This satsang starts with a discourse on Self-effort and Faith. “Do not rest until you are successful. This is called Self-Effort. Everybody believes in self-effort so now I allow you to make self-effort. If you don’t believe effortlessness, if I speak, even I speak effortlessness, they say this is also effort. This is also a […]
This video extract is from the 27of July 1992. Isaac Shapiro, one of Papaji’s devotees who has been giving satsang for many years, tells Papaji that everything arises in experience but when it is seen as happening within one Self (Brahman), then there is freedom. Papaji, “The Supreme Self has no limitations. From there, let […]
In this extract from the 27th September 1993, a Gujarati man called Bhupendra tells writes, “I don’t know what the ultimate is. How do you know you have reached that stage?” Papaji: “Ultimate has no stage. This is not the journey. Ultimate is here and now. The sadguru will remove the concept of attainment. You […]
This compilation put together for Gurupurnima 2021 starts with a discourse from 14th November 1992 titled ‘Who is this ghost?’ in which Papaji speaks about the ego. . “This ghost is ego. You have to reject even this consciousness and in the emptiness of the space in the heart you have to further dive beyond […]
This satsang extract is from the 10th of August 1992. Papaji calls up a German devotee called Satsagar and asks him to describe one millionth of a second and whether he’s still abiding in it. “It is your own fire that will burn the whole forest of ignorance. You need not take years for your […]
In this extract from the 26th of November 1993 a man called Roger asks Papaji about the concept that one can create his/her own reality, which is different from surrender. He then asks how to tell when desires and ideas come from nothing and not the ego?Papaji: “This is the ego, “I can do this […]
In this short and sweet clip from the 21st of August1992, Papaji addresses two devotees who have had a recent awakening in his presence in a finger snap.
This is a beautiful satsang extract from the 31st August 1992. Papaji replies to Burt, “I have always tried to understand the Self. Now I see that I have had it backwards: first be, then understanding follows naturally after the mind has been submerged in Being.” Papaji, “First merge for one second this mind in […]
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 […]
“There doesn’t seem to be any way for me to stop doing.” In this extract from the 15th February 1993, Papaji replies a question about effort and non effort in self inquiry: “This is the choice of the unknown who likes to unfold its mystery to someone, and those who are chosen, they will simply submit before […]