The Point of Truth Is Already Here - 6th March 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to recognize that the separate person is a non-existent pretense. He emphasizes that the unchanging Self is already fully present, and oneness is our natural state rather than a goal to be achieved.
I would include the person if I could find it, but even as imagination, it isn't there.
The point of truth is already here. This being is fully present as your own manifest aspect.
It is hard work to play with this pretense of separation; oneness is just ever-present.
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Namaste, namaste everyone. Welcome. And Father is not feeling well; request you all to remind them to keep the meeting short and rest. Maybe we can limit the questions today. Galaxy Note 6, Galaxy...
I feel actually a lot better today than yesterday. I have the best news; we aren't even good news. Previously being the Supreme Lord, you pretend to be something that we can never be. Many times I get these messages on Facebook saying, 'But why don't you introduce the person in everything? Why don't you include the person? Why are you always saying there is no person? Why don't you talk about the person?' And these days I started responding by saying, 'I would include it if I could find it. Tell me what I should include.' Let's be completely inclusive. Let's include this body in the Self. Let's include everybody in the Self. It's just what is. Let's include every object in the Self. Let's include this time and space continuum in the Self. Let's include our emotions, sensations, thoughts—include everything. Everything which is manifest, everything which is phenomenal, let's include. Let's include our very existence. Let's not even stop there. Let's include that which is aware even of this existence. That awareness is absolutely unchanging. At which point did we meet the person? We included everything. Did at some point we meet this entity called person, the one that is interested in freedom? You didn't find it even as imagination. We don't even have a clear image of this person. This imagination of the body we have, this projection of consciousness that we call the body, but the body wants nothing at all. It has no desire, no aversion.
As I say that, we love to be in denial of what is. God is here, and we love to be in denial, and we love to pick up that idea which just isn't. And we bought into this notion of avoiding by identification to that which just isn't. This is our consciousness playing, and as part of the play, our consciousness is reminding itself of its own truth. But the hypnosis is so deep that what we call the real world is actually just this notion of separation, which is never here. We say that, 'Oh, when I leave Satsang and I go to the real world...' The world is the same one being, one appearance. And no person has ever lived here. There is only one Self, and this one Self is all there is. See, if there were ever two, then this one could not be all there is. This one must only be this one, and the other must be the remaining. So how do we get to this point? Not how do we get to the point of truth, because the point of truth is already here. If all that you hear in Satsang today is this, it is enough: that the point of truth is already here. It is now. This Being is fully present as your own manifest aspect, and you are aware of this. There is nobody here who is unaware of their existence. Why? Because I am aware of my existence. Desire is the only one. It is within my existence. Is this clear? And I'm dying to hear, 'No.' All is part of my existence. I'm the one not changing.
So how do I play this game of individual pretense? I hear this game, I believe in thoughts and emotions in my experience of myself as even this manifest world. I don't believe in separation. In the pure experience of myself, even in the rising of this manifest world, I do not experience separation. But I can pretend. I can look at one aspect of the appearance and give it a name. I can pretend as if something is separate in that name, in that form, but it is not my experience. You are only experiencing yourself. I feel like this map example is a very good one. One sheet of paper, no separation. We draw some lines on it; still one sheet of paper with various appearances. Then we start to label them and believe that those lines are those labels: India, Asia, America, Canada. But that piece of paper is still that one piece of paper. Just because we put 100 notions on it, no separation has ever actually happened. If you start by believing that you are India and then you want to be really one with the rest of the world, that is not going to happen because you started with the false. We start by believing that we are an individual and then you want to be one with the rest; it's never going to happen. Just don't pick up the mask to begin with. So, mean there are two without making a distinction for me too. And it is apparent to all of you that all of this is only experienced within you.
So it is more natural to recognize as oneness because it is just ever-present. It is hard work, terribly hard work to play with this pretense of separation. And now you're tired of this world, presumably that's why you're in Satsang. We're now not looking for an answer, just looking for the looking. What wants freedom? Where is that one that got it? Where is that one that has a little more to go? Where is that one that just has to remember this now? Where is that one mythical? There is only one light shining in this entire universe. This light is what you're drawing. I am. I said the other day that the mind has only one trick, and even this mind shines in the light of the same Maya, but it is designed just to have this one trick: to convince you that this boundless Being has a tiny boundary for the body; to convince you that that which is all there is wants something; to convince you that you are subject to time and space, not the other way around; to convince you that you live in the light of the sun, whereas the truth is that even the sun appears in your light. Even darkness appears in your light. What are you? Where did you come from? Who have you ever lost yourself? Said now that you are trying to find it. Can we lose our Self? Can you lose yourself in this? Don't be aware. Who did it? Even in your full pretense of individuality, did you lose your Self? Not possible. The Self cannot be lost, therefore it cannot be found. This game of hide-and-seek, lost-and-found, is not about the Self.
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Okay, suppose this morning we woke up and decided today we are going to find the Self. But there must be you first to decide that. Which you is that one? Find that one. Find this before you can pick up the idea of undertaking any adventure. You have to be there. Which one is that you? Which one woke up this morning? Which one was asleep? Which one had a dream? Is there something constant between all these fields? The clues are everywhere. Clues are everywhere. I was reading Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine had written in his book 'Confessions.' Let me see quickly. So Saint Augustine said: 'But how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord? For when I call on Him, I ask Him to come into myself. And what room is there in me where my God can come? God who made heaven and earth? Is there anything in me, O Lord my God, that can contain You? Indeed, do heaven and earth that You have made and in which You made me contain You? Or since nothing could exist without You, does every existing thing contain You? Why then do I ask that You come into me since I do exist? I would not exist if You were not in me. Why do I say this? Because even if I were in hell, yet You would be there also. For if I go down into hell, You are there. I could not exist then, O my God, would not exist at all, unless You were in me. Or should I not rather say I could not exist unless I were in You, from whom all things, by whom are all things, and in all things? Even so, Lord, even so. Where do I want You to come since I am in You? Or whence from heaven or earth would You come that my God might come there into me, He who has said I fill the heaven and the earth?'
I've just been looking down some of these verses. And the next one, this was here, this is a beautiful verse called the 'Mool Mantar' by Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He said: 'There is but one and only one God, and His existence is eternal. He alone is the creator of all there is. He is not afraid of anybody or anything, nor does He have enmity towards anyone. He never dies. His form is timeless and He is self-existent. He is unborn and free from incarnation. One can realize Him only through the grace of the Guru.' Okay, last one. This is from the 'Jnaneshwari.' The Lord says: 'Although I am formless, without limiting conditions, beyond the qualities, changeless and all-pervasive, ignorant people ascribe to me form, limitations, actions, qualities and place. Although I am unmanifest, desireless and devoid of doership and experience, they think of me as manifest, full of desire, agent and enjoyer. They impute to me hands and feet, eyes and ears, caste and family, although I do not possess them. Even though I am self-existent, they make idols of me and install them with proper rites of consecration. And though I am all-pervading, they invite me to their invocation and bid farewell to me with emotional worship. They worship an idol as a form of divinity and later throw away the broken idol as worthless, as they include me in human attributes.'
What is that which is self-existent, which means exists without any other support? From your experience, what is that which exists unsupported? Self-existent. Is this world your basis? The world has to be here and then you can be? Or is your existence primary to the appearance, this dream that we call the world? And if God is the light of this world, so what are you? Are you really saying that there is God and me? Maybe you think that there is a God but this God is... I'm a part of it? Or maybe there's like a what is called in business 'arm's length relationship'? What is the distance between you and your existence? What is the distance between you and that which is aware? Everything is aware of itself.
It's a blessing, Father. I have to speak now. I'm happy to be with you and in fact, I don't know what to say. But I am, I am blessed in so many ways and I cannot... it's just what you are. This thing about self-existence, yes, that light goes into this like emptiness and yet you exist and you know, continue to taste your beauty, your magnificence. Yet because we got used to referring to the mind about the report about ourselves, it is just saying, 'I don't know what's going on.' That's a wonder with a beautiful sense of joy, and yet you cannot even use these terms because the mind has been using them for different things. Yes, somehow, yes. But I don't know, I don't know. If now I start to think, it's lost somehow. I know I just have to be here. Think, think and lose it. In fact, I cannot lose anything even when I think. It's just that if I insist on being sticky with some thoughts or emotions, then I just become... not fuzzy, I don't know how to say 'become,' but you just put on the mask.
Yes, exactly. Yes. And then I come back because you always come back to what we are. Yes, it's not even a coming back. It's... well, maybe we can say it's a coming back. Yeah, I don't know from where I speak now. I mean, there's no place, no nothing, no location or anything. It's so awesome to be human. I mean, everybody should be here, everybody should see this, will discover this. Everybody is here as you.
I'm waiting for you to mute me because I am not willing to leave.
How is the waiting happening? Just like this. You think this, like this, the waiting is happening. You're waiting, I'm waiting. Let's see when the hand... Thank you all so much for being in Satsang today.