Sinopsis
Talks on spiritual topics, mostly related to the path of knowledge and Advaita Vedanta or nondualism.
Episodios
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45 : Experiments : Dreaming : Results
07/11/2020 Duración: 37minWhat are the common effects and side effects of awareness in the dreaming state? What precautions must be taken before we begin these experiments? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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44 : Experiments : Dreaming : Advanced
06/11/2020 Duración: 22minWhat experiments can be done while in an aware dream? Do my dream actions produce any consequences? What are the stages of awareness in the context of dreaming? A practice schedule is also suggested. (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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43 : Experiments : Dreaming : Methods
05/11/2020 Duración: 26minWhat is a dream? How to enter the dream state with full awareness ? What are the methods and techniques for that? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #62 : Person, Seeking, Experiencing, Samyama, Miracles, Sleep
01/11/2020 Duración: 01h24minWhat should I do with the person or ego? How to end the seeking? What are the effects of heart chakra opening? Is experiencing a higher state compared to awareness? What is Samyama? Are my talks or videos responsible for your spiritual progress? What is responsible for keeping the knowledge alive? Why do seemingly miraculous events happen around the gurus and seekers? Is awareness possible in sleep state? Do all layers have their own memory? Do we need to develop good qualities?
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42 : Experiments : Waking : Precautions
30/10/2020 Duración: 19minWhat are the main precautions one should take while doing any kind of practice? Some helpful tips for newcomers and youngsters. (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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41 : Experiments : Waking : Results
30/10/2020 Duración: 28minWho achieves the control? What are the results of attention and awareness? What are the side effects of waking state practices? What are the pitfalls here? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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40 : Experiments : Waking : Advanced
27/10/2020 Duración: 36minWhat are the various domains of our lives where awareness can be applied? What are the traps and misconceptions here? What changes can be expected? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #61 : Stages of evolution, Interpretations, Reality, Chitta and memory, Aware death
25/10/2020 Duración: 01h24minDo sages go through stages of becoming superhumans and gods, or do they skip these stages? What are the pitfalls of interpreting old poems and texts? Can we say that this existence is only memory and nothing else? Do sensory mechanisms convey any reality? Is it possible to have an identity that is not dependent on memory? Does everyone die an aware death? Does the sensation turn into thought? Are chitta and memory same thing? Why are philosophies a waste of time?
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39 : Experiments : Waking : Awareness
22/10/2020 Duración: 39minWhat is awareness? How to remain aware in the waking state? What means of remembrance can be used? How to do all the actions in awareness? What are the three stages of awareness? The practice of awareness is the most important practice in this whole universe. (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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38 : Experiments : Waking : Attention
20/10/2020 Duración: 45minWhat are objects? What is attention or concentration? What are the kinds and dimensions of attention? Why a good attention span is necessary for a seeker? Let us begin the experiments in the waking state. (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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37 : Experiments : Introduction
19/10/2020 Duración: 16minWhat is the need to take up advanced practices and experiments? What is the goal of these experiments? Who should do it? What are the prerequisites? Are they required for the path of knowledge? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #60 : Awareness. Purification, Experiencing, Emptiness, Evolution, Languages
18/10/2020 Duración: 01h17minIf everything is illusion, how is awareness real? How to increase the awareness? How to avoid religious practices and do your own purification? How do we use illusion to kill the illusion? Why can there be a discomfort or frequent dropping of awareness? What is the ideal practice? Why is the experience happening in time? Is experiencing of many kinds? Why there is no clear awareness of the existence as emptiness in everyone? Why is the universe so inefficient in the matter of spiritual awakening? What are the different steps of evolution? How are languages or words insufficient for knowledge?
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36 : States : Implications
14/10/2020 Duración: 24minWhat are the implications of there being states? What is the use of them? Which state is the best? Are they real? Who are other people and do they have states too? What is my purpose and what should be my behaviour in the light of this knowledge? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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35: States : Sleep
12/10/2020 Duración: 29minWhat is sleep? Are there many kinds of sleep states? Which one is most important? What is the state of a causal body and universal memory? Is sleep unconsciousness? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #59 : Experiencing, Awareness, Maya, Grace
11/10/2020 Duración: 01h32minWhat is the difference between experience and experiencing? When the truth is so simple, why don't people get it? What is awareness and how to remain in that state? What is the importance of maintaining awareness? What is there to learn from relations? How to know if I am in awareness? What is Grace? Who is actually controlling the mindbody machine? Why are so many suffering when the solution is so simple? Does the existence know itself by creating an illusion for itself? Where is Maya in this existence? What are the English equivalents of words for functions of the mind? Why do people have faith in words?
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34 : States : Dreaming
09/10/2020 Duración: 42minWhat are the various dreaming states? What is the surprising relation between dreaming and waking? What are mixed states that are of practical use? How afflicted dreaming states stop the progress of a seeker, and why we stay away from them? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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33 : States : Waking
06/10/2020 Duración: 17minWhat are various substates in the waking state? What is the law of states? Why is the knowledge and control of waking states so important for a good quality of life? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #58 : Karma, Ethics, Nonviolence, Awareness, Sexual urges
04/10/2020 Duración: 01h17minWhat is subtle karma? Why do I get thoughts from a single source when I am actually connected to the whole universe? Are the bodies capable of creating thoughts? What does the Gurufield do? What is best criteria to choose my actions? What is nonviolence? What is the worst possible action? Is abortion a violent action? Which is the world's most nonviolent tradition? Why no right actions are prescribed on the path of knowledge? Can a wrong action be right for some person? Why do highly aware people do wrong? What is the use of doing right or wrong? Should we fix vasanas before getting on the path of knowledge? What is my teaching in a single line? Why are sexual urges so strong even for a seeker?
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32 : Memory : Dynamics
01/10/2020 Duración: 22minHow do all these layers change? Is it regular or periodic? What cycles can be seen? Why attention is so important? What are states and what are their major categories? What are the applications of this knowledge of layers and their dynamics? (This is an audio version of the video series here: The Path of Knowledge)
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The Sunday Q&A #57 : Detachment, Refinement, Introspection, Identities, Tantric Experiments
27/09/2020 Duración: 01h38minWhat are the tricks to cultivate detachment? Is it possible to come out of sticky relations and dependencies and fear? Does the refinement end somewhere? How to be free from being controlled by other people or situations? Why there is no such thing as enlightenment? Do we use these tricks on the path of knowledge? What is the practice of listening, introspecting and abiding? Why don't Gurus spoon feed the knowledge? Does word salad kind of knowledge make us stupid? How do seekers fool themselves? Why does the mind create different identities in waking and dream states? What is the difference between impressions and memory? Do we create new identity in spirituality? Why does a Guru strip off the old identity in ceremonies etc? Why are tantric experiments not recommended in some traditions?