This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard you say David: "The mere act of waking up makes you realize that your dream characters didn't have any validity and that they weren't really suffering and that you attributed suffering to them when you had the perspective of being a fellow character in the dream."
00:20_Please introduce yourself. Who are you, and what is your religious background? 01:31_What were you looking for? What do you think compelled you to travel to India and stay there for decades? 02:18_Tell us a little about Raman Mahrshi’s background. 04:21_What did he do with this new knowledge? Did he try to communicate it to anyone? 06:04_What were Ramana Maharshi’s main teachings? 07:22_What spiritual practices di Sri Raman advise his followers to undertake? 12:12_How real is this ‘I’ that you are asking us to investigate? 13:20_Do we have to give up our ordinary everyday activities and devote to this practice full time? 15:19_How do we psyche ourselves up for this investigation? How do we learn to take it more seriously? 17:19_How does one keep this state once it has been attained? 18:22_What is your own experience of doing self-inquiry? How easy did you find it when you started? 19:02_Why is this method different and better than other kinds of meditation? 20:49_Are there levels of the mind that one moves through during this practice? 21:34_What were Sri Ramana’s views on visions and other similar spiritual experiences? 24:16_How do we rid ourselves of limitations, beliefs and unconscious emotional conditioning? 26:26_Are you saying that we should not even value good spiritual experiences? 26:59_It is said that the final state cannot be described in words. Is it true? 28:33_What are some of the characteristics of this reality that you cannot be accurately described? 32:32_Everyone thinks ‘I am an individual person.’ How can that be so wrong? 33:44_How to determine what is real and what is just an illusion? 37:26_Don't we need to identify with a person, a limited form, in order to function in the world? 38:11_What’s the self like? Is that a reasonable question to ask? 38:42_How can we tell the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher? 42:44_What was Sri Ramana’s advice on choosing or recognising a good Guru? 44:17_Why is it so bad to charge money for satsang? 45:47_How did Sri Raman deal with money matters? 46:18_So how did he support himself in those early years? 46:36_When did he decide to become a teacher, to share what he had discovered with others? 47:20_Did Ramana Maharshi not regard himself as a Guru who had practical and useful wisdom to impart? 49:06_Sri Ramana once said, ’Whatever is destined to happen will happen.’ Do we have any free will at all? 50:29_So, the idea that we have choices is just an illusion? 51:48_How to reach this state where everything happens smoothly, without conscious choices? 52:49_Who or what is God in Sri Ramana’s system? How is He reached or experienced? 55:05_How do all these ideas connect with science? Are they compatible with a scientific world view? 57:04_What is the mind? What is its fundamental nature and origin? 59:30_The yogis speak of controlling the mind. Are they talking about the same thing? 1:00:24_How can we improve the world and make it a better place? OM 🙏
It was probably new to the people who watched it on Anthony's channel. Many of his videos, especially the most watched ones, are about near-death experiences. I agreed to talk to Anthony becasue he appeared to have a large audience who were sympathetic to spiritual matters, but who had probably never come across Bhagavan or his teachings before.
@@David_Godman What a noble service you are doing sharing the direct path with the world! Blessings to you, David. P.S. I am about 200 pages into Guru Vachaka Kovai (reading a page or two each morning after morning meditation), and you are right, it is such a pure and powerful transmission of Bhagavan's teachings. Thanks for the recommendation! All the best.
No one can ever teach Ramana like this....His personal experience with Ramana , the teaching of the True Self is well explained. One, already on the path gets excited.🌳🐢🙏
Ironically, I lived a life that centered on the feelings of others. Instead of expressing my feelings frankly, I thought I had to live a happy life that would require suppressing my feelings to avoid making problems. At the same time, I firmly believed that my inner anxiety or nervousness should not be revealed. I tried to think positively or forced a smile on my face, hiding my unease and pretending not to know. Some feelings discomforted me, which I knew I should not be feeling, yet whenever those feelings arose, I would deny myself and suffer. I thought this was the right way, but reality told me the contrary. I became more vulnerable. I started to use the "Intended mindfulness playlist' and got much better. It really works 🙂🙂🙂
@@mathrodite this is true, but he was choosen by Sri Ramanas ashram and also other enlighten persons to become the scribe for their 'teachings' etc a highly valued position, in which they must truely understand and project the true meaanings
Hi David I was wondering if you could help me. Since the age of 11 I was just watching TV and out of the blue I was hit with WHO AM I?!! And from that moment on that’s when I started getting panic attacks because since then that’s when I lost myself and I’ve been empty ever since!! I’m 53 yrs old now and since that day I’ve been thinking I’m losing my mind!! I would recite my parents names in my head and my cousins birth dates just to reassure myself that I didn’t lose my mind. How can I find myself again?? I don’t understand how to ‘awaken’ as they say. My mental health has really gotten worse. Please help me if you know where I’m coming from…😨🥺
@@MokshagnaKanyaafter Listening for more than one hour to David talk exactly about that,you still ask? :) Practice Do the work my friend Liberation or Moksha is awareness aware of it self 24/7 Content for no reason For this you need a Mind that supports it. The only mind that supports it is a surrendered mind. Flat line , equanimous Mind. Knowledge is not enough Karma yoga is not enough Meditation is not enought Self enquiry is not enought...you need a balance of all of them. Otherwise realization of Atman will not prevails. Is up to you to a point,and there is an x factor too...an element of surprise,Grace,an accident to make realization stable. All the best my fellow dear seeker🙏🌞❤️
Hi there🙏❤️ What I am saying is what I am saying ;) nothing else. Self inquiry is pretty much advanced. You need a mind capable of supporting it. How do I understand Atma Viccara( Self Inquiry) is as follows: Although there are different approaches my favorite is: Self inquiry : holding the question who or what is aware of any thought/phenomena?,..................... ................................................... , and rejecting any answer from the mind.(Until realization of allways present background of awareness become more clear) Is a very direct way to realize Atman( The Self). But usually when the mind contracts or reacts strongly to whatever happens in your life( Samsara) you lose awareness of Consciousness and get caught again in Thoughts/ego based reality. Flip floping between Aware of awareness versus getting caught in dreaming(ego based thoughts) is... half backed entlightenment. Glimpses of Reality. When awareness is aware of awareness 24h seven days a week Identification as an Ego ( "I" " me"= person/jiva) cease. Realization of Self is permanent= Moksha
@@LalithaChinthalapudi-i6fin other words: knowing your Self as Atman permanently= Moksha (According to my knowledge)🙏🌞❤ Atman=All pervading,infinite,always present,effortless,all transcendent Awareness. You are that!
🙏Namaste!! I know and practice Ramana's philosophy for decades, I have also been to Tiruwannamalay, but with this video I have deepened the awareness of my true being again and even more!! Thanks David & Antony for your engagekent! Namaste! 😃🙏🏵🌾🧘🧘♂🧘♀🧘🌾🏵🙏😀😇
David : this rendition is sharpest and clearest...grateful as always for your elaboration and explanations ...particularly, the point where you explained how self enquiry is different from meditation and how one should focus on the subject instead of the object ...that has opened up a long jammed door for me ...thanks so much
Wow! 1 hours of pure ecstasy. Every drop was sweet nectar to us who weren't fortunate enough to be in Sri Ramana's presence. His words pierce ignorance, echo in the chambers of the heart and bring a smile that doesn't go away. Thank You David for sharing. Thank you to the questioner for pointed questions. Dhanyawad Sirshree.
One thing I would suggest would be for you to read your questions out loud. That would allow people to just listen to the interview as mp3 or other. Also, there are visually impaired people who just can't access visual information.
I’ve listened to nearly every one of your videos. I like the way you put his teachings across without adding any colour to it. It’s like a pure reflection of who Ramana Maharishi was. You seem to leave it to us to take it however we want to. You know what YOU got from it. But you don’t want to be a claimant to it. Thank you so much. I hope I can get ‘it’ in my lifetime. 🙏
It would have been nice to meet the Maharshi. He was known for speaking very little. After years of reading books and listening to people speak about spiritual topics, my mind has grown tired. I think that being in the presence of the often-silent Maharshi would have been refreshing.
Thank you so much. A few years ago I was in the Cave from Ramana meditating no wordt to explain. I walked barefoods in his foodsteps on the montain the most intensif moment of my life. 1 day when my heart is calling me I go back to this magical place however it is in my heart forever. Ocean
I think Ramana had a spontaneous breakthrough whereas Buddha had to work to make the same realisation. Both have thought us that we are all capable of self realisation. Blessings to all and thank you David Godman.
Thank you David, for always being so thorough and clear and calm in your explanations. Your love for, and dedication to, Sri Ramana's message always is evident and much appreciated. 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏿🕉️
Sir, this is satsanga. Despite all that " I " have understood of Bhagavan's teaching, "I" can't help falling in to deep depression and hopelessness. Strangling fear of death too haunts waking hours. Each time I am at a lose I return to this Satsanga and am instantly charged up. Sir, you are a guidebook 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes it is good in times of despair to be reminded of who we really are and be reminded, by true spiritual teachers and sages, of who we really are...and to press on in overcoming the world's cynicism and personality cult/ego/and compulsive thoughts.
He chose to exist in his body by not doing. This was the telos of his choice. Choice, I would say, is the ultimate responsibility. The work of Victor Frankle emphasized this point in Man’s Search for Meaning. Choice might seem to be an illusion in connection to the body. In this world they both objectively exist. Very profound message. Thank you!
🙏🏼David Godman, if you reading this.. my Pranam to you, for this beautiful explanation. It is so easy to be carried away in spiritual explanation but truly your integrity in keeping between the lines is high standard. 🪔
The money just weeded out most teachers. But Nisargaddata Maharaj is ❤️, and Ramana Maharshi as well. I felt a surge of something go through me when I was watching Nisargaddata on video a few years ago. I knew he was the real deal from that. It brought me to tears, that experience. I haven't felt it since. 🙏❤️. Thanks to David for his eloquent way to explain everything ❤️🙏
Fascinating presentation, several years ago I stumbled upon Mouni Sadhu's book In Days of Great Peace. It details his time at the ashram in the 1940s. I recently read David spent some time in the west of Ireland in the 1970s. Hello from the west of Ireland.
The way David was explaining answers to all questions I felt as if Maharshi Himself was answering my questions- No doute that David has gotten the taste of Shri Maharshi
Watching this priceless video has been a divinely ecstatic experience. The clarity and simplicity in the way you have so generously shared such great knowledge are simply amazing. Merely listening to you speak about Ramana Maharishi is such a soothing and peaceful experience. Thank you very much. 🙏
OMG! I thought I had a good understanding of the Self- Enquiry process, but this really opened my eyes even more. Perhaps I needed to wait 2 years before fine tuning my enquiry into that miserable "I" that wasn't going away. This video is such a great service. I better have a closer look at that "I" that waited two years to fine tune its understanding of Self Enquiry.
Once i read The teachings of Ramana Maharishi, but was searching the exact conversation to more connect with such. A great divine soul and i got it !!!! Tears in my eyes when I listened it and this became my routine to hear the experience with Guru Ramana Maharishi 🙏🏻
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Thousand likes and love from the "I" for the entire document.Many thanks👍🙏🏽👍🙏🏽
I am thrilled to listen to this updated interview with David Godman. Among his answers to questions, his fine-tuning and sharing in greater depth the method of Self-inquiry inspires, encourages, and confirms my own practice. Thank you, Mr. Chene and Mr. Godman!
All questions asked are what naturally occur to people and answered by David Godman in an authentic way with his deep background in all Ramana related matters.
David Sir has Bhagavan's grace for sure. It gives a lot of relief to learn that he is taken care of during these days of contagion. It is Bhagavan's decision only that he should be in Australia these days. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is an exquisitely lucid and comprehensive summary of Bhagavan's teachings, including clarification of the ways one can get off track with Self-Inquiry and how to prevent that from happening. Thank you David Godman!
Congratulations! The best video ever, putting all together the most important teachings of the best sages you concluded the "idea" of what we all are. An exact summary of the subject! Thank you, many blessings!
Thank you David Godman for being such a great devote to Sri Ramana Maharshi that we could hear Sri Ramana Maharshi and, all in all, listen again to the silent teachings of tat tvam asi.
My Self was seeking a teacher, then David Godman came knocking at my door, if you like, and sent me to Sri Ramana Maharshi. "I am not that I; I am That." And, We are. My Self is eternally grateful. My Self no longer needs and wants what I did. Stay home in the heart, I, because your wandering about is what creates its own chaos. Many blessings to all of Us.
Never heard a better explanation than this regarding the “I”,,,,,, self. This clears up many things for me. Thank you so much. Love and blessings 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦 (the flag is there just to let you know where , geographically, where it comes from. It is not who “I” am 😊
A beautiful woman in Colorado called Connie Rae Andreas has also discovered this and is teaching this. She isnt in this state constantly but is able to help people to attain this state for moments using a step by step process of dissolving the I. I have done this process and so have hundreds of people -it works-quite simple. But I dont know how you can stay with this for a very long time. Thanks for sharing these teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi-awesome!
Thank you for your dedication. I listen to these talks as l did my favourite stories as a child. It blows me away to think of a realised person in a cave being of greater benefit than, say, a social-worker!! ❤
Thank you David and all the production team. I appreciate how succinct your answers are. You understand the questions from the inside and your explanations go directly to the heart. Will watch again. With joy and love in Bhagavan. Are you looking forward to going back to Tiru?🙏
I have lived a brief moment of samadhi is a state when everything dispear even the I and only state of love there is no words to discribe a lost this state but I am so grateful that I experience it like 3 times 💚🙏
wonderful - could sleep deeper - after watching and realizing THIS IS IT. Wonderful reminder THANK you very much for the most important questions and answers 🙋♀️ 💕
When U G Krishnamurthy asked Ramana, " I want to have what you have" - Ramana said -- "I can give you, but can you receive it " --- this is by far the best explanation from Ramana Maharishi about enlightenment. -- the beauty of this conversation is --- What Ramana had to offer was silence --- but nobody can receive silence because they can recognise sound but not silence.
Silence can only be understood by knowing one's self and by knowing one's Unconsciousness. No one can give another either of these realities. They must be discovered through personal experiences, which obviously will be unique for each person on the path of Enlightenment.
Live and lead this wonderful life, without even speaking or thinking about, I am this and that, or speaking 'I' egoistically in your statements This will mature the Postmaster who will deliver the LITTLE YOU to Your Own Divine SELF through Self Enquiry or He will manifest a Guru for the Little YOU to be guided
Good to see he's experiencing his individuality by talking about Me. Its all about accepting yourself as no mind, no idea,....we have to go beyond and see the innocent children are already THAT,..protect and let them be,...they are Ramana,..No-mind,..Me,...Self,..a whole new authentic humanity will arise. Most of us are to far away from Me. The children not, they are Me, they are themselves. Now is the time to make the Change Namaste 🙏
How do you make a living? When did you leave India? When are you coming back? How to learn more about all this? How to experience this as a living reality within oneself?
There is no turning back to the mundane concerns of life when you have had a true experience of the Self. I would also like to suggest that all experiences of the Self are permanent and irreversible, but the reason we view Ramana Maharshi’s experience differently is because the sense of an individual person in him had ceased to exist
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard you say David: "The mere act of waking up makes you realize that your dream characters didn't have any validity and that they weren't really suffering and that you attributed suffering to them when you had the perspective of being a fellow character in the dream."
Very beautiful indeed. You can really feel into it too and it has a soothing effect.
Deep😮❤
00:20_Please introduce yourself. Who are you, and what is your religious background?
01:31_What were you looking for? What do you think compelled you to travel to India and stay there for decades?
02:18_Tell us a little about Raman Mahrshi’s background.
04:21_What did he do with this new knowledge? Did he try to communicate it to anyone?
06:04_What were Ramana Maharshi’s main teachings?
07:22_What spiritual practices di Sri Raman advise his followers to undertake?
12:12_How real is this ‘I’ that you are asking us to investigate?
13:20_Do we have to give up our ordinary everyday activities and devote to this practice full time?
15:19_How do we psyche ourselves up for this investigation? How do we learn to take it more seriously?
17:19_How does one keep this state once it has been attained?
18:22_What is your own experience of doing self-inquiry? How easy did you find it when you started?
19:02_Why is this method different and better than other kinds of meditation?
20:49_Are there levels of the mind that one moves through during this practice?
21:34_What were Sri Ramana’s views on visions and other similar spiritual experiences?
24:16_How do we rid ourselves of limitations, beliefs and unconscious emotional conditioning?
26:26_Are you saying that we should not even value good spiritual experiences?
26:59_It is said that the final state cannot be described in words. Is it true?
28:33_What are some of the characteristics of this reality that you cannot be accurately described?
32:32_Everyone thinks ‘I am an individual person.’ How can that be so wrong?
33:44_How to determine what is real and what is just an illusion?
37:26_Don't we need to identify with a person, a limited form, in order to function in the world?
38:11_What’s the self like? Is that a reasonable question to ask?
38:42_How can we tell the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher?
42:44_What was Sri Ramana’s advice on choosing or recognising a good Guru?
44:17_Why is it so bad to charge money for satsang?
45:47_How did Sri Raman deal with money matters?
46:18_So how did he support himself in those early years?
46:36_When did he decide to become a teacher, to share what he had discovered with others?
47:20_Did Ramana Maharshi not regard himself as a Guru who had practical and useful wisdom to impart?
49:06_Sri Ramana once said, ’Whatever is destined to happen will happen.’ Do we have any free will at all?
50:29_So, the idea that we have choices is just an illusion?
51:48_How to reach this state where everything happens smoothly, without conscious choices?
52:49_Who or what is God in Sri Ramana’s system? How is He reached or experienced?
55:05_How do all these ideas connect with science? Are they compatible with a scientific world view?
57:04_What is the mind? What is its fundamental nature and origin?
59:30_The yogis speak of controlling the mind. Are they talking about the same thing?
1:00:24_How can we improve the world and make it a better place?
OM 🙏
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Never get tired of hearing this. There is nothing new in this video but it's all put together so well. Saved.
Agreed. And Mr. Godman never seems to get tired of talking about it. Which he does very well.
It was probably new to the people who watched it on Anthony's channel. Many of his videos, especially the most watched ones, are about near-death experiences. I agreed to talk to Anthony becasue he appeared to have a large audience who were sympathetic to spiritual matters, but who had probably never come across Bhagavan or his teachings before.
@@David_Godman What a noble service you are doing sharing the direct path with the world! Blessings to you, David. P.S. I am about 200 pages into Guru Vachaka Kovai (reading a page or two each morning after morning meditation), and you are right, it is such a pure and powerful transmission of Bhagavan's teachings. Thanks for the recommendation! All the best.
@@David_Godman namaskar, always so happy to see a video of yours....even if always the same, always new
Grace to you dear david godman 🌿
@@macarius8802 That's how we start our own day here in Perth: a meditation followed by a reading from Guru Vachaka Kovai.
We should hear this every week. Covers bhagavans teaching in an hour. My pranams to David,he is a true disciple of Bhagvan and realized soul.
Thank you so much David ! You speak about Ramana in the most clarifying way possible !
No one can ever teach Ramana like this....His personal experience with Ramana , the teaching of the True Self is well explained. One, already on the path gets excited.🌳🐢🙏
Ironically, I lived a life that centered on the feelings of others. Instead of expressing my feelings frankly, I thought I had to live a happy life that would require suppressing my feelings to avoid making problems.
At the same time, I firmly believed that my inner anxiety or nervousness should not be revealed. I tried to think positively or forced a smile on my face, hiding my unease and pretending not to know.
Some feelings discomforted me, which I knew I should not be feeling, yet whenever those feelings arose, I would deny myself and suffer.
I thought this was the right way, but reality told me the contrary. I became more vulnerable. I started to use the "Intended mindfulness playlist' and got much better. It really works 🙂🙂🙂
He did NOT have a personal experience with Ramana. How could he have? Ramana died in 1950. David says he went to the ashram in 1976.
@@mathrodite this is true, but he was choosen by Sri Ramanas ashram and also other enlighten persons to become the scribe for their 'teachings' etc a highly valued position, in which they must truely understand and project the true meaanings
@@hypeogaming8600
Nonsense, he wasn’t “chosen” at all. He’s just a guy
@@cspace1234nz get some rest champ😁
Fantastic Q&A. 🙏
Lucid, simple, direct and complete. Anyone listens to this and live by what is said will reach bliss.
Thank you so much David for your passion about this primordial investigation of the self !
Always a pleasure to hear you talking. Thank you David. Love from Portugal. 🌻💙
Who would have thought that a simple question ( WHO AM I ) would reveal the meaning of life.Thanks David
Hi David I was wondering if you could help me. Since the age of 11 I was just watching TV and out of the blue I was hit with WHO AM I?!! And from that moment on that’s when I started getting panic attacks because since then that’s when I lost myself and I’ve been empty ever since!! I’m 53 yrs old now and since that day I’ve been thinking I’m losing my mind!! I would recite my parents names in my head and my cousins birth dates just to reassure myself that I didn’t lose my mind. How can I find myself again?? I don’t understand how to ‘awaken’ as they say. My mental health has really gotten worse. Please help me if you know where I’m coming from…😨🥺
@@lucycarriere9481 There's is no self to find, you are formless
He cant help you, there is no i and no me remember?
@@lucycarriere9481you are ok, you are fine, lose yourself completely and let go off fear, there is nothing to lose but only to gain...Your real self
What a breathtaking hour!! It contains almost ALL you ever need to heard trough David's mouth and heart!! Brilliant!☀️thank you 🙏
According to bhagavan, how should i attain moksha?? Plz tell me, what bhagavan said🙏🙏
@@MokshagnaKanyaafter Listening for more than one hour to David talk exactly about that,you still ask? :)
Practice
Do the work my friend
Liberation or Moksha is awareness aware of it self 24/7
Content for no reason
For this you need a Mind that supports it.
The only mind that supports it is a surrendered mind. Flat line , equanimous Mind.
Knowledge is not enough
Karma yoga is not enough
Meditation is not enought
Self enquiry is not enought...you need a balance of all of them.
Otherwise realization of Atman will not prevails.
Is up to you to a point,and there is an x factor too...an element of surprise,Grace,an accident to make realization stable.
All the best my fellow dear seeker🙏🌞❤️
@@PremArnavSo, first I should do self enquiry and know my self,after knowing myself,I should attain moksha.is this you are telling??
Hi there🙏❤️
What I am saying is what I am saying ;) nothing else.
Self inquiry is pretty much advanced.
You need a mind capable of supporting it.
How do I understand Atma Viccara( Self Inquiry) is as follows:
Although there are different approaches my favorite is:
Self inquiry : holding the question who or what is aware of any thought/phenomena?,..................... ................................................... , and rejecting any answer from the mind.(Until realization of allways present background of awareness become more clear)
Is a very direct way to realize Atman( The Self).
But usually when the mind contracts or reacts strongly to whatever happens in your life( Samsara) you lose awareness of Consciousness and get caught again in Thoughts/ego based reality.
Flip floping between Aware of awareness versus getting caught in dreaming(ego based thoughts) is... half backed entlightenment. Glimpses of Reality.
When awareness is aware of awareness 24h seven days a week
Identification as an Ego ( "I" " me"= person/jiva) cease. Realization of Self is permanent= Moksha
@@LalithaChinthalapudi-i6fin other words: knowing your Self as Atman permanently= Moksha
(According to my knowledge)🙏🌞❤
Atman=All pervading,infinite,always present,effortless,all transcendent Awareness.
You are that!
🙏Namaste!! I know and practice Ramana's philosophy for decades, I have also been to Tiruwannamalay, but with this video I have deepened the awareness of my true being again and even more!! Thanks David & Antony for your engagekent! Namaste! 😃🙏🏵🌾🧘🧘♂🧘♀🧘🌾🏵🙏😀😇
David Godman's compilation "Be As You Are" is one of the best books on Ramana Maharshi's teaching! God bless him!
David : this rendition is sharpest and clearest...grateful as always for your elaboration and explanations ...particularly, the point where you explained how self enquiry is different from meditation and how one should focus on the subject instead of the object ...that has opened up a long jammed door for me ...thanks so much
Thank you David. This is as if Ramana is speaking himself. I stopped in my tracks when I saw this on my feed.
Thanks David. Years ago (30?) I read your book with great attention and because of that Ramana's words are the most beloved to me.
Thank you for sharing the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi in serene and blissful words of wisdom 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
To David and the producers of this magnificence.
Thank you David for all you do.
Wow! 1 hours of pure ecstasy. Every drop was sweet nectar to us who weren't fortunate enough to be in Sri Ramana's presence. His words pierce ignorance, echo in the chambers of the heart and bring a smile that doesn't go away. Thank You David for sharing. Thank you to the questioner for pointed questions. Dhanyawad Sirshree.
It took me 2.5 hours to get through it. Lots of breaks for reflection and notes.
One thing I would suggest would be for you to read your questions out loud. That would allow people to just listen to the interview as mp3 or other. Also, there are visually impaired people who just can't access visual information.
I’ve listened to nearly every one of your videos. I like the way you put his teachings across without adding any colour to it. It’s like a pure reflection of who Ramana Maharishi was. You seem to leave it to us to take it however we want to. You know what YOU got from it. But you don’t want to be a claimant to it. Thank you so much. I hope I can get ‘it’ in my lifetime. 🙏
Hey David, thank your for all the insights and teachings of the masters
It would have been nice to meet the Maharshi. He was known for speaking very little. After years of reading books and listening to people speak about spiritual topics, my mind has grown tired. I think that being in the presence of the often-silent Maharshi would have been refreshing.
David thank you so much you have just made my day. love and blessings to all reading this from Scotland x
Thank you so much. A few years ago I
was in the Cave from Ramana meditating no wordt to explain. I walked barefoods in his foodsteps on the montain the most intensif moment of my life. 1 day when my heart is calling me I go back to this magical place however it is in my heart forever. Ocean
barefoot
Such clarity can only come from a state of stark clarity within. Thank you David!!!🙏🙏🙏
Great explanations showing an extremely high grade of devotion towards Bhagavan and a deep understanding of His teachings.
Isn’t this about not understanding but experiencing the self? I feel those discussions about the presence of the master a sidetrack to truth
A very clear speaker who explains perfectly. Amazing 😁😁
I think Ramana had a spontaneous breakthrough whereas Buddha had to work to make the same realisation. Both have thought us that we are all capable of self realisation. Blessings to all and thank you David Godman.
actually, nothing is spontaneous. when we think, we think of only this birth. Both Buddha and Ramana struggled for births to achieve this state.
Clarity itself. First time I’ve understood properly. May awakening happen to us all. 🙏🏾🆒🕉📢🙈🦋🔔🙉🙏☯️👌🏽🙊🕉️
Thank you David, for always being so thorough and clear and calm in your explanations. Your love for, and dedication to, Sri Ramana's message always is evident and much appreciated.
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Sir, this is satsanga. Despite all that " I " have understood of Bhagavan's teaching, "I" can't help falling in to deep depression and hopelessness. Strangling fear of death too haunts waking hours. Each time I am at a lose I return to this Satsanga and am instantly charged up. Sir, you are a guidebook 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes it is good in times of despair to be reminded of who we really are and be reminded, by true spiritual teachers and sages, of who we really are...and to press on in overcoming the world's cynicism and personality cult/ego/and compulsive thoughts.
A blessing it was to listen to such sublime words.🙇🏽🙇🏽🚩🚩
He chose to exist in his body by not doing. This was the telos of his choice. Choice, I would say, is the ultimate responsibility. The work of Victor Frankle emphasized this point in Man’s Search for Meaning. Choice might seem to be an illusion in connection to the body. In this world they both objectively exist. Very profound message. Thank you!
🙏🏼David Godman, if you reading this.. my Pranam to you, for this beautiful explanation. It is so easy to be carried away in spiritual explanation but truly your integrity in keeping between the lines is high standard. 🪔
Simple yet so friggin complicated!! It will take me a lifetime to figure Ramanas message out but I'm glad to have found him.
The money just weeded out most teachers. But Nisargaddata Maharaj is ❤️, and Ramana Maharshi as well. I felt a surge of something go through me when I was watching Nisargaddata on video a few years ago. I knew he was the real deal from that. It brought me to tears, that experience. I haven't felt it since. 🙏❤️. Thanks to David for his eloquent way to explain everything ❤️🙏
Mooji is also like this. He has helped my Self as well!
@@faithyourfear6401I have listened to and have a respect for Mooji but he does charge money and ask for donations.
Mooji is a delusional charlatan
Fascinating presentation, several years ago I stumbled upon Mouni Sadhu's book In Days of Great Peace. It details his time at the ashram in the 1940s. I recently read David spent some time in the west of Ireland in the 1970s. Hello from the west of Ireland.
The way David was explaining answers to all questions I felt as if Maharshi Himself was answering my questions- No doute that David has gotten the taste of Shri Maharshi
Watching this priceless video has been a divinely ecstatic experience. The clarity and simplicity in the way you have so generously shared such great knowledge are simply amazing.
Merely listening to you speak about Ramana Maharishi is such a soothing and peaceful experience.
Thank you very much. 🙏
OMG! I thought I had a good understanding of the Self- Enquiry process, but this really opened my eyes even more. Perhaps I needed to wait 2 years before fine tuning my enquiry into that miserable "I" that wasn't going away. This video is such a great service. I better have a closer look at that "I" that waited two years to fine tune its understanding of Self Enquiry.
Once i read The teachings of Ramana Maharishi, but was searching the exact conversation to more connect with such. A great divine soul and i got it !!!! Tears in my eyes when I listened it and this became my routine to hear the experience with Guru Ramana Maharishi 🙏🏻
Thousand likes and love from the "I" for the entire document.Many thanks👍🙏🏽👍🙏🏽
I am thrilled to listen to this updated interview with David Godman. Among his answers to questions, his fine-tuning and sharing in greater depth the method of Self-inquiry inspires, encourages, and confirms my own practice. Thank you, Mr. Chene and Mr. Godman!
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This just might be the most important - most central - video on UA-cam. A priceless treasure.
All questions asked are what naturally occur to people and answered by David Godman in an authentic way with his deep background in all Ramana related matters.
David Sir has Bhagavan's grace for sure. It gives a lot of relief to learn that he is taken care of during these days of contagion. It is Bhagavan's decision only that he should be in Australia these days. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is an exquisitely lucid and comprehensive summary of Bhagavan's teachings, including clarification of the ways one can get off track with Self-Inquiry and how to prevent that from happening. Thank you David Godman!
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Thank you David, from deepest part of my heart. Such a delight, such clarity.💖
Man, did I need this!
Thank You so much.
Thank you David for everything you are a Saint
thank you blessings 🙏
Thanks David, always beautiful.
Congratulations! The best video ever, putting all together the most important teachings of the best sages you concluded the "idea" of what we all are. An exact summary of the subject! Thank you, many blessings!
Thank you David! Blessings All.
Thank you David Godman for being such a great devote to Sri Ramana Maharshi that we could hear Sri Ramana Maharshi and, all in all, listen again to the silent teachings of tat tvam asi.
Wonderfully clear and inspiring, thanks so very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻💖
Brilliant! As always.....Thanks David for breaking down Bhagawan's teaching into such clear and simple morsels for us to understand.
Amazing commitment by David. I sincerely hope that he has managed to scratch that itch after so many years.
Thank you, grace and blessings!
This is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!
WOW! There's no words. This just jolted me into a spontaneous awakening. Best hour of my life.
THANK YOU
My Self was seeking a teacher, then David Godman came knocking at my door, if you like, and sent me to Sri Ramana Maharshi. "I am not that I; I am That." And, We are. My Self is eternally grateful. My Self no longer needs and wants what I did. Stay home in the heart, I, because your wandering about is what creates its own chaos. Many blessings to all of Us.
This is the one and only fantastic explanation on Raman's Teaching .
Never heard a better explanation than this regarding the “I”,,,,,, self. This clears up many things for me. Thank you so much. Love and blessings 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦 (the flag is there just to let you know where , geographically, where it comes from. It is not who “I” am 😊
Eternally grateful to you for sharing this priceless treasure of the highest knowledge.
David you are as important to me as Ramana cos if is wasn't for you I wouldn't have known his teachings 🙏 you are a link on the divine chain
A beautiful woman in Colorado called Connie Rae Andreas has also discovered this and is teaching this. She isnt in this state constantly but is able to help people to attain this state for moments using a step by step process of dissolving the I. I have done this process and so have hundreds of people -it works-quite simple. But I dont know how you can stay with this for a very long time. Thanks for sharing these teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi-awesome!
Sri Ramana was the real deal, you are lucky to have been in his company.
He was never in his company, what are you talking about ?
Thank you for your dedication. I listen to these talks as l did my favourite stories as a child. It blows me away to think of a realised person in a cave being of greater benefit than, say, a social-worker!! ❤
Thank you David and all the production team. I appreciate how succinct your answers are. You understand the questions from the inside and your explanations go directly to the heart. Will watch again. With joy and love in Bhagavan. Are you looking forward to going back to Tiru?🙏
What an eloquent speaker he is.
Most eloquently done. Your connection with Ramana is heartfelt. Many thanks !
I'm grateful for these teachings, which I just discovered. Thank you.
Grateful, Mr Godman for this very lucid exposition.
Obrigado David! Thanks! Abraços, big hug from South of Brazil 🇧🇷
Heard it again. Very comprehensive....revisions and repetitions bring the continuous focus on our GOAL. Get out of the game....Thanks
What a blessing to find this channel. Thank you
I have lived a brief moment of samadhi is a state when everything dispear even the I and only state of love there is no words to discribe a lost this state but I am so grateful that I experience it like 3 times 💚🙏
This is an amazing listening! Love it!
Who are you, you are everything, you are unique and divine. Loved always.
Thank you for making Ramana's teaching easy to understand.
wonderful - could sleep deeper - after watching and realizing THIS IS IT. Wonderful reminder THANK you very much for the most important questions and answers 🙋♀️ 💕
The problem is . That he was already an avatar ....we are not ready, God Bless
Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
When U G Krishnamurthy asked Ramana, " I want to have what you have" - Ramana said -- "I can give you, but can you receive it " --- this is by far the best explanation from Ramana Maharishi about enlightenment. -- the beauty of this conversation is --- What Ramana had to offer was silence --- but nobody can receive silence because they can recognise sound but not silence.
Silence can only be understood by knowing one's self and by knowing one's Unconsciousness. No one can give another either of these realities. They must be discovered through personal experiences, which obviously will be unique for each person on the path of Enlightenment.
Do you mean J. Krishnamurti asked that?
@@floriankoch2328 you will be more mesmerized if you get to know about UG Krishnamurthy. JK is different.
This is beautiful. Truly grateful for the message! Thank you
Beautiful
Well produced and lot to internalize
Namo Ramana🌺🙏🌹
Absolutely beautiful!!
Live and lead this wonderful life, without even speaking or thinking about, I am this and that, or speaking 'I' egoistically in your statements
This will mature the Postmaster who will deliver the LITTLE YOU to Your Own Divine SELF through Self Enquiry or He will manifest a Guru for the Little YOU to be guided
So inspiring. Thank you so much, David. And thank you, Ramana.
Thanks for the uncut version, David. It was well worth putting out!
Thank you. Would have been nice if the question was asked vocally. That way we could hear the entire video with closed eyes.
Agreed!!!
How lovely. How simple. How clear.
Kindest regards to all involved.
Hugs all around. :)
So helpful in understanding the book “I am”.
@Darren why?
@Darren LoL 😂 you people watch and learn from our Hindu Dharma knowledge from India but still do Jesus. Ungrateful people.
My first time hearing this. Wow. I am in Awe!!! Thank you. Seek and you will find.
Thanks for uploading this interview.
Good to see he's experiencing his individuality by talking about Me. Its all about accepting yourself as no mind, no idea,....we have to go beyond and see the innocent children are already THAT,..protect and let them be,...they are Ramana,..No-mind,..Me,...Self,..a whole new authentic humanity will arise. Most of us are to far away from Me. The children not, they are Me, they are themselves. Now is the time to make the Change
Namaste 🙏
Totally lov this guys style, what a champion....fully appreciate his efforts, I have leanrt alot from him, would lov the chance to meet him
Marvelous, clear and simple to put it on my ❤ Thanks for sharing David
How do you make a living? When did you leave India? When are you coming back? How to learn more about all this? How to experience this as a living reality within oneself?
There is no turning back to the mundane concerns of life when you have had a true experience of the Self. I would also like to suggest that all experiences of the Self are permanent and irreversible, but the reason we view Ramana Maharshi’s experience differently is because the sense of an individual person in him had ceased to exist