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."

@JcPeggy

2 ай бұрын

Very beautiful indeed. You can really feel into it too and it has a soothing effect.

@rogerinkeywest

26 күн бұрын

Deep😮❤

Never get tired of hearing this. There is nothing new in this video but it's all put together so well. Saved.

@mikem3779

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. And Mr. Godman never seems to get tired of talking about it. Which he does very well.

@David_Godman

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@macarius8802

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@elizadaphne5501

2 жыл бұрын

@@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 🌿

@David_Godman

2 жыл бұрын

@@macarius8802 That's how we start our own day here in Perth: a meditation followed by a reading from Guru Vachaka Kovai.

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.

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.

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 🙏

@rambalakidi984

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for timestamps.. 👌👏

@anandhamayii

2 жыл бұрын

So nice of you to create these stamps

@kunalgulati3358

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@VanessaSouza_01

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤗

@user-uv4mn4gn9l

2 жыл бұрын

🙏

Thank you so much David ! You speak about Ramana in the most clarifying way possible !

Who would have thought that a simple question ( WHO AM I ) would reveal the meaning of life.Thanks David

@lucycarriere9481

2 жыл бұрын

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…😨🥺

@kumulsfan8090

Жыл бұрын

@@lucycarriere9481 There's is no self to find, you are formless

@stevensteven3417

Жыл бұрын

He cant help you, there is no i and no me remember?

Always a pleasure to hear you talking. Thank you David. Love from Portugal. 🌻💙

Thank you so much David for your passion about this primordial investigation of the self !

What a breathtaking hour!! It contains almost ALL you ever need to heard trough David's mouth and heart!! Brilliant!☀️thank you 🙏

@MokshagnaKanya

3 ай бұрын

According to bhagavan, how should i attain moksha?? Plz tell me, what bhagavan said🙏🙏

@PremArnav

3 ай бұрын

​​@@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🙏🌞❤️

@user-ig3uz5ez4t

3 ай бұрын

​@@PremArnavSo, first I should do self enquiry and know my self,after knowing myself,I should attain moksha.is this you are telling??

@PremArnav

3 ай бұрын

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

@PremArnav

3 ай бұрын

​​​@@user-ig3uz5ez4tin 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!

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.🌳🐢🙏

@user-vq5ff6mv4n

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

@hypeogaming8600

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@cspace1234nz

Жыл бұрын

@@hypeogaming8600 Nonsense, he wasn’t “chosen” at all. He’s just a guy

@hypeogaming8600

Жыл бұрын

@@cspace1234nz get some rest champ😁

David thank you so much you have just made my day. love and blessings to all reading this from Scotland x

@dolphintrust

Жыл бұрын

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

@dolphintrust

Жыл бұрын

barefoot

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 : 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

Fantastic Q&A. 🙏 Lucid, simple, direct and complete. Anyone listens to this and live by what is said will reach bliss.

🙏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! 😃🙏🏵🌾🧘🧘‍♂🧘‍♀🧘🌾🏵🙏😀😇

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 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@ron6820

Жыл бұрын

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.

Thank you David for all you do.

Thank you David. This is as if Ramana is speaking himself. I stopped in my tracks when I saw this on my feed.

Hey David, thank your for all the insights and teachings of the masters

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.

@e-cuauhtemoc

4 ай бұрын

It took me 2.5 hours to get through it. Lots of breaks for reflection and notes.

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 Thank you Thank you! To David and the producers of this magnificence.

David Godman's compilation "Be As You Are" is one of the best books on Ramana Maharshi's teaching! God bless him!

WOW! There's no words. This just jolted me into a spontaneous awakening. Best hour of my life. THANK YOU

Thank you David! Blessings All.

Great explanations showing an extremely high grade of devotion towards Bhagavan and a deep understanding of His teachings.

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.

Thank you for sharing the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi in serene and blissful words of wisdom 🙏🙏🙏

A very clear speaker who explains perfectly. Amazing 😁😁

I'm grateful for these teachings, which I just discovered. Thank you.

A blessing it was to listen to such sublime words.🙇🏽🙇🏽🚩🚩

Man, did I need this! Thank You so much.

Thank you David, from deepest part of my heart. Such a delight, such clarity.💖

Such clarity can only come from a state of stark clarity within. Thank you David!!!🙏🙏🙏

Thank you, grace and blessings!

This is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!

Thanks David, always beautiful.

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 ❤️🙏

@faithyourfear6401

11 ай бұрын

Mooji is also like this. He has helped my Self as well!

@sahamal_savu

4 ай бұрын

@@faithyourfear6401I have listened to and have a respect for Mooji but he does charge money and ask for donations.

Thank you David for everything you are a Saint thank you blessings 🙏

Eternally grateful to you for sharing this priceless treasure of the highest knowledge.

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?🙏

So inspiring. Thank you so much, David. And thank you, Ramana.

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.

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!

Wonderfully clear and inspiring, thanks so very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻💖

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. 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏿🕉️

Thank you for making Ramana's teaching easy to understand.

This is beautiful. Truly grateful for the 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. 🪔

This just might be the most important - most central - video on KZread. A priceless treasure.

Absolutely beautiful, thank you.

Grateful, Mr Godman for this very lucid exposition.

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.

@vish206

2 жыл бұрын

actually, nothing is spontaneous. when we think, we think of only this birth. Both Buddha and Ramana struggled for births to achieve this state.

This is an amazing listening! Love it!

What a blessing to find this channel. Thank you

Most eloquently done. Your connection with Ramana is heartfelt. Many thanks !

Thanks for uploading this interview.

Thanks so much for this. It's all the key stuff -- with minimal distractions. Hearing this fulfills all my need for "teaching."

Infinite gratitude for this beautiful gift 🙏💖✨

Thousand likes and love from the "I" for the entire document.Many thanks👍🙏🏽👍🙏🏽

Simple yet so friggin complicated!! It will take me a lifetime to figure Ramanas message out but I'm glad to have found him.

Clarity itself. First time I’ve understood properly. May awakening happen to us all. 🙏🏾🆒🕉📢🙈🦋🔔🙉🙏☯️👌🏽🙊🕉️

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. 🙏

My first time hearing this. Wow. I am in Awe!!! Thank you. Seek and you will find.

Thank you David.stay Blessed sending you Love and Light from Portugal.

This is excellent. Thank you, David.

Thanks for the uncut version, David. It was well worth putting out!

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

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!

@stevensteven3417

Жыл бұрын

I ?

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.

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!! ❤

Beautiful Well produced and lot to internalize Namo Ramana🌺🙏🌹

Obrigado David! Thanks! Abraços, big hug from South of Brazil 🇧🇷

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!

Thanks for posting the video, very inspiring!

Amazing commitment by David. I sincerely hope that he has managed to scratch that itch after so many years.

@mat.se57

2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it ironic that we spend a lifetime looking for our self? :)

Who are you, you are everything, you are unique and divine. Loved always.

Thank you, David!

Thank you David, beautiful video... so clear

When one looks at the events ,ideas or whatever that has been the catalysing factor causing spiritual transformation for me this teaching will be. Thank you fir quenching my thirst for the truth at least for now if not forever 🙏🏾💐♥️Magnificent. Explaing in understandable language concepts that are difficult to explain. I so agree with Guru’s and money. Feel so greatful to you

What an eloquent speaker he is.

Thank you David god bless you ❤️❤️

grazie David, una sintesi preziosa già ascoltata 2 volte: vari punti meritano di fermarsi to let them sink in (riascolterò ancora)

Wow this was awesome. Thank you so much.

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

Absolutely fantastic. Loved it , Loved it , Loved it !!!

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

Marvelous, clear and simple to put it on my ❤ Thanks for sharing David

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!

@gauravtr7766

Жыл бұрын

Wht

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 🙏🏻

Thank you Sir for this one hour gem

Enjoyed your commentary Davidji! I am so fortunate that I came across your channel today and subscribed right away. I am in the middle of reading I AM THAT and your commentary on Sri Ramana Maharshi is very similar to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. I watched your other videos and enjoyed hearing about your journey to the east. Cant wait to read your books next. This subject, that can be hard to follow for many, but was made so easy to digest by your direct and straight forward commentary. This is exactly why three other Guru's choose you to write for them. Last week I fractured my foot that forced me to stay home during this long weekend (in USA) so I starting to read I AM THAT and looked for the same on KZread and found your channel. I guess there was a bright side to fracturing my foot!!!

Such a good overview of Ramana’s teachings, I’m very grateful for this video.

Thank you David! ❤️

Respectfully thank you for putting this information together and presentation strangely this morning I prayed my prayer for identification of purpose. This was so eloquently put thank you. I … have much to learn to handle physical suffering and only a brief time this being this body is broken - And for a few moments comfort. Thank you

Absolutely phenomenal…thank you!!!

Thank you for your very simplistic way in answering such bewildering questions. I learnt much from this QnA session on Sri Ramana Maharishi. Sairam.

Thanks David for your explanation and I wanted to say it helped me a lot.

i recognised your voice from a papaji interview! this is amazing im free oh the blessed relief !! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏