Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Student Question:  Can one be in peace without believing in God?

Excerpt:  "Within each of us is the deathless spirit.  The eternal self, that lies within and yet beyond, transcending the ego mind and this phenomenal world, and yet it is the very essence and core and center of our being.  The purpose of all spiritual practices is to attain the realization of the deathless spirit.  This alone confers eternal life, freedom from suffering, from illusion, from karm...

Excerpt: "What we learn from Yoga and the science of the extraction of the ultimate essence is that all growth is about the extraction of that which is pure and meaningful from that which is impure and to be rejected.… It is to be extracted from our own consciousness. That is the only way we will ever know God – by extracting out the pure God-presence out of our grosser, impure consciousness. This...

Excerpt:  “In Christianity there is a trinity as we all know.  The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  This trinity is an archetype and exists in every religion and every spiritual path although it has many different names in different paths…  You’ll find it in Buddhism, you’ll find it in Hinduism, and you’ll find it in Taoism.  In the yogic path it is only one of a number of trinity’s however…  We...

Excerpt:  “Is everyone opened to having Christ Consciousness born within you this evening?  It is not difficult to achieve that birth but we do need the recognition that Christ Consciousness is our Real Self.  It’s not something alien, it’s not something different, it’s not something strange to us.  What’s strange is the ego that we have come to believe that we are and that’s what we must be willi...

Student Question:  How do you overcome jealousy and possessiveness?

Student Question:  I was hoping you could explain to me why it is that every month especially around the full moon it seems that something happens with my energy and if I am not centered I become more susceptible to being pushed and pulled by it?

Student Question:  I once heard a psychologist use the term catastrophic fantasy and I am not sure if that is a common term or not, but I was hoping you could explain this a bit more for me?

Student Question:  Can you please explain a little bit about the difference between the Divine Love that we teach here in Sat Yoga and the love concept that we have in our society and in movies?

Student Question:  Is it possible to be in a state of open heart without being vulnerable?

Excerpt:  “In our modern world we have lost the joy of living with nature.  We have become so alienated in these cities with their pollution and there artificiality and now even more so with the internet and the media we are several steps removed from the real of life...  So an Ashram is a chance to get back to our real values….  Soon enough people will come to realize that food doesn't grow in th...

Student Question:  I have something that I would like you to clarify please.  When you are being silent is it that there is no such thing as silent awareness?  Is it rather that when you are in silence you experience awareness.  Is that a good way to think about it?  This came up because I was contemplating if there is a difference between being silent and being aware, i.e. silent awareness versus...

Student Question:  I have noticed that after having spent days at a time in Maya, I become so disgusted with it and am totally exhausted by it, that I don’t even want to bring it up in a session as I am sick of thinking about it.  I understand that this is the censor repressing the problem and it is similar to what I experienced in tonight’s class.  I have been in Maya for a couple of days and I c...

Student Question:  What is character and how is it formed?

Student Question:  Is there a distinction between raising levels of consciousness and expanding awareness?

Student Question:  I am in a situation where my parents want me to do a certain thing and they believe I have to do it.  I don’t want to do it just because it is their expectation, although I do believe that it is something worth doing.  If I choose not to do it in order to pursue something else, then I am left feeling bad about not doing both something worthwhile and what my parents wanted me to...

Student Question:  What is stubbornness, and when it becomes too intense, does the ego then crack?

In the postulant preparation class we studied the Seven Virtual Matriculations.  The last one was to realize that we are the oneness which dreams the cosmic dream and that that in itself is a dream, and needs be let go of.  I was thinking that if all of these habit’s that we are developing are part of the same cosmic dream, then are these all ways of enjoying it?

Student Question:  What is inverse narcissism and how does it work?

Excerpt:  "In childhood a process begins that the psychologists call socialization… what it really consists of is the stapling together of the pure awareness that is the self with the belief enforced upon you that you are the body (the identification with the body)… that is controlled by the third element which is language… you are given a name and the name sutures consciousness to the body and fr...

Student Question:  I was wondering if everything outside of awareness like fears for example, are forms of intelligence or entities that are seeking expression through awareness, or even us as that awareness?

Student Question:  How can I be loyal to myself while the ego’s agendas are still running?  How can I make good decisions when it’s coming from an egoic state?

Student Question:  Why is it so hard to keep ourselves from thinking when meditating, and what can we do to maintain these small gaps of silence?  Is there a practice that can accelerate the process?

Student Question:  What is worry?

Student Question:  Is suffering always accompanied by pain, or can you suffer without pain?  Do they necessarily go together?