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Spiritual teachings by Shunyamurti, the founder and director of the Sat Yoga Ashram - a wisdom school, ashram, and the home of a vibrant spiritual community based in Costa Rica. Visit us at satyoga.org
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Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Definition of “Ego” – 04.30.11
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Student Question: Can you define “ego” in your own words?
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
What about the Id? – 04.30.11
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Student Question: So you mentioned the ego and the superego, which are Freudian terms, but where does the id fit into this?
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
The Only Thing “Untouchable” is the Ego – 04.14.11
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
Excerpt: “Sri Ramana Maharshi recognized that all of us are one Self, manifesting as many,” recalls Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And because of this realization of our oneness, of course Ramana had no interest in the [Indian] caste system. . . . The lowest caste [in the Indian caste system] were called the ‘Chandalas,’ which can translate as ‘Untouchables.’ And you should never touch an untouchable; you’d have to go through some extraordinary ritual of purification. And Ramana laughed at that and said this is only a metaphor. The only real Chandala is the ego. That’s what you must never touch. You must never enter ego-consciousness...” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 14, 2011.
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
Where is “The Symbolic?” – 04.14.11
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
Thursday Apr 14, 2011
Student Question: You’ve talked about “reality” and “The Real,” and I just wanted to know where “The Symbolic” is in relation to those.
Excerpt: “It is between the two. Reality is a hallucination. And once you can grasp that symbolically, you can discover what is the source of that hallucination, or hologram, or matrix, whatever you want to refer to this plane as. And through your symbolic capacity of thinking, and your attention span, you can make your consciousness like a laser beam and focus it with your willpower to break through the illusion of reality, to discover the Real.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 14, 2011.