Dec 30, 2025 · 49 min · 16 segments
In this talk from the 1980s, Ram Dass explores different forms of yoga—hatha, dhyan, jnana, bhakti, tantra, and more—and answers questions from the audience. Get your copy of All In This Together…
Once you start to experience that you are on what's called the journey of awakening, that means that you, that some- you realize you've touched something in your life one way or another.
I mean, it may be through a book, it may be through the despair that comes in age, it may be through a traumatic experience, it could have been through, uh, being in the ocean or being in the mountains, it could have been through childbirth.
I mean, there's a thousand and one ways it could have happened that you tasted that you aren't who you think you are.
And then starts this, what's called this journey.
But you understand that it's a journey that is no journey.
It's only the illusion of a journey.
Because if you experienced it, you already are it.
So you're really coming back to what is your birthright in a spiritual sense, who you are to begin with, which is a being that is open and flowing and spacious and present.Not caught in the mind, which is the thinking mind, which is the That's the particularly unique trap of a human birth.
Particularly unique trap.
And when Maharajji said to me, I hear you people are going to Mars these days.
Once you start to experience that you are on what's called the journey of awakening, that means that you, that some- you realize you've touched something in your life one way or another.
I mean, it may be through a book, it may be through the despair that comes in age, it may be through a traumatic experience, it could have been through, uh, being in the ocean or being in the mountains, it could have been through childbirth.
I mean, there's a thousand and one ways it could have happened that you tasted that you aren't who you think you are.
And then starts this, what's called this journey.
But you understand that it's a journey that is no journey.
It's only the illusion of a journey.
Because if you experienced it, you already are it.
So you're really coming back to what is your birthright in a spiritual sense, who you are to begin with, which is a being that is open and flowing and spacious and present.Not caught in the mind, which is the thinking mind, which is the That's the particularly unique trap of a human birth.
Particularly unique trap.
And when Maharajji said to me, I hear you people are going to Mars these days.
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Despair Before Breakthrough
Why struggle can precede real awakening
Being Over Doing
How to act without ego involvement
Discipline That Sticks
When structure finally comes from within
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