Ashtavakra Gita Commentary & Contemplation Chapter 2, Vs. 1- 8 - 7th August 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides the sangha to recognize that enlightenment is not a future achievement but the current, natural state. He emphasizes that individuality is a pretense maintained only through belief in the mind's stories.
All the time I have been duped by illusion... by this light alone body and universe appear.
To be duped by illusion, all you have to do is believe the story this voice is telling.
You need no thought to exist, but you need a thought to be 'somebody'.
contemplative
Transcript
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We continue our contemplation. The text that we actually manage from is Chapter 2. I think that people go to the glory of self-realization, but that often that if we unique with Chile's this in the first chapter, the mystical speaker for Janaka, he got it. What did he get? He got that there is nothing to get. And yet he got it. Maybe you cannot stingy answer this question. I do it. So did we get it along with him? Janaka realizes the metaphase in Chapter 2, Verse 1: 'I am now spotless and at peace, awareness beyond consciousness. I am now spotless and at peace, awareness beyond consciousness. All this time I have been duped by illusion. All the time I have been duped by illusion.' By this light alone, body and the universe appear. I am everything or nothing. By this light alone, body and the universe appear, and everything and or nothing. Seeing there is no universe or body, seeing there is no universe or body, by grace the Self is revealed. As waves, foam, and bubbles are not different from water, so the universe emanating from Self is not different from Self. Look closely at cloth, you see only thread. Look closely at creation, you see in detail a sweetness which we can use, and the sense of creation and sweetness for weight to the cane juice and the essence of creation. Not seeing Self, world is materialized. Seeing Self, world is vanished. A rope is not a snake, it can appear to be. A rope is not a snake, but can appear to be. I am not other than light. The universe manifests at my last period.
These were very beautiful images and this will be Janaka speaking now. Janaka is confirming what his Master said absolutely. I wanted to restore himself time. This awareness beyond consciousness, because 'I am now spotless and at peace, awareness beyond consciousness. All the time I have been duped by illusion.' Now, 'spotless and at peace' doesn't mean that now he becomes something else. It doesn't mean that something fundamentally at the level of truth changed, that he became spotless. All that happened is that the pretense dropped away. The idea of individuality, the idea of separate existence of two. So, duped by illusion in Maya, division comes about. This is what we won't get into, like a BTS from supportive illusions. Then will be phenomenal given it appears. I'll get you place.
If it was the other way around, where as consciousness you went to a Master and say, 'Is this movie all there is? It is for I am finding no use in this movie because I feel I consider myself to be super handles with and also would. I don't find anything interesting to play here.' So what will the Master say? To go with the reverse Master, do you think what I've given you? I've given you this voice which convinces you of your individuality. All you have to do is believe what this voice is saying. This is how to get duped by illusion. You want to be duped by illusion? All you have to do is buy what story that this voice is saying. It is not the appearance perceived without the collaboration of the mind. It can make consciousness itself play as if it is you. Give you sign. Oh, okay.
I think that suppose the game was the other way round. We did not collect here to find freedom. We collected here because as aspects of consciousness, we found out that we are consciousness itself. In fact, even that which is aware of consciousness, we found out it's like cemeteries which anytime steadily so forth. He had to reporting this is too buggery. It would really have that support principle. This is being Janaka. 'I'm tired of this being moral very. I want to be individual again. I want to be ego again.' All the pivot is to, 'I want you to suffer from forcing relationships, from identity, I'm feeling a lack of money, from worrying about this movie.' All the experience. 'I am completely help me. Tell me how to do all to go.' Can you tell me how you would be able to do it? Now it is not clear your starting point. Although I'm saying it wasn't you. Killian a check. What do you discover about yourself now?
So then what is happening is that we are playing for two steps in which we are picking up the idea that 'I am not doing that. I want something. I want freedom.' And then we are picking up the idea that 'How do I get it? How do I come to this?' Who is it not to for right now? But you are unlimited being an agent. You are aware. Cannot be. This is not cool because this is good to capital T. You must buy a but what, what, yes, but like this. In this moment, what do you find yourself when you hear the word 'come here'? But it has a certain magnitude. I'm not denying the habit. I can have this way to most every time I put on this face. They are fine. So come on then, for two minutes I'll keep doing. There's nothing to it. There's nothing to address it absolutely. Just happy fiddling like that. We have this habit of fiddling with a man. There is nothing to do. Yet a habit is to presume that there is something to fix.
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What is our topic tingly omona? What is our starting point in this moment? And don't lie on a judgment or the mini forum or a report from the farm on an idea or a projection of the future. What they do bondage or trouble? Chuckle. We did that you want right now. If you put a word to it, you have a label axis. So duped by illusion is just okay. The body which is appearing then becomes illegal, becomes Willy name-and-form. This is scheme. But we are in denial of the world. They appear, disappear. It is the appearance of it. Make me an object within it. How do you do this magic? I will be you this green water theatre today. Yourself to be we leave a bit of flesh and blood. I'm not putting the Boveda a big thing compared to your magnificent proof. A tiny aspect the food davai am beautiful between instances. Usually we come in and you see yourself until we docked to Vancouver.
What is natural legend? Finally after saving the truth again, there's some reason one individual emergent is more than see. Not mu nu to me for me. What will you try and do today? It's not stable. Quick disappointed when you heard that question. The formula reality will be pointed to very clearly before them. And yet if I come the point where until I, I need to see the most magnificent to form then wins myself this. Are you waiting for some demonstration, some experience to convince ourselves of that which is so obvious? I know, but I enjoyed very much fun. We do of opposite. If you've seen a ghost where one comes to the sunny days property. Can you show me God? I don't see God. What would you say? Boom is down a bit about doom. Do you see? Do you see not worthless? What do you see? Waiting for the ha. I have neglected sometimes good to affirm this because you can be so difficult about the truth and so confident about the liable will kick off a boom or doubt. We need the clutches of at all against reality, against the magnificence of working in anything at all.
So Janaka came to this discovery. He says like this light alone the body and the universe appear. I am everything and nothing. What is the meaning of this? I am everything and nothing. How can be everything and nothing? Opposite actually you are. Don't think with that which is foil to all form yet you all there is. Therefore all forms also must be you alone. So there everything comes from there. Everything that manifests is made up only of the Self. It's like seemingly in an in the dream you are everything actually which you can see lies within. Pretend as if you are just an aspect of it. But even there a mountains, the rivers or wait for us the trees, all you all of this. Let you let the mind set minsu there is a boundary there. You go mean there is other. You see this world of quality and to be is only one. I'll see. I will not take you there. What take you there? I can only show you that you already other thing to somebody the other day that get off the mind dream, get on lighting.
So if you try to ride or detail what will happen do? That's why actually sometimes the tokens at Satsang seems to get tough on the wings. We try to ride books, you try to fit on two chairs at the same time. We try to ride to hostel at the same time, try to get on to dream. What is what is the mind going to give you that the video waves cannot do? What is that? We still have an idea that, 'Oh yes, this is beyond the scope of the market.' Found in my experience that nothing is beyond the scope of the talking. I can see the purest expression of consciousness itself. That consequence is the light of this or the light book exists in the light. I am because anything else exists. That which is the purest expression of this, that itself is consequence of what the greatest offer that you can get from the mind. Follow me and you will get like exactly or us who's were attached to the secret. I think my mouth said I will promise enlightened. Okay. Oh okay. In the tummy but some guys with some disabled also. I only give you and letting the mind off. Okay, you get on these instant for things we do very well. Sometimes it in very well a banjo doing terribly partition according to the mind before car.
Yet what is the enlightenment that light we are looking for? Will it come eventually witnessing right now? Can it be this value will live? It is a light also which comes and it will come tomorrow or in some cases which it was something that you found somewhere else and a study and all. Well if you can that mean it also comes and go like watching movies. Hopefully enlightenment is not an experience. You can have an awakening experience in which you can seem like I don't find the sense of an individual mean put in reality right now. There is no individual. Sometimes we can seem very obvious no other time they can seem less obvious. The fact is this is a choice.
So then it says, 'I will give you enlightenment' and here let me tell you how you are unenlightened right now. This if I ask you who is a man tries to then we still have concern about security. But can you be any of this without referring to a thought about yourself to be? You may know taught to exist. You need not heart but to be something, to be company. Even that somebody wants enlightened means someone unconscious about yourself. So immediately even in that theory, oh beautiful song being full, 'I want enlightenment' or an even light human. What are you referring to? Your self and I mean writing water-related being or an unenlightened person that we almost. So every concept that we buy about ourselves sells the identities of our limitation. Person member doesn't like forgive in this body. Any concept of imitation that I might have a purpose. And when you look and check about yourselves or difference without judgment, without conferring on inside that means you find this one who one can welcome. I want anything.
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