The Finding of God Is the Remaining In God - 14th April 2023
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that finding and remaining in God's light requires the total surrender of individual will and personal identity. He teaches that satsang serves as an antidote to the 'seeming' separation caused by the ego's hypnosis.
The lane is too narrow; there can either be 'me' or there can be God.
Satsang is an antidote for the seeming; in reality, nothing has ever happened.
The only way to live in God's light is to be empty of meaning.
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Transcript
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So now I'm telling you that there's a chance that you may find God. What are you willing to risk for that? Poverty? No love in your life? No meaning, no fulfillment, nothing? You take the risk.
I feel like I found God already and I've just become re-interested in the dream, the story, the personal story. You know?
Though the finding of God, usually when we talk about it, is the remaining in God. It's the finding and remaining. Because just finding and then leaving is as good as not having found. Finding it may be worse. So to find and remain. As you remained, you find that it is impossible to have individual will and individual concern. Did you, or are you the first one to make it happen, that you managed to separate the lane very neatly between the 'me' and God, and you wanted to squeeze both of them in the same lane? I doubt very much that any of us can make that happen, you see. And that is the beginning of something. I don't know if you were there, but that's what I was saying—that that is the endeavor for most spiritual seekers: that they will be the first one to accomplish this thing where the ego can still remain while continuing to be in God's light.
It feels like I have... there's like a responsibility to the 'me' that's living the life. That if there was no life, no opportunity to live a life... sorry, I have to stop you guys, please. Thank you. But 'me' is living a life...
Who is this 'me' that's living this life?
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The one that I believe myself to be from time to time.
What's happening in the life of the caterpillar on your nose? Don't you have a responsibility towards that? You're getting where I'm going with this. A made-up responsibility for a made-up entity doesn't make it real or valuable. Yeah? So sometimes I believe in the story of the 'me'.
Right now you're believing that sometimes you believe in the story.
Yes. This emptiness right here, and that pattern... this is a fresh start. Every moment is the first time. God is fully here for you. Just let go. Don't worry about what happened in the past, you see. We can only have, if at all, responsibility for something that exists. You see, we must have it only for an existent one. You cannot have responsibility for a non-existent one. And the existent one is this life itself—God's life, Being itself. And that is exactly the responsibility that I am reminding everyone of. We have let go of our responsibility for the true existent one for a non-existent entity, just a fictional character.
How much understanding and intellect do we need to remain in God's light? There's nothing that can be done to take you away from the space of God.
In the sense that you're absolutely right, as a fact, nothing can be done. But I've never met someone who can be in the hypnosis of even one thought where it does not seem to them that they have left God's light. Never met anyone. Just one thought. In the hypnosis of one thought, it seems to them that they have left God's light. So Satsang is an antidote for the 'seeming.' It is not an antidote for reality, because in reality nothing has changed, nothing has ever happened. And if you were not suffering from the seeming, then we would most probably not be here, you see. So it is the medicine for this seeming; it is the antidote to the seeming alone, you see.
Now, as we continue to suffer with the seeming because we rely on our memory or what we have learned, we may try to say that, 'Oh, but in reality nothing is happening.' That is true, but that's not helpful because it's all about fixing what seems to be true rather than being actually true. So if we were to confine ourselves to only that which is actually true, then there's nothing really to talk about, you see. But we are here because we have the seeming problem. The problem itself is the seeming. We have a seeming problem. The Leela is a Maya problem, and it is impossible to let go of the Leela problem while relying on conceptual knowledge. And that conceptual knowledge may even be about an Absolute reality, right?
You can try this: open and empty, very naturally, most of us are living in God's light. But try to believe with heart and make it not seem to you that you are limited. It will seem to you. You cannot escape it. That's the design of this play. And of course, then we are working on solving our non-existent problems, but that concept also is not helpful at this point until we get rid of the seeming problem. The only way to live in God's life is to be empty of meaning. We cannot do both. Your mind will attack that, will be confused with that, your intellect will hate what I just said, but it doesn't matter. Those things don't matter, you see.
You've seen many in the world today, because there's so much reliance on the intellect, who are trying to make an amalgamation of just, according to them, the right amount of ego and the right amount of God in their life. You see, it is not going to succeed. It is not going to succeed. So either that is possible, or then the sages were wrong when they said that the lane is too narrow—there can either be 'me' or there can be God. The only way out of the seeming is to let go of self-will and self-concern.
Notice that there's an aspect of your being which is untouched by that fear, and you have to hold on to that for dear life. Because if we were to let the fear stop us every time, then it's an endless journey. Be tied to something that is not going to die. Is that a better way to put it? Yes, I like that. It felt that way when I said it. This may feel better. We would also observe the need to always feel good. Thank you.