He's swallowed many jnanis alive!

Exactly, Michael is the Clarity par excellence! Love&Light to Michael ..and to All as We Are One.

I would like to take a middle path here and say the (NS) state is helpful in the way it shows there is another way beyond the mind. This vacation from involvement with cognitive objects allows a fresh perspective on them upon return and can encourage and strengthen our resolve to grow up and move beyond. NS may not burn up vasanas or root out ego, but it can aid greatly in this task.

Questioner: "So does nothing exist at all"? Michael: "No! You exist! Can you doubt your existence? (pause) You definitely exist because if you didn't exist you couldn't be aware of all these things. The very fact that you are aware of anything shows that you exist. Everything that you are aware of could be an illusion. It could be just a mental projection. But YOU who are aware of it cannot be an illusion. So you must exist. The fact THAT you are is beyond doubt. But what IS doubtful is WHAT you are. Now you seem to be this person but is that what you really are? Because if you really are this person you should feel "I am this person" even when you are asleep....so this person is something that comes and goes whereas YOU are permanent. So you cannot be what you seem to be... So you definitely exist but you are not definitely what you seem to be. So who are you? That is what we need to investigate..." "When we know what we are we know that we alone exist, though other things seem to exist. But there can never be a state of "Nothing exists"! So long as we take ourselves to be a person we can conceive our own death. That is we all know this body is going to die one day, it's going to be cremated or buried or whatever. But can you conceive your own non-existence? (long pause, questioner makes inaudible comment) ...We can't. Bagavan said, "In a battle field when soldiers see their comrades dying all around them they are afraid but they never think they are going to die at this moment. we never feel that we are going to die at the particular moment. We are afraid. We feel that death may come at any moment, but not this moment. We know that we cannot cease to exist but because we think we are the body we take that notion and impose it on the body. Look how we all live in this world. we strive for things, we try to accumulate money as if these things were permanent. But one day all these things are going to go away. We give this illusory dream a sense of permanence because we are permanent. So we superimpose our own immortality upon this body. Although we don't think this body is going to live forever we live as though this body is going to live forever"...

Thank you for typing that. We live like we are going to live forever. That is such a profound point.

Was the answer to the question discovered? Has investigation yielded the desired results ? cx

Yes of course, life just gets one hell of a lot easier when all that background noise in the Mind ceases

@@Ponsara Hi, I would like to join such satsang discussion. Could you please inform me as well?

beejum ittahb 👍👍👍

I find Michael James to be encouraging us to practice by clarifying Ramana’s teachings. His faith that the path will bear fruit and his knowledge of the teachings is obviously very plain to see. You have a point as far as the teaching being beyond words but Michael makes that point as well. Perhaps he could emphasize it more and that would be your point made in a less egotistical way.

@@michaelnice93 Michael, that was Nice. 👌☺️