Stand Your Ground In the Unborn and This will be Transcended - 21st August 2020

One says, I do have a question. It's about underlying anxiety that tells me to do. The deeper I go within, the stronger the anxiety and distractions become. How to move through this distraction without being led by it? Just let it be or ignore it?

In a way, this is what I was saying to the earlier one also. The deeper you go within, the more sometimes the sense of fear will come, you see. And the fear is about the unknown, about death, about living in limbo, about being lost. And this will be transcended. Stand your ground. Stand your ground of the notionlessness. Stand your ground in the Unborn, and this will be transcended. This is just the withdrawal symptoms of the addiction to our limited identity. And as we let go into the unspeakable, the ineffable reality, you see, this is just the withdrawal symptoms which come and say, 'But what are you? Here you are nothing. You are lost. Stop following this guy, you're getting nothing. At least with the mind you were making something out of your life, you had a plan.' Okay, all of these things, even if it was a bad plan, at least there was a plan. Here he's saying, 'Let go, let go, let go.' What are you going to get? He doesn't even tell you that.

So it is a bit of an unfair bargain to the mind, but I don't want to give you a fresh prison. I don't want to give you a fresh set of chains to tie yourself up with, so I don't want to give you any promises. I can just say that through my Master's grace, letting go happened here, and I've never said, 'Give me back what I had before this,' you see. That's all the reassurance I want to give. You see, when these feelings or these sensations seem too scary, when there is no space to look, then it's okay. Then just forget about it, go through it, you'll be fine the next day, you see. But when there is some space that you can look, then you may want to invite yourself to look in this way and say, 'How much of my space do these sensations take?' And what happens there is that your attention starts to look around a bit rather than just being fixated at the sensation, you see. It starts to look around a bit and see, look at the container of that sensation.

And if you give yourself this invitation and you have the room to check in this way, then you may find that this room has no boundaries, you see. So now, no matter how big that sensation may seem, you see, it is just a function of how fixated your attention is on it, because your Being is limitless. There is no boundary to it. In fact, this entire universe, which itself doesn't have a boundary, shows up within your Being. So how can your Being have a boundary? And this will become your true insight, that you will see that. Many times I make this example, I say if I make a dot on the wall—and it's a black dot and a white wall—and I ask most of you, 'What do you see?' You say, 'Yeah, I see it. I see the black dot.' 'What else do you see?' 'No.' 'Is there anything else?' 'Black dot, Father, I don't see it... no, black.' And I say, 'But what about the wall?'

That's what happens with these sensations also as they show up, because they show up and we are sort of programmed to do that; we feel like that's all there is. But we miss the substratum, the surface on which these sensations are arising. And once you learn, you see, once you learn to not be so fixated with what is showing up and you're just living in that pure observing, pure perception, then you will see that this is nothing, you see. All these things can come, but what is it to my Being in which this entire universe comes and goes? And it's not just me saying that. Ashtavakra said you are that boundless ocean in which the arcs of the universe, they come and go. So even if you feel like this one is lying, then Ashtavakra, I am certain, was not lying. Well, he is at the ultimate level, but provisionally not lying.