Hi Tom,
I couldn’t resist making a video of this great satsang, just so the message can sink in better.
Much gratitude and all the best to you.

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Tom gives this teaching after an intimate exchange between himself and a satsang participant in which they discuss her experience of seeing Ramana as a friend, a buddy, who is always with her and guides her. But eventually ‘he’ morphs into a sort of disciplinarian who is constantly setting rules for her, changing these rules, and causing her suffering. Through a 1 on 1 meeting with Tom she had discovered that this was actually a projection of the ego talking to her, not Ramana at all.

Tom goes on to explain that when we have the experience of Ramana speaking to us as a separate entity, we run the risk of actually believing this entity is like a separate person talking to us when in fact this is the mind speaking to itself. It is not the Self, nor is it the historical person speaking to us, it is a projection of our mind, our ‘higher intuition.’

There is nothing wrong with this, it can in fact be very helpful, as long as we realise it is all happening in our mind, there is no ‘higher power’ telling us what to do, there is no actual person speaking to us.

Tom continues to discuss those teachers who claim to be channelling historical figures like Jesus or Ramana. This too can be very helpful, there can be much wisdom in these teachings, but they are talking to a figment of their imagination. There is a lot of distortion and ‘gobbledygook, ́ and in the end, these teachings are not liberating. Why? Because we all have access to higher wisdom, but that wisdom is limited by the ego’s distortions. If that were not the case, we wouldn’t need the outer guru, a satsang or any books of Ramana’s teachings. We could just follow this inner voice.

A helpful relationship we can have with Bhagavan is just the relationship with our Self, our true nature, not anything outside of us.

This video was recorded live during a Satsang meeting with Tom Das on February 19, 2026 and put together by volunteers. To download full unedited satsang recordings see here: https://payhip.com/tomdas

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