Talks On Sri Ramana Maharshi By David Godman

[Guest username]

I found these fascinating. If anyone knows the music at the beginning, let me know.

[Prabhaker]

3 hours ago, username said:

If anyone knows the music at the beginning, let me know.

It  Indian classical music played on 'Sitar' (a plucked stringed instrument) , with chanting verses in praise of Mahrishi Raman.

[Guest username]

@Prabhaker I figured as much. Do you think it has an actual name, or would it probably be impossible to find outside of those videos?

It sounds Sanskrit. 

[Prabhaker]

9 minutes ago, username said:

It sounds Sanskrit. 

I think it is 'Ramana Puranam' composed by Muruganar in Tamil.

[LRyan]

I like it as well. I really like the videos.  I wonder what people think about that he says that just being in his presence could bring about enlightenment...David Godman is great...his interview with Papaji was really good and very interesting.

Edited April 14, 2017 by LRyan

[Prabhaker]

16 minutes ago, LRyan said:

 I wonder what people think about that he says that just being in his presence could bring about enlightenment..

    In the East, SATSANGA has been one of the most valuable methods for enlightenment. The East has said that if you are in the presence of the Master, nothing else is needed. Just be in his presence, just sit silently with him, just be with him and enlightenment will take care of itself. Whenever the right moment comes it will happen. You need not worry about it, you need not plan it, otherwise you will be in a turmoil: 'When is this enlightenment going to happen?' Then enlightenment has also become a desire, a greed, a lust.

  It is very natural. Being in the presence of a master, silence happens on its own accord. Between a master and a disciple what is transferred? Not truth, not knowledge -- then what is transferred? In fact, nothing is transferred. In the presence of the master something arises in the deepest core of the disciple, not that it is transferred. Nothing travels from the master to the disciple, nothing at all, but the presence of the master, the very presence of the master, and something that was deep inside starts surfacing. The presence of the master calls forth the being of the disciple -- not that something is given or transferred. Just the very presence of the master becomes a catalytic presence and the disciple starts changing. Of course, a disciple will think that something is being done by the master. Nothing is being done. No real master ever does anything. All his doing consists of is being present to you, is being available to you. All his work consists of one simple thing -- that he should be there.

This is called SATSANGA in the East -- to be in the presence of the master. And the real disciple is one who has come to know how to be present to the master. The master is present, but how to be present to the master? 

A disciple is one who does not bother about knowing but is interested in being. A disciple is one who has become immensely interested in being -- in truth itself, not knowing about it. 

[Benjamin Curtis]

Ramana Mahrishi a great man 

[Benjamin Curtis]

@Prabhaker    I love satsang. I follow Baba Ramdev, Osho, Buddha, Ramana. What do you follow brother

Welcome brother

[LRyan]

@Prabhaker That is so amazing to me.  To be able to experience their presence would be so amazingly spiritual in itself, nevermind  having enlightnment come from that also!!  I really like Mooji and listening to him really resonates with me so much.  I was considering going to Portugal to the silent retreat being held in Zmar...  I had the flights picked out and just had to make the decision but then I felt swayed by posts about running around the world trying to get enlightened by attending all of these things and how  useless that is and that means that someone is trying too hard.  I thought about it long and contemplated if that was what I was trying to do.  I really feel inspired listening to him so I thought my interest was because I really want the inspiration...I'm not that delusional that I believe that a retreat will lead to an awakening.  If it did, great if not, ok...  But I still didn't book the trip.  I'm on the fence.

Mooji doesn't hold that many during the year but I am so interested in being a part of satsang.

[Prabhaker]

2 minutes ago, Lavender said:

What do you follow brother

Osho  and my intuition !

[Benjamin Curtis]

1 minute ago, Prabhaker said:

Osho  and my intuition !

Brother you only follow Osho....there are so many greats in India

[Prabhaker]

2 minutes ago, Lavender said:

Brother you only follow Osho....there are so many greats in India

Your mind always wants change. It does not know devotion; it loves fashions, its interest is always in some novelty. So it will go on moving from one path to another path, becoming more and more confused because each path has its own language, each path has its own unique methods.

If you move on many paths you will collect contradictory arguments; you will become so much divided you will not know what to do. And if it becomes your habit to change paths – because the new has a certain attraction for the mind – you will move a few feet on one path, a few feet on another path, but you will never complete the journey.

[Benjamin Curtis]

@Prabhaker  Good Brother. You seem to be the incarnation of Buddha 

Nice to see such good Indian here. Proud. 

Good job, enjay

[LRyan]

2 minutes ago, Prabhaker said:

Your mind always wants change. It does not know devotion; it loves fashions, its interest is always in some novelty. So it will go on moving from one path to another path, becoming more and more confused because each path has its own language, each path has its own unique methods.

If you move on many paths you will collect contradictory arguments; you will become so much divided you will not know what to do. And if it becomes your habit to change paths – because the new has a certain attraction for the mind – you will move a few feet on one path, a few feet on another path, but you will never complete the journey.

You are outlining my experience so far since I have been looking into spirituality.  Exactly.  It's almost like an addictive thing to keep looking for something more, something with a stronger sense of pull for you to follow...the best teachings, the best "path"