Giving Freedom to the World to Be As It Is - 13th January 2016

And people hold grievances against God. 'Why did you create a world like this?' That is the ultimate grievance of it. Because there is some knowledge there that everything is done by God—at least that much is there—then that becomes like a victim specialness. 'The world is there and the world is happening to me.' If God is the creator of the world, then it must be God who is experiencing all of it also. Where is the victim? This openness then becomes so natural. If you're going with the judge or the one that holds grievances, then everywhere we look, we find something to hold the grievance about.

Okay, it was really revealing to me when I heard this phrase 'Love holds no grievances' the first time in the Course many years ago. And then I said, 'There's no grievances? Okay, let me check.' And every single person that I knew, I had a grievance against. Some small, some big, but everyone had some grievance against them. I realized this is not love; it is a very business-transactional relationship. 'I like this about them, I wish they could change this way.' You see? Where is the love? It must be acceptable. 'Oh, look at this.' So, like this, this audit is very useful. Yeah, I find this contemplation very useful.

It was quite revealing to me because before that, the idea still here was that I'm such a nice guy, I don't hold a grudge, there's nothing. Then I started looking. So, this one, yes, it was very beautiful to see that it's all centered around individual specialness, individual doership—this idea that 'I know what is right, I know how the world should be.' Yeah. And then we let go of these things. Give the world the freedom that we want for ourselves. Give the world the freedom that we want for ourselves. Then automatically in this... okay, not resisting, not judging. Silly, which is like completely continued, but that is also accepted that this is being said. The reaction from here, which could be stronger, lighter, whatever, is also then accepted. But there's no 'How could you say like this?' or 'How could this one be doing that?'

And in today's world, anyway, because of social media and things like this, every day we are exposed to much more that people are doing because they post it on Facebook. So, if you sit with that attitude of judging everything, then you'll be completely lost, which is true now. So, this is how it happened. The beauty, one of the most beautiful aspects, is that it rarely ever goes to plan. Yeah. Did it ever go to plan? Because it'd be so boring if it all just went to plan. 'I thought this should happen, this is how it should be,' and it just goes according to that. Where is the fun in that? It rarely happens according to that. That is the fun to watch.

But if we attach to our idea of how it should be, then we are in this constant state of resistance, which is very egoic. So, to allow, allow everything to be exactly as it is, including the reactions that come from here. It is not a state of passivity, it is not an aggressive state, it is just neutrality. And I know that this pointing of openness also is experienced at different levels, because that's how it happened here. Because when I first heard like this, 'be open, accept,' it felt like a good coping strategy, you know, a good way to lead a life or something. Then one day it just appeared to me—this openness. This resistance just had fallen off. The judge had just taken a break or something like this. This is open, this is open, this flowing. Everything is wherever, however we are experiencing it, it's beautiful.

This openness... all our grievances can be allowed because very often what happens is we—because we hear satsang, we hear about non-doership—we say, 'He says I'm not the doer.' But also remember that no one... then there can be no individual one that exists. If I don't exist personally, then no other person exists. Therefore, nobody is personally the doer. All is being done in this play of Maya by God. And when this is seen, this is realized, then can we hold the grievance? Can you hold a grievance? You can't, you see? Because it is seen that God is all there is. And who is holding a grievance against who?

And just about now, there will be some things which are coming that, 'Yes, everything I can agree to that, but that one... he did this to me, you know, she did this to me, that one.' So, that one you must bring into your inquiry. If something is resisting, that one you must bring into inquiry and find out who did what to who. Isn't there duality in that? Isn't there some sense of individual person?

You've been wanting to answer... Master, what really is specialness? Define right now what in the specialness point of view... it's really special.

Specialness means that I have this self that is something which is only individually present here. Why that is the fallacy is because there is no individual present here. Therefore, nothing can be individually presentable. Thank you.