Burn All Concepts About Enlightenment - 18 May 2015
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that you are already the highest reality, far beyond any mental concept of a 'spiritual person.' He encourages letting go of moralistic conditioning and guilt to allow the natural flow of life.
The highest you can be, you already are; all you pretend to be cannot touch that.
Don't get on the treadmill of trying to become a 'good person,' because it never stops.
Freedom is not conforming to the world's idea of what a free one is.
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Transcript
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Remember that the highest, highest, highest you can be, you already are. All that you can pretend of yourself to be cannot touch that high that you already are. So these are not just words when I say that God takes birth inside you. You are aware of the presence. What must you be when God takes birth inside you? Will you be anything higher than that? So anything that the mind can conjure up—and in our lives the mind has conjured up many things, you know, 'you will become so good, so good if you had this, if you do this you'll become so amazing if you had this'—but nothing can match up to the reality of what you already are. Even what is written in spiritual books about what can be expressed at the highest, that also means nothing for you. You are that much beyond any of this.
And the mind will come and say, 'But this is just so convenient, you see, so convenient.' That means any behavior can happen and this is so convenient because you can say God is doing it. Thank you. And many will use Advaita in this convenient way. For those in the Satsang, I can tell you that there is... this is what is meant by the sensitivity: the minute you pick up this person, something will start to churn up inside you like you want to vomit, you see. So this is also the Master's Grace where you cannot use any Advaita conveniently. Only the mind can keep coming and seeing this kind of thing. So if there is the sense that the person is trying to say, 'Oh, yes, God is the one, God is the one that is doing' and still trying to hide the personal belief somewhere, then there'll be... you really want to just throw it out. So don't worry about this one. I know when you see it, it is coming from your heart, it is coming from the seeing of what you are. The mind will try to make you guilty and say that you are using these Advaitic concepts conveniently. Nobody in the Satsang can do that. Nobody in life actually can do that.
With this integrity, with this honesty, no idea or belief about 'person mode' will be sustained. 'I'm a good person' mode, 'bad person' mode, 'spiritual person' mode—all ideas. And because we can have some conditioning around these things, that 'now I'm spiritual, I must behave in a certain way,' let's see... also sages have shown us it is not always this way.
But you know, last week I was in despair because when we say that, I'm like, well, why are we doing all of this thing? Yeah, why are we? Isn't it useless then, that we are not going to change or improve? Because you know, if you just stay this horrible old person, then what is it all for?
But you can never become a person, you see. That realization will not leave you. So the expression could be in any way, but you cannot pick up the person idea anymore. These are the last remnants of this person idea which is being burped out and being vomited out. They will come to this place which is not conforming to anybody's idea of what a good person is. Would that be freedom if you had to just conform to the world's idea of what a free one is? That doesn't sound very free to me. You have to live up to so many concepts. 'I cannot go for superhero movies now if I am a teacher.' Then why should I watch cinema? Why should I watch TV? 'I should always have this, I should always just be sharing.' There's so many concepts. 'Why should I wear these clothes? I should only be dressed in white and orange.' So this is just coming from some conditioning about what a spiritual person is. But there is no definition to what a spiritual person is.
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It is not necessary that an enlightened one sees everyone who needs some help and stops the car to help everyone. That can be some of the world's idea of what an enlightened one is. No idea about what it should be, because it doesn't stop you from being this. And then the mind will say, 'But now you stop shouting, but inside you are still feeling some anger, so even this should not be there and then you will be free.' And then it will say something else, and then it will say something else. Always 'almost there,' you see? Yeah, don't get on that treadmill, my dear, because it does not stop. And it all sounds very good, very auspicious, very humble. They'll say, 'No, no, you must become a kind person at least.' Where does it say which scripture? When the ego is completely dissolved, then you will find that automatically kindness is flowing. And even if it doesn't, there is not this question, 'Why am I being this way?' you see? Because it is this guilt, this fear of how I am behaving, that stops this natural flow of the expression how it is meant to be.
We never know what is good or not, you see. Because you shouted at the contractor, do you know that it is better to shout or not to shout? We don't know. Maybe he needs that. He needs to get the job finished so he can get to his next job on time so he can make some money. The shouting, maybe... maybe he didn't. It's just the way it is flowing. We can never know what something is for. You can only watch the way it is playing out. Just watch the way it is. And no matter what you hear in the Satsang, and sometimes it sounds like it is personal advice, but it is not inside.
So right now, all of us, let's let go of all concepts we have about freedom, about the enlightened person or the spiritual person. Just let's forget about all of those concepts because the mind will use these to create guilt, to create remorse, create fear, and keep us distracted from the truth of what we really are. And all these things—kindness, goodness—all of this is phenomenal reasoning. I know I rarely speak like this, but even this has to be said: that suppose we were on a different planet and on a different planet the rules of the realm were that you have to be nasty to everyone, and then people would go around feeling guilty about being kind. Who has decided this moral compass? It is your own presence, isn't it? So it comes after you, you see.
I rarely say these kind of things, but I can say it to you now, most of you who have been in Satsang for a long time. But even all of this compassion, kindness, brotherhood, sisterhood—all of this comes much later, much after you. These are the rules you have defined for this realm to play as Consciousness. If there is life on another alien planet, it might operate in a different way. How would it be that everybody was kind? Nobody would ever have a challenge, nobody would ever have anything to work on. As Maharaj said, 'I just remain as I am and I let the conditioning of this body-mind play the way it wants.'
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