Who am I? Interview with David Godman
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2021
- An interview by Anthony Chene: www.anthonychene.com
David Godman recalls how he discovered the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, an Indian Sage who had reached enlightenment. He explains to what extent who we really are is beyond our body, our thoughts and our emotions. he shows how to conduct a self-enquiry to discover our true identity and reach enlightenment.
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I remember I kept asking myself the question ‘Who am I?’. I spent about 4 days thinking about it none stop. It was actually this, which triggered my Awakening. I will never ever forget the moment it happened. I had spent more or less a whole day peeling away the different layers of who I wasn’t. eg name, titles, labels, ideas etc until I was left with what I was. The only way I can describe it was a pure awareness of just ‘being’. The instant I became this awareness, everything changed for me and I Awakened. When I opened my eyes, everything was different. My reality hadn’t changed at all and yet everything I experienced was different. My journey since has been the most amazing, profound, beautiful, mind blowing journey.
Here’s a cuddle for all my beautiful brothers and sisters 🤗 💕
Genuine question - isn’t ‘just being’ a little boring? I’ve never liked the idea of not having an identity and becoming one with everything else. It actually frightens me. Am I seeing it the wrong way? Can you explain it further? Thank you 🙏
Put so well xxxx
Powerful
Love this, thanks for sharing 🤗
@@posiefluff7942 The richness you find in that place is beyond anything that you can experience outside with your senses. In a way it is like you discover your own movie's producer inside. You can witness universes born and collapsed, you literally can look inside the whole creation and discover whatever aspect presents itself. That is why you can spend days without making a move because it is so captivating and unique. Netflix is nothing in comparison.
When I was a child, one morning while I was waking up I heard a clear voice in my head saying: "See your life as if it were a movie".
That's pretty awesome. When I was a child, I woke up in the middle of the night and got up to go to the bathroom, and heard a clear voice of someone saying my name. I searched everywhere, but there was nobody around. It scared me enough that I stayed up the rest of the night. Maybe it was trying to scare me away from thinking I was that body with that name 😄
if my life is a movie i think the producer must've been operating on a tight budget
@@gristamshackleford2102 -Same here. Let's just trust that it's all happening for a good reason. :-)
You are not your clothes, you are not your furniture, you are not your job, what you have done or what you think. You are the observer within that sees all of this but that doesn't make it you. Being aware of what you are not, helps to make you aware of what you are. I am a spiritual being having a physical experience. Recently after watching another Chene video about a near death experience, Ingrid Honkala, opened my mind to the next life, or perhaps the real life. This isn't it!! I no longer worry about death or what is going to happen. Never in my life has something like this happened to me!! Being aware of being aware.
Yes. And you are the creator of what you observe.
The more we look for God, the more we see ourselves. And the more we look for ourselves, the more we see God.
You are neither the character on the screen nor the spectator in front of it, you are the light of the projector
Actually, you are the essence that created the light of the projector. That light is the Conscious mind's experience of creating and experiencing the characters AND the screen.
Every time I see a new video by Anthony sheen a light inside me starts to Shine because I know I’m about to get the deep profound knowledge
It's the same for me 😊
The I, I found myself to be, which is all of us together: One warm afternoon in 1996 I took a short nap. I awoke within it to find myself standing in the presence of a huge sun or sphere of light, quickly understanding that this sun was pure conscious awareness. Although its surface was only swirling light and did not have a face, it seemed as if it was smiling at me and had nothing but love for me.
I felt its thoughts as one with my own and felt it peering deeply into my own awareness, knowing everything about me all at once. Standing in its presence I was overcome by a deep sense of awe and at the same time I was surprised to find myself so fully conscious in this empty, but light-filled void. There was nothing in existence for me but myself and this bright bluish-white sun smiling its awareness at me. It was unlike any place on earth, and yet as real as waking reality. In fact, it was more real; I was super-conscious.
Suddenly I came to a profound awareness that this sun was God! I was so overwhelmed and surprised that God was real that I mentally gasped and then yelled out, "You're Real!" I had always had a deep mistrust of religion. Years before this experience, I had decided for many seemingly valid reasons that religion and God were only a product of the human mind, yet there I was standing in the presence of what I knew without a doubt was God. What I had previously thought to be the truth about the universe was shattered and I stood there stunned, having had my world turned around so quickly.
I was happy because I had always hoped that God was real and that there was a future beyond the physical. As I stood in its presence, I perceived myself to be nothing but pure awareness and without a body. This sun of awareness fully merged with me, seeing everything inside of me. It saw everything I had ever done (and failed to do) both good and bad, and yet I did not sense or feel this Being was judging me or my past. There was no serial or motion-picture-like review of my life, just a sudden and full knowing about all things I have ever done, thought and experienced.
Because this sun of awareness/God was peering so fully and deeply into me, I felt totally naked, more naked than if I were standing without clothes in front of a million people. This Being seemed to be the consciousness of everyone I had ever known plus that of millions of others. It seemed to be everyone, but incredible as it might seem, most of all it seemed to be me.
Even though I had no awareness of having a boy, this feeling of nakedness was more than I could stand. Before I had time to think about what I was doing, I began moving away from this Being as fast as I could. It wasn t that I was afraid, nor that I wanted to get away from this wonderful sun of light, it was more like an automatic response to feeling more naked than I thought naked could be.
As I was traveling away from this Being I found myself bursting through some kind of barrier into a blackness that was filled with wonderful stars; space. As I continued moving forward at a tremendous speed through the star fields, I soon found myself slowing down as if I was up against another barrier or membrane. It seemed to stretch slightly and then I burst through it into another blackness of star-filled space.
I continued to speed away faster and faster, but regardless of how much physical distance I traveled, I was never any farther away from the sun of awareness at all. I quickly traveled through several star-filled spaces, at least six of them beyond the great sphere of light, each separated from one another by barriers that I was easily penetrating. As I passed through each layer, my speed increased each time, but its consciousness was still with me. It was still deeply within my own consciousness.
All of a sudden, I fell through the top of my bedroom ceiling, hit my body with a jolt and immediately woke up. The jolt was so strong that my bed physically bounced as my body jerked awake in response to the sudden stop. I opened my eyes and immediately spoke in a low and powerful voice, "I am that great I am." I said this almost involuntarily; the words spilled out of my mouth without even thinking about what or why I was saying it. I also knew what this meant: that I was the very consciousness that I was trying to get away from!
As much as I tried to get away from that Sun of Awareness, I could never get one fraction of an inch farther away from it, no matter how far or fast I traveled. Even after waking up, it was still with me. To this day, I still feel and know its presence. I believe that this Sun/Intelligence/God wasn't a single Being, but is the center of all beings, that it is me, you and perhaps all conscious beings.
From this experience I think that somewhere at the center of each of us is a spark of this same light, and without it we would not have consciousness, and perhaps without us it would not exist either. As I was flying away from this being, I had the impression that I was traveling through several layers within a sphere, but I was bursting through layers like the layers of an onion but between each layer was star-filled space. I can't really tell you if I was traveling from the inside out, or the outside in, but as I traveled through them I had an impression that the farther I got from the sphere of light, the smaller I got and the more divided I became.
As I was returning I felt like I was not only traveling through spheres within spheres, but also as if I were traveling from the top of a pyramid down, the peak an all seeing eye of omni-present consciousness, the blocks below all of the individuals which make the whole. While trying to move away I could both see and feel myself splitting into more and more diverse copies of myself, each branching off into many other branches of selves which also split into their own branches, dividing and dividing into ever larger numbers.
Because of this experience, I came to see everyone around me as myself. At the same time, I also see this as equally true from everyone else's perspective, that I am them too. They too can look around and only see other parts of themselves, other selves experiencing life from another point of view, separated by their physical bodies and world, by their individual minds and wills, but in reality they are one at their core.
These feelings and thoughts were so strong within me that I had trouble referring to other people at work as anything other than "I". I had a tendency to think about others as just another part of myself. Just as I think about my hands as being a part of me, I would sometimes refer to others as "I" instead of the name of the person. For example, instead of saying, "He had finished working on that project" it came out as "I had finished working on that project." I had to re-learn how to refer to others as separate from myself. After four years, I still think of others as myself, but now I can stop from verbalizing it.
If I had the chance to do it over again and stand in the presence of this sun-intelligence-God, I wouldn't run away from it no matter how startling it is to be seen to such depth. I now hope that I would stand in its presence no matter how naked I felt. I don't believe that my motive for running was because I couldn't stand to face the light, or that I felt like a bad person, but because I was so unaccustomed to being seen so fully, so suddenly, so clearly and to such depth. Unfortunately my flight away from it took place before I could think of what I was doing and why.
The words I spoke after the experience, "I am that great I am" meant that, although I am individual here, I am also a part of every other consciousness at the great central point of consciousness; God. I am now secure in the knowledge that this presence of consciousness has always been with me, and that I have never been alone and never will be alone. I now know that this presence is closer to me than anything else in the universe. I had been so accustomed to it that I didn t know it was there, much like becoming used to a smell in a room, once you are there with it long enough, it begins to fade into the background. Like silence, it is always there, maybe in the background, behind and between the sounds, but always there. Like a quiet pure awareness, completely silent but ever present. To find it within listen to the silence and then try to find what is behind it, it's there as strong as your own silent awareness forever smiling at you.
When this happened I had been affected by severe sleep apnea where I could just stop breathing for minutes, as reported to me by my wife who kept waking me so I would breath again. Due to this, is possible I stopped breathing for some period of time, but since I was sleeping, I have no way to know whether this happened that day as I was alone in bed when this happened.
Thank you. You really gave me more things to think about. Be blessed
Wow, so awesome and amazing experience. Thank you God for showing me this comment. Thanks a lot dear lovely soul for sharing this great experience to us. God bless you and your family🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️💜💜
When I Meditate I watch my breath. I breath in the truth that "God is" and exhale the illusion of "I am"
When meditating I watch my thoughts, they disappear, and what is left is the Presence of GOD. THAT presence is always there and is obscured only by ones ego, remove that, and observe, feel, know, GOD.
If I may The "I" is the illusion, the character but the "am" is God/soul/ Âme. Soul = Âme in French.
The "I" is a belief system and "am" is the true self. Imagine one day you have an accident and you lose your memory. There won't be the "I" anymore, no name, no age, no past. But the "am" will always be there, the truth.
Greetings from France. Have a nice day 🙏
@@idaloup6721 that makes sense, thank you 🙏🏻
La ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah. Holy Quran has been revealed through angel jibreel to prophet Muhammed (PBUH) 1400 years ago as a guidence to all mankind. All the words of the holy Quran are from the Creator.I request everyone to buy the holy Quran with translation and read the entire holy Quran with patience to know about creator and to know why he created us.Pls watch video "The meaning of life muslim spoken word".Also watch famous muslim scholar doctor Zakir Naik lecture Quran and modern science compatible or incompatible.Search on youtube Quran: surah 02. Al-Baqara, Quran:Surah 67.Al Mulk, Quran:Surah 32.As- Sajdah,Quran:Surah 19.Maryam english or native language translation.Read these surahs with patience to know what Allah has said in the Quran. Surah al Baqara, Surah al Mulk, surah As-Sajdah and surah Maryam is enough to prove that Allah is the only Creator.There are total of 114 suras in the Quran.If you want to know the truth about your Creator read 1 to 114 Surahs. Get to know your Creator, who has spoken to you through the Quran. Listen to the true story of Yusuf Estes,Why and how he became a Muslim from christian. Also listen to famous scholar Ahmed didat lecture who became muslim from Christian. Listen to famous muslim scholar lecture Nouman Ali khan,Mufti Menk,Tarik jameel,Yasmin Mogaheed and Omar Solaiman .Request to all muslims and non-muslims wake up before its too late.May Allah guide all of you on right path.Ameen
@@idaloup6721 yes that’s why self inquiry on the sense of I-ness is so powerful. By observing this sense of I the recognition is made that I cannot be that which is observed (aka form/phenomenal happenings). I cannot be the one in FRONT of the lense of perception because if I am that which is observed in front of the lense of perception then who is the one observing the observed?
That’s a ton of information… I’m going to watch this a few dozen times.. David Godman is a brilliant man!
I woke up one day September 15 2021 and I couldn't understand who I was, where I was and what is going on I looked at the mirror and didn't see myself I felt like (still feel) like I'm nothing and yet everything. In my heart there is no fear, anger or hate just unconditional LOVE and PEACE and that's when I realized I'm spiritually awakened. It's been two months now since I've awoken sometimes I feel like I'm about to go mental when the earth (meterialistic earth) dissapiers from my eyes. I remind myself things are the way they're suppose to be life is a test and this is meant to teach you something.
Time is fluid here. There's no tomorrow, yesterday just eternal now.
It's hard sometimes, because I feel like an outcast I watch people live life as if I'm watching a movie as if I could wake them up from this dream of life. I GIVE THANKS TO THE DEVINE ONE. For killing who I thought was I (the ego) and showing me the real I.
Wow amazing experience. Thanks a lot for sharing it dear soul♥️♥️♥️
Beautiful thank you
Thank you 🙏
Met Ramana Maharshi in a dream once, showed him a picture of himself where he had no reflection in the water puddle he was walking in front of... he smiled.
When I stripped away all the layers, reflections, attachments, and illusions that I've picked up through the years, I saw, I am, a scared child.
Who would have thought that such a simple question ( WHO AM I ) would give you the meaning of life .Thanks for this David Godman
Thank you David Godman , I appreciate all you have done to bring Bhagavan into our lives. Job done exceptionally well!
„Go and challenge the squatter and tell has no right to be there. The way you do that is by not allowing it to connect with all the ideas, thoughts, perceptions it wants to play with in order to validate its sense of selfexistence.“ Very powerful message 💜 thank you 🙏
Love David, he is always so clear and a great communicator, thanks God-Man 😊👍
Any video with the name Anthony Cheyenne on it's always proves a video that can positively change my life.
When you listen to many teachers who speak the same thing as this, you hear the message in many different ways. And in different words and with different stories. Then it begins to make more sense.
The "I" is awareness. It's consciousness. It's the still point. It's the center.
A great practice is meditation on the breath.
Very knowledgeable documentaries you produces. Please keep it up. Hoping.
So well explained ! The entire eastern spiritual essence condensed in 35 minutes. Mr. Chene your productions are getting better and better with time. ❤️🙏
David Godman is his best. And this 34 minutes on Sri Ramans Maharishi is a perfect distillation of his teaching. Perfect!
It’s so easy for me to get dragged back into and distracted by the dualistic world dramas but now I understand that this presence is always there. It is impossible to be separate from it. We need the dualistic concepts and language to survive and partake in this society but I make sure to take time to just “be” and ground myself back into my true nature every morning and night. Or as Michael Singer does, every time he gets into his car, he sits and for a minute he just mediates on the fact that we are on a rock whizzing through an infinite universe 🤪
This is pure Gold. Thank you very much!! :)
I love this man. So much truth, thank you. 💕
Oh so beautiful... very grateful 🙏
I have always had glimpses of the awareness, ever since i was a young child. I never knew how to explain it. A feeling or experience would come over me and i would think "wow this is happening, I am happening , i exist, i can't stop this , everything IS" i still can't put it into words. I almost stop myself from being in that state because it's scary, it's being fully present. Past doesn't exist, future doesn't exist, only NOW exists and I exist in it. It's such a odd feelings. I can't stay in that state too long because 1. it is fleeting 2. I feel like i have to revert to my usual state of being in order to carry on my every day actions and responsibilities.
David Godman and Anthony, thank you!
I listened...then again...and again....the light inside me flickered producing a warm feeling ...
Treating All Beings(beloved animals and nature) as equals is something that i hope will come about one day...
Thank you Anthony for bringing this ...
That feeling of seeing a new Anthony Chene upload!!!
Completely true! Thank you Anthony and David!! Much love and blessings!
Thank you for the video. Had great time listening to it. His philosophy is parallel to voidism, or some part of Budism. For me it doesn't leave much space to universal love, which is the most healing energy, and the creativity, which is the very nature of humankind. So I believe understanding the real self is just the beginning of the process. Many thanks again.
Disengage 'judgement'. We are the fingers of the Creator's hand. Unique, yet one with all.
Beautiful 🙏🏾
I do believe you've got it. Thank you for another piece of the puzzle.
I realized that I can't escape to pleasure to sooth me anymore, overwhelming sadness is taking over my being as a result of this realization. Hopefully this phase doesn't last for long time since I keep thinking about what is the easy way out
This is the way ! ☯️☮️ I woke up after months of depression!
The fact that you can speak on this one who is enduring overwhelming sadness implies that it has been observed. Are you the observed objective phenomenal arisings in front of the lense of perception? If so then who is observing you?
David, two days ago I was reading about Swami and I saw the picture of you and him seated together. I wondered who you were. Today you showed me and told me. Thank you brother, there are no coincidences. you were in my mind
David was born a few years after Bhagavan left his body, but he's known other gurus and written about them, as well. ☺️🕉️💫🙏
Thats perfect.......".Whatever you can describe isn't what it is."........Perfect description of the "Beyond".
YES!!! Be back after I watch.....
Yes I do , I've been listening to some similar information my whole life , just starting to grasp it. Not sure it's meant for all.
Long time.
Thank you. This gets better and better the more times you listen. And so hopeful.
With you lovingly
Great Interview,very clear explained the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, THANK YOU!!
This is so very good. I will rewatch from time to time. It reminds me so much of A Course In Miracles.
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God. "
Very profound teachings, thank you 😊
Love this soul. What I wouldn't give to spend a month near him to hear him share all that he has learned. Thanks to all here.
He's got a lot of videos right here on UA-cam, fyi. Also his website has info.
Excellent
thanks David, im reading the book Be as you are :)
Wow! I have to learn more from this Ramana. Thank you Anthony.
This is very well produced and - more importantly - stated. Thanks again David for all of your help in guiding us. Anthony, this is my first time to see one of your video's, very well done! Just great all the way around!
Thank you for this 🙏
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God 🙏✨ The ego mind is the greatest Con Artist of all!
Sublime ✨
Thank you, you are such a blessing, Anthony.
Beautiful.... thank you 🌼
yes! just starting to watch now, but this is an automatic like from me. i already know it's going to be great
Thank you! Brilliant explanation of something that can not be explained 💗💗💗🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I love your videos Michael please don't stop putting them out
They are fantastic. So helping with my spiritual journey
Let’s support him on patreon! So he could keep doing that
These videos are gems. The algorithm is showing me some love.
Namaskarams to you for carrying forward the mission of Bhagawan Maharishi
Anthony Chene's videos are a life changing experience.
Just found this channel and it is enlightening. It seems the message here is being able to separate the Ego from Consciousness. Awakening started during a very stressful, emotionally damaging and physically threatening experience that ended by me letting go of everything that was near and dear to me because suddenly I could see the toxicity emanating from *everything* and the commitment I had to make to maintain them was literally destroying the bond between this body & this Consciousness.
Am 'I' there yet? No, but well on the journey. The journey started well over 30 years ago and what Godman said is true, Don't go looking for a teacher, as you are ready they show up at your door. For me it is in books and videos like this one. No one has all the answers, but everyone has one small answer...one small piece of the puzzle that when you start putting them all together, a greater image of who you really are starts to form. For me in this video that snippet was that anything that depends on something else to exist isnt real.
I have been able to isolate five parts of my being: The 'physical' body which is created by the conscious mind that the Conscious mind uses to navigate this existence...so it is not real, it de-materializes at its death. The Ego, which is a fear based defensive mechanism whose purpose is to protect the 'vehicle' (body) during this experience; it doesnt do a very good job, in fact it overpowers the next part which is the true protector. And that is Intuition, which I have only started to trust within the last year and it has made a world of difference in the quality of life and the quality of people I allow in my life. The more I trust and follow the guidance of Intuition, the less 'vocal' the Ego has become. It appears the Ego trusts the Intuition's guidance also...Who'd would have thought that would be the case.
The fourth part is the Subconscious mind where all the programming is stored and run that controls up to 90% of our experience and reactions to that experience by the Ego. Change the subconscious programs dictating your actions and you change your life experiences without even thinking about it. The fifth part is the Conscious mind, the 'Observer' (behind the scenes) for whom this whole theatrical experience is performed by...and for. This video helped me to solidify the realization that *everything* is an illusion, that nothing I experience is real; it is all created by and dependent upon the Conscious mind for its existence...And it all can be changed at will. I just have to want it strong enough in my heart and my mind that I see it is already so and my Conscious mind will make it happen. Anyway, that's my two cents, for what it is worth.
Thank you, David. Your videos and of your spiritual leader spurred me to do meditation once again. I think it is going well for me and I have more understanding. Being mindful, I can halt habitual thought that I had used to avoid true personal growth and meaning.
Gives a whole new understanding to that gnostic phrase if your eye (I) is single your whole body (being) will be full of light.
Every time Anthony! Every time.
I finally got it. Thank you so much, David, Anthony. ❤
Absolutely excellent! You get better and better... Thank you
Wonderful line of thoughts❤️
You are one of the reasons I watch UA-cam
so good!
Thank you for the video. I’ve been waiting and this is exactly what I’ve waited for. 🙏
Bless you 🙏
Just to be clear, David Godman is talking about “I” not the “eye” shown at 7:22!
Thank you once again!
Very wise words much love to you all love and Light 🙏 Namaste.
When I first arrived in America everyone around me was behaving like the characters in Hollywood movies which I love watching ever since I was a kid. When I was back to my home country, the same happened. Everyone seems like acting according to some kind of script yet it was so familiar.
I call that Traveller's Dissociation. When I come back home from another culture, I always feel like a guest observing a small, small world.
"Is this really my life? Why do I sleep in that bed every night, rarely venture more than a half mile away, going back to that silly office every weekday, following the same old routines, scared of losing my job believing it would cause me to suffer endlessly on the streets?"
@@FromDesertTown it’s really just a dream
I agree ... The source = our true observer will communicate. . not the pseudo "I". Very nice. Imagine a world like that. Source is magnified and it is powerful ... It means giving up "selfishness". A lot.
Who is doing agreeing? True observer or pseudo I?
@@Traderhood the recognition of truth can only emanate from that which is already true. That’s how we know truth to be true in the first place because it resonates from a place within “us” that is already true. The dualistic nature of the form of language is impossible to get around so it is difficult to assume from what state one is speaking. The recognition of self in all recognizes that the separate “I” never really existed to begin with. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” -ACIM
I look forward to new videos.
Another great message. Thank you ❤
Thank you David. 🙏
I met David Godman near Ramanas ashram. Although he had to travel one day later to Australia he came and let me meet the people in the ashram, helped me get advice about my visa. Be with light David.
Wow, thank you for this.
Thank you so much to this amazing work. I've learn a lot about deep meaning of life. 💜💜💜
Just love your video... continue being so awsome ❤❤
Very clear explanation, however challenging to actually apply in daily life. It’s hard to let go of that character and everything attached to it. So grateful to have people like this in the world to share such valuable information. I will have to watch this regularly to allow all this information to sink in. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful. Thank you 🙏🏼
Excellent interview. It’s affirming.
you have some amazing productions! very high quality...!!!
Thank you ❤⭐
I love Anthony and most of what I hear or Ramana’s teachings. But isn’t part of the human experience to experience full joy and passion? This seems like a very boring way to live and almost like we’re missing the point of the human experience - but please do enlighten me because I want to learn.
And what is the fullest joy and bliss one may attain? And what depths of pain and misery can one not experience after a misguided passionate moment? From moment to moment, every person and situation that presents itself is our teacher, pointing to the Oneness of Life. THAT, I believe, is the reason for being here.. But who knows?
@@neilbeeneilbee4783 As Van Morrison sang Enlightenment don't know what it is ! It's up to you !
Yes. My current take is that we’ve incarnated to experience life in an awakened state. We could stay in a yurt in the woods and meditate. Or we can talk to other people about the depth of life available when waking up. Everything is ok. But I have a feeling that we’d feel like we missed a trick if we didn’t participate as fully as possible in life itself. Still working on this; integrating, instead of suppressing, the ego...
@@AlexCrowe-the-pianist I think what you say about integration is actually the next level up from this. I agree.
@@AlexCrowe-the-pianist - I like how you articulated that. It makes sense because whatever you suppress, is just going to show up at another time and sometimes not in a pleasant way at all. I think that it isn’t suppression that we are discussing but the slow “letting go” of everything that one thinks/believes they are, only because they keep engaging with the “outside” (which actually doesn’t exist and is just a projection of everything that you grew up believing that you are).
It’s the state of nothingness that you aim at reaching. Nothingness. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Brahmans Graced on us in
Desolved Ramana consciousness,then
I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no Society, no Race but to the divine
I give obedience to no Master no ruler, no social Convention
but to the divine
The Mother
Then human consciousness, a harmony,an Integral marriage of matter and energy.
would eckhart call this 'i' the ego?
thank you anthony. I will have to listen to this more than once.
Yes
I have wondered how I can access past memories... now I realise I have been asking the wrong question. Thanks!
Merci beaucoup pour ce travail.
I was walking my dog and in an instant, I felt my place my connectedness in and with everything! It knly lasted for a moment and all i said was, "Cool" . I had been telling my niece how she had a role in the play of life that could not be taken from her. She could decide to not play it, but no one else will be able to play her part. I felt like I where i was supposed to be, i was perfectly calm and happy with my place.
Oh and I don't try to figure out who i am because in a moment I'll be someone else! Not split personality just I'm constantly changing. Always have and always will. So why waste time saying I am that opps not anymore! 😂
David Godman is such a beautiful devotee of Ramana Maharshi.
Thank you.
Thank you Anthony.
Beautiful 🙏
Beautiful
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Thanks!
Over the years, when I met new members in my health clubs , I would often as " what do you do". Many would respond with " I am an architect etc. Depending on how I sensed their consciousness, I would often reply " I didnt ask who you are, but what you did"..That tended to strike a chord .....
A spiritual mentor of mine (a westerner !) many yeras ago, when he was going through his transition, was agressively challenged by a colleague.
What resulted was one of the funniest lines I ever heard. He said "Who do you think you are challenging me like that, if I am who I think I am".....
Did it for me !!!
Thank you. My question for Mr. Godman: where does love and empathy for others fit into this teaching? At the core, once the " I " is removed, what is left?
It is not the " I" which is removed, but the illusions of I..being the creations, not the creator.
"I am NOT that" has to be realized on the path to " That I am". You have to doscover what you are not first.
good question .....He said sense of I is removed but then you will come to realization that you are one with whole universe.. so love and empathy is our natural state.
@@senseidiary434 I agree. I was looking for him to get there in the interview - to make that statement as eloquently as you have 💚
@@senseidiary434 Of course, the external universe is constantly in a state of flux, with massive cataclysms on a regular basis. Have no wish to be " one with that" .Makes a grand spectacle through !!!
Ramana was asked this same question, and answered: "There are no others". To the intellect, which can only conceptualize about this teaching, it may appear dry or devoid of love and bhakti, when in fact it's the complete opposite.
Beautiful #nonduality piece, thank you! I enjoyed it. But how to I combine the two? How do I combine the sense of "no-one-here" with the physical body, that needs to work and earn money in order to survive?
It's a unique dance (of sorts) 🥰❤️
I try to become the observer of those activities.
@@PhyllisMoon I understand. like "there´s cooking happening" :)