Arthur sits alive. Arthur Sita biography where he was born. The present moment is always there

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Alexey from the city of Krasnoyarsk wrote on 01/20/2019:

Thank you for existing and to God for your performance! 😇👍

Tatiana from Yekaterinburg wrote on 01/20/2019:

It’s a pity that you post videos very rarely😞...I’m sure thousands, millions are looking forward to them..Thank you..

Oksana from Maastricht wrote on 01/20/2019:

I will definitely formulate the words and leave an unrealistically BEAUTIFUL review from the bottom of my heart... While I listen, watch videos and cry with joy... I THANK ALL THINGS FOR THE HAPPINESS OF SEEING, HEARING AND BEING TOGETHER... I DREAM OF SEEING THIS PHENOMENON LIVE... A DREAMS COME TRUE))))))

Nikolay from the city of Vyksa wrote on 01/13/2019:

I thank Arthur and the entire team of Organizers for the New Year’s retreat in Moscow; I was able to attend the meeting on January 2, 2019! I don’t have words, but I want to say.. What happiness it is to be in awareness. What happiness it is to simply be! Every moment of life is fulfilled and perfect. The search for something disappeared, all goals in life and in life became unimportant. Thoughts have not disappeared, but in conscious silence the thoughts that are necessary in life now come. For example, buy something, do something, and you don’t think, you should, you shouldn’t, you just do it without thinking, with joy. Realizing myself, I discovered love for myself and there was more love for my beloved wife, children, and loved ones. I want to be useful, improve or bring joy to everyone who needs my help. The future has ceased to worry, the fear for it has disappeared, the past worries less, only pleasant moments remain. At first, the state of “silence” arose when I was at rest, doing nothing, and subsided during intense workdays. But every day, having once caught this state, it seems to expand, and began to manifest itself in the moments when I do something, work, rest. With this state, even more Love comes into my life. As if you discover God within yourself, who is imbued with Love for everything that exists, a feeling of Unity arises! Thank you

TATYANA from Riga wrote on 12/22/2018:

I use Arthur as a mood enhancer

Shamsudinov Andrey from the city of Solikamsk, Perm region wrote on 12/12/2018:

Good afternoon Information for Arthur. OSHO left his body in January 1990. With Arthur, in his words, enlightenment happened at the age of 14, closer to his birthday, i.e. by May 1990. It is obvious from whom Arthur received the baton to continue helping people. Arthur says that for the current moment he is clearer than OSHO. Having looked at Arthur’s satsangs on the Internet, it’s hard to disagree with this. Huge respect and admiration. Thank you, Arthur!

Alexander from Yekaterinburg wrote on 12/10/2018:

Good health to everyone!) After the second day of satsang in Yekaterinburg, I came home, you know, a chest full of joy, such a burning in my chest, and I was smiling all the time. It covered me so much, after a little meditation, such an explosion of light! After the third satsang with Arthur, the mind fell silent and I floated home in the deep present moment, asking the question of what my consciousness is and felt like different sides the sky seemed to be closing in on me. This is a huge space guys and it’s alive and it’s all of us!

Alena from Yekaterinburg wrote on 12/09/2018:

Thank you, Arthur and all the organizers, for everything you do, for the videos and for the meetings themselves! I attended live satsangs twice. Moreover, for the first time, I really needed answers to pressing questions!!! There were a lot of thoughts, experiences, worries, consumerism, the mind was inflamed! After the meeting, I felt silence, calmness, that all these thoughts and manifestations did not matter at all! The second time I went to satsang with a completely different state, with a huge feeling of gratitude that I could calm down and listen to the silence, be as much as possible in the present moment, just be in the invisible atmosphere of presence! Thank you so much!!!🙏🏼☀️

Elena from St. Petersburg wrote on 12/03/2018:

Arthur, I am so grateful to you! I haven’t seen you live yet, but your videos evoke such emotions in me... it’s like you’re touching my heart. I don’t know what it is, but I roar like a beluga. I don’t understand how the person on the other side of the screen changed everything in me in 2 evenings. I feel like I'm being cleansed. I cry, and at the same time my soul becomes lighter. I am so grateful for what you do! I wish you happiness with all my heart! I believe that I will definitely see you in person. Thank you.

Galina from St. Petersburg wrote on 11/30/2018:

Arthur, after meeting you at satsang, I suddenly felt “empty”, it was so simple and easy, without any effort. I just wanted to fall asleep and brushed away all my thoughts, and at that very second I realized your words “close your eyes and look behind your ears.” I was everything and nothing at the same time. I am consciousness. I just finally felt this state, I was in it. For now it works with your eyes closed. It's so obvious!! But it only came now. There was no me, no ego, no thoughts, and at the same time I was everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This is so cool. Bliss! Thank you for appearing in my life as a result of videos and meetings. From there I draw answers to all my questions that have accumulated throughout my entire adult life. It’s as if you have accumulated all the knowledge in me together. And most importantly, I transfer this knowledge to my life every second of every day. I became calmer, more harmonious, misunderstandings with my child and spouse went away. My life has become rich from awareness and living every moment. Life in the present has become more colorful and tastier. Attention only in the present with a calm look into tomorrow and with the understanding that everything is as it should be. The rush is gone, I stopped fidgeting and worrying about trifles. Thank you for the opportunity to be in your presence. Our family is going to your retreat in Tuapse. See you later, Arthur!🥰

Alexander from St. Petersburg wrote on 11/30/2018:

Hello Arthur from bright gray😜 St. Petersburg! Thank you for existing, for meeting me, for coming. Thank you for answering my question. True, I didn’t ask it, but I received the answer as soon as I entered the hall. I wish you health and strength. Looking forward to new meetings! On Sunday morning I had a dream: Airport. Warm country. I walk with a smiling guy along the sand along the river. We walk towards the village from the bungalow. We live there for some time. A man in white sits in a large bungalow. People are sitting in a circle around him. Everyone laughs. Feeling of silence and positivity. At this moment I woke up. A comparison with satsang back in 2009 flashed through my head, although not with you. I really wanted to go to satsang. I wrote to my friend. To which I received the answer: “Sasha, go. You asked, they gave it to you))) Arthur is super, you will like it)”) And I met you! Thank you again for your visit, the satsang was wonderful🌈🌈🌈🌈

Lena from St. Petersburg wrote on November 28, 2018:

Yesterday at satsang in St. Petersburg I caught the feeling that the whole space around me was looking at me. And in addition to this, my mind was silent for 2.5 hours. Thank you, Sita!

Oskar from Torqauy (United Kingdom) wrote on 11/24/2018:

Thank you for being there!

Asel from Almaty wrote on 11/11/2018:

Arthur, good evening! I want to express my gratitude!!! Yesterday, November 10, 2018, at the second meeting, I experienced what you are talking about. I still haven’t decided to ask the question and find out whether it’s me. But I felt such a beating of my heart, I felt every vein in my body, it covered me so much, I sat crying and laughing at the same time. Thank you so much for that moment!!!

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Arthur Sita: “Two hundred million enlightened ones!”

The interview published below was done in Tiruvannamalai (India) in February 2014. Since it took place during satsang, the conversation was still to a greater extent retains all the formal attributes of satsang and is less similar to a traditional interview or magazine conversation.

From the editor: the fact of publishing this interview does not constitute a recommendation to go to satsangs of this master.

Gleb Davydov: Arthur, when I arrived here a month ago, the first question I asked was: “how can you calm your mind?” Then you talked about contemplation, and then you mentioned that there is another way, a simpler one. Which you promised to tell me about some other time. But it seems you didn't talk about him during this month. Can you now give any other recommendations for calming the mind, besides observation and contemplation? The mind sometimes fascinates me a lot. And even when you are observing, you involuntarily become involved in some thoughts that seem very strong and intrusive. And it seems that with the help of observation these thoughts do not disappear.

Your question was: “how to calm the mind?” And I couldn't give a technique for calming the mind because I don't know it. The mind is like the wind, and the wind cannot be calmed. There are two options. Or you are struggling and trying to resist the wind. That is, you are fighting an enemy whom you cannot see and whose source you do not know. (You don't see the wind and you don't know where it comes from. You only see space.) And there is a second method. The first method is called “yoga”: you fight the wind, you fight the mind. Don Quixote. And there is a second one. And I'm just talking about it: enjoying the wind. No matter how strong he is. There is no struggle in this. There is no judgment in this. Just an observation. Observation is not a struggle, it is not an attempt to stop the mind. This is an observation. This is not an attempt to stop the monkey. You won't catch up with her. It's observing what happens. If you get carried away too much, it looks like suffering. If you watch, suffering passes you by. Thoughts don't take over you. Thoughts are not intrusive. Thoughts are formed out of love. The source of thoughts is love. Therefore, if you fight with thinking, you will kill love in yourself. If you start fighting with thoughts, if you start fighting with the mind, you will kill the vitality in yourself, and you will become dry, dead, lonely, like monks. The word "monk" is derived from the word "solitude." Monk is mono. He's alone. And you become dry and lonely, like a monk. You may have family, friends. But you don't have love. You don't feel love for anything. You can defeat thoughts and stay without it for a while. But you cannot defeat the mind, because the mind will now exist in you as tension. And you become dry. There is no life in this. Therefore, I am only talking about observation. You observe what happens to your thoughts, to your assessments. With your desires to own something, acquire something, become something.

G.D.: That is, I observe my EGO.

A.S.: What is called EGO, yes.

G.D.: But at some point, observing my EGO and at the same time being in life, in the process of communicating with someone, I notice that...

A.S.: What became this?

G.D.: Yes. I begin to feel identified with the self that is observing the EGO. And this “observing self” also turns out to be EGO. And here, at this point, the struggle begins.

A.S.: From which there is no way out. You want to get out, but there is no way out in this situation. You are looking for a way out, looking for: how? How? how to disidentify with this? But no matter where you look, there is no chance.

G.D.: What to do?

A.S.: Observe this helplessness. When helplessness happens, be aware of this helplessness, this selfishness, this preoccupation with the situation, this interest in something. EGO is a very great interest in something: in a career, in relationships, in life. This is a very big interest. This is EGO.

G.D.: But there’s nothing wrong with that?

A.S.: No.

G.D.: However, when you are inside it and identified with it, suffering comes. And when you communicate with someone... when people communicate with each other, at some point this communication comes down to the interaction of two EGOs, two sets of certain programs. AND...

At this moment, a very loud noise of a truck passing by can be heard from the street, and I am forced to pause so as not to shout over this noise. When the noise subsides, Arthur says:

A.S.: And now you can speak calmly. You waited for the noise to go away. The noise that prevented you from speaking. And now you can speak freely. Observe the EGO tension that arises in you. And it will disappear. And then you live freely. Just watch. No matter how you drove this car, you were not eager for it to drive away faster. You just were. Observed. Lived Your life has not stopped for a moment. It did not lose its value while this car was noisily passing here. In the same way, when there is a noise in your head, you wait for it to “pass”, to go away. You are watching. Just like watching the noise of the car outside, disinterested. You weren't interested in the car leaving. And when she left, conversation became possible. A state of EGO and interest has come to you. Now conversation becomes impossible. Wait until this condition goes away as it came. And then conversation will become possible again. It comes and goes, just like the noise of a car. No matter how long it takes.

(pause)

Watch. Buddhist monks sat watching the river flow. The Sufis watched the fire burn. Observe any flow of life. Any. You can go out and watch cars drive past you on the road. People walk past you on the road. Stand in the middle of the city and watch. Beautiful, ugly, quiet, noisy - pass you by. Then move on to thoughts. Different thoughts pass you by. Then emotions. And so - deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Then disidentification occurs, when you see that everything that happens has nothing to do with you. Everything that happens is not you. What happens in the world, what happens in the world of the body, has nothing to do with you. You are just an observation of all this.

(pause)

Watch how thoughts happen. Don't cling to good thoughts, don't drive away bad ones. If the thought of death comes to you, do not drive it away. She will come, stay and go. If the thought of love comes to you, do not hold it back, no matter how beautiful it may be. It doesn't matter who comes to you - "demons" or "angels", "devas" or any other thoughts, "beings" - it doesn't matter. Skip them all.

G.D.: How to achieve sustainability in this? As far as I understand, you have to start all over again when you catch yourself getting involved in some process again. That is, every time you need to start observing again? Is it really possible to achieve sustainability through such a return to observation?

A.S.: Observation knows neither beginning nor end. It always happens. Even when there is great interest in the situation, and you are on fire, engulfed in the flame of life, there is observation in this too.

G.D.: But at such moments the flame obscures...

A.S.: But nevertheless, you see that the flame is covering. You are burning, engulfed in the fire of emotions, your emotions. You say about something: “This is mine, I will not give it away.” But nevertheless, you see everything that is happening. This doesn't mean you let go immediately. You just see how crazy things are happening to you. "My bottle" (at this moment Arthur has a bottle of juice in his hands). Then, when you let go of this bottle, the observation remains the same. Observation is indifference. It doesn't correct your mistakes. It indicates errors. It allows you to see an error as an error. It allows you to see stupidity as stupidity, to recognize stupidity, to recognize a mistake. But awareness does not change the situation or position.

G.D.: That is, it sees error and stupidity without condemnation. He just sees what is happening. But in this way, error and stupidity are no longer perceived as error and stupidity. Because the very concepts of “mistake” and “stupidity” are already a condemnation. But then how can it recognize something as “mistake” and “stupidity”? If it doesn't judge.

A.S.: This state of “my bottle” is a state of mind. This means that in this situation your mind is active, and you can understand that: “this bottle is mine.” And at the same time you can understand how stupid this is: so much tension because of one bottle. But still - “she’s mine!”

G.D.: But these are just two parts of the mind, two parts of the EGO, which are fighting each other like this.

A.S.: And you observe this. There is a demon here who grabs hold of him and says: “Mine!” And there is an angel who says: “This is stupid. Why do you need this bottle? You have the whole world." The demon says: “This bottle is also mine. And the whole world is mine! And here there is both an angel and a demon. God chooses neither one nor the other. God is watching this whole game. He sides with neither the angel nor the demon. Angels and demons are equally powerful. None of them need divine support. They can't beat each other. Each of them has their own weapon. Demons are very powerful. But angels cannot be defeated. That's why they're fighting each other here for this bottle. Angels are communists (everyone laughs). The angels say that everything belongs to everyone. Demons are democrats. These are the same root words - demons and democrats (everyone laughs. Arthur to the translator: translate, translate), all democrats are demons, all communists are angels. Therefore, as soon as an enlightened person appears, a commune is immediately formed. All the angels gather. But Democrats also come there.

G.D.: And the enlightened one is the one in whom the angels have conquered? Or?..

A.S.: Enlightened is a bottle. (everyone laughs)

G.D.: Or the one who sees demons and angels, and the bottle, and the struggle for the bottle? Who is enlightened in this context?

A.S.: Lenin. (laughter)

G.D.: Was Lenin enlightened? (laughter)

A.S.: Lenin was a democrat. (laughter) . Real communists never make revolutions. Communists are immersed in love. They cannot be violent. Real communists never make coups. The most they can do is not go to work. Or trade unions. (pause) Observe all this and be divine. Your divinity is that you don't take sides. Don't kill your creativity. If you suppress your mind, you will suppress your creativity. Life will become boring, meaningless, superficial. Don't fight the mind, but don't feed it either.

G.D.: When we don’t feed it, don’t fuel it, can creativity also become weaker?

A.S.: No, then creativity just begins. Because when you feed your mind, your activity is only work, not creativity. She is primitive. Because you only give your mind what someone else has done. You copy someone, you repeat someone. There is no freedom in this. You feed your mind what someone else has created. One hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, two thousand years ago. And this has long since gone bad. But you feed yourself this for two thousand. And everyone around. It's always the old approach, the old food. Creativity is born in freedom. Free from the known. In ignorance. In silence. And this silence opens by itself. Observation. The more observation, the more silence you have. Observation is not an interruption in the process of life. If you communicate, then you communicate, be in it. But when you have enough, then let there be silence. And watch your silence.

(pause)

Don't suppress your words. This won't be a revelation. This will be dull meditation for many years. And you will never understand what it is - silence. The silence is amazing. That's why silence is called bliss. The result of suppression is dull silence. Boring silence. If you suppress your mind, you will become bored. It's not a problem. But there is too little beauty, not enough life, not enough love. Then you are confused, you don’t know how to live, what to live for. When you talk a lot, think a lot, you realize that all this (your whole life) has no meaning. When you suppress the mind, you feel the same thing: that all life is meaningless. But if you let the mind chatter and just watch how one thought comes and goes, the next comes and goes, and in between there is silence, life. Your mind is silent, life is noisy. A thought comes, life disappears for you. The thought goes away - life appears. These two phenomena replace each other. When there is thought, the world does not exist. When thought goes away, the world appears. The world and thought never exist simultaneously. Either - or. Either you see the thought or you see the reality. While thoughts flash like this, constantly, you actually do not see life. You don't hear anyone, you are inside the thought. And you don't see the world as it is.

G.D.: But what I see in the intervals between thoughts is also due to some patterns of perception that exist in addition to thought. This means that this is no longer entirely reality.

A.S.: Absolute reality is the silence of your mind. Observe the silence of your mind. This is emptiness. This is absolute reality. Then there are no structures.

(silence)

Then you cannot say about this world whether it exists or not. Right? (silence) Whether he is real or not.

G.D.: Does everything come from this? (pause) Or does everything happen when the mind begins to speak?

A.S.: Everything happens in this. Always. Things are always happening. Attention can slide - back and forth, back and forth. You can enter the house, leave the house, enter the house, leave the house. When you leave the house, you can say: my house exists in THIS world. When you walk into a house and look through the window, you say: this world exists in my house. Yes. There is a mountain in my window, in the window of my house (looks at Arunachala). The whole world is in my house. After all, this mountain now belongs to the window. It is inside the window. Therefore, when you are inside the house, the whole world belongs to your house, it is inside your house. If you leave the house, then the house is inside the world. Both are true. Perhaps the greater truth is when you step out of the house of the mind and see that your self, all your ideas about life, are true, but very relative truths. They are part of this huge world. But when you are inside this house, then only home exists for you. When you are outside the home, outside the mind, then you see that the truth is that your home, your mind is a small part of a huge world. But you need this home, and you return there. But when you return to this house, remember the truth that you discovered when you left this house one day. And don’t believe that the mountain lives in your window. The window is too small to accommodate this mountain. But when you sit at home and look through the window, it seems that it is a small mountain. When you are in the mind, you look at many significant things as small phenomena. You look at love, and love seems to you just a certain feeling. Love seems like a small moment in your life. When you look from the mind, when you are in the mind, life becomes distorted. What is truly great and important in life, you see it as small and unimportant, insignificant. When you are in the house, spoons, forks, and mugs become important to you. All your toys. And you protect this world.

G.D.: Either I begin to perceive this mind as a prison. If I remember what's outside.

A.S.: Yes, but part of this illusion is the door. The door is part of the walls. Home is an illusion. But the door that leads outside the house is part of this illusion. Start observing this house, start observing the mind. And you will see a space free from walls - a door, a passage. Once you start to suffer a lot, you can always get out. Look at the suffering and you will see a way out. But then you will have to leave all the forks and spoons. A bottle. And become a communist. A real communist has nothing. Everything is common.

(silence)

So the USSR was a wonderful country. And the only thing: they killed the entire religion, but did not give knowledge, the main knowledge - who are you? It’s clear where to go: to a bright future. But WHO is coming? And from where? Where are YOU coming from? We were told where. And if they would help us turn back to where we came from. If our attention were turned to where you came from, where the thought “I” came from, then all the work would be completed. Two hundred million enlightened people!

(laughter)

G.D.: Well, they initially fooled their heads with this bright future.

A.S.: No, they weren’t the ones who fooled me. It is the Christians who have fooled their heads with a bright future. The bright future is the invention of Christianity. The communists only raised the banner of Christianity and carried it further. Instead of crosses, they carried banners. They replaced the word “paradise” with the word “socialism.” And so communism really turned into a religion. This is secular Christianity. Without Jesus. Instead of Jesus there was Lenin. Jesus ascended, Lenin froze. That's why we sang the song “Lenin is always ahead.” Lenin is alive, Lenin lived, Lenin will live. This is the same thing that Christians sing about Jesus: he is with us, he is among us and he is waiting for us there. And the most important phrase: I will be there. This is the most important phrase of Christians.

G.D.: For many seekers of enlightenment who are now here in Tiruvannamalai, this phrase is equally relevant.

A.S.: But there are no seekers here. There are no seekers here.

G.D.: Exactly there is. You enter Ramana Ashram, and you immediately feel this spirit of seeking enlightenment.

A.S.: Okay, you tell them: if you want to lose your hope, come to the German Bakery for Arthur Sita’s satsang. Why are you silent? Tell them that people can come here and die. Why? Why are you so selfish?

G.D.: Well, I have already brought several people to you. (laughter)

A.S.: I was joking. Those who need it will come themselves. These are the communists. That's why I say: angels are communists. And at their head is Jesus, Lenin. This is wonderful. In reality, our communism, our socialism, was Christianity. New Christianity.

G.D.: Alexander Blok wrote about this in his poem “12”. It ends like this: “Jesus Christ is ahead.” He leads a detachment of twelve Red Army apostles.

A.S.: I mean that the hearts of Soviet people were as pure as the hearts of the people who saw Jesus. But Jesus was not among them. And if this could happen, then virtually everyone was ready. Two hundred million enlightened people. It is amazing that almost all people were in this state. A lot of work was done: Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev. A lot of work. (laugh) I'm serious. It doesn’t matter anymore, it’s just words, but it’s a fact. The people had no hope. No hope for a bright future. American ideologists called this time the “Great Stagnation.” This is great. This was not a negative thing. It was a wonderful thing. The state of body, mind, emotions was magnificent. Great position. This is a great place to dive into the unknown. Everyone is afraid of enlightenment because there is too much knowledge. There is something to lose. But the Soviet people had nothing to lose. Everything is common. They stood on the edge of an abyss. Taking you beyond the limits of the mind. And it was a great experiment. But the Christians ruined everything. Yes, yes. The entire Christian world attacked communism. People were ready to awaken. Many, many, many poems and songs that were written then indicate that man was then in contact with reality. Films, songs, poems of the 60s-70s-early 80s talked about the fact that people are right on the threshold, they breathe it. The films were truly made with love and about love. At the same time, the relationships between people in these films did not play a primary role, but it was some kind of feeling that was important. Which happened to a person. And these films, incomprehensible, perhaps, to many people, they were understandable to the Soviet people. I'm saying that even in Soviet times, when there was almost no religion, no God, most people stood on the threshold of self-awareness. Many people had huge hearts. Friends and neighbors were perceived as relatives. And this suggests that Jesus really was among these people, lived among them. With his commandment to “love your neighbor.” And this was the main feeling, a feeling of unity. It was a real commune. The largest commune. But she died. In order for an even larger commune to be born. The first commune was born by Lenin or someone else. The second commune is born through the Internet. World commune. The USSR was a local commune. It had boundaries, it had some kind of ideology. And now a global commune is being born, where there are no borders. Where the only ideology is awareness, rationality, awakening, beauty, joy. There's everything in this great meaning. And creativity is born. In a variety of areas. And in this new commune there are no borders, no leaders and no authorities. And when I talk about the Internet, I’m not literally talking about the Internet, but I’m talking about the opportunity that the Internet provides. It's easy to find out information, easy to move around the world, easy to connect with each other.
To the translator: say again “easy to communicate with each other.”
The translator repeats: “to communicate with each other easily.”
Communicate is a commune. The Internet is a commune, it connects. You connect to each other via the Internet. This is a real commune, universal. (pause) See you tomorrow!

07.02.14

From the editor: the fact of publishing this interview does not constitute a recommendation to go to satsangs of this master.

Artyom Kalugin / text
Andrey Krasnoperov / photo

I am convinced that everyone has a deep inner need for a mentor. Some focus on parents, some on friends, some on historical or literary characters, but, one way or another, everyone chooses their guru. For people inclined to the mystical, this need is often actualized in a specific person, the heir of a certain spiritual school. Let's try to understand what the Search for the Meaning of Life is and whether it is even worth writing these words with a capital letter.

Two sides of the coin

Romantics version: In fact, there are two types of people: seekers and finders, students and teachers. Those who do not consider themselves to belong to any of the categories are simply not mature spiritually. Or not ready. Or they are mired in illusions. Or both. Finding answers to eternal questions- it’s a noble and wise thing and should be done from a young age. Skeptics' version: The history of the 20th century, among other things, is the history of a protracted spiritual crisis. Technological progress, based on rigid materialism and blind faith in science, coupled with a softening (some would say a decline) of morals, shook traditional value systems, pretty much gnawed at the institution of the family, and led to the atomization of society. Many people are lost and looking for something to connect to. Those who prefer spicy exoticism are carried by the current to the eastern shores: Buddhism and Hinduism, in all their forms, as diverse as they are numerous.

Advaita is one of them. The tradition, which originated in the sixth century, reached the 21st century through a chain of oral and written traditions, through students and teachers, acquired loyal followers in the West, and came to Russia. Popular teachers, a lot of materials about whom are easy to find on the Internet - Ramana Maharshi, his student Papaji; Papaji's students - Madhukar and Mooji; Ramesh Balsekar and his student Ram Tzu. If we try to very briefly convey the essence of the teaching, we get the following: in fact, only Brahman exists - a single absolute, the fundamental basis of all things and phenomena, and people and the universe are an illusion. "Advaita" in literal translation means "non-duality". Everything is one, everything is Brahman, period. Modernity has introduced one, but very significant amendment to the concept of Advaita: there is no Brahman either, there is an unobscured shining something that cannot be described verbally, or any other way, an eternal light without end and beginning. The decisive advantage of Advaita over other movements of neo-Hinduism is living and well teachers who actively travel around the world conducting so-called satsangs (quote from Wikipedia: “A gathering of people around an enlightened person, with the purpose of hearing the truth, talking about it and assimilating it”) . One of them - Arthur Sita - represents Advaita in the domestic mental space. We attended his satsang and experienced beauty.

Self-observation experience

The external side of satsang is described quite simply: in an ordinary room or hall, plus or minus a hundred people listen to the teacher’s speeches. Someone is lying on the floor with his eyes closed, someone is in the lotus position, someone is on a chair or foam, here the girl is leaning against the wall, but the young man seems to have gone too deep into himself - his gaze is directed to nowhere and unfocused, his hands fell limply onto the carpet. Dialogues flow slowly. Sometimes the hall falls silent and Arthur doesn’t say a word for five, ten, thirty minutes. Inhale. Exhalation. Inhale. Exhalation. Silence... but not simple. Meaningful. The silence of those who understand, or at least those striving for understanding. Words are poison, we don’t know. Terms - double poison, penetrating deeply and wounding for life. They form the basis of the most wild and deranged cliches. Being present at satsang, we brush away the pathos and false meaning embedded in them, like knocking down a ripe dandelion ball. For me, Advaita is the ancient Indian idea about the falsity of the ego, about the vanity and momentariness of its experiences, about the stupidity of its cravings. For a Westerner, this is an alien and even scary idea. My body, my home, my family, my pants - the round dance stretches and spins before my mind's eye, obscuring reality itself. And suddenly reality emerges through the veil, manifests itself, becomes visible. You feel a presence in the present, a presence in the moment, an unceasing “here-and-now.” You realize the illusory nature of the most seemingly basic, core things and concepts. You soar with your wings spread. A terrible blow for Western man, accustomed to judging the universe by his own standards, accustomed to the concept of property as such, to possession. Only a few finally decide to let themselves go.

Sita

Let's do an experiment. Let's try to convey experience through a stream of consciousness expressed in a stream of words. It is recommended to read the following text three times: with the mind, with the heart, and with that piece of God (insert eternity, space, light) that lives in you. And please forgive me for this address to you, as is customary in Advaita, which denies the importance of social, age and any other hierarchies. And really, how does one particle of existence differ from another? Nothing. Premium car and dirt on it windshield consist of the same quanta. The text is offered with a minimum number of edits in order to preserve the original atmosphere. Repeated and unforgivable crimes against the rules of grammar and common sense are likely.

Can what you do be called advaita? Or is it Arthur Sita, ordinary person who is telling something?

For me, it’s not even a person who tells something, but life itself that speaks. Therefore, I don't know how you understand this. To understand this, a person needs to stop thinking. Do not think about phenomena, but look at the phenomena themselves. This happened to me once, so I am talking about how it is possible. It's like a step to the side that you're afraid to take, but it's always possible.

Should I stop thinking? How?

They are not afraid to fall, they are not afraid to fall out of the general course of events.

How can you not be afraid?

This is where the moment of maturation occurs. Even if you are afraid, perhaps the disappointment or fascination with life will become so strong that you allow it to be, to happen. For example, you fall in love. This is not safe, because you are revealing yourself in a way that you have not yet been known to. You stop playing. Usually a person plays a role: a man, a student, a businessman, or some other social role. When you fall in love, you stop even playing the role of a man, you are that feeling that is happening right now, and it is burning. You can stay with this feeling. Most people, in most cases, still begin to use the concepts and try to return to the same roles and build relationships. In fact, they thereby kill love. Therefore, when you perceive reality and there are a lot of words and thoughts in your perception, it is not pure and seems to be dead. You can just look, just perceive and not think anything. You can do this because it originally exists in you. The pure look itself is in you initially, the words appear later. That's why I say that light already exists from the beginning. Then, later, inclusions appear in it. The first thing that comes is perception - whether you like it or not. A certain sympathy, the first distinction: yes and no. It does not appear from words, before words. Their source is the sense of self, which is called the ego. It always stands behind actions or decisions.

Many perceive the mind almost as an appendage, a foreign object. But he takes part in the game, is part of the overall harmony?

The mind is a part of harmony, but a very small part. Just as the mind exists, so do phenomena and objects exist. You distinguish between a chair, a floor, a table. At the same time, there is simply a perception of all this at once, of how it is entirely. A person, since his mind has become stronger, has been on a journey from one label to another, from one concept to another. Constant choice and discernment. This swinging way of life causes suffering. A world without judgment! It's hard not to judge, it's hard to restrain yourself. I don’t recommend anyone to break themselves or remake themselves. But one day there may be an awareness of holistic perception. And it can be called Advaita. And myself. It is your true state, but it is always hidden from you, like your back. But one day you begin to perceive your back and all the weight that hangs on it. And you reset it. And then unnecessary actions, reactions, judgments leave your life. Understanding doesn't go away. Intelligence does not go away, it becomes sharper, but it does not work incessantly.

In this case, can we say that the mind becomes an instrument instead of a manager?

If only like breathing. Breath is life itself. And the mind is life itself. Stopping the mind is like stopping the breath. Only for a while. You can dive underwater for 10 minutes without scuba gear, you can sit for an hour without a single thought. But everything will come back. You need to have the experience of parallel existence, not without the mind, but simultaneously with it. Finding out who you are beyond your thoughts is what is important. A holistic perception of existence is revealed. For awareness you don't need anything other than relaxation. Therefore, meetings are held in this format. Not training, not process. This is satsang - presence where you are. Like now. Listen - some part of you is still silent.

And enlightenment comes when you least expect it.

Enlightened master Arthur Sita answers questions about how It came to him.

I remember hearing you once talk about how enlightenment happened to you after a fight in a nightclub... something like that?

Something like this)

-Is that so?

And so and not so. Something really happened, you can call it some kind of epiphany. It was not an intellectual insight, no, it was an insight into reality, into something that, while living life, a person almost never fully perceives. We can say that a person sees the world through glasses that damnably distort everything that he looks at. We can also say that a person walks around in some kind of invisible headphones, where the same voice of an unknown announcer, a commentator, who is never silent, constantly sounds, and the person does not actually hear the world, only some fragments coming through that voice. One could say that a person feels and perceives this world as if he were in some kind of spacesuit. If you try to imagine how you would perceive the world through an astronaut’s spacesuit... perhaps the world is also usually perceived by a person. And epiphany is like being for a moment or for some short period without such a spacesuit... the indescribable freshness of everything: colors, sounds, sensations... and being.

-How did this happen?

In the hospital, where he ended up after a fight in a nightclub.

-So you really fought?)) I can’t believe it...

No, I didn’t fight that time, I just received a strong blow to the head, maybe
one, or maybe several, but after which I woke up with absolutely no memory of what happened, I just stood and looked at myself in the mirror... it seems blood was flowing from my mouth. Then he ended up in the hospital. These were the days of some holidays, everyone was resting and there were no specialist doctors for several days, so I just lay in the ward alone, or almost alone. Someone came and talked to me, but I couldn’t speak, because of the injuries I received in the fight, my mouth practically couldn’t open, so I just watched and listened. Not being able to answer anything... this was a very unusual situation for me. And it literally immediately became clear that since I can’t answer anything, but what people tell me, then there’s no point in thinking about all this... why, if you still can’t influence the course of events? Realizing my complete powerlessness to influence the course of life events in any way, I simply lay and looked at the ceiling, looked at people coming and saying something to me... at that moment I began to see how a person says one thing, but feels completely different, and that emotions that a person shows on his face... it was more like a mask. It surprised me, it simply stunned me, so much so that even when, after several days, my mouth more or less began to open, I could not speak to anyone. It was a strange feeling, looking at people who play some roles, perhaps it was even scary, I suddenly felt lonely, because everyone around me seemed not to be alive at all, but... like dolls or something or robots... it’s hard to say how it is it was felt then, because it was a long time ago. I couldn't talk to anyone, neither to those who were considered friends, nor to those who considered themselves relatives, I did not feel any connection with anyone at all... complete loneliness. After returning from the hospital, I also could not communicate with anyone, could not do virtually anything, I just sat and looked out the window... as far as I remember, I did not even eat. Day after day I sat and was silent, listening to the silence of life... A strange, and probably at the same time blissful state... Then I knew nothing about meditation or anything like that... there were no explanations, just peace, no thoughts, no desires. . complete silence of life. Later, I remembered that something similar, only under more favorable conditions, had already happened in my life several years before.

-And what happened earlier, a few years before that? And what does it mean
"favorable circumstances"?

I remember this even more vaguely) I was probably about fourteen years old.. I stood in
in my room.. it was summer, the window was completely open. The view outside the window was very beautiful: green and flowering fields on the horizon, stretching into the clear blue sky. At that time I was studying wushu, and decided to study a little one of the elements of this system, gygong. It's kind of like breathing exercises. Standing in the middle of the room and looking out the window, I smoothly raised and lowered my arms, while watching my body breathe calmly. Suddenly, at some point, when the hands rose up, something like a clap happened, but without a sound... at the same time, the space changed strangely, the shapes of everything changed, while remaining the same at the same time... at the same moment, what caused greater surprise was , that the hands disappeared, as if they had disappeared, and not only the hands... the sensation of the body, the feeling of “I-body”, and “I” in general, were completely absent. All that was left was a look, a look the size of the whole world... How do you describe it? After all, the whole world calmed down and came to life at the same time. Huge, immeasurable peace and it is alive, very alive, but it is not alive by the movement that occurs in life, it is alive by the very eternity of being. Of course, then I couldn’t express it like that, but I tried anyway))
After some time, my brother asked me that I was somehow strange
I looked, asked what was wrong with me. I didn't know what to answer, because I had no idea
had what he was talking about, because there is no “me” at this moment
existed. But in some strange way, the answer still came:
Everything is there, but “me” is not there... I am not there.
For a few more days or weeks after this, some things happened
experiences that are a consequence of what happened, what is probable
are called “spiritual experiences.” There was absolutely no understanding of what was happening. The world appeared... how can I explain this... extremely Alive and calm.

– And after this experience at the age of fourteen, you forgot for some time?)) And the next time it came to you ten years later?

- Yes and no. I studied, did business, did something else... but one way or another, from time to time there were some breakthroughs into the present.

– What are you doing now?

- Nothing, I answer questions. After all, for me Now, this means Now, there is no other.
Now I’ll answer your questions)

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