Satsang with Mooji

"Your true position is that of the ultimate seeing which is free of attachment and free of need. If you can confirm this in yourself, that state is already called the Buddha consciousness. Let our minds be baptised in that wisdom. If not yet in wisdom, at least in the yes-ness of the Heart that takes us to that wisdom." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 28 July 2012

"The life of Truth is truly beautiful, peaceful, happy, free, light, open, holy, kind... And yet there is such resistance against it. This is the paradox: Man seeks all these things but he wants to find it through his mind, through his projections... The opportunity to find it as himself scares him and makes him want to run away. Don´t give much credence to the one, that wants to run. This one is the very one that needs to move out of the picture. You must have the courage to stand up and fight for yourself." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 13 August 2013

When you start to inquire into your true nature, the vasanas (strong tendencies of the mind) can't hide. It is as if they are living in a glass house. They will come, but the good news is that you have all the artillery, all the power, to transcend them. Step truly into the fire and say "Yes" — yes to Truth, yes to completeness. Let "Yes" be your highest mantra. This will clean everything. Inside your heart - just humming "Yes". Recorded in Tiruvannamalai, India 5 February 2012

"Everything is blessing, even the curses are blessings, for the One whose eyes are bright enough to see Them. I don’t know anything more profound than That. That does not have any distance. That has no otherness, no separateness, it is not a person, It simply Is. Knowing That, the world and the manifest worlds are observed to be just functioning, which includes this body as well... so great is this power, it takes care of everything, even when it appears not to. Nothing can hide from It. Nothing manifest can hide from It, nothing unmanifest can hide from It, nor exist apart from It. If you begin to contemplate in this kind of way, you will bend your knees in front of something you cannot see….so don’t try and work it out, just collapse right There and be done with it… Let That One pick you up." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 4 June 2013

If you follow Mooji’s guidance to stay as the Self, all other instructions and practices fall flat, they are not needed. This inwardly directed attention brings you to emptiness, to the pure recognition of your natural state. Find that emptiness within your self and be one with that - without the mind or beyond what the mind has to say about it. Just be empty. Now, what can be greater than that? A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 5 June 2013

"If you are listening from the position of the person you are not going to get it. Freedom is not for the person, it is from the person. Don't even try to find yourself because the place from which you are accustomed to looking is itself creating separation and confusion. Stay as the timelessness beyond even the concept of timelessness." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 11 December 2012

Can the Absolute be seen phenomenally? In this Spontaneous Satsang, one seeker reports to Mooji that through the inquiry, he can see what he is not, but cannot see what he is. Mooji explains that realizing the Self is like a non-phenomenal recognition - recognizing something which is not a phenomenon. Asking the question, "Who Am I" will not show you yourself; it is more like a door into your own Self. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in India 30 December 2011

What is Knowledge? "It is not words and concepts but energetic resonance that is knowledge. When you feel you don't know anything at all - that is knowledge. To not know anything, you are just left as Being. If you put the attention on the consciousness, it is compelled to open its flower. If your heart is in a position of 'Yes", your true seeing is immediate. 'Yes' means: I am open to That, to the infinite All-ness that Is, to remove any notion of separateness." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 5 October 2012

One of the questions that is being put to Mooji is: How do you perceive yourself while watching yourself on video or in photos? Mooji gives an explanation of his experience; he says, "I am there in this but I am also beyond it so I'm able to watch the movements taking place. Actually, I am not doing anything at all. This is my most truthful place." He also says that when we think we are talking about the material world we are almost always talking about the physical world coloured by our own imagination, feelings and fears. Our normal conditioned state of consciousness cannot comprehend the magicality of Truth; only when you are nothing, this wisdom which has no boundary can dance. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal 10 July 2011

"The power of the universe is in thought. You think something is a big deal and it becomes a big deal. Mostly we are invested in the ‘buzz’ of the dynamic manifestation in life, and not aware of that place which is completely untouched and uncorrupted, original to any happening. There are some beings that don’t put any value on events. In fact they don’t even register them as event but merely as personal concoctions. A simple person will understand what I am speaking, sometimes even children will understand. Because I am not speaking for you to learn – I am speaking for you to discover." Recorded in London 1 April 2013

"Truth has to become an acquired taste. This is the whole game and the movement of spirituality: a gradual turning of the head back towards the Heart, recognizing and honoring the Truth of our self. What I call true self-respect is this." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal 10 May 2012

When Mooji is asked, 'How did you do it'? He says, "I didn't do it actually. ‘It' did me." They say, "But if you didn't do it, how are you asking other people to do it?" Mooji says, "The same One who did me is inside here trying to do you, but you're saying, ‘No no, not ready, not ready!', and, ‘How can I be sure'?" You have to be wrung out; all this nonsense has to be combed out. And you, you don't have that comb; all you can say is, 'Yes'. The questions, 'Who am I?' and 'Where am I?' or ‘What am I?, where this leads you, the questioner… this is the highest thing. Who is the questioner even? This inquiring has to have some ‘yes' power in it. You are the answer to this question, but to feel the answer, you must burn in the fire of this question. A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 7 November 2012

"You are the peace that remains before, during, and after the occurrence of any apparent event." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 2 April 2010

"This Guided Meditation is a simple and unmistakable pointing to our true Self as timeless, unmoving awareness. Listening to Mooji's words and 'course-corrections', it is easy to recognize the truth of who you are, and that you cannot have any form or label; upon clearly recognising this, all burdens fall away. Mooji says, "You are the witness of time; time does not witness you. You are the unborn. There is no date of birth for you, there is no date of end for you. You are like unbound space. There is neither death nor life for you. You are immaculate awareness. There is neither high nor low for you. There is no inside or outside. All these appear through the mind. Mind itself is only ideas appearing in your own Self." Mooji directs the listener to remain without identity, and says that this natural detachment does not require effort. "However beautiful or appealing any idea is, it really gives nothing to your true-being. Your Self is beyond all change, all improvement; it cannot be damaged or hurt or stained by any thought or any action [...] Remain as you are now. How can you not remain as you are? Only by touching the thought, 'I am something else -- I am this body, I am mind, I am thought, I am past, I am man or I am woman.' All these are secondary to you, not original. Original is that you are Supreme Being. Be one with this. Be one with this." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 8 October 2010

Some people have a very powerful relationship with God built on devotion. This path of Bhakti, can by some be looked upon as duality, but this duality removes separateness and is full of humility. It opens the heart and is beyond merely human love. Jnana - the path of wisdom and self- inquiry, in combination with Bhakti, are like the two wings of the same bird. Both wings are needed for the bird to fly. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in St. Petersburg 27 October 2013

"This silence does not belong to anybody. It is no one's property, nobody's skill. It is not personal, not fragile nor delicate. It doesn't need protection. It cannot be kept. Through Satsang, something in us is being brought back to emptiness. It is knowledge without evidence; you are the evidence, you are the treasure." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal 6 November 2011

"The whole universe is one living being, and all the streams of apparent opposites are within the one totality. Awareness is not in conflict with the manifest world - it is the womb of the manifest world. As soon as your attention is turned inwards and resting inside the heart of the source itself, the doors begin to open, bringing you into the sacred space of the kingdom of God." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in Rishikesh 25 February 2014

It is about the energy in the words, not the words themselves. It is about where you are speaking from, not what you are speaking about. Everything that is a problem comes from a personal perspective, so in order to suffer we need identity. Instead of lingering in the realm of insecurity and the changeful, Mooji is pointing us back to that space of completeness that we all are. A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 19 May 2012

This talk divided in two parts. It is an exploration into current scientific paradigms in relation to desires, ego and ultimate freedom. Mooji's points us from his own experience to the Truth of who we are. Very few human beings give the universe a chance to show what it is without personal wants and desires. Very few human beings come to a place where they are not in a position anymore to be demanding, wanting and needing but more co-operating with what life expresses naturally inside themselves; they understand that desires are actually fool's gold. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 12 April 2013

This talk divided in two parts. It is an exploration into current scientific paradigms in relation to desires, ego and ultimate freedom. Mooji's points us from his own experience to the Truth of who we are. Very few human beings give the universe a chance to show what it is without personal wants and desires. Very few human beings come to a place where they are not in a position anymore to be demanding, wanting and needing but more co-operating with what life expresses naturally inside themselves; they understand that desires are actually fool's gold. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 12 April 2013

The second part begins with this same questioner asking if he must "do something" now that he has seen. Mooji explains, The one who sees... somehow you have to keep saying "Yes" to your seeing, because the eyes of the mind want to go back to sleep again, to sleep in desire and identity and all of this. But something will remind you. Don't panic. It's not a question of knowing how to do something. It is revealed in you; it will be revealed in you more and more if you don't try to project two, three, four steps ahead and just remain in the presence. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 27 October 2010

A questioner begins by asking Mooji for a practice or method to purify, as he has heard that purification is needed before seeing can happen. To understand, does one need to purify oneself? Mooji responds saying, "You need to understand the true position of really what you are. This is totally possible. It is possible now." The questioner's misunderstanding is swiftly clarified in this deep encounter - one which Mooji describes as a "straight arrow", as he finds no obstacles for his words. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 27 October 2010

In this second part, Mooji speaks about his own experience and the subsequent awakening through inquiry: the burning off of identification, the tendencies of mind, the power of attachment and ultimately, the letting go of all concepts. Finally, he points to the joy of recognizing and transcending the play of mind in the light of Self-recognition. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 20 April 2010

Mooji has a clear and confirming conversation with some friends in which he touches on various topics and aspects of Self-inquiry. In this first part, he speaks about belief, the oscillating attention and mistaken identification of the Self with the body mind as the volatile combination that leads to delusion and suffering. He also speaks generally about relationships and the fear of loneliness, the myth of ego and the gradual transformation from person to being and beyond. A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 20 April 2010

In this Satsang, Mooji takes out his sword and chops everything that is not true. Mooji says, "Freedom is not for you. Freedom is from you. Things keep coming up [for the mind] because there is somebody that they come up for. It's not about things. It's about you." 28 September 2010

In this Satsang, Mooji takes out his sword and chops everything that is not true. Mooji reminds us: "You exist before remembering and forgetting of yourself". 28 September 2010

In this Satsang, Mooji takes out his sword and chops everything that is not true. Mooji throws everything away. Concern about the breath, yoga, scriptures, thoughts of becoming free... everything is thrown out. Nothing is valid now, Mooji says. It is all past; it doesn't exist. 28 September 2010

"Just by keeping your attention on Being, your sense of weight will vanish. There's an old itch to go back to the mind to play, but this can simply be observed. Mooji says that only if we have the habit of plunging into the objects of perception, then the waters of the Being get disturbed; but even disturbance is also just an idea, from the position of Being. The simplest and most powerful is to just stay as the Self. Why stay? Why remain? Because It is already there. Don't become, because it would mean that you were not It before. Remain means: Don't go with the mind." Note: Due to the type of recording device used for this talk, there is a lot of ‘white' noise, but Mooji's words can still be heard clearly. Recorded at the Katu Shiva Pond in Tiruvannamalai, India 15 February 2012

"In Satsang you have the chance, the invitation to stop identifying. Your 'I Am' is the most precious thing in the world. Don’t give it to anything, don’t combine it with anything. Keep it pure and un-associated and be in the living dynamic remembrance of that. Being one with it, you overcome everything, you transcend the mind. There is nothing more valuable, beyond value even, priceless, than the sense of 'I Am.'" A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 9 February 2014

This interview with Mooji about Traditional Advaita and Neo-Advaita is a response to a recent podcast, 'Advaita and Neo-Advaita Pros and Cons'. Mooji speaks more in depth about each of these paths, not dismissing either movement but rather pointing out the common mistakes which are made by both. Somewhere between the two movements – the freshness of the Neo-Advaita, along with the focus, depth, and commitment of the Traditional Advaita is where knowledge and being can become one. The outcome of the inquiry which has been refreshed will be steadfastness in the Self, effortlessness, direct experience, and unshakeable and irrefutable knowledge. True understanding brings light and space, gets rid of superstition, doubt and ignorance. Everything is washed clean by perfect understanding and true knowledge. Ultimately it's a win-win situation: everyone has to come home. Recorded in London 9 April 2013

"The inner harmony is natural and doesn't have to be maintained by human being, it simply is. When it is discovered, this harmony is spontaneously informing every aspect of your impression. You are not doing anything and one sees how exquisite and simple existence is." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Monte Sahaja 18 November 2011

Prompted by questions from those who have gathered around, Mooji touches on many concepts here - the ego, the three gunas, the three states, and also tells some stories from the times of Jesus as well as the unorthodox Lama named Drukpa Kunley. Mooji then moves the attention back to the subject - the one who is witnessing all these things. Mooji says, "Find out who you are and so many things are going to come spontaneously - waves of illumination will come. Sometimes we think that it's more important to find out about everything else except who you are. Sri Ramana Maharshi says, 'If you learn about everything and you don't know who you are, then all your knowledge is studied ignorance.'" A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London 9 June 2010

"You cannot travel to your real place because actually you are already there. The journey is complete if you remove this misunderstanding. The heart is our real Being." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Tiruvannamalai, India 23 January 2012

In speaking about the inquiry with one friend, Mooji encourages him to keep looking and looking (inquiring) until the mind gets established in real understanding. If looking just happens once and one sees that one is not any image, object, or person that is suffering, it may not be enough to establish one's mind in the truth. Mooji explains that the enquiry really works at the Heart level, not just as a mental thing; it actually empties out into one's own innermost conviction and living experience. In the closing of this meeting, Mooji says, "Nothing is wrong with you, from the place of consciousness - even from the one who witnesses consciousness. You are beyond the realm of right and wrong; you are beyond morality. You are simply the untouched essence." A podcast of a spontaneous satsang recorded in London. 17 July 2010

This a contemplation on freedom. If you would have the freedom to do what you want, to say whatever you want to anybody, to be completely fearless, would that be the true freedom? Or is there anything higher? Perhaps the sense of a personal entity making choices in life seemingly eclipses the real freedom. It does not matter what you do; it is infused with Beingness. Realize that everything is happening in the fever of the Self. A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal 25 October 2012

"Everything that is brought to you through the senses or the mind is bound by time. All experiences belong to time and time will devour everything – except what you really are – it cannot reach that. You have to find that which time cannot touch. This is the ultimate discovery in this universe." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja 29 April 2014

"That undisturbed silence, that space within which all things occur, that is Bhagavan. Bhagavan is the unmoving silence and space. That thing which remains unaffected, unalterable, before, during and after all movements in Consciousness — even when Consciousness goes out, It remains unaffected. It alone knows Itself, and no imagination is required. Even the mind that strives to know It is perceived in It, and still It remains unaffected. It itself cannot be called Grace. No words, no synonyms, no descriptions, no image, no idea, no experience can affect It. It is this that I refer to as the Self. It is the only thing that is unchanging. Everything else is changing." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja on Guru Purnima day

This beautiful talk happened in the temple at Monte Sahaja. Sri Mooji is pointing out that there is nothing wrong with experiencing; it is fine to enjoy your life. As you become more mature inwardly, you will start more and more to feel the joy arising from yourself and your own being. In fact all the time you are enjoying your being, but you don't know it. You think it is a certain thing that gives you pleasure, but you are enjoying your being reflected through this thing. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja

"[Awareness] is the most perfect, because it's untouchable. There's no effort in it, there's no separation in it, there's no unity in it, there's no Satsang in it, there's no Master in it, there's no disciple in it, there's no scripture in it, there's no time, there's no duration, there's no enlightenment in it; it is the ever perfect. That's what we are." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in a park in London

The physical notion of life - biological functioning and personality, is the most shallow part of our experience, and yet so much of our focus is there. Satsang introduces us to our cosmic unity, our identity with the God Self. Then the fear is going. Fear is for the person, not for the Self. A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja

One man comes to Mooji with a strong determination to know the Truth. He has been experiencing a melting away of the ego, which is being replaced with a feeling of presence. But there are moments, he says, when he feels very uncomfortable when the mind brings up the 'person'. Mooji says to use the mind as way to strengthen the resolve to stay as the Self; it's actually a call for Self-focusing where you are again Self-reminding. Although it feels like it's running in your veins when the identity is present, that is also witnessed. Use that recognition to confirm that you are the awareness itself, so the energy drops back into the awareness and is not pushed out into person-hood. As soon as it's clear that 'I am watching this', the sense of personality will feel that it is also outside and is being watched. In that moment you see that you cannot possibly be anything that is perceivable. You have to transcend these energies - to conquer the potential to go into fragmentation by holding your attention, because you are the Master itself! A spontaneous Satsang over Skype

"Why should you be special? Why should life favor you particularly? You don’t realize that you can be beautifully happy being nothing at all. Why do you want to be better than everybody else? Why don’t you just enjoy?" A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja

"We can have a leprosy — a mental leprosy — and you don't have to go and take all these medicines for it. Just the Grace — the touch of the Supreme, of the God, or even the Guru's Grace removes that leprosy." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London

This is a powerful and poignant talk in which Mooji so clearly reflects, through his words and presence, that unchanging awareness that we are. He explains that the reason why awareness seems to be 'hidden' from itself is because it started to go out — it started to proceed and identify with its projections. The grossest state of the awareness in the human form is to believe it is a human being and the conditioning that happened to it. But, our real being is not moving. When one understands that what is permanent is the unchanging, and that the change-ful is part of our dynamic expression, then great freedom and peace comes, because you have realized your eternity, thereby no longer trying to solidify that which is by nature changeful. Mooji proposes, "Suppose you could not change? You had the same thought over and over again; you had the same face all of the time. It's just suffocating. Something in you is not part of that change, but the witnessing of that change is taking place. In just this statement, all your answers are going to emanate out of that understanding [...] When you are aware consciously of your eternal perfection -- your infinite being, then you can enjoy the sense of the imperfect, the diverse changefulness." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London

This talk begins with one seeker sharing his insight that all beings have the same heart, the same core. Mooji responds by saying that you can only 'see' that from the core itself. You cannot be looking 'at' the core; if you were, with what identity would you be looking? It is more of an intuitive feeling, that we are the same in essence. When the seeker then begins to speak about some phenomenon that is appearing for him, Mooji asks him for whom are all of these things happening? Without the feeling of a 'me' to which things are happening, there would be no interest particularly in things that are appearing. At a certain point, through the power of his own seeing, the seeker's attention moves back into what Mooji calls the 'ground of being' — a space which is just 'here'. The seeker confirms that 'here', it is not possible to suffer. Mooji advises him to, "Just be here. 'Here' is really your true Heart, your true Self. You are That." A spontaneous Satsang recorded in India

"Never give up" is a catch-phrase often heard but rarely questioned among spiritual seekers. What does it really mean? Never give up what? One questioner feels she should never give up her search for the real truth, but on the other hand, she feels she has to give up or else she will always be struggling. Mooji then asks her if she thinks she should "never give up" — even if she discovers the truth? "Sometimes we are more attached to the journey than the discovery. Because the journey happens in the mind but the discovery happens in the heart. Sometimes, strangely enough, it can appear that somehow the journey brings all the passion, brings the friction, brings the anticipation, brings the struggle, brings the urge, brings the longing, brings the fight. What happens when you are home?" Sometimes, even after arriving home in the heart, the echo or the remnants of the search is still in us, so we have to be open enough to recognize when this urge to search is coming from the mind. "How will I know when the search is over?" — This voice travels all the way with you if you don't cut it by finding out who is speaking it. Out of what mouth are these words coming from? Mooji says that this is a question he has been asking everyone -- who is speaking these words? Who?! You who?! A spontaneous Satsang recorded in London

"One of the highest expressions of the being — one of the highest joys of the being — is in contemplating itself beyond the dualistic representations and finding that there is only the space of the being, and yet there is no fear of the apparent becoming. It's the play; it's the joy; it's the meal of the absolute — when it plays as presence." A spontaneous Skype Satsang recorded in London

"Recognise that the universe is not managed by human beings, but by the supreme Being. Just as nature is innocent, we return again to innocence. Never feel that the Self is far away, actually there is no distance." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal

"Everything in life, everything that we can see with the senses, belongs to time. Is there anything that is not time? While you have time, try to find what is beyond time. You have to be true now. Don't plan to be true in the future because Truth does not know any future. When we drop all concepts of past and future, there is only now but this now is not in time, it is not even eternal, it is timeless." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded in St.Petersburg

We speak about a problem we're having, and we want to talk about how we can stop the problem, but the one who is having the problem and who is able to stop the problem is part of the problem. Many remedies are offered in the world because we want to keep this 'I' feeling – "Give me the remedy and let me keep my 'I'!" We're afraid because we think this path is about removing your 'I', but the fact is, you don't know what your 'I' is. That which can be removed and thrown out is the smallest part of you. "The world is only This — it's only This dancing. If you don't know this, you will believe the dance is separate by itself, and you are separate. Drown in your own ocean, and then all the beings you find in the ocean — you'll find are You. Until you drown, you think they are they, and you are you. When you drown in it, then they're all 'I'." A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja in Portugal