The Unchanging Self Is What You Are - 2nd April 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to recognize their timeless, unchanging reality by looking beyond sensory perceptions and the intellect. He emphasizes surrendering all that exists in time to the Guru, revealing one's true nature as the eternal witness.
Find the one which is not subject to time; this reality does not even change with time.
Forget about everything in time and space. Whatever is in time is my Master’s dream.
You are the higher power, but this power is not personal. You are already the unlimited one.
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Transcript
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So now all of you, in one way or the other, you found this Ananta, this physical one. Why they came to a road, their way stairs, and to this Ananta, or you clicked onto Zoom, or you are watching this on YouTube and you found this physical one. Just a pointer. We find the real owner of which this is just an outward expression. That means what? The English of the eternal. So what do you recognize which is not subject to any time? But he will be there. There is one Ananta there. We are one. This is fantasy. This one. Mmm-hmm. Thank you, my dear. She'll get better now. But overall, it was audible what I said so soon. Okay, but now it should be witness.
I said you found this basically. What I said is you found this Ananta which is subject to time, this physical one. But this is not where we are truly one. Find the one now. You recognize the one which is not subject to time. Can we meet there to do so? Take your time. I'll define this one. Sight. Sight can help you. Sight, anything that you can see through this sight. Can you find something which is timeless, that does not dominate over time? Any other senses? Inward perception, memory, imagination, dreams, thoughts, emotions. And not only is it timeless, but it is also unchanging with time. Timeless means that which does not have birth or death. But this one, this reality, does not even change with time. It is neither enhanced nor even a matter. One cannot use a sensor. What else you got?
So senses are out. Then what else you have? But what, intellect? Can you just reason your way to it? You might get the concept of it with your reasoning. You use your mind, intellect might get some concepts of it. What about it? Intellect? Yes or no? Maybe intellect also nonsense is no. What else comes? A tricky one about attention. Where all can attention go? Can it go somewhere outside which is timeless? And so I go somewhere which is tangent and survive in the sense it is also present there. But timelessness is present in order, but is present. This is always present. But the recognition of the timeless is present and there is a movement of attention, this palpable rule, and therefore that itself becomes an object of your attention. Is that what the situation is? How many have lost me in this world? And so okay, let's see where all can attention go on this world. All these senses we talked about involve this body of the motion and sensations, thoughts, allow reasoning, intellect. There is a deeper then go with me. Tell me what happens. Tell me where you are then. Tell me if this is one Ananta. Come to this sense of existence, being that I just have. And your attention can rest even there in the sense 'I am', the sense of being. To force yourself to find it, see if you can stop being. And actually your attention will go there because in our attempt to not exist, I would see that this existence is just here.
So then my next question is: what is aware of even this being? What is that? Who is that? To the word aware of this being. You know, it will feel like even attention is at home. Might feel like it's resting at home. But in this state of rest, there is nothing that this thing wishes it. That which is aware here is the timeless one. This is what you are, your unchanging Self. And if you believe that you are something subject to time, the best way to get out of this mess with you is not to think about anything which is in time. Don't want anything which is in time. Don't worry about doing anything which is in time. Don't fear anything that comes up. I would go so far as to say forget about it. I know that these words can be spoken with everything down yet and I just say forget about that. And I say it, forget about it. Okay, it's about it. I mean forget about everything which is in time and space. But even one of them is about the same. I will not worry about anything in time. Total not worry about anything in time. It is Guru Kripa Kevalam. This, my Master's grace. Whatever is in time is my Master's. All the great sages actually observe that beside this unchanging reality, nothing has ever happened anyway.
If you listen to the last interviews Nisargadatta Maharaj gave, Maharaj, Veerappan, any of the great sages, all of them accept that within you with what understanding is that the thing which appears to happen in this time and space has never happened there. So we'll forget to get to this insight. It's this surrender, including that which is in time. I'll be back to my Master's dreams. Everything, everything that is in time happens with the will of my Master. But even if your temperament is not like this, it's not emotional, so really resisting all this expression accessories, then inquire if we started. What is it that you do? Reality. Everything comes and goes. Are you also coming and everything comes and goes? You also end up here? Is that which comes in or are you that that witnesses, that is aware of all appearances? That itself does not come and you come to the same point as well to select them. You see that you are not subject to time. And even why be concerned about packages? That's why I've often said that so indirect everybody are actually the same.
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Sequential jury audible is the audible. Attention never leaves me. Okay, I know that I'm the one who said like that. Do now keep your attention on your being outside. Okay, never goes. So as your attention moves, your attention is in the so-called, oh yes. Can you say so? I'll tell you what the information is that you can't, we can't step outside. So what is happening is perceptions, anything seamlessly including visually reductionism that is deeper. So in a sense, attention equates perception exactly, but never to an object. Yeah, so that which attention goes in for, the perception gets our attention. Own equal perception happens in and hence I can't move an external. This itself is very good, very good.
So at least because some of you will get a bit confused or necessary, all this world is just an object to you. But at least if you come to this point, you see that all perception is happening within me and I can't really prove that there's an object outside of I don't know what exists.
So what I was realizing actually is right now is you've asked me especially inside, I'm beginning to see that own perception of sight is also what is there beside into your perceptions, perceptions. And I think there is a you, yes. Is this you also no perception? Now I'm personally wise, why can't you be like this is one big super perception which is there before another perception? Because perception means there is a quality about a pre-perception as a quality as it sees one attribute. Now you know yourself who you are clear that you are and you are aware of all perception. You yourself, what quality do you have?
I don't have a quality. So then how do you know this with everything? Perception is more quality. There's a red cushion over there, there's a blue shirt. All the qualities are I think that actually perceive in itself which is the quality which is taste. Yes. Now the you that perceives all of that is aware of all of this perception is itself in there. You can say that this is not making it up. So if you are aware of see that is no. I know where I was and again I can only report on deep sleep and I'm out of here. So it's so innocent. So that absolute business is what I'm so jinkies innocence. I'm always looking for what is that which is so attribute that I so that I can't even comment on the fact that I exist. There is that struggle that suddenly it's been happening for a while innocence. What right now is in the same place? Oh use what is using state if there are present will be watching you no matter what the state is. Yes, that is so transparent and that is why I am. But yet I take on any appearances when you to take on every appearances that not oh no no yeah but every economy let's see it. It feel good everything is then also what are you? You can choose that one is not here now so that one is yeah yeah watching the struggle to figure that out.
You know, I think I think it's just a full of this struggle has the happiness of the struggle is that this is just its habit. So you just fall back on what you know rather than what you are. Okay, so you even say that because we say this in Satsang get ready it's a habit. What do you have to do with this with the appearance of the habit? Well you see nothing. They'd be able to get rid of the habit is not your problem ultimately the old code right? Yeah this attention and yeah very comfortably I will be able to say that first being is there and then as one of the forces of being you have this force called attention which I'm still okay to say because it works only in connection with things and yet boot-up be on time both are private with them. So we can never say this came before that for the world you can say I am itself. It's your light seems the light of the Self is your God presence which is the light of the world. Without that there is no well, there is no time, there is no spirits only exists and that doesn't really matter because what you are right can be found out right now. So let those be insects which come to you naturally please. You don't have to study with roots, you just have to stay with what you do here at the sense holding police to that which you are not. It's just the knowing of all yes this including the awareness struggle figure it out or would be the point of your projecting the movie if you were not perceiving it and you were not aware of this perception is saying that it is not possible or the kind of consciousness which is your being to prevent all of this world without perceiving and without awareness being aware of what or of perception itself.
So this trouble ever come back you are what we were saying the struggler is also in time. Forget about it. Seduced angry so Guru Kripa Kevalam. Sweet what's reality its validity this is something is to find something which is and bliss isn't the point of the struggle struggle struggle struggle and still found something which is just in a moment of time. So we're looking for that eternity because we're tired of these ephemeral changing so so can something which is itself subject to time and something which is timeless will just uh clear itself was it always there you were born it was there so this also came after you were born before so that is also a big time this body started appearing this doctor started coming the body itself is subject to time doesn't mean somehow something doesn't make sense to me that any sense existing because no sense here I'm seeing without senses seen in which you call the capital SC is it dependent of the senses but something I don't see just let black exit don't see yeah exactly so it's just it's just a cardboard the specs don't see yeah but if you can only play there are tools it seemed to appear to change what is the mercy so that's how it works it is like in this plate eyes open stimuli available through the symbolizing to vanish whether it is part of the design of the actual entity to this function the sense of functioning of the senses unimportant because all of this comes form one see looking this force as I won't serve then they're not true but open these ideas that to to see I have to use these you can also see in so far windward perception without diva but soon even those distinguishing in order what does the site behind the site Oh Ricky Lucy who's a little what is aware of this sign I mean as it is and yeah I can thank you.
So just to be clear you cannot confirm except with your perception that there is another body sitting in front of you. You cannot even confirm the fact that there is a body which will call your own body because as younger all the seasons I've said it so many times our perceptions have been misplaced misunderstood things you see anything like that so you're not really rely on these perceptions and all these perceptions are just perceived within myself anyway so if there is an outside of me that also I cannot confirm not what is outside what do you know there is an outside yes we cannot confirm whether there really is an outside this I don't know so when we apply these co
What you will call your own body—because as you know, all the seasons I've said it so many times—our perceptions have been misplaced, misunderstood things, you see. Anything like that. So you're not really to rely on these perceptions, and all these perceptions are just perceived within myself anyway. So if there is an outside of me, that also I cannot confirm. What is outside? What do you know there is an outside? Yes, we cannot confirm whether there really is an outside. This I don't know. So when we apply these concepts of inside and outside, that's when this seeming drama of life actually is losing it. If you think it is just being perceived, it is being perceived within me. But whether this whole thing is actually there or not, I cannot even truly know. I know this very much when you say 'I don't know' because I can say many times very conclusively: the world is nothing for me, it's just an object within. But that 'inside' only comes when first there is our ego. So everything is just perceived. We plant a million concepts on top of our perceptions.
This seeming to be limited, sort of—if you drop all notions about everything, all concepts about any of these perceptions, then even the concept of duality, me and other, is wrong. Like you said, this body is another perception, that body is another perception. All these bodies are. So this rules ultimately even this space. Although we perceive it in terms of color, which perceives the quality of spaciousness which contains the other objects, is it so? You cannot even confirm that there is real space. And what is time? I have the form of space itself, the invention of space itself, so that everything doesn't seem to happen. So we cannot really confirm that there is a spacetime, there is a body. We cannot confirm any of these things. But now we can distinguish from the data perception world. What I mean when I say we distinguish all these sensations and make 'me' and 'another' out of it—we had I, not a sensation. This is going to be seen, yes? There's no right and I use the word 'inside.' I'm not talking about the concept of inside.
Having insights about all of these—but you might not have a little bit, have an intellectual understanding of it. Anytime the opposite problem can happen when you read all the scriptures, all right, then you can have an intellectual understanding of it, but we don't have the insight of this. This is a much better place to begin because just stop myself. Your insight cannot become ego. The basis of conceptual knowledge, you can become induced. The reader concept to be separated. You witness this play of considering itself to be an object in this time. Everything in time from the whole you, you see, they are recognizing the timeless, okay? The bottom of time through this. How to forget, forget to buckle up some boots. Where is inquired? Good work is real, what is true. We are waiting for this. The ending is not for something which is going to last for some time. But anyway, that play was he, that everything in this world lasts for some time. They're done with that, tasted all of that, done with that. That's why you have to come to satsang.
Either there must be a yearning somewhere for that which is beyond that. I say to such things because the first one you could see where somebody forced you to come, you know? Mind has a little upside now. It will say, 'Oh, this is very nice,' but I knew that when I go back to the real world, things are so available. But this is the reality which you're finding, which is beyond time. Just with words, with concepts here, the process is in reverse. This is the power of your own concept. Now here is covering that this is your reality, that which is beyond time. What can this, what can you fake this timeless one? There's a point. Something from you, from this world, is it wanting them to ocean? Just doesn't mean that they can't come. They can come, but not looking for your reality. Recognizing this timeless one because something will appear in this day, because even that will be in time. Suppose nothing happened, nothing changed in this realm, but you saw that you are the timeless. Okay? Enough. If nothing changed in this realm, the realm of time, nothing changed, would you saw that you are the timeless? Enough.
Oh, and you say this is enough, then you truly can see the Mukti. Because you don't want anything from this, then because you don't want it from this, you can share anything that happens. You don't want things. No fear out to me before anything that might happen is okay. So then you don't fear when I have this one. But you see that you are the timeless one. What is there to desire or fear? So the same thing ultimately. So don't make the coconut back in the equation. It's a portal in time. Bring this body-mind now. What can be taken from you? What can we take? That which is in time is going to go anyway. But see, we just come in time, stay eternally. This whole land and this whole universe is apparent to you in time and will disappear for you, right? Every morning and every night. What will you take? What can you take from you with this into your deep sleep? Thank you, might take. So that it is even possible even with this play of so-called continuity. It's completely possible you go to sleep tonight, tomorrow just wake up somewhere. 'How did I get here?' or 'What happened to my world, my house?' Even if the memory of the so-called continuity is there, you can't tell what happened.
So this power of the belief, which is if I completely forgot who I am, I remember my Brahman. It is a part of the image. For us, remember who you truly are. It gets in only a part, maybe just a really fat pink spinning. This remembrance of this morning is not a memory of a different conception or character. Majority of our time is in this. Even our so-called only time, we're not constantly oppressed by personhood conceived like that because we remember these times which with oppression seems strong most of the time, which is looking at stuff. There is no 'me' of 'me doing, I have to do.' It can feel like it is constant in our life, but if you were to truly just watch one day, let that part of our ankles without this, and then we are also more conscious of what it is. Abandon personhood. Easy.
I know what you're saying, that we are not in this conscious recognition, but in that just feel something moving, moving, moving. It is that limitation is not there. The limitation is not really present, which is not—I completely understand what you mean, which is different from life's conscious recognition. What is aware of my existence? But as we pretend as if you play my existence is even now, as the limitation is not picked up, the truth is quite apparent.
What is apparent right now is for your thought count. It is not necessarily not articulated truths, but it's a very natural truth as your notional is in that moment before the next notion comes. This reality is just a power, but it is not at the process of bringing attention back to its solvency again. It is only this there speaking that you don't mess it, okay? Attention also can go wherever it lands, but can never leave yourself. Always connected, and actually, it is never leaving you. So what is apparent to your insight without a concept of it? Is there a division?
Yeah, this whatever, whatever doing is happening, whatever activity is happening, if at the same time I'm kind of conscious of my presence, then the quality of it is different. Yeah, it has more, more power. It just feels like there's no more power than just normal activities. Just optimistic route is more truthful as we—if what you mean is a potential is mostly might be, yes, I understand. This certain naturalness to do that activity, so it feels like everything is just flowing. There's no option but use right, that even a potential adjusts itself itself. It's one is just it's so normal in essence.
You can bring in that normalcy, and this is my main point. And even in your normalcy, your God, if you feel like even the normalcy a person is there, there too I have to come to a special place to be there. That is what I am trying to abolish anyway. This council in your normalcy, your normal existence, which is maintenance, there is no months also, no. But you are, we just not, just not in that state of trying to control attention and bring it back to this. You're completely aware of your existence. It's never a time when you're not aware of your existence, but you can try to become unaware of attention because even if you say 'I'm disappear object,' that is it. You're always aware of just our existence. It's just that we believe something else about ourselves.
So this process of meeting it again is a beautiful to see. This is what the mind is saying about their limited mutant. Otherwise, in the match quickly of life without a meaning unsaid, this normally is this deceive. If they totally do in this natural intentionally, this seemed to get this. So the particle is so much for the mind to use temptation, attraction to something must be built into that expression. Even to this or that which is beyond time, even that which appears to be time, does that mean with this beautiful design so much as ever supposed movements money or not out spheres? Bodies like a pendant on first picking up the limited idea about myself. That is why it's very important for you to see that you know McLean is right now. Who are the unlimited one? Nothing will need to do even with your attention. It becomes unlimited because you are done. Do not become it.
If someone came to you and they said, 'So please find my head,' example, this is that's what I got the example. And then somebody comes and says, 'Help me find myself.' Yet since way before I can help you find yourself, we have to lose yourself. It's on this. Don't be yourself regarding the existence. We know that it's the aware of existence. So model he is your existing effortless. It is also we, although every scent soakers in control like you in you and everything is happening in the light of this existence. To existence is independent in the concept of you. All that happens here is independent of all your sense of phosphene control is because there is no person, okay? The non-existent one has power.
So this is not tell you that you are on your chair in this world, which is mister tell you that you are the higher power. But this higher power is not personal. Whatever you try to get for yourself, more already more than you trying to get rid of them already. Whatever you're trying to become to pay your time, who's that yourself? So therefore you trying to kill your mother. Whatever your idea of greatness is, one more I will this help display of the coconut in any way doesn't happen. The shell, this body, as if you're remind you it is well. Hopefully it's a good pop. Kill anyone being a shaky shaky secret more benefits districts Dharma. I'm not on the cross between the king that is in us all. Christopher ever with my other states. Thank you so much for being attentive to be a guru. Sri Mooji Baba.