Unworthiness Is Simply Not Applicable - 8th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta dismantles the concept of worthiness, asserting that existence itself is the only prerequisite for freedom. He emphasizes that conditioning cannot obstruct the truth, as worthiness is an inapplicable benchmark in the discovery of the Self.
The only prerequisite for freedom is that you exist; worthiness as a concept is simply not applicable.
No condition, state, past, or future is needed; your existence is enough.
Worthiness is as irrelevant to finding freedom as asking how tall one must be to be free.
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Transcript
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So let's look at it very, very objectively if possible, based on whatever I'm sharing in Satsang. If you want to take the ball and say, 'How worthy, how much worthiness should be there in one to discover what I want?' you see, what worthiness is needed? Nothing. Because the only prerequisite is that you exist. I'm pointing to your existence. You can have no room for unworthiness. What I'm saying is that it is not applicable as a concept. The worthiness itself as a concept is not applicable because there is no benchmark for worthiness. I am saying that you exist and your existence is enough. Hear what I'm saying? So no condition, no state, no past, no future, nothing is needed. So the tracking of worthiness as a concept is not needed because it's not applicable.
It's like saying, 'How old does one have to be?' Even that might have a better answer actually, but how old does one have to be to recognize what they are? No such answer. In a very imperfect way, even at a young age. So no qualitative or quantitative distinction is needed. So we measure the concept itself. It belongs to a different schedule, just weighing the grill of all values. Nothing is always what you mean. It's just looking, looking at the background somewhere, waiting to show up. I just want to expose it because it doesn't get that much light, but it comes around and always there's always an attempt to... it comes in many forms and interpretations with all kinds of thought processes. You can even in a dream. So like, it's one of those stickier, like annoying concepts. Do you have any recollection of what the first recollection of feeling unworthy was?
Because just as a child, you know, not getting... they're getting a lot of criticism. Now, could you not everything on this story? And then getting told very much that I'm just not worthy in very clear words. That's... I don't blame myself or anything for having a sense of unworthiness, but it is just not... just... just there. Exposed. It was always for you. It was always there, just to verbalize it more than I've done.
You see, but then you rightly said that it's not an uncommon emotion. But I'm telling you that, I'm telling all of you that it is not applicable in the sense that it is as useful as saying, 'How tall does one have to be to find freedom?' That's what I mean by not applicable. What did you eat for breakfast? Does that decide whether you get freedom today or no? It's like saying that it's just not applicable. And I know that especially in Satsang, she knows that this concept is really not applicable, but this is the power of conditioning, especially childhood conditioning. When something has been deeply ingrained, it can feel like... okay, so it takes a bit of time for it to just become... it is actually nothing. But we see that it is truly never, never applicable. It fades into other things, exposing it, especially exposing it in the light of truth. But as much as that is, I do.