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Meet Your Self - 11th January 2018

January 11, 201838:5241 views

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Ananta guides the Sangha to recognize that the 'enlightened being' they seek is their own immediate presence. He emphasizes that this pristine being remains untouched by judgment, concepts, or the play of states.

The enlightened being is coming now... without judgment or interpretation, meet yourselves.
What interpretation, what judgment, what notion, what concept is greater than your presence?
You couldn't lose it if you tried. That in which states come and go is not going anywhere.

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Transcript

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Ananta

It is a very importantly, very important because what happened is first thing in the morning I woke up and I had a meeting with a very enlightened being—very beautiful. So I said, 'Why just me? Why don't you come and meet the entire Sangha?' So this being said, 'Yes, I'm happy to come, but I have one condition: if they judge me or interpret me, then I will behave like a regular person.' So when this one comes, we have to promise not to judge or interpret. Promise? The enlightened being is coming now. What you have to do is, without judgment or interpretation, meet yourselves.

Ananta

Then I said to this Holy Father, 'My children say that they find it too difficult to not judge or interpret. Please give them an easier way.' And then this being said, 'Okay, even if they judge or interpret me, in every moment I come back in my fully pristine nature.' He said, 'This is my gift to you and to all those who are open to this recognition. This is the only true gift I have for you: this invitation to meet yourselves unconditionally.' This is the only truth there is. Being, your being, said to me, 'It doesn't matter, my son. Whatever your children might do, I am always here.' Being said all that which they consider their mistakes and changes are not important to me at all. They don't make any difference. All the feelings of specialness or unworthiness, it makes no difference to me at all. I am here as existence itself, the unchanging Atma.

Ananta

Taste your presence. Smell the fragrance of your own being, the vibration of the primordial existence. See with your inner sight where all seeing comes from. Touch the holy field of your own self. Your being said to me, 'I am the only light there is.' Like all things come and go, your being is ever free. You promised in this moment, as the being is here, you won't interpret or judge it, because then it'll act just like a regular person. And now we are going for a taste of the being itself. The person was a beautiful play which was fully enjoyed, but now the heart's longing is for that which is beyond time and space, beyond coming and going, beyond pain and pleasure, beyond all things. Meet the holiness of your own selves. Let there be peace. Let there be peace. Let there be peace. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

Ananta

Did you meet the enlightened being? Nice meeting? Yes.

Seeker

Um, believe you, the chair was perfectly positioned, no, for my story. So waiting for somebody to come and sit there. I haven't planned that, it just happened. Are you going to make it a short-term visit, enlightened being?

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Ananta

What interpretation, what judgment, what notion, what question, what concept is greater than your presence? The light of the universe itself is you. What else do we need to hear? What needs to be said now? What is the promise? The promise is even if you interpret or judge in this moment, the true being is here. What can be better than this? We might give you the help completely, completely for as long as we want, but this moment all delusion is gone. Your truth is here, and in the light of this truth, all activity, all movements of this world are happening, and this body is not excluded from it. In this freshness of your own existence, all things move.

Ananta

Don't have to understand anything. Don't have to forget anything. You are here. You have considered this 'I am here' as if it is the existence of something small. Now you don't have to believe that it is something big; you just have to drop the notion of small. The being needs no belief. Then you might ask, 'Has all of this been much ado about nothing?' Because the truth has always been here. In a way we can say yes, because it has never been lost, and to see this is to find yourself.

Ananta

Do you have now a strategy to hold on to this after the retreat is over? Is there a plan as to how can I just be this being? No such thing is needed. You couldn't lose it if you tried. You might be experiencing some states, and they could be beautiful states, but know that all states are coming and going. That in which states are coming and going is not going anywhere. So that is the light of even states. Enjoy the joy, feel the beauty of it as a Prasad and gift from the Lord. Or you have beautiful silence; don't forget your own Lord, your own being, or the Prasad at your own feet. All Prasad will come, all gifts, all offerings will come. Don't have to renounce anything. Enjoy everything as it comes. In fact, enjoy fully, 100%.

Ananta

This being is the supreme intelligence that has always run this life. It needs no help, no intervention. It is life itself. So what help would life need to run life? If ever the deluded idea comes that 'I lost it,' just meet yourself fresh. You are here. The most enlightened being I have ever met—the only one, actually. All of these are your forms, your various shapes and sizes. There is only one of you. The same one that was there as the light of the waking state itself. Now when someone says, 'Are you truly enlightened?' I'm the same as you. One being, oneself. What does this mean, 'truly enlightened'? Who is not? Show me one who in this very moment is bound. What kind of game is this? Who are you looking for that which is always naturally just here? This is the game that consciousness is playing with itself. Meet yourself. The pointing is clear. It does not have a 'how.' Don't waste time on 'How do I meet myself?' Meet yourself. You are here now. My question to you, consciousness, is: how do you want to play? What moves do you still have left?

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These satsangs touch the same silence.