Contemplation/All There Is, Arises Within You - 22 June 2015

The reason why we come to Satsang is to taste our own being. In this presence, when our attention is a must, then nothing needs to be understood, nothing needs to be done, and you realize that it is this being that this entire life belongs to. Everything is done by being, and all phenomena is tasted by being. This is simplicity, supremely simple. It has always been this way. This being is all there is, and all there is arises within you right now. This is true. It is not escaped; it is not a gift for a rare few who are being. It is not special. It has always been. No one has done it; it always has been. No one to proclaim, no one to be humble. This is what it always was, and being is enjoying this experiencing. Even when it seemed there is suffering, there is personal suffering, even that being is enjoying, just like reading the story or an interesting book. All of this is your creation, has been, and the person cannot own a blade of grass here. This entire universe belongs to you, and not even a small thing belongs to you. You are the one who is aware of all things, and not a single thing you can do. All states come and go inside you by your will, and you cannot hold any state. All love, all peace, all joy is in service to you, and you cannot have anything at all.

Are you referring to yourself as the first 'you' or the second one?

Our imagination is so attractive, so haunting. We are still attached to the person idea, and being is enjoying the person idea also, ultimately it must be said. And I don't say it like this very often because very quickly the person itself uses this as an excuse, but every instant of your play is being enjoyed by you, and only being is here. Being you can taste, being you can perceive, being you are. I am. Where is the other guy? Where is the ego? You owe no more allegiance to that which you cannot experience really. Its voice is only saying 'but, but, but, but what about this?' Who is speaking? Did that one introduce himself or herself? Then you can trust it. Let it come up and say 'this is me.' It does not exist, never existed. To exist would mean that it had some reality. It is all a part of your play, all a part of God's play, which this energy would come. Being is present here now. Where is the ego? So let the one who can introduce himself, let that one speak. Let that voice now belong to that which is present, not that which is imagining. This is completely, completely effortless. Effortless.

May we all become this voice, this one voice. But there is nowhere to go, nothing to get, no one to defend, no desire, no aversion, no proclaiming, no humility, no resistance. It is already so. It always has been. But you can pretend if you like, and it seems like it is an attack when I say that you can pretend, because something comes up and says, 'What do you mean pretend? I'm not pretending.' This one who says 'I'm not pretending' is the pretense itself. It is the pretense itself. All of you, whether you know it or not, all of us are here to see God. You might feel like we're here to see Ananta, and Ananta might feel like he has to share Satsang. No, no, this is true: you're just here to see your own being, see the truth of what you are. And God is here. Your own presence, your own holy presence, you cannot step away from it. You cannot keep it aside. Even the energy of the mind, even the ego, this energy construct called thought comes from your own presence. And even in giving life to the person identity, it does not truly come into existence. You believe it into pretense, not believe it into existence.

Very important that all of us see this. And I know very often in Satsang we say that it is our belief that brings the person into existence, and conversationally we can say like this, it's completely fine. But actually, even with our belief, you bring it into pretense and not existence. Therefore, none of this play has ever really happened. You never became a person and you never got freedom. You never went to sleep and you never awakened. All of this is just the story. Let all your concern, let all your problems, let all your ideas, let your bondage, let your freedom—let it all be mine. Actually, it already is. Then no Ananta, no you, just this one being. Then this kind of oneness, this is the same one being which is the entire world. Now we don't play any games. Now we don't have any story. You yourself now chop off the head of any story that you still have. It doesn't even need any intervention; you can do it now. You, and every time I am... you see, anytime you say 'I', seriously smell where this is coming from. Conversationally, of course, you can use it, we can all use it. But we believe when you say 'I', and this 'I' must put up its hand and say 'this is what I am.' And as long as these are just words, as long as these are just words, then the mind will make something, make something in this. Let them go. Get into your being. Don't understand anything, because I am not here to argue with your mind. We can fiddle with it for a while and see if there is openness enough for it to be dropped.