 Welcome to the show Shiva. Shiva is over in Tamil Nadu in India and He has been a critical node in catalyzing awakening especially on Instagram and He's been a super connector of those that are Already awakened our awakening and He's created several catalytic flames for me myself in my awakening so I'm really grateful and Pumped for this Shiva has also been interviewing people that are Awakened and He is Link is in the bio below for people that want to follow him and send him a message and Potentially be interviewed as well and it's a really great way to link people up that are awakened to Create even more ignition of the awakening You know I have had several back and forth now about Let's awaken and enlighten the planet which were jacked about there's so many forces right now that are in that process Which is very exciting start with some let's start with some background on you, brother Let's start with some background. Tell us about how you awakened this thing called joint intense examination in India Which is To put people into engineering colleges premier engineering colleges I went to one and I didn't like it there. I It's far away from home so returning from there wasn't welcome in my home Attending the engineering classes weren't welcome to my liking and of course The hostels were full of all kinds of races. So just being there was an ominous energy As time passed I realized I couldn't keep living like this going to college not liking it They're going to hostel not liking it. They're Not being welcomed by my parents to drop out as days pass by I work Monday Having no guru having no spiritual technique Just for my solace. I used to feed the dogs. I used to run a lot That was pretty much it that was My dad that was how I was getting right One day full of Living in this stressful situation and the flight of light all the time Was leaking havoc on my nervous system one day I walk alone Just a few dogs Carrying a whole bunch of Indian bread in my hand. I hear in my mind It you last for two days after that it's over and At that point of time nothing mattered neither my Neither my engineering degree nor my family background or not the life ahead if I'm going to die and enlightenment is the Only purpose of life who dies of failure who dies unenlightened It it's a it's a dark night. The night was pretty dark and it's a lonely stretch of the road I walk and It's just me conversing against my conversing against my mind My mind says to me go to hostel you have last morrow I reply attending the class is fine not attending. It is fine. But who has to attend I had enough of it and My mind says your ankles hurt a lot ankles hurting is fine and not hurting is fine The ankles will hurt tomorrow, but I still haven't awakened and the third step is I get a fed up of Just conversing with the mind. It's just what plate and it leads to nowhere. It's just weird intellectualization And I just narrowed on to the question who has to go to all this who and who just push it really against myself I take five steps Storming in anger The blade rushes to my face so much energy rush to my face and from the sixth step it pulled on all its own That was the moment. I knew I had broken into something. I Go to the hostel look inside the mirror my eyes had changed I From the hostel Well, I just a college kid from the hostel. I go to the dining hall try to eat food my hand reaches for the food It almost comes to my mouth, but I'm I'm not the body consciousness doesn't need food. I've done it And then I go to sleep. I close my eyes, but it's almost like well, I'm I'm very awake. I turn right I'm aware I turn left I'm aware The mind isn't racing go here do this Like the struggles of 20-something the mind isn't racing like that It is it's in deep sleep, but I'm still lover and the morning I woke up that ourness hadn't changed That's been mad and for three days I was totally in that state and I was losing control over all my abilities very fast I knew keeping in touch with it my body would wouldn't last it's a good time forever So I had to think a lot and wrote my mind with impressions and impressions and impressions finally get one module working and With it get access to all the modules working and now my ego is back with all its modules up with all its bells and whistles and how old are you back then I Didn't have a teacher and With engineering not being to my liking My mind was stuck in all sorts of words. I Didn't have anything to take through so I used energy a lot. I just used to walk a lot Yeah, just to the light on see a force and At the moment of awakening that see a force came it came in handy There was this one who does all this and The when the mind knows it cannot break It cannot break through it mind is limited So just to see a force of it Let me break the wall who does all this who does all this and it's been good. Oh, I brought out of college fifth semester and I'm doing something very different. I'm taking I've taken photography and And I'm pursuing that slow Shiva. How old are you? I'm 21 now, but at that moment 21 now, but the moment of awakening I was 70. Yes, I love it. Ah This is so perfect You Sockman is also 20 years old. I love the youth right now being awakened It's so delicious The story for you with your sort of matrix force of the culture and the parents and the You engineer and then they have all these other forces of culture that are about becoming Profession doctor finance all this type of stuff. You have to make money in nine to five and so it's cool that You threw the process of Asking who who has to go to class and then the my it's cool because you created a juxtaposition You basically created the very Where if if this is the mind that's barking all the time and this is the modulating This is the modulating and you're wondering who is this who who is the screen? What is Exactly and That's great that you created that juxtaposition for yourself even without spirituality without guru just by asking the question super easy or super interesting not as I Think you have a good story about how simple it is to But it's also difficult like you said because there are these days of losing your faculties where what Do we do when we're in emptiness and when we Come back to the physical There's a process of in a sense integrating some of said capacities again people kind of look a little bit weird if you just kind of sit there like Yeah People are like is this person alive? What's going on? Do they need medical help? And so it's So there is a process of integration and so So would you say that you landed at when you dug who who who who? you land at this This very empty formlessness that is the Source of infinite possibility and is this awareness this consciousness is that right? Yeah, it's like that in your heart When all the wheels get lifted and you say see it We I wonder why it's such a big process like so many universes So many beings and over such a period of time and this is it how you had to do was Break two or three things in your mind two or three patterns, and this is it That's a good one too. It's right there with them You do land Just asking who you do break through all the all the modules You do take to all the modules and land right in the consciousness that the infinite source Yeah Yeah, cross your own mind and you cross the infinite mind Well after awakening The entities are going off Stuff that were not already active which were dormant are now active and now in my know in my control and Enlightenment is called second birth in a bit of Vedanta and in Buddhism It is like a kid learning to walk and how he learns this exponential. It's so crazy, dude And so it was a very new place for me and people around me couldn't understand Well, I wasn't in a deeply responsible condition at that time. I was very frantic. I couldn't well I walked so much Till the point of my enlightenment and Enlightenment I couldn't stay a sister Sit still I had to walk a lot and people on that what's wrong with him and I Couldn't maintain eye contact with people for so long. I And of course this too for their attention and well, I had to stay Well after awakening and me sensing energy the fifth road where he was put in where all the drug users and the junkies and the delinquents and All those people all the anti-social elements I'm an anti-social element too, but Well, I stuck out for a different reason where all those people were just entering The fifth road made the energy so heavy and it was such a disturbing feeling. I Had to stay stay out outside and I Used to sleep in the ground. I used to sleep in the Cloth room Which was open only when people were leaving the home and had to keep the luggage and depart from home So I had to see I was basically homeless for the next four months after awakening and people thought I was an insomniac I was sleeping quite well and People thought he was too alone. Well, I couldn't I don't know maybe the some energetic thing that's sitting me apart was happening And I was with the dogs all the time so people couldn't figure me out and This got the attention of my professors and you know My greats were very poor Yeah, yeah And they thought me uh, they took me to be they took me to the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist diagnosed me to be a schizophrenic and I was taking holyance for one whole year Staying and staying in my home It it was kind of a blessing because the college was so stressful. I got to rest at home for a year But the tablets wreak havoc on your nervous system and they poison your nervous system So and this is again where science versus spirituality comes in And Well Just confined by rationality science asks you to lead a normal life Confirm to the society and to the education and to the parents and to the culture of course Science cannot define consciousness the The farthest it has gone is defined it as the heart problem of consciousness and it left it there And it asks you to medicate Which is to the greater will which is not to the greater benefit spirituality on the other hand lets you be free Asked you to purify yourself says it's all inside It's not something that is said and you have to mechanically treat it. It's all inside. It's you have the control and Oh spirituality has a very good back backing on consciousness So purifying not many medicating is the answer to The I I don't agree with the whole movement of psychiatry Okay Beautiful we have a couple ways to hit the ball back here One of them is that it's nuts that we have these Trampolines awakening and then there's no landing zones And so then you have this whole thing with like I'm homeless for four months. I nobody understands I'm diagnosed For schizophrenia Which there's a bunch of disastrous problems with that which we'll talk about there's a lot of Dirty bath water and we need to sort of take out the baby which we'll talk about in a moment And then the whole year long of pharmaceuticals creating neurobiological havoc and then One of the things that I would say around science and spirituality is that Science is like the analysis of form science is like when you analyze the Specific food item if this creation is a beet salad Science is the analyzers of the beet salad But next creation, we're going to get chicken soup And it's going to be a different Analysis of form. Yeah, it can show for the soul For the soul Exactly And so this is what we have to understand is that science is the analysis of finity the analysis of form And it's very important because it's what's enabling us to have this conversation right now And so we have to respect The math and physics and biology and chemistry. It's like, thank you. Thank you. There's very good things here We understand that yet at the same time Spirituality is the study of metaphysics. It's the study of infinity. It's the study of the Realignment Towards the one heart When you're distracted and distorted by maya and the contractions Spirituality is like turn inward turn inward turn inward realign realign realign and so Ultimately is a synthesis between the two you drain the dirty bath water from both you bring the two together and merge them into one Because it's just a mind that's separating them anyway and so I really like the synthesis there and then I like your point as well about All you have to do is break these two to three patterns in your own mind. It's really Fundamentally it is that it's just the contracted identity and the perpetual Yeah, it just perpetuates itself. Anything that doesn't agree with it just perpetuates It's this one This one be here now Which way should we go? How long will it take to get there? Where is that? How far away is it? How do we get there? And we have you know, that's one of them, you know, this is another one of them That's really good, you know before spiritual awakening. You're the victim And after spiritual awakening you understand that you created your own You are creation You are the entirety of creation. You are the very source of the infinite possibility itself Yes, yes And we'll yeah, we'll get to some more of these good ones This is these are some of them from Shiva's page as well The girlfriend promised me to be normal around my parents this time. Okay. I promise her dad So what do you do for fun me? What do you mean by you? And We'll get to some more of those here in a bit just wanted to at least, you know, bring up the fundamental patterns that we're talking about are Why does the mind constantly bring you into the past or into the future? Why does it make you anxious or depressed? Yeah that's one of the great freedoms of liberation The doomsday effect like there's some impending doom and the pattern of it just goes away If that you can be with the humans and take part in the drama Otherwise you can be alone. Otherwise you can drop dead and dissolve for good I would say that the rumination in the past and the future Like you said the doomsday mind the impending doom mind is one of these patterns And then I would say another one of the patterns is that The mind wants to separate everything So the mind wants to yes the mind wants to say that Shiva is different than atlas and that this glass of water is different than atlas and shiva But then you ask the simple question can make the mind realize on this which is Where is the boundary? Where where is the boundary between The very oxygen that you inhale every breath. Where is the boundary? And so these little pattern breaks that you can make Will help you recognize the very unity Of it all Once you break all the boundaries to the place where the boundaries exist is also crossed over Uh, the mind is a concept of the mind and That's how ridiculous it is The mind is a concept of the mind And uh one little riddle uh one who am I uh just to solve the entire riddle existence It is uh just when life gets It is when life gets mind boggling that you turn and turn inside and ask the questions and ask the questions that really matter And that's only one question Another thing about who am I do uh when people ask me so many questions So many questions which are of no use I just Put who in front of it and ask them the same question back Well, uh Do you dissolve the do you dissolve the boundaries of the mind? When you awaken who dissolves the body of the mind when you awaken Do you think you're god who is god? Who is the god here when I'm kind of braggadoosh? Yeah, so many questions people have circumcised their head so long and there are like these spiritual practices and The traditions and the disciplines and that is uh, that is a little Maya in itself I see people meditating for 20 years reading their books for 20 years Uh Becoming holy and holy righteous and righteous Prejudiced a whole lot and at the end they and all the disciplines to burden them and at the end they die and Unenlightened and which which is very sad to see When in reality, it's it's just stopping the thing that's going on here And yeah, and well most of most of the people Who I come across can't believe I'm enlightened or I've done it Uh, only now they're slowly getting a sense. Uh, otherwise they just took me for Someone who's living in his old world Yeah, uh Yeah, that's how bad it is in India the land the land of enlightenment. That's how bad it is the people around me have no proof Uh, uh, also, uh, they think it's the end all of life. They'll do it after they cross 60 years of age Oh, why not get enlightened and live a life much more beautiful much more blissful much freer Uh, there is lucid dreaming when a guy gets aware that he is in a dream and he's able to take decisions in a dream With little awareness that dream becomes much more fruitful colorful and beautiful and here they are people Going through life and willing to go through life Choosing to go through life just a slave just so limited They spend 60 years of life in that Fooling themselves in that pit of darkness and they want enlightenment after 60 years of age We should be pro pro life pro enlightened life. You can get enlightened cross off the list as quick as possible and Create a beautiful world. Oh, this is this is India. This is India. This is the general notion We should get awakened only after 60 years of age Separate themselves from each other all the day long Have so many well have have so many worlds that separate themselves have so many recent mints and resistances against the people And Between themselves all the while and then and then after 60 years of age they get awakened I hope they get awakened After awakening though just to stabilize myself. I I ask I did ask for help and Uh, take me to this yoga teacher. Take me to that yoga teacher and the guys are As unaware as they could be And they are like, I know I don't I well I hit the yogurt. I I see the yoga teacher. I the first question I ask us. Are you awake? It's like are you awake bro? And uh They're like I want to be normal awakening is a very big thing Awakening comes at the end of life. They just they just block all the good things from themselves just because The indian tradition promises awakening only after 60 years of age Yeah I also I also like Uh meditation need not be the only way to awakening closing your eyes and fitting It could happen when you're walking Uh, that's the You know of roomy roomy atlifts You know, you heard of roomy atlifts That guy, uh, was separated from his teacher And he couldn't handle the separation no more He just flung out his arms started spinning around for 36 hours at the end of it awakened A guy spinning around for 36 hours got enlightened The same enlightenment which people Uh come to after 30 years of Meditation deep meditation dark dark deep deep meditation And uh, there there was a dancing ascetic Wood with the three dancing ascetics buddha walks by One of them asks how long will I take to awaken buddha says three like 30 Three lifetimes and this guy gets detected and walks away Buddha mr. Second guy he asks him the same question. How long till I awaken? He says you'll take 300 lifetimes. This guy gets detected and walks away There's a third guy who's full of ecstasy Buddha says you'll take as much years as much lifetimes as there are leaves on that Banding tree This guy just starts laughing and he gets awakened that instant So We do need to take action towards enlightenment, but Let not action big big become your bastard be not a slave to action And That's of course pop Yeah, that's of course papaji a disciple of ramana maharishi Who gave who am I who popularized who am I and Papaji used to have people sit in front of his presence Ask them two or three questions And at the end of it it takes barely five minutes the people awaken It's basically inquiry done for you Yes And yeah, yeah Well, well I'm all for instant enlightenment Yes, like me too Me too and I'm actually really happy that You bring that up I feel a really strong pull towards the instant enlightenment along with the The purifying that comes along with a process in a sense of There's going to be moments when you understand everything as one intelligence at play with itself There's going to be moments where you end up seeing that Am I coming from the creation serving itself? Or am I coming from me wanting to extract something out of the creation? And so that that will continue happening and there'll be a purification process, but you can jump and pierce The veil is veil fast rather than slow And you brought up a lot of good things in that Last bit I would say that In essence what we're talking about like we said earlier Is stopping these couple patterns of the mind and as you quiet the mind you unite With the diamond that's already around your neck, which is that you're always already free And perfect and ineffable emptiness witnessing infinite creation And that you bring up this really good point, which is that Why are people waiting in the holy land of india the most spiritual place in the entire world? Why are people waiting until they're 60? Why are they going to maya for six decades? And then they're like okay the last 20 years i'll try my best to read some books It's like nope actually by the age of 10 We can put you into virtual reality pedagogy And we can walk you through the basic understanding of the nature of reality very quickly And then you can be awake in the dream You can be awake in the dream And that's lucid dreaming i really like that a lot and it's a state change Which is another thing that's important to mention is that it's a simple state change Drop the person and become god Drop the person drop the argument and become god and serve God this is all god playing with itself So serve that rather than trying to extract for your person And destroy the world in the process India as a land where five year five year old babies were enlightened They are missing the whole point here also They think after they have stereotype enlightenment so much They think only the dimensions get awakened and all the dimensions are all the dimensions are useless We have well, well, well, I hope they don't Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll see they'll see it enlightened them so that and we need to open their eyes to Yeah, I'll show them what's possible Once you're awakened I'm curious what you think about the fundamental questions Who am I? What is I? What is me? self-inquiry Go inside go within turn in word When you make the recommendation for people How do you make the recommendation with who am I? The game of Maya or materialism is How much ever you play it, there's still more to get and it it still keeps you in the chase and it never ends the Deciding process never ends And so so it is with knowledge As much knowledge as you're doing or as much question as you put forth Does it still leads you on and that's going to be more questions and these questions are about the objects outside and Well as as much knowledge you acquire it's still going to be incomplete something fundamental is going to be missing Where is self-inquiry is the knowledge of the self? Say you have knowledge of everything in the universe, but not of the self It remains incomplete So you have knowledge of the self and you're clueless about the universe You have something of substance. It doesn't matter. You can stay soaked in the bliss of the self That's that's that's how over overpowering overwhelming overpowering it is over Over the tiny objects of Maya and on the moment on the moment of awakening the things that appear so solid Up you it's so rigid and having such boundary such the definite properties Consciousness just overwhelms them This substance which is intangible or over well just over shadows the tangible substances And it's like floating in consciousness all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Oh the the the poverty here is The intangible becomes more tangible than the tangible Yeah, yeah. Well, these are the right questions you ask to yourself Uh, if you need to keep your sanity against the world Well, well, these are the times where people are Little bit insecurity Well the times of corona makes it even more relevant And so the only place where you can be secured the only thing that remains where everything including your own sense of self Gets taken away the sense of self is a perfect permutation and combination of different identities likes and dislikes you live with these and The objects that the objects that make up the content of your consciousness Say I go to this school. This is a dot here Say, uh, I have these parents This is a dot here and say I like this board. This is a dot here These are just dots in your mind You continuing to live with it day after day these dots get connected And a person begins to form and the more you The more you stay true to these dots or let let these uh, or sustain these thoughts the the more your personality gets I wrap that on those thoughts so That's that's how the person is made and erase the lines and these dots follow follow apart by themselves and What is behind all these what has been playing the game all along is seen and that's awakening Awareness of becoming aware of awareness itself becoming conscious of consciousness itself Making the seers free himself. That's what you can do today and Yeah, yeah And awakening doesn't mean you need to Cover and transcend and master every part of your mind the mind is supposed to have 16 parts according to yoga, which I haven't even read properly take those five those five parts are chitta which is intelligence and ahamkara, which is identity and malice which is the flow of thoughts and buddhi which is the intellect the rational part and one other part which I Failed to the which I failed which I failed to remember the only thing that needs to be dismantled is ahamkara or the identity the sense of eye crossover this one eye Asking who who who really does it who really does it who am I and cross this crossover this one eye and you're done it The rest of the the rest of the syllabus need not be completed Just do this one thing get away conflict and the world is ours to take Yeah, the enlightenment is not something so formidable Uh At least it needs a little little strength a little will to be indomitable A little stubbornness. I won't give up till I break this barrier, but After that it's a piece of cake. It's the easiest thing easiest thing thing in the world. It's the simplest thing in the world Uh Yeah, yeah, and knowledge acquiring knowledge, uh thinking your journey towards enlightenment is uh You're just brainwashing yourself Uh, books are the new cults books are the new cults. Oh, damn. That's all you need is Well, well action is uh, little necessary. It gives you a platform to stand on but after that platform It's up to you to take the beat Don't stay stuck in the platform There is Maya and there is spiritual knowledge and it's up to you to go beyond both Now having a higher platform a better platform go beyond it Don't get stuck into it. Uh, the amount of books you read That's not equal your your spiritual progress Uh getting through the barrier and touching that Spiritual progress Truth process action. So How much of an action you make? Well, the hours you put I don't know how it is with meditation or the meditation type dudes, but Don't get stuck in action. It's the better you do it the more the more painful the separation is Between you and enlightenment the more painful it gets to continue even a day without enlightenment It gets it bothers you so much who goes to sleep and awakened You feel like a failure when nothing else matters. You feel like a only enlightenment matters When it becomes like this, uh, you're willing to Yeah at the cost of your life, you're willing to know the truth Then settle for less and carry on with life. That's the moment That's the moment and the enlightenment is around the corner. Yeah Basically, I can ask who am I? I I do think of organizing triathlons in India and Mix inquiry with it and somehow turn it's virtual That is a purity to physical practice spiritual physical athletic practices and mixing inquiry with it Goes a long way Maybe a hundred people sign up for the race and 10 people are vacant by them of it. I love the quote Like you said floating in consciousness all the time. It's a good one. I like how you said mayas carrots and never end I like how you said that something fundamental will be missing even if you collect all of the knowledge of form Infinity something will be missing a k a your knowledge of the very seer the observer the witness awareness being this itself The I am will be missing That the very self distortions are all of the permutations in the possibility space of likes and dislikes and attachment and Seeking validation and person energy contraction all of your childhood conditioning This is the space of the distortion This is the space of the argument of god with god argue with god and so I'm giving god Yep, and then I like how you brought up on caro, which is one of my favorite words as well because the identity is key This is a big game of identity. It's all about identity. Are you the person? Are you the awareness? Are you the very source? of at all Are you the very source of infinite possibility itself? The very emptiness in which everything arises and goes right back to are you that Because if you are that you win And you serve the creation from there But if you're even if you're even if you are awareness I've seen people sort of get into the point where they Hold awareness, but they're personal awareness They don't even go impersonal with the awareness and they don't make it even eternal And so this is what's important to also decipher as well And I like how you brought up that Books are the new cult. It's important to know Yeah, yeah Yeah, you can't have in the classic videos There's you know, you have all these interviews happening and the person that's being interviewed has this bookshelf behind them And they have you know a thousand books on the shelf and and that's what makes them So intelligent, but you ask them, you know, what is I? Who am who are you? What is you? and At that point you'll tell that the energy is the contracted person because you really just need this flip inward Analyze inward go inward until you get to the very Emptiness to the very black hole itself That is right there at the center of your eye. The very pupil itself is there It's we we put all of these codes into the game and they're they're They're right there so simple in front of our eyes and We're overlooking them all the time. Yeah Oh, yeah, yeah, it's it's so simple. Yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah and the floating in consciousness part There is a saint in India. His name is Kabir. He was a beaver Which is a kind of economically poor, but he was enlightened He said it is like fish swimming in water all the time searching for water. Yeah Human searching for truth is as Well, that's how ridiculous it is. It is like fish floating in water searching for water Yeah floating in consciousness all the time and uh Yeah, when you ask them, who are you to all these knowledgeable big big people in the world or the big wigs They just uh all all this lag comes out. They put on the cool guy attitude. Uh, I am me. This is who I am I think here, yeah but I haven't even uh seen soft man Who does non-dual hip-hop? Yeah, yeah, uh describe himself in such a bigger vagato show And uh, what does did you say? I feel like another good topic for us to talk about would be what has happened In the last maybe Year, how long have you been doing interviews now of people that have awakened? For three months. No cool three months. So what has happened in the last three months? so basically since the beginning of this year and By the way, I want to share with you that Amanda Rizzo, you know her song anata. I am a strange loop that you post it to your account, right? Yeah, okay, so you posted that to your account And then what happened was That when I when I was listening to that That's when This started coming up So that's when I started going to the very meeting place of self no self And I was So grateful because it was your sharing of her incredible musical art that triggered this sort of More true deep inquiry into the very Simulation the very intoxicative illusion of the sense of I itself And that's when I sort of started popping a little bit more from the atman to the anatman or to the anata itself and then sort of really vortexing in the creation Expressing itself interacting with itself. And so I'm really grateful for you guys and That That's the type of stuff that I would say is The some of the coolest stuff that you've been doing is when you get a good piece of awakening You share that and then that I check it out. Sockman checks it out, etc And that's sort of how we go And so you do a good job of that So what sort of happened in the last three months walk us through interviewing awakened people and what's been happening yet? Oh I started the page. Uh, just to rant against me Being misunderstood. They were taking me to the therapist and the therapist had no clue They asked me do you want to be a yogi? I tell them I'm already a yogi They asked me do you think you're enlightened? I tell them if I don't think anything, I'm enlightened And they are of course, uh, it was going to no point Of the question that they asked you do you think you're enlightened? You're like if I don't think anything that I'm enlightened It was getting ridiculous over there and Uh, well Hell yeah, hell yeah There was 10 days of therapy remaining and they said don't talk about enlightenment. Don't understand what enlightenment is and I quit it I was like, uh, well, what better But what else am I here for if not for enlightenment? Uh, we we have the ticket to the great freedom. So I And people are so ignorant and people are in so much suffering I thought I'd work for it and I'm just ranting out I'm just venting through the space Whatever occurs to me and that's this guy called, uh, brennan wissman Who lives in first nation's canada? He had two glimpses of awakening, but they collapsed To two sathoris, but they were not permanent. Uh, there's this saint called ramakrishna paramhamsa in India He had three awakenings before he fully awakened uh, I did Brendan was called bipolar and the first message I send him is you're going beyond uh polarity Which is the polar part and you're going beyond duality, which is the by part by polar You're going beyond polarity and duality And I tell them and I Just hit them up with and they just tell them about the who are I just tell them about the who am I If I suffer who suffers if I'm confused who's confused uh Well coming from a bag coming from a background of fitness. He says I superset My dream sits with inquiry and three days later he awakened fully And uh, that's number one Uh, it's in my page. Uh, it's called before christ and Brendan's awakening that's january 24 2021 and uh, I used to post this uh in stories and Brendan's friend Nathan alexander willis who lives in tennessee usa He asks me, uh, I'm kind of fan. I'm kind of anxious, but how should I get enlightened? I again hit him up with the who am I he takes notes and eight days later. He's awakened That's the greatest thing I've done with this page. Uh, yeah I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I love feeling your service right now Yeah, yeah There is this this there is this There is this this work in progress. So many uh, so many people So many deems with so many people so many doubts have been cleared and I'm just here for them as a presence just to Just a confusion queries and concerns. Uh, just here as Well, just here just here for them to look at until they look at themselves And this is just works and This is just works and progress. This is just people practicing who am I? Yes, and uh, just it's who am I exclusively it's not recommended Well, uh, do explore yourself and other spiritual practices, uh, some might help you center yourself some might help you calm yourself But inquiry is some might help you explore mystical mystical sense, but inquiry is very direct. It's just uh you Having an argument with your mind Uh cornering it not taking no for an answer. Just uh Yeah, just not putting up with the time terms of the mind not putting up with the mind bsing all the time just penetrating penetrating uh Penetrating the thoughts with the hoop and and uh reaching to and reaching to the core of your concept That's the very self Oh Yeah, uh, I got two people awakened. That's the only that's the thing I'm most Glad about uh in these three months uh You've been creating way more than Right, you feel like it's been Getting to people awakened, but you've even been contributing so much to me and my process and many others that Have underwent a process when you interview people you make them including me reflect on their own process Which then further creates more insight into their process and and then that they share that with their audience and that kind of a thing So it's really important. How many people have you interviewed? Uh, how many people have I interviewed? Yeah, has it been like a hundred How many people have you asked those five questions to? Oh, yeah How many people underwritten for 10 people If if it seems like you've asked so many more Did you interview did you do ebbin yet ebbin britain? Did he respond? Oh ebbin He responded and I am talking with them. Uh, but it Yeah, yeah Which wasn't an interview with ebbin britain. It's uh Me hitting it's me, uh hitting him up with the who am I hope to do it properly and And then and motivating Okay, and then did you message sanya? No, no Okay, I'll I'll connect you with her. She's a close friend. I'll connect you with her I would love for her to do the interview And I just I love one of the things that I love about what you're doing also Is instagram is like a blockchain So you have all of the time stamps Of all of these different people's awakenings and their answers in your feed And I think that you'll be looked back at As somebody that did this process And I think that that's a really important role to have in the awakening And so even these types of things very similar to what we do on the show When we ask people about their journeys and their awakenings very similar These are like time stamped videos about people's satori and whatnot, right? And so I think that that's a cool role for you potentially to explore is being more excited about If it's in your highest excitement to ask people Hey answer these five questions about your awakening and if they're high caliber enough then feature them on the page Yeah, yeah I just think my interviews are so simplistic I was I love them how to make it run another long I I love them. I think that's so beautiful. There's nobody else doing it There's nobody else that's doing the very simplistic like five of the most Like high level questions about, you know, let's check if you're awakened Right, what are your answers to these five questions? I think it's so cool. I think it's so Cool, it's really resonating with me. And so If it resonates with you I'll keep making really good intros and I would love for that to grow. I think it's very powerful It's powerful I'll go I'll go ahead with that format then Well something simple for the enlightenment world It's really cool. Let's see how that unfolds Let's see how it unfolds Cool, so Let's see I would like to ask you about Give us a little bit of context. Tell me if I'm right here The same awareness that is here the same awareness that is there Okay, the same awareness of all of the viewers That is Shiva the universal formless self Yes Yeah Cool Will you share? Yeah, share with us more about Shiva. Please. Yes It's like uh you know It's like taking a photograph There is this entire big reality and a camera becomes a little screen you look through uh Likewise, there is this big cosmos and the one who will and the cf himself looking through it But with this little brain he filters and it's a filtered consciousness And this looks at uh the world in his own unique way and this individual looks at world in his own unique way Zoom out a little bit and you see through the eyes of this here Yeah, yeah It's like taking a photograph very different different set of eyes Well, that's the fear Which looks at everything and that's this guy who looks at a little limited thing and that is the camera Which looks at something even more limited Zooming out and becoming the constant consciousness Exactly Yeah, I also think We need to uh Well at least in We need to bring uh things like silent retreats. Which are not more accessible and more plodded too different in india. It's uh It's in very few places right now and much more people could benefit. Uh Had they had an easier access Yeah, the fact that there's a vipassana center in california in north fork that i've been to four times Has been life saving for me from the age of 23 until now about five or so years because The 10 the 10 day silence sets are the some of the most profound disciplined ways To access this Top these are the teachings of the buddha taught through the theravada buddhism tradition and disseminated further by sm goenka And I highly highly recommend us to create more Satsang style community truth community of mirroring to each other emptiness And it's actually becoming more and more in high demand You'll notice like why is your inbox getting so many more people mine Sock man's many of our inboxes are getting more and more people's interest and it's because People want a pure reflection of the nature of reality and so Yes Yeah, yes exactly I The world needs more free agents who are really free This just people who are making it accessible and easier for people without the scary rules and the larger The larger than life The the larger than life imagery of enlightenment and Only than the imagery of the enlightened ones yeah How has it been for you after enlightenment? You know what's been most interesting is that getting this so-called In the interview I responded The one that you gave me I said that in december there was this sort of macro level satori into The very shared impersonal awareness And when I got that pop I was like this is it the fucking screen This is the shared screen and it gets the modulations infinitely I see it. I get it with infinite creation I get it and it was interesting because that first pop It deepened so much when I understood emptiness source void avoid infinity And when I grasped so there was another layer to it Which was the emptiness and the infinitude truly at its extent and not just Becoming aware of the impersonal awareness So it deepened for me a lot in february and then even now in april it's been even more deepened. Yep You're gonna become even more Deepened in the awakening and you're gonna become even more like a travel agent helping like a true Bodhisattva that can navigate all of these different lenses and help people Yeah Yeah, yeah Yep What's the name again Send it send it to me in the private chat and then I'll put it in the I'll put it in the search bar That's the guy That's the guy the most amazing Avalokiteshvara The earthly manifestation of the self-born eternal buddha amit Abha Whose figure is represented in his headdress and he guards the world In the interval between the departure of the historical buddha gautama and the appearance of the future buddha Mythria, oh cool Interesting Yeah Oh the bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all buddhas Oh, that's beautiful Avalokiteshvara This bodhisattva is variably depicted It's portrayed in different cultures as a male or female and Tibetis known as Chenrezig Wow, the bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Interesting Oh, this is perfect the cries of sentient beings who need help exactly exactly The key I would say is that that I've been learning Is that you have no attachment whatsoever you have the strong Presence energetically to heal those with the confused seeking impulses But you have no attachment whatsoever to the outcome And you also have no attachment just like in karma yoga no attachment to the fruits at all Yeah, yeah Karma yoga is big dude. Oh karma yoga is big mr. Atlas Karma yoga is big when most most of my walking Was me going with a hand and full of indian red and Searching for drugs that that was most of my walking. I did this for eight months at and was at the end of my weeks and and It was at that night. I awakened Oh, I asked Yeah, I asked. Oh, I asked for my just once That was my first attempt and I got Yeah, you said that you were feeding you were taking bread and you were feeding dogs, right? That's what you were doing. Yeah And that you I thought you said that you had asked yourself multiple times to who am I No, well it was uh one night and my first attempt Was it uh began and end ended with that one walk I Oh, the first attempt at really getting into who who is it that has to go to class? Yeah, oh, that's so interesting really It just can be that And then the three days of sort of relax in in the In the The floating in consciousness Yeah, uh, basically, uh, my mind is at its widths and it cannot think of any other thing any other way out And my heart is burning It won't go another day without enlightenment, of course Added to add it to it the impending Attitude the that's like situation Oh That's that's how it worked just me Go going on that lonely walk asking for a mile five or six times and it got over up and yeah, and uh after well after talking out and And Spending one year in this in the yoga nidra of In the in the yoga nidra of schizophrenic dosage I am just uh getting back into my new college and playing some blues and playing some knots trying to get back and And Connect to that identity of the one Well, I don't want to be finished Engineering was so horrible and enlightenment helped me persevere through it and uh now being complacent and losing touch with enlightenment would It would be a very weird disconnect Yeah totally so So this is this would be some Something interesting to think about too is why don't we also Support you via patreon You know, why don't we create a vehicle for you when you do get the also one-on-one inquiries That you can create a you know 50 bucks an hour or whatever it is for you know on Video call or whatever right let's create the Monetization because it's basically an exchange of time and information and whatnot right so Let's Explore it because let's let's make this something that you can actually do full time We need you to do this full time to ignite the awakening You can't go do something else and then expect to ignite the planetary awakening Yeah, yeah, yeah and I know Yeah, do you have a patreon? Yeah, do you have a patreon account? I I do I do Okay, well, let's put the link Um, you send me the link to the patreon account We'll join it and then we'll also put it in the bottom of the video and then other people can also join it And that can be a good way and then also Um, you know get more You know we can say this right now like if you guys want to get a one-on-one session with shiva You know we'll also explore, you know, maybe you can do a little 15 minute Like consultation right for people and then if they want to continue for you know an hour you can You know charge 50 bucks for that or whatnot and you can put that little link in the bio But that's that's a good way for you to also be able to Create financial success for a change of time and information that then enables you to further enlighten the planet Yeah, yeah, and yeah, uh, we need to make it relevant for the people Here we are the enlightened beings here guides by the sides. They're not stages on the stages We are much more accessible now Exactly. So Cool. So we got that we'll have those links in the bio for everyone I think that's that's a good that's a good wrap shiva. This has been a pleasure and honor You're a huge inspiration to me and so many others and this is very important for you to know at your young age that you've been creating massive pivotal catalytic influences on Those that have been seeking The true nature and you've been making very profound awakening shifts for us. So we love you. We adore you. Thank you And know that And we want you to keep doing this so do the interviews we'll get the patreon link down there We'll potentially get people lined up to do some Sessions with you. So let's let's get this financially rolling too Perfect. All right. That's all folks. Thanks for tuning in. We adore you infinitely We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below on the episode Let us know what you're thinking Like the video if it brought you value helps the algorithm subscribe to the channel If you haven't yet and share the video with people that you feel like this would profoundly Effect remember very simple question. Who who who am I all you have to do is break two to three patterns in your own mind Get enlightened first become aware in the dream of life This is lucid dreaming floating in consciousness all the time The sea are freeing himself If I don't think anything then I'm enlightened empty space Yeah, now this interview ends So should your life things are suffering Just abide in silence just abide in silence using your breath calmly inhale calmly exhale And just become aware that you exist Become aware of your own being become aware of your own awareness And become aware that you are the very source of this reality itself There is only one intelligence present And it's all interacting with itself There is only life