The Secret That Makes the Impossible Easy!
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In this foundational satsang, Shunyamurti returns to the heart of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s teaching with a message of radical simplicity: Be Still. He explains that the ego is nothing more than an acquired program of trauma, fear, self-doubt, and compulsive thought, and that liberation begins the moment we stop identifying with it. As the world approaches the final stages of Kali Yuga, this teaching serves as both a warning and an invitation: let go of every distraction, attachment, and narrative that keeps consciousness bound to the false self. The medicine is simple. Be still, receive the grace of God, and allow the light of the Self to dissolve the illusion of separation forever.
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Will Relationships Collapse With the Ego?
Question:
I really want to know Shunyamurti’s opinion: do we have to try to recover men and women’s relationship, or is it going to collapse like any other fractal? The loneliness epidemic seems to destroy most humans.
Shunyamurti’s Reply:
Yes, the energy that moves the ego is the desire of the Other. When that is absent for too long, the ego shuts down its limited creativity, and becomes progressively more hardened and cold. This is the end of the era of the ego. That self-limiting structure of willful ignorance and terror of the infinite is already beginning to disappear, along with its nightmarish world. In those who turn away from the lure of the ego and discover the source of consciousness within, the Infinite Self is directly revealed. This explains the classic zen aphorism: First, there is a world of egos. Then, after attaining satori, there is no world, only the Light of Consciousness free of differences. Then, in the final phase of revelation, there is again a world, but now it is the expression of the perfect love, blissful intelligence, and power of freedom of the Inconceivable Absolute Self.
Namaste,
Shunyamurti
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