Lakshmi Series
Lakshmi Series

The Lakshmi Series of 30 talks are the first public set of talks produced by Rama - Dr. Frederick Lenz 1982 and 1983. Recorded in private and public settings, these teachings cover a vast range of topics that Rama once called “the basics that everyone should know..

The talks cover a fascinating range of topics ranging from living and working in the world to the four principal yogas; to the Buddhist paramitas of purity, humility and working for the welfare of others; to dreaming, the enlightenment of women and American mysticism… and much more.


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Introductory and Intermediate Meditation
Playing Time: 1 hr 1 mins
Now, in meditation what we do is something original. We experience God. That is to say, we experience that essence of existence from which we have come forth, which sustains us and to which we will eventually return.
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  Purity
Playing Time: 31 mins
Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light that we see in the physical universe, but a transcendental light. Without purity it’s impossible to realize God.
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  Humility
Playing Time: 30 mins
Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your own body. Humility is the time that you spend in love—in love with existence itself.
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The Yoga of Love
Playing Time: 1 hr 1 mins
Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self realization, for our selves.
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  The Yoga of Selfless Giving
Playing Time: 1 hr 3 mins
The reason you're not happy, the reason the world lacks peace, is that we lack the happiness that comes from self-giving.
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  The Yoga of Discrimination
Playing Time: 1 hr 2 mins
There are four major paths to self realization. Jnana yoga is the graduate school of self-discovery.
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The Yoga of Mysticism and Power
Playing Time: 1 hr 2 mins
Mysticism is the hidden way. The mystic practices the art of intentionality.
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  Spiritual Absorption
Playing Time: 31 mins
The purpose of life is to be absorbed in spirit. Spirit is an undefinable reality that exists within us, around us and beyond us.
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  Nirvana
Playing Time: 29 mins
Nirvana is not a time or a place or a dimension, although it includes times and dimensions and places.
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Death and Reincarnation
Playing Time: 1 hr 1 mins
Today I would like to share with you a few thoughts on the subject of your death and the experience of death and rebirth.
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  Samadhi and The Supraconscious States
Playing Time: 1 hr 8 mins
I'd like to consider with you what the nature of samadhi is, and try and gain an understanding of not only why an individual seeks to go into samadhi, and how that occurs, but what the result of this process is.
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  The Caretaker Personality
Playing Time: 53 mins
In the process of meditation, we find that we are not one continuous personality, we are not a body, that what our real being is, is light.
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The Tibetan Rebirth Process
Playing Time: 1 hr 4 mins
So what I would like to attempt to do in the next hour is to talk with you about Tibetan yoga, as it was practiced hundreds of years ago.
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  Living and Working In The World
Playing Time: 1 hr 10 mins
The greatest challenge awaiting you is living and working in the world.
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  Pleasure, Pain and The Senses
Playing Time: 57 mins
Our journey today concerns illusion, the nature of illusion and the way out of illusion.
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How To Achieve Spiritual Balance
Playing Time: 44 mins
The way to achieve spiritual balance is without trying. Spiritual balance is something that all of us innately are.
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  The Subtle Physical Body
Playing Time: 56 mins
The subtle physical body is composed of strands or luminous fibers of energy that interconnect different planes and times.
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  Women Men and Self Realization
Playing Time: 54 mins
It is much easier for women to attain spiritual liberation than it is for men to do so.
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Inaccessibility and Attachment
Playing Time: 44 mins
Attachment creates pain and frustration. Attachment is the thing that we seek to overcome in self-discovery.
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  Spiritual Experiences, Dreams and Visions
Playing Time: 56 mins
The most common type of spiritual experience is the one that you're having at the moment. We call it life.
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  Zen, Taoism and Buddhism
Playing Time: 42 mins
Today I'd like to talk to you about these ways, not so much from an historical perspective, but from the perspective of one who, in other lifetimes, has practiced and taught these three ways.
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The Occult Body, Auras and The Chakras
Playing Time: 47 mins
The occult body is a field of attention. It's an avenue of awareness. It's a wind tunnel that connects the different realities.
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  Spiritual Teachers and The Enlightenment Process
Playing Time: 56 mins
I would like to address what I consider to be the most difficult topic for a person who seeks enlightenment to deal with.
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  Advanced Meditation
Playing Time: 56 mins
In advanced meditation we not only pass through other planes of consciousness or awareness but we become them.
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Dreaming
Playing Time: 58 mins
You are a dream. You are a dream of eternal consciousness in the waking state.
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  Gods, Goddesses and Carrier Beings
Playing Time: 51 mins
Today I'd like to talk with you about some of the different types of beings that you as a spiritual seeker will encounter on your journey to enlightenment.
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  Dharma and Karma
Playing Time: 54 mins
Dharma is the truth. Dharma is the truth throughout the ages.
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Tantra and The Left-Handed Path
Playing Time: 44 mins
There are dark and gloomy days in the path to self-discovery. There are days when it seems that we'll never be able to see the truth.
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  Liberation and Self Realization
Playing Time: 46 mins
Self realization is liberation. Liberation is self realization. There is no beginning and there is no end.
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  Tantric Mysticism
Playing Time: 47 mins
Everything is one. There’s only one eternal reality. Yet there are two.
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