Swami Shyam

31/07/2025

Swami ji: You are right when you ask a question. A child does not have the chance to ask a question, but when he becomes big, he wants to know. So the knowing sense arises. In a child, at first the knowing sense is not found. It is hidden. But because it must be hidden in him, it arises, just like a sprout that is hidden in a seed. When you hear such examples, then you come to know what is hidden and what is obvious....

If You Can Leave the Consciousness of Ahankar Altogether, You Come To Know Sat-Chit-Anand Posted on July 31, 2025 / Questions and Answers Date of Satsang: December 9, 2015Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Radha (Marie): Swami ji, can I ask you something? It’s about Chapter 9, verse 9, of th...

30/06/2025

We know ourselves daily as relative persons, relative to each other. So Alka was the one who was giving a departure for Keerti Narayan, and when she said antavahak, then I came to know that you do not know antavahak. We have never studied it. We have studied the external; or you have closed the eyes and you imagined the internal. But antavahak, you do not know. Though you know “innermost,” for you, “innermost” is your mind or intellect. So the words are there; but the innermost is that by which you came into form as a human being. A process must be there, there must be some source. It starts somewhere. The moment it started, that is antavahak....

The Moment “I Am” Started, That Is Antavahak Posted on June 30, 2025 / Questions and Answers Date of Satsang: August 1, 2014Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India We know ourselves daily as relative persons, relative to each other. So Alka was the one who was giving a departure for Keerti Nara...

06/06/2025

All human beings who have become big have been seeking that. Why? They know they must have lost it somewhere. Otherwise, how is it possible that they can become unhappy, worried, agitated, and tense, with the fear of sickness, disease, and the constant, lingering fear of death?...

That Which Is Beyond—Paramevyoman—Has Never Gone Anywhere Posted on June 6, 2025 / Satsang Date of Satsang: April 17, 2015Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India This is a time of the sangam, or unity, of happiness and unhappiness. Gaurav came—he brought happiness. And many of you are going.....

06/05/2025

Confusion comes only when imagination arises, and imagination is the source of the world. But the world and imagination have their own Source. That is the Source. That Source is pure, without any definition of name and form. ...

Space Never Becomes Anything Other than Space Posted on May 6, 2025 / Satsang Date of Satsang: January 12, 2012Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Satsang has nearly ended. Swami ji says:  Still there are five minutes. Since this universe was made in one little atom of time, five minutes is a ...

17/03/2022

Milan: … As I am speaking, I am finding that these are all the things my mind is concluding. But one moment with you and everything I just said is completely irrelevant. So I am describing the process of a mind that thinks it exists, but being with you I see that it doesn’t. I tremendously value your presence!...

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Guru Current Posted on March 17, 2022 / Questions and Answers, Satsang Date of Satsang: January 16, 2005Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Milan: … As I am speaking, I am finding that these are all the things my mind is concluding. But one moment with you and everything I just said is comple...

04/10/2021

If you hear me saying the world is causeless, or a human being and humanity are causeless, you won’t understand. Then what is to be done? That which can be brought so understanding can take place should be brought first; then it will be called “unfoldment.” If unfoldment is not there in a human being, he will not understand. But unfoldment of what? He is not a paper that rolls down and then he is unfolded. When we talk to human beings, we know they were born small children, who had no power to understand. But when they grew big, they began to understand what their mother, father, house, pets, and exhibits were and what the lawn, trees, and ground were. They knew how to play by sitting, picking up grass, taking it out and putting it in mud and mud in grass—all this a little child does. What happened to him that he began to do this? When he was being led in a perambulator, there were only his head and eyes and nothing else....

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Akaran (Causeless) Explained Posted on October 4, 2021 / Satsang, Trip with Swamiji Date of Satsang: May 6, 2014Location: Karaun, Himachal Pradesh, India If you hear me saying the world is causeless, or a human being and humanity are causeless, you won’t understand. Then what is to be done? That w...

13/07/2021

Swamiji: We look like forms, but when forms were not there, what was there? When Nandi was not there, what was she? And now that she is, what is she, Shaardaji? Shaarda: Space . Swamiji: Then what was she at that time? Shaarda: Space. Swamiji: And what is your blanket? Shaarda: The blanket is made of Space. Swamiji: What is the Space made of?...

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Swamiji: We look like forms, but when forms were not there, what was there? When Nandi was not there, what was she? And now that she is, what is she, Shaardaji?Shaarda: Space [Self, Oneness]. Swamiji: Then what was she at that time? Shaarda: Space. Swamiji: And what is your blanket? Shaarda: The bla...

28/05/2021

Parents have talked about name and form, which is why they are known by a child. Yet the child is such a small unit of existence that neither has he the knowledge of his senses, nor of his form-body, with skin and limbs. It is parents who are responsible for giving their child knowledge. We never expect a small child to know he has the knowledge of his eyes and ears, so he should say, “These are my eyes, these are my ears.” The child does not know them....

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“You Never Existed” Means Freedom Exists Posted on May 28, 2021 / Questions and Answers, Satsang Date of Satsang: June 12, 2015Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Parents have talked about name and form, which is why they are known by a child. Yet the child is such a small unit of existence...

22/01/2021

Swamiji: This is a unique program. “Unique” means it is not a program. Everybody knows what unique means from his own side. That is why I do not have to ask each of you what you know, but what I know I will tell you. I know that a unique person cannot exist as a human head, heart, and hands if he is only a born human being....

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How Can You Know Unborn Born Or Non-Happening Happening? Posted on January 22, 2021 / Questions and Answers, Satsang, Tea with Swamiji Date of Satsang: December 13, 2016Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Swamiji: This is a unique program. “Unique” means it is not a program. Everybody knows...

15/11/2020

Swamiji: ... We are here on earth and became human beings. What wrong is there that we are human beings, with senses, minds, and organs? What is wrong is that we will die! That is the only wrong. Otherwise, a human being is most wonderful. If he is most wonderful, then what is his purpose? This has not been recorded in books written by our elders, or persons who have the sense of otherness....

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Unborn Is Your Pure Intellect Posted on November 16, 2020 / Questions and Answers, Satsang, Tea with Swamiji Date of Satsang: April 21, 2013Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Swamiji: … We are here on earth and became human beings. What wrong is there that we are human beings, with senses, m...

23/08/2020

Madhuri: In the first seven or eight verses of Chapter 8 of the Gita, there are slightly differing definitions, which simply means there are different perspectives on the same term. I wanted to ask you for clarification about them and their relationship with each other—such as Adhiyagya, adhidaiv, and adhyatma. How do they relate to each other and to the idea of… [ 4,570 more words ]
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Krishna Wants To Let Arjun Transcend The Ego-Intellect-Mind Personality Posted on August 23, 2020 / Questions and Answers, Satsang Date of Satsang: June 10, 2011Location: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Madhuri: In the first seven or eight verses of Chapter 8 of the Gita, there are slightly differing...

03/07/2020

Swamiji: … In English, you can never say anything which has no meaning, you only speak with meaning. They all say that a thing is only that which makes sense. That is why if, from birth, a human being only hears this, he will never grow into that which is Space, because Space has no meaning . Aparajita: ... In the car, you were talking about imagination being the… [ 3,351 more words ]
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