The Truth, If It Is True, Must Already Be Here - 1st February 2018

There's never an obstruction, there is never a condition to meet yourselves because you always are the same condition. The only object... if you want to meet another object in this world, there could be obstacles and conditions. If you want to feel a certain way, experience a certain taste, then there could be conditions, pre-conditions. If you want to think only a certain type of thoughts, then there could be conditions. If you want the sensations of the body to be only a certain way, then there could be conditions. So in the realm of the changing, in the realm of appearances, there could be many, many conditions. But to meet yourselves, there is no condition because you already are that unconditionally.

But as is the way of this world, even for this, we are creating so many conditions. So true spirituality is just dropping off all of the conditions. This is already met. When he says nakedness, it is not a phenomenal nakedness; that is a conceptual nakedness. You are empty of any concept, any condition. What happens when you meet ourselves without hesitation, without judgment, without concept? Remember that there is no condition that any appearance should be a certain way. Unconditionally, you are the Self.

Sometimes I see these words and I look at your reactions and I'm hearing what I see. 'Unconditionally you are the Self.' It is... to me, it sounds like a pause for big celebration. Would it feel better if instead of saying 'unconditionally you are the Self,' if I were to tell you ten conditions? If you were to satisfy those, then you will be the Self? Would that seem more tangible, concrete? So first, you'll have to wake up every morning at 4:00 a.m. in Brahma-muhurta and start with 108 Surya Namaskar. So that's the second condition. Then one hour of 'Om' chanting at six o'clock. Then you have to go meditate deeply. When you innovate or 100 conditions apply, the mind is happy. Sometimes it can feel like if I say 'do this and do this and do this and do this and do this, and then you will get the taste of the Self,' it could sound much more tangible and concrete than if I just say, 'Well, see what you are now. Meet yourself fresh in this moment.'

It doesn't matter what has been happening in this body. It doesn't matter what the future holds. You are the Self unconditionally. You can play like this as long as there's a deep identification of yourself as an object; then it might feel like 'I need some objective.' Only if you consider yourself this object will you feel that keeping this object in a certain mudra, you can get something special for this object. But once you are done with that identification, you see that 'I'm not this object at all. I'm the space in which all these objects come.' Actually, even that space, which is some aspect of my being, in which position matters? Which object in which size or position matters? This does not mean that there is an aversion to any of this. It's all finding its own place as the play of appearances happen. It's alright. But there comes a point where you see that the truth must be simpler than any of this.

As I was saying yesterday, what is the simplest discovery you could make about yourself? And this is also opposite to how it works in the world. In the world, if you come with a lot of effort and do a lot of hard work and heavy lifting and heavy thinking, then you might come to all the sweet that you are looking for. In this quest for Self-recognition, the simplest discovery is the sweetest. So what is the simplest discovery that you have made about yourself? That discovery which needs no preparation, no precondition. That discovery for which the events in your life, the state of your body and mind don't matter. What is this discovery which is independent of appearances? This existence, this being, which has played the game of taking itself for granted, is now reveling in its own magnificence. That is as simple as meeting yourself without any interpretation.

If something has to happen for it to become true, then it is not the truth. That's all that I said today. If something has to happen for it to become true, then it is not the truth. What is this pointing to? Find without all the conditions that you might be believing about yourselves, waiting for that one something to happen to find the truth. See through the truth. If it is true, it must already be here. There is no precondition for the truth. Nothing needs to happen for the truth. If the truth is true, then it must be here. Even those who speak of the recognition of the truth only say that 'I just saw what already was.' They never say, 'I saw something new that came.' And the joy of the discovery is more like this silly laughter. See, it's like when you lose your specs but they've been on your head all the time. Even funnier, you've been looking for them all your life and you've just been wearing them. Oh, it's so silly that sometimes the recognition is like a facepalm moment. What? It has just always been this. Nothing is needed for the Self, and nothing is needed for the discovery or the recognition of the Self.

The first one you met this morning is the most enlightened being in the world. The first one you met this morning, before you even met this body—that which you call your own body—before that, you met a Being. But you have changed this Being to be something limited, to be something with these judgments. There is only most apparent Self-recognition. The good thing is that no prior treatment actually matters now. The Being is completely full and fresh and completely available to you in this moment. Our minds here. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Satguru Sri Mooji Baba.