In This Moment, You Are Empty of All Notions - 3rd January 2018

Now, if in this moment itself you're empty of all notions about yourself, then what work do you have to do? Someone had this beautiful example of putting the train... who sits on a train and doubts every one minute thing? 'Is it not going in the right direction? Am I getting there? What's happening?' You trust the conductor of the train, the driver of the train; you know you will get there. But we can use a more contemporary example. It's like you're flying to Portugal or something, then you want to get on top of the plane and run, believing that you will get there faster. What can be faster than right now? What can you do which you can do right now before the next moment is tasted?

So, if in this experience of the now you're already notionless, what do you need to do to become free? As everyone said, you are the Atma, you are the Self—not that you will become the Self. And then all the prescriptions after that are about what to do with the belief that 'I am not the Self, I am something else.' All that is belief. In Satsang, also, adjust for that. You might get the idea that it is to make something out of you, to make you an enlightened person or something like this, but it is not that.

That is where all these ideas of 'How would I get there? When will I get there? How come this one is getting there—this is their third Satsang and they got it, and I am not getting it?' happen to so many. It's all fiction, you see, because the idea is only to get rid of the 'something' notion. If the idea of getting something in our neutrality, in our emptiness of truth, was not there, then there would be no truth.