Satsang with Mooji

"Om The peace of god is with you. The light of pure awareness is with you The joy of being is you Om" A Guided Meditation recorded at Mooji Sangha Bhavan 29 July 2014

"You want to use your mind to go beyond your mind. But you are already beyond your mind. When you believe in your identity, you have to go back to the mind again, and the mind can only bring confusion. The mind keeps putting conditions, like maybe I need to do this first, do that first. But there is nothing you have to do to be yourself, because it is already there. What are you going to do for something that’s already there? Can you make a King a King? He is already King. You only have to recognize ‘but that is the King!’ Ah, OK! Then everything comes spontaneously." Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 8 September 2014

"This fire is a blessed fire... It burns only what you are not." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 22 November 2014

"Offer yourself up and give yourself fully. It is such a small price for what replaces it. Give your heart to Shiva and he will wipe away your delusions." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 3 October 2014

"You are not being offered knowledge to keep and to store up, like in a book, you have to become the book of life itself. So that your presence will shine as the embodiment of Truth." A Spontaneous Satsang Recorded at Monte Sahaja 1 January 2015

"The greatest understanding comes only by Grace, not through studying. We like to wait for special effects, for special kind of feelings. But it is not the happening we have to focus on but the one in whom the happening arises." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in Rishikesh 18 February 2015

“Quietly and silently vanish inside your own being. The world will see you but you will not see yourself—You will only Be.” A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Maravillias 13 September 2014

"The person is always late because its tendency is to keep linking to the past. It does not adapt to the freshness of now. Whenever you look into the mirror it never shows you a face of the past. The consciousness is just like that, it is always fresh." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 29 December 2014

"The consciousness in this form has tremendous capacity. We can function on so many different levels but when it begins to function on a level where love, joy, peace and wisdom are the climate of your presence, then you are in the realm of God." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in Monte Sahaja 11 August 2014

"Do not use the enquiry merely as a pain killer. The one who feels free from pain will again experience pain at another moment. Go deeper than that and find the one who has had enough of suffering and the one who is thankful for being free from suffering. The fruit of self-enquiry is that you become completely empty, that nothing is left of you." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in Zmar 29 September 2014

“When the sense of personhood comes, let it come and watch it from consciousness and see what happens to it.” A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 15 August 2014

"You want to have a nice mind, a spiritual mind. You want you and your mind to walk to heaven together. Well, it might not happen. You might have to leave him. You are going to come to this place where it doesn't matter what the mind says. Until we know that the mind is what you take it to be, it seems to have an independent power. To say: forget about everything, for me is pure love. Drop it. Can you? You'll immediately find love. This love is not a sentimental love ... this love is pregnant with wisdom. Be dead ... but fully alive. Such a wonderful opportunity to forget about yourself." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 27 May 2013

"Prayer is not some kind of poetry or art; it is the most beautiful contemplation. There is nothing you can say that could offend God. The love of God is so great, it gives you the freedom to be nothing. Only the one who has met God has the confidence and the joy to be nothing." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 12 May 2014

"What is the question, 'Who am I?' driving at? If this question cannot give me what I am, then what is the purpose of this question?" It's not a mantra or a mental method. The purpose of this question is to find out what arises as 'I'. Everyone assumes 'I' to be the person, and this is where the confusion begins. Being in Satsang can stir up dormant energies which often arise as resistance or fear. Mooji reminds us that anything can arise; but, what is important is to recognize that you are the witness of whatever arises. "You cannot just solve a problem personally, because the person itself is illusory. Don't focus so much on the person; instead, keep bringing the attention back into your impersonal consciousness and that itself takes care of all the rest spontaneously, automatically. This is the beauty of Self-recognition." Mooji encourages us to keep turning the mind towards inquiry; it is totally possible for everyone to recognize what they are, consciously. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in India 7 December 2010

"You have be struck by lightning and fall fully apart. You must have this much courage for freedom. Something much more then cleverness is required, something much more profound than intellectual understanding. There is no time to plan for this. You must be ready to offer yourself up for whatever it will be it will be a small price to pay for Self-Discovery." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 13 June 2013

One person reports to Mooji over a Skype phone call that through her inquiry, she has realized that many concepts and ideas she has believed in — including the idea of who she thought she was — are not true. She says that she does not really understand what is happening right now and sometimes feels lost, but that she wants to know the truth of what she is. Mooji responds by saying that actually, this is a common phase of the inquiry. Through the power that comes from real 'inner' looking, stale emotions and stale thinking are being burnt and there is a changing over from being a person to being presence; this feeling of being lost is just the feeling of being lost from your usual context of being. Mooji assures her not to worry, because, "A human being does not move into this deeper place without the call and support of Grace." The beingness is pulling the personality into itself, and it is a much more expansive state. Lastly, Mooji says to just let things happen, and to be the silent witness of them. It's a new way, and it's going to show you something very beautiful. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 3 September 2010

"These words provoke and inspire something inside us that is primal and ancient - older than ancient - before ‘how-to-do’. This is not a how-to-do place. Sometimes if you’re lucky, life throws you something that you don’t know how to do. Is being empty something you can do? How do you shake off this old partner, the ego, who robs you at every turn, even while you’re sleeping? How do you give up going to this mind that gives you empty promises? How do you do it? Maybe for once, you get thrown to the sharks so-to-speak, and something gets produced out of that." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 2 May 2013

Self-Enquiry cannot just be a mental, dry understanding. It has to have the fragrance of the Self and the energetic presence of the miraculous. Then it will do its work and set you free from the limitations of your imagined identity. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 9 February 2014

Someone who seems to be heavily involved in family issues asks Mooji for guidance on how to remedy her present situation. The conversation begins with report after report of what is going wrong in her life and the lives around her, and of stories of trying to cope with daily life. Mooji points out that her present identity is shaping what she is experiencing and guides the attention back to awareness. Awareness is completely independent of the struggling mind and does not have a story. Can you go to the place where there is no story? By the end of the conversation, there is a recognition of this place of emptiness that does not belong to a person, and also a realization that greatest 'action' to take is to remain as the Self, not to waste any energy putting out fires. A Skype Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 22 September 2013

"Life is not about doing or not doing; it is about the quality of your being. The invitation is to be empty. There is nothing you are going to do on this planet that will bring you the profundity of that peace, of that love. When you are again your Self, you are unconquerable. Even death cannot touch you. Your real Self is always here. Remember that." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 13 December 2012

Through this conversation Mooji leads us to a clear seeing of how personal conditioning and education strengthen the mistaken identification with the ego and the phenomenal world. He points to the power of observing with detachment and the joy of recognising the only truth: awareness is really what we are. He also speaks about the positive effects of strong experiences such as panic attacks, rejection and feeling lost. Finally, emphasising the simplicity of self-inquiry, he leads a seeker into clarity through the question "Can the perceiver be perceived"? A Skype Satsang 21 April 2010

"Go to the birthplace of duality. This is your final place, the ultimate place. When you confirm yourself as the pure, unattached witness, nothing can trouble you, nothing can overwhelm you." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 8 August 2013

"This is looking in the mirror when you yourself have no face. What is the point of it? The end of suffering is the point of it. The end of delusions is the point of it. To be one with the experience of the highest truth and not to come out. To recognise that you are timeless, eternal, undying - that is the point of it. An end to the troubles that come out of duality and yet to see the divine in duality is the point of it. To have the experience of love, of sharing, of compassion, of wisdom, of experiencing without delusion, is the point of it." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 15 November 2012

While the physical body is here and the vital force, some activity will be going on, some duality will be playing out. It is very important that these things come and take you out of your projected state. We still have a relationship with our mind, with our sense of identity, with how we want things to be and how we want to be perceived. The stain of identity is one of the last ones to be removed. In Satsang this stain is dissolving, like ice in a glass of warm water. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 6 December 2012

"In a way, even the gods are seasonal; there are gods that have been worshipped at a certain time and that have been replaced by other gods because even the gods belong to the realm of names and forms. But no one can grasp the Supreme for it is beyond time." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 24 May 2014

This talk begins with Mooji reading a touching letter from one devotee - a plea to help facilitate a recognition that will end separation and suffering forever - a burning desire to come home completely. Mooji looks side-by-side with the devotee at some statements in the letter in order to clarify - to reveal what is true and discard what is false. The devotee expresses that he hates existing because it is synonymous with pain, and also that he does not feel home. Mooji asks him some penetrating questions like, "Is existence only synonymous with pain? Is there pain in the objects that you see, or is there pain in the perceiving of them?" And also, "Why would the Self say, 'Not home'? The Self itself is home. The Self cannot show you home because Self is home. Self is where the perceiving is coming from. It's the birth of the perceiving itself; it's arising out of the Self." One-by-one, the apparent reality of his statements and the one who suffers them dissolves in the light of real looking. Mooji then asks the question, "Can the seer be seen?", and the devotee comes to a full recognition of his true Self, and an understanding that he has never really suffered — that he is eternally home. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in India 2 December 2010

When your mind and your reasoning doesn't belong to you anymore, you don't become dead. You are dead of ego but fully alive as what Is. The ultimate expression of love is when you can’t find the other - even the most loved one. Behind and beyond the finding - you are there. In this love you take away death from me because if this death happens then I am in you, so I am living - as you. This is probably how you save the whole world. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 28 May 2013

"Don't be afraid of not knowing. It is only the idea of knowing nothing that brings fear. We carry and hold on to a lot of concepts, a lot of mental garbage. We want to be free but we want to be free with our garbage. We want to preserve our identity at all cost because we believe identity to be what we are. And we are afraid that to find the Truth means to lose our existence, to lose consciousness. But you are only going to lose your non-existence, your un-truth. This is the most auspicious and most beautiful discovery. When you understand your true nature then this entire dream is undone." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 17 June 2013

All experiences are emerging from within the Joy of Being. Even anxiousness, tiredness, pain - everything becomes bearable because it is arising and seen from this place. Like all clouds are a movement against the background of the vast sky, all experiences arise on the sky of your own being. Everything is passing and has a beginning and an end, only the sky is unmoving, endless and untouched. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 11 June 2013

"Never feel that today is not a good enough day to awaken to the Truth. If you make plans for realising the Self in the next 6 months it will take you at least 6 months. What you are is always here, it can never not be here. The experience may be that you are growing into emptiness, growing from something into nothingness, into emptiness. And this illusion of growth takes you to where you have always been. We don't value emptiness until we perceive from there - then it is priceless. Throw everything into this emptiness. Not to get anything in return - just do it. Give your heart and your mind to the Self and don't worry about anything." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 4 May 2013

"For the wise one, everything that happens has a thank you message in it. In the beginning, you might only be able to be grateful in retrospection but one day you will find yourself saying thank you even while it is hurting. This is using life wisely." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 7 November 2013

"In true seeing, life becomes empty but full in the sense that nothing is missing. It is like being a mustard seed. Inside the mustard seed, everything is complete. It is not doing anything. The energy inside it is existence itself. What a wonderful privilege to have the freedom to surrender everything. Nothing stops you." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 19 October 2012

"You can use Satsang for your relationship but I advise you to use your relationship for Satsang." If you solve your challenges as consciousness you are out of the trap, if you solve them as a person it will last only until the next problem. For a while the mind is everybody's guru but at some point you must discern what is authentic. You must use your power! A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 27 June 2012

In this spontaneous Satsang, Mooji guides us to enquire into who is the one that is giving so much attention to the mind. Stop and question who is listening to the mind and look who observes all of this. It is immediately assumed that it is ‘I’, ‘me’ who is doing this. But see if what you call ‘I’ is truly here and not just a thought. The enquiry is very swift and precise in exposing the myths of what we assume to be true. When ‘I’ arises inside, clarify who this ‘I’ is, as what are you here? Look, even if you don't know how, the looking in itself has a power. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 6 June 2013

In this illuminating and multifaceted Satsang, Mooji covers many subjects prompted by questions from the listeners who are gathered around. Mooji begins by asking everyone, "What is boredom?" After some insightful responses to this question, Mooji then speaks about 'unsuccessful inquiry' versus 'a place where the inquiry never fails', the play of personality, confusion and helplessness as another opportunity of seeing from your true place, and the highest potential of words. One person reports that sometimes the inquiry is 'cloudy' and doesn't seem to be successful; Mooji challenges her to look further into this: "If you think there is something to see, then immediately there comes a possibility that something can block your seeing. But if your seeing has to do with understanding who you are - which means that you don't have to go outside of your skin to look at something - then what does cloudiness have to do with anything? Because you're only looking for the seer, and the seer cannot be a product as a phenomenon to recognize; the one searching for the seer IS the seer. This is a fundamental insight!" A spontaneous Satsang recorded in India 21 December 2010

At the opening of the Silent Retreat in Tiruvannamalai, India, Mooji talks about the opportunity of Satsang. He says, "The emphasis here is not on teaching and learning, but on discovery, direct recognition, direct experience." Opening Talk from the 2009 Silent Retreat in Tiruvannamalai, India 19 December 2009

"Why is it that after all this spirituality, so few people seem to be waking up? It's because at the bottom line, you're still defending your person! We must give up this lazy part of ourselves, to find the power to confront what is unjust, to stop perpetuating the dark side by making excuses. Something in us resists salvation; be willing to tackle yourself, to stop identifying with and defending what doesn't serve truth." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 8 February 2014

"The purpose of the inquiry is to be clear about the identity of yourself." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 3 April 2010

"Is spirituality only for people who have everything else in life, who have a comfortable and cosy life, or also for people who go through a lot of suffering, who experience wars and great destruction? Life cannot be without suffering, it cannot be without pain and jealousy because all of this helps human beings to mature and to find Truth. Without it we are very weak and shallow. Many times material abundance leads to internal weakness and selfishness while real hardship can open up the hearts of people and shines as compassion and strength. Going through suffering and pain is of great benefit for our spiritual growth. It cuts the trivial mind with its pettiness and fantasies and brings us back into the present. Sometimes we don't recognise great blessings because we have a different belief of what a good life should be like. Terrible experiences in life often set us on fire, and this fire will burn what is valueless and untrue." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 4 November 2013

"Remember that you are living in already answered prayers. Many things that you are experiencing now, a while ago you have longed for them. And when you attained them, after a while, they lost their glitter and their shine. All things, after a while lose their shine because there is not really a shine in them, the shine is coming out of you. Listen to the voiceless Self. There is an understanding that is taking place when you listen with the ears of consciousness. Listen acutely to that one that has no voice and somehow you find yourself in the presence of God. When you find yourself in the presence of God, let there not be two there." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 27 April 2013

"Don’t miss your grace! Don’t miss this opportunity of falling completely inside your own ocean. Don’t miss this opportunity of not trying to control the world or your feelings or other people or what they think. But be completely empty. Start right now - you can do it. Throw away all your thoughts and let this be your final night." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 16 August 2013

"By giving attention and importance to our thoughts, we actually believe them into existence and then suffer their impact on us. All our life we are trying so hard to change and improve something which does not even exist. But something inside is totally untouched… and a sweet remembering washes this entire struggle away. This is really the beauty of Self-remembering — you are reminded of what you already know, of what you already are." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 7 June 2013

This is a spontaneous Satsang which occurred shortly after the Monte Sahaja Sunday Satsang. Mooji speaks about the resistance and mind-attacks that can often come after one has had an opening or a breakthrough in their own seeing. When these mind-attacks happen, many people run away because they feel it is a painful experience, but the mind-attacks should not be taken personally. Almost every being who has had to re-enter themselves has had to go through these type of experiences. Mooji encourages those who have an attraction for Truth to take big steps and trust -- trust is one of the most powerful tools. Hold your ground in this undivided seeing and all of this will pass. A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 2 December 2012

There is still a lot of superficial judgement in people, spiritually prejudiced judgement and very often we just want to display that we are spiritual. You have to remain true to your own Being and be open. Any thought can appear in your mind, even terrible ones because no thought belongs to you until you make it yours. Allow all thoughts to come but don’t engage with them. And find out who is the one that suffers the impact of thoughts. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 18 November 2011

Mooji touches on very subtle points of the inquiry and speaks about That which simply Is. What Is always Is, whether there are doubts or not. When someone says that sometimes they are aware of this Is-ness and sometimes not aware of It, Mooji asks: Which is greater? The apparent ‘Is-ness', or the ‘me' that says, "I am not aware of the 'Is-ness'?" The one who says this appears to be the final acknowledger of what is true; this one appears to be a fact. Is this true? Contemplation of these questions can lead to profound insight: Is there a difference between the function of seeing and the seer? Is there a seer seeing? A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Tiruvannamalai 20 October 2011

"There is only the One and there is nothing that exists that can stand up in front of the One, not even you. Just follow my words and naturally, if there is an openness and humility present, you will come to the place where you know spontaneously. Humility opens the doors for grace very well and angels will rush forward to help you." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 6 October 2012

"It takes only one instant of clear seeing for the illusion to disappear; in the moment you recognise: You are! There is nothing you have to fix, nothing to heal, nothing to remember. You don't have to defeat your mind, you only have to know yourself. Knowing yourself is the holy way of bringing your mind back into harmony." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 5 January 2013

"This is the opportunity to gaze inside your own being and to feel where you are really looking from. We don’t know for how long we have been looking from the position of person hood. The breakthrough is when you begin to realise and recognise that the person you have been taken yourself to be itself is phenomenal. Why? - Because it is also perceivable, that there is awareness of this. This is the essence of satsang." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 23 May 2014

In this beautiful talk that happened just before leaving for the day, Sri Mooji reminds us that nowhere in the world of forms, we can find eternal satisfaction because the world of forms is the world of changes. To find the unchanging one must go to the formless. He invites us to contemplate whether the one who is receiving this advice is with form or without form. ”When you determine whether it is with form or without form, it will tell you whether you are near to your answer or you are your answer. If it is without form then right there you have found your lord. If it is with form, then your search continues.” A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 10 January 2015

"Don't be so keen to share your discoveries with people. Through your enthusiasm for describing the silence you have found, you can become noisy. It's like writing a 300 page book on Silence. Just imbibe, Drink yourself in. Don't give someone else a straw to drink you. Just be in That." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 26 June 2012