Learning Resources by
Neelam

This question arising means that within you / internally something has shifted and a Desire for Truth is arising with you! It means that You are ready to begin and wants to know more about Life and the Truth of how things Really are.

Spiritual Awakening, while powerful and transformative, doesn’t signify the end of the patterns of the Past . In fact, it marks just the beginning. In Spiritual Awakening we come to the realization that our essence is that spaciousness, consciousness, and Presence that has always been with us.

Neelam explains how Awakening happens — how once there is a moment of *Full* complete Trust, it is followed by Awakening!  She also talks about a very very important spiritual misunderstanding about what happens after Awakening and why you need to remain vigilant!

Neelam explains the important different stages of Spiritual Realization: Direct Experience of Presence, Awakening (a Permanent shift), and Freedom (even deeper than Awakening)!

First thing I want to say is that – difficult times happen in life; they happen and it is natural. Everything arise in Presence. What happens though when difficult times happen is that our Nervous System getting affected and become reactive, and our attention tends to move with our arising thoughts and emotions. Let’s discuss things you can do.

Neelam explores the Direct Experience of Presence & Awakening, and the meaning of Being Here when Past is Present.

Often times learning to Be Here, to be Present, or have the Desire for Truth, but we don’t necessarily know how to do it, or what it looks like. Neelam guides us to learn how to give the mind stability to return to the moment.

Everybody experiences moments of Okayness, but so often the mind disregards this  or makes it into a passing experience instead if recognizing it for what it is — the symptom of our True Nature.

A very clear, simple, powerful instruction from Neelam’s teacher Papaji!

Awareness Explorers Episode 209: Neelam, Guest Explorer – VIDEO VERSION

In this episode we talk to Neelam about her awakening with H.W.L. Poonja, known as Papaji, the role of trust in awakening, how the nervous system’s capacity to be present is the “missing link” between a desire for truth and the ability to experience it, and how a true feeling of “okayness” enables us to rest in our true nature.

•Includes a guided meditation leading us to the direct experience of presence by noticing the spaciousness that is already here and has always been here, thereby nurturing the growing capacity of the nervous system to rest in presence.

Recorded: March 27th, 2026

Neelam, a native of Poland, has been giving Satsang internationally since 1996. She is a direct disciple of H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji), who himself awakened to the truth in the presence of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Neelam shares Satsang with Papaji’s blessing. Known for her simplicity, skillful discrimination, and intuitive insight, Neelam gently points toward the truth at the core of us all. With her extensive personal and teaching experience, she uses inquiry to facilitate us in identifying and moving through deep-seated patterns of conditioning, bringing us to rest in Presence.

Self Inquiry is the very core of this teaching and is based on Sri Ramana Maharshi’s guidelines for Self Inquiry. Neelam’s unique development of inquiry includes both recognizing our true nature and meeting our conditioning fully, with tenderness.

Recorded: May 5, 2014

Known for her simplicity, skillful discrimination, and intuitive insight, Neelam gently points toward the truth at the core of us all. With her extensive personal and teaching experience, she uses inquiry to facilitate us in identifying and moving through deep-seated patterns of conditioning, bringing us to rest in Presence.

Recorded: May 1, 2012