More and more, almost every day, I want to repeat: No matter how big the notion was, in this moment, you are empty of it. So, as you pick up, you will also say (as you say ‘But…’ the notion will come) you will start to counter these ‘But’s…’ by saying ‘But I Am Here!’ …
Every thought is selling you a position. It’s trying to give you reference point about yourself that ‘This is what you are.’ Even a thought which might be saying ‘I am really getting this’ or ‘I am not getting this at all; I don’t know what I am doing here’ [Chuckles] it is making a …
Q: It’s very beautiful to be where you led me. I have been asking this question to myself. The job which I do is extremely challenging from a physical and mental…, from a mental perspective. And I feel that a lot of my time which I could have devoted in seeking is going into that; …
Q: When I understood this, it felt like a void opened and it was really frightening because it felt like annihilation, like on the brink. It felt like ‘I am me’ was gonna be gone. So, my question is: it’s not just a simple step to understand ‘Yes, I am the Self and I am …
Q: It seems that once you are in this space, there is nothing happening here and you feel like: ‘Is that it?’ Because you have heard a lot of stories about enlightenment, bliss. And this is something which I was also talking to a fellow seeker about sometime back, because your mind expects something to …
Q: May I go back to that question that you asked: ‘Where is the boundary of you?’ A: Yes, Yes. Q: Or ‘Where is the boundary of Being?’ And this is my experience. There is me, Murad, the body and that boundary is here. There is the me, the emotions, which is a little bigger …
Q: I have a question about (I don’t know if I can call it the concept of) ‘neti-neti.’ Because somehow in my experience, it’s more that I want to include everything. I want to be everything. I don’t want to be ‘I’m not that, I’m not that.’ And yeah, I don’t know how to. There …
How many of you would agree that Being is Here? Only one? [Laughter] We all agree but with some trepidation. So, Being is Here. Now, this Being…, is it an inference you are making or is it your tasted experience? You know that you Exist. Your Existence is Here. You don’t need any inference. And …
You are finding that to add anything to your Being is like the ocean wanting to add a mythical drop of water to itself. If the drop of water was real, then at least we can make one concession, saying ‘The ocean wants to become ocean plus one.’ But what can you add to your …
Often I’ve said that ‘Don’t be fooled when I say I don’t accept money’ (Dakshina) [donations] and things like this. I will leave you with nothing! [Chuckles] All that is just in the beginning, where I say ‘I don’t want all this. I want all your conceptual attachments.’ It’s like Being Itself has covered itself with …
So, what is Satsang then? Just a reminder of this Truth that You Are. And then, just some concepts about how to deal with the doubt, the notion of ‘something-ness’. So, the concept could be surrender or letting go. When the notion comes from the notion machine (which is the mind) it can come and …
What is Here Now? [Silence] Right Now, if I were to tell you that ‘You are the Buddha’ or ‘You are Christ’ or ‘You are Krishna’ it would not be an exaggeration. Because Consciousness is Here. This ‘I Am’ is the very same ‘I Am’ as when God said ‘I Am that I Am’. Your …
What is that attachment? Attachment must include two things, isn’t it? There must be a ‘me’ for whom something is ‘mine’. Can there be attachment without that? There must be a ‘me’ for whom something is ‘mine’. If I say ‘my house’, can there be ‘my house’ without a ‘me’? So, the ‘me’ is me …
Now, the good news is that there is no sensation which is greater than You. No matter what the sensation might be, it is occurring in Your space, within You. Because of our interpretation of these sensations, we feel that ‘This one is all there it is. It is too strong. It is overwhelming me.’ …
I felt today to start by reading some verses from the Bhagavad Gita. So, this is chapter 2, verse 12. Most of you know the story of the Gita. This is where Lord Shree Krishna had just started speaking to Arjun, who is at the moment bound with a lot of grief, despondency, all his …
A: How come this voice which we are hearing is the voice of ‘other’? Isn’t it your own? Q: I can see that it’s my own. It’s just like me. A: Yes. Very good. There is no distinction, no separation. This has always been your living experience. But we have interpreted it differently. Without the …
In this play, in this leela of the Lord Himself, we forget what we Are and we attach ourselves to just what is passing. I was saying the other day that to attach to something which is changing, something that is not constant, and to be attached to it and to call it mine, to …
The greater force is running this life. We have no way how to do it, we have no idea when we consider ourself to be an individual. Then we come up with various ideas and conceptual frameworks as to how this life functions for the individual. We define a law of karma and do all …
The second-best news is that you don’t have to believe anything that I’m saying. You don’t have to believe in anything that I’m saying; you don’t have to use any belief. All you have to do is just check for yourself. ‘Ananta says that there is the unchanging. Can I find that in my own …
I was saying yesterday that my perfect silent retreat one day will be that in which outer silence is irrelevant…, but you are empty of concepts about yourself. Don’t try to replace the person with the better person. It’s like we have a Robert De Nero mask; now you are trying to replace it with …