This Existence Is Being Explored Here - 6th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta points to the timeless, spaceless reality of the Self, explaining that suffering only arises when consciousness identifies with limited notions instead of its natural, motionless existence.
You are the light of this world; all exists only because you exist.
Consciousness cannot suffer without giving assent to a limited notion about itself.
This 'now' is not a moment in time, but that in which all moments move.
contemplative
Transcript
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You are the light of this world. All exists in the existence of your light. Can you testify to the existence of even the Sun, which is—which seems like the biggest light that you can come across—can you testify to its existence unless you exist? So this existence is being explored. Being God presence, your presence is just here now. This now is not a moment in time; it is that now in which moments come and move, but you remain unchanged. It is that for which no time exists. This is true about you now. Even now, if you were to check for just a minute, you will find that all time exists only for objects in my perception. That which is perceiving them is not subject to any time; it is timeless and it is here. And all that is subject to time takes some space, but you are the that in which this time and space, they appear and they disappear. This is not some fancy esoteric description; it is just a simple natural reality.
I saw one more thing yesterday. It will seem like a big magic trick, some weird strange thing, that that which is beyond space and time considers itself such a small object, this set of sensations, perceptions. How is it possible and why? Why does it happen? And consciousness—this is the play of consciousness tasting itself as a limited object and then enjoying the taste of its discovery of any limitation. Sometimes what happens is as we are tasting this limited being, it's like, 'This is much too much for me.' Yes, yes, that is true. It is too much for the 'me,' but for you, it is what you want.
And all of you, as you are having this insight about what you truly are, also you start to notice that anytime there is a notion of suffering—whether it is a grievance, whether it is pride, whether it is guilt, whether it is resentment—you start to notice that consciousness must be now believing a lie about itself. That is why it is going. Consciousness posing as a cat cannot suffer without giving assent to a limited notion about yourself. To that, 'I should not be suffering.' That is why one of my favorite terms these days is motionless existence.