Can You Not Be? - 22nd February 2018

Can you not be? Try to stop the 'I am'. Is it going to be performed? It's not coming and going. So, the something, motion, man, woman, 43—'I am' is there in time. All these motions, all these concepts to us that I'm talking about, all this is just a part of the phenomenal appearance, aspects of the appearance. But I am that whole from which all of these appear. You see, this body is making these words; it is my aspect of Him. That 'I' listening to these words is an aspect of me. All distinctions were forms. There never have been two of us. It has always been just one consciousness playing this funny game, pretending separation and putting the solution of this equation with an elaboration. It is like a seven-year-old decides to play a game, decides 'this is separate', 'this is me', and both of them are communicating with each other.

Actually, this is like the waves of the ocean. When we're saying, 'Go there', 'I don't have time to listen to this thing', 'I'm so busy running the life of the wave', 'I have to go there', 'I went too much left, I have too much right to correct it'. And one wave coming out somewhere and saying, 'Look what you are. This is your surface level. What is under the surface is one ocean.' Yet all of these bodies are just a part of it. All of these objects are just a part of it. The space in which they seem to appear is a part of it. The time in which they seemingly move is a part of it. So that which is a cool appearance of that, we live now as the aspect of Him, because that is the one that is reminding you of your own reality. You are the ocean itself, not the wave.

And you would leave this very scene. Words have always been reminding you, and it has been mistaken for just another form. So there comes a point where you find this outer shell, which is just an instrument of the only intuitive presence behind this one. He's pointing you to that only intuitive presence, reminding you that there is only one. There never has been any true separation. Now the mind will come and say, 'But what you're saying is too simple', or 'To do that, to drop all distinction, is too difficult'. But you can clearly see that it is the making of distinction which takes up energy. Effortlessly, without using energy, can you make the distinction?

So when Papaji says 'Keep quiet', when Papaji says 'Keep quiet', he is not talking about a physical quiet, or at least not just about the physical. He is talking about this: don't expend your energy on anything. See what is effortlessly present. Are you existing as a result of some effort that you are doing? You?