Kosi is a Direct Path Advaita Vedanta Satsang Teacher in the Śiva Kaśyapa Lineage. This teaching is powerful support for a dynamic shift in your consciousness from the fear, sadness, anger, anxiety, and frustration of your mind to the indescribable peace and happiness of your heart. Satsang with Kosi is an extremely potent initiation and transmission of the non-dual teaching of Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi and her holiness Sri Amma Karunamayi.

Websites:

• kosi.org
• YouTube channel
• First BatGap interview with Kosi

She is the author of:

• Organic Awakening – A Simple Guide for Living a Free and Happy Life
• Absence of Doubt: When the Search for Enlightenment Stops (Includes an interview with Gangaji)

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded July 21, 2018.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:04:44 – The Journey to Arunachala and the Mystical Experience with Ramana Maharshi
• 00:09:49 – A Mystical Encounter with Ramana Maharshi
• 00:14:35 – The Visceral Experience of the Mountain
• 00:19:36 – Kosi-Sunyata: The Spiritual Practice of Taking on an Indian Name
• 00:24:38 – Meeting Gangaji and the Dalai Lama
• 00:29:39 – The Confusion of Mystical Experiences
• 00:34:10 – Turning Within for Fulfillment
• 00:38:49 – The Lineage of Ramana Maharshi and the Divine Feminine
• 00:43:39 – Awakening, Liberation, and Self-Realization
• 00:48:15 – The Genetic Mind and Self-Inquiry
• 00:51:52 – The Challenge of Staying in the Self
• 00:55:18 – The Danger of Placing Teachers on Pedestals
• 00:58:53 – Betrayal and Transition
• 01:02:23 – The Sacred Cow Shed and Ramana’s Prophecy
• 01:06:15 – The Manifestation of Shiva
• 01:10:00 – The Power of Mantra
• 01:13:35 – The Science Behind Mantras and Practices
• 01:17:02 – The Variety of Spiritual Practices and Techniques
• 01:20:22 – The Awakening Experience
• 01:23:53 – The Integration of Activity and Awakening
• 01:27:15 – The quest for maintaining realization
• 01:30:39 – The Drawing of the Self in 3D
• 01:33:59 – The Tariya State and the Seed Letters of OM
• 01:37:46 – The Power of the AUM Sound and Mantras
• 01:41:56 – The Radical Return to Effort and Perseverance
• 01:45:28 – Falling through the trap door of reflective consciousness
• 01:48:35 – Ramana Maharshi’s Genius Drawing
• 01:51:47 – Culturing the Habit of Liberation
• 01:55:05 – The importance of consistency and application
• 01:58:20 – Concluding Remarks

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Pamela Wilson celebrates 20 years of being on the road worldwide sharing Truth, Clarity, Love and the Joy of Being. Her new book The Golden Retriever’s Guide to Joy is a distillation of everything she has noticed within, reading the Book of Life, within Stillness. She delights in getting to the Heart of the Matter, literally, finding the intelligent presence within all form and function. And then showing it its true nature.So, that emotion, sensation, the body and the mind can also return and stabilize as balanced rooted spaciousness. Join the fun, Life is simple within its complexity!

• Website
• Previous interview with Pamela
• Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 4/11/2017

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Introduction
• 00:04:20 – Living in Rooted Spaciousness
• 00:07:35 – Joy in Heaven
• 00:10:59 – The Universal Language of Respect
• 00:14:21 – Noticing the Felt Sense
• 00:17:32 – The Value of Being Grounded and Established
• 00:21:02 – The Enlightenment of Dogs
• 00:24:03 – Experiencing Spiritual Evolution
• 00:27:48 – Liberating the Mind
• 00:31:09 – Stillness and Conditioning
• 00:34:18 – The Mysterious Nature of the Body
• 00:38:03 – The Basis of Activity and Rest
• 00:41:30 – The Intelligence of Life
• 00:44:33 – The Illusion of Control
• 00:47:33 – The Sense of Personal Self
• 00:51:02 – The Nature of Consciousness
• 00:54:20 – The Grace of Exhaustion
• 00:57:26 – The Role of Serotonin in Mood Regulation
• 01:00:46 – The Path of Least Action
• 01:04:07 – The Eternal Nature of Life
• 01:07:50 – The Quibble about Reincarnation
• 01:10:53 – Strength and Vulnerability
• 01:14:14 – Natural Retreats and Divine Beings
• 01:17:34 – The Power of Love and Respect
• 01:21:13 – The Language of the Heart
• 01:24:40 – The Art of Dismantling Defenses
• 01:27:55 – Divine Qualities and their Opposites
• 01:31:31 – Yudhishtira’s Test by Lord Shiva
• 01:34:40 – Falling apart to make room for the new story
• 01:38:08 – Introduction to Pamela Wilson’s Offerings
• 01:41:08 – Music

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David Godman has lived in India since 1976, mostly in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. He spent his time there studying and practicing the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. His anthology of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings, Be As You Are, is probably the most widely read book on Sri Ramana’s teachings. During his fourteen-year stay at Ramanasramam (1978-92), he managed the ashram’s library, cataloged its archives, and recorded the stories and experiences of devotees who had had direct contact with Sri Ramana.

David is the authorized biographer of two devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Lakshmana Swamy and Papaji) who realized the Self in Sri Ramana’s presence and who later went on to become gurus themselves.

He has written and published several other books that contain first-person accounts of devotees who moved closely with Sri Ramana Maharshi and who were transformed by his power and presence.

In collaboration with two Tamil scholars, T. V. Venkatasubramanian and Robert Butler, he translated and edited several Tamil texts including two authoritative collections of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings that were originally recorded in Tamil verse. The three of them also joined forces to bring out Sorupa Saram, a translation of a text in which a 15th century Tamil saint and Guru, Sorupananda, speaks authoritatively of his experience of the Self. Earlier this year David and T. V. Venkatasubramanian completed a new book that will be entitled The Shining of my Lord. It will contain translations of Tamil verses by Muruganar, an enlightened devotee of Ramana Maharshi who wrote thousands of verses in which he praised his Guru, spoke of his own liberated state, and thanked Sri Ramana for bestowing it on him. It will be published later this year.

In the 1970s David frequented Nisargadatta Maharaj’s satsangs in Mumbai. In the 1980s he was a regular visitor to the ashram of Lakshmana Swamy and Saradamma in Andhra Pradesh. When they moved to Tiruvannamalai in the early 1990s, he helped them to establish and landscape their new property at the foot of Arunachala, the holy mountain where Sri Ramana Maharshi spent all his adult life. For four years in the 1990s, he lived with Papaji in Lucknow and ended up writing or editing five books about him.

David Godman is married to Miri Albahari, a philosophy lecturer who teaches in Perth, Australia. He is based in India, but nowadays spends part of the year with Miri in Australia.

Last year David released a series of twenty-seven films on Youtube in which he spoke about Ramana Maharshi, the places where he stayed, his devotees, and his teachings. The series contains about fifteen hours of talks about Sri Ramana and can be found here:

Books:

• • Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Compass)
  • No mind, I am the self: The lives and teachings of Sri Lakshmana Swamy and Mathru Sri Sarada
  • Living By the Words of Bhagavan
  • Papaji: Interviews
  • Nothing Ever Happened (three volumes): a 1,200-page biography of H. W. L. Poonja, also known as ‘Papaji’.
  • Annamalai Swami Final Talks– teaching dialogues between Annamalai Swami and visitors to his ashram, recorded in the last six months of his life.
  • The Power of the Presence -Transforming Encounters with Sri Ramana (Vol1) (three volumes): chapter-long accounts by devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi that record their experiences of living with and being transformed him.
  • The Power of the Presence (Part Two)
  • The Power of the Presence (Part Three)
  • Padamalai: Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi: Recorded by Muruganar
  • Ramana Puranam– an edited and annotated 540-line poem that was jointly composed by Ramana Maharshi and Muruganar.
  • The Fire of Freedom, Satsang with Papaji (The Fire of Freedom, Volume 1)– dialogues between Papaji and visitors that took place in his Lucknow home in 1991.
  • Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru’s Sayings)– a translation of 1,254 verses, recorded in Tamil by Muruganar, that record Ramana Maharshi’s teachings.
• Website:  www.davidgodman.org
• Blog:   http://sri-ramana-maharshi.blogspot.com
• YouTube channel

First BatGap interview with David

Transcripts of this interview:

• English
• Czech
• French

Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group

In this interview, David Godman speaks of Robert Adams, whom he never met. He makes some remarkable claims based upon Robert’s own account of his life, including years he claimed to have spent with Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. It now appears extremely unlikely that Robert Adams ever met either, and that other claims David Godman repeats are highly improbable. Please see this article for details. David Godman has since taken down the YouTube talk he gave on Robert Adams.

Interview recorded 6/26/2016

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha At The Gas Pump with Rick Archer
• 00:05:34 – The Extraordinary Journey of Maurice Frydman
• 00:10:28 – Finding Ramana in Tiruvannamalai
• 00:15:16 – Maurice Frydman: An Extraordinary Man of Action
• 00:20:01 – Maurice’s Last Days and his Hidden Talents
• 00:24:50 – The Maurice and Nisargadatta Book Project
• 00:29:10 – Maurice’s Self-Governance Project
• 00:33:28 – Maurice’s Bold Actions
• 00:37:48 – A Karma Yogi with a Dual Strand
• 00:42:08 – Gandhi’s Spiritual State
• 00:47:22 – Parallel Lives of Social Uplift and Transcendence
• 00:51:57 – Manifestation of Ramana’s Appearance
• 00:57:31 – The Vision of Ramana and the Connection with David Godman
• 01:02:27 – Composing Tamil Poetry with Bhagavan
• 01:07:49 – Bhagavan’s Thorough Copy Editing
• 01:13:42 – Seek out the Blessing of Others
• 01:19:19 – The Concepts of Kartrutva and Kartavya
• 01:25:08 – The Existence of Gods or Entities
• 01:30:25 – Feeling the Pain of Others
• 01:35:17 – Mysterious Visitors on Bhagavan’s Birthday
• 01:39:42 – Conviction in the Presence of God
• 01:44:10 – Anecdotes about Papaji
• 01:49:10 – The Power of Meditation and Introversion
• 01:53:26 – The Mathematics Test and the Experience of God
• 01:58:58 – Ramana’s Teachings From Experience
• 02:04:09 – The Power of Teachers and Lineage
• 02:08:44 – Accessing the Guru’s Power through Words
• 02:13:31 – The Guru’s High Standards
• 02:18:04 – Ramana Maharshi’s Unusual Habits
• 02:22:35 – Ramana’s Retelling of Miraculous Stories
• 02:26:56 – Stirring up bliss and intoxication

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