There Has Always Only Been One - 22nd February 2018

So, we had a very important visitor today. I said this evening a very important visitor is coming, so can we clean up the place a bit? And we clean up the place, scrub everything. I said, 'Finish.' And you find when we come in the evening that actually the visitor has always been here. That which we thought is the visitor was already here, but behind the dust, it seemed like this visitor was out. So that's what is happening in Satsang. One says, 'One cloud can seem to have obscured the sun.' And one says, 'One individual notion can seem to block a true vision of what is.' So all that we are doing in the Satsang is clearing up this dust. What is this dust? It is conceptual notions. Nothing even phenomenally has to be cleaned. This was also phenomena, but this which we think is an application, this conceptual notion is about ourself.

Then you say that that which we felt would be a visitor, actually you are looking for that God who you are longing for, as always has been here. Now there is another piece of very good news. The thing is, if God is already here, then can dust survive even for a moment? So even the seeming cleanup job is done for you. Now, it can seem like a conundrum, but it's not. Expect to find God. What is here? Can we expect to find a person? Some concept needs to be updated, that's all. If you expect to find God, now there is nothing which is stopping you. It's only that you find it's wrong to expect the person. To expect the person means there must be a belief in some limitation, some individuality, some notion. And just that has to go. That is all. It is this simple.

If you presume that there is an individual entity here who has to do X, Y, and Z to come to Brahman, then it can seem to be that way. If you don't pick up this mask of a person, if you don't pick up the presumption of individuality at all and just check what is already here, so not only is the visitor already here, who is it already here? That space in which all this is occurring has only been because of the light of this super visitor. Can you see it? Actually, this one is the landlord. About me was the visitor. I felt like I was the owner, but actually God has always been the landlord. The notion of 'me' is just a tenant. We have given vacation notice to this tenant by coming to Satsang, and the notice period is over now. But you, the mind, say, 'Oh, but I have something important to finish. Can I finish that project?' and I say, 'Okay, stay another day.' So this is the process of giving meaning to notions about ourself. We give a stay order. 'Okay, stay.' This is what's happening in Satsang: seeing that only there is only ever one who has been the owner of this house, the owner of this realm, and you have considered yourself to be just the appearance shining in this light.

I was saying yesterday or the day before, then why do we consider ourselves? We have the power to consider ourselves to be something. The unlimited one has the power to consider itself to be something, and we have long made a habit out of considering ourself to be this and these are constants. So if you want to use the power to consider yourself to be something, why don't you use that power to consider yourself to be everything? The space which contains everything, space is also appearing for you, isn't it? It's also an appearance. That space in which all other objects come is also just an appearance for you. So why do you take only one part of this appearance to be 'I'? Why don't we take everything for starters? Possibly because we had been signaling ourself to be some appearance anyway. So let's take the broadest appearance.

But then the question can be asked: 'Am I really the one that perceives this space? Am I really the one that is the witness of even this space and this time?' Am I really that? For now, there is no reason to doubt because it is not that it came to us, this witness. It is most intimate. So let's include that also. Now don't make any distinction. It has always been included and no distinction that you get. And even though in the play of considering yourself to be this, you will recognize that this is the only thing I don't have to consider myself to be. I am so intimately that, so originally that, so that nothing needs to be done. Not even this 'you considering myself.' Can you see that? Whenever I have considered myself to be something, it has only been with an aspect of myself. It has not been my complete reality.