Prabhuji Podcast

Now, Let's pay attention to the following. Have you noticed that running after success distances you from yourselves? Have you paid attention to that? We live in a time that glorifies efficiency and productivity. And of course, from a very early age, we are taught that a fulfilled life depends on the goals we achieve. Our worth is based on our accomplishments.

Enlightenment is an existential experience unattainable through effort or the mere accumulation of knowledge. It is an inherent state, accessible at every moment without the need for methodological processes. Often, enlightenment is misinterpreted as an almost unattainable ideal waiting at the end of an arduous path of self-improvement and intense practice.

Subhuti asked the Buddha:  Honored throughout the world,  in the future, will there be beings who,  upon hearing these teachings,  will have true confidence in them? The Buddha replied:  Subhuti, do not speak like that.  Two thousand five hundred years after the  passing away of the Tathagata,  there will be beings who, having practiced  the rules of morality and, therefore,  being possessed of me...

In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 15, verse 15, Krishna say, "sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham" Krishna say that I am seated in everyone's heart. From me arise the remembrance, smriti, the knowledge, jnanam, and forgetfulness, apohanam. Krishna say, I am the knower of the Vedas, the compiler o...

Prabhuji answers the question: "Dear Prabhuji, Can you please share with us your most significant experiences on your path?" Prabhuji: "...No doubt, The most significant experiences in my path were three. I will share with you the first one." 

Prabhuji talks about the method of teaching of Socrates, the dialectica, and how it relates to the master-disciple relationship. "...Because Socrates understood that the main enemy of wisdom is to think that you know...." 

Prabhuji answers the question: "Prabhuji, I find it very difficult to recognize consciousness, and I often feel frustrated and even depressed because I feel that my efforts are in vain. Could you please give me some advice?"

Prabhuji answers the question: "For many years now I have been searching for the self. But although sometimes it seems to me that I have realized it, then it escapes. And I remain the same. The search makes me a nervous and even frustrated seeker. I don't feel that the search for the self brings me happiness. What advice could you give me?"

Prabhuji answers the question: "I am not a person of faith. I would like you to give me a definition or a logic concept of what is God."

Prabhuji talks about the question - "What this life consists of?" 

Prabhuji talks about how Enlightenment is portrayed in the Torah - the Bible. 

“…Self inquiry is about a question, who am I - as Ramana Maharishi presented the question… but any answer will be wrong… people who walk that path of zen will say this is a kind of koan question, like what is the sound of one hand clapping?… "