The
Seminar
Dr. Awatramani conducts weekend seminars, residential
weeklong retreats, daily meditation sessions (in Zurich)
and private consultations. Seminars typically include
discourse and time for questions and answers. Much of
the seminar is conducted in meditation. Discourses are
in English with German translation (in Europe). Seminars
are conducted throughout Switzerland and Germany during
the spring and fall. They are offered in North America
in July and in Matheran, India during the winter months.
See the schedule for details
Seminar
Topic: Self Inquiry
We live in bondage, entangled in a world perceived
through sense organs of body, and mind. We interact with
this world in a never ending chain of events which are
but results of our past actions. Is it possible to be
free of this limitedness and thereby live in freedom,
spontaneity, creativity and love? - Intuitively we know
there is "Something" permanent, changeless in us, yet
this eludes us because our senses and mind take us outwardly
to a projected world.
What
is this changeless "Something" which at present we experience
in a veiled way as our existence through the notion "I"?
- Inquiring into this "I" would we be taken into the inner
depths of consciousness, thereby distancing ourselves
from identification with world, body and mind and therefore
freeing us from all entanglement? In such a consciousness
would we then be living in the moment, uninfluenced by
past action? Would we then always be spontaneous? Having
been unburdened would this release a creative energy,
and would we have love? Having been freed of past influence
would we therefore be beyond time - timeless? Is this
not our Immortality?
These
are not thoughts for intellectual consumption but an inquiry
that has to be done not using the mind - which is thought,
feeling and pictures (for these create our bondage). -
Can we do such an inquiry in total Silence (which means
without any kind of mental activity or vibration)? Would
such an inquiry be an inner voyage into pure consciousness
and lead to a merging with the "Immortal"? Would we then
be free and begin to live without bondage? Is this not
liberation?
The
inquiry needs dedication, one pointedness and perseverance
but is possible for anyone who has the interest and intention.