Satsang Game: I Will Make Statements, You Say 'Yes' or 'No' - 12th Oct. 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides a student through a series of 'yes or no' inquiries to dismantle the false identity of personhood. He emphasizes that one remains the untouched, unchanging awareness despite the dynamic play of thoughts and appearances.
The pretense that I am a person is a denial of what actually is.
I am this unchanging awareness; even if being takes on personhood, I remain untouched.
Suffering is possible only when consciousness gives attention and belief to the interpreting thought.
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Transcript
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Okay, let's play a game. I will say something and you have to say 'yes' or 'no' with full integrity, based on whether this is your direct seeing or not. Understood? So, I will say something and you have to say 'yes' or 'no' based on whether it is your direct seeing or not, because you have seen this, whether you have assimilated this or not.
This realm that we call the world is constantly changing.
Yes.
And you can say 'no' if it's not seen. These thoughts are interpreting these relative appearances.
Yes.
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The thought presumes that there is an individual entity.
Yes.
When looked for, this individual entity is not found.
Yes.
Therefore, no thought truly applies to reality.
Yes.
Consciousness plays with the thought using the powers of attention and belief.
Yes.
Suffering is possible only if we give this attention and belief to a thought.
Yes.
It is our belief in our thoughts which leads to identity.
Yes.
The pretense that 'I am a person' is a denial of what actually is.
Yes.
The presence 'I am' is the root of all existence.
No.
The 'yeses' are reduced, so then you have to say 'no'. And if the 'no' is our root of only 'yes', then we look at that point. All existence is existence when there is the sense that 'I am'. Then it leads to the sense that something exists. So maybe I need to rephrase the sentence: Nothing appears without first there being this sense of being.
Yes.
But also from our experience, nothing appears without there being first the sense of being. Everything that appears is experienced only within myself as being.
Yes.
I am aware that I exist.
Yes.
This awareness can also be called space.
No.
There are no attributes to awareness, and yet the world of all attributes comes from within itself.
Yes.
I am this unchanging awareness.
Yes.
Even if my dynamic aspect, which is being, takes on the pretense of personhood, I remain untouched.
Yes.
Therefore, freedom and bondage do not apply to me.
Yes.
I am the unmoving one. I am the unchanging one.
Yes.
Anything, including death, that might happen in this play does not touch what I am.
Yes.
Therefore, suffering is based on a false belief in the reality. I cannot suffer.
Yes.
I cannot leave this reality.
I can.
I can leave this reality? What are you talking about? This awareness cannot leave reality. Only the known one can become unaware for some time. Within the waking state, I can stop being.
No.
I am Brahman.
Yes.
If I experience joy, there is no experience of this. Then I must be fooling myself. Awareness is concerned about joy.
No.
The power of the mind is the power to pretend. Conditioning is false.
Yes.
The reality is enough to drop all conditioning once and for all.
Yes.
The belief of the pretense: I never believe anything ever again.
No.
If I believe at all, then a tangible person comes into existence.
Yes.
The person has never existed. To pretend to be a person, it only has to believe what's next. A separate being operating in every body doing is actually fundamentally different from awareness.
No.
Even awareness is not there in sleep.
No.
I need to stop thoughts from appearing.
No.
I need an awakening experience to see the truth now. We may experience in the sense of some fireworks, some sudden laughter and crying at the same time.
No.
But we also learn from others' experience. If this kind of awakening experience has not happened, I cannot recognize the truth.
No.
To stay with the truth is tiring and effortful.
No.
To stay with the truth can seem effortful in the beginning. It can seem like a lot of effort to not do. You are Brahman. The game of not believing our thoughts that we played yesterday was only for some condition that we put after the 'but'. 'I am awareness, but...' Can that be valid reality?
No.
There is still something left to be done.
No.
The phrase 'it is done' is just something given for encouragement.
No.
There is openness equals resistance.
No.
To speak the truth is arrogance. Pride is the same as false humility.
No.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.
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