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What It's Like to Live in an Ashram | My Blissful Experience Living with Swamiji

Caden Johnston · 9:36

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Freedom from struggle and confusion through spiritual living
  • Spiritual evolution as a continuous process facilitated by a conducive environment
  • The concept of an ashram as a 'breathing space' for higher consciousness
  • The importance of a guru's guidance in self-realization

Ideal for

  • Individuals seeking spiritual guidance and deeper meaning
  • Those interested in ashram life and its philosophy
  • People looking to reduce struggle and embrace inner peace
  • Anyone exploring concepts of self-realization and enlightenment

Lesson

Instructions

In this video I talk about ashram live and what it's like to live at an Ashram. Adikialsh, swamiji's home is a place like no other. Here this is bliss, enjoyment, and completion only. There is no struggle or confusion or depression here, that lifestyle is non-existent. I go into depth about a revelation I had about my blissful experience here at Bengaluru Aadheenam

Steps

  • Contemplation and self-inquiry
  • Mindful living and spiritual reflection
  • Embracing opportunities for personal growth

Benefits

  • Experiencing profound bliss and enjoyment
  • Elimination of mental struggle and confusion
  • Accelerated spiritual evolution and self-betterment
  • Access to a supportive and focused environment for growth
  • Freedom from the distractions of the 'Maya matrix'

Transcript

nithyanandam so today at go Sheila it was like 7:00 in the morning early morning Rama mo Horta right after that time no we just finished milking and I was sitting sipping some chai tea and I had this revelation idea that I wanted to share based on just my experience here living at the Audino with Swamiji as it might be easy to tell I enjoy myself here but what I was thinking about is I was just sitting under the Sun sipping tea feeling so relaxed like just sitting like this with my eyes closed just looking in the direction of the Sun soaking the Sun in letting it hit me feeling just warmth feeling nice and the biggest difference the one thing that I want to share is that the between the outside world and being especially in Adi Kyle ash I don't want to say my experience in an ashram because I feel like this is a very special place any other ashram you might not get this experience I almost feel confident in saying that you will not get the same experience so the difference between the outside world Maya matrix and Adi Kyle ash Bengaluru Vidya denim the breathing space of the avatar is there is no trouble or difficulty here in life and when I say that I don't mean that we don't face problems because this is 100% a training ground even Swamiji has said spiritual evolution is no joke and every day here it is such an intense environment that incompletions just come up and are put in your face but it is only an off to natee for you to complete them so what I'm saying is the difference is struggle right so I thought of the idea of an artist like take just someone who makes music like a rap artist like being here in the audience comparable to someone having not even in artist being able to make exactly what type of music they want not worry about any money only worry about the craft itself being able to perfect their image exactly the way that they want the differences is in the outside world if you're an artist there's always going to either be struggle with publicity so if you have the opportunity to make money and say money is not an issue and you have a recording contract you're always not going to feel creatively free you're going to feel pressured for time you're on a contract so you have to make certain things by a certain time on the other hand if you're an independent independent artist there's always going to be that looming haunting feeling of I don't have a big enough audience I want to get myself out there more how can I support myself actually by doing what I want to do by myself without someone controlling and like I said before if you have the other aspect handled if you have someone there to be a pushing force behind you what you're gonna worry about is the actual expression that you're putting out is it good enough is this actually what I want to say so here it is like if I were an artist if I made music this would be a place where it doesn't matter who hears my music because I am simply making it for myself and out of the passion I have and simply just for the whole universe it doesn't matter who hears it because I'm making it for everyone myself and almost no one at the same time so that was just one example I thought to explain how it feels to live here meaning that there is no struggle for me and for anyone here as one hundred percent can say that everyone has their own experience but that is why everyone comes here is because this place is different the idea and concept of struggle here is non-existent all that exists here is opportunities for you to spiritually evolve yourself in the outside world you're constantly constantly constantly trying to do this trying to do that if I do this then I'll feel better about myself oh I need to go and do this because this is what I planned and I don't want to disappoint anyone it's all of this silliness all of this nonsense all of this distraction from what is really important in Maya matrix in the outside world it's very hard to actually do any significant spiritual evolution you can do little small things but you're always constantly going to be pulled in different directions different directions here is a space where none of that matters because none of that is present the only thing that is present here is Swamiji's direct breathing space that's why this that's why this is his breathing space is because this is his home this is his abode so everything that Swamiji stands for which is only enlightenment only Swamiji is not here to show us that he is died he is here to show us that we are God so being here in conclusion I'll wrap this up quickly I think this video is a little bit longer than I intended but just thorough enjoyment like life living the way that you could never imagine but have always wanted to live I can say with full confidence that here is the only way to live life the only way that you can experience life for what you really really want is to be here at Audie Kyle ash and you can incorporate any of your personal passions into being here 100% but the stark difference is in the outside world nobody is going to help you nothing is going to help you you are by yourself and you really don't know how to take care of yourself you might know a little bit but not enough over here you have the guidance of such a loving guru and it's not even about that because some people might not know what a guru is the way that I'll explain it is unlike the outside world here there is no struggle all there is is you being able to better yourself that is the difference is that you are actually able to opportunities are here and the opportunities that are not here are the opportunities that don't matter and that distract you from everything else so I hope I explained that well just describing my experience here I was just sitting in such bliss and this thought came to me so I wanted to share with everyone and elaborate a little bit so I'm also going to make a video actually about my daily routine that will be the next video I upload so now I said I enjoyed my life so much I'll actually tell you a little bit about what I do the routine here is extremely unique everyone somewhat has their own routine but regardless here life is like nowhere else despite like regarding what we do when we get up in the morning to all the rituals that we do throughout the day to the food that we eat to the dress that we wear to the way that we talk everything I'll go in depth into certain aspects of that so until that time until next time nithyanandam thank you for watching

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
8 minutes
Equipment
none
Target areas
mindspiritconsciousnessemotional well being
Energy
calming

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