Spiritual Teachings With Shunyamurti

Shunyamurti reads again from the Padamalai, specifically focusing on Ramana's view on hatha yoga and its shortcomings, proposing instead atma vichara rather than trying to make effort to control the mind, which is always an effort of the mind itself.

Shunyamurti explains that yoga was developed as an attempt to return to the primordial state (since the beginning of Dwapar Yuga), but that it has devolved into a set of exercises, and discusses Ashtanga Yoga, which was not the original yoga and was based on the Sankhya philosophy, explaining the eight limbs (the Yamas/Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, Samyama) and going over them in detail, and explaining how they represent different phases of the spiritual path.

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Shunyamurti reveals that the difficulty of meditation is that you think you know who you are, but that the key discovery of the ancient sages was that consciousness is impersonal and only learns to act like a person, identifying with the body, with demands of the parents, with patterns that become rigid, with a superego that makes it feel guilty and that it lives in a moral universe, and that if one wants one's "criminal record" wiped clean, then one more dissolve into the impersonal Absolute, which will manifest as love without desire.

Shunyamurti reveals that the Nataraj is a fairly recent statue that comes from the Chola dynasty, that before the only representation of Shiva that was allowed was the Shiva Lingam, and that Shiva is the Zero Point that is the fire/flame/agni, and elucidates more of the symbolism of the Nataraj, going through each aspect in detail

Shunyamurti reveals that the function of the Sat Yogi is to unify heaven and hell through the superior coherence of heavenly consciousness and the willingness to travel alone through the valley of the shadow of death, and that through this journey the gift of the wish-fulfilling jewel is given, which is what can bring about transformation to the entire holographic field.

Shunyamurti analyzes the meaning of Buddha's awakening, the importance of freeing one's intelligence from sentimentality, and the seven obstacles to magic, among many other topics in this teaching from our September 2019 retreat, "The Basis of White Magic".

Shunyamurti speaks about white magic, as well as the history of magic, and how it relates to the spiritual path.

Shunyamurti explains "Aham Aham", the process of the conditioned "I" coming to know the true "I", as well as the difference between classical Advaita and neo-Advaita.