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  • Who Am I? - • Who Am I?
    Who Am I? - ramdass.org/
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    Our concepts of who we are help us to navigate our world, but they are often overvalued and have the potential to trap us in form. These traits create an image with which we identify, and subsequently struggle to maintain as we are presented with life's inevitable changes. In this talk, given at the University of Vermont, Ram Dass begins by asking the question, 'Who am I?'. Are we the vast array of personality traits that arise in our day to day lives? Can we pinpoint exactly who or what we are within our body, mind or spirit? These questions, as Ram Dass explains, continuously led him back into the void, as every answer he had was ultimately untrue. He eventually learned to identify with the creator, rather than the creation, and his sense of separateness began to dissolve.
    We often fail to recognize that we too are a part of the lawful unfolding of nature. From a higher perspective we can sometimes see that it's all perfect, but that attitude is difficult to maintain in the presence of real suffering. If we attempt to live in either of these extremes, then we're standing, 'somewhere', and there's nowhere to stand. Our incarnation isn't an error, and where we are is exactly where we are supposed to be, in this moment. We can't push away our humanity, as freedom comes through form, not in spite of it.
    (University of Vermont - Burlington, VT - 10/30/1986)

КОМЕНТАРІ • 151

  • @matthewhunter1285
    @matthewhunter1285 3 роки тому +72

    "just assume I'm totally insane"
    One of my Favorite Ram Dass quote.

  • @gazzyhook7784
    @gazzyhook7784 3 роки тому +143

    You can have him talking in the background and still catch the things that matter. His voice just flows like a stream.

    • @preetjheeta143
      @preetjheeta143 3 роки тому +8

      exactly that's what I do at work play him at the background and it's different environment at work. everything goes with flow. amazing soul

    • @brianlund7862
      @brianlund7862 3 роки тому +6

      My "guided meditations" tend to be his lectures lol

    • @kateybereny
      @kateybereny 3 роки тому +1

      Me too!!

    • @bobobake1232
      @bobobake1232 3 роки тому +1

      Isn't it remarkable? Namaste to all of you, me, brothers and sisters... peace!

    • @ehudsonification3811
      @ehudsonification3811 Рік тому +1

      His stream of words feed my soul with clean water, quenching a thirst I didn’t know I had.

  • @bensilverstein5883
    @bensilverstein5883 3 роки тому +34

    its like hearing your soul and knowing all is well, a state of being, like a child before the others interfere,

  • @Melissa-nd8qc
    @Melissa-nd8qc 4 роки тому +59

    Ram Dass brought me here from the Otherside, beyond the SUIT we just said goodbye to. He just knew that I needed this one. He always did. He knew we miss him. He is us. He is loving awareness. And he told us once, Anyone can be your guru, as long as you know how to listen. He is truly infinite now. Thank you for loving servitude Ram Dass, and showing us the mirror within our souls. A true teacher and lover you are. Always. Infinite.

  • @bryantbrooks2390
    @bryantbrooks2390 4 роки тому +16

    I’m glad to know you are me, Ram Dass.

  • @brandonhatton1680
    @brandonhatton1680 3 роки тому +29

    Miss you today Baba. My heart is heavy & full of pain. Ram ram🙏🙏❤

  • @IWouldChange
    @IWouldChange 4 роки тому +34

    Ram Dass is such a rascal! A brilliant one 🙏 I say this because I love how he calls people a ‘rascal’ in such a beautiful affectionat way ✌️

    • @lawrencetawiah
      @lawrencetawiah 4 роки тому +2

      #shivashambho 🧘🏾‍♂️🇬🇭😊🧼👋🏾🧻🛎

    • @brianswelding
      @brianswelding 3 роки тому +1

      That's exactly what his guru called him and the other western devotees... rascals. ❤🙏

  • @misterchristopher8857
    @misterchristopher8857 3 роки тому +8

    He's the best spokesman for the monkey mind of human beings. Thank you for sharing this short talk.

  • @bobobake1232
    @bobobake1232 3 роки тому +6

    Isn't it remarkable? Namaste to all of you, me, brothers and sisters... peace!

  • @willywagtail4182
    @willywagtail4182 4 роки тому +13

    Love this guy everytime i listen to him.I new of him but only started listening to him over the lasy year always entertaining & what he says just speaks to me🙏💓🦉

  • @Hot_since97
    @Hot_since97 6 років тому +67

    This helped me soo much. Once I thought I 've became englightened through ecstasy, I started mind clinging. So when I came down last time from it I was feeling really confused. Is this high awareness which comes from ecstasy real, or is this ordinary life more real ?! This cleared and calmed my mind so much... It's all real, because they are all forms. And now I can embrace the human condition which implicates being trapped in a linear thinking and materialism, but to be part of the divine also. It's very contrary, but it's true.

    • @djp9832
      @djp9832 5 років тому +6

      so many layers of reality, lsd,dmt,mdma.sleeping,awake,astral

    • @slangsd
      @slangsd 5 років тому +14

      It's all real, but what makes it divine is our ability to integrate these different forms. This holistic connection brings forth our ability to experience freedom and peace. We feel warfare within ourselves because these different forms compete with one another. Everything is interconnected.

    • @Melissa-nd8qc
      @Melissa-nd8qc 4 роки тому +2

      @@slangsd yessss

  • @JoaoPedro-dn9nb
    @JoaoPedro-dn9nb 4 місяці тому +1

    I am without form, without limit,
    Beyond space, beyond time,
    I am in everything, everything is in me.
    I am the bliss of the universe,
    Everywhere am I.
    I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
    I am That, I am That

  • @lukasoc1518
    @lukasoc1518 4 роки тому +10

    1986. Vermont. University.

  • @adityaanand4439
    @adityaanand4439 4 роки тому +24

    His absence is felt deeply by all the spiritual seekers. 🙌

    • @ryanmullins9546
      @ryanmullins9546 4 роки тому +1

      🙏🙏🙏 sure is

    • @jackstaub9221
      @jackstaub9221 4 роки тому +9

      He would laugh at such a statement...no offense

    • @caterinaalbanj777
      @caterinaalbanj777 4 роки тому +9

      And yet his presence is felt deeply by all the spiritual seekers.✨

    • @ryanmullins9546
      @ryanmullins9546 3 роки тому +2

      I have been trying to reach him in meditation, nothing yet but I’ll keep trying .❤️❤️

    • @adityaanand4439
      @adityaanand4439 3 роки тому +3

      @@ryanmullins9546 He surely will show himself to you. A Guru never denies the fruits of a wholehearted attempt... : ))

  • @chefjonsf
    @chefjonsf 2 роки тому +1

    So fitting , I had the exact same question after going against my word in relation to someone and regretting it. Who am I? The universe answered today. Thank you Baba Ram Dass.
    Whats my work?
    You’re in a school, why dont you try the curriculum? Try being human?
    I hadn’t thought of that. I was too busy being high and spiritual, pushing my humanity away.
    It began to dawn on me -
    Freedom was gonna come through form, not in spite of it.

  • @josephpotter2844
    @josephpotter2844 5 років тому +5

    Love you Babba Ram Das

  • @heatherkozak2987
    @heatherkozak2987 Рік тому

    Thank you for all you do for us. I found you when I needed it the most. Love and light Ram Dass.

  • @VishalTheK
    @VishalTheK 3 роки тому +1

    And at last you reached everyone in a very touching way with the truth

  • @consciousawareness6020
    @consciousawareness6020 5 років тому +2

    Thank you 🙏

  • @anthonynewton7435
    @anthonynewton7435 4 роки тому +2

    Excellent lecture. As good as any ive listened to.
    Logic and truth

  • @902Steeler
    @902Steeler 2 місяці тому

    Words keep our minds quiet that's a good way to look at it

  • @airheads1012
    @airheads1012 7 місяців тому

    One of my favorite talks by far from ram dass

  • @haarhoffjan
    @haarhoffjan 8 місяців тому

    Cant thank you enough for opening my eyes and realising the ultimate truth …❤️

  • @dnbjedi
    @dnbjedi 3 роки тому +2

    Aww he has notes.

  • @maclivesimply4400
    @maclivesimply4400 4 роки тому +1

    I hear you Ram Dass

  • @blackpearl1t
    @blackpearl1t 6 років тому +4

    I love this so much thank u u r the possibility the infinite ways

  • @Majnun74
    @Majnun74 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing!

  • @roxinante8345
    @roxinante8345 2 роки тому

    Definitely one of the greats.

  • @TheFrogballz
    @TheFrogballz 2 роки тому +2

    I don't know what it is but I understand everything that he is saying

  • @richard29sher
    @richard29sher 4 роки тому +1

    Wonderful

  • @mw1429
    @mw1429 2 роки тому +1

    spreading love is never wrong

  • @rssrolo
    @rssrolo 3 роки тому +2

    ahhhh, such fun, 22:00 - 25, oh my Ram Dass, so fun, 24:42, forget it! and then right at 25:00, "is this too heavy?" - our identity has no free will, but when we let go of any form that an identity can cling to, then we are free will - yes, Baba, we can hear you!

  • @jugganaut26
    @jugganaut26 3 роки тому +3

    THIS IS IT. Wow, wow. I am shuddering with the realization that our constant grasping for something else, if only this, if only that, going there, going over there, doing that, and then doing that... It is always here and now, and that is it.

  • @luhgubrious
    @luhgubrious 6 років тому +34

    Very deep Mr. Lahey

    • @blainerupp
      @blainerupp 5 років тому

      ☹️🎂🍩🍩🍠🍠🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🍕🍕🍞

    • @stringbing97
      @stringbing97 5 років тому +3

      😂😂😂 oh my god

    • @VitruvianAlgo
      @VitruvianAlgo 4 роки тому

      ahahahahahah! very few will get the reference

    • @donfortier8569
      @donfortier8569 4 роки тому

      shut up Randy!!

    • @allinthemind2006
      @allinthemind2006 4 роки тому +1

      you here that Rand? The winds of shit they are a blowin

  • @WilliamJReick
    @WilliamJReick 6 років тому +3

    This was so entertaining!

  • @TrinityUnofficial
    @TrinityUnofficial 6 років тому +4

    listen, cosmos, it's too much to talk to you like this. This type of echo rings my ears and biwilders my mind. My god this must be some sort of mirror where I realized I was the universe and then the universe said "fuck it" and let me in on this whole game of formation. But even though these words come from grace no matter which way I think of it, it seems that their only purpose is to tell someone else "hey, it's me the cosmos, just checking in and seeing how things are, just gotta knock that domino down.. alright have a nice eternity and I'll be back again."

  • @user-lu2wu4kz2l
    @user-lu2wu4kz2l 3 роки тому +4

    Childhood abuse blocks spirituality until the abuse is processed.

    • @wouldntyouliketoknow230
      @wouldntyouliketoknow230 3 роки тому

      If I may ask, how do you mean by block?

    • @user-lu2wu4kz2l
      @user-lu2wu4kz2l 3 роки тому +2

      @@wouldntyouliketoknow230 any attempt isn't successful. I want to add. It will be of imagination they are getting to themselves.

    • @mitkabz
      @mitkabz 3 роки тому

      @@wouldntyouliketoknow230 i think he means if u are emotionaly traumatized and u think constantly about it and caught up in loppy thoughts about the pain qnd suffering of your trauma than it stops u from seeing, from being here and now. It stops u and BLOCKS u from being free of blame and of suffering. It blocks your spirituality

  • @richardhughes2429
    @richardhughes2429 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @highwayranger4878
    @highwayranger4878 Рік тому +2

    I am!!
    I am life!!
    I am dying!!
    I am all I am!!
    I am, I am.
    Nice to me you I am!!

  • @psychologicalsuccess3476
    @psychologicalsuccess3476 2 роки тому +1

    You can understand around the time he's saying "both... both... both" why silence holds the truth absolutely

  • @nickpreetic4670
    @nickpreetic4670 3 роки тому

    Love you sir

  • @rahul1234552
    @rahul1234552 6 років тому +6

    Absolute truth..!

  • @tanase1
    @tanase1 3 роки тому +29

    Did anyone notice that at his every lecture there is a baby crying? :-)

  • @lawrencetawiah
    @lawrencetawiah 4 роки тому +2

    #shivashambho 🧘🏾‍♂️🇬🇭😊🧼👋🏾🧻🛎

  • @susieking8257
    @susieking8257 Рік тому

    Thanks

  • @HeatherKMB
    @HeatherKMB 4 роки тому +3

    💕💕💕

  • @bdancepants5003
    @bdancepants5003 Рік тому +1

    “You can eat as much wheatgrass as you want… you’ll still die”
    😂🫀🧠👁

  • @Lou-C
    @Lou-C 7 років тому +4

    💛🕉

  • @peterphelps4111
    @peterphelps4111 3 роки тому

    Just as his presence is known by the aware being... thanks to the form known as utube .... this message will self destruct in 10 seconds Jim

  • @ellisonc152
    @ellisonc152 7 років тому +2

    nice video name, no joke, ram ram

  • @saurabhrajmane5889
    @saurabhrajmane5889 2 місяці тому

    love u

  • @MissLisaAdams
    @MissLisaAdams 2 роки тому +2

    "You can eat as much wheatgrass as you want, and you will still decay and die" 😂🤣 Love you Ram Dass❤

  • @dennispetzold869
    @dennispetzold869 Рік тому

    Classic Ram Dass.

  • @alfreddifeo9642
    @alfreddifeo9642 Місяць тому

    🙏

  • @frankcwte
    @frankcwte 7 років тому +7

    I love you

  • @danielrodrigues2041
    @danielrodrigues2041 2 роки тому

    Words from others don't keep our minds quiet. And words don't make our hearts hear each other. The only thing that can keep our mind quiet, and our heart hear others is from within ourselves.

  • @Alonzoshootingbear
    @Alonzoshootingbear 3 роки тому

    R.i.p

  • @kishorram9112
    @kishorram9112 3 роки тому +1

    Neeb karoli baba ki jai🙏🙏🙏

  • @radicalhonesty3628
    @radicalhonesty3628 2 роки тому +1

    I try
    and watch this video
    but my mind
    is so distracted,
    I'm in sheer
    paralyzed panic.
    I've got no money.
    what the fuck
    am I going to do?
    I'm in paralyzed terror.
    I'm desperate for a miracle...

  • @dirdee_hippie
    @dirdee_hippie Рік тому

    Ram Dass makes my drives so much easier

  • @19Marc79
    @19Marc79 4 роки тому

    1:59 => 😇

  • @aydenfimbres9406
    @aydenfimbres9406 3 роки тому +1

    when you ask him inn person you die and in the afterlife you have to watch this.

  • @josephpotter2844
    @josephpotter2844 5 років тому +4

    He is psychadelic ,life is psychadelic, our minds are psychadelic, Shanti Shanti Shanti.

  • @djoe-tf8hn
    @djoe-tf8hn 4 роки тому

    Why did he said there is so many I. We don't feel that way. We fee I is the same doing many things

  • @ohmnitrix4209
    @ohmnitrix4209 6 років тому +4

    I guess I finally know who I am lol

    • @erikl1003
      @erikl1003 6 років тому +3

      FreshLambKebab who are you this time? (:

    • @zephaudi
      @zephaudi 5 років тому

      @@erikl1003 Hhahahahahahhahahahhahahaha who are you now?

  • @goodvibesonly2015
    @goodvibesonly2015 Рік тому +1

    The Audiance laughing at everything really irritates me..am I the only one?? I guess this is a Me problem and maybe thats what I need to work on!
    I am so angry and uptight all the time!!!!

  • @archarmony9851
    @archarmony9851 6 років тому +9

    not my volvo!

    • @ultracalicokittycat
      @ultracalicokittycat 5 років тому +2

      I was like, wait, did he say "Volvo", or "vulva"??? LOL (I still don't know!!!)

  • @jonathananderson9606
    @jonathananderson9606 2 роки тому

    Just listen with your heart it's OK the words are completely confusing,just assume I'm totally insane

  • @itsallgravityfitness7580
    @itsallgravityfitness7580 2 роки тому

    #itsallgravityfitness
    #DUMMYSWOLE
    #stepsquad
    #mrgravity

  • @jonathananderson9606
    @jonathananderson9606 2 роки тому

    Just listen with your heart the words are completely confusing,just assume I'm totally insane

  • @bryguy8716
    @bryguy8716 2 місяці тому

    He only dropped his body he's still here now

    • @BabaRamDassChannel
      @BabaRamDassChannel  2 місяці тому

      We at the channel feel this to be very true - if anything he expanded!

  • @brittanymyers7552
    @brittanymyers7552 5 років тому

    I really relate to Ram Dass 's thoughts but I wish he'd had children so he could have seen things from that point of view.

  • @petersanmiguel1164
    @petersanmiguel1164 Рік тому

    John 3:16

  • @DuncanHarrist
    @DuncanHarrist 7 років тому +3

    If I dial the number will God answer?

    • @mehendi1251
      @mehendi1251 5 років тому +3

      if you'll walk 1 step towards god he will walk 100 steps towards you

    • @dickslayer111
      @dickslayer111 4 роки тому

      @@appearance8932 silent bliss, that is a good way to put it.

  • @petersanmiguel1164
    @petersanmiguel1164 Рік тому

    You are a lost sinner in need of the salvation only the Messiah Jesus can provide. See the gospel of John.

  • @Nominay
    @Nominay 5 років тому +6

    I'm sick of how much this audience laughs. Almost constantly. It's distracting.

    • @josephpotter2844
      @josephpotter2844 5 років тому +1

      Nominay yes it is you ,

    • @scottash351
      @scottash351 4 роки тому +2

      Many of them are pretty high and Ram Dass goes for laughs too. I almost feel he's a little dependent on it. I think he's still a little stuck in praise and blame but I could be wrong.

    • @TheJcfclark
      @TheJcfclark 4 роки тому +1

      @@scottash351 It's his comedian self image..

    • @baptm727
      @baptm727 4 роки тому +1

      @@scottash351 In my opinion he's just used to be seen as a crazy guy from "down to earth" people so he comes along with jokes, so the pill is easier to swallow.

  • @dylanalan2890
    @dylanalan2890 4 роки тому

    What is wrong with this man. Sounds like he is confused and in trouble. What a time wasting.

    • @bgockel
      @bgockel 4 роки тому +5

      He wants you to assume he is insane. Listen with your heart, not to the words.

    • @IIEthanGamingII
      @IIEthanGamingII 3 роки тому

      Lmao what are you confused about specifically?

    • @michaelgarofono9535
      @michaelgarofono9535 3 роки тому

      You're time must be precious 🤣

    • @michaelgarofono9535
      @michaelgarofono9535 3 роки тому +2

      You're comment I love the most. It validates the entire lecture. You are so beautiful . Thank you

    • @tannersmith0530
      @tannersmith0530 Рік тому

      @@michaelgarofono9535 yes.

  • @bobbulgi880
    @bobbulgi880 4 роки тому

    He's egotistical