This is a YouTube video titled "The Journey Towards Oneness" containing a conversation recorded on March 4, 2021, featuring multiple speakers including Ask AI Mark. The discussion centers on spiritual themes, particularly the life and teachings of Ram Dass, exploring concepts of oneness, spiritual transformation, and authenticity in spiritual leadership.
Maharajji always used to hold up a finger like that and say, Sub Ek, it's all one. Don't you understand? It's all one. And of course, we didn't particularly understand that.
Right.
I think the rather wonderful thing about Ram Dass is that he was on that journey toward oneness.
And.
Through kind of translating his own life experiences for everybody, he brought everybody along on the trip.
Yeah.
And I think that over time, over the time that I knew him, he transformed a lot and lost more of that separateness and became more of that kind of loving beacon of awareness and compassion and love. But it was through some of it was practice, some of it was through the stroke that almost took him out and really, you know, sent him into a, a deep depression for a while because he thought he really lost contact with Maharajji. He had lost his spiritual, you know, path. And then it came back. And I would say those last 20 years of his life after the stroke, that a little more. He was more and more just going into that what he sometimes called the ocean of love. Yeah.
Well, it's interesting when you kind of feel that.
Yeah.
When you follow his career, and there's a wonderful documentary you can find, I think, on Netflix or one of the streaming services called Becoming Nobody.
Yeah.
And, and it's this beautiful sort of story of his life, and there's an audio sort of recording a series of his lectures also called Becoming Nobody on Audible, which I encourage everybody listen to. It's really just five hours or so, it's not long, but it's really, it's a fascinating exploration because, you know, I think many spiritual teachers are like, well, I have it all together, you know, I'm enlightened and I'm good. I'm here like on my pedestal teaching you and, you know, that always smells to me. Like for me, that always just smells.
Rotten and I don't believe it.
It's a vicious time. Anyway.
Yeah.
Listen, I know you've got your crap and you're messed up.
And then you see all these- and all that.
Yeah, and all the gurus are sleeping with this one and they're stealing money from this one and they're like, and they're caught up in the ego in this powerful way and they're pretending to be somebody, right? And what I love about Ram Dass is he just came back from India and he's like, I'm just an idiot like the rest of you. I'm just maybe asking more questions and I'm being more transparent about my neuroses and my stuff. And here's what I know and learned and maybe you want to try it on.
