I have read all of David’s books and blogs. I have watched all of his KZfaq videos and for me David is my teacher. For me when David speaks I can hear Bhagavan talking through him. The amount of insights and clarity he has given me I will never be able to put into words. David is a true gift from Bhagavan. Thank you David, but most importantly, thank you Bhagavan 🙏

The Future will give David all the credit he truly deserves, for all his work. Invaluable. Thank you so much, David!

May you be blessed a thousand times, David. What a pleasure to hear you flow like this...

David Godman's compilation "Be As You Are" is one of the best books on Ramana Maharshi's teaching! God bless him!

What David said about being led to Ramana is true for me. I was following another method for many years and then 22 yrs ago I had a vision of Ramana, I didn’t know it was him. I was then re connected to a previous meditation teacher I had in 1982, and he introduced me to Ramana! I haven’t looked back!

In my 20s I ploughed through Buddhist books from different schools of thoughts and got more confused than ever - what is right, what is wrong, what is the middle way?; then was bingeing on Conspiracies stuffs and watched most of the videos on Gaia. Then I stumbled upon Mooji, then Papaji and Ramana Maharshi. Throughout my life since the start of 20s when I start university there is this deep sense of spiritual hunger. After immersing myself with Ramana's materials, the "I" now can't help it but BE quiet. I no longer have opposing thoughts in my head about the matters of career and relationships. Surrender and let things unfold. Everything is done, just enjoy the ride. I would like to thank David for this channel and the books you wrote.

'Classic addiction' to spirituality. The only addiction that truly matters. Thank you for sharing🙏🏼

David - an immense gratitude for your dedication, hard work and kindness in sharing the teaching of the great masters: Ramana, Papaji, Sri Nisargadatta, Annamalai Swami, Sadhu Om and others. Immense, immense gratitude.

David you're a blessing to us! Thank you

When you have grown up all your life being treated like you don't exist its hard to even believe you exist! How beautiful it is to find out you not only exist but are all one giant essence of awareness now just to give the thoughts and past over.

Thanks a lot David. Your talks, interviews are really helpful in understanding the essence of Bhagavan s teachings. I don't miss any of them. Thanks again!

I had the wonderful pleasure of communicating with David,, purchasing one of his books that he personally mailed from India. Such a short personal contact still cherished

Very interesting and inspiring conversation. Thank you so much David!

How cool to hear the 12 steps mentioned in this spiritual light. They saved my life decades ago and Step 11 is my absolute favorite. I discovered David Godman via Anthony Chene's channel and have been reading him ever since. ✨💖🌍🦋🙏💫✨ Paz y luz, everyone.

Thank you David for all the things you've done to clarify Sri Ramana's teachings, I just couldn't understand any of them until I jumped into all the books and interviews you've done. Before that it was like trying to grasp water... And Guru Vachaka Kovai is a supreme masterpiece, wow!

Thank you David for all that you do. 🙏

Excellent presentation Bhagavan Ramana ‘s teaching the ultimate highway path for happiness 🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺

Big hug from Chicago David! Thanks gor your work!

Beautiful 😍 thank you so much! Much love and gratitude 🙏

Thank you. I have enjoyed this interview. It gave me invaluable resources. 🙏

I have been searching for the way to practice going within and David you have just explained that brilliantly. Something about Sri Ramana is pulling me in like a magnet. I have spent the last month watching and listening to Sri Nochur’s talks on Aksharamana malai, and just want more and more. I prayed and said help me clarify the practice and the next morning, your interview and talks came up on my screen. So last four days, I have been watch all your talks on Bhagavan. Amazing. And today’s interview is the icing on the cake. Thank you so much David. You have been sent down By Bhagavan. 🙏🙏

Can't thank you enough, whenever I have doubts I hear you speak u have made Ramana accessible to me 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for your inspiration David. Much appreciative of how you explain things so clearly. I'm enjoying one of your books, 'Be As You Are'. Also found the documentaries you helped with of Sri Ramana's life extremely moving.

💫✨💖✨💫Infinite thank you dear David Godman and David. Always a delight to hear from you. We are blessed to get guidance from you in this era. 🎵💖🎵There is something about Mr Godman that makes us feel Maharshi's infinite blissful presence, beyond names, words, etc. But definitely efforts for self realization speed up with your guidance. Om Tat Sath. 🙏💖💜💟💝💙💚💛💖💫✨🌟

Many thanks to both of you for this great interview. A rare insight into David Godmans's own perspective, very inspiring. Also , a certain other interviewer of spiritual people of could take lessons from Dave Gilibank into how inquire without making it look like a grilling. There are three interviews on the interweb of David Godman that made me feel very uncomfortable with his almost aggressive approach. So kudos to you Dave G for your gentle style.

Terrific talk and many pertinent questions. Thank you. GVK by Godman et al is my all-time favorite book also. Power radiates from the words. Here are just some of the many points that jumped out at me in this video that others may find interesting: 32:12 hold onto "I" 36:50 surrender problems to a higher power 41:15 free-will 45:15 be aware of the subject “I”

Keep the videos coming David. Love your work

Thank you for this video.

I liked the story about the guy who had a house falll in his lap. That story was helpful to me. All of your answers validated my own understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings, point by point. Thank you for this presentation.

Thank you so much for your prescious work. NOWADAYS It may even save lives... thank you again and again Elisabeth from Austria

Lovely discussion. Thanks 🙏

Thank you, David🙏🏻😌

Thank you so much, David!

Thanks a lot for adding the captions.. Excellent.

Thank you David, I just purchased the book from your website!

🙏🏼🌿🍃pranams david godman always so wonderful to see you and hear you

Really good interview. Good job, Dave Gilibank.

great interview, thank you...

Thank you so much, I learnt alot from this 💙🙏

David, thank you for all you have given us. I have watched all your videos and have many of your books. You have kept the words of the Master alive more than anyone else. You deserve a rest, I hope you go and enjoy the rest of your life. I have enjoyed every single word you have spoken or written. God bless you my friend.

For some unknown reason I love listening to David Goldman I don’t even know how I came across him

Thank you from Maribor, Slovenia.

Thank you!

Thank you so much. GRATITUDE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great questions and answers!!

Brilliant interview.

I love this podcast!!!

Thank You so very much David 🙏❤️🌹

I was introduced to Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi by David Godman. I was born in India and I did hear of Bhagwan many times but did not know much about his teachings. Now I know Bhagwan through David Godman and Arthur Osborne. I have many of David's books. I have watched all of David's videos on KZfaq. David explained how to practice faith by handing over your problem to the higher power. I have full faith in David Godman's words and Bhagwan's grace. So I paused this video and just passed on my problem that has left me broken and defeated over the last one and a half years. My numerous attempts got me no success. Bhagwan it's all yours now ....do whatever you want with it 🙏

Great!!! Thank you 🙏🏼

Simply amazing, every time I listen to David

More I listen to David more strongly I feel that he is like crtitical "bridge" between self-realized beings like Ramana Maharishi and common folks like me. He is that essential link and I feel lucky to have heard to his words, hints & explanations.

Thank you

Ramana barely spoke to visitors. He sat in silence. Bypassing ego, intellect and the usual barriers of approximate language.

Well said, that man!

❤thank you 🙏🏼

David must be born for this message for people around world, he just didn't know it when he was a baby. his messages wake up people from just eat. sleep. Work. having kids ,,,,,,,,, keep shining through Ramana, bravo

A great blessing from Bhagavan using David as a conduit in helping seekers and non seekers find the one true eternal path back to Swarupa

David is one of those real diamonds. He do not promote himself as many well known teachers on the west, he is just the guy who wrote some books but in reality he is the real deal !

I think a more direct and succint answer to David R's ("from west coast as well") question is: yes we circle back to "ego I". After all there is only one "I". As Ramana says (in the booklet "Who am I?", p.19, answer to Q.10) "... like a stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then there is Self-realization." In this statement stick is the analog of "ego I." I may be wrong.

Thank you Sir In the style of Bhagavan You've given a lot a clues How to surrrender everything and myself to Bhagavan. Again Thank you very much Om Namo Bhagavathe SriRamanaya 🙏🙏🙏

I met David Godman some 5 or 6 years ago when i went visiting Ramanashrama at Thiruvannamalai. A great person. Very humble.

Feels like David was born to bring Ramana to the western world. Pranams.

I left a long comment this morning. Now it is gone. Oh well... I wish I had copied and pasted it somewhere so that I could repeat. I'm really disappointed. Nonetheless, thank you David. You're a blessing to me.

great. thanks!

Namasté, Gracias y Saludos

Thanks David🙏

It’s hard to keep saying no but I can do it. Thank u

I will be forever grateful for the "surrender technique", haha !

Thank you David. My only concern is that, if life is really good for 99% of the life, and only 1% of suffering, why would I want to be liberated? I’ve not quite decided if I want to be liberated or not. I do feel like I have one foot in the material and one in the spiritual- I’m quite confused tbh

Anyone know what part of rural Ireland did David reside in for a time?

Enlightenment is not caring about enlightenment...don’t be so concerned with having all the answers...live your life instead! ❤️

blessings.....

the animals are so friendly with RAMANA because ramana maharshi think of them as self, we are all in one. treat them as you want to be treated, and he understood we are as compassion being! priceless expensive video and never asked for money on us to understanding of possession of true wealth as a person. just like ramana and papaji. celebrating

If you "Do" self-inquiry, you will do until your death. In doing there is a doer, that is, MOTIVE. Do you SEE how thought has tricked you all? I have heard David Godman say in one of the videos that once a man asked Bagawan,"I have done self-inquiry for last 25 years and I have not attained anything, and Bagawan seemed to have replied, in that case, do it for another 25 years". The only fact Bagawan is trying to help you SEE is the fact that "I" is just a thought, it is NOT independent of THOUGHT. When thought is not there, is there a thinker? Thinker and Thought are one and the same. For example, a computer that you use or a mobile phone exists whether you think about it or not, but the "I" is there when there is no thought? "I" exists as long as thought exists. The final answer is "I" is just a THOUGHT. It's not a reality. Just grasp this TRUTH and be extremely alert. The day will come automatically but you may not know when and where. Alertness! Alertness! Alertness! That's all you can do.

Respect to David

David is the greatest.

37:00 - 44:31 Practical Way to handle problems 🙏, Gratitudes to you ❤.

Thanks Sri

Couldn't hear the book name mentioned in the last section. Can someone please help. Ty.

Hello good people. David mentions the name of a swami I've never heard of before (at 17:47). He spoke of him as being the last of the direct lineage. Could someone please tell me how to spell his name. Thank you

Just a comment - The host, at the end, just shouldn't have announced who the next guest is going to be while David Godman is still on, it just commoditizes the whole talk/experience, which has been so special all along. Might well could be a cultural issue tho, but my 2 paisa FWIW.

whats the name of the book? can someone write it down here please?

Всем намасте ❤️. Хотела бы спросить у Годмана (надеюсь что он живет ещё в Лакнау) есть ли такой мастер как Пападжи сейчас в Лакнау. Буду благодарна ❤️🙏

Where to find Davids contact details ?

True Art....Transforming thoughts into Pure Awareness...The substratum...

@14:00 who is he talking about ?

What was name of daves desert island book pls???

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I prefer to do enquiry when out walking, starting with visualising the mind being put to one side on a shelf. After about an hour the level of thinking is reduced to a trickle. Then I do enquiring - something happens which I can't put my finger on but when I have to start thinking about worldly things again, it's like putting on an ill fitting suit! Quite uncomfortable!

"Arunachala is truly the holy place. Of all holy places it is the most sacred! Know that it is the heart of the world. It is truly Siva himself! It is his heart-abode, a secret kshetra. In that place the Lord ever abides the hill of light named Arunachala." - Ramana Maharishi

Re: 36:20 Suffering leads to surrender. No surrender from position of comfort. Coming out the other side, we bless our suffering. "...ruthless self dissection " - Yogananda

Thank you so much, David carry a quality in his speech that reveals such a grace, humble, deep intelligence and such a light of True! Do you think it could be possible to find the book you mentioned at the end of the interview? May I ask you to write the title and the author? Thank you in any case, this interview reach my heart very deeply..one of the most beautiful I ever heard! Thank you so so much!

Thanks from Madrid, Davids.

If David Godman reads my comment below, I would like to get his opinion about my understanding.

Hello Did Papaji left after him successor? If yes, Who is he and where is he?does he make satsangs there as Papaji did at satsangs? I Will be grateful If you answer❤️🙏🙏🙏

DEAR DAVID. PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON ROBERT ADAMS. AS I HAVE READ HIS BOOKS AND FIND HIM THE CONTINUATION OF BHAGVANS RAMANA TEACHINGS. 😇💞💗💫💥🤝🙏

I like it

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Can someone tell me who the cranky guru who sold cigarettes was? Keep missing the name