Neither Awareness nor Presence Has the Need for Validation - 2nd May 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta clarifies that while awareness and presence are self-evident, the personal 'explainer' seeking validation is an illusory third entity that need not be entertained.
Neither awareness nor presence has the need to explain or seek validation.
There is only one awareness; it is not personal, yet it is the reality of everyone.
Satsang is about refusing to buy into the 'third guy'—the ego—who doesn't actually exist.
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Transcript
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What I'm getting from girls is that you want to tell me that you have experienced the ultimate truth for yourself. Yes, I don't know if it's okay. No, don't become humble, but right now I'm not the presence. I know this is so. Desires and speaking from a personal point now, it's just perfect. I know I'm not the presence and in the way I know what I am. I can't deny, I can't deny what I've experienced, but I don't know how to explain it, man. It's really is that I actually don't know because every time I think, 'Whoa, whoa, I'm there,' then, then like I don't know how to explain it, but it's like a deeper thing happened.
Oh, let's look at this closely because it's important. So there is the awareness even of presence, of the experiencer we can say, even of presence which I am not. So the sphere of even presence, then there is the presence, yes, within this awareness itself at the birth of the presence. Now, neither of these has the need to explain this. So there is the awareness, there is the presence, and then there's an explainer. And the explainer wants to say that, 'You know, I am that one.' You aren't you getting that I am that one? So why can't you just see it? You should have that much intuition. It is taught in so many, I know, I behind the graduation I got a way to make the point.
So it's not so... this explainer guy comes up and says, 'Why can't you understand that I have had this? No, I have this awareness. I'm clear about that. I have seen it.' What is my seeming interest in this is to make sure there is initial validation. And you know, because it annoys... not. Neither awareness nor presence has the need for validation or for me to understand what you have because it's not you really who seen it. It is I really who seen it. You know what? Not I or you personally. This one, there is only one awareness. It is not personal. And yet I know what you mean.
So, and this truth is true for everyone because everyone knows in reality that they are this knowingness itself, of this awareness itself, which is aware of things. It is only that they are buying this third guy. It doesn't exist. So all of Satsang is about just trying to hang tight to this guy. So, so that's what it's about.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.

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