What Is the World According to Sri Ramana? | Michael James

Is the world we experience truly real, or is it more like a dream we haven't yet woken up from? Michael James, a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, explores how Ramana's philosophy challenges our most basic assumptions about the self, the world, and the nature of reality. Michael James has spent nearly 50 years studying, practicing, and translating the works of Sri Ramana Maharshi. He studied under Sri Sadhu Om, a direct disciple of Ramana, and is the author of Atma-Vidya: The Science of Knowing Oneself. He is regarded as a leading authority on Ramana's primary sources and experiential practice. Explore Michael James's entry on Sri Ramana in the Landscape of Consciousness: https://loc.closertotruth.com/theory/... Subscribe to Closer To Truth:    / @closertotruthtv   Subscribe to the Closer To Truth audio podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you listen to podcasts: https://closertotruth.podbean.com Get access to over 5,000 videos by signing up for a free Closer To Truth membership: https://closertotruth.com/register/ Support Closer To Truth: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ Follow Closer To Truth:   / closertotruth     / closertotruthtv   https://x.com/CloserToTruth Closer To Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers. #SriRamanaMaharshi #AdvaitaVedanta #Consciousness #Nonduality #CloserToTruth 0:00 Cold open 0:35 Introduction — Michael James and Sri Ramana 1:07 What is Ramana's most counterintuitive teaching? 2:27 What first drew Michael James to Ramana? 3:49 Bio — Michael James 4:45 Overview of Ramana's philosophy — world, reality, value 5:06 Are we the body? Waking, dream, and sleep 7:26 The significance of the dream state 8:15 Is there awareness in deep sleep? 11:49 What does this mean for the nature of phenomena? 13:15 The logical steps from pure awareness to selfhood 15:07 Beyond skepticism — the one thing we cannot doubt 16:43 Ego, consciousness, and the nature of the mind 17:10 Is there an external world? 19:15 Waking state as dream — the analogy explored 21:10 Do we share the same world? 24:28 What does "Bhagavan" mean? 27:04 Ramana's contribution to Advaita philosophy 28:07 The nature of ego — Ramana's key clarification 29:04 Self-enquiry — turning attention inward 30:25 Sleep, self-knowledge, and infinite being-awareness 33:09 Closing — upcoming segments