The Archive
The Archive
Every talk Ananta has given, in two lengths. The short ones for a pause in the day. The long ones for an evening.
1,571 fragments2,503 full talks
Short fragments
क्षण
A teaching in a single breath
Single teachings, ninety seconds or less.
1,657 in the catalogue
Tying your happiness to a drunk donkey
The holy meeting in the heart
No credentials needed for Atma Darshan
Eat the sweet, eat God
Love gives freedom, attachment takes freedom
Why must I prove my love to God?
Don't leave this world without meeting God
Spirituality Without Spirit Is a Restaurant Without Food
God is not a concept
Running to Help God Spin the Earth Faster
A Love Beyond Feeling
No Time to Resent
The One Who Never Changed
Just try one day
Get into that embrace right now
Allow your heart to just be
Which tree are you watering
A Swiss watch used to hammer a nail
When the oppressor wears a spiritual costume
God is available on call
Stop sorting people into worthy and unworthy
Carried like a baby in his lap
God's special corner for those who made mistakes
How to find the God who is everywhere
Spirituality rarely talks about spirit — mostly about experiences
Don't hedge your bets — full-hearted surrender or self-help?
Antakarana is a dual-purpose design — Maya or God
Felt love comes and goes — the deeper love is known in the heart
God's name is like a fire that burns whatever your intention was
There is no quick fix for fear; constant remembrance grows trust
One teaching, two lengths. Take what your day allows.
Full talks
सत्संग
Sit down. Stay an evening.
Two hours, sometimes three. In full.
2,569 in the archive
30:53Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 14 Commentary and Contemplation - 24th August 2017
The mind’s job is to remind you of something which is not true: that you are a limited entity.
Aug 24, 2017
4:54A Sage Can Appear to be Like Anyone Else Sometimes - 24th August 2017
Thinking is not the appearance of thoughts, but the belief in them and picking up an identity.
Aug 24, 2017
6:54Vigilance and Inquiry - 23rd August 2017
The sage is not scared out of his wits; vigilance is simply the non-denial of what is happening.
Aug 23, 2017
9:28Dissolving Fear of the Non-localization of Awareness - 23rd August 2017
The mind uses fear to resist the natural discovery that you cannot be found as a localized entity.
Aug 23, 2017
59:07Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 13 Commentary and Contemplation - 23rd August 2017
The fish is thirsty in the water... this looking for the self is the water thirsting for water.
Aug 23, 2017
1:31:53Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 13 - 23rd August 2017
If there is a little bit of ‘I don’t know’ in you, then there is room for the Satguru.
Aug 23, 2017
55:48Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 12 Commentary and Contemplation - 22nd August 2017
The mind is like a lawyer representing a client that doesn't actually exist.
Aug 22, 2017
1:49:09Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 12 - 22nd August 2017
You are not the thinker of your thoughts or the doer of your acts; the world runs effortlessly.
Aug 22, 2017
6:28Perception and Attention - 22nd August 2017
There is no perception independent of attention; only that which we attend to exists in our direct experience.
Aug 22, 2017
1:47:56Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Ch.10, Vs. 1-5 & Ch. 11 - 21st August 2017
Where there is desire, there is the world. In non-attachment, be free of desire and be happy.
Aug 21, 2017
10:32A Simple Inquiry - 21st August 2017
Aug 21, 2017
2:36Why Do We Speak About the 'Primal Desire of Awareness'? - 21st August 2017
When you recognize awareness, the idea of it having a desire becomes completely laughable.
Aug 21, 2017
47:12Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 11 Commentary and Contemplation - 21st August 2017
You have as much free will as a movie character; both are at the same level of reality.
Aug 21, 2017
22:18Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 10, Vs. 1-5 Commentary and Contemplation - 21st August 2017
Where there is desire, there is the world. In non-attachment, be free of desire and be happy.
Aug 21, 2017
6:31Ashtavakra Gita Ch.10 Vs.7-8 Commentary and Contemplationn - 18th August 2017
In the dreary forest of the world, the mind finds no rest through prosperity or pleasure.
Aug 18, 2017
5:52Inherently, in Every Moment, You Are Free - 18th August 2017
Unburdening is letting go of ideas about the past and projections about the future.
Aug 18, 2017
2:26This Much The Sages Agree On - 18th August 2017
Concepts are just tools used to remove conditioning, like using one thorn to remove another.
Aug 18, 2017
1:51:31Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 10 Vs. 7-8 - 18th August 2017
You are the solitary witness of all that is, forever free. The only bondage is not seeing this.
Aug 18, 2017
5:23Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 9, Vs. 6-8 Commentary and Contemplation - 16th August 2017
Aug 16, 2017
22:29Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 9 Commentary and Contemplation - 16th August 2017
Leave the opposites behind; be content with what comes. This is the perfection of openness.
Aug 16, 2017
5:03The 10th Clue That Which is the Source of Your Being - 16th August 2017
The person identity is nothing but a basket of concepts and functional limitations.
Aug 16, 2017
10:1211 Clues to Awakening - 16th August 2017
You are the one solitary witness of all things.
Aug 16, 2017
17:42Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 9, Vs.1-5 Commentary and Contemplation - 16th August 2017
Leave the opposites behind and be content with what comes; perfection is this open neutrality.
Aug 16, 2017
1:46:21Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 9 - 16th August 2017
The point is not to go from attachment to detachment, but to come to this openness, this neutrality.
Aug 16, 2017