E98: The Guru Within: Returning to Consciousness
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
True spiritual masters are not mystical icons, they are beings who have transcended the distractions of mind and emotion to rest in the constant ecstasy of pure consciousness (Sat Chit Ananda). This is in drastic contrast to the suffering we incur by allowing our preference-driven mind to control our lives. The path back is simple but profound: begin by noticing the reactive nature of your mind, then work on relaxing and releasing those impulsive reactions. Stop always needing life to match your preferences, and instead, learn to honor and appreciate life as a miraculous gift.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications. |
| 0:22.5 | For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information |
| 0:28.7 | about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. Jai Ghi Mhurydh, Jai masters. |
| 1:01.0 | There are so many fundamental things in yoga and spirituality. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's start with a guru. |
| 1:10.0 | Why do we have pictures of great masters and gurus and chant to them and so on? |
| 1:15.2 | It's not mystical. |
| 1:17.1 | If you go into a great music school, they're going to have bust of Beethoven. |
| 1:22.4 | They're going to have bust of Mozart. |
| 1:24.6 | If you go to learn music, at some point they're going to bring in Beethoven, |
| 1:29.0 | they're going to bring in Mozart, they're going to bring in Chikovsky. They could bring |
| 1:33.0 | in what are these called these great masters of music that created amazing things that lasted |
| 1:39.3 | through all these centuries, all these years. You know that they say of Beethoven, |
| 1:44.7 | that he didn't write his music, |
| 1:46.5 | he wrote down his music. |
| 1:48.3 | It boomed in his head from a youth. |
| 1:51.4 | He just heard orchestras playing inside his head |
| 1:54.7 | and they caused so much turmoil and pain |
| 1:57.7 | to not express them that he had to write them down that's a great master of music |
| 2:03.4 | what's a great master of what of everything of the meaning of life you have these |
| 2:12.2 | beings that were not caught in their minds that for whatever whatever reason, some of them at a very young ages, |
| 2:20.1 | the mind was there, but it didn't distract their consciousness. |
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