Satsang is an Introduction to Your Non-Phenomenal Self - 3rd February 2016

Sometimes we might get this sense that 'I know what to do now, I know how I can get there.' Especially having been in Satsang, it can seem like 'I have a path and if I don't believe my next thought, then one day eventually I will get to the truth.' But that is also missing it. As very often I have said, it is where you start from. Before you even start, you are That. That's why before we even say 'don't believe your next thought,' I also say mostly that: find out what is already here. Is there any bondage in the right now? And you find that 'I'm completely aware of my presence in the right now and I cannot pretend to be suffering, pretend to be troubled now, unless I listen to some idea which is coming from the mind.'

And that is the reason why I say 'don't believe your next thought' is the master key. Not because it'll get you to freedom, but because you see that I cannot leave this except when I pretend. Sometimes the mind really has got you with some silliness. Actually, they'll say, 'Unless you can tell me what happens after death, I cannot believe I'm free.' Why? I am pointing to the freedom which is available right now. We are projecting some idea about the future and death. 'Unless you can tell me something...' But a child, before they start believing thoughts—before two years, two and a half years old—a child is completely free and he knows nothing about any of this.

So don't fall for the simple mind tricks. Nothing needs to be known mentally for you to know what you are right now. Nothing needs to be known also in the phenomenal realm for us to discover That which is the witness of all phenomena, That from which all phenomena comes. Even to say that there is phenomena, there must be this already acceptance of the non-phenomenal. If it is all there is, then you will not invent a term for it. So the sense of phenomena comes from this intuitive sense that there must be something non-phenomenal as well. So Satsang is an introduction to your non-phenomenal Self.