Satsang With Mooji

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, becau

"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, a

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

"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