All of Us Are Still Children - 2nd May 2019
Saar (Essence)
Ananta explains that resistance is simply the grown-up version of a child's tantrum when life doesn't go their way, advising a return to childlike innocence and surrender to the divine presence.
Resistance is just the sophisticated way of saying 'I am not getting my way.'
Our grown-up nature hasn't learned anything important; it just picked up seriousness along the way.
Trust that the divine presence knows better than what your mind is saying right now.
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Transcript
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Can you talk about this resistance please that is all over here? I mean, maybe I think this is... I feel it is something like a mirror that you were talking about, this fight, the 'I' and 'me' and whatever. And maybe this is a mirror just around me, that's why it is so immense now. Is that why? Because it wants to show me that?
Yes, that's one way to look at it. But sometimes, okay, tell me what is happening in another way. Don't use the term 'resistance,' you see, because resistance is also something that we learned in Satsang. So what is happening? Just tell me in another way. Maybe like explaining to a child, what is happening to you?
Nothing is happening the way I want it.
Yes, yes, yes. But this happens to me all the time as a child. Is that resistance? Auntie, you're on mute, my dear. How are you? Um, you just said, 'It happens to me all the time.' Yeah, that's all I said. You said that's what I'm facing, and that's all I heard. Maybe you said something before that, but you said, 'Nothing is happening the way I wanted to.' And I look at my child life and I say, 'But yeah, I wanted so much candy, I wanted not to go to school, I wanted so many things.' But none of it is happening. So is that what you mean?
Yes.
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So then both of us are having the same resistance, just the topic is different. The topic is different. I have resistance to... I don't want to go to school, I want just chocolate, I don't want to eat any green vegetables, you see. And now you seem to have replaced it with other things which seem like more blown-up things, but maybe they are not. So this is very good. So sometimes to talk like this is very important because what has happened? All of us are still children, actually. We are pretending to play grown-up, grown-up because now we have bigger words, you see, but our issues are the same: 'I am not getting my way.' So what would you do? I was just going to ask that because I could sense that question was coming.
So now, when your son was a little younger and he said, 'I want candy, I want no school, I want to just play in the park all day,' you see, what you told him?
I said something.
What? Say, you said something like...
Trust Mommy, she knows better what is good for you.
So yeah, so basically, yeah, our parents, all of us have done that, you see. So basically, you are the child. To surrender, isn't it? That's exactly what we do in Satsang. Don't judge, surrender. Know that this divine presence—God, Father, whatever you call it—knows better than what our mind is saying right now.
That this resistance... the resistance is nothing personal. I took it too personal. Just resisted just what it is. I became so strong because it's now a grown-up place, you know, on a website, and that's why I felt so serious.
Oh, it feels so serious. Exactly, exactly. So that's what happened. Because that is why all the sages have said to return to innocence, because our grown-up nature hasn't really learned anything important; it just picked up a lot of seriousness along the way. This does not mean that... like even with the children, sometimes they cry, sometimes they're sad, they show a tantrum, you see, but they don't hold a grudge. They're not saying, 'Why is life doing this to me?' you see. They might say, 'Why are my parents doing this to me?' but that also momentarily. So, so this is just the topics of our... what we say... that has changed and become more sophisticated as we have grown up. 'I want candy' has become 'I want freedom,' but the one part is still the same.