hi everyone thank you for joining me
Ramana Maharshi believe it's his name is
pronounced his full name right here
highlighted his most commonly used name
taught self-inquiry
the concept of who and I and the self or
the I and under he was trying to get
people to understand that in order to
spiritually enlighten ourselves or to
raise our consciousness we need to
meditate on Who am I
principle and self inquiry so today's
video is on more in detail in depth of
this self inquiry and Who am I I do talk
about it in my book especially the lost
love how to create the perfect vegan
life and our path of freedom but I'm
gonna go into this in more detail of
exactly what this is according to my
philosophy my theories my views on it
and not according to Ramana or anyone
else you know there are many many saints
and sages and masters over the eons of
time that have actually understood this
concept and more importantly is not
really just understanding the concept
but how we can actually put it into
practice because most people think that
okay if I you know study this master if
I you know practice this Who am I and I
keep you know delving into the concept
of Who am I and self inquiry then I'm
going to you know raise my consciousness
and all this stuff yeah but how can we
put into in into actual practice in our
daily lives and that's what actually
matters because if you take some
information and you
do anything with it you know yeah you
can understand these concepts but if you
don't put anything you know those those
education into practice then one day
what good is it the whole idea of
learning something is to learn and to
put lot of that into practice or put
some of it at least into practice so
let's take a look now he this is all
about his life a little bit about his
life here
and we're not gonna go into his
particular life we're gonna go into the
actual self inquiry we're gonna go into
Who am I so that I really is the is us
so self inquiry or spelled self inquiry
or self-contemplation so the I though as
you can see here ah let's see
so self-realization or liberation so and
finally the I thou never rises again
which tada
so let's learn a little bit more so it's
it comes from the Sanskrit word
self-inquiry
which means to obtain knowledge of to
move rome all that let's see what does
it say in greek ask Summa ozma as you
can see here that's the Greek word so
that in Sanskrit the word usually
translated as self so strictly speaking
self inquiry is not the investigation of
self at mob
of the eye aha so self-inquiry is
actually if you think about it as it
says here is actually self-inquiry of me
of the eye so Who am I is really the
phrase that goes with self inquiry or
self-contemplation there's a lot of this
in Hinduism there's also a lot in
Jainism and even somewhat in Buddhism as
well that's Ravana taught that by Pangos
catch the daylights out either and you
know actually even will tunnel talks
about his eyes I'll concept in his book
the world peace diet okay so let's let's
forget about this let me talk to you a
little bit about my understanding my
view on this concept of Who am I and
self inquiry or self-contemplation so
self contemplation and Who am I work
hand in hand
and what self-contemplation is by the
way it's eleven eleven right now it's
beautiful baby outside okay so getting
back to the self contemplation and
basically what it means is that we have
to understand truly focus on on us on
individually on the I on the on the me
now not in a ego sort of way like all
mean like I you know deserve this or I
deserve that you know I deserve this
electronic or I deserve this TVR deserve
this big house or I deserve
this you know big car no it's about
really diving into the inner being of
who we are and trying to understand that
trying to get out of this materialistic
concept and programming because when
we're born we're not born vegans we're
not born you know compassion and loving
yeah I do sometimes say this and in the
way it's kind of true but the first day
that we're conceived that we're actually
the first day that the sperm you know
work does its magic within the woman if
the woman if the mother is consuming
animal products animal foods meat dairy
eggs honey etc that baby is consuming
that food and as soon as the baby is
conceived the baby is given mother's
milk which if the mother is consuming
again consuming animal products animal
foods then that baby is consuming that
with those foods so the indoctrination
had started the first basically the
first date a baby is conceived even the
first day that you know when the mother
and the father you know make love and
they do there you know intercourse and
so forth and the sperm goes into the you
know into the vagina and so forth I'm
not an expert on any of this stuff by
any means or even the expert on this
subject on the I thou or the you know
who had my concept and all that I'm
learning and if anyone wants to put
their views in tips and opinions down
below do so and we'll all learn from
each other so getting back to this
concept is we need to really focus on
the on the ion itself on our self the
inner being
the soul on the soul level in a
spiritual level not on a materialistic
not on the flesh level on the inner
level so the heart the chakras that is
really important to mind the heart and
understanding that to remove ourselves
from all this programming or at least
understand the programming we need to
dive deep into who we truly are as human
being as a human being as an individual
human being as an individual being I
should say and separate ourselves from
everything and delve down into us the
inner meditating on this concept of Who
am I so what exactly is this concept of
Who am I well as I explained it it is
trying to it's kind of difficult to
explain but basically it's trying to get
get rid of all of the programming to
understand that it doesn't serve us any
longer so our cultural programming does
not serve us any longer an understanding
that we need to work on who we truly are
as individuals on a spiritual soul level
so translate that into plain and simple
English is very difficult because there
is really no way to understand this
until we dive into the inner of our
being meaning that we need to really
just dive in to on trying to understand
more of of the eye of who it I am Who am
I really once weak
continuously meditate on this phrase Who
am I
we start understanding better who as a
spiritual soul are we as human beings as
just beings in the universe and once we
start understanding more and more and
we're never going to fully understand at
all
so we continuously meditate on this for
as long as we can not just for one
session but I mean you know for our
lifetime we have to keep meditating on
this concept and this is really the
answer and to all of our problems that
we're facing but what happens is we
still are hardwired with our cultural
programming you know the hurting culture
that we're brought into and hurting
culture you can read more about in my
books but basically it's hurting hurting
large animals for our own benefits and
when we heard non-human animals and we
base our culture around this we start to
see that we're violent in other ways
we're violent to humans were violent to
you know plants were violent - of course
we're of course we're the first thing is
we're violent to non-human animals and
we're then materialistic egos centric ah
consumeristic all these things like go
in hand in hand with the hurting culture
but if you take the basis of our world
and you take or put in one phrase as in
what is the defining structure of our
culture of our world of humanity and
that would be its basis its tentacles
far reaches every aspect of our lives in
the world but the basis of our problems
that were faced with is we
we're hurting animals we live in a
hurting culture we live in a hurting
society and it's basically worldwide
it's not just Western culture though
it's mainly Western culture that that is
part of this hurting culture but it's
now permeating all cultures throughout
the world and that's why it is a one
world culture one world Society and no
matter what kind of society it is if
it's capitalist if it's communism if
it's socialist whatever it still has its
basis in the hurting mentality in the
herding of animals of non-human animals
herding again means that we you know
take large animals and all animals
basically the animals that we use for
food and each culture each country has
you know certain animals that they use
and dominating kill for food and other
purposes and right now it's worldwide
it's like generally all animals
basically because we're dominating the
earth and we're dominating each other
we're dominating all life whatever we
want to destroy or who we destroy we'll
do it so getting back to the to the who
am i is really about trying to get away
you know like we're programmed by all
facets in our society and we have the
hurting culture which is the basis of
this society and so we need to remove or
unlearn what we have learned through the
hurting culture basically meaning that
we must first remove ourselves from that
culture in the frame of mind and
the only way to really do this is to
continuously meditate on the of course
this concept which is Who am I so once
we remove ourselves and start practicing
or meditating on Who am I concept and
self inquiry then we start to
incorporate more love into this and we
started covering more love not just for
Humanity not just for you know the earth
and nature but for all life and we start
unconditionally loving all life so we
put that into practice with this concept
of who I am and once we start to embrace
love for all creation for all life then
we start to become more positive first
we understand the negatives of our
society and we start to understand start
to open our minds and our hearts and
it's like wow I never really you know
thought this I never like this is really
opening me up to a whole new way of
seeing the world and seeing our culture
and our society and all this and then we
of course we incorporate more love into
it and once we do that we start to see a
lot of negativity but at the same time
we start to see a lot of positivity
because then we start understanding once
we understand these concepts then we
have to to teach others these concepts
and tell others that this is what is
really happening in the world today we
are taught all these things that really
are a basis of hurting which is the
basis of violence to other beings to the
earth and each other and we can get out
of this concept we can get out of this
programming and we can get out of this
shambles that we are born into
and this programming and this culture
that were born into and we can live
another way and then we can of course
once we understand that some of these
concepts or a lot of these concepts we
can start to teach others these truths
and these truths come from within they
don't come from a book yeah so you can
learn you know some of these concepts
from a book like the world peace diet
like my books for example you know
through nature and so forth but it
really comes from within it comes from
our intuition or at least cultivating
our intuition and from the universe or
God and of course understanding all
these issues and once we start
understanding that our culture our
society does not serve us any longer
then we have to live in accordance to
the teachings that we and the concepts
that we then understand or then embrace
in our lives so for example if we are
living or if we are meditating on this
Who am I and we start understanding that
we need to love all all all life and we
need to do the least harm then the idea
is how do we put that into practice how
do we put this who am i concept into
practice now Who am I is the basis of
this teaching the self inquiry is the
basis of this teaching but what does it
look like or you know in practical
matters like how do I live my life like
that
and the whole idea is to try and cause
the least harm that we possibly can of
course understanding that it is not
possible to not cause harm because we
cause harm just by living just by
sleeping we cause harm and the whole
thing is to cause the least harm that we
can to do the best that we can in our
everyday lives now this is a journey
and if you really want to learn more in
depth in how we actually practice it how
do we actually go from one day to the
next and live our lives in accordance
with this no harm or the least harm what
do we do how do we go by each and every
day our lives now everyone is gonna do
it a little bit differently and I'm not
saying that there is like a one fit all
practice for every single person out
there nor am i saying that it is going
to be easy nor am i saying that you know
we're gonna do it on the first day no
it's a lifelong practice and you know we
get better as time goes on and we learn
to cause lesser and lesser harm every
and each day and how our body choices
also makes a difference in this world
when it comes to ethics environmental
issues and/or environmental impact and
on our own bodies to do with health and
nutrition and also to other other humans
that we live in this world wins so how
do we do how do we put it into practice
again there is not one fit all you know
practice that everybody can put in you
know into their lives so what I suggest
people start doing is really starting
from the eyes starting from who am i
starting from you know meditating on the
concept of of this self inquiry or self
contemplation and really learning about
trying to lessen our harm when we are
purchasing the flesh the secretions of
animals and I'm talking like all animal
products we are not causing the least
harm we are causing tremendous harm and
we want to try and cause
least harm that we can the least harm is
really the first step is really to start
off by being vegan that's the first
thing that we need to do and all that
means is that we embrace love we embrace
compassion we embrace kindness in our
everyday lives now yes there might be
some people that are compassionate
towards other human beings but with
their everyday buying choices and
everyday food choices unfortunately
they're not you know causing the least
harm they're causing immense violence
they're causing immense suffering with
their buying choices that include dairy
eggs honey you know flesh of animals to
mean all this plus of course they're
buying choices when it comes to clothing
and other products that they use around
the house and in their lives and you
know the services that they use and the
entertainment that they support and all
these things that in some way harm
animals and I'm not saying that you know
myself or even vegans don't cause harm
it's that we have to try to do the least
harm that we can possible and the way to
do this is really start off by being
vegan vegan is the starting line it's
like the starting line when we are you
know running a marathon for example the
starting line is veganism and the end
goal is really to get to the Garden of
Eden which is a fruitarian life maybe
something that's even less harmful than
that which maybe there is something less
harmful than that but the whole idea is
to strive to get beyond veganism the
first step is veganism and my books
especially our path to freedom really
goes into the details and depths of all
of this what I've been talking about in
trying to get away from our culture as
much as we possibly can because
unfortunately that's not our society our
culture does not serve us any longer
and so again to learn more in depth in
detail do get my book our path of
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