Ep. 235 – The Process of Awakening

Ep. 235 – The Process of Awakening

Author: Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember September 25, 2023 Duration: 44:58

In this recording from 1976, Ram Dass explores the process of awakening and becoming enlightened. Featuring a musical interlude from Krishna Das and an introduction from Raghu Markus.

This episode is a continuation of the dharma talk from Here and Now Ep. 234 – The Awakening of the Soul

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In this episode:

  • Ram Dass, in a very meditative fashion, explores the place of the Mother in the lineage of devotional tantra, talking about taking each experience in your life and redefining it as a form of the Mother
  • Krishna Das takes center stage to invoke the Mother through music, inviting the Goddess to come down and bless us all
  • Ram Dass gives a detailed breakdown of the process of awakening and becoming enlightened, from purification and opening the heart to quieting the mind and getting the energy to flow

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The only thing that I am involved in is the game of perfection. And because of that, when I work with people, or even this teaching, I see the game as a game of moving up and then bringing up the ground with you. It’s like an inverted ’T,’ where you go up the center and then you pull the two bottom lines up with you. So that every new level of consciousness we get into, we then reassess the whole dance of life and keep it together on the physical plane.” – Ram Dass


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