In a Zoom meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 25th December 2021 Michael James discusses the significance of Biblical passages such as God’s statement ‘I am that I am’ (Exodus 3.14) and Jesus’s statement ‘Before Abraham was, I am’ (John 8.58) as explained by Bhagavan Ramana, who taught us that ‘I am’ is the original and natural name of God, because he is what shines within us as pure existence-awareness (sat-cit), which is our fundamental awareness of our own existence, ‘I am’.

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While discussing this subject Michael refers to and discusses the meaning and implications of various other passages from Bhagavan’s writings, including Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu and Nāṉ Ār?.

This episode can also be watched as a video, 2021-12-25 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Michael James discusses ‘I am’, the original name of God, and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.