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As this satsang occurred on Arudra Darshanam, following the initial silence, spiritual instruction was given on the nature of the Space of Consciousness in which Nataraja dances. Dialogues on the Nataraja symbolism, Self-inquiry, Self-Knowledge, and similar spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from the Annapurna Upanishad and in Tamil from chapter 18 of the Song of Ribhu. The recitations in English of verses pertaining to Nataraja from the Song of Ribhu and the Nataraja Darshanam and the chants of the puja that followed are not included in this recording. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction regarding the Self’s freedom from difference of any kind and the identity of oneself with the Self, Brahman. Dialogues on the nature of the experiencer of all experiences, the eternal, a passage from “Saddarsanam and an Inquiry into the Revelation of Truth and Oneself,” action and Knowledge, happiness, Self-inquiry, freedom from misidentification with the body and mind, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from the Annapurna Upanishad and in Tamil from chapter 17 of the Song of Ribhu. |
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Nome: If you have clarity regarding the purpose of meditation, then the importance of Self-inquiry will be more immediate for you. If you know with some certainty that deep meditation is actually upon the nature of the meditator, you will be immediately and experientially drawn to inquire. If you know the purpose of meditation is the self-revelation of what is eternal, you won't waste time on that which is transient. If you know the purpose of meditation is to abide in Reality, then the passing illusions of the mind will not interest you. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about why it is that the Self alone knows the Self. Dialogues on Self-inquiry and one’s Existence-Consciousness, a common principle in the destruction of vasanas and Self-Realization, how to read “Saddarsanam and an Inquiry into the Revelation of Truth and Oneself,” effort applied to Self-inquiry, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Annapurna Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 17. |
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Time, Peace, Avidya, Worldless Self: Uselessness of recall of previous incarnation, the unreality of time, the Heart, the nature of ignorance, not two selves, no differentiation or world in the Self. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about the Self’s nature as free of the ideas of “you,” “I,” or anything else. Dialogues on the importance freedom from misidentification with the body, the nature of happiness and freedom from desire, true Knowledge, mind-transcendent inquiry, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Annapurna Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 16. |
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Chapter 4, Verse 35:
I am without bondage, liberation, or any other state. I am He, the pure Brahman, and such. I am without mind and all. I am the highest. I am the Supreme. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about how Self-Knowledge is the Knowledge of Reality and the nonexistence of an ego-self in the One Self. Dialogues on the self-luminous nature of the Knowledge of Consciousness, the destruction of fear by Self-inquiry, the nature of Being and the absence of individuality in the Realization of “You are That,” and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Annapurna Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 16. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction regarding the nature of Being and freedom from the concepts of “I” and “mine.” Dialogues on action and perfection, happiness and freedom from anxious thought, transcendence over the senses, concentration on God and detachment from the fruits of action, relations and being the Self of all, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Annapurna Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 15. |
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Stillness and Striving, Stages and Realization, the Place of Inquiry: Absolute stillness, other pursuits, and spiritual striving, the seven Jnana bhumikas and the true nature of Mukti, inquiry is where the “I” is, self-effort for Self-Realization, the Maharshi sees all as the Maharshi, God is beyond sound and light, etc. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction regarding true silence, Knowledge, Existence and Self-inquiry. Dialogues on Brahman transcendent of concepts of the perceiver of all, Consciousness and happiness, Self-inquiry and the destruction of habitual ignorance, the question of identity, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 15. |
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Chapter 4, Verse 31:
I am of the nature of the void and the absence of the void. I am the auspicious. I am the mind. I am without equality or inequality. I am, and I am not of the nature of the trivial. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction regarding Self-inquiry and why Being is itself the nonobjective answer to the question, “Who am I?” This is followed by another period of silence and dialogues on the inherent capacity of discriminative Knowledge, the absolutely nondual nature of Consciousness, the nonexistence of the ego to be bound or caught in illusion, the one Self, what is trivial, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 14. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction regarding the certainty of the Realization of Brahman as the Self through cessation of misidentification by Self-inquiry. Dialogues on the unreality of the ego, the false supposition of duality in the form of appearance due to intellectual conception instead of actual inquiry, freedom from superimposition, inquiry to reveal the nature of the individual and the real Self, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 14. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction revealing the nature of the Self as Brahman, liberation from imagined bondage by Self-Knowledge, and the inquiry that removes misidentification and superimposition. Dialogues on the urge for spiritual perfection, the nonexistence of the ego, the process and goal of Self-inquiry, inquiry transcendent of conditions of the body and mind, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 13. |
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Free From Passions and Death, Jnana Marga, God and Self, Bliss in the Heart
No passions exist in the partless Self, freedom from grief over death by destruction of the ego, sun marga of Jnana contrasted with moon marga of yoga, learning and humility, seeing God in all and as the Self, happiness revealed in the Self, and entering into the Heart. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about the bodiless, egoless nature of the Self and Self-inquiry. Dialogues on the clarity of Knowledge, a selection from the commentary on Saddarsanam about happiness and deathlessness, detachment and inquiry, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 13. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about absorption in Self-Knowledge and the joyful peace of abidance free from the misidentification with the body, mind, and ego. Dialogues on the absence of multiplicity of beings in the one Self, bliss and fearless immortality, the nature of Existence, the revelation of Truth by a sage and finding on one’s own, the knower and continuity of Self-inquiry, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 12. |
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Chapter 4 Verse 28:
I am. I am ever the knower. I am the Truth. I am blemishless. I am the empirical knowledge. I am special. I am the common. I am all. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction about freedom from the notions of “I” and “my” and the inquiry that reveals this. Dialogues on happiness and an “ordinary person,” the ego and happiness, states of meditation and otherwise and the true knower, individuality and the real Self, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 12. |
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Nome: Meditate on the Self as ego-less Being, ego-less Consciousness, ego-less Bliss. In this way, remaining ego-less, know your Self. Thus meditate in a manner characterized by absorption, absorption of the very sense of your identity inquiring “Who am I ?” Any other form of meditation that does not involve the absorption of your very sense of identity may be good contemplation, but actual pure meditation is such absorption, such inquiry “Who am I ?” such Knowledge of your Self. |
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Initial silence is followed by brief spiritual instruction regarding Self-Knowledge as continuous abidance as Absolute Being, Brahman, and Self-inquiry. Dialogues on the meaning of “abidance,” the means and end are of the same knowledge, action and nonattachment and the meaning of “My sake” in the light of verses of the Bhagavad Gita, the only knower and freedom from misidentification with the known, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 11. |
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Bliss, the Self, and the Heart: The Atma and Realization are not created, spiritual fitness, the mind is the diversified universe, the mind’s essence, remaining without distractions, giving up false ideas, tracing one’s source, remaining as the blissful Self, and the only practice. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction on the nature of the Self, the truth of the knower, and freedom from “I” and “my.” Dialogues on the significance of Arunachala, freedom from the supposition of a second knower other than Consciousness, ego-dissolution and direct experience, the dream of illusion and the Realization of the stateless Existence of the Self, freedom from misidentification with thoughts, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 11. |
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Nome: Inquire so as to dissolve the name and the form falsely attributed through imagination to the Self. Consider all that is perceived as form. Consider all that is perceived in thought as name. You are beyond name and form. By the light of that which is beyond, meditate upon the beyond by absorption, by the deep discerning knowledge of what your existence actually is. For whom is perception? For whom is conception? Such should be the meditation. Who am I? Such should be the meditation. By such meditation you abide in silence, as silence. |
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Following a brief period of silence, spiritual instruction is imparted on the meaning of “You are the Self” and “Tat tvam asi (That you are),” with an emphasis on the true definition of “you.” Dialogues on Self-inquiry, freedom from misidentification with the body and dissolution of the ego, the uselessness of the ego assumption, words and silence, the depth of Self-Knowledge and the origin of inquiry, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 10. |
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The relative is one undivided Essence. I am one undivided Essence. The kind is one undivided Essence. The city is one undivided Essence. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction on the nonobjective nature of Self-Knowledge. Dialogues on inquiry and maya, nonobjective Self-Knowledge, the necessity of knowing oneself, memory and true Knowledge, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Chandogya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 10. |
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Nome: In meditation seek to know, intend to know, Consciousness itself. Not the body, not the senses, not the prana, not the mind, not the notion of individuality, just Consciousness as it is. Know it, by identifying with it. Abide in it, by absorbing your very sense of identity in that. Discern Consciousness; it is non-objective. This Consciousness shines now and always. |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction on the certainty of the Knowledge of the Existence of the Self and Self-inquiry to realize the nature of this one Self. Dialogues on the immortal Knowledge of the eternal Self, Self-inquiry and other practices, resolving the idea of difficulty, continuity of Self-inquiry, the rootless unreal nature of ignorance, the illusion of the senses, what transcends the three states, freedom from misidentification with the body and the prana, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Taittiriya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 9. |
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Realization, Grace, and Renunciation: The nature of Realization, dissolution of doubts, the Self is not the body, the world appears within, Grace, the presence and operation of Grace, the nature of samsara, true renunciation, and earnest efforts |
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Initial silence is followed by spiritual instruction on the Knowledge of the Self as that which ever exists to realize the fullness of innate bliss. Dialogues on Self-inquiry, the value of questions, the ever-existent as the sole-existent, listening to the wise, the not-Self, Being beyond the body and mind, and other spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from Taittiriya Upanishad, followed by Tamil recitation from Song of Ribhu, chapter 9. |
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Knowledge is from one undivided Essence. Existence is from one undivided Essence. Dissolution is one undivided Essence. Father is one undivided Essence. |
| | • | Satsang Recording:
As this satsang occurred on Arudra Darshanam, following the initial silence, spiritual instruction was given on the nature of the Space of Consciousness in which Nataraja dances. Dialogues on the Nataraja symbolism, Self-inquiry, Self-Knowledge, and similar spiritual topics. Concludes with a recitation in Sanskrit and English of verses from the Annapurna Upanishad and in Tamil from chapter 18 of the Song of Ribhu. The recitations in English of verses pertaining to Nataraja from the Song of Ribhu and the Nataraja Darshanam and the chants of the puja that followed are not included in this recording. |
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