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John David talks about how his name change; about his travels to give Satsang in Europe and India and the Zoom meetings now taking place; the story of his name change is also about being guided more and more “from above” and about how the Papaji project “Day by Day with Papaji” came about; sitting to the left of Papaji in satsang was beautiful for John David; about collecting letters from Papaji students; Papaji could read people's energy in the depths; after a few months in Lucknow, John David felt as if he was an apprentice; It was a great learning to see people coming one after the other and to learn something about them; It was only 12 years later that John David made his first book: "Papaji, Power of Grace"; answering the question about John David's “path to papaji” and how freedom came to be understood; Questions about the John David Commune, about the living together and the film, book and art projects, and how close should a spiritual teacher be to the students and what is love for John David, is it timeless? Papaji had this incredible ability to bring us into contact with love; “I knew that before” - it's because our home is love; you have to understand that you are already free, but you live as if you are not free, so you need someone to show you what is preventing you from seeing that you are already free; you need very close contact with your teacher, and John David tells a story of Papaji and his student in the Indian hospital; to tell what kind of person Papaji was, that is one of the reasons for the Papaji project, which many different people report about it in interviews; Just the way John David talks about Papaji, you get an impression that he was incredibly open, even now, 25 years later, John David feels incredibly close to Papaji ..., and more of the interview with many questions and answers from John David, heartfelt Thanks.

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The nature of Satori; introduction of the movie “Satori”; flashing into a new truth; spiritual birth; glimpse into awakening; Satori means self realization; about different words describing “awakening”; when the own self disappears for some time; enlightenment does not mean to get something, but is the insight that everything is already here; the sudden shift during a transformation documented on an I-Phone video; meditation changes the functioning of the brain; the process of awakening in the practice of meditation for years; there is the self and in parallel the experienced story; following the breath leads to the self; yoga and meditation; deep peace; inner space through self enquiry; loosening of attachments; remembering oneself in Satsang; feeling less attached to thoughts, feelings and the body, out-of-body experience;  life without body is difficult to imagine for many people; experiencing the limitations of the body upon returning into it; the still lake and the resting; trusting and no reason for worries; there is no before and after, just perception changes; the moment of Satori is like a birth; what happens after Satori; the young, fresh, easy and lightful feeling after Satori; being touched by a strong energy phenomenon; enlightenment leads to more simplicity; not being able to judge anymore; demystification of the imagination of enlightenment.

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Introduction of the person and spiritual teacher Premananda; about the Open Sky House at Hitdorf near Cologne, with 25 people on the banks of the Rhine River; starting up a second community; collective love within the community; the production of the book “The Great Misunderstanding” out of the notes of the last 15 years; thoughts about the book title; seeing not the problems but the solutions; the mapping of the chapters to the seven chakras happened as if by coincidence; useful instructions in the book; team work – mirroring each other in the team; introduction of the new film, which was produced over the last two years; the movie as expression of a community which shares everything; opening the heart chakra and functioning on a new level; living the teachings; the possibility of global communication via computers and the special quality of personal meetings; supporting serious searchers in the community in their process of awakening; the beginning of the community on a farm; the new house of the community on the banks of the Rhine – an international community; Satsangs in different languages; different conditionings of humans related to their geo-social background; creativity of the community grows with its deepening of consciousness; expressing art out of intuition and not out of concepts; the space behind mind and beyond all words; unconditional love in the community; the “Buddy System”; about daily inner dramas; taking responsibility for the own feelings; encountering pain; awakening does not exclude pain – being with pain; awakening implies pain, going through pain; about day dreams and unresolved traumata behind them; every person is traumatized; confronting oneself with the pain.

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This interview was done by Reinhold with Premananda at the Open Sky House in July 2011.
 

This Satsang with Premananda was filmed by Devasetu at the first day at the 16. Rainbow Spirit Festivals 2010 in Baden-Baden / Germany.

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Premananda's books and a silent meditation.

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Starting with jokes; purpose of Satsang; looking inside being not busy with the world; coming to the end of the cycle of desiring; you are love; your essence is where you want to come to; nothing to get; we are unhappy because we are so busy with the world; once you stop - there it is; love and peace is your nature; why make an effort to be you? Be as you are; sit quietly and feel what happens inside you; surrender to a master; not comfortable; a resonance with your master; the play between the master who knows and the one who likes to know is very beautiful; the master’s effort is to show you that you are exactly as he is; stay close to the master; freedom is for the few crazy people who are ready to give everything; it is easy to experience an awakening; why not have this through the whole life? believing in an identity which is based on conditioning is in an obstacle to freedom; becoming free without master is difficult but not impossible; no changes in daily life after enlightenment; wanting to share what was understood with enlightenment with other people; initially nobody was really interested in Premananda’s experience.

This Interview with Premananda has been recorded at the Open Sky House in August 2009 near Cologne. In the first part of the interview the questions are asked by Birgit, second part by Devasetu, third part by Rama and in the fourth part of the interview Premananda talks about his new book: "Arunacha Shiva". The first three parts are in English without translation, the fourth part is in English with German translation because the book will be published in both languages.

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The conflicts in the world starting in the conflicts inside ourselves; about Premananda’s work of showing people how to become free of the conditioned mind and its effects on the environment; about the reasons of war between different nations; the war inside of us manifests in war on the outside; nationalistic attitudes change with an increasingly conscious mind; the wealth of information available due to Internet- and TV-possibilities causes more understanding between the people in the world; „a newly emerging global village“;  the subtle shift on the earth: increasing wealth and power of the Middle and Far East, financial crisis in America; through the international media and the emerging economic relationships we are moving into a safer time with less reasons for war; about the spiritual culture and peaceful vibrations in India and their still persistently violent human nature.

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About Premanandas busy life in every moment; Retreat, finishing a book and running the community; the plan of a second new community in Spain; less plans, more coincidences; about his international trips; about the special attributes of the students who are attracted to Premananda: „Not so serious“, sensitive and full of creativity; the self-developping arts- and creativity-community; a regular day in the communitiy: meditation, meals, work, relating to other people, Satsang, Darshan and fun; about the financial organization of the community; Premananda moving around the sleeping place of people of the community not to encourage any idea of „mine“; about the relationship with the village around; local people visiting exhibitions in the art gallery of the house; about the animals living with the community.

 Interview with Premananda about the film, first part

Premananda as messenger for Ramana and Papaji, in Osho’s Ashram, meetings with 18 masters from India, open to be taken to every master, western masters, hanging out with these beautiful people, no more travelling for teaching, the untouched ground inside us, no teaching of the Vedanta-Masters, about the film as initiation, the impersonal message behind all these masters, the invisible thread in the film, beauty deeper than beauty, meetings in fun and playfully, Thuli Baba, Ajja

 Interview with Premananda about the film, second part

Meeting with Satchidananda, days with Ma Souris, on a walk with Satchidananda, the questions of authenticity, no perfection, no best master – they all the best one, the power of Arunachala mountain, Indian and western Masters, work and love and the support of the Open Sky Community in the project, the distribution of the film and the book

 Interview with Darshana, direction assistant and cutter of the film

Interview with Darshana, production assistant and cutter of this film project: Being touched with the truth of the masters, a quote of Satchidananda, in love with every master, the technical side of the project, the talent of the body and the opportunity for this project, being touched by the film and the book 

John David formerly Premananda was born in Bangor (Wales) and started very early questioning life and the essence of life. After his studies – while staying in Japan – he learned about satsang and about Osho Rajneesh and in 1976 he found himself in the Ashram in Pune where instinctively he knew that his questions would be answered and where he remained for 15 years. After Osho's death Premananda went to Lucknow and after three weeks in the presence of Papaji he recognized "who he really was".

For five years he stayed in Papaj's sangha, and then he started giving satsang in Australia. Since 2003 Premananda has been touring many places in Europe, inviting people to satsang and conveying the essence of Advaita in public meetings, Intensive-Weekends and retreats, with the central question: "Who am I?"