Start here · One door into twelve thousand hours
Seven minutes with Swamiji.
Twelve thousand hours is an archive, not a beginning. This is the beginning: a short welcome from Swamiji himself, then seven short teachings, in order. About seven minutes altogether. Watch them the way you would watch anything — one after another, or one tonight and the rest when you come back. By the end you will know whether this teacher is yours.
satsang — sitting together in the company of truth
Free. No account, no email — every recording on this site plays openly, and always will.
Seven teachings, set in order.
Chosen from across the decades. The order is the teaching: first the trouble that follows you, then how the mind keeps it alive, then what it is for — and last, the thing in you that was never touched by any of it. Nothing is locked. Watch them straight through, or leave the page open and come back.
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One
Why trouble follows you inside the dream
Thirty-five seconds. Why the same difficulty keeps finding you, whichever way you turn.
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Two
The fear that guards nothing
Twenty-nine seconds. We fear the place where there is no crocodile, and walk calmly into the place where one is waiting.
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Three
The mind can concentrate perfectly — just not on command
Forty-seven seconds. Attention is impossible to hold on purpose and effortless the moment something goes wrong.
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Four
Why the same memory feels different every day
Forty seconds. The mood you are in decides which past you remember.
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Five
Every philosophy begins with pain
Forty-nine seconds. The turn in the sequence: what the difficulty is actually for.
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Six
What makes a person heavy for the earth to carry
Forty-six seconds. The weight is not the circumstance.
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Seven
The reflected sun and the end of time
Fifty-four seconds. In deep sleep you cannot say when it began or ended — you have already stepped outside time, every night, without trying.
Each teaching is a passage from a full lecture, kept as it was spoken. If one of them catches you, the whole lecture it came from is in the archive, free, with nothing in front of it.
Three small instructions.
This asks very little. What it asks, it asks precisely.
Watch them in order.
Nothing is gated and nothing expires, but the sequence was set deliberately, the way a teacher orders a class. Each one prepares the ground for the next, and the last one only lands if the first six came before it.
Watch when the mind is loud.
Before bed, or early morning — whenever your own mind is least willing to be quiet. A teaching lands deepest exactly where it is needed.
Then let one of them stay.
Seven minutes is short enough to watch twice. If one of them catches you, the whole lecture it came from is in the archive — free, unpaywalled, and longer than you think you have time for. Start there.
By the end, you will know.
Seven minutes is enough to answer the only question that matters at the door: is this teacher yours? Either answer is a good outcome, and we mean that.
If the answer is yes —
the archive is open, and the teaching continues — Swamiji, at ninety-five, still teaches daily. Each evening at 7:30 Eastern, a recorded teaching from the archive premieres on YouTube — a shared watch, drawn from the collection.
If the answer is no —
then you gave a serious teaching a serious hearing, and that is more than most ever do. The archive stays where it is — free, whole, and unhurried. It does not expire, and neither does the welcome.
The welcome, then seven short teachings — about seven minutes.
One teaching a week, from the archive.
Each week the Foundation selects one recording and sends it with its series, its place in the scripture, and a few lines of context. This week's arrives as soon as you subscribe. The archive itself stays open to anyone — there is no paywall in front of the recordings.
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