Naturally 'What IS' Is Simply Presence - 28th March 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta exposes the mind's 'one-trick' habit of creating a limited 'me' through the word 'but.' He guides seekers to recognize that they are already the unlimited, effortless presence beyond all mental interpretations.
The mind is a one-trick wonder; its only trick is to convince you that you are limited.
To be happy you need nothing; to be unhappy you definitely need an idea.
The 'I' that is aware of existence is empty of qualities and has no boundaries.
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Pranam. Namaste. There you are. Welcome to satsang. Mooji Baba ki Jai. The mind is a one-trick wonder. This wandering—it seems so to accuse him of his suit—actually, it has only one trick. Let's see who convinced this. Unlimitedly, it is limited also. You know the story that one time we were in there and it was April Fool's Day, close to it. What happened is that we were walking and somebody saw fifty rupees, a hundred rupees was lying on the floor. One of us went down to get it and the minute he went down, the money started moving, moving. And then we saw some people sitting up on the wall and they had tied a string to this money and pulled it off. That fool! So the trick is only one, but it seemed like most of our lives will be visible to you so far because nobody has ever found this limited one. Even some people, the spiritual seekers trying to get rid of the ego, have not been able to produce a ego that they want to get rid of. It just isn't there.
What is there is your presence. Just now, who's the one that says 'but'? Is that your natural, authentic world? Why do we need words to communicate with yourself anyway? I think it wasn't this one, though I see that you are the unlimited one and that's it. No more 'is there a but'. So everything in satsang just responds to this 'but'. Then it's 'this is all very left' and 'if this is over'. The past couple of days we clarified what we really wanted and we saw that this is what we really want. So what is what you really want? The Self is not available. The Satguru is what you really want. If you don't have to take a step, you see, this voice will come on whispering in here. It's like that: 'Who then? Who here? Go there. This is waiting. Find it.' Yes, this one just jumped. This kind of a goal which is just correcting an idea of future, predicting an idea, maybe completion, giving you this notion that 'I am the incomplete, symmetric one, but I have hope.' Believe in hope is not for you. You're the source of hope. You're that from which everything comes and you are here now.
So then you might have a 'but' that says, 'But why does it seem so difficult? Why does it seem so difficult?' And that is just the power of habit. That habit to feel like 'I'm not complete and I need that.' The mind is offering to make myself complete. It talked to us lifetime over lifetime, but definitely in this lifetime itself, by those closest that we have met to do that. Same words, in most forms, we have met this voice saying, 'What you need is a good relationship, then you will be complete. All you need to do is have lots of money, then you will be complete. All you need to do is make sure that your body is healthy, then everything will take care of itself.' Then, by the way, when you saw that none of this has any sense of stability, then you know this: now you are ready for the final thing. If you get that, then you are really done. What is that? It's freedom, liberation. And then we go from place to place looking for this. Mind will watch our back. All that has to be done to get this motion is to see what you who already are now. The one that wants to reduce that one, future abuse, just aspect of it, five molecules of it just out there.
So just like a play, you rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed so much that you started to believe that you are this fictional character. This is that 'but'. But me? Once Claire Louise of the hairdo today, I said, 'What's what? What is it we've come to the recognition of?' I is I, which is beyond time and space, beyond our limitation. So what is the 'but' that gets to anything? But we will spur. She said, 'I, but I...' What you meant is 'I, but me.' I see that I am that, but what does that help me? And I can tell you how many times this one is happening where I've said, 'We've come to this recognition that you see that you are this unchanging awareness.' And next day or next week when you come, I'm like this now. And you're like this. I say, 'We found that.' 'Oh yeah, nothing happened to that awareness, but let me talk about me today.' This is the dichotomy. We found that I am there and there is no other, meaning all the clearances that are aspects of them which are moving on their own. We found that there is no meaning and yet this habit of this has what? 'But now what about me?' Let the cat saw that there is no cat. Now what? What you can also solve this problem is that follow-through. This is it. It is a mind trick.
So as a cat, I could pretend cat. I came to seek freedom so that I could have a limited bowl of money. How do you find that you are not a cat at all, but something in existence itself? The same, same. What? It's still safe, but it is manageable. Is there any benefit to consider yourself limited? It's a consideration, but we agree that it's a consideration that the first... like naturally in this moment, the idea of our limitation has not survived first. Can you see that? If it is not here, take a moment and let's see that person. I have not entered into this moment as a somebody. And then now as presence itself, now as in specimens, say any advantage of picking up the idea of limitation again? When you're tossing the screen, you will see that hundred-rupee note which you bend down to get something worthwhile. What is worthwhile for this presence to have? What gives in the world came to God? What can you get from here in this objective world? What will you give that God will enjoy forever, that lasts forever? If this presence that you found is not an object, nobody else's, this randomly wonderful exhibition itself, there is no me. It feels more like an influence, actually. The meanings of influence, this, if you notice just this minor point, the whole or certain degree, it is enough.
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Naturally, what is is not a me. To say that it is a me is a made-up emotion and influence in that. It's worth like ten days of satsang if you just see this point. Naturally, what is is pure presence and the witnessing of all of these appearances, which is just naturally present. There is no differentiation, no distinction, no me and you, no separation here. But the mind topic said, 'But I still see this body and this motion.' Listen, the feelings make you believe that over there, therefore they must feel me. So not accepted. That is circumstantial evidence. Where, where is the ego's owner of this body? Who wants freedom? Who wants this kind of life? Now if you put even spotted, yeah, and then you would have to say, 'Okay, this one is not me.' That is an 'it'. But it's clear to you even that this body doesn't want you, that doesn't have the motion of 'me'. So this will be one that wants to be done, that wants anything at all. Please, even suffer, that is not harm. So it is just an influence. The 'I am' actually is before 'I am something'. It's an inference, you see, no? So will be absent or less than the moves from this existence, if empty of any sense of separation.
That's why I want... I said all of them perfectly resolved. Is he going to give birth to this mind? You don't give it. What inspire do you need? What did we see? You are the sadness this week, which is good. Mind will now say that because all these objects are here, that's why this body is here, that's why the world is here. But look at the true position. Even the light of the sun is not there unless you are. The Great Saharan with billions of the hands is not there unless you are. Even dynasties are not visible unless we move. 'I am' is not really here. This 'I am', who has produced it? If you think an existence, although materialism is the immaculate conception, everything else is made about this. But it itself is made up of just the same stamp you found normally. The Being, that life, the light of which everything appears. And this light goes to rest within yourself, you feel disappear, and you can come back. And yet the appearance might be overcome. Things in different words might call it a dream later, but in that appearance also there is some minimum stars and the sky, unlimited spheres. There is all of this.
So you don't have to believe anything I'm saying. That's the best part, except I'm not creating a new belief system. You're just checking on what is the meaning without direct insight about what any conception, without any influence. So after seeing this, after bringing it to this point that the cities will save now, thank you Padma, but after this is only going to be bad. And this is when all the devotees are coming. So for me, silence is not so much required. The words, the medium... silence is the absence of a great. You see that you are gone. Rest in that. Sometimes I want to kiss the feet of those who invented language because they won't say something like, 'Oh, even gone single thing with.' But as it is, be too far as you just be. You are before you are being asked. Alright, be done. Listen without judgment, without interpreting. Nothing needs to be added to this. There needs to be... 'but' you have to be picked up. That's such a frivolity, huh? We're way behind and you pick it up. I'm believing you, but the good news is that in the next moment you're every dream. What more can you want? All the calories that you consumed a moment ago, you are now calorie-free. What more we can take?
You might consider yourself the greatest in the world, but mostly the one. Or you might consider yourself more special than the most worthy one. Doesn't make a difference now, now, now. What is here as 'I am'? And for a while, did you play like this to happen? What we need to get is our selection in there. And don't you pardon myself that is wrong, because I often said they're just like a normal heart is like the salad or the starter. If you pick up thoughts on guilt and no-thingness, that is the result. You pick up an idea. Actually, everybody does. Even sages pick up an idea of you, they're not a big deal. The sage is not making yourself upset that idea is so unworthy. It is so. Now this is the true democracy. Whether you are a saint or a sinner in the last moment, it doesn't matter. In this moment, you are all as free as one night. In this moment, this very moment, you're as free in the corners most likely as he is. Yeah. Are you more concerned about the certificate or being? That's the only question, isn't it? The being is here, but the one that wants a certificate is the one saying it's a non-existent one. 'The most enlightened when I get it in writing from him' or 'this can be'. I'm not doing it easily. Yeah, that was the expression of this.
Check with what you see, clearly see about yourself. Not what the mind is saying about you, not what the mind is. The presence is here. Can you stop being? This being is what is in something personal? Is it a personal thing? Is it an individual that has needs and desires? This being, does it want freedom and the bondage of freedom? Which is... ah, it is just 'I am-ing' away. What is now? Which one of your selves are you going to pick up? Which version? Which marks? Seeker, finder, enthused, almost there? The benefit of that man's... I'm saying you are all there is. You're saying that there is a benefit to take no particular position over that. Makes sense. All the readings, and if you were to check, would see that this is simply true, but not in the way that no mind imagined. Typically, the mind can use various expectations that you will start feeling like my body until this entire universe. The universe itself is your body already, naturally. But the mind creates this expectation because you attach to the judge solution of 'me' so much to this body that if you let me, then I can feel like my body contains all things. This body can't import. Then I will say that out. It's again trying to fill the ocean into the Quran. You will find it that you know all there is, always for me. Raise your hand, stops. Is your attention moved outside of you? I know that this kind of fucked-up business will appeal to everyone who only might appeal. I cannot do some requests like this. Does your attention move outside of truth? Then you will see that within all these objects that I consider to be outside me, great thing it is. This one comments, but we do maybe the meanings at all. Then everything you thought energetic and everything other than 'I' is a movement of energy, the movement therefore the mean movement themselves. It means like to...
If your attention moves outside of truth, then you will see that within all these objects that I consider to be outside me, there is this one commonality. But we don't look at the meanings at all. Then everything you thought was energetic and everything other than 'I' is a movement of energy. The movement, therefore, means to limit it. 'I' is seeing that there is just as much, yes, but it looks like you see. So don't go with this kind of just feeling level or circumstantial evidence. Have you seen a limitation? Show me the limitation. What is the boundary of this 'I'?
If I leave my fears of insecurity, then as you are speaking, I suddenly notice that letting go is happening on its own and I am this here, aware. Yet there is resistance to say this. It doesn't feel good, but a bit... when you speak the truth, you can feel like that's a bit arrogant for the world, so the mind says. But as you ask again, 'Are you claiming to be this?' as we look closely inside, we start to trust this inside more and more. Then you will find that there is nothing arrogant about saying 'I am all there is.' You know, many of you feel this. If I say 'I am all there is,' at least one part takes you to bigger arrogance to say that there is a God and there isn't, therefore I must be separate. I will separate myself from the notion of separation. One of the greatest ironies is to say that there is only one. 'I am all there is' is a statement of simplicity. Simple inside, it seems that the ego is like a self-hypnosis drunk by the Self to hypnotize itself to play this video game.
Dear Ananta, when I do, I can't find any 'I' or boundaries in this. If this be this, look at this faithfully, then I lose. I can't find me. I am lost in the Self as being today.
Oh, you do not lose this. What is happening is that we follow something limited, objective, that we find ourselves as a happy human. You don't find anything objective there. You feel like 'I'm not there,' but you are that. That's all. That's how you can report this. So the 'I' that can or cannot find is which one? It's not the person. There is no person there. There is meaning. This is for you to report. So this 'I' which is aware of being aware, aware of itself as it is the realm of the Self—is it aware of something outside of itself? You say, 'When I do, I can't find any I.' So the 'I' that finds this, is it separate from that which is aware? That's right here. This might be helpful to know. Who asked me already? This awareness, it is undeniable that it is 'I' because it is not a secondhand report that you are sharing. The one in the neighboring box on Zoom did not tell you that this is how it is. Without direct insight, not that you truly see clearly, there is no 'I' in that way. It is the Self. It is your own direct insight, but it is not the 'I' that we've always considered ourselves to be. And that is why it can seem a bit confusing. This 'I' is empty of qualities, whereas we've always attached a qualitative 'I'. So this is a chameleon 'I am' from disidentifying with the body, with the mind, belief systems, and sensations. Now seeing them, there is a witness to all of this that is just aware of even this existence. This existence is simply in that which is aware. I am that I am, never in this system of appearance.
So there is no 'I', there is no 'me' in that. All of the ego's desire... otherwise how would you focus? You were there to have that insight. You said you were there when you slept and you can see, but there was nothing in my sleep. 'I was not there,' you might say like this, but 'I was not there in my sleep.' Then who saw that? You need to see. 'I was not there' is actually saying that 'I am aware that I was not there.' That awareness must have been that which is aware of your existence. It is not clear, but it is you. Even to find Ram Ji, you have to be. If you read your own heart, you will see that this is so, so simple. Yeah, when I look, I can't find. The one who can't find is there. The one you can't find is this 'I' that I find, which one? The 'I' that can't find an 'I' is the one that you already are. Then you fall back to you, and that's why the mind can struggle with calling this 'I' because it is something which is so vast. So this 'I' will start my theories, incapacities, who desires or fears. Don't be using what happens after that.
So let's look at it very slowly. It comes through the heart that 'I want this.' Okay, so the thoughts can still appear, but nothing becomes a desire or an intention unless it is given belief. So I won't say they are observing the life of this one. I think they knew that I used to be like twenty, thirty percent of all the thoughts that were coming were given some identification, some belief. 'Yes, I wanted that.' Now that number has become very, very small. So when somebody would ask me earlier, 'Is it true for you that you don't believe your next thought?' I would say there is never 100%. There is never 100%, but I can tell you that what I was joking is 99.987%. You will find that more and more of this becomes effortless. But there is something special about this. I'm just saying that now it would be like if you were to tell me that you have to believe the next hundred thoughts and I'll give you whatever you want, I would say that's not worth it. It still sounds like too much. But I'm saying that because I also want you to be aware of the opposite of that, because there can also be this rigid version.
One came to me in Satsang for two months and she said to me that 'I'm just struggling with one thing and it's bugging me. Something... I haven't slept all night.' This kind of thing. So I said, 'What's the problem?' She said, 'There's one thought that I just have to believe. There is one thought that I just have to believe.' So I said, 'Okay, believe it.' And she was shocked. 'You believe it?' Did you make this precondition to freedom that nothing should become obsessive? The thought itself of not believing the next thought can itself become the thought which becomes putting up some sort of resistance to what is. So I said, 'Believe the Ramayana for a minute.' Our mind was out of moves. And then you know what you said? So it's not an obsession, it's not a position. It is just a natural effortlessness. Once you start to see that more energy is expended in trying to be a person, then you start to see that that is work. Do I know that most of you right now believe that giving up thoughts is work? If you feel like that, then that is work. What was also said is that as long as it feels like effort, make that effort. You can feel like that. He also gave this beautiful metaphor; he said that it can feel like putting the heavy bag down from my head. So my head is effort, you see? But actually, it is the carrying it that is the effort. That is what I have tried to simplify it for you by asking you: where does effort move? Where does energy move? Is energy moved when you believe your thoughts, or is energy expended when you are resting effortlessly? And you find very simply that energy is required for me to pick up, to sit comfortably is not effort. It is just a particular attire of this constant spirituality. 'Will I get this? Now I get this, now I don't get this.' How gear one? And when we said the universe comes from you, I just don't get that. Whatever produces it, forget about it. Forget it and see what is here in you effortlessly.
Beloved Father, it is true that what I am finding is my own self as I get in that I am not. Is it like what I'm saying? Own self is another name for your own self, and the 'I' has been another name for this made-up identity. We're coming to the recognition of that which always has been. Beloved Father, since I mean that 'what is' is, is it not one of the names for 'I'? It seems to be here that a movement toward something is happening, or this movement is happening and that it is made into an action with purpose through interpretation. Yes, then poof, it's a desire. If the power movement is allowed to flow without interpretation, then maybe there could be the four problems except without any suffering. Or what's the thing is that the movement of life will be what you are, and it will still continue without interpretation. There is no sufferer.
Remove the interpretation, as you said. You made it simple and obviously to do some face it simple. Well, they said to be happy you need nothing. To be unhappy, you definitely need something. Is there one step to find? The motion in such a magical state will disappear, and then you know that doesn't have that big fancy word in the Bible. It's not so cool. To be happy, you don't need anything at all. To be unhappy, you need an idea. I was telling you, have a thickness to be with the mind. You can either say that we have a Guru or we can say that it is always Guru's grace. This is not some edit. Everything good, it comes from a place of insight that there is only one, and that one acts through all. All that is happening is this grace. So when the saint said, 'Even if everything is Master's business, then what can be a problem?' I like what someone said the other day. He said you cannot truly say 'Guru's grace' with sincerity and be unhappy at the same time, or have a problem at the same time. Yes, suffering can be here also, but it is not me who is suffering. So the decision to go to the play or the grace of consciousness is stepping back from the identity. It is the linking of what because God is moving the video, God is the seer. Willingly getting attached to the character and now willingly stepping back into this reality. And so this willingly must be of consciousness, of God. It is also fixed. We can say at some level it is the design of this Lila. When it becomes too much burden of individuality, then something starts to change. Getting tired of the play, if you like. Tired, it doesn't want to play anymore. But even the Mother is coming to rescue the child in the same way. They're saying the elevator finding that it is beyond our efforts. All these prerequisites also arise. Thank you so much for being in Satsang. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti. Mooji Baba Ki Jai. Ramacharitmanas. I think by occasion.