Gangaji responds to a letter from someone at a retreat. What is the difference between searching and self-inquiry? It is so difficult to comprehend what staying conscious without mental activity means.

Dearest Ones, With a joyful open heart, I write to invite all who are called to experience Papaji and his teachings, to visit The Avadhuta Foundation website which houses the archival library of Papaji’s satsangs. In 1993 Papaji gave his blessing for the creation of The Avadhuta Foundation to hold the copyright of his recordings, books, and photos. To this day The Avadhuta Foundation remains stewa…

January 7, 2021, Interview This interview was recorded for the Shift Networks Global Mystics Summit.

May 18, 1997, Boulder, Colorado What does it feel like to want to support? What does it feel like to want to control? In this video Gangaji makes a clear distinction between the joy of supporting ourselves and others and the misery of believing we can control. She speaks of letting go of control as the mark of spiritual maturity and invites you to catch fire in the joy and the peace of simply lett…

Many take a spiritual path in life with a sincere desire to contribute to the well-being of all sentient beings. In this month’s episode of Being Yourself, a young man asks, “How can I cultivate the heart of a Bodhisattva?” Gangaji speaks to how we can be true to the Bodhisattva heart in the face of our human, cultural, and spiritual conditioning.

If what you really want is to discover the unconditional peace of your own nature—over and above any need to survive, to be in power, or to exercise control—then this requires a rigorous willingness to tell the truth and inquire into your own unconscious motivations. The desire to be in control, the illusion of being in control, and the hope of being in control, are all based on the egotistical be…

In our February podcast extra, Gangaji invites us to discover the very source of our longing for home, home itself. In an instant of inquiry, you can discover that what you have longed for, is who you already are. Also learn more about Gangaji’s March 6-7 online retreat: Falling Into Yourself.

Recorded on January 10, 2009, in San Diego, CA,  Gangaji asks, how will you liberate your mind? How do you surrender control? How do you take responsibility for your own liberation from the control of the mind? On Sunday, February 21, Gangaji will lead a live online meeting on the subject of Control vs. Responsibility. Learn More

If my younger self met me as I am now, on a spiritual path, with a spiritual teacher, I reckon she would raise her eyebrows & would doubt that I was of sound mind. I’m pretty sure she would laugh at the thought of it all. I was a very different person back then. I carried around a lot of baggage about my difficult childhood: an angry, stressed out, abusive father; a mother who left when I was…

Recorded in September 2007 at the Omega institute, this conversation dives into the emotions we encounter and the mental constructs we run into when we start to really let go of control. With humor and delight, Gangaji guides the conversation under all judgments or attempts to control thought patterns or circumstances, into a free fall into the unknown. On Sunday, February 21 Gangaji will lead a l…