"I am nothing... I am everything" is a tennis ball being constantly hit back and forth, with no logical foundational home. Planetary humans are not "everything". Humans are something. They are personalities on the awakening journey to find, know, and be with the universal source of Life.
@@steveflorida8699 Yes, but of course he wasn't a human. He was 'nothing' when relating to his source, and everything when relating to the world/universe.
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
There is a story told by Stephen Wolinsky ( a disciple of SNM ). He says they we gathered in Maharaj’s room listened to his lectures when a well known yoga instructor enters the room and begins dialoguing with Maharaj. Maharaj asked the man “Who are you?” The man begins telling Maharaj with certainty and fervor about himself “I’m a yoga instructor, meditation teacher” etc. Patiently waiting for the man to finish telling Maharaj everything he claims to be, Maharaj looks at him and says “that’s not it”. Stephen was standing right behind the man and says it was like the man was made out of glass and Maharaj had thrown a stone right through the man and completed shattered his perceptions. This story is a great analogy to summarize what had happened to me when I read “I am That” for the first time. When we understand the contents of our mind and the roots of these contents, we understand we are constantly projecting our own myopic views into the world. Eventually we begin to look at the mind so intensely that it becomes still and almost effortlessly our perception dissociates from our minds and our bodies and our true nature reveals itself “spontaneously”. It’s truly something to marvel at. The one thing standing in the way of seeing our true nature is the mind and it’s constant mechanisms of comparison, judegement, divison, projections, etc. Take care of your mind and body, carefully watch what you feed your mind/body, just know at the deepest “level” of your being. Your true nature stands alone and permeates peace and love through all aspects of life.
Thank you for this Rupert. I have been seeking for quite a while and it finally has occurred that this "me" entity, it has been seeking to improve, get somewhere, understand, figure out things and rather recently noticed that the "me", after all this time seeking, has not once even gotten close to puzzling out non-duality. After realizing this, mind was on the precipice of being dropped, who is going to drop it and how, then there was some fear but after hearing you speak on Stillness, for some reason that sort of finalized that the "me/mind" had to be side-stepped and ignored/dis-identified with in order to be at peace. It has nothing to do with effort! That is what the mind is doing is making an effort to get somewhere, achieve something, enlightenment BUT again it has nothing to do with that, so side-step it. What a relief. What a revelation. 🙂 Nisargadatta said, "“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” Side-step the mind because it is not any help in realizing the true nature. Mind is basically traffic that needs to be side-stepped and there is peace in that.
I read I Am That years ago, but it never really clicked until I started listening to Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup. Now it makes so much more sense.
Initially for me it was Swami Sarvapriyananda and then Atamananda Udasin, through Advaita Vedanta (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar) Other great teachers followed; Rupert included.
"I am that" by maharaj is the holiest spiritual guidance book ; and understanding would just flow if is explained by Rupert .how I wish Rupert could read out and explain the entire book
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
@@antalperge1007 "nowhere to go... nothing to do", suggests idleness. Idleness does not develop individual character. A helpless born baby needs to develop into a moral and wise human being. The journey of Personalities is experiences and achieving goals. Mental idleness is a lazy sunburn. What is idleness's contribution to self, family, and society?
@@steveflorida8699 True and effort is necessary for all things, but I think - correct me if I am wrong - Antal Perge's words point to the idea that "effort" (in general) will not do anything with regards to Being. You cannot "will" or "move" yourself into it, there is nothing phenomenal - any object or experience - that is capable of passing that threshold. It's a fundamental thing. Of course, the paying of the house, the providing for family still happens and needs to happen, but that's not what this is about.
Thank you my dear Rupert whom I consider my friend although we haven’t met I feel I’ve always known you . A million thanks you being stillness to my heart .
Hello Rupert. Thank you. Nisargadatta Maharaj videos on RUclips is how I learnt about meditation and consciouness a few years ago. His words were a “total shock” to me because they were truth. He is really a revelation for me. Thx.
Absolutely- a tremendous shock. I remember the first time I read "I Am That" and I was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Truly shaken, and there was a singular clarity.
Oh Rupert I have been watching your videos and reading your books for six years almost at a daily basis. Your words are so easy to understand but so difficult to put in practice !!!
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
Based on my decades of trying to reconcile Vedanta and modern physics (esp quantum mechanics) Let me respectfully offer an alternative view to Sri Nisargadatta namely "I AM NOT THAT". While I completely agree that everything in the visible universe is indeed an "illusion" (Maya, a 3-D holographic movie- etc) every "particle" and every "event" is indeed a "dream character" and sequence" that appear and disappear in the Dreamer's (GOD?) consciousness. We are there to serve EXACTLY the same purpose that actors in a movie or a play do, namely to "entertain" the audience, and in our case, an audience of ONE. I therefore believe it is erroneous to confuse the dream character with the Dreamer who is merely "observing & enjoying" our wild and crazy behaviors. Our best (and ONLY) course of action is to ACCEPT this stark reality and continue with our "virtual" existence according to the casting of our role assigned by lottery. Thus, I AM THAT can be rephrased as "I AM (for the entertainment) of THAT. 🙏
The phrase "I am that" is used by maharaj as a piinter not to label it as the final truth. He used it because of the limitation of words in explaining the Brahman. "I AM" is the closest to the truth. But the final truth is beyond the "I am". Its the awareness between and beyond the knower and known. If you are referring knower as the " I am", you have misunderstood. The knower rises when a body is born and sets when it dies leaving an imprint of memories in the universal conousiness.
I prefer, “I am more than that” My experience comes from where I put my attention. If everything is God’s body, which part of the “body” am I paying attention to? “I am” is more accurate.
Thanks Rupert! Summer 2009 .I searched and found this book in the library of a J. Krishnamurti place in Varanasi. It was like a spiritual big bang for me. Since then..what a journey!ॐ ❤
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing these incredible insights with us. As for "I Am That," it is definitely one of my favourite books. What a resonance I feel with the so-called "Fiery Sage" of Bombay, every time I reread his book. The love that he felt for seekers is so palpable. So, too, is yours--for everyone. Blessings. 🙏
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
Love listening to you! Although I seem to be always searching for answers about life, I find that I already know them and always have. Strange, but true.
Feel blessed.. and at times i feel like telling one and all about the secret of our being.. as I am slowly feeling the quiet within me, but then I must halt,, as each one in his own time finds the key.
I see a copy of Daughter of Fire behind you. I was with Mrs Tweedie. Such a wonderful woman. Loved this reading. I Am That has been the one book I’ve kept close for 30 years.
I am god and this page, this video, is a dream I'm having. If you don't want to share in this dream, never ever repeat this phrase (call it a mantra) while under the influence of a psychedelic: "This Is It . . This Is It . . This Is It . .." PS: "This Is It" is also the title of an Alan Watts' book.
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
A quiet mind…undistorted by desires and fears…free from ideas and opinions… clear on all levels , is needed to to reflect the reality. Be clear, calm, quiet and detached and all simply is. One need only remove the transient happenings to realize the pure experience of the self…neither adding to or taking away from that which is.
To those who question seemingly idleness? From " I am That" book: Questioner: To be content with mere being seems to be a most selfish way of passing time. Nisargadatta: A most worthy way of being selfish! By all means be selfish by foregoing everything but the Self. When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in Love, pure and simple, addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that Love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity. You will know what to do. Do not ask superficial questions; apply yourself to fundamentals, to the very roots of your being. From: I AM THAT Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thank you so much for posting it. Came in right time over here...😊I was trying to explain to someone the same, but with too much words. I was accused of being a narcisist, because I said that when I adore my Guru, at the same time I adore myself😆 Much Love tu you and thanks again🙏🤍
It's like seeing a bright light inside one of those chiseled crystal prisms. Everyone sees a different angle and different refraction of rainbows depending on their viewpoint. It's all very distracting, but everyone sees the same glimpse. If you turn and see the prism from different angles slowly you start to see the light is not inside. Then you feel warm and turn around and realize the sun is behind you.
At 9.08 he says the Caribbean beach is not really sand, sea and sky, but stillness and nothing. Who would prefer that, or the screen rather than the movie! Save those for when we're dead. We evolved to perceive the world as our senses inform us. Appreciate it.
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
I’m not here to criticize Rupert in any way, as I love him, and I loved this video/pointing. But I was shocked to hear him say that when Nisagadatta uses the word consciousness he means awareness, as if they’re synonymous. Nisargadatta is one of the few non-dual teachers/clarifiers I’ve read who DOESN’T use these words synonymously. When he says consciousness, he’s actually saying antahkarana, which my copy of the book defines as: “the psyche, mind. Mind in a collective sense, including intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and mind (manas).” So in the translated Nisargaddatta consciousness is basically the entirety of mind with a little “m.” Awareness is the source from which that arises. That’s why you’ll repeatedly hear him talk about “going beyond consciousness.” (Which was even part of Rupert’s selection.) If you go into Nisargadatta’s work thinking that he’s using consciousness and awareness to mean the same thing, you’ll come away VERY confused (as you can’t go “beyond” awareness). To be fair, there are places where he does use “consciousness” in a way that could easily also work as awareness, but I’m unsure if that’s due to limited options with translating words that have no English equivalent or if, as the activity of Awareness, it isn’t misleading to phrase it that way. (I mean, either way you interpret it in those instances, it works.) Again, this was in no way meant to be critical of what Rupert’s actually saying here. Just wanted to give people a heads up in case you ever hear someone claiming that Nisargadatta says there’s something beyond consciousness. And there are other writings/teachings that use awareness and consciousness differently. If they say something like, “consciousness is passing” you’ll know they’re not using it to mean awareness. ☮️
Agree. I have found Michael James's many many (many) videos on Ramana's writings very helpful in clarifying this. Nisargadatta's words I think can be confusing as he does not spell this all out very explicitly. But I Am That definitely stopped me short the first time I read it, many years ago. Thank you Rupert.
I think the word for consciousness he mostly used is “Chaitanyam”. In my understanding of his talks, Chaitanyam at its pure is Sat-Chit-Ananda which is the light/power of reality. He says this power takes care of the world, call it God / Self / Consciousness or whatever. All manifestation is the work of this Chaitanyabrahmam. When Brahman touched by “I am”, (the moola maya-primordial illusion), manifestation appears. ParaBrahman, the absolute reality is what remains when Chaitanyam or “I am” is transcended.
The mind really is the christian devil, or his main tool. But we have to use a thorn to remove the thorn. I have to constantly read Nisarg's book to remind myself although I know I must go beyond the words. I have entered that place of bliss/pure peace on a few occasions and let me tell you , nothing this fallen world produces can compare. It is not dependent on things or circumstances yet it exists powerfully... it must indeed be our true nature.
My mind still fights. It doesn’t want to let go of the image of itself. I see moments of letting go, but my god it doesn’t stop fighting. I don’t hate it for what it does, it’s trying to hold control even though it knows control is illusion, yet it still fights. It’s causing great and profound sadness in this sphere I experience. I crave connection to this stillness, yet I fight. It’s confusing and I grow sadder.
Let me try to bring you relief, Matthew. Suppose you awaken from a dream and could dream that dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW that you are dreaming. But you still wouldn't know what was going to happen or how the dream would end. Would your experience of that very same dream not be COMPLETELY different? Just because you shifted from the personal perspective to the correct perspective? Now here comes the shock. Try to apply the same shift of perspective to the dream called life. If you keep trying you discover the natural state, the great stillness where all is well.
@@GeertMeertens Thank you Geert. You have helped; Its a dream, and I am waking up to that reality. A simple and subtle shift in perspective, yet profoundly rewarding. I'm utterly in awe of it.
Not sure which verse of the Bhagavad Gita Rupert is alluding to around 12:00 when he implies that the Gita teaches that “what is known by the mind is unknown by Consciousness and what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. I am somehow not persuaded that this is an accurate translation based upon my understanding of that scripture. Per the Upanishads, which form the basis for what is taught in the Gita, Consciousness is the knower of all that can be known (my loose translation of _Ayam Atma Brahma Sarvanubhuh_ from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19). So, Rupert’s first premise that “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” contradicts this. Moreover, the above premise cannot be supported by reasoned logic. Our mind is just an appearance of Consciousness and what is known through our mind is an appearance of Consciousness as well. As such, it defies reason for an appearance of Consciousness that is known through our mind to remain unknown to Consciousness. Of course, I am on board with Ruperts’s second premise, i.e., “what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. This can be justified by noting that Consciousness is knowing (noun) itself whereas our mind, as an inhibited appearance of knowing, is not all-knowing.
Rupert using poetics language and that makes confusion but it is like this, What's known for the mind it is unknown for the consciousness but what's mind is knows ? Mind knows object and for the consciousness there's no existence of separate thing or object so object is unknown for the consciousness. And for the mind no separation or no object is unknown.
@@rathodnarendra5255 Thank you for your attempt at parsing Rupert’s words but I am still not persuaded that Rupert’s premise “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” can be supported through reasoned logic. You say “mind knows object”. However, a mind is an object and as such it cannot know other objects by itself. A mind is just an appearance of Consciousness as an instrument through which localization of Consciousness takes place. You also say “object is unknown to Consciousness”. Well, since there is only Consciousness, objects cannot be other than Consciousness. So, objects are just appearances of Consciousness, and as such we cannot say that they are unknown to Consciousness. To paraphrase Swami Sarvapriyanandaji of the VedantaNY RUclips channel, “All objects appear in Consciousness, to Consciousness, as Consciousness, and are not other than Consciousness”. I have found Rupert to be very precise with the use of the English language so far but his interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita in this video seems like an exception to that for me.
Just found this new video where Rupert says Mary doesn't know what goes on in Jane's mind, check out what he says at 2:54: ruclips.net/video/00eDU0EnT84/видео.html
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
- NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Awesome!
My fave Maharaj quote by a landslide...goosebumps every time!
"I am nothing... I am everything" is a tennis ball being constantly hit back and forth, with no logical foundational home.
Planetary humans are not "everything". Humans are something. They are personalities on the awakening journey to find, know, and be with the universal source of Life.
This has poetic content and inspires tremendous feeling, but resonates only with those internal things that are so often such terrible guides...
@@steveflorida8699 Yes, but of course he wasn't a human. He was 'nothing' when relating to his source, and everything when relating to the world/universe.
Nisargadatta Maharaj is the best
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
"So far you have loved so many things, but have you loved THAT which loves"
There is a story told by Stephen Wolinsky ( a disciple of SNM ). He says they we gathered in Maharaj’s room listened to his lectures when a well known yoga instructor enters the room and begins dialoguing with Maharaj. Maharaj asked the man “Who are you?” The man begins telling Maharaj with certainty and fervor about himself “I’m a yoga instructor, meditation teacher” etc. Patiently waiting for the man to finish telling Maharaj everything he claims to be, Maharaj looks at him and says “that’s not it”. Stephen was standing right behind the man and says it was like the man was made out of glass and Maharaj had thrown a stone right through the man and completed shattered his perceptions.
This story is a great analogy to summarize what had happened to me when I read “I am That” for the first time.
When we understand the contents of our mind and the roots of these contents, we understand we are constantly projecting our own myopic views into the world.
Eventually we begin to look at the mind so intensely that it becomes still and almost effortlessly our perception dissociates from our minds and our bodies and our true nature reveals itself “spontaneously”. It’s truly something to marvel at.
The one thing standing in the way of seeing our true nature is the mind and it’s constant mechanisms of comparison, judegement, divison, projections, etc.
Take care of your mind and body, carefully watch what you feed your mind/body, just know at the deepest “level” of your being. Your true nature stands alone and permeates peace and love through all aspects of life.
Thanks
Whatever I’m doing, receiving a RUclips notification from Rupert stops me in my tracks and I listen.
I want to see a series with Rupert sat by the fire with a hot chocolate, reading us the classics. You know it makes sense Rupert!
Thank you for this Rupert. I have been seeking for quite a while and it finally has occurred that this "me" entity, it has been seeking to improve, get somewhere, understand, figure out things and rather recently noticed that the "me", after all this time seeking, has not once even gotten close to puzzling out non-duality.
After realizing this, mind was on the precipice of being dropped, who is going to drop it and how, then there was some fear but after hearing you speak on Stillness, for some reason that sort of finalized that the "me/mind" had to be side-stepped and ignored/dis-identified with in order to be at peace. It has nothing to do with effort! That is what the mind is doing is making an effort to get somewhere, achieve something, enlightenment BUT again it has nothing to do with that, so side-step it. What a relief. What a revelation. 🙂
Nisargadatta said, "“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” Side-step the mind because it is not any help in realizing the true nature. Mind is basically traffic that needs to be side-stepped and there is peace in that.
I read I Am That years ago, but it never really clicked until I started listening to Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup. Now it makes so much more sense.
Initially for me it was Swami Sarvapriyananda and then Atamananda Udasin, through Advaita Vedanta (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar)
Other great teachers followed; Rupert included.
It clicked for me when I listened to
Mustardo Katsup.
Incredibly Profound
Had an NDE and did several Ayahuasca Ceremony’s, what he over views is correct.
One who has really experienced the reality can deliver it to the seeker. That's why guru shishya legacy is established since ages.
"In stillness all things can be known." - steps to knowledge
thank you Rupert for sharing this Direct Knowledge❤
"I am that" by maharaj is the holiest spiritual guidance book ; and understanding would just flow if is explained by Rupert .how I wish Rupert could read out and explain the entire book
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
@@antalperge1007 "nowhere to go... nothing to do", suggests idleness. Idleness does not develop individual character. A helpless born baby needs to develop into a moral and wise human being.
The journey of Personalities is experiences and achieving goals. Mental idleness is a lazy sunburn. What is idleness's contribution to self, family, and society?
@@steveflorida8699 True and effort is necessary for all things, but I think - correct me if I am wrong - Antal Perge's words point to the idea that "effort" (in general) will not do anything with regards to Being. You cannot "will" or "move" yourself into it, there is nothing phenomenal - any object or experience - that is capable of passing that threshold. It's a fundamental thing. Of course, the paying of the house, the providing for family still happens and needs to happen, but that's not what this is about.
I would love a tour through your bookshelves 😍
By letting go, you gain all! Being absolutely free is beyond anything experience can bring!
Thank you my dear Rupert whom I consider my friend although we haven’t met I feel I’ve always known you . A million thanks you being stillness to my heart .
What a blessing to hear nisargadatta from rupert s voice❤
जिस मरने से जग डरे, मेरो मन आनंद ।
The World is afraid of dying, I find bliss in dying
~ Saint Kabir
What a nice library ! 😊
Hello Rupert. Thank you. Nisargadatta Maharaj videos on RUclips is how I learnt about meditation and consciouness a few years ago. His words were a “total shock” to me because they were truth. He is really a revelation for me. Thx.
His book is also a must. Thank you.
Absolutely- a tremendous shock. I remember the first time I read "I Am That" and I was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Truly shaken, and there was a singular clarity.
That is one well-read book
Thank you Rupert, your kindness beams!
So happy that there are now 178,000 subscribers. We want to reach one million! Thank you for your invaluable channel.
Thank you so much
😮😂 Rupert! Been following your paintings for a very long time. Suddenly, here you are definitely. What a joy🎉❤❤❤
I love you Rupert. Thank you for bringing me back to myself again
These teachings are what ended seeking.
✨Mahalo Rupert❤️Sharing Truth✨
13:45 love this fragment, very profound !!!
This book has completely changed my life. It has a very interesting story for entering my life which gives it a stronger significance. 🙏
I AM ✨🧘♂️✨
Oh Rupert I have been watching your videos and reading your books for six years almost at a daily basis. Your words are so easy to understand but so difficult to put in practice !!!
I’m six years in as well with Rupert. Happy to be traveling with you🙏
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
Somehow I read the title as the great silliness.
Such eloquence! Ahh. Thank you 😊 💓.
Based on my decades of trying to reconcile Vedanta and modern physics (esp quantum mechanics) Let me respectfully offer an alternative view to Sri Nisargadatta namely "I AM NOT THAT". While I completely agree that everything in the visible universe is indeed an "illusion" (Maya, a 3-D holographic movie- etc) every "particle" and every "event" is indeed a "dream character" and sequence" that appear and disappear in the Dreamer's (GOD?) consciousness. We are there to serve EXACTLY the same purpose that actors in a movie or a play do, namely to "entertain" the audience, and in our case, an audience of ONE. I therefore believe it is erroneous to confuse the dream character with the Dreamer who is merely "observing & enjoying" our wild and crazy behaviors. Our best (and ONLY) course of action is to ACCEPT this stark reality and continue with our "virtual" existence according to the casting of our role assigned by lottery. Thus, I AM THAT can be rephrased as "I AM (for the entertainment) of THAT. 🙏
The phrase "I am that" is used by maharaj as a piinter not to label it as the final truth. He used it because of the limitation of words in explaining the Brahman. "I AM" is the closest to the truth. But the final truth is beyond the "I am". Its the awareness between and beyond the knower and known.
If you are referring knower as the " I am", you have misunderstood. The knower rises when a body is born and sets when it dies leaving an imprint of memories in the universal conousiness.
I prefer, “I am more than that” My experience comes from where I put my attention. If everything is God’s body, which part of the “body” am I paying attention to? “I am” is more accurate.
any words will do ,, till we know better. ☀️
Further
Thanks Rupert!
Summer 2009 .I searched and found this book in the library of a J. Krishnamurti place in Varanasi.
It was like a spiritual big bang for me. Since then..what a journey!ॐ ❤
Thank you Rupert .. being Indian i myself did not know about this great book by Nisargadatta Maharaj🙏🙏🙏
THANK YOU!
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing these incredible insights with us. As for "I Am That," it is definitely one of my favourite books. What a resonance I feel with the so-called "Fiery Sage" of Bombay, every time I reread his book. The love that he felt for seekers is so palpable. So, too, is yours--for everyone. Blessings. 🙏
Thank you sir
Thankyou Rupert, ❤
Thanku sir very much
To The - The Great Stillness !!! Amen
There is a lesson here that I resist yet struggle to learn, that I am drawn to and run from as with God itself.
Ur voice is gods voice ❤
Brilliant and illuminating, as always. Thank you.
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
🌈 The Mind is a prism, We have an infinite spectrum to choose from.🌈🪶😇 Grace Victoria 🦋💕
I literally just bought this book… thank you. ❤
Love listening to you! Although I seem to be always searching for answers about life, I find that I already know them and always have. Strange, but true.
Thank you Rupert. I am blessed to have found you. Thank you.
Love you rupert love you.
wow wow wow thank you 🙏🏾
God bless you Rupert.
Feel blessed.. and at times i feel like telling one and all about the secret of our being.. as I am slowly feeling the quiet within me, but then I must halt,, as each one in his own time finds the key.
What an excellent and inspirational explanation. I am excited about sharing this with others. Thank you.
“If you want to know your nature you must have yourself in mind all the time until the secret of your being is revealed.”
Sasha: Where did you get this quote?
This is great message.
This is by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
How Beautiful!
I see a copy of Daughter of Fire behind you. I was with Mrs Tweedie. Such a wonderful woman. Loved this reading. I Am That has been the one book I’ve kept close for 30 years.
Ditto on both
This is Great we are only In doing So🌹🌹
I am god and this page, this video, is a dream I'm having. If you don't want to share in this dream, never ever repeat this phrase (call it a mantra) while under the influence of a psychedelic: "This Is It . . This Is It . . This Is It . .."
PS: "This Is It" is also the title of an Alan Watts' book.
Thank you, this was something I needed.
I have this book and try to read it every day along with Silence of the heart by Robert Adams
Beautiful beautiful beautiful ♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
I am humble by goodness beauty and truth
Wonderful🙏
Great stillness ☀️🌙❤️
A quiet mind…undistorted by desires and fears…free from ideas and opinions… clear on all levels , is needed to to reflect the reality.
Be clear, calm, quiet and detached and all simply is.
One need only remove the transient happenings to realize the pure experience of the self…neither adding to or taking away from that which is.
One does not find truth. But truth finds itself.
Unknown and unknowable by mind. 🙏
To those who question seemingly idleness?
From " I am That" book:
Questioner:
To be content with mere being seems to be a most selfish way of passing time.
Nisargadatta:
A most worthy way of being selfish! By all means be selfish by foregoing everything but the Self.
When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All
distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in Love, pure and simple,
addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that Love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate
yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the
problems of humanity. You will know what to do. Do not ask superficial questions; apply yourself to
fundamentals, to the very roots of your being.
From: I AM THAT
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thank you so much for posting it. Came in right time over here...😊I was trying to explain to someone the same, but with too much words. I was accused of being a narcisist, because I said that when I adore my Guru, at the same time I adore myself😆
Much Love tu you and thanks again🙏🤍
Rupert has two of the Longchenpa texts on his shelf. Nice.
It's like seeing a bright light inside one of those chiseled crystal prisms. Everyone sees a different angle and different refraction of rainbows depending on their viewpoint. It's all very distracting, but everyone sees the same glimpse. If you turn and see the prism from different angles slowly you start to see the light is not inside. Then you feel warm and turn around and realize the sun is behind you.
Beautiful and sublime
Ah if only the mind sinks to its source
We have similar contents on our bookshelves :)
انا احبك كثيرا كلامك جميل وراقي
Naham Deham
Koham Soham
Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi
When you are not attached only then can you worship❤️
Be still and know that I am a millionaire
Be still and know that I am healthy
Be still and know that I am
Neville & Nisargadatta 💖
ASMR 😴😴
B4 the words,l Am.ln the beginning was the word and the word is with I,the elemental consciousness.I am That.This is lT,the time,which is born.🙏🏽
Om
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At 9.08 he says the Caribbean beach is not really sand, sea and sky, but stillness and nothing. Who would prefer that, or the screen rather than the movie! Save those for when we're dead. We evolved to perceive the world as our senses inform us. Appreciate it.
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0:30 ❤
2:00
4:13 Nisargdatta 7:25 11:31 16:11
6:20 RXXXXX thinking, perceiving
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17:30 ❤
-Reality lies in objectivity.
Memory gives the illusion of continuity and repetitiveness creates the idea of causality' - Sri Nisargadatta marahaj.
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I see nothing has really changed.
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
I’m not here to criticize Rupert in any way, as I love him, and I loved this video/pointing. But I was shocked to hear him say that when Nisagadatta uses the word consciousness he means awareness, as if they’re synonymous. Nisargadatta is one of the few non-dual teachers/clarifiers I’ve read who DOESN’T use these words synonymously. When he says consciousness, he’s actually saying antahkarana, which my copy of the book defines as: “the psyche, mind. Mind in a collective sense, including intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and mind (manas).”
So in the translated Nisargaddatta consciousness is basically the entirety of mind with a little “m.” Awareness is the source from which that arises. That’s why you’ll repeatedly hear him talk about “going beyond consciousness.” (Which was even part of Rupert’s selection.) If you go into Nisargadatta’s work thinking that he’s using consciousness and awareness to mean the same thing, you’ll come away VERY confused (as you can’t go “beyond” awareness).
To be fair, there are places where he does use “consciousness” in a way that could easily also work as awareness, but I’m unsure if that’s due to limited options with translating words that have no English equivalent or if, as the activity of Awareness, it isn’t misleading to phrase it that way. (I mean, either way you interpret it in those instances, it works.)
Again, this was in no way meant to be critical of what Rupert’s actually saying here. Just wanted to give people a heads up in case you ever hear someone claiming that Nisargadatta says there’s something beyond consciousness. And there are other writings/teachings that use awareness and consciousness differently. If they say something like, “consciousness is passing” you’ll know they’re not using it to mean awareness. ☮️
Agree. I have found Michael James's many many (many) videos on Ramana's writings very helpful in clarifying this. Nisargadatta's words I think can be confusing as he does not spell this all out very explicitly. But I Am That definitely stopped me short the first time I read it, many years ago. Thank you Rupert.
I think the word for consciousness he mostly used is “Chaitanyam”. In my understanding of his talks, Chaitanyam at its pure is Sat-Chit-Ananda which is the light/power of reality. He says this power takes care of the world, call it God / Self / Consciousness or whatever. All manifestation is the work of this Chaitanyabrahmam. When Brahman touched by “I am”, (the moola maya-primordial illusion), manifestation appears. ParaBrahman, the absolute reality is what remains when Chaitanyam or “I am” is transcended.
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رئيت افلامك في قنوات عربية كنت لا أعلم أن
لديك قناة خاصة بك الان اشتركت بقناتك بعدما
عرفتها
0:37..refract? Like a of light how it seperates when going through a prism??
The mind really is the christian devil, or his main tool. But we have to use a thorn to remove the thorn. I have to constantly read Nisarg's book to remind myself although I know I must go beyond the words. I have entered that place of bliss/pure peace on a few occasions and let me tell you , nothing this fallen world produces can compare. It is not dependent on things or circumstances yet it exists powerfully... it must indeed be our true nature.
My mind still fights. It doesn’t want to let go of the image of itself. I see moments of letting go, but my god it doesn’t stop fighting. I don’t hate it for what it does, it’s trying to hold control even though it knows control is illusion, yet it still fights. It’s causing great and profound sadness in this sphere I experience. I crave connection to this stillness, yet I fight. It’s confusing and I grow sadder.
Let me try to bring you relief, Matthew. Suppose you awaken from a dream and could dream that dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW that you are dreaming. But you still wouldn't know what was going to happen or how the dream would end. Would your experience of that very same dream not be COMPLETELY different? Just because you shifted from the personal perspective to the correct perspective? Now here comes the shock. Try to apply the same shift of perspective to the dream called life. If you keep trying you discover the natural state, the great stillness where all is well.
@@GeertMeertens Thank you Geert. You have helped; Its a dream, and I am waking up to that reality. A simple and subtle shift in perspective, yet profoundly rewarding. I'm utterly in awe of it.
Why master Rupert is not more famous...I do not understand !
Make this view natural, that's a worthy aim / result.
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Not sure which verse of the Bhagavad Gita Rupert is alluding to around 12:00 when he implies that the Gita teaches that “what is known by the mind is unknown by Consciousness and what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. I am somehow not persuaded that this is an accurate translation based upon my understanding of that scripture.
Per the Upanishads, which form the basis for what is taught in the Gita, Consciousness is the knower of all that can be known (my loose translation of _Ayam Atma Brahma Sarvanubhuh_ from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19). So, Rupert’s first premise that “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” contradicts this. Moreover, the above premise cannot be supported by reasoned logic. Our mind is just an appearance of Consciousness and what is known through our mind is an appearance of Consciousness as well. As such, it defies reason for an appearance of Consciousness that is known through our mind to remain unknown to Consciousness.
Of course, I am on board with Ruperts’s second premise, i.e., “what is known by Consciousness is unknown by the mind”. This can be justified by noting that Consciousness is knowing (noun) itself whereas our mind, as an inhibited appearance of knowing, is not all-knowing.
My thoughts precisely. This contradicts as well what he usually says.
He explains exactly what you’re confused about in other videos.
Rupert using poetics language and that makes confusion but it is like this,
What's known for the mind it is unknown for the consciousness but what's mind is knows ? Mind knows object and for the consciousness there's no existence of separate thing or object so object is unknown for the consciousness. And for the mind no separation or no object is unknown.
@@rathodnarendra5255 Thank you for your attempt at parsing Rupert’s words but I am still not persuaded that Rupert’s premise “what is known by the mind is not known by Consciousness” can be supported through reasoned logic.
You say “mind knows object”. However, a mind is an object and as such it cannot know other objects by itself. A mind is just an appearance of Consciousness as an instrument through which localization of Consciousness takes place. You also say “object is unknown to Consciousness”. Well, since there is only Consciousness, objects cannot be other than Consciousness. So, objects are just appearances of Consciousness, and as such we cannot say that they are unknown to Consciousness. To paraphrase Swami Sarvapriyanandaji of the VedantaNY RUclips channel, “All objects appear in Consciousness, to Consciousness, as Consciousness, and are not other than Consciousness”.
I have found Rupert to be very precise with the use of the English language so far but his interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita in this video seems like an exception to that for me.
Just found this new video where Rupert says Mary doesn't know what goes on in Jane's mind, check out what he says at 2:54: ruclips.net/video/00eDU0EnT84/видео.html