We Know the Truth, Still What Needs to Happen? - 5th September 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that the only thing ever required is to exist for one moment without interpretation or judgment. He guides the seeker to see that all 'why' questions and feelings of lack are merely mental constructs.
What needs to happen is one moment of your existence without any interpretation, and that is now.
Every 'why' question is fundamentally only a confusion about who we are.
Don't bring any knowing into this, because it all inserts duality where there is none.
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Transcript
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Father says the same things to us every day, every day. And in my head, I'm just feeling that I am the light's on. I'm the light's on. Like I am, I'm life. And I just had in my mind, I'm the light's on. So regardless of everything, it comes on. I'm the light's on. Does that make sense? Like I'm dead and I've actually—I know that I am life. I know I'm not no thought at all. So I'm saying that, I mean, knowing that I'm in grace, I have these times where I'm just totally free and I know we all do. But then we get caught up. What needs to happen? You know, what needs to happen to me? Because we know the truth. Do we just need to stand firm, sit on your lap, keep quiet, read the Bible, listen to the Ashtavakra Gita? Something isn't happening. I don't know. But right now I feel good and I know that I just visit this. I know it and I know I'm the light's on. So why do these times come where it's not so established, it's not so long? I don't know. But then again, I just be like, ah, thought away. Just that simple. No, stay away. Like man, sometimes it just comes up and be so strong and so I think about the past and then beat yourself up about something past. The homeless guy, maybe I actually gave my quarters and my, you know, so much. And I just be like, throw it away. And then I'd be like, there's too much of a past with you. So that's it. I want to be quiet.
The main thing I understood from this is that: what needs to happen? And I feel like you know the answer, but it is good to hear it fresh every time because as you said, I'm saying the same thing. So what needs to happen is one moment of your existence without any interpretation. And that is now. And what needs to happen now is one moment of your existence without any interpretation, which is now. And what needs to happen now is one moment of your existence without interpretation, which is now.
Now, what gets to us is that sometimes there are moments that interpretation is believed. Something happened; you believe an idea about yourselves. You believe in your limitation, your constriction. Is it now? What needs to happen there? It is exactly the same. It is not the post-mortem, it is not the guilt, it is not the unworthiness. What needs to happen then is one moment of your existence without interpretation. Now, the mind has many interpretations about this, like it could say, 'This is too simple' or 'Is that it? But what about something special? What about fireworks? But why do I keep going back and forth?' And in all of this, the only thing that ever needs to happen is that one moment of your existence without interpretation. It is just that straightforward. It's just that straightforward. And that moment always can only be now.
Now, this answer many times is not satisfying to the mind. Like, 'Tell me what to do. Do I need to constantly be in self-inquiry? Do I need to physically be there in Satsang? What is it? How is it?' But with full integrity, I am telling you that this is the answer. If something needs to happen, it is only this: that you should leave this moment completely untouched.
I don't want to stress this out, but why do I need to still get that confirmation? You know, why I can't just be like, what is now, now, now, now? And I tell myself that, but we established maybe I need to hear it from Father, you know? That's how I feel anymore. I need to read it somewhere. I need to get it. I feel like a mama's boy.
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Just like this, as it is unfolding, that a body became so intimate to you that you might call it 'you'. Some words arising from that body, really, it is saying what needs to happen. And all of that, you have to also leave that moment unjudged and uninterpreted. Because otherwise, this duality gets a hold. Like these kind of questions—every 'why' question is not actually a 'why' question. It is fundamentally only a confusion about who we are. And when you say, 'Why do I still need confirmation from Father?' we are still making a separation between you and me.
But as you leave it untouched, no matter what's appearing in this movie, no matter how the waves are flowing, as we leave it untouched, uninterpreted, not judging ourselves—'Why am I still like this? When will this be over?'—then we're still coming back into that duality that 'I have this object to me'. So these are the trump cards the mind will use, these judgments, using its interpretations of what is happening. So as in this plane, in this game you're playing, in this period that the oneness is being recognized so naturally in that moment, or an interpretation, non-judgment... but the mind seems to bring up what it knows is the trump card and say, 'But why do you still need Father? Why can't you be on your own now?'
What have you made yourself to be in that judgment? You have again made yourself to be one with birth and death, one with limitations, just that body, isn't it? But in the moment where you're empty of any interpretation, what are you? Are you just this body? You don't have to answer that because there had to be a judgment, maybe. But you will see that at least that limitation is not there. That limitation is not there. And that is the important thing. That is the pristine truth. All that I'm actually saying is this alone: just don't interpret, don't judge, don't bring any knowing into this because it's all false. It all inserts duality where there is none.