PAPAJI - “No Teaching No Teacher No Student“ - Interview by Rama Crowell

This all time favourite interview from March 1993 by Rama Crowell, was done for the documentary “Call off the Search“ and includes the following questions: If you had to sum up your teaching in one or two sentences, what would they be? Can we not learn from the past? Is there something you can say to people to decondition from the past? For what reason do the scriptures exist? Does the yearning for freedom arise spontaneously? Can only knowledge counter ignorance? What is the origin of ignorance and where does it inhere in the individual self? How does the atman become clouded with ignorance? Is there anything lacking in consciousness? Is separation real or not? Where does the ‘I’ arise from? What is the dream state and where does the light in one’s dreams come from? What makes knowing being? To whom does knowledge occur? If you have eliminated mind, how can you know anything? Who is the witness in sleep? How do we remove the ‘I’-ness that conceals