"Awareness is never touched or changed by any of the comings and goings within the mind, it stands always as the constant that they appear and disappear in".

Bodhi Avasa has been sharing the realization of the Self for over 30 years through Satsang and workshops held in Europe, the United States, and Canada, reaching thousands of people who are interested in knowing the Truth of who they are. Overcoming the concept of master-disciple, Avasa points to a simple and clear way to know and free ourselves from the ignorance and illusion that cause suffering and fear. The sharing points to the recognition of who we are, the One that lives through every body and mind and rests beyond birth, death, space, and time. Although in the vein of the ancient Advaita Vedanta tradition, it is present day message that offers a way of awakening and realizing Awareness in everyday life, transforming it into a dance of the Divine. He lives in Wales, but he often visits Italy.

Biography & awakening

Bodhi Avasa was born in Wales the 23 of November of 1947 of an Indian-German father and a French-English mother. He was since childhood very rebellious and independent, questioning deeply what was told to him. His first recollection of self enquiry is recollected when he was turning nine and he realized he was going one day to die. He experienced a powerful  fear of dying that accompanied him for about a year every night when he was lying in his bed trying to get to sleep. At fifteen he left home and school, where has been a quite proficient student, to join the merchant navy as he could not stand anymore the obligation his family and school teachers were putting on him. He passed the following years travelling around the world, until he came back to Wales when he was nineteen. He married and had two daughters, but soon afterwards a strong depression, caused also by use of drugs like LSD. He had his first glimpse when he taking his first tablet of LSD where he saw clearly that what he was calling reality until that moment was just a energy that he was the creator of that play. As the effect of the drug eased off he fell in a very deep depression. After two years in which he was consciously trying through the drug to come back to the realization he firstly had. As he realized that this was impossible and that the last veil of the illusion could not be dissolved through the medium of the drug he dropped everything and after a period in which he has been almost suicidal he end up to live in  Christian community in England.
For three months through the devotion for Christ and the deep trust that something bigger than him was guiding his life at that point a deep surrendering took place in him, and much of the anger and sadness that was present were easing off replaced by a gratefulness for everything be as it was. It was the late months 1972 when one night
he found himself lying in bed when a powerful fear of death, the same that accompanied him when he was child, took possess of his body that already since three days was having strange energetic experiences. He saw that what was called good and bad were actually the two side of the same creative force and that was defined as negative was equal to the inability of one to see God’s will everywhere.  As fear and exctasy were alternating with each other the room he was in filled itself with Light including its own body. When all was Light he died consciously in it as a total surrendering took place.
Alarm started off as usual the morning after and with great surprise he saw that the body was still alive. Everything was anyway dramatically different as he was just witnessing the actions of the body and there was no sense of separation in anything, as everything was just One Being that was arising in each moment from Nothingness. As tried to share his experience with the other people of the commune he was thrown out of it and the sharing of this message started immediately afterwards although very few people could comprehend was shared despite the strong energy that was accompanying the words.
The sense of separation came back after some months, but it was seen as just another action happening in Consciousness and there was no identification with it. After around one year Avasa came across a book by Ramana Maharshi and he realized for the first time that what was happened was called in India Enlightenment and that other people had come across the same realization before him beside Christ.
In the following years, as the residues of the ego concept completely disappeared, three community were created in which there was a conscious living from Oneness.
Avasa has been sharing this recognition of the Self for almost 38 years, meeting thousand of people around the world interested in realizing who they are.
At the moment he lives between Wales and Sicily and travels around the world with a little team of people that shares with him the same love for Truth.