Question: When Papaji was asked if a person needs a teacher, he said: ‘Yes,’ and also that there is no teacher. My question is, because you did have a true teacher, do you think it’s really necessary? Does one come to a point where you can’t experience more truth because you don’t have a teacher?…

Question: I am in a relationship that isn’t working, but I stay because I’m afraid of being alone. Hanuman: The fear of being alone drives human beings to the most outrageous kinds of things! [Laughter]. I would say, heartfully, if somehow you can be free of the fear of being alone, you will find it…

Question: I came to satsang for the first time last month and fell immediately into silence. I was amazed and thankful and so surprised. Then this feeling of silence and peace went away, and I cannot seem to find it again. Hanuman: Where have you been looking? Question: It’s so noisy in my head. I…

Question: Sometimes I get so weary, so afraid that I feel like just running away and curling up. And I don’t want to be so afraid. Hanuman: What about just allowing the fear to be, without demanding that it go? What about allowing a simple spaciousness where fear can display? And what about the possibility…

Question: Will you please tell me what your Master told you about freedom? Hanuman: [Laughs] That’s all I am doing. Nothing else is happening here other than that. He said: ‘You are That!’ He said: ‘Look and see for your own Self.’ He said: ‘When a man of authority tells you that a rope is…

Question: When I meditate, or try to, that’s when my mind gets busy. Hanuman: Right now, see that there is no meditator. You can see that it is all happening of itself, everything. There is nothing to attain through some practice over time. You are already That. The striving and effort, this intention of ‘becoming’…

Question: What holds me back from living in love and compassion is that I don’t find myself worthy of my own love and compassion. And short of having a full realization of who I am and what I am, I would ask for any assistance you can give me in letting go of that idea…

Question: I’d like to know what kind of experience Self-realization will be, so I’ll know when the search is over. Hanuman: This is what is so misunderstood, that there is some kind of experience that people imagine is ‘it.’ There is this continuing quest for that experience, either more of it, or longer of it,…

Question: How can I move beyond ‘talking the talk’ to get to ‘walking the walk’? Hanuman: In this world of non-dual teaching, of most profound import to me at this point is the willingness for each of us to walk our talk. It is not enough to be able to speak the words, but it…

Hanuman: It is true that there is nothing to do in behalf of freedom, in behalf of the fulfillment of one’s spiritual search. Then, lo and behold, it turns out that the spiritual life, which heretofore has been one of seeking, is now one of service. All the effort that has gone into the search…