This Is Where You Keep Your Vantage Point - 20th April 2015

Before we get started with the question today, I wanted to point you to something very simple. This is so simple it's too simple for the mind to understand, but those who have openness, those with which there is this resonance in the heart, for them this will unfold in its complete simplicity. And it's not something you have not heard before, but I want you to taste this. Taste this now. Let everything be exactly as it is. Just let everything be exactly as it is. And this is not something which I am asking you to do in the future; I am saying right now, just leave everything exactly as it is. Everything means both externally and seemingly internally. Everything means everything. Just let it be whatever it is. Just let it be. If it feels like 'I'm going to die right now,' just let it be. If you feel like 'I'm feeling wonderful, so much joy,' just let it be. Okay? All sense of control is pure illusion and it is making you tired. So even the tiredness today, just let it be. Let your life be something for God to do. There is nothing you need to do. Let it all be for God to do. Let it be exactly as it is.

Notice that the desire to want to change something in this moment, what is appearing, the tendency to question and want to change it, is what is called the resistance. No person ever had any control over anything at all because no person has ever existed. Even this, this much if you hear in Satsang today, it's enough. No person has ever had any control over anything at all because no person has ever existed. This is not something which I'm just saying because in Satsang we must say these nice things. It's not like this, you see. The mind will create this separation between Satsang and outside Satsang, Satsang and the seemingly real world outside. It says like this, isn't it? No person has ever existed inside or outside Satsang. Either when your attention is with the presence of the Satguru in your heart or when your attention is with your thoughts, this imagined person is always only imagined, never real. You must see this now. It must be seen like this. You must not let your mind trick you with any concept.

Anything personal is only imagined because the person is imagining. Everything personal is just imagination because the root concept is the person idea, which is a daydream, which is non-existent. The other day when Puna was in Satsang, I was sharing that imagine a person, any person. Let's imagine this 20-year-old teenager. Let's imagine a 20-year-old teenager and then ask this imagined entity to increase the volume or to turn off your computer. This is exactly what we are doing. I know that to the mind this sounds crazy, but this is what we are doing. We are imagining that I am this person, a pure figment of the imagination, and then we are presuming that this person is moving the body. This person is not moving the body; it does not exist. Do we have any evidence of its existence? Any tangible evidence of its existence? You only have this voice which claims to be the voice of the person, the voice of the mind. This is called the ego. Without this voice, would you ever delude yourself in this way?

This is exactly what is going on. You have just imagined that there is a person who is in control of this body and there are other persons who are in control of other bodies. Nobody has ever seen this person. It has never been met. Yet this voice comes and says, 'I am this person. I am separate. This is my independent free will,' whose we will never see because it does not exist. So we must not take this person concept seriously anymore. We can use it conversationally, but never take it seriously anymore. So I don't want you to come up here saying, 'Oh Father, Consciousness has this question for Consciousness.' We can speak normally in conversation; it's completely fine. Speak very normally. You can say, 'I have this question,' but don't take this concept of 'I' seriously. You must by now have seen that this person is just fiction, just fictional, and Consciousness is moving everything. So we don't need to provide that label before everything now. We can just be very natural in our approach.

And this is what we mean when we say you must have a strong nose for it now. This is what vigilance means. Vigilance is not something very complicated. It's not a restrictive space. Vigilance only means just once in a while keep checking: what are you speaking as? What are you believing? Just have a strong smell for it and see whether you have picked up the imagined voice again—the imagined voice claiming to be your voice, which is the voice of this imagined person. And it's very beautiful when you are smelling from your own heart. Your nose about personhood is actually very strong, very highly developed. Is what I am believing coming from this sense of being a person? Does it rely on the person concept? That's what you have to smell for, and then you will find that no thought is worthy of your belief.