During this Satsang, we learn how to leave the dream or fake world of the mind and enter the nonverbal real world
Repeated attempts to go beyond the words is called meditation. Sadhana is but a persistent attempt to cross over from the verbal to the nonverbal. The task seems hopeless until suddenly all becomes clear and simple and so wonderfully easy. --Nisargadatta LINK: https://youtu.be/FkvxO54Uz0A07 February 2021
31 January 2021
NO MIND: I AM THE SELF!
A thorough discussion on the relationship between mind and Self. This is more about experience than philosophy, and focuses on finding the Self absent mind. The experiential self is left behind and identity shifts to the totality of consciousness where identity is lost as being meaningless. Link: https://youtu.be/eP9hJt2N-XI
03 January 2021
MOST EFFECTIVE SELF-INQUIRY
& THE STATE OF 'I AM EVERYTHING' There is a proper way to practice self-inquiry through choiceless observation and non intentional experience of feeling everything feelable. This leads to a succession of new discoveries of inner states and entities, giving them great attention, then moving on to other self-discoveries. Then you realize you are no longer seeking one object or one state no matter how deep, but all of them are you. You are the totality of consciousness and its objects and even more, beyond even this. LINK: https://youtu.be/Ky0Chbtwfy821 December 2020
Passing from ordinary human unhappiness to clarity, peace, and a previously unknown kind of happiness that comes from realizing self as emptiness, silence, and extraordinary peace.
https://youtu.be/Zr2zkbII59U04 November 2020
11 October 2020
01 October 2020
A WORLD SANGHA FELLOWSHIP HAPPENING
OCTOBER 3, 2020, 7:30 PM MELBOURNE TIME
The Sanghas of Sw. Shankaranandaand Ed Muzika honor and worship each other in deep devotion.
Sw. Shankarana will speak of the divine light of Baba Muktananda with ecstatic chanting.
GOTO: https://vimeo.com/event/24009/644cc3699b
For live participation, the local equivalent times are:
Arizona: 2:30am Saturday
New York: 5:30am Saturday
England: 10:30am Saturday
Germany: 11:30am Saturday
Bulgaria: 12:30pm Saturday
It is very easy for the Europeans to participate with the live program. American and Canadian people can watch the video the next day at their convenience. Atthis ame site, a link to the recorded video will be posted.
30 September 2020
27 September 2020
The I Am Brahman State, Nisargadatta, and Power
16 September 2020
Nisargadatta begiles you with a created story about epistemology, who you know and how. Robert Adams and Ramana rely more on stories about what is, and how the universe works, such as the idea everything is predetermined, the world is illusory, and everything is unfolding as it should. If believed, you just give everything up, because you can't do anything to affect the world or even your life. That relaxation and emptiness begets spiritual states that take you close to enlightenment.
THIS IS A FUNNY SATSANG NEAR THE END AS ED TELLS HIS OWN STORIES. https://youtu.be/hidScY7X6ZI09 September 2020
The difficulty of leaving the joy of the life divine and go beyond to Nothingness, to existencewithout knowingness. And discussion of upcoming combined Satsangs with Sw. Shankarananda https://youtu.be/br4drxX-Z2Q
28 August 2020
NEW NISARGADATTA TEACHING ONLINE CLASS BEGINING SUNDAYS, NOON ARIZONA TIME AT LINK BELOW.
TEXTBOOK WILL BE THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE PRIMARILY, BUT USING OTHER SOURCES. BOOKS CAN BE FOUND AS PDFs ON MY WEBSITE.
BEYOND SUFFERING TO NIRVANA
23 August 2020
12 August 2020
To me today on Messenger:
09 August 2020
01 August 2020
FURTHER POINTERS FROM NISARGADATTA WITH CONTEXT
17 July 2020
31 May 2020
18 May 2020
Sunday Satsang Attendee Breakthrough
21 February 2020
About a dozen of Robert's students had read Strouth's writing and contacted me for my undertnding and experience of Robert and his authenticity. I wrote this and added a verbal rejoinder here to answer all who want to kinow if Strouth was accurate. I posted this to answer any who ask.
An article is circulating on the Internet in the form of an apparent dialogue between an unnamed questioner and Steven Strouth. I assume the purported questioner is really Steven, not an independent third-party.
He claims he met Robert in 1985, four years before I met Robert. I never met Steven I myself at any Satsang or get together with Robert between 1989 in 1997.
My first question is, why did Strouth wait 35 years to bring this up? Strouth claims that he never thought of Robert as his group or teacher. What is his point? What does he want in making his claim?
Strouth stated that Robert claimed that Robert told him that he lived with Arthur Osborne near Ramana ashram, and that Arthur gave Robert a car to tour India as well as money.
Robert ever told me this. I have no idea if it's true or not. Robert did state to me that Osborne give him some money to travel around India, but never mentioned he lived with him or you received a car from him. Strouth quoted a letter from Osborne's daughter that she never met Robert and her father never gave Robert a car. I don't know whether this is true or not even. Seems to be a question of he said she said it many ways, including whether Robert ever made such a claim.
Most importantly, Strouth claims Robert was never a guru or teacher for him, yet implies he had a very close relationship with Robert for a period of time.
It's quite clear to me, that Strouth's knowledge of who Robert was, was very shallow. The Robert Strouth spoke about, certainly was not the Robert I knew. As a devotee of Robert, I saw his actions in entirely different light from the mundane level criticisms by Strouth. Everything Strouth says about Robert indicates an extreme bias against a spiritual point of view. I see everything that Robert did differently from the way Strouth saw his actions.
In the link below is a very short video presentation how I saw Robert, with a critique of Strouth's point of view.
https://youtu.be/mtLIS0De-PM
16 February 2020
https://youtu.be/ssZ3SopHtD4
01 February 2020
07 January 2020
04 January 2020
29 December 2019
90% of spiritual seekers are searching and practicing mistakenly, to solve developmental failures and resolve trauma. Meditation, self-inquiry, devotion, and studying Nisargadatta will not resolve an additction, major depression, borderline or narcisistic problems, and most everyone has some.
Spirituality has to do with obserrving and understanding, as well as controlling consciousness, from the coming and goings of the waking, sleep, and dream states, as well as God realization, Christ consciousness, and emptiness as content of the waking state. You learn everythonmg about consciousness, the states, impermanence, and how to stay in God consciousness or to consciously pass into Nothingness and the witness.
It not for emotional or behavioral problems embedded in the waking state and tensions in the body. It is not for relational problems. If your problem is alcoholism or severe depression, you need anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, individual and group psychotherapy, relaxation exercizes and therapies emphasizing freeing feeling in the body.
Two exception from this principle is that energy work, Shakti, Kundaleni, Tantra, and devotion can be used to access great energy and power that can assist in healing depression and even addictions. Also, Tantrics use emotion to create energies and integrate them into the sense of presence by a process I call eating emotions.
video link: https://youtu.be/F5NOIxxKaWE
17 December 2019
Deep inside each of us lies a portal, a doorway between existence and nonexistence, between experience and nothingness.
The experiential world as well as all of the categories of experience we call the self lie on the existential side of the portal. Some have called the various levels of existential self, the Self, distinguished from the world. Others claim that all levels of experience are the one self. Opposing this experiential side of life is the posited opposite of nonexistence otherwise known as the noumenal world, nothingness, the absolute, or the witness.
Through intense spiritual practices over many years such as self-inquiry, love and devotion, we can experience all levels of human and non-human, divine self, before encountering the portal. Instead of "levels of self" or "self experience," I refer to the different kinds of spiritual experiences encountered on the way through the depths of experience, as rooms within our inner spiritual mention, all of which have to be observed, identified with, and then discarded. We have to, for example, entered the room of emptiness a.k.a., the Void, identify with void, and then come to the recognition that the void is really not me.
This we have to do with all the rooms in that spiritual mansion, the room of emptiness, the rooms of joy and sorrow, anger and redemption, grace and condemnation, and salvation, the rooms of love, devotion, surrender, and finally of God realization and self-realization.
Here we have reached what appears to be full realization of the totality of life and death, existence and nonexistence, wherein God as the life force itself, sentience, is aware of itself and all of its aspects experiential and noumenal. We are completely at rest experiencing the constant underlying experience of ourselves as the manifest Self, and as God, as well as nothingness.
Once all of these experiences have been deeply experienced, added to our sense of self, we release ourself from that identification and are free to penetrate deeper levels. Depending upon where we start our spiritual journey, either with the discovery of the vast emptiness within, or with our discovery of God and the manifest self within, there comes a time when we exhaust the inner search and come face-to-face with the portal, the entrance to the absolute nonexistence, which could be called deep self, or when absorbed within, in complete rest as nothingness and eternity.
It is often said self cannot be found or observed by the self. This is both true and untrue. From the existential side of the portal, we are looking into the dark emptiness below that seems to be seething with activity, and we feel a powerful force pulling us toward the other side into our deeper self, addressing from objectivity to subjectivity. But peering into the portal from the existential side we are really looking for activities and powers instead of objects. We are looking into verbs, not nouns. We are looking into our ability to hear, see, smell, taste, touch, move, think, judge, surrender or exert will. What we "see," really intuit, are vast amounts unseen energies and powers that trickle up to the portal's surface of visibility, beckoning us to pass inside to the eternal.
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/kqA_DnEA-Mw