BOOKS BY ANANTA Welcome to Satsang with Ananta

BOOK 1

ARE YOU AWARE NOW

March 19, 2016

Based on a series of talks given by Ananta between April to August 2014. “You are always the Awareness itself, and as Awareness you know that all that is appearing in front of you is just an appearance. There is no one here besides You. All appearances are a play of Consciousness. You stay as the Awareness itself. Once the one that wants to help vanishes, then pure grace and help will flow from You, from your Being itself. Do not get confused, my beloveds. This is all for your own good, for your own freedom. There is only You. You are all there is. All emerges from your own Being. And the way to bless the entire Being is to find your complete freedom.”

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BOOK 2

CAN YOU STOP BEING

March 19, 2016

Can You Stop Being consists of excerpts taken from some of Ananta's earliest Satsang's between August to October, 2014. “Ask yourself right now: Can I stop being now? In this question you will see that there is a Being here; your own Presence, which cannot be stopped. This Being is not a man or a woman, it is just Being. Irrespective of what happens in the story of this life, this Being is unaffected, unchanged, untouched Consciousness. Prior to I am a person, I am a man, I am a partner, I am a parent, I am a child, prior to all of this: ‘I Am’.

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BOOK 3

DONT BELIEVE YOUR NEXT THOUGHT

March 19, 2016

This book is a selection of Satsang dialogues that took place between Novemmeber 2014 to October 2015. “Although it can sound simple, almost trivial, but to not believe our next thought is to experience the freedom, the non-resistive, non-suffering state, right now. You cannot suffer without buying your next thought. Even if you believed all your previous thoughts, this fresh moment is so beautiful and powerful that all prior conditioning has dissolved already unless we pick up the tree of conditioning again by pulling at the branch of the next thought.”

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BOOK 4

AWARENESS ITSELF IS AWARE OF AWARENESS

April 1, 2016

This book is a selection of satang dialogues that took place between January and February, 2016. “You see, the Knowing is always Knowing. Awareness is always Aware, and This is always 'I'. So although Being is coming to a realization of its Source, The 'I' has always been 'I' . Even in the playing of ‘I’ as ‘I Am’, ‘I’ has remained as ‘I’.”

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BOOK 5

BEYOND ALL CONCEPTS

May 24, 2016

This book is a selection of satang dialogues that took place between March and May, 2016. “That’s why I say that ‘You are free now’. What does that mean? As Awareness you are free. But the advice is ‘Keep coming to satsang’. For who? For the Beingness. There is nothing here for the person. You see? So Consciousness in this monologue is saying to Itself: ‘Hey, buddy, you know, it’s good, what we’ve walked together so far, but let’s just keep at it’. You know? That’s the real monologue that God is having with Itself. It’s all part of the game.”

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BOOK 6

FREEDOM IS NOW

July 13, 2016

This book is a compilation of short, poignant talks taken from online Satsangs with Ananta between 19th May to 11th July 2016. It is not the recognition which is difficult. More difficult is to give up our stories. But That which You Are, (and you’re recognizing it now), cannot have a story. That which is not phenomenal cannot have a story. That within which all phenomenon is born and dissolves cannot have a story. You Are This.

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BOOK 7

WHO IS AWARE OF AWARENESS

August 26, 2016

Based on a series of talks given by Ananta in July and August 2016. “Can it be that all the wise ones were fooling us with their imploration ‘Know Thyself’ just so that one day we would come to this conclusion that ‘The Truth about the Self is unknowable’? The Realization of the Self is completely possible! The Self is completely Knowable! But not in the way we think. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's repeated advice to inquire ‘Who Am I?’ and Nisargadatta Maharaj's guidance to stay with the sense ‘I Am’ was not so that one day they could say ‘Fooled you!’ There is a big clue in the phrase ‘Know Thyself’. The clue is to look at this Knowing itself.”

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BOOK 8

MEET ME HERE WHERE WE ARE ONE

November 16, 2016

This is the 8th book of Ananta Satsang talks, taken from online satsangs from 5th September to 19th October 2016. Meet me here where we are One. Meet me here where the universe is just a tiny firefly. Meet me here before time and space. Meet me where meeting Me is to meet Yourself.

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BOOK 9

THE GREATEST GIFT

December 28, 2016

This book contains simple pointings, contemplations, guided inquiry and powerful discussions from online satsangs between 26th Oct. to 15th Dec. 2016. “I feel [this] is the gist of what has been shared from here over the years; the gist of what Advaita Vedanta really is trying to convey. It has been a great gift in this life here. Meeting all of you also has been the greatest gift that my Master has given. I have so much gratitude in my Heart for all of you. Thank you for being this beautiful Sangha, my beautiful friends and family. May we all never forget the beautiful grace we have all had in our lives to have the opportunity to be at the feet of Satguru Sri Moojiji.”

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BOOK 10

THIS SIMPLE SEEING

October 24, 2017

Based on a series of talks from Satsang with Ananta, April through September 2017." What witnesses everything and Itself remains unchanging? This one sentence is more than enough, actually." "Satsang is nothing but these two aspects, which are completely inter-linked: What is it that I truly Am? and the dissolution of the belief in this idea of limitation."

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BOOK 11

TRUTH BEYOND CONCEPTS

January 8, 2018

Based on a series of talks from Satsang with Ananta, from first of October through end of December 2017. “If it is picked up, it is picked up. Now it's gone. No concept has ever survived this moment. Isn’t this good news? No concept has ever, ever survived this moment. You are empty of it Now.”

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BOOK 12

YOUR NOTIONLESS EXISTENCE

February 27, 2018

This book is a compilation of a series of Satsang talks from 1st January through 23rd February, 2018. “Look at truly what your starting point already is. Once you See that in the beginning itself You are All-There-Is, then what to do with this idea of getting something? These are the gifts of our notionless Existence. As we don’t create a notional, conceptual boundary about ourselves, as we include all sensations and perceptions in our own Being, we See that ‘I witness all of this. There is only One without another and This is MySelf.’ This is Your starting point already. This is the best news.”

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BOOK 13

EVERYTHING IS THE GURUS GRACE

June 19, 2018

This book has been compiled from online Satsangs, 1st March to 14th June 2018. “The bigger meaning of Grace is that it is the will of Consciousness Itself which is all-inclusive. Everything is included in that. This is Grace. When we say ‘Guru Kripa Kevalam’ it means ‘Only the Master’s Grace Is.’ We start to see then that it is one unfolding; it is one movement of Consciousness. The physical form of the Master is the embodiment of this Satguru, the Divine Presence in Your Heart. Everything is unfolding in Its light. This Guru is the light of our Existence. We will See ultimately that everything is the Grace of this Divine Presence; everything is this Satguru’s Grace, is God’s Grace.”

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BOOK 14

WHAT DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW NOTHING

August 29, 2018

Taken from online Satsangs 25th June to 21st August 2018, these simple pointings, contemplations, guided inquiries and interactions with sangha are full of Ananta’s direct insights, love and laughter. “It is not possible to find the Absolute through conceptual or perceptual understanding. I’m pointing you to emptiness. To put one drop is to fill my cup. What does the empty cup look like? To know one thing is to know too much. What do I know when I know nothing?”

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BOOK 15

THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS APPARENT

November 13, 2018

Compiled from transcripts from Ananta Satsangs (27th August to 1st November 2018) these simple pointings, contemplations, and interactions with sangha are full of Ananta’s direct insights, love and laughter. “What is apparent to You Now, without making any distinction, without using any terminology, not even Satsang terminology? We have made a nice nest with all the concepts about Consciousness, Awareness and ‘What I have to do to stay there’. Don’t rest even in that. Don’t make any conclusion, any judgment. I say to you that the Truth is apparent to You Now, the Complete Truth is apparent to You Right Now, fully. There is no time in which this is not true. Only our intellect seems to cloud it, our judgments, our interpretations, our labels. They seem to cloud it, but not really. In the Right Now, the Absolute Truth is apparent to You. But not to your mind.”

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BOOK 16

OPEN AND EMPTY

January 15, 2019

This is the 16th book of Ananta Satsang excerpts (not including the paperback/kindle on Amazon) taken from online Satsangs from the 5th of November to the 31st of December 2018. These simple yet powerful pointings, contemplations, guided inquiries and interactions between Ananta and sangha are full of Ananta’s direct insights, love and laughter, continuously opening us to direct realization of the ever-present Truth. “Right Here and Now, the Truth is Apparent to You. Your own Presence is un-deniable, un-miss-able. But this Self has given Itself the power to consider Itself to be limited. In your openness, in your emptiness, all the Truth that needs to be discovered, the Self that you are looking for, is realized. There is no distinction between openness and realization.”

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BOOK 17

TRUTH CANNOT BE SPOKEN

March 27, 2019

This book was created from transcripts of Ananta’s online Satsangs from 1st January to 7th February 2019. Ananta takes on concepts and interpretations in this book and the way many can miss the living direct experience of the Truth by holding onto spiritual concepts left over from moments of revelation instead of meeting and living this Truth fresh each Now. Ruthlessly exposing yet gently showing step-by-step how the Truth cannot be spoken and what living without concepts is actually revealing to us, this book is full of Ananta’s direct insights, poignant clarity, and interactions with the Sangha, always sprinkled with generous doses of love and laughter.

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TRANSCRIPTS OF SATSANG

  • January 14, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts
    Reading Ribhu Gita, Chapter 26

    A: This is chapter 26 of The Ribhu Gita: Ribhu: “I shall explain the Existence, Consciousness, Supreme bliss, which is ever-joy by its own virtue. It is by itself the core of the essence of all the Vedas and the Puranas. There is no difference, duality or pairs of opposite characters, no difference and nothing …

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  • January 14, 2019
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    Pointing to the Most Simple

    Bhagavan [Sri Ramana Maharshi] said: ‘True Knowledge is not to be found. It is only the false that has to be given up.’ Ati Sulabham: Super Simple. What is the most simple? … completely empty of any effort, any getting, any losing, any position? No experience is It. Neither is it not It. It is …

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  • January 14, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts
    Coming to Truth Is Not Confined to Withdrawal of Attention

    If you forgot that this body has a nose, for example, then you could use your hand to confirm. That is neti-neti. Move your attention to its own Source and see where it comes from. ‘Not this, not this, not this.’ But after you see that the nose is still there, do you have to …

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  • January 14, 2019
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    Make No Reference to ‘I’, Either Absolute or Personal

    This attempt to own it or the attempt to stand aloof are both two sides of the same coin; ideas of our limitations. Who is dancing this dance of ‘Getting and not getting’ … of ‘Being in a state and losing the state’? If you forgot all of this education, that ‘This is good, this …

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  • January 12, 2019
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    What Does ‘I’ Mean?

    What does ‘I’ mean? Straight to the point. [Chuckles] If you don’t clarify this fundamental question then how can you give meaning to anything else, because everything else in the world presumably is in reference to you. You had the experience of it, you had the perception of it.  This ‘you’ that had this perception, …

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  • January 12, 2019
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    We Don’t Know How Much We Still Know

    A: If you didn’t know any of this spiritual knowledge, then … S: I don’t have spiritual knowledge… A: Okay, then what is it? [You said] ‘There is a light that is manifesting as something, as this universe.’ Sounds very much like spiritual knowledge. S:  Without that light, how can I see? How can perception …

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  • January 12, 2019
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    Wherever You May Wander, You Are Always ‘This’

    Now the journey is really, really, super short actually. Because it is already over. It is already over, Here and Now. But the seeker usually just keeps picking up the journey over and over again. It’s like you take a flight from Boston to Bangalore and you got to Bangalore and you quickly fly back …

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  • January 12, 2019
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    Is There Something Called a World?

    A: This is a good contemplation: Is there something called the world? Q: It depends where you stand, if you stand in personhood, there is a world. If you stand in the expanse of Awareness, everything is playing on the fabric of Awareness. So, it’s not just ‘Is there a world?’ … the more important question …

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  • January 12, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts
    An Invitation to ‘Look’

    How is it when you meet yourself empty of this; of any sort of knowing, any sort of label, any sort of conclusion of even having got it or not got it? How is it? Give it a chance; a few moments? And I don’t want the answer. [Smiles] That was just an invitation to …

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  • January 10, 2019
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    Intellect Can’t Reach Our Real Self

    How will you grab that which you already are? But a thought, a notion, claims to be a valid representation of ‘What Is’. It’s a metal attempt to grab at Reality. But it actually has no meaning in Reality. Even to say that ‘It has meaning or no meaning’ doesn’t mean anything, actually. It’s not …

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  • January 7, 2019
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    How Do You Represent ‘Truth’ As ‘I’?

    A: Suppose the task was inverse; suppose that when you refer to ‘I’, you are supposed to refer to the Truth, how would you do it? Like, represent the Truth as ‘I’, how would you do it? S: Just by Being … nothing special to do, you know? A: Yeah, is that a true representation …

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  • January 7, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts
    Let Truth Embrace You So Much That There’s No ‘Me’ Left

    [Reading from chat]: “Dear Anantaji, there is a kind of certitude felt in the process, that Truth always embraces me. It’s a conviction growing day-by-day. Any alertness to be kept around this?” A: Let the Truth embrace you so much that there is no ‘me’ left. Take a dip in this Ganga so much that …

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  • January 7, 2019
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    ‘Is’ Is Always Here

    A: Tell me something which is True. S: It is Always Here. A: Truth is always Here. ‘Is’ is always Here. Is … because it just Is. So, what else could be needed now? S: The absence of thoughts. A: It’s not necessarily confirmed (if this is what you’re saying) it’s not necessarily the absence …

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  • January 7, 2019
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    You Will Never Recognize the Self Through Perception

    It’s the same homework every weekend: To remain concept-less, to remain open. Otherwise, we can keep talking about these things and they can become more and more knowledge that we are learning. But actually, what is it? What is it really? [Silence] Is it that the truth is missing? S: No. A: Then what is …

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  • January 7, 2019
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    What Distinction Do You Have to Make?

    Make no distinctions; no distinctions. Distinction means concept. Concept means conceptualizing mind.’ Conceptualizing mind means a false representation. That is what we started with: Can any concept truly represent What Is? What distinction do you have to make? [Meditative Silence] Or what is the discovery Now? The Truth is Here or the Truth is missing? …

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  • January 5, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts
    In Satsang, We Also Want to Confirm What We Already Know

    S: What is this master-conclusion? A: It can be anything. It can be a very spiritual thing, that ‘Everything is the Absolute’ or something like that. Anything which you feel like ‘It’s just like that’ becomes your defense. Sometimes the words of Satsang will provoke you. It will poke you and you might find that …

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  • January 5, 2019
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    Your Openness Is the Answer

    The arising of thoughts is not a problem. The thoughts can come and go. Just like any other energy construct can be perceived. All perceptions can come and go. It is not that the arising and going should stop. All the bait can come; the fisherman can keep trying. But now you have become the …

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  • January 5, 2019
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    You Are Never Contained in the Box of Notions

    Let me make the claim for the moment (and my claim is big; my claim is that): as you remain open like this, you are out of the tiny box of limitation, of identity, of intellect, which only have these meager opposites. So, you are struggling to climb this tiny wall but actually your reality …

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  • January 5, 2019
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    ‘Can You Remain Empty in This Moment?’ Is All of Spirituality

    You see that it is nothing but it a thought. That is why Bhagavan [Sri Ramana Maharishi] called it the ‘I thought.’ It’s just a thought. This individual identity is just a thought. You don’t find any evidence of any such seeker here when you look; even phenomenally. Without even having to get to what …

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  • January 3, 2019
    Satsang Excerpts

    The Self Cannot Be Seen ~ ~ ~ A beautiful thing about openness is that the truth of who You are is also apparent to You. Bhagavan [Sri Ramana Maharshi] said (very beautiful) he said ‘The point of Self-inquiry is to See that the Self cannot be seen.’ Fantastic! As the mind [from the mind’s …

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