Tell Me Who You Are - 22nd November 2019
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that true freedom is the simple allowing of all states to arise without judgment, urging seekers to investigate their true identity before concluding anything about the world or their personal condition.
Freedom is the simple allowing of all states, feelings, and sensations to come and go.
Before you conclude whether something is true or false, introduce yourself: who are you?
If you give the remote control to the world, you remain a victim of changing circumstances.
contemplative
Transcript
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If you keep waiting for something to happen, if you give a remote control to something in this world, this is 'nicely game, nicely.' Now I'm happy. Oh, 'not nice thing, not nicely thing,' now I'm sad. And what you take yourself to be is just another object.
Freedom is simple allowing of all states, all feelings, all sensations to come and go. It is not about, 'Oh, now freedom means that only this feeling should come or sensation shall come.' And you are free in your reality, but if you take yourself to be anything at all, just see, we can only make it seem as if you are limited.
So, before you can conclude whether something is true or false, good or bad, right or wrong, more or less, better or worse, introduce ourselves. Who are you? Who are you?