beautiful path to freedom !! Koti koti Namaskarams 🙏🙏🙏
It's so nice listening to you ❤
Even to Listen the Story about his mother, very interesting! Thanks Michael and everybody envolved in the Video 🙏
Thank you Michael 🙏. At this Eastertide I am thinking of Bhagavan's illuminating words on the crucifixion of Christ ( taken from Maha Yoga )- '" The body is the cross ; the ego is Jesus the ' son of man ' ; when he is crucified , He is resurrected as the ' Son of God ' , which is the glorious real Self . One should lose the ego in order to live " . Happy Easter everyone ✝️🕉️
Michael, I hope you feel better and your health improves. Thank you for these helpful explanations. In particular, I have never heard anyone discuss the issue of free will vs destiny and Bhagavan's teachings in the way that you have. Thank you so much. Namaste.
Thanks for uploading these via podcast format also. These are really intense discourses and I find it much easier to concentrate listening to the audio only. Much appreciated!
God this is so hard
May Bhagwan give you strength to regain your health again so that we can hear you again & again, what will happen when we may not be able to give clarification of Bhagvan’s teachings
Shorter Q&A videos from this channel can be watched on youtube.com/@sriramanateachingsqa
Michael mentioned what it truly means what we call “presence” or “now”, or to “be in the presence or now”. And that is overlooked by all of those contemporary spiritual teachers who claim to be “awakened” like Tolle or Adyashanti and many others.
However their experience is superficial and what has happened to them is that they are experiencing a more subtle state of mind what all of them confuse with Self-realization. They speak about a disappearance of the ego and they probably are not intentionally lying since that subtle mind state may seem like that the ego has gone.
But what all of those apparently awakened teacher have in common (all of them!) is that they still see the world and phenomena and that is the evidence of a still existing mind and ego.
What does that mean? Several things, firstly they didn't practice (properly) atma-vichara because then this misunderstanding could not have happened in the first place and they are confused about the nature of reality what makes them a more superficial teacher who attract a certain superficial crowd.
How many spiritual teachers point out that the annihilation of the ego means the disappearance of this phenomenal world? None I know of but Michael alone. In fact most will take offense of that notion since it challenges their “enlightenment” 🙂
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Namaskarams.
Namaskarams. The session was very illuminating. I need clarification regarding Bhagawan's teaching. If all the happenenings are according to the design of the God, commission of a sin is also one's destiny?
1:13:00 = UN v 6;1:18:30 = there is no harm in asking the question "who am I?",but asking this question should remind us to investigate ourselves;in other words, to turn our attention back to ourselves;1:22:00 (he points his hand to the right side of his chest when he says : "to me");1:25:00 = the sign of progress is perseverance (1:44:00);1:28:00 = the present moment,now,the present place = here;the presence of ourselves means our being because I am always here & now; in vipassana : many people have a superficial understanding of the present moment;the exact present is an infinitesimal interface between the future & the past;there is no gap there;1:36:00 = Eckhart Tolle;1:38:00 = silence,stillness;1:41:30 AAMM v 81 (mirror,noseless man);1:45:00 = v from Muruganar/quote in Sadhanai Saram by Sadhu Om;p 29,v 87,v 88 (?) ;U N v 21,1:47:00;1:48:00 = Nan yar,Parag 16;1:58:00 = Patigam , v2 = "your will is my will;that is happiness for me";
10:00 = Bhagavad Gita;Chapter 6,v 25;v 27 of BG Saram,p 78 of the Path of Sri Ramana,part 1 ;15:00 = Parag 16 of Nan Yar ;
43:00 = explanations on the answer to His mother "The Ordonner etc....destiny";we have the freedom to will/to wish;but it will happen only if that is destined;47:00 = U N v 19;v 38;"therefore,being silent is good";meaning of "being silent";54:00 = Nan Yar; parag 13 ;relation between self-attention/attentiveness, surrender and "God bears our burden (even the burden of thinking)";parameswara sakti,("the burden on our head",we may identify this with the burden of thinking,of the thoughts in our head);1:10:00 = self-investigation is not about posing questions;the meaning of "thouqht" for BHN is in a broader sense = any (mental) phenomena;1:12;50 = Nan yar,parag 4; thoughts = world ;parag 14;
17:00 = B G ,VI,26;B G Saram, v 28;p 78 of The P of S Ramana 1;21:00 = Nan Yar,parag 6 = "however many thoughts arise,so what ?;23:20 = the key is "trying";
27 of bagavath gita which ch. pranams
Namaskaram, I assume I was talking about verse 27 (and perhaps 28 also) of Bhagavad Gītā Sāram, which are Bhagavan’s Tamil translations of verses 25 and 26 of chapter 6.
You can see these two Tamil verses with my English translation here: happinessofbeing.blogspot.com/2021/05/can-self-investigation-boost-mind-or.html#bgs27
Namo Ramanaya
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Michael, regarding chapter 6 verse 25 of the Bhagavad-Gita; is the word ātma-sanstham translated to God or one's Self? When I do a search, translations to the former appear. Are we sure this verse is referencing self-investigation? I'm asking as I've been discussing self-investigation with a Hindu friend of mine and she mentioned the aforementioned point.
Tommy, ātman means oneself, or in this context yourself, and saṁstha means standing with, standing on (or in), staying on or being on, so ‘ātma-saṁsthaṁ manaḥ kṛtvā’ means ‘making the mind stay on yourself’, which implies ‘fixing attention on yourself’ or ‘being self-attentive’. In verse 27 of Bhagavad Gītā Sāram ( happinessofbeing.blogspot.com/2021/05/can-self-investigation-boost-mind-or.html#bgs27 ) Bhagavan translated it into Tamil as ‘cittattai āṉmāvil sērttiḍuka’, which means ‘join [combine, unite, tie, fasten, secure or fix] the mind on yourself’.
However, many interpreters and translators of the Bhagavad Gītā prefer to interpret it in a more dualistic or theistic manner, so as you have noticed, in the case of this verse they interpret ātman to mean God. Of course, God is nothing other than ātman, ourself as we actually are, but this simple truth is not exactly what the dualists and theists want to believe.
Namo Ramanaya
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@@SriRamanaTeachings Thank you Michael
somebody put download the luggage from their head and lost both the luggage and the head ❤
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