Greatest Super Power - Step Back From Your Limitations - 27th Dec 2018

You experienced a life, you had the experience where you've seen how it is when you're caught up in your mind, when you are caught up in the notion of 'me,' caught up in the limitation of ego. I was saying the other day that many times you could be in satsang for many years and you might still think that it's for 'me.' And it can come sometime to the workshop—really, it is not about you, that which you think you are. It is about you in reality. If you have the sense of willingness to jump into this vastness, empty of all limitations, completely defenseless and open, then this meeting is worthwhile. But I am not in service to you if these words also become part of your ideas about yourself. It's time to taste the food that has been served here. The best news ever is that truth does not need chasing. Truth does not even need finding. Truth is what you are.

So that which is naturally present, how can you want that? It is only that the term 'want' loses its meaning. If you come to me and you're sitting like this and you say, 'Ananta, I want to sit,' I would say, 'But you are.' And then if you say, 'But I don't think I am,' or 'My mind says that I'm not,' what should I say to this? This is exactly what the tongue is. You are the Atma; there is nothing missing. You are already beyond all limitations. But you say, 'But I think so.' What you're already saying is that you value that thought much more than what I'm saying. I know you don't mean it in that way, but it shows you, it shows me. I see you are free now. You are the Atma. The thought comes in: 'But, but, but...' It's all in the 'but, but.' This is 'but, but.' So what you're going to have more?

Then you may come to me and say, 'Ananta, it's not a thought, it is just energetic.' But 'energetic' is also a thought. 'Energetic' is also a concept. There is no such thing as 'energetic' actually. For the mind, this is radical; for you, it is natural. The mind is like a weighing scale. You can only deal with limited qualities. How will the weighing scale measure space? What is the weight of space? What is the weight of time? It makes no sense. So how will it measure that which is beyond time and space? You cannot use this tool for it. Your thoughts will never report this reality. No one among you can show me a boundary. You're never experiencing the boundary for yourself. You might say, 'But this is my boundary,' but where is this boundary experienced? You see, you might say, 'The extent of my perceptions, they define me,' but where are these perceptions experienced? What is the boundary of perceptions? The perception could be anything, but it's still contained within you. You may have a perception of God itself, this consciousness, but even that would be contained within you. This is your experience now. Tell me if it is not.

There is only one voice which is fighting this. That voice is the lawyer for the non-existent ego saying, 'But objection, Your Honor, objection!' constantly. So it is time now to forget about it, all these 'but-but-but-but.' It is only your attachment to yourself as a seeker. All the energetic support you need is here, all the pointers you need are here, and you decided. Okay, so I speak phenomenally for a few moments. New Year is coming. How should we deal with your stubborn insistence? How should we deal with your stubborn insistence that you are some somebody, something? And remember your answer, because you might say, 'Father, chop it off. Father, kill it, rid me of me.' But when my chopping comes, it doesn't always feel pleasant. When the chopping is happening, it can feel a bit grating at times. The guillotine is always on strike with one shot.

If you knew already that all the beliefs that you have are false, you would not even hold them as beliefs. So when I am asking for this Guru Dakshina—give up everything that you think you know—it can feel a bit strong sometimes. You make these promises from a 'me' position and you don't even realize what you're promising. 'Chop my head off and then I will be free.' 'Me' still wants the prize for itself. So how should we deal with the stubborn insistence that I am the ego? You guys hate to use it. It's time to clearly, really devote yourself to this truth. It is naturally here. And let go of this nonsense insistence on a quick belief. Is there a 'yes' in your heart? Yes or no? If there is fear coming—'What will happen to my life?'—know that only grace is happening. Trying to run your lives is pretending to push a train.

This object, this body, is what? For lives, there's nothing. This one pretends as if it is running this life. Like the train, this guy is just about hanging from the end of the train, but the idea he has is that, 'Oh, I'm running this train.' Life is running. The one that pretends to be the doer, the choice-maker, that one you can't even find. This is the extent of our delusion. So the train will go; I mean, you don't have to worry about it. 'How will I run my life?' is one of the most ludicrous ideas you will ever hear, and yet it is what keeps us bound. In what way? Not one heartbeat you know how to take, and you feel like you're running your life. Not one finger we know how to move. Who knows how to fire a neuron? Nobody. Ludicrous. But our 'me-me-me' is dependent on this idea.

How are you existing now? What makes you exist? Does anyone know this? We got caught up in the imagery. After 'I am,' all of this plane of light and sound started. If you like this object, 'I am.' In fact, why wait for the New Year? It can be 'me-less' now. You are, in fact. It is not possible to have 'me' out without 'me.' So if you don't know these references I've been making over the years, 'me-now' is what I refer to as the suffering of the individual 'me.' So all of the suffering, which is just a term for all of the egoic stuff like guilt, pride, remorse, regret—whatever other ways you suffer—indecision, confusion... it is all of these things. I mean, how do you suffer? Have you all just avoided suffering without any of these? It's just a term for this stuff.

Sages must have felt like it is too much to spell it out every time, so let's invent a nice word which defines all of this stuff. Pride is suffering. Even false humility is suffering. 'Look at how special I am because of how humble I am.' Even that deception. Remorse: 'Why did I do this? I shouldn't have done that. That is really bad what I did.' Remorse is similar. Indecision is buying into the false notion of individual doership, individual existence. All confusion is about who you are. All confusion. You may not feel it is so, but if you check, if you were looking at life from your true perspective, confusion is an impossibility. So all of this suffering is just confusion about who this so-called individualization of consciousness is, which actually never happened. Me-less. Me-less. Yes. The least enthusiastic audience.

So how to be empty of this 'me'? If you were sitting here, you would have to pluck it out, isn't it? But it's not. It's just to remain in this openness—non-resistive, non-defensive, conceptually empty—and ignore the narrative subtitles. Let them come and go, but the subtitles have not been true for this movie you've been watching. It's 'A Wonderful Life' with the subtitles of 'The Godfather.' You still think you're Michael Corleone or something. Know that these are the subtitles. The 'me' is like that, this made-up thing. So let these subtitles come and go; don't attach to any of this.

Namaste, Father. Good to see you. On request from some Hindi people, you gave Hindi satsangs in the past, and they also have been going online for a few months live at 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. All of those, please... good to see your streak. I make them private; I keep one open for public to share.

The time you said we come to the company of the truth—now this truth is really not possible to express verbally, and yet somehow the words seem to help it along. But the Master serves as a representation of the possibility of your own freedom. That is why a Master actually is different from just somebody who can teach you spiritual concepts. A Master is one that you look at them, you look at their life, and see that it represents the possibility which is here for us: the freedom from suffering, the non-attachment, the openness to take on all that afflicts the world. So definitely for those who themselves cannot yet seem to handle, do we agree, the ups and downs of life, do not take on this additional burden of trying to share satsang. If the Master himself gets completely shaken by the smallest things that come and go, then it is better not to go on this adventure, the sharing satsang business. I don't know how it appears to you. So the world needs possibly millions of satsang teachers, but the sharing of satsang will be the biggest burden that anybody can ever carry. So I will not advise anyone to rush into it. Allow it to unfold organically. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Sadhguru Mooji Baba ki Jai. Gurudev ki Jai.