050. Ananta Kranti

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2010

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ananta grew up in London and left England aged 19, with the desire to live as a free being. This first expressed itself through travel and lead her to Asia in 1989 where she has lived ever since. Searching to find the Truth of herself she found her way to the Osho commune in Pune, India where she explored meditation and Self-awareness groups for more than 10 years, also working with people for several years in the healing fields. In 1994 she entered a two and half year period of silence in a Japanese prison. During this period True Freedom was realized. That which has always been Free, Full and Enough unto Itself! The Peace that is the ground of all experience. The Love that does not need an experience of Love. The happiness that is our True Nature without needing an experience of happiness.... revealed itSelf to ItSelf. Coming back into 'the world' in 1997, there followed a period of confusion as personality and drama began to reappear causing the search to go on. In 2000 she then found her way to Intensive Satsang with Dolano in Pune, where the confusion was cleared and no way to turn back from the clear recognition of 'Who Am I'. This naturally started the unfolding of the integration process where all personality issues come home in Truth. Where bound up life energy, held by beliefs and illusions, reappear to be met in the light, where transformation happens. Through her own Self-Realization, her main area of focus is Now facilitating, the simple direct sharing of the realization of our True Nature, through all that appears to play in the ordinariness of life itself. Among the expressions of same Self who have greatly influenced Ananta's way of sharing are the spiritual teachers Gangaji and Dolano who use the direct inquiry of "Who Am I?" passed down from Ramana Maharshi. Her site: ananta-kranti.com Interview recorded 12/11/2010 Quality is poor in places due to slow bandwidth in Thailand. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Awakening in a Japanese Prison 00:03:23 - The Strong Calling for Silence and Truth 00:06:40 - The Search for Freedom 00:10:05 - Searching for Meaning Within 00:13:16 - A Life-Changing Encounter with Osho 00:16:14 - Life Changes After Jail 00:19:13 - Carrying Baggage 00:22:10 - Solitary Confinement in Prison 00:25:22 - Working in Silence 00:27:53 - The Strength and Intensity in Japanese Discipline 00:30:29 - Surrender and the Shift 00:34:39 - The Ocean of Existence 00:38:27 - Integration into the Outside World 00:41:57 - The Journey of Self-Discovery in Thailand 00:45:33 - Shifting from Identification to "I am that" 00:49:34 - The Shift in Perception and Relationship Difficulties 00:53:37 - The Awakening and Integration Process 00:57:05 - The Question about Relationships and Freedom 01:00:44 - Sharing the Awakening Experience 01:05:10 - End of the "me" story and the beginning of awakening 01:08:31 - Surrender and Ego Death 01:11:19 - Balancing the Exclusion and Inclusion of the Personal 01:14:33 - Comfort with Paradox and Ambiguity 01:18:11 - Settling Down and Listening to the Body 01:24:45 - A Rich Experience of Being Able to Relate to Many Walks of Life 01:27:24 - Recognizing the Truth Within 01:29:37 - The Value of Ramana Maharshi 01:32:35 - The Shift in Yoga Practice and Spiritual Progress 01:35:09 - Closing Remarks 01:37:00 - Conclusion and Future Interviews Save

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0:00.0	Welcome to Buddha at the Gaspump. My name is Rick Archer and my guest this week is Kranti Ananta, whom I will refer to as Ananta.
0:08.0	That's a name that was given to her by the spiritual teacher Oshow, whom most listeners will have heard of.
0:15.0	And she is in Thailand as we speak, and I am in in Iowa where the temperature tomorrow is expected to go
0:23.6	to 28 below zero centigrade. That's with the wind chill. And I'm sure it's nothing like that in Thailand.
0:32.6	It's also 10.30 at night in Iowa and 11.30 in the morning in Thailand. It took us some
0:39.5	doing to work this out. But in any case, I first found out about Ananta from several friends.
0:46.9	A lot of people listen to these shows and I get recommendations. And within a span of a couple
0:52.0	days, somebody sent me a link to your interview
0:54.5	with Alan Sternfeld and said, you got to interview this lady. So I said, all right, give
1:00.5	me your email address and they did and here we are. So welcome and thank you.
1:06.0	Thank you. Now, I've taken two different tacks in doing these interviews.
1:13.6	One is to sort of do a kind of a chronology of a person's spiritual path, you know, with various
1:19.6	milestones.
1:20.6	And another is to kind of, you know, have them say in a nutshell what they feel like the essence of what they like, you
1:30.3	know, what their awakening is or what they like to teach is. How would you like to do it?
1:37.3	We'll do both, but how would you like, okay, it's up to me. Then I think we'll start with
1:42.3	how I, what I first heard about you, which was that you had
1:46.4	your awakening while serving time in a Japanese prison, which is a little unusual, but
1:52.7	not so much so. I actually know of two other people, one of whom was a good friend of mine
1:57.1	who awoke while in prison. One was Ed Beckley, who was a friend of mine who wrote
2:02.0	a book about it called Dance of a Rich Yogi. He was serving time in a prison in Las Vegas,
2:07.3	Nevada, federal prison and had an awakening, which was sustained. And another was a guy
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