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Sage Teachings

Wisdom from enlightened sages

15 dialogues

Yudhishthira and His Dog - At the Gates of Heaven

Yudhishthira & Indra / The Dog (Yama)

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True dharma is revealed in how we treat those who cannot benefit us. The final test is not grand but humble—a choice no one sees except ourselves. Loyalty to the helpless is the measure of character.

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Nachiketa and Yama - The Boy Who Questioned Death

Nachiketa & Yama

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The Self is eternal and untouched by death. What dies is only the body—the temporary clothing of consciousness. Turn the senses inward to discover what was never lost.

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Beyond Duality

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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True freedom is not choosing between opposites but recognizing that all duality is a play of the one Self, which remains forever untouched by the pairs it witnesses.

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Yudhishthira and the Yaksha - The Questions at the Lake

Yudhishthira & Yaksha (Yama)

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True dharma demands fairness even when no one is watching. The greatest wonder is our denial of death despite constant evidence. Leadership means making choices that others would refuse.

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Yudhishthira and Narada - Why Heaven Bored Him

Yudhishthira & Narada

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Paradise without purpose creates its own suffering. Boredom can be a doorway to deeper self-knowledge. We often don't know who we are until the circumstances that defined us are removed.

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Narada Teaches About True Devotion

Narada & Hunter (becoming Valmiki)

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Each person bears their own karma alone. The excuses we use to justify wrong action fall away under examination. Transformation begins when we stop blaming circumstances and take ownership of our choices.

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Satyavati's Last Departure

Satyavati & Vyasa

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Our ambitions ripple beyond our ability to control them. The consequences of our choices may take generations to unfold. Sometimes the only wisdom is knowing when to walk away.

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Savitri Confronts Yama - Death Shall Not Have Him

Savitri & Yama

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Love is proven through action, not words. Wit and determination can overcome even cosmic forces. The vows we make are only as real as our willingness to keep them at cost.

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Who Are You Really?

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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Liberation is not something to be attained in the future through practice or accumulation—it is the recognition, here and now, that you are already the pure awareness witnessing all experience, not the body-mind that appears within that awareness.

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Who Are You Really?

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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You are not the body, mind, or any limited identity—you are pure Awareness itself. Liberation is not achieved through effort but recognized through understanding your true nature.

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The Self Alone Exists

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The Self alone truly exists; the world, body, and mind are appearances within awareness like waves in the ocean—never separate from their source, never diminishing its infinite nature.

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Test of the Realized One

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The realized one is marked by natural freedom from attachment, fear, and ego - not by withdrawal from life but by clear seeing.

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The Liberated One's Way

Ashtavakra & Janaka

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The liberated one transcends both enjoyment and renunciation, living naturally without method or effort, responding to life spontaneously.

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The Nature of the Wise

Janaka & Ashtavakra

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The wise one lives fully in the world but remains untouched because he identifies with awareness itself, not with the passing experiences that appear within it.

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No Teacher, No Student

Nidagha & Ribhu

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Even the sacred guru-disciple relationship is ultimately a play within the one Brahman—liberation is not transmitted from one to another but recognized as one's eternal nature.

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