All episodes of Life Answers: A Complete Audiobook Reading of Sri

"Don't be anxious about your future - be quiet now and all will fall into place. The unexpected is bound to happen, while the anticipated may never come. Don't tell me you cannot control your nature. You need not control it. Throw it overboard. Have no nature to fight, or submit to. No experience will hurt you, provided you don't make it into a habit. Of the entire universe you are the subtle cause. All is because you are. Grasp this point firmly and deeply and dwell on it repeatedly. To...

Published 05/06/22

52. Being Happy, Making Happy is the Rhythm of Life

Life: In your search for love what exactly are you searching for? Questioner: Simply this: to love and to be loved.

Published 04/08/22

Life Answers: A Complete Audiobook Reading of Sri Nisargadatta Maharajah's I AM THAT

Published 04/08/22

51. Indifference to Pain & Pleasure

“Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all. It is only when you have a vested interest in any particular level, that your attention gets caught in it and you black out on other levels. Even then the work on the blacked out levels goes on, outside the field of...

Published 03/25/22

50. Self-awareness is the Witness

You say: You tell us that we can be considered under three aspects, and you then use three sanskrit terms for these aspects which, as far as I can tell, comes from a root verb meaning to smear (as in pigment or make-up). So when smeared around a self, we get a personal, or identity-focused human consciousness (vyakti). Another mode of being is that of the non-personal (vyakta): the smear suggesting that which the senses perceive as some thing, or object, or some kind of boundary. Finally...

Published 03/11/22

48. The Mind's Addiction To Distinct Categories

"But when the part of us that say 'I am me, I am myself' leaves us be, what follows is often an 'I am all'. And again: when the 'I am all' goes, then we might experience the 'I am'. And when even an 'I am' consciousness goes, reality alone is and in it every 'I am' is preserved held dear. Diversity without separateness is the Ultimate that the mind can touch. Beyond that all activity ceases, because in it all goals are reached and all purposes fulfilled."

Published 03/05/22

47. SEASON TWO: The Mind Is A River Flowing Ceaselessly In The Bed Of The Body

Hello! Very excited to share a new episode of this podcast with you, and another chapter of "I Am That". In forthcoming episodes, Vimla Gulabani has kindly agreed to read the other part of the dialogue with me, as well as chat a bit about the text together. Also check out Vimla's podcast Coaching Confidential if that sounds like something that might interest you. -- This is the next episode in my/our here-and-now, complete audiobook reading of Sri Nisargadatta Maharajah’s “I Am...

Published 02/27/22

46. Finding Your Self Beyond The Noise of Psychic Life