For twenty years I have been under the illusion I 'knew' this ... only NOW do I get it. And now it seems so simple. Did I not listen before ... Can't tell you how thankful I am. You have done so much for me in this video. I love you.
It is like being under the rain. You can see the rain (thoughts), you can feel the rain (emotions) but you’re not the rain. The desire for the rain to stop being there or for the sensation of the water touching you stopping is a useless pursuit. It is just stress and a false fight that you created. Just be the witness of all that because you are not the rain.
I think I am going to listen to this particular video over and over again. I keep forgetting, while living in the day to day, to keep on with this perspective! It's almost like veering off in meditation, to then bring myself back to being the awareness! Thanks Sunny💛Much love!
Thank you once again Sunny for this simple clarity. The "small I" (as it were)...the mind saying "I am frightened, anxious, frustrated, cold, hot, unhappy (any word or thought)...is not the real you. It is an amalgamation of conditioning/habits/beliefs/reactions...an illusory "person" that only continues to continue through habit/belief/reaction/interest. 💜
Although the Message always ist the same, this description of finding the Self reached me deeply. At this moment it feels simple and so easy...thank you very much. With love, Hardy
Yes, yes, yes!!! Beautifully worded Hardy. I so completely agree with you. I think I’ve replayed this video or parts of it at least 50 times already. All of a sudden it’s sinking in so deeply within Self. For me, this has been Sunny’s most powerful video. Thank you Sunny!! Namaste 🙏💚💜🌻
You expressed it all very clearly and simply. The message you shared is deeply profound. Much appreciation for this reminder on how to distinguish between mind and Self.
loved your clarification, that is helpful. Even I already heard the concept before, how you present it, makes the most sense to me. So grateful for you sharing your wisdom
Thank you Sunny for making this simple, yet intensely profound realisation known to us. You have taught me a lot about my true self and helped free me from bondage to my thoughts, experiences, emotions and interactions. This has been an essential step on my path to enlightenment. Please keep sharing your wisdom. 🙏 🇬🇧
Excellent. Really and solid potentially life-changing advice. The mind remains default myself unfortunately but getting better at seeing through the veil (slowly!)
Came upon this yesterday morning, just watched for second time, and I will do so again. How calmly and clearly you walk us through this essential wisdom Sunny. Truly a revelation, thank you so much for sharing your gift so generously.
Sincere Thank You Brother Sunny for such Clarity on this important discussion on Spiritual Discernment. You have explained it so well and clear,, our GodSelf/ Awareness/ Presence/ Consciousness as unchanging Isness/ Beingness and the changeful phenomena of thinking/thoughts/ egoic mind/ sense of separation from Source. As we continuously keep our focus of attention on our Divine Selfhood/ Light of Consciousness, then gradually the false sense of self/ ego diminishes towards fading out , and in proportion we experience corresponding outer harmony and good in our human experiences, at all levels of Being, health, emotions, finances , relationships, family, opportunities for service etc. Thank you sincerely Sunny for All this excellent discussion/ Teaching.
Hi Sunny, Thank you, your thoughts and graphics which I have saved to my IPad, reinforce what I learnt from you very early on in my practice about this discernment between the changeless self and all that changes especially thoughts, which generate the ego-self over the true-self, and I the ego find myself now constantly stepping out of the daydream when I find myself engrossed in highly charged thought to watch the emotions ‘I’ appear to be feeling in that moment, only to see a detachment appear that wasn’t there originally and I think I am now at the stage of allowing the grace from regular meditation to move me from the contradiction of ‘the search for effortlessness’ which my mind imagines the great masters had achieved, with all searching and striving gone and effortlessness left supreme in a constant observation and detachment as the normal state of sat-chit-ananda. ❤ JJ
I thought I was awake and aware when I started watching this video, but I wasn’t, not at all, my brain was going 100 thoughts a minute. You said to be here, be present, only then I started to step into my awareness, my I AM (had my eyes closed for a few minutes) was paying attention and when I opened my eyes, you looked different, like seeing for the first time. Perhaps my thinking mind saw you one way and the Awareness saw you in a different light. Kinda weird and cool at the same time. That goes to show how asleep we go through life in our own chatter 🐒 brain that we can’t see what’s in front of us, not really. Thank you 🙏 for this beautiful moment of presence.
Q: Many associate the question, “Who am I?” with Sri Ramana’s teachings. Was this the main teaching? A: He always maintained that his primary and most effective teaching was the silence that radiated from him on account of his Self-abidance. It stilled the minds of the people who were fortunate enough to be with him and, on occasion, it even gave them a taste of the direct experience that he himself was experiencing all the time. The words, the spoken teachings and the various methods he advocated were for those people who were unable to attune themselves to these silent emanations.
We are the authors of the character we assume to be. The intelligent awareness is capable of running stories about our character. The character is fiction, but the awareness is deeper and more foundational than the stories it runs. (Too many words!) 😅
There are two 'I's that one need to be aware of 'I' the Universal is the awareness and "I" personal is the Ego that veils the I Universal! It is the ego that asserts itself and takes over as the doer! As long as the I personal is there you cannot discern the mind and the True I which is I universal! Ramana Maharishi is very specific on this and he asks to catch hold of I personal and hold onto it until it eventually dissolves in I universal! When you bring attention to the I personal or ego, it cannot withstand the scrutiny and when the ego is starved by the focus on I personal it dies a slow death! Only then can you recognise the true I which is I universal!
Ive been struggling with "just being aware". I had a brain injury that has made it so that word retrieval/understanding and memory is often much much more difficult, and it used to be much worse. The idea of simply being aware, with no thought or words is scary to me. Being aware of my awareness doesnt feel like an option in those moments, it feels like voluntary dissociating where whatever happened in that time is lost to the void, and there isnt an option to have retroactive awareness.
This is lovely. One question though. When working through a life challenge, we are often guided to “go within” and our higher self will provide guidance. To listen to our inner wisdom. The implication being that we can access a higher awareness for guidance. Your guidance here suggests that any solution that comes has brought us back into thinking (mind), therefore can’t be awareness. Is going within for guidance still the solution and if so, how do we distinguish between mind and the higher consciousness as guiding us? In other words, how do we know it isn’t our ego providing the guidance?
I don't think Sunny is going to answer your question. It is a good one. Look up Aaron Abke and Anna The Powerful Self. Perhaps some of their videos will help you.
OMG, this knowledge directly leads me to enlightenment.I feel like I am floating, I have become nothing, shunya. This is the end destination of spirituality.
It's bit too early on Quest. Have patience. Go forward. We are yet to go to next step that "I have nothing to do with body- mind. " There's no relationship. In fact they don't exist. It's just a dream/ facade. At ultimate, you will have no feeling, no witness, no object. ❤
This knowledge is thousands of years old. However, it seems that humanity is on the brink of a shift, to higher consciousness. Therefore, this information is easier to grasp, by the average person
🤍Thank Y☺️u for sharing Sunny From Within Awareness of ☺️u r True Shared🫥Being🌅Please Post video on The Nature of That TRUE Changeless🫥Being of It's Essential Qualities that Are Distinct From the finite sense mind projections🤍Namaste🪷
They are referring to the illusory self, "we" (illusory we) are referring to the mind/body instead of your true self. If you keep your awareness on a particular thought the mind/body will follow in that direction. The true self (awareness) remains unchanging, however the mind and body will change depending on where your focus lies.
I is the tought also. There's no i. If you translate i in latin you get the word ego. Ego is what your mind is, the tought story self, the i am. That's not who you are but still is the only way to try to explain the self. How paradoxical 😂
This was really helpful. What about the inner talk? Eg. these are thoughts! Stay quiet! Just observe! What’s that? Shall I shut that? Cos it automatically comes up in the beginning 😢
Try watching it pass by without judgment or shame that it's not going away. The more you resist a thought the more it persists. As an example, try not to think of a pink elephant.
Thank you so much for your explanation Sunny. Can you please clarify the awareness of I AM MANTRA to the other mantras that many Gurus teach. Eg OM, SILENCE MEDITATION ETC. Is I AM MANTRA on its own the true mantra to practice being in the present moment.? I have tried many meditation techniques they are not helping i still have negative thought patterns. Hope you can help me.
sir.. when you talk or when were writing this script you thought about what im gonna say ? what will be the agenda / is the lighting ok ? and all other stuff.. so what is that sir.. or you did those things without thinking and just with pure presence ?.. so how do we do the daily stuff sir... this confuses me.. correct me asap
Awareness is always present. Talking can happen with or without thinking. If one is "no mind" (not attached to thought) talking and action can occur from pure intuition where no thought it needed
For twenty years I have been under the illusion I 'knew' this ... only NOW do I get it. And now it seems so simple. Did I not listen before ... Can't tell you how thankful I am. You have done so much for me in this video. I love you.
♥♥
Kaublhtikarsemua tapipertaliandatrahkaublhtukaryglain
@@selfinquiryschool You're Ramana Maharshi on steroids, I love you, or should I say, I love Me❤️😂
It is like being under the rain.
You can see the rain (thoughts), you can feel the rain (emotions) but you’re not the rain. The desire for the rain to stop being there or for the sensation of the water touching you stopping is a useless pursuit. It is just stress and a false fight that you created. Just be the witness of all that because you are not the rain.
very good
thank you
This is great.
I think I am going to listen to this particular video over and over again. I keep forgetting, while living in the day to day, to keep on with this perspective! It's almost like veering off in meditation, to then bring myself back to being the awareness! Thanks Sunny💛Much love!
Me too I forget during the day and have to remind myself thoughts aren't real. Amazing
Thank you once again Sunny for this simple clarity. The "small I" (as it were)...the mind saying "I am frightened, anxious, frustrated, cold, hot, unhappy (any word or thought)...is not the real you. It is an amalgamation of conditioning/habits/beliefs/reactions...an illusory "person" that only continues to continue through habit/belief/reaction/interest. 💜
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@@pattyboucetta1897 ❤
pure compassion is the only way to know ( realise ) the difference of mind and self
Thank you so much🙏🙏 This was the last piece of my puzzle...the key to my "I am".
Finally I am me and free!
I am deeply grateful to you❤❤
"you are here" I've been looking for this map my entire life (over 40 years)!😂 Well done Sonny. Another banger!
Shelf is Not a thought!! So simple but yet so difficult to grasp!! Sunny is always here to make our understanding of the Shelf even more simple!! 🙏
Although the Message always ist the same, this description of finding the Self reached me deeply. At this moment it feels simple and so easy...thank you very much. With love, Hardy
Yes, yes, yes!!! Beautifully worded Hardy. I so completely agree with you. I think I’ve replayed this video or parts of it at least 50 times already. All of a sudden it’s sinking in so deeply within Self. For me, this has been Sunny’s most powerful video. Thank you Sunny!! Namaste 🙏💚💜🌻
You expressed it all very clearly and simply. The message you shared is deeply profound.
Much appreciation for this reminder on how to distinguish between mind and Self.
loved your clarification, that is helpful. Even I already heard the concept before, how you present it, makes the most sense to me. So grateful for you sharing your wisdom
Thank you Sunny for making this simple, yet intensely profound realisation known to us. You have taught me a lot about my true self and helped free me from bondage to my thoughts, experiences, emotions and interactions. This has been an essential step on my path to enlightenment. Please keep sharing your wisdom. 🙏 🇬🇧
Excellent. Really and solid potentially life-changing advice.
The mind remains default myself unfortunately but getting better at seeing through the veil (slowly!)
This is Gold. Thank you. ❤
Came upon this yesterday morning, just watched for second time, and I will do so again. How calmly and clearly you walk us through this essential wisdom Sunny. Truly a revelation, thank you so much for sharing your gift so generously.
Sincere Thank You Brother Sunny for such Clarity on this important discussion on Spiritual Discernment. You have explained it so well and clear,, our GodSelf/ Awareness/ Presence/ Consciousness as unchanging Isness/ Beingness and the changeful phenomena of thinking/thoughts/ egoic mind/ sense of separation from Source.
As we continuously keep our focus of attention on our Divine Selfhood/ Light of Consciousness, then gradually the false sense of self/ ego diminishes towards fading out , and in proportion we experience corresponding outer harmony and good in our human experiences, at all levels of Being, health, emotions, finances , relationships, family, opportunities for service etc.
Thank you sincerely Sunny for All this excellent discussion/ Teaching.
Hi Sunny, Thank you, your thoughts and graphics which I have saved to my IPad, reinforce what I learnt from you very early on in my practice about this discernment between the changeless self and all that changes especially thoughts, which generate the ego-self over the true-self, and I the ego find myself now constantly stepping out of the daydream when I find myself engrossed in highly charged thought to watch the emotions ‘I’ appear to be feeling in that moment, only to see a detachment appear that wasn’t there originally and I think I am now at the stage of allowing the grace from regular meditation to move me from the contradiction of ‘the search for effortlessness’ which my mind imagines the great masters had achieved, with all searching and striving gone and effortlessness left supreme in a constant observation and detachment as the normal state of sat-chit-ananda. ❤ JJ
Another video of great value 😊. Thank you for your excellent work ❤
❤️🙏🏽
Clear as a bell !
Thank you🙏
Very helpful explanation! Thank you!! 🙏
I thought I was awake and aware when I started watching this video, but I wasn’t, not at all, my brain was going 100 thoughts a minute. You said to be here, be present, only then I started to step into my awareness, my I AM (had my eyes closed for a few minutes) was paying attention and when I opened my eyes, you looked different, like seeing for the first time. Perhaps my thinking mind saw you one way and the Awareness saw you in a different light. Kinda weird and cool at the same time. That goes to show how asleep we go through life in our own chatter 🐒 brain that we can’t see what’s in front of us, not really. Thank you 🙏 for this beautiful moment of presence.
Very clear explanation. Thanks a lot ji
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Q: Many associate the question, “Who am I?” with Sri Ramana’s teachings. Was this the main teaching?
A: He always maintained that his primary and most effective teaching was the silence that radiated from him on account of his Self-abidance. It stilled the minds of the people who were fortunate enough to be with him and, on occasion, it even gave them a taste of the direct experience that he himself was experiencing all the time. The words, the spoken teachings and the various methods he advocated were for those people who were unable to attune themselves to these silent emanations.
Thanks sunny Bhaiya for each and every video.
Pure wisdom right here 🙏🏻🙌🏻
THANK YOU!
is this i am feeling, is the feeling of isness
Thanks for reminding me today man! Awesome.
Genial!!! Muy claro y útil 😊
Muchísimas gracias 🙏🤍💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🤎🩶
Amazing insight thank you.
Awesome teaching. Thanks Sunny 🌞
My spiritual teachers are Sri Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta also Sunny
Gratitude 🙏
Sunny, I appreciate your content so much- it’s so valuable! Thank you ♥️
Very clear pointing - thank you!
👏👏👌👌 very useful!!
Thank you.... 💐🙏🙏🙏💐❤️
Thank you so much
Solid gold. Thank you 💛
Thank you ❤
We are the authors of the character we assume to be. The intelligent awareness is capable of running stories about our character. The character is fiction, but the awareness is deeper and more foundational than the stories it runs. (Too many words!) 😅
There are two 'I's that one need to be aware of 'I' the Universal is the awareness and "I" personal is the Ego that veils the I Universal! It is the ego that asserts itself and takes over as the doer! As long as the I personal is there you cannot discern the mind and the True I which is I universal! Ramana Maharishi is very specific on this and he asks to catch hold of I personal and hold onto it until it eventually dissolves in I universal! When you bring attention to the I personal or ego, it cannot withstand the scrutiny and when the ego is starved by the focus on I personal it dies a slow death! Only then can you recognise the true I which is I universal!
🙏🏼..so helpful 🙏🏼❤
Ive been struggling with "just being aware". I had a brain injury that has made it so that word retrieval/understanding and memory is often much much more difficult, and it used to be much worse. The idea of simply being aware, with no thought or words is scary to me. Being aware of my awareness doesnt feel like an option in those moments, it feels like voluntary dissociating where whatever happened in that time is lost to the void, and there isnt an option to have retroactive awareness.
This is lovely. One question though. When working through a life challenge, we are often guided to “go within” and our higher self will provide guidance. To listen to our inner wisdom. The implication being that we can access a higher awareness for guidance. Your guidance here suggests that any solution that comes has brought us back into thinking (mind), therefore can’t be awareness. Is going within for guidance still the solution and if so, how do we distinguish between mind and the higher consciousness as guiding us? In other words, how do we know it isn’t our ego providing the guidance?
I don't think Sunny is going to answer your question. It is a good one. Look up Aaron Abke and Anna The Powerful Self. Perhaps some of their videos will help you.
Yes
OMG, this knowledge directly leads me to enlightenment.I feel like I am floating, I have become nothing, shunya. This is the end destination of spirituality.
Lol! It is just the beginning! ✌🏻🧡
It's bit too early on Quest. Have patience. Go forward. We are yet to go to next step that "I have nothing to do with body- mind. "
There's no relationship. In fact they don't exist. It's just a dream/ facade.
At ultimate, you will have no feeling, no witness, no object. ❤
This knowledge is thousands of years old. However, it seems that humanity is on the brink of a shift, to higher consciousness. Therefore, this information is easier to grasp, by the average person
🤍Thank Y☺️u for sharing Sunny From Within Awareness of ☺️u r True Shared🫥Being🌅Please Post video on The Nature of That TRUE Changeless🫥Being of It's Essential Qualities that Are Distinct From the finite sense mind projections🤍Namaste🪷
Thanks, again! Why do we often hear that we are not our thoughts and yet “some” say we are what we think? Maybe the “some” are of lower concern?
They are referring to the illusory self, "we" (illusory we) are referring to the mind/body instead of your true self. If you keep your awareness on a particular thought the mind/body will follow in that direction. The true self (awareness) remains unchanging, however the mind and body will change depending on where your focus lies.
I is the tought also. There's no i. If you translate i in latin you get the word ego. Ego is what your mind is, the tought story self, the i am. That's not who you are but still is the only way to try to explain the self. How paradoxical 😂
This was really helpful. What about the inner talk?
Eg. these are thoughts! Stay quiet! Just observe!
What’s that? Shall I shut that? Cos it automatically comes up in the beginning 😢
Try watching it pass by without judgment or shame that it's not going away. The more you resist a thought the more it persists. As an example, try not to think of a pink elephant.
@@rykenu thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for your explanation Sunny.
Can you please clarify the awareness of
I AM MANTRA to the other mantras that many Gurus teach. Eg OM, SILENCE MEDITATION ETC.
Is I AM MANTRA on its own the true mantra to practice being in the present moment.? I have tried many meditation techniques they are not helping i still have negative thought patterns. Hope you can help me.
Thank you, once I understand this, what happens then, how is everyday life different now that I am aware then before?
Self can also think
Hi Sunny when you speak, rather than just the quiet thoughts inside your head, are you still focused on awareness watching yourself speak?
Will my awareness makes decision for my life, guide me in the right direction without thoughts n feelings? 16:53
sir.. when you talk or when were writing this script you thought about what im gonna say ? what will be the agenda / is the lighting ok ? and all other stuff.. so what is that sir.. or you did those things without thinking and just with pure presence ?.. so how do we do the daily stuff sir... this confuses me.. correct me asap
we can enlighten with these separation??
what happens when we talk ? awareness or thinking ?
Awareness is always present. Talking can happen with or without thinking. If one is "no mind" (not attached to thought) talking and action can occur from pure intuition where no thought it needed
@@rykenu wonderful insight bro
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