Thursday 6th August 2026

You will receive a copy of both the video & audio files for this Satsang meeting (MP4 video + M4A Audio format) approx 2 hours

Silent meditation

Invocation to Sri Ramana Maharshi

A reading from The Importance of Practice and Effort by Michael Langford

Annamalai Swami page 67:

Your most important objective must be realising the Self

If you have not done this you will spend your time in ignorance and illusion

Don't be discouraged by the length of the journey

And don't slacken in your efforts to get home

Don't waste energy in thinking how well or how badly you are doing in your meditation

The mind only gets dissolved in the Self by constant practice

At that moment the I and the body ideas disappears

Just as darkness disappears when the sun rises

The desire for enlightenment (Liberation) is necessary because without it you will never take the necessary steps to realise the Self

You have to make an enormous effort to realise the Self

You dissipate your desire for the Self by undertaking all kinds of useless activities that waste your time and lead to attachment

You can only put your attention on one thing at a time. While it is on the mind or body it cannot be on the Self.

Conversely if you put your attention on the Self and become absorbed in it there will be no awareness of mind and body.

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