The Room Must Be Emptied Out For God's Light
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that suffering arises from resisting reality through personal desires and aversions. He urges seekers to empty themselves of the spiritual persona and egoic control, allowing God’s life to flow unimpeded by the mind's notions.
The room must be emptied out for God's life; the ego is an encroachment upon God’s life.
Suffering is actually separation. You cannot suffer and be in God at the same time.
Don’t reinvent yourself into something new; just empty yourself. Don't make the mistake of becoming 'spiritual'.
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What is suffering? What is the way to suffer? To grasp, to hold, to pick up a notion, an idea. And our ideas are usually about the world and the content of the world, and ideas about what should not be and what should always be. Although it may be a simple thing—it may sound like a very simple thing—'I just feel like this should always be in my life' or 'I just feel like this feeling or this person or this event should never happen in my life,' you see? It may seem like a very small thing, but we are actually resisting the light of this universe, which is the creator of all of this. So with our 'should' and 'should not,' in our desires and aversions, we are at odds with reality. And if we come at odds with reality, who do you think is going to win? Obviously, reality is going to win.
So what also happens then is that we stop recognizing that what is playing out is pure Grace. Pure Grace. But it has to be used well. It cannot be used egoically because then this Grace itself becomes hell or seems like hell. So use whatever life is giving you to transcend the ego. Don't make yourself into something and don't reinvent yourself into something new; just empty yourself. Because many times we come to spirituality and we make the mistake of 'becoming spiritual.' I wonder if you can hear this. You come to spirituality and we were worldly, and now we become spiritual, you see?
Sometimes I meet some people and I want to tell them—I don't know how it came from my heart somewhere—I want to tell them that you're very nice, but you're still there. It's not enough to line up a persona and become spiritual or become better or nicer, because the room must be emptied out for God's light. What would life be like without 'you' there, rather than 'me' there?
At the root of all of this is the notion that in my mind, I have the capacity to determine what is better for me. We don't have it. As Satguru says, 'God is not that unkind to make all your wishes come true.' And we recognize that from our past—everything that we wished for when we were younger, in college, or starting work—nothing like that happened. In spite of seeing this about the past very clearly, we don't apply it to our present, and that is the way to suffer.
Suffering is not a mere human condition. It's not just, 'Oh, I suffer, then I become okay, then I suffer again, then I become happy.' This roller coaster which we call life doesn't involve just the human at the middle of it. Suffering is actually separation. Can you suffer and be in God at the same time? When you be in God, can you suffer? Can you be happy causelessly and not be in God? Our intimacy—although that's not a good enough word, but let's use it for the moment—our Oneness with the reality is the true absence of suffering.
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We know when we get on this ride—at least those who have been in Satsang for some time—we know when we get on this ride, it's a merry-go-round. Sometimes it feels like fun, sometimes it feels scary, sometimes you just want to vomit, you're just tired. So what is the way to get off this merry-go-round? It's not to change something on the outside; it's just to open your fist on the inside. Don't attach. How do we close our fist on the inside? Through thought, and specifically ideas about what should be and what should not be. 'It should be like this; it should not be like this.'
On what basis are we making that determination? The same mind always put us on the same merry-go-round millions of times before. We don't realize that in picking up what seems to be just a minor notion, we are actually changing our whole life in that moment. Many times, it may seem like we're changing the entire trajectory of our life. We all know about things like the butterfly effect. We know that one minor change could mean 'goodbye' for this lifetime from the possibility of living in God's presence. That is why the matter is so important and urgent. You cannot put off finding God and being in God, not for a moment. That which convinces us that God can wait is ego.
I read a beautiful passage this morning. What stops us from just following God's will is because we start thinking, 'But what will happen to the others in my life?' But what are we actually saying? That God doesn't know about what's best for the others? He doesn't know how our responsibilities have to be carried out or what needs to happen? And we have a higher capacity than God to fathom that? We think, 'For this, I cannot go to God. It's beyond God to handle this for me; for this, I need me.' I wonder if we can spot this. We say, 'No, this I have to deal with.' In this world, we've really relegated God to a tiny place called 'spirituality.' Our notion is that this is okay for Satsang, but in the 'real world'... everything is upside down. What is real and what is unreal is all upside down.
So why don't we follow God's will? Why don't you follow God's will moment to moment? If today is your first day to Satsang, you may say, 'I don't know how. I haven't met God. How do I know what His will is? Am I to speculate, am I to intellectualize?' You must meet God. When you meet God, that is when you start living. But most of our brothers and sisters are born yet dead. But if you meet God, then you meet life. But that life is not your life; it is God's life. And that is why to live in God's will is not a subjugation, because it is His life to start with. The ego is an encroachment upon God's life. And it is His mercy and Grace that allows this saving to happen, until we see the error of our egotistical ways and return back.
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