Freedom is Your True Nature - 17th May 2016

So what you're saying is 'Don't believe your next thought' is only for emergencies? It means when it's like a band-aid which you use in your first-aid kit, you see? Then something feels hurt, then you take out 'Don't believe your next thought' and use it that way. But even this doesn't work, because 'Don't believe your next thought' is not a personal strategy. Why does it work? Because there is no bondage and you are the Self. The false is not here. The ego does not exist. Nobody is suffering from any sensation appearing even in the body; there is no sufferer of them. The only way you can play as a person right now is by believing your next thought. There is no other way to do it. Therefore, as we remain in this, it feels like, it seems like we have cut off the oxygen to this non-existent person.

Now, if you go back and forth on this—so sometimes we give it oxygen, sometimes we take away the oxygen, sometimes you give it, we take it away—see, then the journey of this non-existent person seems to prolong itself. The person comes into Satsang—and not really, it just seems like it comes into Satsang—with this idea that 'I will get something, I will find happiness, I will become peaceful.' It expects this garland and a halo at the end of Satsang. But what does it find instead? You find that there is an axe. No garland, no halo; there is an axe. One says, 'Oh okay, I think I need a break.' You see this? When the non-existent person's non-existent head is coming on this non-existent guillotine, it wants to run. And it finds any excuse to run. It can be 'I'll never get it,' 'Why I got it?' It can be 'I want to focus on my life and sort it out first,' on the so-called responsibilities that we are taking care of. You can try and create some confusion in the mind between what different teachers are saying. It can get into a very intellectual mindset. The person, the mind itself, can start speaking a lot of words that it heard in Satsang. All of this just to avoid the guillotine.

And yet within the Sangha itself, we find many who are not believing most of their thoughts now, and you can see that they are not suffering. What proof do we need? There comes a time where we stop playing games and when we find something which smells of truth, and we hang onto it for dear life. Our last struggle as a person. All these battles we are fighting are not about you. The Satsang is just a response to the holy yearning of God to speak to God, of Being to commune with itself. Allow your mind to give up because it is not your mind, but your Presence—not your mind which will recognize the truth of what you are. Allow your mind to give up and allow me to talk to myself. Just now, you are free. There is no other time to be free. It's only about now. There is no bondage. Even if the body was in chains, full of painful sensations, you could not be bound now. You are free. Freedom is your true nature. And clearly, some of us are recognizing it.