This is the second installment in the series of curated conversations from gatherings with Rupert at Colet House in London. The episode begins with a meditation and includes dialogues on how we can understand deep sleep when the finite mind cannot comprehend it, where our attention should go in meditation, and what happens to awareness after the death of the physical body.

Other topics include how the recognition of our true nature takes place outside time and space, how, in awakening, nothing dies apart from the illusory sense of separation and the sorrow and conflict that attends it, and the relationship between the stillness experienced in awareness and the movement we perceive as reality.

In this episode Rupert speaks with the head of the Vedanta Society of New York, Swami Sarvapriyananda. The dialogue is taken from the Awake in Stillness: The End of Dreaming Conference and is moderated by Bill Free from The Centre for Awakening.

The conversation touches on many topics related to Advaita Vedanta, such as the Progressive Path, the Direct Path and the Pathless Path, the process of awakening, and what life is like after realisation.

They also discuss free will, seeing the true reality behind all appearances, the nature of awareness, and they talk about how we can stay grounded despite what we see now happening in the world.