The Ocean Doesn't Fit into a Coconut - 26th December 2017

What if all that you could ever imagine wanting, all that you could ever imagine wanting and much more was already yours? In fact, was already you? Would that be the end of seeking? Now, we can't put the cart before the horse, okay? You must come to this insight before you pick up the concept 'I've stopped seeking.' Something must be your direct discovery: that you are That, it contains all, and you yourself are uncontained. And I see that many of you are having this insight, but the stinky habit of trying to apply it personally still comes back.

As I was saying yesterday, you are finding out that you are the ocean, and now you are trying to fill up this ocean in the coconut. You are discovering your limitlessness and then you are asking, 'How does this help me?' So, that is remnants of an old habit. Because everything has been applied to this personal 'me' for so long, it can seem like even this infinite, uncontained existence you want to fit into some body-mind organism. It cannot be this way, and that can seem very uncomfortable for a bit. As you try to keep one foot in the limitless ocean and the other foot in the identity of being a body-mind, it can seem very uncomfortable.

As you are learning to let go of all identification, where do you keep your feet? And when you do not have a notion about yourself, what is your natural state? When you're not trying to get something or hold on to something, where are you? This way makes it very simple. Someone said that the truest knowledge is just the letting go of the false. What if I told you that the truth is completely apparent to you right now? It's completely apparent to you, but not to your translator. This one who is subtitling this life—you've been watching this movie with wrong subtitles.

The movie has always been perfect as it is—not even perfect—but the subtitles have been telling you that you are something bound, you are something limited, you are something that was born and something that will die. And this notion of death is something innately repulsive; something does not accept it. Even in those cultures where these kind of satsangs are not there, there are other concepts: all resting in peace after death, or life after death, or resurrection. Because something in your heart knows that what you are in essence was not born and will not die.

This essence has not gone anywhere; it is your very essence right now. How to get to this essence? Find out that which does not come and go. Find that out which itself witnesses all things but itself doesn't have any attributes or qualities. For some time, bring the focus to this witnessing and for some time don't be so concerned with that which is witnessed. Move away from the content of the appearances for a bit, because this content is constantly changing but your essence is not. For the Self, there is no 'thing,' but it is not nothing. If it was nothing, then you would be senseless, isn't it? You would not have an essence then; you would have no self. But intuitively you can sense that that is not right. I exist, and there is the root of my existence, the source of my existence, which is undeniable. This qualityless undeniable—is there anything else like this? This is your own Self.