{"id":9421,"date":"2015-08-17T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=9421"},"modified":"2017-09-17T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T02:14:18","slug":"audio-from-satsang-with-ram-das-batchelder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/audio-from-satsang-with-ram-das-batchelder\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening Together Satsang with Ram Das Batchelder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drivehq.com\/file\/df.aspx\/publish\/RAkers\/RDAPublicFolder\/AwakeningTogether\/Featured%20Talks\/RamDasBatchelder7-17-15.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regina Dawn Akers interviewed Ram Das Batchelder for Awakening Together&#8217;s August 2015 Satsang. In this interview, Ram Das shares enthusiastically about his early spiritual path and the ego-delusions that accompanied his first experiences of God. He also shares how he found his Satguru, Amma, &#8220;the hugging saint.&#8221; In the final 30 minutes of the interview, Ram Das discusses his realization of truth through Self-inquiry including how through truth, he sees that everything he believed in before, including his own spiritual path, does not exist. Supreme Truth alone exists.<\/p>\n<p>Ram Das was born in Pennsylvania in 1961, had a spiritual awakening in his early twenties, and has spent most of the last 25 years in India as a devotee of\u00a0Amma, the \u201chugging Saint.\u201d He has written four children\u2019s books, which have been translated into several European languages, and also a novel in rhyming verse, three full-length plays, and 40 original songs. In 2012, he and his wife, Tarini Ma, wrote and co-taught a university course on Hinduism in Venezuela. 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