wordpress-seo domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/avadhuta/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114media-library-assistant domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/avadhuta/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114A few extracts from this beautiful satsang from the 15th of April 1993 were used in the documentary “Call off the Search.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIK-VFvDhA The video includes the following: . Papaji starts with a discourse about satsang and how no sadhana is needed to recognise one’s own nature. “To return to your own heart, I don’t […]
This video from 23rd of March 1992 starts with a discourse on the preciousness of human birth and the immediacy of knowing oneself when rejecting the ‘I am the body’ idea. “You are the essence, you are the ground, and you are the substratum. This substratum, you have not to find it, you have not […]
“What is bondage and what is freedom? I don’t think there can be any difference. Both are concepts. Where do these concepts rise from? Let us go to that place. It is the thought, it is the mind, which is concealing the freedom. Underneath is something we do not know. Any thought that rises from […]
“You need not give up anything. There were kings who got free, who got freedom, holding onto their kingdoms, sitting on the thrones, commanding the armies. It doesn’t mean that you have to give up everything. You need all these things to run your life. Only ego, attachment towards them, you have to give up. […]
This amazing satsang is from the 19th of January 1993 and it includes the following: *ALICE has visions of Ramana and Jesus. Also visions of her decomposing body. “‘I’ remained. Ramana is everywhere.” *SHOBA: “Can you speak about the 3 states of mind? Papaji: “Tamasic mind is completely devoted to material life. Rajasic is the […]
This satsang is from the 9th of February 1993. *Papaji talks to Ratna about the opening of the heart in satsang and how not to pollute it with thoughts: “The purpose of human birth is to open our hearts, to be free. Opening of the heart is a merit. You must have done good karmas, […]
This satsang from the 8th of February 1993 is another gem from Papaji’s video archives. Highlights: Papaji addressed the newly wedded SHOBA and Shambu and talks about the meaning of Shiva, “Who has no ego will become Shambu.” RISA from Boulder asks: What is dreaming? Papaji guides her to the moment between waking and sleep. […]
This Satsang from the 3rd of May 1993 includes: * A young man tells Papaji that he is tired of thinking and asks guidance how to keep quiet. Papaji tells him to go and sit in the cemetery and learn from the dead how to keep quiet. * A woman is leaving for Rishikesh and […]
This clip is from the beginning of satsang of 9th October 1992 and starts with a discourse: “This’ and ‘That’ has camouflaged the Substratum. “Before even the creation it was Being, Knowledge and Bliss. There was no universe, no beings, no mountains, no rivers; only Being, Knowledge and Bliss. And later, after dissolution what remains will be […]
This video from the 17th of February 1997 was after Papaji had his cataract operation. Papaji couldn’t read clearly so he asked Doctor Yamuna to read on his behalf. He was frail and at the beginning of the satsang he was in a playful mood. For the first hour or so he kept making dirty […]