From Nisargadatta Maharaj's living room in the slums of Bombay (Mumbai), this self-realised master became famous for brilliant, aphoristic, improvised talks in which he taught an austere, minimalist Jnana Yoga based on his own experience. Many of these talks have been published in books. The earliest volume, I Am That, is widely regarded as a modern classic.

When Nisargadatta was 34, a friend of his introduced him to his guru, Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj. The guru gave a mantra and some instructions to Nisargadatta and died soon after. Sri Nisargadatta later recalled:

“My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense ‘I am’ and to give attention to nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense ‘I am’. It may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. And it worked!" (I Am That, Chapter 75.)

The meditation here is called – “I Offer no Resistance to Trouble”

With gratitude to Jayasara Samaneri, who was the inspiration for this meditation.

Music by Nature Healing Society