Our Self Investigation gathering was held on March the 26th, 2023 at Uudenmaankatu 33, Helsinki. There were a good dozen participants.
We started with a traditional moment of silence for 10 minutes, after which we continued with Sri Ramana Maharshi’s teachings. Next was the third paragraph of ‘Nan Yar?, Who am I?’ It dealt with the existence of the mind and how when the mind subsides back to its original source, the self, the world of phenomena also disappears with it. This stimulated a really fruitful discussion, which brought out many different perspectives on the topic.
As a new thing in the program, we had a consciousness exercise presented by Swami Sarvapriyananda, which we did for the first time. It was a good way to have a conscious experience of how awareness is fundamentally our true being, regardless of whether we have sensory perceptions or whether we are awake, asleep, or in deep sleep.
After that, we sang bhajans and at the end had a short moment of silence, after which we continued the conversation in a free form enjoying coffee, tea and snacks.
The next Self Investigation gathering is on April 23rd, 2023 at 4 p.m.