Clues About Inquiry - 16th November 2017

All these clues which are available for the inquiry, like 'Who is the witness of all that is moving?' We just get the clue and then don't have any concept of how your response has to come, or how the answer has to come. What is your boundary? In the same way, don't imagine yourself to be something, either big or small. If some visuals are coming from the mind, allow them to come and go. See if they are within you or outside you. What is the boundary of that within which all things are rising and falling?

The point of the clues is not to give you answers; it is to shake away everything that you know. All these concepts, you know, I like best as 'dust collected on the beam.' Okay, don't take it literally, it's just a metaphor. Nothing can collect on the Brahman. It is to use a metaphor: all this conceptual dust has been stuck onto you, and Satsang is the bath. In the bath, all this conceptual dust is being cleaned away right away. Now, don't use the bathwater as your new dust. Empty of all notions, find out if anything that might be arising is bigger than the space in which it is arising.

Some will see some feeling is arising, some will see some interpretation is arising, some will see some sensations arising. See if anything can be bigger than that in which they are arising. And once you see that it cannot be, see that everything is arising within you, but just not you personally. Therefore, nothing is bigger than you. Nothing can make a scratch on you because you are nothing. To use another popular metaphor—which is also not true, it is also a metaphor—so you are this space. Suppose you are the space in this room. That means, is the space concerned by what is arising or not? Is the space afraid of anything that is arising? Is the space saying 'no, no' or 'yes, yes' to something's onset? No. So how can you, which is the space of that space, and the space of that space, let your dynamic aspect be concerned with anything that might be coming and going?

The world is found in confusion. Stay with this simple truth. This morning, an aspect of you took birth as the universe, but that aspect of you believed itself to be just restricted to one body. By coming to Satsang, I am reminding you that that which took birth is the body of your dynamic aspect. It is a great divine hypnosis, Maya, that you can believe yourself to be something which is so tiny, so limited, so constrained. That which is the source of the projector and the screen has considered itself to be just one of the characters of the movie. That's why the question is: Who are you? Who am I?

The identification with the character will resolve in this. You will find that nobody is the character. All these boundaries have just been perceived; they don't define you. You contain them; they don't contain you. Don't believe any of this. Practice it. How are you defining yourself? And the truth needs no definition. So actually, we can say—you don't have to say it, but feel it—that you did not wake up in the morning; the morning woke up in you.