It Is All About What Is Already Here - 25th September 2017

And now I'm speaking to all of you. How do I know that this is true? Because it is always this way. No matter what way you got here, which path you took, whether you followed self-inquiry, whether you surrendered, you followed any religion or whatever practices you might have done, there is only one thing which is constant and that is your existence. Nothing else is needed. Just this much is enough: to recognize your existence. Just that you exist is enough. Do you want me to put together tedious, elaborate plans and directions as to how you can get here? No matter what the path is, no matter what the directions are, no matter what the pointing is, it is always only about this which you are here and now.

When the Master says that the person is the seeming problem, what does it mean? That only this consciousness, your being itself, picks up a notion about itself: 'I am something.' This idea of somethingness, 'I am a thing,' is the root of all suffering. There is no suffering unless you pick up a notion. What better news can there be? Does your existence need something right now? Does it need to understand this? If you know ten thousand concepts about spirituality, you are no better off than one who is empty of all of these notions. So that moment of insight which I speak of is that moment where you put down all notions about yourself and come into this pure seeing, uncontaminated by your judgments, uncontaminated with your ideas about how it should be. This what is here has unassociated consciousness. Everything is exactly as it is. I don't even want to say everything is perfect because even 'perfect' does not describe it well. What is, just is.

There is something to wonder about, there is something that is not clear: is how come consciousness is not rejoicing in its own existence? But even that is exactly how it should be, or it is. You exist and your existence is already all there is. What are you trying to gain? Who are you trying to become? Are you trying to become God plus plus? Because God is all there is. You cannot think it, you cannot know it mentally, you cannot feel it emotionally. Just this insight now, that seeing which goes beyond knowing. Actually, the truth is I cannot tell you how to do this. Tell you how to do this.

What I can tell you is that everything else that you're holding on to is nonsense. And when you let go of all these concepts, you will see that it is so simple. It is your only innate existence, your only original nature. You're not becoming the being; being is playing the game of becoming personal. So if I kick away all these personal notions that you have, are you open enough to let me do that? And I don't need to explain anything to you at all. Your existence does not need any amplification with a concept. Don't exchange anything for this pure, unassociated presence. At least if you're not, one only some questions here, I'll look at them.

How did this seeming journey drop away for you, Father? How does insight arrive clearly? It cannot be willed or desired, so what is to be understood? Why this lifelong feeling of separation?

This question can be looked at in two ways. The less important way is the circumstances in which all of this happened. Whatever happened here, the less important is the circumstances. The more important is this that I am about to tell you right now: in this very moment, we are the same. The only seeming difference will happen because here, how it seems to play now is that most notions are allowed to come and go, and mostly in the world that does not seem to be the play. So then the question comes, 'So when will I also be like this, where I will allow all these notions to come and go?' Now. You cannot plan to do this. Like I said, you cannot walk on a path to this. This itself is that. There is no fundamental difference between you and me. There is only existence here.

This existence itself, this consciousness itself, which chooses to drop these notions or chooses to continue to play with them. Now, either you are this consciousness or you are subject to it. These are the two positions we can take in the worldly play. We'll come to the ultimate position in a minute. In the worldly play, either you are this consciousness or you are subject to it. If you are this consciousness, if you are this being, then see that you don't have to believe what this mind is telling you about yourself. This power of belief is also your child, your own creation. Everything phenomenal operates only under your will. And if it still feels like the second position is true, that 'I am one smaller entity which operates under the higher force called consciousness,' then if consciousness is all-powerful, then leave everything to consciousness. And when the mind comes and says, 'No, you must get it, you must do this,' whose problem is it? Consciousness.

So we remain empty of these notions because to hold on to ideas about yourself and to find this freedom is literally what I say about trying to board a plane keeping one foot on the ground. Doesn't sound comfortable. Now we say, for example, you say there's this lifelong feeling of separation, and that doesn't sound like fun. It sounds like suffering. The lifelong feeling of separation definitely sounds like suffering. So if going according to the mind's way, we have experienced this lifelong feeling of separation and suffering, now try it my way. You've given your whole life to the mind; give me a few moments. We notice how the mind is so full of contradictions. It will say, 'Okay, but if I let go, you say, although I know my life will not be a mess.' Just two minutes before this or two minutes after this, it will say, 'Please help me, Master, my life is a mess.' So if it is already a mess because of the mind, what do you have to lose?

So we can say, to answer simply, the simple change, the simple difference that happened here is that what the mind was trying to convince consciousness, the mind was trying to sell the notion of individuality, that started being seen as often that which you have taken to be a master is this mind. It has been nothing better than a stand-up comic. And if you really objectively, openly look at what the mind is telling you about yourself and compare it with the reality that you are now tasting about yourself, you will see that it is just a joke. Anybody see these, anybody as old as I am would have seen these old Charlie Chaplin movies? Seen those old Charlie Chaplin movies, black and white? You see how much he falls, how much he hurts himself, how much all these physical antics of comedy. If you were to watch it seriously, you would wonder what is happening to this form, and he's getting slapped around, he's falling, he was getting up again and then he falls down again. That is because we know it is a comedy that it becomes fun.

So you see that all of this is the Divine Comedy. Can I call it the play? We'll point something: the Divine Comedy, wherein this Lila, this play, is a comedy like the Shakespearean 'Much Ado About Nothing.' So this much is seeing. It is clear, it is recognized that what already inherently is here has no trouble. That which innately is, is no trouble. Then your question is, 'What to do with the notions that come?' isn't it? Then the only question that can come is what to do with these notions that come. And I have said that they become a comedy. And I also said why they become a comedy or why they become funny is because compared to what you really are, they seem now ludicrous. We have outgrown that. You are in that Lila where your own consciousness, your own being, is recognizing where it comes from. And you ask yourself, 'What is aware of even this presence? What is aware of my existence?' That existence is coming to the recognition of its own source, that which is, that which has remained unchanged.

I have said that they become a comedy, and I also said why they become a comedy or why they become funny is because, compared to what you really are, they seem now ludicrous. We have outgrown that. You see? And then, there is our own consciousness, our own being, which is recognizing where it comes from. And you ask yourself: What is aware of even this presence? What is aware of my existence? That existence is coming to the recognition of its own source, that which is, that which has remained unchanged, unborn. As you are making this simple discovery of this primal witnessing—that for which there is no up or down, past or future, likes or dislikes, desires or aversion, doing and not doing—none of this applies to you. You are seeing this for yourself.

Then, when the mind comes and tells you, 'Hey, you better do this, and if you leave this, then you'll have enough of these primitive people in your pocket,' how can you not laugh at the comedy? It is so far from what you are discovering about yourself. You will never exchange your truth for another bundle of flesh and blood, all kinds of silly printing paper and metal and plastic these days. It is the opposite of that which is beyond time and space. As you are making this recognition about yourself and the mind comes and makes you these offerings, how do you feel? If you go to a restaurant and they tell you, 'All we have today is your favorite types of baby food for baby food addicts, all the brands that I'm aware of,' and they come and say, 'We have this baby food, all these options of beautiful mashed banana with a hundred milliliters of milk,' will you not go to this restaurant and laugh?

There was a time when these things would have been the most attractive—the bottle of milk in front of a baby. When a baby reaches, now these minds often become like that baby food; you have lost your taste for them. So, as you are coming to the recognition of yourself, the mind's offering now seems more and more insignificant. Often, the mind can only mean phenomenal assumptions. So what happens if you ask the mind, 'What will happen when I'm free?' The mind will give you phenomenal conclusions: 'You will always experience bliss, you will always have a smile on your face, you will not need to sleep, your body will never get sick, the car will never break down.' All of these are ideas of enlightenment according to the mind. What you're recognizing about yourself is that it is not any of that. It is just to see your reality as the unchanging Self, which the mind cannot see.

As I say that, as you allow yourself to remain empty of notions, the insight is inevitable. This insight is happening, and the notions, the offerings from your mind, are seen as meaningless. Beautiful. You see? Sometimes I actually do say that satsang is the rehab for God, who caught Himself. And I think that your addiction was to baby food. Anything that you would want in the realm of time and space must presume that you are an object contained in time and space. Anything you feel should not happen in the realm of time and space also must presume that you are just an object in time and space.

Before your mind comes with reasons for why you haven't got it, or reasons about how you have got it, what is it that you are? Before you take a position about anything at all, what is it that you are? Before you go for and against? You see, the mind will only understand the two opposites. Even with what is being shared in satsang, it wants to take the stance: 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no,' judging, conforming, doubting. Before all of this, why don't you come to this quietude, to this silence? This is the simple allowing. Remember that knowing is not a position. It is not that which is the opposite of resistance; it is that which is not opposed to anything at all, which is not being open or closed. It is empty of even that intent. You are not trying to be open, just trying to be natural.

A million of your favorite notions will never match the light of this. What I've been speaking about in all of satsang—this unborn presence, this consciousness unassociated with a limited notion of itself—no matter what you have been after, it is no match for the grace of the light of my taste experience. Though you could say that, but beyond a taste of taste, just the presence of presence. I am that I am. This recognition of this, a million of your favorite notions do not match up to this moment of peace.

I should say, we're giving the transcriptionist... it must feel like I live in a beach every day. I'm having these coconuts; it gives the wrong idea to have these coconuts. So the one coming to Bangalore might expect it to be a nice quiet place with the ocean, and I'm going to make sure that you keep hearing the traffic noise and everything also arriving here. I'm just making sure anything I say now is not highlighted or transcribed. You see? Actually, I feel like after today's satsang, for one week, my only pointing should be: You. You. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Satguru Sri Mooji Ki Jai.