Let Yourself Be Leveled

Let Yourself Be Leveled, May 3, 2002, Boulder, CO

Since so much of our world has to do with an evaluation of different levels, our habitual focus on achieving the next level naturally crosses over into the spiritual search. In this video from the archives Gangaji effortlessly debunks the commonly held belief that there are different levels of enlightenment and that any one person is inherently more enlightened than another.

“This invitation is to recognize what has no levels, what is free of evolution, free of devolution, free of advancement, free of retreat, free of success, free of failure, free of enlightenment, and free of ignorance. That which is free is the truth of who you already are. That which is bound to levels has only to do with what you think you are.”

Love Will Not Be Held Back

November 19, 2000 AM, Maui, Hawaii

As human beings, with our innate and huge capacity to love, we naturally project that love outside ourselves onto the teacher, the lover, the child, another. But is it possible that in assigning love to another we somehow inadvertently exclude ourselves from love? The conversations in this beautiful meeting from the archives focus primarily on the topics of love and the true meaning of devotion.

Sometimes we imagine it is safer to love someone other than who we think we are. This is the story of separation: ‘What I love is not myself.’ But if you are to love fully and completely, you will never find yourself separate from that love. Love is consciousness. Love is peace. Love is who you are.

 

Honoring the Flame of Truth

March 24, 1999. Denmark, Australia

Have you ever been graced with a glimpse, a taste, a recognition of the everlasting peace that is the truth of your being? Often times the mind will immediately pick up the search for more of that, as if more will be found somewhere other than here where you are. In this video Gangaji clearly lays out how to cut that habitual tendency at its root.

“This habit of relying on the mind and its latest interpretation of where more of God or truth will be found is very strong. It is a cycling. In a millisecond of true stopping, the mind is seen for what it is. In that same millisecond the presence of God, of truth, of enlightenment, is recognized.”

Simply Open

June 20-21, Online Weekend Retreat

What does it mean to open to yourself? In these highlights from the June 2020 online weekend, Gangaji leads each participant into a deepening discovery of what means to live a life in true openness.

“I invite you to use our time together to discover what it means, and how it is relevant to your own life in any particular moment, to open. Simply open. The help that is finally available is your mind’s own surrender to its source.”

Refuge from the Storm

February 15, 2009, San Rafael, CA

When there is a storm of challenging circumstances raging around you, do you know where to take refuge? In this meeting Gangaji encourages the recognition that no matter how challenging circumstances may be, it is always possible to find that refuge that is always present deep within: Silence.

“Silence is love. Silence is peace. Silent awareness is who you are. Your body, your history, the events of your life, are appearing in that, yet the silence remains at peace, in love and conscious of itself. A silence filled with so much of itself that there is nothing else.”

The Invitation to Stillness

March 16, 1995, Marin County, CA

In this highly recommended staff pick from the archives, Gangaji’s timeless core message, and her enduring invitation, are exceedingly clear and direct:

“Welcome to satsang. Satsang is where you hear the truth: The truth is, you are limitless, indefinable consciousness, and you have identified yourself with an experience of individual consciousness. In order to realize yourself as limitless consciousness, piercing through the mirage of the experience of individual consciousness, simply be still. To be still is to be who you are.”

 

 

Less than a Speck of Dust

Less than a Speck of Dust

July 24, 1995
Boulder, CO

In this video from the archives Gangaji reads letters of explosive realization that illustrate “the end of seeking and the beginning of seeing.” The treasure of these letters, along with Gangaji’s response, renders life’s complexity down to two basic tenets: We are born to express love, and that our lives, less than a speck of dust, can reflect the immeasurable vastness of being.

“What a mystery it is that this tiniest speck is as big as Life Itself. When this is realized, you can throw away all possibility of measuring anything. You recognize all measurements are made up, are nothing, and you are left at before the beginning.”

 

To Be Utterly Simple Is to Be Yourself

To Be Utterly Simple Is to Be Yourself

August 15, 2019 PM

San Rafael, CA

Does your mind tend to seek out simplicity? Or is it more preoccupied with finding and solving complication? Regardless of the complexity of what’s being presented in this meeting, Gangaji points each person back to the utter simplicity of being.

“I love a good book with a complicated plot, or the complicated action of a bustling city, or a walk in the forest among the exquisite complications of nature. But if we get caught up in complication, we continually overlook the utterly simple fulfillment that is the root and source of all life. To be utterly simple is actually to be yourself.”

Give Your Burden to the Ganga

Give Your Burden to the Ganga, January 27, 1994, Varanasi, India

This video from Gangaji’s visit to India in 1994 was filmed on a sandbar in the middle of the Holy River Ganges (Ganga). With the river and the ancient city of Varanasi as backdrop, Gangaji answers questions about the desire to be present in the moment, the desire to simply be, the desire to give up this game of up and down that we take so seriously.

“Relax. Stop chasing any thought that you are not already present, not already being. Stop separating yourself out. You are that which is always present. Presence is eternal. To try to 'be present' already assumes that you are not. This assumption is a lie, and this lying is exhausting. Rest in ‘I am,’ and see if there is any lack of presence.”

The Language of Effortlessness

This video, The Language of Effortlessness, from the archives includes many lively interactions, the heart of which is the topic of effort and effortlessness. If you feel that realizing the truth of your being requires effort, then eventually you will find yourself exhausted and disillusioned. Are you efforting to know who you are?

“Effort is what we are taught, it’s what we do, it’s what we believe is necessary. We are most afraid to stop effort because that would be the unknown. What I am speaking about cannot be ‘done’ and cannot be ‘known.’ You are never separate from it; it is already the truth of who you are—pure pristine awareness, effortlessly as it is, limitless and un-findable as a particular entity.