Who am I? The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi 

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard you say David: "The mere act of waking up makes you realize that your dream characters didn't have any validity and that they weren't really suffering and that you attributed suffering to them when you had the perspective of being a fellow character in the dream."

00:20_Please introduce yourself. Who are you, and what is your religious background? 01:31_What were you looking for? What do you think compelled you to travel to India and stay there for decades? 02:18_Tell us a little about Raman Mahrshi’s background. 04:21_What did he do with this new knowledge? Did he try to communicate it to anyone? 06:04_What were Ramana Maharshi’s main teachings? 07:22_What spiritual practices di Sri Raman advise his followers to undertake? 12:12_How real is this ‘I’ that you are asking us to investigate? 13:20_Do we have to give up our ordinary everyday activities and devote to this practice full time? 15:19_How do we psyche ourselves up for this investigation? How do we learn to take it more seriously? 17:19_How does one keep this state once it has been attained? 18:22_What is your own experience of doing self-inquiry? How easy did you find it when you started? 19:02_Why is this method different and better than other kinds of meditation? 20:49_Are there levels of the mind that one moves through during this practice? 21:34_What were Sri Ramana’s views on visions and other similar spiritual experiences? 24:16_How do we rid ourselves of limitations, beliefs and unconscious emotional conditioning? 26:26_Are you saying that we should not even value good spiritual experiences? 26:59_It is said that the final state cannot be described in words. Is it true? 28:33_What are some of the characteristics of this reality that you cannot be accurately described? 32:32_Everyone thinks ‘I am an individual person.’ How can that be so wrong? 33:44_How to determine what is real and what is just an illusion? 37:26_Don't we need to identify with a person, a limited form, in order to function in the world? 38:11_What’s the self like? Is that a reasonable question to ask? 38:42_How can we tell the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher? 42:44_What was Sri Ramana’s advice on choosing or recognising a good Guru? 44:17_Why is it so bad to charge money for satsang? 45:47_How did Sri Raman deal with money matters? 46:18_So how did he support himself in those early years? 46:36_When did he decide to become a teacher, to share what he had discovered with others? 47:20_Did Ramana Maharshi not regard himself as a Guru who had practical and useful wisdom to impart? 49:06_Sri Ramana once said, ’Whatever is destined to happen will happen.’ Do we have any free will at all? 50:29_So, the idea that we have choices is just an illusion? 51:48_How to reach this state where everything happens smoothly, without conscious choices? 52:49_Who or what is God in Sri Ramana’s system? How is He reached or experienced? 55:05_How do all these ideas connect with science? Are they compatible with a scientific world view? 57:04_What is the mind? What is its fundamental nature and origin? 59:30_The yogis speak of controlling the mind. Are they talking about the same thing? 1:00:24_How can we improve the world and make it a better place? OM 🙏

Never get tired of hearing this. There is nothing new in this video but it's all put together so well. Saved.

We should hear this every week. Covers bhagavans teaching in an hour. My pranams to David,he is a true disciple of Bhagvan and realized soul.

One thing I would suggest would be for you to read your questions out loud. That would allow people to just listen to the interview as mp3 or other. Also, there are visually impaired people who just can't access visual information.

Thank you so much David ! You speak about Ramana in the most clarifying way possible !

Fantastic Q&A. 🙏 Lucid, simple, direct and complete. Anyone listens to this and live by what is said will reach bliss.

Always a pleasure to hear you talking. Thank you David. Love from Portugal. 🌻💙

Thank you so much David for your passion about this primordial investigation of the self !

No one can ever teach Ramana like this....His personal experience with Ramana , the teaching of the True Self is well explained. One, already on the path gets excited.🌳🐢🙏

What a breathtaking hour!! It contains almost ALL you ever need to heard trough David's mouth and heart!! Brilliant!☀️thank you 🙏

David : this rendition is sharpest and clearest...grateful as always for your elaboration and explanations ...particularly, the point where you explained how self enquiry is different from meditation and how one should focus on the subject instead of the object ...that has opened up a long jammed door for me ...thanks so much

Who would have thought that a simple question ( WHO AM I ) would reveal the meaning of life.Thanks David

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

Thank you for sharing the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi in serene and blissful words of wisdom 🙏🙏🙏

Clarity itself. First time I’ve understood properly. May awakening happen to us all. 🙏🏾🆒🕉📢🙈🦋🔔🙉🙏☯️👌🏽🙊🕉️

Thank you David. This is as if Ramana is speaking himself. I stopped in my tracks when I saw this on my feed.

Thank you David for all you do.

Hey David, thank your for all the insights and teachings of the masters

David thank you so much you have just made my day. love and blessings to all reading this from Scotland x

Fascinating presentation, several years ago I stumbled upon Mouni Sadhu's book In Days of Great Peace. It details his time at the ashram in the 1940s. I recently read David spent some time in the west of Ireland in the 1970s. Hello from the west of Ireland.

A very clear speaker who explains perfectly. Amazing 😁😁

Wow! 1 hours of pure ecstasy. Every drop was sweet nectar to us who weren't fortunate enough to be in Sri Ramana's presence. His words pierce ignorance, echo in the chambers of the heart and bring a smile that doesn't go away. Thank You David for sharing. Thank you to the questioner for pointed questions. Dhanyawad Sirshree.

WOW! There's no words. This just jolted me into a spontaneous awakening. Best hour of my life. THANK YOU

Thank you David, from deepest part of my heart. Such a delight, such clarity.💖

Sir, this is satsanga. Despite all that " I " have understood of Bhagavan's teaching, "I" can't help falling in to deep depression and hopelessness. Strangling fear of death too haunts waking hours. Each time I am at a lose I return to this Satsanga and am instantly charged up. Sir, you are a guidebook 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thanks David. Years ago (30?) I read your book with great attention and because of that Ramana's words are the most beloved to me.

This is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!

Thank you Thank you Thank you! To David and the producers of this magnificence.

Congratulations! The best video ever, putting all together the most important teachings of the best sages you concluded the "idea" of what we all are. An exact summary of the subject! Thank you, many blessings!

Man, did I need this! Thank You so much.

Wonderfully clear and inspiring, thanks so very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻💖

Great explanations showing an extremely high grade of devotion towards Bhagavan and a deep understanding of His teachings.

This is beautiful. Truly grateful for the message! Thank you

Thank you David, for always being so thorough and clear and calm in your explanations. Your love for, and dedication to, Sri Ramana's message always is evident and much appreciated. 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏿🕉️

I'm grateful for these teachings, which I just discovered. Thank you.

Eternally grateful to you for sharing this priceless treasure of the highest knowledge.

Such clarity can only come from a state of stark clarity within. Thank you David!!!🙏🙏🙏

It would have been nice to meet the Maharshi. He was known for speaking very little. After years of reading books and listening to people speak about spiritual topics, my mind has grown tired. I think that being in the presence of the often-silent Maharshi would have been refreshing.

This is an amazing listening! Love it!

So inspiring. Thank you so much, David. And thank you, Ramana.

Thanks David, always beautiful.

Beautiful Well produced and lot to internalize Namo Ramana🌺🙏🌹

This just might be the most important - most central - video on RU-vid. A priceless treasure.

Grateful, Mr Godman for this very lucid exposition.

A blessing it was to listen to such sublime words.🙇🏽🙇🏽🚩🚩

Thank you David for everything you are a Saint thank you blessings 🙏

🙏Namaste!! I know and practice Ramana's philosophy for decades, I have also been to Tiruwannamalay, but with this video I have deepened the awareness of my true being again and even more!! Thanks David & Antony for your engagekent! Namaste! 😃🙏🏵🌾🧘🧘‍♂🧘‍♀🧘🌾🏵🙏😀😇

Most eloquently done. Your connection with Ramana is heartfelt. Many thanks !

Thousand likes and love from the "I" for the entire document.Many thanks👍🙏🏽👍🙏🏽

I am thrilled to listen to this updated interview with David Godman. Among his answers to questions, his fine-tuning and sharing in greater depth the method of Self-inquiry inspires, encourages, and confirms my own practice. Thank you, Mr. Chene and Mr. Godman!

What a blessing to find this channel. Thank you

Thank you David! Blessings All.

Thanks so much for this. It's all the key stuff -- with minimal distractions. Hearing this fulfills all my need for "teaching."

Absolutely beautiful, thank you.

Thank you for making Ramana's teaching easy to understand.

Watching this priceless video has been a divinely ecstatic experience. The clarity and simplicity in the way you have so generously shared such great knowledge are simply amazing. Merely listening to you speak about Ramana Maharishi is such a soothing and peaceful experience. Thank you very much. 🙏

Thank you, grace and blessings!

Thank you David, beautiful video... so clear

Marvelous, clear and simple to put it on my ❤ Thanks for sharing David

Such a good overview of Ramana’s teachings, I’m very grateful for this video.

My first time hearing this. Wow. I am in Awe!!! Thank you. Seek and you will find.

Thank you David Godman for being such a great devote to Sri Ramana Maharshi that we could hear Sri Ramana Maharshi and, all in all, listen again to the silent teachings of tat tvam asi.

This is excellent. Thank you, David.

Thanks for the uncut version, David. It was well worth putting out!

Simple yet so friggin complicated!! It will take me a lifetime to figure Ramanas message out but I'm glad to have found him.

Absolutely fantastic. Loved it , Loved it , Loved it !!!

🙏🏼David Godman, if you reading this.. my Pranam to you, for this beautiful explanation. It is so easy to be carried away in spiritual explanation but truly your integrity in keeping between the lines is high standard. 🪔

He chose to exist in his body by not doing. This was the telos of his choice. Choice, I would say, is the ultimate responsibility. The work of Victor Frankle emphasized this point in Man’s Search for Meaning. Choice might seem to be an illusion in connection to the body. In this world they both objectively exist. Very profound message. Thank you!

Obrigado David! Thanks! Abraços, big hug from South of Brazil 🇧🇷

Once i read The teachings of Ramana Maharishi, but was searching the exact conversation to more connect with such. A great divine soul and i got it !!!! Tears in my eyes when I listened it and this became my routine to hear the experience with Guru Ramana Maharishi 🙏🏻

Thanks for posting the video, very inspiring!

Thanks for uploading this interview.

This is an exquisitely lucid and comprehensive summary of Bhagavan's teachings, including clarification of the ways one can get off track with Self-Inquiry and how to prevent that from happening. Thank you David Godman!

Thank you for your dedication. I listen to these talks as l did my favourite stories as a child. It blows me away to think of a realised person in a cave being of greater benefit than, say, a social-worker!! ❤

Amazing commitment by David. I sincerely hope that he has managed to scratch that itch after so many years.

Thank you David and all the production team. I appreciate how succinct your answers are. You understand the questions from the inside and your explanations go directly to the heart. Will watch again. With joy and love in Bhagavan. Are you looking forward to going back to Tiru?🙏

The way David was explaining answers to all questions I felt as if Maharshi Himself was answering my questions- No doute that David has gotten the taste of Shri Maharshi

grazie David, una sintesi preziosa già ascoltata 2 volte: vari punti meritano di fermarsi to let them sink in (riascolterò ancora)

David you are as important to me as Ramana cos if is wasn't for you I wouldn't have known his teachings 🙏 you are a link on the divine chain

All questions asked are what naturally occur to people and answered by David Godman in an authentic way with his deep background in all Ramana related matters.

How lovely. How simple. How clear. Kindest regards to all involved. Hugs all around. :)

Who are you, you are everything, you are unique and divine. Loved always.

OMG! I thought I had a good understanding of the Self- Enquiry process, but this really opened my eyes even more. Perhaps I needed to wait 2 years before fine tuning my enquiry into that miserable "I" that wasn't going away. This video is such a great service. I better have a closer look at that "I" that waited two years to fine tune its understanding of Self Enquiry.

Wow! Love the beautiful clear teaching!

Absolutely beautiful!!

Totally lov this guys style, what a champion....fully appreciate his efforts, I have leanrt alot from him, would lov the chance to meet him

Thank you David.stay Blessed sending you Love and Light from Portugal.

Brilliant! As always.....Thanks David for breaking down Bhagawan's teaching into such clear and simple morsels for us to understand.

When one looks at the events ,ideas or whatever that has been the catalysing factor causing spiritual transformation for me this teaching will be. Thank you fir quenching my thirst for the truth at least for now if not forever 🙏🏾💐♥️Magnificent. Explaing in understandable language concepts that are difficult to explain. I so agree with Guru’s and money. Feel so greatful to you

Enjoyed your commentary Davidji! I am so fortunate that I came across your channel today and subscribed right away. I am in the middle of reading I AM THAT and your commentary on Sri Ramana Maharshi is very similar to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. I watched your other videos and enjoyed hearing about your journey to the east. Cant wait to read your books next. This subject, that can be hard to follow for many, but was made so easy to digest by your direct and straight forward commentary. This is exactly why three other Guru's choose you to write for them. Last week I fractured my foot that forced me to stay home during this long weekend (in USA) so I starting to read I AM THAT and looked for the same on RU-vid and found your channel. I guess there was a bright side to fracturing my foot!!!

Never heard a better explanation than this regarding the “I”,,,,,, self. This clears up many things for me. Thank you so much. Love and blessings 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦 (the flag is there just to let you know where , geographically, where it comes from. It is not who “I” am 😊

Infinite gratitude for this beautiful gift 🙏💖✨

I think Ramana had a spontaneous breakthrough whereas Buddha had to work to make the same realisation. Both have thought us that we are all capable of self realisation. Blessings to all and thank you David Godman.

Thank you very much for these very clear and concise explantations. The examples and metaphors you use are also very helpful.

Respectfully thank you for putting this information together and presentation strangely this morning I prayed my prayer for identification of purpose. This was so eloquently put thank you. I … have much to learn to handle physical suffering and only a brief time this being this body is broken - And for a few moments comfort. Thank you

David Sir has Bhagavan's grace for sure. It gives a lot of relief to learn that he is taken care of during these days of contagion. It is Bhagavan's decision only that he should be in Australia these days. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

i recognised your voice from a papaji interview! this is amazing im free oh the blessed relief !! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Wow this was awesome. Thank you so much.

Thanks David for your explanation and I wanted to say it helped me a lot.