This Is the Truest Power of Now - 7th December 2017

This is the truest power of now. What is the truest power of now? It is that in this now, you are empty of all your conditions. All the projects that you could have picked up to try and come to the truth are already done for you. I don't know how to convey this actually; I'm trying to give it to you as the best news possible. Okay, let's say then you attended this course in college, and the entire two years of college or three years of college, you didn't study anything at all. You didn't study anything at all. Then the last day before the exam, you're trying to study, but you realize that it is just too much. Then you say, 'No, for me, it's all in God's hands.' And so you show up to the examination hall and you get the answer sheet, and you see that it's already filled out completely with all the right answers. Wouldn't that be the best news ever?

So, this is the power of this now. All that you thought you would have to do to find this freedom is already done for you already. And anything you add to this answer paper, you'll only deduct your marks. You want to add one part over there, thinking, 'What is that? Everything is done? It is complete?' You are getting full marks, passing with flying colors, but the mind wants to insert its bit. 'I also studied. God has done everything for me, but I want to show that I also want to contribute to my freedom.' So many times, this is what is happening.

The mind is commenting, 'Are you sure this is the right answer? Because you're not sure what you studied.' But this is exactly the truth. So one day you will see that anything that you mix, anything that you mix with the mind, you quickly come to zero—zero not in a good way, like zero marks. Now, the trouble is that some of you have studied too much, so you are unwilling to accept that all that has to be done is just here naturally. Then you want to write, 'No, no, I will write the patterns still.' No. That which is naturally available is your own presence only, and it is so apparent to you that you are aware of it. Not a step you have to take, not a letter you have to write.

So when I say don't be attached so much to 'my way,' it is the same as saying don't be so attached to your concepts, your answers. Many of us carry the sense also that we're trying to figure it out, but it cannot be figured out because you cannot solve this empirically using the insight you have through your senses. You cannot bring your absolute Self, you cannot resolve this as a rationalist. You cannot reason your way to the truth. You can reason your way away from the false to a great extent, and that way reason is helpful, but to drop this identity of the one that is looking or the one that is reasoning also is beyond intellect.

And according to freedom, will it cost for any of us to do? Nobody could do it. Coming to freedom was like a scientific discovery, and nobody will find it. Therefore, it is called a recognition of what is already here. You cannot even say it is blowing in the wind; the wind is blowing in the Atma. If nobody hit my walk, the limit getting toward truth is neither too difficult nor too simple. It's just, in this example, the blank answer sheet is the best answer. So what are you going to fill in? Because the question is: 'I am ____.' I am blank. What are you going to fill into this one?