A: So, what do you know now? The Truth cannot be known in this way. Not in our assertions, not in our negations, not in any sort of understanding that we may think we have. That is why the Sage is inviting us to use this ‘No’ as an explosive device, to blow up …
Q: I am noticing that this type of questioning is a little different from (same thing, but a little different from) for a long time I was questioning ‘I’ … I’m going to sit in this chair and question this ‘I’. Then that was very beautiful and powerful. And this is different, what I’m experiencing …
[From Chapter 8]: What whit of idea there is, is called name and form. Whatever there be conception, there is gross world A: When the Sage is saying conception, he means conceptualization. Wherever there be conception, that verily is unreal Whatever little of idea there is, that is the world, no doubt …
A: What do you actually know now? Q: It’s like ‘Is-ness’. A: Yeah. Do you know it? Q: Even to say ‘I know’ feels like too much … You know? A: Yeah. Q: It’s like an ‘Is-ing’… [Laughs] Each time I grasp for something to know, it’s seen and let …
I have to say that at some level there is no prescription which is True. It is just sometimes something sounds like ‘Okay this helps’ and sometimes something else sounds like it helps and sometimes something else sound like it helps. [Sri Nisargadatta] Maharaj said ‘Nothing that I-m speaking is true. The only Truth …
It can feel many times that the only way to enquire is how it is presented; to just sit in a place and ask yourself ‘Who Am I? Who Am I?’ But that is not the only enquiry. To look at the validity of our notions, to look at whether this story is true or …
Yesterday, after the broadcast got over, we spoke a bit about Descartes. Now, Descartes was a master- doubter, which is very good. The nature of doubt is like this: Firstly, if I say ‘You are free now’ then you’re like … [Makes a gesture of wondering, not really believing it or feeling what he said …
[Reading from chat]: “Father, as I reject or distance myself from the knowing or the conceptual definitions each moment (including the ‘I’ thoughts) it seems I’m still left with the super-ego, doing all of this not-knowing. How do I deal with this?” A: Good point. So, that’s why I said that ‘I don’t know’ …
This super-trickster, the mind, where does it derive its intelligence from? The same Being, no? The same Consciousness. The source of its tricky-ness and smartness is the same Consciousness so, it cannot really outsmart Consciousness. Because it’s like a child. The child can be very smart. [Smiles] But the parent is going ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah.’ …
[Reading from the chat]: “Dear Anantaji, one finds the very process of the recognition itself is weighing down on oneself. The process of the recognition itself is weighing down on oneself. Sort of disconnects oneself from the emptiness. Even this disconnects looks meaningless, after the previous sentence. Just wanted to share that the definition seems …
We keep falling in to those mind tricks. Then it can be like, this way is suffering, this way is suffering. How to escape suffering? It’s everywhere; there is limited identity, there is doer-ship; there is all of this desire to be rid of or to have. So, what is this ego? It is a …
S: I’m still experiencing the darshan of this realizing of my certainty, my spiritual concepts which I had very subtly replaced with non-spiritual concepts and this pointing to them. A: You have replaced non-spiritual concepts with new spiritual concepts. S: Yeah, yeah. You know, like this is what this journey to freedom looks like; there …
S: ‘If it’s a template, then throw it away.’ I tried every recipe that you gave. This way, that way, and every time I come to a space [Silence] now, there’s immense gratitude and there’s only You. Now there is this; wonderful, only You. And the next day or something, what happens is full doubt …
A: If you make a conclusion then you are buying a limitation. S: Yeah. A: That’s what I was saying actually. To say that something is this way or that way is to claim to make an assertion about Is-ness. Isn’t it? S: Yeah. A: ‘It is like that’ or ‘It …
What is Here Now, irrespective of what objects you may perceive or not? We already saw that perceivable objects will not be able to define It. And a concept will not be able to capture It. Now, when we don’t rely on these, are we lost? Because mind will sell you that story ‘I don’t …
Are you Aware? Or no? Don’t intellectualize the question, it’s more innocent than that. You are Aware, so this ‘Yes’ is your Self-recognition. Not the ‘Yes’ itself but the recognition. The recognition is Your Self-recognition. Because … did you see an object? I can deconstruct it further if you say ‘I am saying …
Abidance, for me, only implies: Don’t believe something which is not true about yourself. It is not to keep your attention in a particular way. Because when you meet the Sages, they are not like [looking straight with still eyes, sort of a frozen posture] They are naturally eating, tasting the food. All of their …
That which has no requirement, that is not functioning in time …how can something be the cause of that? Only that which is an object in time can have a cause and can be an effect. How can the cause of something create an effect? So, that which is beyond time and space that …
So, we are here to find the self. Where should we look? If you lost your phone, where would you look? [Sangha]: The usual places. A: [Smiles] You look in your room. You look on the way from where you came. Isn’t it? So, you look in this world; okay, like that. Now, will you …
Q: So, the world takes on an added power or the colors are brighter? Or it’s a dreamlike quality? A: It’s like a more vibrant dream. And why more vibrant? I usually don’t say anything like this, like something has to change or something changes when you see the Truth about YourSelf because I know …