Neither Awareness nor Presence Has the Need for Validation - 2nd May 2016 1
Saar (Essence)
Ananta clarifies that while awareness and presence are self-evident, the 'explainer' or personal ego seeks validation for its experiences. He points out that the true, impersonal self has no need for understanding or external confirmation.
Neither awareness nor presence has the need for validation or for anyone to understand.
Satsang is about exposing the 'third guy'—the explainer who doesn't actually exist.
There is only one awareness; it is not personal, yet it is the reality for everyone.
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Transcript
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What I'm getting from this 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, yeah, this is so bizarre and speaking from a personal point. Okay, I know I'm not the presence and in a 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. It really does that... I don't know, I actually don't know because every time I think, 'Whoa, whoa, I missed it,' then I don't know how to explain it, but it's like a deeper seeing happens.
Oh, let's look at this closely because it's important. So there is the awareness even of presence, of the experience, or we can say even of presence which I am not. Okay, so the sphere of even presence... then there is a presence. Within this awareness itself is the birth of the presence. Now, neither of these has the need to explain this. You see? 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.' Aren't you getting that? 'I am that one. Why can't you just see it? You should have that much intuition at least.' I know I'm exaggerating to make the point, I know. So it's not so... this explainer guy comes up and says, 'Why can't you understand that I have had this? You know, I have this awareness, I am clear about that, I have seen it.'
Wait, what is my seeming interest in this? It is to make sure the need for validation ends. Yes, we could say in life, neither awareness nor presence has the need for validation or for me to understand what you have been, because if not you, really, we've seen it. Yeah, it is... I really... you have seen it. No, but 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, or this awareness itself, which is aware of presence. It is only that they are buying this third guy. It doesn't exist. So all of satsang is about just trying to end the link to this guy. So, that's what it's about.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.

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