Satsang Metaphors : Magical Basket of Neti Neti

If I give to all of you a magical basket in which you could put everything that was changing—it's a magical basket, it can contain everything that you see—what would you put into the basket? You do it with the world. The world included. This body, because many feel like they put the world in the basket but they leave the body separate. So body also goes in the basket. So therefore, all the sensations that we call the body, pain, pleasure, also in the basket. What about the emotions? All these thoughts of doing and getting? All our imagination? Now, is there anything left?

Space. Space in the basket or the medium for change itself.

Put up everything that you also want. What it means, basket also in the basket. What sees all of this changing? Sees the basket itself? What is the quality of that one?

So the basket is nothing but a modern metaphor for a very ancient process. The point of Neti Neti is not to push away anything, not to exclude anything, but to check: what else is there? All this realm of change is there. Is there something which is unchanging about me? If there's something about me, it is beyond birth and death, beyond time and space, beyond light and sound. Me.