Pure Experiences

Charlie is our guest today. We explore the spiritual path she is on and how it has changed her life. We talk about Nonduality, the mind, and experiencing oneness, becoming a child again.

Is the desire for liberation just another desire on top of other desires? What gets Liberated? Am I already Liberated? Who is bound? What is stopping me from getting there? We get answers to all these questions.

The Satsang talks about the difference between a Self realized person and an ordinary person, the conduct of people at the dawn of Self realization and the transmission of awareness by Gurus.

How to manage the disturbances and distractions of worldly kind? Is escape a plausible solution? Who's fault is it if my life is a mess? What is astrology? Is it real? What is the connection of mind to astrology and planets etc? Is it a dead art now? Let us explore together.

What is Anahat Naad and what does it indicate? What are the dangers of unsupervised Kundalini practices? What are the indicators of progress on the path of knowledge? How to identify fake gurus? We explore these very interesting questions today and I take you into a little journey into my own personal practices.

What is creation? Who is the creator? How is it being created or was created? Who's will is this? If everything is being created by the mind then why is there a history or archaeological records? What is the nature of historical time? Let us dig out some answers for these fundamental questions and solve them for once and for all.

Reading about the teachings of Ranjit Maharaj with commentary. Death is an illusion. Ignorance brings fear of death, and odd, irrational behaviour. Those who know death, know life. How long can you postpone the understanding of who you are? Death is knocking on your door. It is never too late to know, and that is our purpose for assuming a perishable form.

Reading about the teachings of Ranjit Maharaj with commentary. He gives us the key to eternal happiness. He feels that a teacher is necessary to progress quickly, and a bit of faith is initially needed, but in the end the teacher merges in you and knowledge replaces faith.

Reading about the teachings of Ranjit Maharaj with commentary. Zero is absolute, the emptiness without qualities, the only reality. Minds and thoughts are merely appearances in it. When there is no mind, reality is.

Reading about the teachings of Ranjit Maharaj with commentary. He holds the view that the body, ego and the world, all are illusory, unreal. He then states the implications of this understanding. Once we see the illusions, we are freed from the illusions and ignorance. The Reality, the Self shines forth.

This is the audio version of a reading session livestreamed on my YouTube channel recently. It has been edited slightly and cleaned up. Ranjit Maharaj was a Guru brother of Nisargdatta Maharaj and so his teachings contain the same flavour. In this part we learn about his views on reality or zero and the relation between knowledge and ignorance. The text can be found here : https://www.inner-quest.org/Ranjit_Meeting.htm

What happens after death? Does everyone experience similar things after death? Is there any experience at all? How to know how death looks like? Let us venture into the unknown world of death and speculate. This is part 2 of 2 of the recording.

What is the practice of witnessing? How to do it and who does it? What happens when there is uninterrupted witnessing? How is deep sleep like? Lets see deeper into the mind and its witness. This is part-1 of 2 of the recording.

Why is my life still miserable after awakening? Where is the promised bliss? How come there is depression, lack of motivation, a vacuum in me? I know the meaninglessness and purposelessness of this existence, yet I cannot accept it as it is. These are the symptoms of post awakening syndrome. Lets try to find a cure in today's session of The Sunday Q&A.

What role does one's gender play in spiritual journey? Which practices are suitable for a specific gender? Does it even matter? What precautions are needed when I choose a practice? Let us approach these issues from a wholistic point of view.

Universal mind is not all cuddly and cosy place. Inter-connectivity ensures that everything affects everything else, and some of these influences can be harmful. What are the causes of these negative influences? How to shield oneself from them? Let us see the reverse side of spirituality.

How to manage physical pain, old age and death? What are the benefits of self realisation and what are its side effects? Why is speech so powerful, how to utilize our voice to ease our lives?

Many of our actions produce a residue on the universal memory. These manifest as bonds or debts, wherein we are trapped. A seeker realises this quickly and endeavours to break these bonds, tries to pay them off. What are these bonds? How to break free from them? Let us see.

We are having a dual experience. We experience the opposites. If there is perfection, there is also imperfection. Yet, I the existence is absolutely perfect. How is that possible? How can we call this existence perfect when all we see is imperfection? Isn't our struggle against this imperfection that we find around us? Let us explore our own experience, and find out if it is really perfect.

What is the essential difference between the waking state and the dream state or any other state of the mind? Where will the path of extraordinary experiences take me? Is it better than intellect based paths? (PS: I apologise for the bad sound quality of this particular recording, it is audible but not that great)