Lineage
Mooji moved from Jamaica to London as a teenager, worked as a street portrait artist, and met Papaji in Lucknow in 1993. Papaji had himself sat with Ramana Maharshi at Tiruvannamalai in the 1940s and was the most prolific transmitter of Ramana's self-enquiry into a global English-speaking audience. Mooji began holding satsang in London in the late 1990s and now receives seekers continuously at Monte Sahaja.
Style
Satsang is the format — literally gathering in truth, a session of open dialogue. Someone presents a question or a problem; the teacher cuts to whatever assumption underlies it. Mooji's particular note is the combination of genuine paternal warmth and an unwillingness to leave any 'me' standing once the inquiry has begun. The result is famously direct without being cold.
In the index
The piece in the index is representative: a long, patient exchange in which the seeker's question is dismantled not by argument but by being asked to look at who is asking it.
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