'I Am' Presence Is Not About Definitions - 16th October 2017

The biggest notions of God are this: omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. So to use the word God is very hard to reconcile or recognize. Excellent point. Amaya is speaking; she's saying because we have defined God to be omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, what happened is that when we heard these words, we made conditions about them.

Omnipotent—because we believed ourselves to be a person, then our idea of omnipotence became somebody who is giant, huge. If he appears, then you know, his nose will be able to stand down, muscles that strong, so strong. But now what you're finding is a different type of omnipotent. And God is then the world is. God is all of this. Time and space is gravity, electricity, light, sound. I am. I awaken, I am, and this whole light and sound show starts. I am disappears and everything goes. I am appears and a different realm can occur with strange people and strange objects. That which we call a dream. When I am disappears, then again I am coming, a dream can come with its own time and space and objects and qualities, attributes of all sorts. That is this 'I Am' in the occurrence of which all of this starts to appear.

Beyond any idea of omnipotence that we can have mentally, we are coming to the discovery of this 'I Am', the light of which the world is, the universe is. From there the sage can see that the universe is nothing but the body of God, which means what? It is just a phenomenal aspect of omnipotent, omnipresent. That's what we are checking. Omnipresent—does all of this happen within this very presence? Is there anything outside? There is nothing outside of this. And what is that which is, you know, in all things? Because this omnipresence, 'I Am' being, is all power and presence. And omniscience—what is it that moves everything? Again, we expected, when we originally heard 'moves everything', we again expected it to be in a personal sort of way. Only when I know all the future, I know about everything that happened in the past, I know everything conceptually or experientially, only then will I say I am omniscient.

And what we're finding is that that which is perceived here, that which has our attention, only that exists. With the right attention, it seems to be on the so-called present environment, on a so-called memory, all of this past or projections of future. Everything is coming from this. That which, as Guruji says, you perceive only that which you can see. So that which is the consumer of illusions, the perceiver of all of this, that is beyond any kind of mental knowing. It is all its play. It moves every aspect, every single atom of this universe really moves with the will of God. They say even the blade of grass moves only with God's will. So this really cannot be separate from this being.

So in this way, we were recognizing that what we had understood about these concepts, that is being blown apart, and we are coming to a deeper recognition of these which are called the qualities of God. It seems that from this place, these are true. What we had in mind about them, yes, and that is why when we come to the recognition of this being, it can seem so simple. It's going on so gently that we can feel like, 'What happened to that omni-omni-omni issues?' This is so innocent, like a child. And yet as we investigate it, as we dig deeper into our own presence, we find that all of this is completely true. But it is so much more, and it is not true in the way that we expected it to be.