Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji & Andrew Cohen

[Music] [Applause] as you can see we're on the banks of the Sacred G River here in the ancient holy city of rishikesh known to many as the city of sages we just spent the past few days here in rishikes with Andrew Cohen who's the editor and chief of Enlighten X magazine as you may know he's also a spiritual teacher in fact he began teaching here 24 years ago in rishikes and it's been it's been an incredibly profound trip to come back to the place where so much of the inspiration behind all of Andrew's work including the magazine and the organization in light next was [Music] born since en lightex magazine was founded 18 years ago one of its dominant themes has been the ongoing engagement between Andrew Cohen and some of the leading spiritual teachers in the planet definitely one of the most incredible aspects of this trip has been the opportunity to accompany Andrew into these profound encounters between spiritual teachers Swami sarasti left his home for the Himalayan jungles and forests at the tender age of8 under the guidance of his spiritual Master today he is a highly respected voice in Indian spiritual culture and like the other spiritual Masters we met he expresses an inspiring and absolute surrender to God Liberation or no Liberation who cares whatever is there let let him plan it send me the hell okay we'll plan there also something yeah meditation course whatever who cares hell no nothing bothers now even Liberation not needed we are happy here who knows fear of unknown or not known or there or not there who cares even and serving here they say I have heard Liberation means you just you are in ecstasy on your own okay what is problem here why not being exess here amongst everything come back again and again and keep serving and whatever he wants you age to do it become the tool that's it I agree and um it's wonderful Midway through the meeting a respected Elder Swami from the ashram joined us and asked Andrew to explain his teachings a common practice in India among spiritual teachers when they first meet now he is asking I said he is very genius and uh he shares wisdom and vision he said what is that what he shares um you can tell him some I try to give people some understanding of who they are where they come and where they came from and maybe so how we can get some sense of where where we should be going what is next what is next yeah always where we want to always where we want to go in the next moment is is something beyond what has come before okay when you say the Beyond how you identify recognize that beyond what is that Beyond because because something that has never existed before emerges into the present moment uh how to recognize that but we always know when we when we see something that we've never seen because we're always struck with awe wonder and amazement okay how to achieve that now how to reach there how to achieve it how to achieve that uh we have to to transcend the ego how to transcend ego how to transcend ego okay well first the aspiration has to be there the ASP first the ASP aspiration has to be there and then once we once we the the aspiration comes we have to identify with the aspiration and when we identify with the aspiration we have to act on the as aspiration and then once we act on the aspiration the momentum right of the of the spiritual impulse or The evolutionary impulse will take carry us beyond the ego okay [Music] the [Music]