Discover Your True Self - Part 1

Name: Discover Your True Self - Part 1
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Path Of Self Enquiry To Answer, "Who Am I?"

Created byNivritti Yoga | Sandeep Verma

Last updated 11/2022

English

What you'll learn

We will identify your longing for Happiness, peace and fulfilment.
Realise your true nature, your real self. The one you are prior to thought, mind and matter.
We will inquire into our most fundamental existential question; who and what are we?
Everyday we will have a deeper understanding of the self and a meditation to stay with that understanding.

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 3h 4m total length

Introduction4:11
The Eternal Seeker13:47
We all want to be free from suffering and experience lasting happiness, feel fulfilled, limitless and complete.
We desire whatever it is that can remove suffering and bring happiness.
In fact, desire seems to drive everything we do.
Going to work, what we do at home, spending time with friends and relatives. All this
In one way or another, is driven by your desire to avoid suffering and enjoy happiness.
Desire ultimately provides the stimulus or motivation for all our actions. All desires have something in common that is when desires are unfulfilled we suffer, we feel unfulfilled, and we feel that something is missing.
But by fulfilling desires, we seek to remove that feeling of being deficient or incomplete.
In This Session, we will examine if fulfilling the desires is the source of happiness?
The Steps For Assimilation10:14
Before we go into Self enquiry, in this session we will see the three Steps of assimilating or understanding this inquiry, by which it will really work for us.
Wealth, Power, Friends & Family15:32
In this session, we will begin Self Enquiry, the process of discovering our true selves. This inquiry will culminate in the 10th session.

We will try to find the answer to the question, "Who or What am I?".
Basically, this question is, us human beings, what is it that we think of ourselves.
Starting with an answer from a common person to very advanced philosophical answers, with each session we will arrive at a more sophisticated answer until we reach the real answer, to the question, "who am I?"

From today we are starting with Neti-Neti meditation, Neti-Neti means Not this-Not this.
this meditation process helps us to detach ourselves from restrictive ideas of self. It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we go deeper into self-inquiry our meditation practice will also become deeper with it.
I Am Thin15:06
In the prior session, we saw the point of view of an ordinary person, who has not even thought about the question, "who am I?".

In this session, we will see the point of view of someone who has begun to think about the question.

In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
I Am Seeing16:42
In the prior session, we found an answer to the question, "Who am I?".
In this session, we will challenge the previous answer to find an even deeper answer to the same question.
In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we are going deeper into self-inquiry, In meditation also these new understandings will be introduced, making it even deeper.
I Am Alive18:01
In the prior session, we found an answer to the question, "Who am I?".
In this session, we will challenge the previous answer to find an even deeper answer to the same question.
In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we are going deeper into self-inquiry, In meditation also these new understandings will be introduced, making it even deeper.
I Am Feeling Good19:39
In the prior session, we found an answer to the question, "Who am I?".
In this session, we will challenge the previous answer to find an even deeper answer to the same question.
In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we are going deeper into self-inquiry, In meditation also these new understandings will be introduced, making it even deeper.
I Have Decided22:22
In the prior session, we found an answer to the question, "Who am I?".
In this session, we will challenge the previous answer to find an even deeper answer to the same question.
In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we are going deeper into self-inquiry, In meditation also these new understandings will be introduced, making it even deeper.
I Don't Know24:26
In the prior session, we found an answer to the question, "Who am I?".
In this session, we will challenge the previous answer to find an even deeper answer to the same question.
In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.
It is a process of systematically dropping everything that I understand is not me. As we are going deeper into self-inquiry, In meditation also these new understandings will be introduced, making it even deeper.
I Am24:32
We have finally arrived at the final answer to the question,' Who am I?'.
In this session, we will further reflect on the answer to help us to bring more clarity about the self, or the real I.

In the Meditation part, we will continue with Neti-Neti (Not this-Not this) Meditation.

Requirements

You'll need an inquisitive and open mind, wanting to look deeply into yourself.
Be ready to give up all ideas of who you think yourself to be.

Description

All living beings want to be eternally fulfilled and happy, without misery, without suffering.

All of our struggles, all of our desires are to become fulfilled, it doesn't matter if we are fat or fit, poor or rich, black or white, this country or that country everybody across the board wants to be limitless, fill fulfilled, fill lasting happiness without any misery.

Even the people who are cruel to themselves and others do so not for being cruel but to find this fulfilment.

Finding this lasting fulfilment, completeness, a life full of freedom, overcoming even the minutest suffering, and attaining everlasting bliss, is the goal of yoga and all other spiritual paths in general.

According to the ancient Rishis, the true source of happiness lies within you.

Even though Many people especially spiritual seekers intuitively understand that the true source of happiness is within,

their day-to-day behaviour doesn't seem to reflect this understanding at all. Because there is some confusion about this fact, a strong conviction that happiness is within is missing. The experience of fulness is missing.

The path of self-inquiry, is a method of Jnana yoga the Yoga of knowledge, it is an inquiry into, 'Who or what am I?' This is said to be the direct path to overcoming all the suffering and finding lasting fulfilment.

Made famous by the great 20th-century saint, Sri Ramana Maharshi, the origin of this is in the ancient Indian philosophical texts Upanishads.

Unless we know what or who we are, how can we know what we truly seek?

According to the yoga of knowledge, the root cause of all our suffering is due to our mistaken conception of ourselves,

So, it's not due to the problems in the world

It's not due to financial hardship

It's not due to relationship problems

It's not even due to physical or mental problems

It's due to a wrong idea. It's due to ignorance of our true nature.

We know we exist, but what we are is not very clear to us,

and to discover what we truly are, is the goal of the yoga of knowledge, and self-inquiry is the method.

This path is an inquiry Into oneself and not getting caught in the humdrum of existence, which is too noisy. Listening to the music of the true self.

How is this path different from other paths? :

This path does not demand that you believe in anything, infect you must not believe it, you have to question, reason it out and see if it makes sense to your experience. Then only clarity will come.

It also does not demand that you have to get extraordinary mystical experiences, like samadhi, kundalini awakening etc.

It depends on what is available to everybody, everywhere and all the time.

Who this course is for:

Anyone with a spiritual yearning, a longing towards the truth and reality.
Spiritual Freedom through experience and understanding.