Joy Comes By Staying with Truth & Consciousness - 7th October 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta explains that the presence of 'I Am' is God, as it is the omnipresent, all-powerful light in which the world appears. He teaches that joy naturally serves those who remain as unassociated being.
This presence in which everything is appearing and disappearing is God because it is everywhere.
Your presence gives light to the appearance of the entire world.
You are the master of joy, not its servant; stay as being and joy will come to you.
contemplative
Transcript
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What is the God that you find here when you look now? I just find presence of myself, my own self. I don't find any God.
Or this presence, this 'I am', this... this is Consciousness. This is God. God said, 'I am that I am.' Why we should call it the God, man? This is a very good question. Because God is what? That which is everywhere. And one of the aspects when people talk about God, they say God is everywhere. Now you find whether anything that you are experiencing, whether anything is outside of this presence. This voice that you're hearing, is it inside this presence or outside this presence?
Inside.
This body that you see? Outside? This room that you see? Outside? The world that you see? Outside? Is it inside this presence or outside? The screaming, is it experienced inside you or outside?
Inside. Inside.
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Therefore, this presence in which everything is appearing and disappearing, that is everywhere. Or actually, everywhere is within that, isn't it? Okay, so what is one aspect of God? So this presence is everywhere, therefore this is God, like at least in that way that it is everywhere. Second is that they say that God is the principle that brings everything to life. Now in your direct experience, is it not true that first 'I am' and then this world is? Is there ever a world without this 'I am'?
No.
So it is this, your presence, which gives light to the appearance of your waking state, of this appearing world, you see. So that which gives light to the appearance of the world, that is God, see. So it is everywhere, it is the light which gives life to the entire world. Then what else must God be? It is omnipresent, omniscient, and let's see... okay, all-powerful. We discussed this all-powerful. So if God, as we discussed in the morning, is the one doer and one experiencer, then who is the only one with power? Only this Consciousness, no? So this being is the one doer and one experiencer. This being is everywhere. This being is all-powerful. Then which attribute of God does not match your being?
Sat-Chit-Ananda. Very good. So he says that Sat is clear, yes, it is there, no problem. And Ananda, the problem is coming there.
So Sat is there, there is Consciousness itself. Now the trouble is Ananda. Now the way to get Ananda is to remain with Sat and Chit. Just remain with Sat and Chit. Don't pick up any other idea. Then you show me how Ananda does not come. Ananda, joy, is only in service to your unassociated being. If you are not confusing your Chit to be a person, if you're not burdening it with false ideas, you see, then love, peace, joy, the Ananda, it is in service to you. You are not to be in service to joy. The Atma is the master of joy, not the servant of joy. If you keep chasing love, peace, joy, then they keep running. You stay as being, then you tell me if it doesn't come.
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