This Notion Makes a Seeker Out of Us - 8th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta exposes the stubborn habit of spiritual seeking, revealing that the true self is already effortlessly present and requires no future achievement or individual effort to be realized.
The seeker is just another name for the limited idea of individual existence.
Not one step you need to move; you are already the completely enlightened being.
The pretend person never existed anyway; your being is effortlessly present.
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Transcript
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Is there one stubborn thought that you believe about yourself to expose in the fire of Satsang? What would that be?
I think the one stubborn thought, Father, would be our feeling that there is something to get or there is something to do.
This is very good. This is very good because this is very, very deeply ingrained in the nature of a spiritual seeker. We start off with the notion that 'I have to seek something and I will find it, and when I find it, then I will be free.' But all that you are discovering in Satsang here is that what you've always been, what has always been here, is your very existence. You are. But because the conditioning has been so strongly ingrained that 'I have to get something,' it can feel like 'I have to get my existence also.' Are you really getting this? But you are. Your being is effortlessly present. Everything else comes and goes, needs effort, needs time; but you are beyond these things.
The minute we buy this notion that there must be something to get, something that I have to do, this notion makes a seeker out of us. But the seeker is also just another name for the person, for the limited idea of individual existence. So I'm glad you highlighted this one because this is very, very relevant. 'Have I got it? Am I getting it? When will I get there?' And the notion of getting means that 'I have to become.' That 'I will realize myself only when I get something; I will become the true Self.' And in this, again, our starting point becomes false. Our perspective becomes that 'I am an individual limited entity and I have to get it, and then I will be free.'
What I'm saying is that look at what your starting point already is. Once you see that in the beginning itself you are all there is, then what to do with the idea of getting something? These are the gifts of our notionless existence. As we don't create a notional, conceptual boundary about ourselves as being through thoughts and sensations and perceptions in our own being, we see that 'I witness all of this.' There is only one without another, and that is myself. And this is your starting point already, you see? This is the best news.
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So now, like you said, it's a stubborn habit to go to this seeking, to go to this idea of becoming. Can the ocean start to believe itself to be a drop? The ocean came to its own self-recognition, so it is only the false that dropped away. The drop that dropped away—the ocean was just what it always was. You are. And I'm sure it's a pretty common thought for many of us. And today we can use this opportunity as one is exposing it; let's all of us expose it in the fire of Satsang and surrender it here in the light of your own true seeing or in the trust that you feel for the Master.
Not one step you need to move, but one image has to change. All that you are, being where you are, it's just like when I'm sitting on a chair. Any position that you can take is the completely enlightened being, and that is you. As being, you are ever free, and the pretend person never existed anyway.