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This channel disseminates teachings of Non Duality with main emphasis on Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's teachings along with extract and information on Bhagavan Satsangs held in Melbourne.

31/08/2026

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(Date of Satsang: 30th Oct 2024)

And I always believe, clarifications actually help us to understand that there is nothing in our hand. It is Guru Kripa, and accept everything. If we accept it, so much of bliss, we should also accept some beating as well, you know. So, it has to be equal.

I heard about a saint who used to keep a slipper next to him. If someone used to praise him, after the praise has finished, then he used to hit on his head. He said I have to equate it, you know. So much of praise on me, so I have to do this on my own. Praise and insult are equal. It balances. It's a balancing act. And it helps us to stay grounded.

And in this grounded state only we know awareness, not in an elevated state, it's not in any other matter. Ego is elevated, ahankar, you know, the Hindi word is so like it looks so big, like it has taken a big akar, a big form. While awareness has no form, it is so humble. No need to show anything, it has no name, no form, and that is why it is in bliss.

The moment we want to become something, we lose happiness. More we want to become something, more we are unhappy. But we don't tell anyone, and people think we have got this and this and this must be giving us happiness. But we don't know the way backward. We think if we get more, that might be the way to get happiness rather than receding.

Only when there is grace we understand truth. No point in running. Come out of this running belt. This is like a belt, conveyor belt, everyone is running on it. You jump out of it and just keep quiet, as Bhagawan says, chumma iru, keep quiet.

Keep quiet doesn't mean you don't speak. Keep quiet means don't listen to these thoughts, don't act on these thoughts. Only listen and abide in pure silence. And keep quiet has many implications: not arguing with anyone, not judging anyone, not being critical about things, not having strong likes or dislikes, and not running for your desires. Just keep quiet.

Reflection: The ego can make small problems feel much bigger than they really are. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself...
29/08/2026

Reflection: The ego can make small problems feel much bigger than they really are. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, try to accept whatever life brings as a gift of Grace. When you stop fighting with what is happening, the mind becomes calmer. Then Peace and Silence can naturally fill your heart. — Satsang of 15th May 2024

29/08/2026

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(Date of Satsang: 30th Oct 2024)

Our job is only to stay impartial, neutral as awareness and focus there only. Don't give any scope for thoughts to come and disturb you. They can come, that's okay. But disturbance means we still have something to do with them because we want things to be like this or that. If we are not interested, then let it be.

For a Sadhak, it is to understand that these thoughts will keep commenting. Always there will be something they will be commenting. But understand they are impure energy. Whatever they say, that pure energy is only silence. So let's be with the silence.

Let people say what they have to say. You can't change. We have no authority in changing people's perception about us.

Even Ram was cursed. Krishna had so many attempts to kill him from birth, even before he was born.

Even in Bhagavan's case there were multiple attempts to kill him.

You don't worry what people do and what people think and what people think about you. Our job is only one, what our teacher has said - to stay here.

Reflection: Bhagavan teaches in Letters, 144 that true happiness is always present within us. What comes and goes is onl...
28/08/2026

Reflection: Bhagavan teaches in Letters, 144 that true happiness is always present within us. What comes and goes is only a creation of the mind. We need not chase changing feelings. When the mind is quiet, the lasting bliss of the Self is known.

Reflection: Suffering begins when we feel separate from God and think we are alone. Turn your attention away from the no...
26/08/2026

Reflection: Suffering begins when we feel separate from God and think we are alone. Turn your attention away from the noisy mind and rest in the Silence within. With love and surrender, gently sink deeper into the heart. As the ego becomes quiet, the Divine draws you into its own peace, where there is no separation. — Satsang of 15th May 2024

25/08/2026

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(Date of Satsang: 30th Oct 2024)

Only one thing which is important is that don't hate anyone and don't argue with anyone. How wrong they are, how on Vedantic principles you think they are selfish. If you feel that, then you should have more compassion for them because they are complete ignorant fools. They have no clue what they are doing. That's why they are doing it.

Otherwise, as Bhagawan says, as all the scriptures say, all saints say that use this body to help others. No other purpose of this body.

And I agree with you, this is not to buy a hundred thousand dollars watch or wear costly clothes. It is to just help people and whoever around us. Because everyone is having that pure awareness as us. They don't know.

So they can behave in whatever manner, but we know we have to respect everyone. Respect and love, that is most important.

If someone is angry with you, you hug those people, love them. They don't know. Like a kid, a kid can behave in any way. You are father, you know what is right, so you behave.

If we behave like them, then there's no difference.

I'm not saying in point of view showing that you are higher and someone is lower. No, no, no, there is nothing like that. Everyone is equal. Some know, some don't know. That's all.

Everyone is a billionaire. Some know their bank accounts, some don't know.

Reflection: Bhagavan teaches that true letting go is not about giving away our things. It is about letting go of the fee...
24/08/2026

Reflection: Bhagavan teaches that true letting go is not about giving away our things. It is about letting go of the feeling of “I” and “Mine.” When that feeling fades, attachment also disappears. This is true freedom.

24/08/2026

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(Date of Satsang: 30th Oct 2024)

I think the losers have more experience than the winners. They learn more. It makes you more humble, more down to earth.

I think this is the reason why a lot of saints and sages belonging to royal families left their kingdoms, left everything, and lived like beggars. Just to be humble, so no proud of money or name or fame. It is such a simple, beautiful thing which happens in us.

And I have to say, people have confidence in their knowledge, in their intellect, in their ego, but that is with some pride. But here, in this energy, you know that there is this guiding principle which is working, and whatever it does, you have surrendered to it. And you believe that whatever steps are taken or not taken is the most appropriate way, as if someone else is doing everything for us.

And this feeling, as if this thing, we have so much of trust, and it trusts us and we trust. I am talking—when I am talking, it looks like duality—that somehow this activity of the body is being surrendered to some higher power which is in us. But that within us is us only.

But it looks like there is something which has come very intimately to us, which was not there previously. It was mind and thoughts. Now there is a different association within, of this contentment and faith in everything.

Actually, I have to say, if you read people's stories about sages, some will say like this also, which looks duality, that I felt that the God is there with me all the time. You know, because this is such a pure energy which stays with you.

And something happens that in us, in an environment where it looks like it is lost, you don't like that environment, whether that environment is with people or in a party or maybe educational meeting or whatever, some places also and some situations also.

And somehow you feel like moving out of that area. It also happens. Somehow you just want that at any cost.

Reflection: The mind cannot truly know the Self because the Self is beyond all thoughts. When you feel frustrated that y...
22/08/2026

Reflection: The mind cannot truly know the Self because the Self is beyond all thoughts. When you feel frustrated that you are not making progress, ask yourself, “Who is feeling this?” Keep turning your attention back to the one who is aware. As thoughts become quiet, the false sense of “I” fades, and the Self is revealed in its own peaceful Silence. — Satsang of 15th May 2024

22/08/2026

TRANSCRIPT
(Date of Satsang: 30th Oct 2024)

This notion that I am the body is ego, ahankar, and it is just an illusion. So when a seeker really questions it all the time and it does not give any escape route for ego to be there, then there is nothing left.

So this practice lasts as long as the problem lasts. Problem gone, practice gone.

In awareness, even if your conditioned mind wants to say something, it cannot say. No speech comes, as if something has taken over and you cannot speak.

Let's say you are a person, some people are very abrupt and they say on people's face, and then they say, I call a spade a spade, which doesn't mean anything, but they can justify that.

Something in you will change. Your personality will get destroyed. Something, some power has taken over, so that I no more speak like it used to speak.

So who decides to say or not say, and to whom, what to say? Who decides? The conditioning gone, you become spontaneous and you become unpredictable.

Only, I'll tell you, a Gyanee is very unpredictable.

Because predictable means you behave exactly the same in that particular situation all the time. So people know that if I say this, he will say this. Like they have their remote control. Your remote control is in others' hands.

And somehow, in awareness, you are always fresh. Even you don't know how this body will behave in that situation, even the same situation.

And so there is no pre-planning or thought process going on. You know when you do any big presentations, people think, they plan, they act. We talked about that, I think, few recently.

But what I am saying is that this is the fun of it, that everything is so fresh.

Let's say you catch up with someone who has created some issues with you in the past. But when you meet that person, you are fresh.

Without any... though that information is there, that experience of previous is there, but it has no egoistic tendencies. There are no tendencies driven by that information from the past.

And this is the beauty. That is why you are always in your resting state.

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