Stay With Your Own Insight - 22nd January 2018

So minimalize. Somebody said fireworks that evening. There was some fire—well, somebody was getting married, it was so fireworks also came. But notice how the mind will try to sell you a story that some sensation or some perception must be there, only then you must be free. You cannot be God, you cannot be consciousness, until that one lonely type of sensation or perception is there. How plausible is the story that for the existence of God there must be a certain type of quality of sensation?

The other thing that can happen is that as you are talking, you might be having a three-sided conversation. I'm talking while this is... then you give into the mind. The mind is saying, 'No, but for that, all this is fine, easier said than done.' Then you find that then you are listening to what I have as a counter to that, and you're waiting to see what the mind has as a conflict. If that is happening, then leave all this. Stay with your own insight about what you are finding for yourself.

Use the words and the pointers. So for example, when I say you have no boundary, don't just pick up the concept, 'Oh, I have no boundary.' The mind is a 'but, but, but.' When you argue with me, 'But Father, yesterday you seemed to have a boundary.' Yes, don't make it a conceptual idea. Check: where is my boundary? Do you have a boundary? As you check to experience some sensations, the mind will come and say, 'See, this is your boundary. You are contained in this sensation.' Please define your boundary. Explore the validity of these words. Are these sensations containing me, or do I contain them? Find out what is your true position. I know that these kind of questions can shake up all that you have believed about yourself, and that is why we are in Satsang.