Equanimity in Daily Living: Recent Episodes
Gautam Sachdeva
Gautam Sachdeva is an author of books on the subject of Advaita (non-duality). He writes with a specific focus on peace of mind in daily living
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Gautam shares the teaching of Advaita through the lens of Joel Goldsmith. This podcast turns our attention to total acceptance of will of God.
Gautam explores Advaita through the lens of Joel Goldsmith. This podcast explores the dimensions of Teacher/teaching and the student.
Gautam responds to a seeker's question on going with the flow of life and resting in 'what is'.
An exploration of Advaita teachings through the lens of Siddharameshwar Maharaj. This episode explores the eye of Knowledge and the Guru-disciple relationship.
An exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on interhuman relationships, non-doership, illusion and blessings of the Guru
Gautam responds to questions on the practice of meditation in Advaita, praying to two Gods and taking decisions without the aggravated sense of doership.
Gautam responds to a seeker's question on balance between surrender and taking up responsibility
Gautam responds to questions on the involvement in reactions, deception of the ego and an insecure mind.
Gautam responds to questions on listening to various masters, the rampant thinking mind and anxiety with decision making.
An exploration of Joel Goldsmith's teachings on Consciousness & peace of mind in daily living
An exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on illusion, physical devotion and compassion.
Explorations of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on Karma, Non-doership, Awakening and Devotion to the Guru
A podcast on exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on devotion to the Guru, abiding in the 'I am' , Illusory perceptions, company of saints and traits of the ego.
Explorations of Advaita teachings through the lens of Siddharameshwar Maharaj. This podcast explores the Guru-disciple relationship, destiny and prayer of gratitude.
An exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on finding fault with others, lust for money, anxiety, faith in the Guru.
An exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching on having desires, judgements & content of our consciousness, renunciation and Maya.
Exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teachings on dealing with anger, giving advice, self-awareness & faith in the Master
Exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teachings on the quest for spiritual growth and getting rid of Maya
Exploration of Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teachings on Non-doership, Maya and Sagun worship.
In this podcast, Gautam shares passages from Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teachings on Guru's grace and non-doership
We attach a value to the numbers. Only when a sense of self is invested in numbers is when, one compare them. || Tune in to hear the beautiful anecdote of Pir Baba of Kashmir and the Sage's compassion.
Gautam shares an anecdote from his career days to convey a key teaching - Agree to disagree without being disagreeable. This podcast throws light on the middle path and a pragmatic balance in relationships.
Gautam responds to a question from a seeker on the frustration of not imbibing the teaching in daily life.
Gautam shares the teachings of Advaita through the lens of American mystic Joel Goldsmith on relationships with people.
Gautam throws light on the different aspects of faith - connection with the Source, surrender and the suffering we create.
- Guru Purnima Blessings * Gautam shares thoughts on importance of Guru, the journey home, letting go and not forcing outcomes.
Gautam shares two passages from Siddharameshwar Maharaj's teaching. The passage readings point us to Maharaj's teaching of beingness and consciousness.
Gautam shares an anecdote to convey Maharaj's teaching of "Only as a witness can you truly help another"
Meditation is a way of living - Gautam throws light on the practice of meditation with anecdotes and teachings from Ramesh Balsekar and Nisargadatta Maharaj.
True prayer is prayer of gratitude. A total unconditional acceptance of 'What is' ; not 'What should be' or 'What could be'.
Gautam shares Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching on Maya - "Beingness is intolerable and yet we love to exist"
In this short talk Gautam focuses on accepting that the bedrock of life is uncertainty. We never know what the next moment is going to bring - Sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain.
A student of Advaita reflects how the teaching and life's events helped bring about humility and understanding of non-doership
In this podcast shares two readings of Siddharameshwar Maharaj to convey the teaching of oneness and non-duality
Non-duality's gift is understanding in daily living. Application in daily living through relationships.
Gautam elaborates on the meaning of Satsang with quotes from Maharaj and Shirdi Sai Baba
Gautam reflects on the teaching with a couplet from Gokarknath, words from Nisargadatta Maharaj and examples of Mother and Child
Gautam shares his teacher Ramesh Balsekar's thoughts on True Meditation - Meditation as a living practice.
Gautam continues the exploration of quotes and passages of Siddhrameshwar Maharaj's words.
Gautam shares two passages from Siddharameshwar Maharaj's life that echo the teachings of Non-doership, Self and Consciousness.
Gautam shares four beautiful quotations from Siddarameshwar Maharaj's teaching. These quotations send home the message of how daily living can become a spiritual sadhana.
Gautam in this podcast series of Siddharameshwar Maharaj (Nisargadatta Maharaj's Guru) shares quotations and sentences from Siddharameshar Maharaj's life and teachings.
Gautam shares Maharaj's teaching of abiding in beingness to discover the unshakeable peace.
Gautam highlights the aspect of 'The poor me' syndrome and reflects on Ramesh Ji's advice of "Don't give advice unless asked for"
Gautam shares a powerful message : Peace is do not an experience, it is a natural state that is always there. You not need an experience to enjoy the drug of peace of mind in daily living.
Gautam shares a beautiful story from the life of Ramana Maharshi to explain what is meditation and abiding in your Being.
Gautam shares about a seeker who was frustrated of losing the witnessing after 12 years in a moment of anger.
Gautam shares about a seeker who was frustrated of losing the witnessing after 12 years in a moment of anger.
Gautam answers a question "I have seen enough in life. I want to be detached. How can I be detached?"
Gautam recounts an incident involving Paul Brunton and an astrologer in Varanasi - Do you read your own chart?
Gautam talks about Sri Aurobindo’s teaching in the light of Advaita. This short talk is based on the booklet ‘The whole secret of Karma Yoga’.
The Source takes care of everything. How Maurice Friedman was taken care of. How Gautam published Robert Adam’s book ‘Silence of the heart’ : https://www.yogiimpressions.com/silence-of-the-heart.html
Stepping into another's shoes means becoming completely empty so that one can step OUT of one's shoes and then truly step into another's shoes.
Gautam speaks about Dr. Ram Bhosle and how his life shows that everything in life is predetermined.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'Explosion of Love', on the connection between animals and human beings.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Ramakrishna on Non-Doership,’ talks briefly about Eckhart Tolle’s teaching in relation to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s, with the specific focus on non-doership.
Sunday morning talk at Gautam’s residence in Mumbai. Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Ramakrishna on Non-Doership,’ talks about not labeling oneself as a ‘failure’ when things don’t go our way.
Sunday morning talk at Gautam’s residence in Mumbai. Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Ramakrishna on Non-Doership,’ talks about how the understanding can change one’s attitude of criticizing others to accepting them for who they are, as well as ourselves.
Sunday morning talk at Gautam’s residence in Mumbai. Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Ramakrishna on Non-Doership,’ talks about how the ego gets involved in a reaction, thus strengthening its identification.
Sunday morning talk at Gautam’s residence in Mumbai. Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Ramakrishna on Non-Doership,’ talks about how the understanding can change one’s perspective about peoples’ performance on the work front.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation,’ talks about patterns of the ego, and witnessing the entanglements of the thinking mind.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'The End of Separation,’ talks about silence being a natural state with some people.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about an example given by Ramakrishna that conveys the total acceptance of God’s will operating, under all circumstances, through everyone.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, elaborates further on ‘living the teaching’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, narrates a true incident of not being able to live one’s own teaching.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about the similarity between ‘living in the past’ and the ‘fear of the future’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation,’ touches upon aspects of faith in the context of what Advaita masters – Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramesh Balsekar – had to say on the subject.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about one’s innate nature. He also touches upon the aspect of seekers on the path of Advaita tending to lose the essence of the teaching through an ‘over-analysis’ of what is said or heard.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, talks in a light-hearted manner on how we label ourselves – and more so others – as being ‘stupid’.
Gautam Sachdeva talks, in a lighter vein, about the purpose of life and at the same time gives deep insights into the Consciousness that unites all of humanity.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, talks of the need for having a clearer understanding of our so-called ‘imperfections’. He then explains us how this renewed understanding can impact and improve our relationships.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, talks of ‘The Original Sin’ from the perspective of Non-duality, one in which we get mired in the ‘dualism’ of ‘me’ versus the ‘other’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks on the nature of ‘giving’. He is accompanied in this video by his close friend Roger Castillo, who shares his insight on the subject as well.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, shares insights on Advaita sage Sri Ramana Maharshi, which he received last year on a visit to the temple of Lord Murugan in Palani, near the South Indian town of Coimbatore.
Sai Baba of Shirdi is renowned as the master of miracles, but few have been exposed to his teachings of Advaita. Author Gautam Sachdeva elaborates on an article written by him for Life Positive Magazine on the Saint:
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation”, talks about the sensitive issue of taking one’s life in light of the teaching of Advaita as expounded by Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, talks about ‘being lived by the Source’, rather than living our lives as individuals with a sense of ‘doership’ taking ownership of all that happens to, as well as, through us.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, narrates a story of Lord Krishna and Arjuna, highlighting our attachment to objects.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation’, talks of ‘TRUE FORGIVENESS’ from a non-dualistic perspective and not a forgiveness based on ‘me’ forgiving the ‘other’ and thereby still perpetuating the separation.
Gautam shares a couplet of Shiv-Gorakhnath, and its significance in light of the varying degrees of the sense of ‘doership when it comes to receiving, asking and taking.
Gautam shares a couplet of Shiv-Gorakhnath Babaji, and its significance in light of the ‘doership’ when it comes to speaking.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation”, talks about embracing change – Now, as an antidote to the fear of the future.
Spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Dada Vaswani in conversation with Gautam Sachdeva.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The End of Separation”, talks about the relief provided when pain – physical, emotional or psychological – ceases.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, recounts a memorable anecdote narrated to him by S. Mullarpattan, Nisargadatta Maharaj’s translator.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, answers a question on ‘faith in God’ in light of the teachings of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’.
Gautam Sachdeva takes the seeker through the core concepts of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, as outlined in his first book 'Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar'.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about the energy of fear as a movement in the body.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Explosion of Love’, talks about the nature of desire, and how ownership of the desire compounds the issue.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, talks briefly about the acceptance of God’s Will.
Gautam Sachdeva, author and spiritual books publisher, talks about the value of a spiritual teaching being measured by its impact in our daily living.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, narrates an incident that reveals there are always two sides to a situation and how being quick to judge the actions of others in haste is, ultimately, utterly futile.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about the dynamic of suffering.
Gautam Sachdeva, author and spiritual books publisher, talks about what is not true surrender to the Guru.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, answers a question posed to him on ‘The Power of Now’ and how to be constantly vigilant and in the present moment.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, talks briefly about the deep sleep state.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, answers a question posed to him (both as an author as well as a spiritual publisher) on whether a Guru is necessary on the spiritual path.
Kia Scherr talks about celebrating life in the aftermath of death, by visiting the restaurant in which her husband Alan and daughter Naomi lost their lives in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, in 2008.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Explosion of Love’, on the connection between animals and human beings.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Explosion of Love’, narrates a humorous yet exemplary incident from his essay ‘Extremity of God’s Will’ in the book.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, shares one of the funniest anecdotes narrated by Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, recounts an anecdote narrated by Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar on acceptance of God’s Will.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, recounts a touching dialogue between Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar and a former soldier on the subject of ‘guilt’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘The Buddha’s Sword’, recounts a touching dialogue between Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar and a lady on the subject of ‘loneliness’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, recounts a touching dialogue between Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar and a lady on the subject of ‘loneliness’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Explosion of Love’, elaborates further on the quest for ‘Peace of mind’.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Explosion of Love’, speaks on a core concept of Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar’s teaching.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of ‘Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar’, shares memories of his meeting with the Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, when Ramesh’s wife passed on
Gautam in casual conversation with Kriya Yoga Master Yogiraj Siddhanath, at his forest ashram outside Pune.
Gautam in casual conversation with Kriya Yoga Master Yogiraj Siddhanath, at his forest ashram outside Pune.
Gautam Sachdeva, founder of Yogi Impressions, speaks about Maharaj’s new book published by Yogi Impressions
Gautam in casual conversation with Kriya Yoga Master Yogiraj Siddhanath, at his forest ashram outside Pune.
Gautam in casual conversation with Kriya Yoga Master Yogiraj Siddhanath, at his forest ashram outside Pune. Hear Yogiraj recite in this sublime environ, an ode to Advait Darshan - that is merging with Oneness.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar', recounts a memorable anecdote narrated to him by S. Mullarpattan, Nisargadatta Maharaj's translator.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'The Buddha's Sword', reminisces about memorable moments spent with the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'The Buddha's Sword', reminisces about memorable moments spent with the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'The Buddha's Sword', reminisces about memorable moments spent with the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'The Buddha's Sword', recounts a memorable anecdote narrated to him by S. Mullarpattan, Nisargadatta Maharaj's translator.
Gautam Sachdeva, author of 'Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar', shares memories of his last meetings with the Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar.