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To listen to Fundamental Expressions is Meditation.The basic human predicament can not be solved by any positive explanation or statement. It is rested when you notice it. There is only one step; you have to disregard silently, spontaneously the relief offered by books, gurus, techniques, various en…

Y V Chawla


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    Episode 111: Do rich people experience higher levels of happiness, or does wealth create unique psychological pressures

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 2:16


    Human beings have different genetic, physical, social, financial status. What is the common element that is present in every human being? Every human being has the same experiencing structure, experiencing resistance and satisfaction from moment to moment. Once you are able to notice this, you are on the Original ground.----

    Episode 110: How Do I Know If I Am Making Right Decision

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 1:44


    Choice comes before us as something painful-what would be the right choice. If one can bear this pain, this feeling because no choice seems to be flawless and one can not know the result of exercising choice before hand. One tastes freedom. Whatever choice emerges is the right choice.

    Episode 109: Why We Do Not Know the Origin and Purpose of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 3:46


    ‘Why or How life originated' ‘what is the purpose of human life' – these questions arise within the Human Mechanism. We have to understand the Human Mechanism.------- One wants to do away with the fear of going wrong, the fear of committing errors. Mind is under the illusion that it may make some wrong choices. One fears one may go wrong. This fear, this feeling can not be dealt with, undone or escaped. Now any action is relaxed and conscious.

    Episode 108: What Happens After Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 2:00


    'Why or How life originated', ‘what happens after death' – these questions arise within the Human Mechanism. We have to understand the Human Mechanism. https://www.fundamentalexpressions.com/excerpts.htm

    Episode 107: Why We Have to Suffer To Ultimately Die

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 2:06


    No one consciously chooses disease, poverty, losses, conflicts. *Then is it a punishment? Punishment for what?

    Episode 106: Limit of Knowing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 1:11


    You can learn, practise anything. But what you will do, think or what will happen at a particular moment cannot be pre set. Every action is experiment.

    Episode 105: The Origin, Format of Life and Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 1:56


    Any discovery about the Origin of the Universe, if as you are now is not included, is guess work, a work of fiction. Whatever is before you at this moment, that is, within the purview of your senses – apart from this enclosure, everything is memory, imagination, thinking. *Someone close to me died a few days ago, where he is now? He is in the field of your memory now. He is out of the field of your senses. But you can not throw him out of the field of your memory. Can you see this as a fact? Any explanation further than this will be a superimposition upon the fact.  

    Episode 104: Immortality

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2024 1:12


    Once you see this, every moment become ‘live'. Wait for immortality does not entice you. As every moment comes out of the womb of not being. The timeless, endless process.

    Episode 103: Mental Health and Psychological Laziness

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 4:00


    It is not because of more stress, more discomfort, more tenseness but because we feel so much relieved, satisfied, assured or want to feel secured, satisfied, assured by addition to possessions, relations, ideas that we do not recognize the fact that brain operates though contrasts only.

    Episode 102: The Search for Universal Solution to Life's All Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 2:37


    Instead of feeling the uneasiness, any problem creates within us, we seek diversion by fanciful ideas like, it is all one's fate, future will be alright, God will take care and so on or we seek relief by entertainment, intoxications to bypass the feeling of uneasiness. To become aware of the diversion is to stop it.

    Episode 101: No One Consciously Chooses Disease, Poverty, Losses, Conflicts

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2024 1:13


    No one consciously chooses disease, poverty, losses, conflicts. Then is it a punishment? Punishment foe what?

    Episode 100: Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2024 2:06


    AI (Artificial Intelligence)is man made. Can we see the source of HI (Human Intelligence)? Source of HI is psychological discomfort and uncertainty, recognition of the fact that one is experiencing discomfort, uneasiness and comfort, relief from moment to moment.

    Episode 99: Frustration Despite Advances in Technology, Knowledge--

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 2:50


    Any discomforting or irritating situation and uncertainty creates uneasiness in your nervous system. One tries to throw away this uneasiness by solacing explanations or by diversions like entertainments, religious-spiritual ideas. Mind is enamoured as if it will resolve this uneasiness. Unless this uneasiness is experienced ‘as it is', energy is not concentrated. One becomes addicted to escapes. Loses contact with the Life energy.

    Episode 98: Work as Compulsion is the Cause of all Complications of Living

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2023 3:01


    We are consumed by compulsion and relief pattern in daily life. One does not see that this pattern, this inclination is the cause of all troubles. One is so much attached to ‘relief' offered by holidays, entertainment, religious and spiritual activities that one's other days, other activities automatically become ‘compulsive'. This divide does not let one see ‘what is True'. All complications arise for the individual as well as for the society as this divide is not seen, understood, solved. Once you notice your bondage to this pattern of compulsion – relief, fused state touches you.

    Episode 97: Past, Present and Future are related in a Tense Mode

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 2:07


    Past, present and future are related in a tense mode. There is no way, this tension can be undone. You can not feel the comfort of amending the past (memory) now. You can not feel the comfort of solving the future (imagination) now. 

    Episode 96: Is There a Purpose or Meaning To Human Existence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 3:39


    Can you see that any answer will satisfy or dissatisfy you, it can not go further. You have to see the format of life to see the complete picture. Whatever is before you at this moment, that is, within the purview of your senses – apart from this enclosure, everything is memory, imagination, thinking. This is the Total Field, the field of senses and the field of memory, imagination, thinking. This structure does not change wherever you may go, whatever may happen. It means this is the Original. The idea of God or ‘who created this Existence' or what is the purpose of human existence' and so on arises within this format, that is, as thinking. Seeing the Total Field is the end.

    Episode 95: The Format of Time

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2023 2:05


    You can not feel the comfort of amending the past (memory) now. You can not feel the comfort of solving the future (imagination) now. This gap is uneasiness, tenseness, friction for the brain. The illusion becomes busy in covering up this friction as if to secure stable relief. To see that this friction can not be covered up or solved automatically attunes one to Now.

    Episode 94: Enlightenment and Philosophies

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 1:30


    Once you do not run away from uneasiness generated from compulsion of work or from discomforting, irritating situations – your whole energy is here. You begin to see the meaning of your life, your existence from moment to moment. This is ever revealing. 

    Episode 93: Beyond Genetic Mold

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 1:15


    Whatever may be your genetic make up, one thing is common to all. You are essentially experiencing discomfort-relief from moment to moment.

    Episode 92: Enjoyment and More Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2023 1:03


    Even if you are king of the world, desire to have more or tension that your securities may be lost will develop. Brain can not operate as psychologically relieved, whatever you may possess or know.

    Episode 91: Recognising Totality Now is Your Attunement to The Magical Ground

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2023 2:06


    You can not feel the comfort of amending the past (memory) now. You can not feel the comfort of solving the future (imagination) now. This gap is uneasiness, tenseness, friction for the brain. The illusion becomes busy in covering up this friction as if to secure stable relief. To see that this friction can not be covered up or solved automatically attunes one to Now.

    Episode 90: Embarrassment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022 1:32


    You experience life energy when you face insult, embarrassment. Do not runaway from this uneasiness. Original energy may take over.

    Episode 89: Enlightenment is not a Comfort Zone

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2022 2:58


    The idea of Enlightenment is given by books or by others. Can you frame the fundamental issue?  The answer to all your problems is given as God or Enlightenment by the religion. It is an answer. You have not solved the question yourself. Frame the question, solve it and you will reach at the answer. Then you may call it God or Enlightenment or whatever name you give to it. 

    Episode 88: Desire is Life Force

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 2:42


     Instead of feeling the pull of desire, instead of feeling the pull of contradictory thoughts that arise with the desire, we become busy in taking sides by condemning or justifying the desire. The process of desire is vitiated. Seeing the pull of desire, being with the pull without any ideation is the connection to the original energy.

    Episode 87: The End of All Your Efforts

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 1:03


    One is not aware that one can question – ‘why one has to face pain and uncertainty'. One is under the illusion as if pain and uncertainty can be removed from the mind by addition to possessions, relations or by religious-spiritual ideas, activities and stability will come and stay. 

    Episode 86: Fear and the Great Secret

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 2:08


    All sadness, confusion, fear, uncertainty is psychological discomfort, if you are not in immediate physical danger. To absorb this discomfort without any explanation, without any solacing diversion is the key.

    Episode 85: No One Can Become Psychologically Immune

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 1:48


    No one can become psychologically immune. To acknowledge vulnerability is your connection to the Original.-- We think as if someone else or science and technology or future will relieve us from this discomfort. No body else can bear it for you. Nothing can be thrown out of the mind.--

    Episode 84: The Bondage of 40 Hour Work Week

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022 3:28


    We are consumed by compulsion and relief pattern in daily life. One does not see that this pattern, this inclination is the cause of all troubles.All complications arise for the individual as well as for the society as this divide is not seen, understood, solved. Once you notice your bondage to this pattern of compulsion – relief, fused state touches you.

    Episode 83: God is a Fact - the Endless Exploration

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2022 2:39


    Can you see that there is essentially gap between what you want, what you like and what happens? You want to close the gap by using the idea of God. Once you see that this gap can not be undone, you begin to see the happenings as work of God. God is now a fact for you. It is endless exploration. You are attuned to wonder, to the limitless field.

    Episode 82: Finding Resilience

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 1:44


    There are two types of people:Those who are religiously-spiritually inclined. --Their quest remains limited to their philosophies, after life theories and so on.  Now there are those who are not so inclined, finding resilience during losses, defame, relationship conflicts, disease is a big task. --

    Episode 81: Question - What is root cause of a restless mind?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2021 3:11


     Mind can not hold pleasure, relief, happiness. ---The issue of restless mind itself drops as this issue itself adds to the restlessness. The total ground is realised.

    Episode 80: Seeing the Limit of Thinking Opens up to a New Dimension

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2021 1:49


    You can not come out of thinking and discuss 'about' thinking. There is no one thinking. (when you say-‘I am thinking', this itself is thinking and not the source of thinking)‘I' can refer to anything; can describe anything (‘I' as subject and something or other as object). This is the process of thinking. Now ‘I' comes under the illusion as if it is the source of thinking. Can you see that ‘I' itself arises as a thought?

    Episode 79: Seeing Calmness in Chaos

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 1:49


    You have to feel settled, satisfied now in whatever situation you are. Even if it is extremely difficult situation, it is simply psychological discomfort-if it is not immediate physical danger. The error is that you want to remove, undo this discomfort, throw away this discomfort from your mind. 

    Episode 78: New Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 1:32


    It is to find ‘you' as you are-desiring, wanting, anxious, continuously adjusting with others or environment, being insulted or praised, being hit by unexplainable failures or successes, stuck up in the maze of choices, actions and consequences and so on. This ‘as you are' is the end of ‘you'. This facing oneself ‘as it is' is like an explosion. The new mind is born. 

    Episode 77: Why bizarre, discomforting, irritating things happen?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2021 2:34


    To see that we do not have control over our life, life situations, our own limitations, fragilities – is not to lose our power, but to instantly connect to the source of life. There is opening up to the limitless with this acknowledgment.  

    Episode 76: Framing the Fundamental Issue Solves Everything

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 2:58


    The fundamental issue before man is-how to deal with, when he faces something which he does not like, finds irritating or when he is face to face with uncertainty, which he is unable to cover up.

    Episode 75: Pandemic shows Limitations of Science

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2021 2:47


    Man’s search is for stability, stable relief, stable pleasure and so on where he is not perturbed by losses, accidents, diseases, conflicts (inner and outer). Even when he searches for God, Enlightenment, he is searching for stability. If you can come to this question – you are just close to the Truth. You will find it.

    Episode 74: We want normal life as before Covid 19, forgetting that that life has led to Covid 19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2021 1:52


    We want normal life as before Covid 19 as if it was a model life, perfect life. We forget that that life has led to Covid 19.

    Episode 73: Acknowledging Fundamental Resistance is Power

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 2:03


    When the nervous system experiences this resistance, this pain – what you do, you try to throw the resistance out of you mind. There is no place to throw it. Once you see this, the whole energy is here.

    Episode 72: Truth or God or Original is Not Knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2021 1:38


    Truth or God or Original is not knowledge. It is totality expressing from moment to moment-you and the world as a singular process-including what you like-dislike, fear or cherish. It is not knowing ‘what is’ that delivers but seeing ‘what is’ ‘as is’ without any escaping mechanism that connects you to the ground.

    Episode 71: Truth is Revealed When You Are Face to Face with 'What is'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 1:14


    One who is interested in finding ‘what is True’ will not talk about God, ‘what God is’ but will inquire ‘why human beings have to bear pain and uncertainty’. He will encounter life directly ‘as it is’ and not run to comforting escapes to cover up his own uneasiness. In this process, ‘what is True’ is revealed.

    Episode 70: Vulnerability of Human Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2021 1:09


    The present scenario of total uncertainty (due to Covid 19 and so on) has shown you the vulnerability of human life. Noticing this vulnerability can connect you to the Original.

    Episode 69: 'I' Has Come Under the Illusion as if it is the Source of Thinking, Doing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2021 2:05


    All doing, thinking is neurological, physiological process. The assertions - ‘I am thinking, I am doing’ are only the words to communicate. Thinking has overtaken as if it is the Total Field.

    Episode 68: Unpleasant Thoughts Can Not Harm You

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 1:33


    Face any unpleasant feeling or thought as it arises. Unpleasant feeling or thought arises only when you are otherwise safe and secured in the moment. Feeling or thought can not harm you. You are on the Original ground.

    Episode 67: The Fundamental Inquiry-Why Human Being has to bear Accidents, Diseases, Losses and the enigma of Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 3:35


    Life has not moved an inch away from accidents, diseases, losses despite advances in technology and other economic and scientific innovations. Death is still an enigma despite the fact that we have accepted it as inevitable. To explore this is fundamental inquiry.

    Episode 66: Enlightenment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2021 2:54


    The idea of Enlightenment is given by others or by books. Can you frame the fundamental issue? You think, things should happen as you want, no problems should tinker your mind. But you face resistance (pain and uncertainty), that is, discomforting, irritating situations. That is why you feel incomplete. And go on removing, undoing, solving the resistance by addition to possessions, religious-spiritual explanations. Can you take a different step?

    Episode 65: You are Attuned to Total Knowing when you are Comfortable with Not Knowing

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 0:50


    You are attuned to Total knowing when you are comfortable with not knowing. You may plan an activity but what happens from moment to moment remains unpredictable. You want to feel relieved by knowing, by thinking about accomplishing, by thinking about result, about tomorrow. As this is not possible, complications arise. Once we see that this relief can not be secured, we become comfortable with uncertainty, ambiguity, confusion. Any action is now relaxed, conscious. One begins to see ‘what s True’.

    The Fear of Financial Security

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 3:55


    Financial issue keeps the rich as well as the poor engaged, perplexed and sometimes terrified. We have not solved it despite the fact that we consider ourselves evolved (human) beings. We think more money will give psychological security, safety, stable relief. We think as if this relief, this safety can be stabilised. We do not come to this point but go on seeking, seeking stability. Instead of enjoying with money, we are stuck up in seeking stable relief. We want to cover up our fears, our uncertainties about money by thinking as if relief will come and stay. You have to bear the jerk that nothing can give you stable relief. Is this not dullness? The friction between this moment and the next gives momentum to life. The friction is unending. When you are relaxed in this moment, whatever be the situation, the image for the next moment (comfortable to you) is automatically created. This is the natural momentum on which brain works. When you are not at rest with this moment, you are trying to fix the next moment to your pattern of satisfaction. You miss the automation. You become busy in fighting an illusory battle. Unless you see this, you will continue to seek stable relief instead of enjoying. Life has evolved as more and more multi connected process. As you are not directly producing the goods and services you are using. We are using almost every thing produced by others. ‘You’ (every body) is dependent upon goods and services produced by others. You can not operate as separate, safe, secured, independent. In order to be in the world, in order to enjoy connectivity (which is life), in order to enjoy possessions, relations, situations-you have to absorb the resistance (fear, uncertainty) you face in daily life. ‘You are connected to the world’ is a singular structure, complete structure. Apart from immediate physical danger, all resistance is psychological discomfort. When you face anything wrong, negative, irritating-can you feel, bear this discomfort without any explanation as you are also connected in some way with the wrong, negative, irritating situation? You have made a dent in transforming your world. Now any action (or no-action) is relaxed, creative. You are on the total ground. Brain can not operate as psychologically secured, relieved-irrespective of what you have. Even if you are king of the world, fear that your securities may be disturbed or the tension to have something more will develop. The friction of psychological comfort-discomfort-comfort is operative element of the brain. Now you are settled in doing something, anything or nothing. Once you see this, your desire, what you want provides contrast to manifestation, to the new.

    Do We Suffer Due to Karma, Wrong Decisions or Wrong Exercise of Options

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2020 0:49


    We think we suffer due to wrong karma, wrong decisions, wrong exercise of options. This calculation keeps us tied to ideas, explanations, theories. What impels us to do wrong karma and so on.  Can we blame ourselves or others? We remain trapped in these ideas.  Can we stop all explanations that arise to cover up the pain of unpleasant results, happenings, options? This stoppage throws us in the fluid field. Your will has meaning now. You have touched the Original.

    Awakening is to See That There are no Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 2:49


    Awakening is to see that there are no problems. We are happy in finding solutions to our problems. There seems to be no end. This is a trap in which the human mind is caught. When you understand that you are in a cage, the cage explodes open. We are under the illusion as if by solving our problems, we will come to a stable ground, we will remain happy. This wait does not let one touch the current of life. Can you notice the wait? Noticing ends the wait. Can you see that you are settled where ever you are (unless in immediate physical danger)? Once you are okay, settled where you are (except when you are in immediate physical danger). This settlement charges the brain to a new high. Wait for stability ends. When the wait is over, issue of problems is also over. Whole energy is gathered here. You act or not act and see what happens. This is the endless process of life. You have touched the current of life. You have to understand the problem making mechanism to end it. Any problem creates uneasiness in you. Mind says, ‘take me out of the problem, uneasiness’. Can one see that this is a new problem? And this problem raises its head every time one faces an unfavourable situation. To understand this (new) problem is to end it. The end of it is the end of the problem making mechanism. Mind is so overwhelmed by the promised relief as if relief will end the uneasiness. It tries to cover up the uneasiness with solaces. If this uneasiness ends, life ends. Once one sees this, the trouble as uneasiness, as problem is over. One has touched the current of life. It may be worded as supreme relaxation with unending friction (uneasiness) to operate.

    The Illusion of Controlling what you Feel, Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2020 2:06


    ‘What you face’ or ‘what is happening’ is not under your control-this is simple to understand. Realisation happens when you notice that what you ‘feel’, ‘experience’ is also not under your control. Words can only express what is being experienced. Pick a pen. A whole set of physiological and neurological movements are involved. Now the thinking – I have picked the pen – is expression through words.Thinking arises to explain. This is the limit of thinking.The actual movements – physiological and neurological happen.Put your hand in cold water. There is feeling in the body and brain. Now thought can express this feeling, it is not this feeling. When you can see that thought is only an expression of what is being experienced-you begin to see that thought is not the controller of impulses and movements in your body and brain. This suddenly transforms your whole experiencing structure. Now there is no escape from what is being experienced. Thought is not able to coin any relief, consolation as an escape from what is being experienced. You enter into a new dimension. The implication of this is like this. When the above fact is noticed, any expression like of sadness, confusion, stress, anger and so on – there is no one questioning the feeling of sadness, confusion and so on. Thought is unable to gloss over them. Energy remains concentrated.

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