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
5:35What Dissolution Is The Sage Speaking Of? (Ashtavakra Gita 5.1-5.4) - 1st November 2016
Dissolution is the squeezing out of the false idea that I am a separate person.
Nov 1, 2016
17:34Guided Contemplation in Silence on the Ashtavakra Gita (5.1-5.4) - 1st November 2016
Nov 1, 2016
5:51See Yourself For What You Are (Ashtavakra Gita 5.4) - 1st November 2016
You are perfect and changeless through misery and happiness, hope and despair, life and death.
Nov 1, 2016
7:20Four Ways to Dissolution (Ashtavakra Gita 5.1-5.4) - 31st October 2016
You are the immaculate, touched by nothing; the mind is complex, let it go.
Oct 31, 2016
7:46Your Heart is Ripe for This Now (Ashtavakra Gita 5.1-5.4) - 31st October 2016
Don't believe your next thought; it has no power unless you give it your interest.
Oct 31, 2016
4:50Surrendering is Recognizing All is Moving on Its Own (Ashtavakra Gita 3.11-3.14) - 27th Oct. 2016
The sense of being the individual experiencer of pleasure and pain must fall away for true freedom.
Oct 27, 2016
10:09Janaka's Glorification of Self-Realization (Ashtavakra Gita 4.1) - 27th October 2016
The conceptual framework of Advaita, if it remains only in the mind, can be the biggest burden.
Oct 27, 2016
5:13The Serene Sage Abides in the Self (Ashtavakra Gita 3.9) - 27th October 2016
The appearance of the outer Guru is a reflection of our own inner presence.
Oct 27, 2016
11:46Living Life As It Comes (Ashtavakra Gita 4.2-4.6) - 27th October 2016
The sage is not feeling special... it is such a regular, simple discovery that there was never a person.
Oct 27, 2016
11:00The Timeless One Cannot Fear Death (Ashtavakra Gita 3.8) - 27th October 2016
Waking up is recognizing you are that which remains even in the state of dreamless sleep.
Oct 27, 2016
4:57Witnessing Body Actions As If They Were Another’s (Ashtavakra Gita 3.10) - 27th October 2016
A great soul witnesses his body's actions as if they were another's.
Oct 27, 2016
15:30The Unchanging Self (Guided Meditation) - 26th October 2016
Oct 26, 2016
25:53The Divine Leela, The Divine Joke (Ashtavakra Gita 3.1 - 3.8) - 26th October 2016
Having realized yourself as that in which the waves of the world rise and fall, why run in turmoil?
Oct 26, 2016
4:44I Am Awareness, Not a Person, Not a Body (Ashtavakra Gita 2.22) - 25th October 2016
The essence of spiritual practice is the complete surrender of the individual self.
Oct 25, 2016
16:54Are These My Concern, as Awareness? (Ashtavakra Gita 2.20) - 25th October 2016
Oct 25, 2016
5:42No Differences or Separation (Ashtavakra Gita 2.21) - 25th October 2016
Without the interpretive mind, all of existence is seen as one single, formless appearance.
Oct 25, 2016
11:17The Body is a Beautiful Instrument (Ashtavakra Gita 2.22) - 25th October 2016
The body is a beautiful instrument, but the only mistake is to say 'I am the body.'
Oct 25, 2016
8:07The Limitless Ocean of Myself (Ashtavakra Gita 2.23 - 2.25) - 25th October 2016
Oct 25, 2016
3:04Consciousness Wants to Merge In Its Source (Ashtavakra Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016
Time is fleeting, and our moments together are brief.
Oct 21, 2016
3:00Abiding in Awareness is Not About Attention (Ashtavakra Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016
Abiding in awareness is not about effort; it is about letting go of the false.
Oct 21, 2016
5:14Can Anyone Leave Awareness? (Ashtavakra-Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016
The only seeming bondage is the illusion of personhood, which requires your belief to exist.
Oct 21, 2016
3:21Consciousness Dropping Pretense is Freedom (Ashtavakra Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016
God pretending to be a person is the ego; dropping that idea is returning to pure presence.
Oct 21, 2016
6:23Self is Non-Phenomenal (Ashtavakra Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016
At the core of realization, it is seen that I have always only been this.
Oct 21, 2016
13:48Liberation is to Know Yourself as Awareness Alone (Ashtavakra Gita 1.3) - 20th October 2016
You are not earth, water, fire, air, or even empty space; you are awareness alone.
Oct 20, 2016