We're Looking for Something Which is Always Here - 30th June 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to recognize the unchanging awareness that remains untouched by the mind's movements. He emphasizes that suffering only arises when we identify with the non-existent individual through belief in thoughts.
Before you go looking for the self, you already are and you always will be.
You cannot suffer without belief. You cannot suffer without an idea of you.
In this divine moment you are God. Have your own darshan.
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Transcript
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Everything else you are, and in this, there is nothing missing. We are looking for something that cannot disappear, that is always here. And as long as we keep looking for it seemingly outwards, we will not find it in this way. Must the feet walk to find the feet? Must the hands go to find the hands? Before you go looking for the Self, you already are and you always will be. That is the unchanging. The unchanging is never changing by definition. That makes it so simple.
Then can we find it in the realm of the changing? What is not changing?
The real I is not changing. Yes, very good. Awareness. You answer: Is anything changing affecting the unchanging in any way? So that which is changing is not affecting the unchanging in any way. The real I, this awareness, is unchanging even through the changing of states, through all experiences. If you are not changing—world is changing, body is changing, emotions are changing, thoughts are changing, the states are changing—that which witnesses them, that which is aware of them, that remains unchanged no matter what. And you see this every time you check. For most of you who've been in Satsang, every time you check, you find this unchanging awareness. Between yourself and this awareness, once the recognition is there, how is it that you still manage to make yourself suffer?
So the mind offers an escape route when this question is asked. If the recognition is there, then how is it that you still manage to make yourself suffer? The first response can be from the mind: 'No, I cannot suffer because I am the unchanging awareness. I cannot suffer.' The second can be to check and to see what is at the root of this suffering. Because every time I check, I recognize that I am this awareness which cannot suffer in any way. Suffering is an alien concept for that which I truly am.
So what can happen? What is it that convinces me that life should be different, should be not how it is appearing? Is the light itself, are these appearances called life, is life itself saying it should be different? It is just what it is. It is just what it is, and nothing is resisting that. We walk around ourselves in very difficult seeming situations, and in those situations, the responses that were required also came, and the outcomes that were meant to happen also happened. So what is it that is constantly saying, 'Not like this, not like that. I wish it looked like this, I wish it was like that. Oh, this is wrong, this is very good. I want this, I don't want this'?
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We've gotten used to these voices, and even now it could be going, 'Yes, yes, no, no, yeah, yes, no, yes, yes, this is good.' No, really, if we rely on this one for validation of who we are and whether we are on the right track or not, then we are just going to be led down the garden path again and again on this merry-go-round of individuality. So the recognition is very clear, and yet it is happening to believe, to identify, and that is magic. Some sort of divine magic, Leela. That one that we cannot find, that has become our addiction. And this that is here, this seems like a threat. That which we cannot find seems to have become more natural, and that which is effortless seems to become hard work.
So much so that the inclination is to find freedom for the non-existent one, because one day maybe it will become so happy that it will shut up. It won't. Trying and catering to every need of this non-existent one whose only representative is this mind's voice... the stomach is never full. Always, 'What's next? What's next? What's next? This is good, this is bad, I want this, I want to keep this, I don't want to lose this, I don't want this.' What is here that is prior to any of this?
And we have bought a lot of lies from this mind and from the minds of seeming others. Even things like, 'Without the mind, you would not eat, you would not take care of this body.' It's not true. Suppose the mind suddenly started speaking in Armenian? If the mind stopped speaking in whatever language—English, whichever language your mind is speaking—and suddenly it started speaking another language, would you forget how to eat? Would you not experience hunger? Life is going independent of this. The mind is just an instrument which interprets and makes patterns where nothing exists. Everything is just a movement in consciousness. That is the only pattern. That is all one being, one consciousness. The mind is there to make an individual story where none really exists. To clear the identity is just to float on the surface, never really looking at the ocean of consciousness on which this tiny speck of the body-mind is floating.
To the mind, this emptiness is a very scary concern. And as you are recognizing yourself, you are recognizing that you're empty of all desire, all plan, all aversion, all opinion. Empty even of all spiritual knowledge. And the mind fears its emptiness. So it is in this moment that it offers you a piece of candy. And it is in this moment that God chooses to remain as God, or God chooses to pretend to be a person. Just now, in this moment, this is what I want you to see. Right now, I am an unassociated being. There are no conditions to your existence. There is no lack, there is no judgment, there is no freedom, there is no bondage. Just now, in this divine moment, you are God. Have your own Darshan.
Let the fear come if it has to. Let the world burn if it has to. You stay here. Don't expect it, don't push, don't know why. Simply allow. Remain open. Have no concept about yourself. Sorry about this... just now, sorry about this. Appearances are appearing. You remain untouched. Not waiting, not trying, not getting anything. Only I am here. There is no you. Not wanting, not resisting, not believing. You are here now. No all ideas. There is nothing you have to do. Can you lose this? Can you be lost? If you sense some suffering, it means that you have picked up a belief. You cannot suffer without belief. You cannot suffer without an idea of you. Truth does not need an idea. And if you still feel that you can hold on to some idea here and drop this conditioning, that is not possible. This liberation, the ending of conditioning, is the ending of all concepts about yourself.
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