What If We Did Not Have A Single Concept? - 26th January 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta invites seekers to drop all conceptual understanding and remain in the silence of their own being. He emphasizes that true realization is not about acquiring 'killer concepts' but recognizing the presence that remains when thoughts are ignored.
Don't believe your next thought; let that be your final thought.
No new concepts can be the last concept; we are not here to clarify concepts but to throw them away.
If you stay with the experience of presence, you don't have to bother about anything else.
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Transcript
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So what words can better this silence? And yet we try. Suppose there was just no capacity for conceptualizing. Cannot pick up a concept. Suppose you lost the capacity. What would you lose as a concept? Yes, yes, but we have to use concepts to remember that. That's why I said we can't compete with the silence, and yet we want to use some words because some concepts are there. Same way, the thorn example. So suppose we use this as a thorn today to ask: if you did not have a single concept, including the concept of a concept, would what is stop? Just by the dropping of our conceptual understanding, would this—that is—would it stop? And if it did, even if it did, who would it matter to?
So we must not come to Satsang to pick up new concepts. No new concepts can be the last concept. Not even to clarify our concepts, because many times it can seem like I am here to clarify some concepts. But if the pointing is not leading to the throwing away of the concept and just modifying it to something else, then I need to do my job better. So if it is not leading to throwing away of the concept, but just that it's giving you the best killer concepts which nobody can argue with, then I'm not doing my job. And you know that I love to experiment. So can we say that today it is an experiment like this: I will not pick up a single concept.
We have allocated some time for this anyway. We are here. I don't want to fix a concept, get any new concept, get the killer concept, all these. So let it go for some time. Nothing is going to happen for the next two hours. You will not learn anything at all. There will be an energy which offers and says, 'I got this fresh one for you.' Usually it's the recycled stuff. When we decide to not pick up, then usually it tries to tempt you with some fresh idea. So there'll be an energy which comes like this, which you call the mind or the ego, which comes and says, 'Yeah, this is brand new, fresh for you today. Fresh off the oven I have for you to taste.' And let it come and let it go. Don't do anything with it. Let the offer come and let the offer go. Don't push it away. Don't say, 'I don't want nothing.' Just look. Just watch it.
As I've often said, 'don't believe your next thought' is also a thought, but let it be your final thought. The final believed thought. Thoughts will continue. If you have to believe a thought, then believe this one. It says: don't believe the next thought. For no effort is needed. So if you find yourself making some sort of effort, even that is not needed in the allowing of all to come and go. It is the resting. It is not effort. Some very mundane ideas, some very glorious ideas might be coming. Let them go. Some bliss or some boredom could be coming. It doesn't matter either way. Some of you might be enjoying the naturalness of this, and for some of you it might be becoming unbearable. Both are okay.
Something could be saying that, 'Now I've taken out two hours to be in Satsang from my busy schedule and here you're not saying anything. I had to join today only.' What concept do we have that beats this? What idea can be better than the taste of this? What is?
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He says that there is a sense of peace or a feeling of peace. Who is the experiencer of this peace?
So usually when I get a question like that, what I ask is: what are my options? So tell me who all are here, then I will pick between those. Concept? What is here which is not a concept? You say that some peace is experienced. This is a sense, you see. Direct experience. It is not concept. It's not a belief. It's not based on faith. It just is. What is, it is an experience, right? Then you said, 'Who is it that experiences this also?' And I said, tell me who is here. So if you tell me that these three, four, five are here, then make it multiple choice for me. Today I'm being lazy. So what are the options? Who all are here?
Presence is here. Okay. Who else is here? Everything else is a concept.
Therefore, then who must be experiencing this peace? This Consciousness? Only Consciousness is here. You say only Consciousness is here, the rest is just concept. Okay, then who must be having this direct experience? Don't think about it. You have to check. Where are all experiences being experienced? I can sense that my presence is here, being 'I am'. Is there anyone else here? Then you're not giving me the choices to pick from, so I will only pick that one. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
That's why when we speak from experience, it's a lot simpler. When we speak from concepts and ideas that we have, then it becomes all mixed up. So directly from your experience now, what would you say? Who is experiencing this peace so beautifully?
So you say that only this presence is here, all else is conceptual. And who is aware of this presence?
So presence also has an opposite called absence. That's why we use the word presence. So presence and absence of a who? Right now, simpler than that. It's simpler than that. Who is aware of presence? Someone else is telling you that, 'Hey, your presence is there,' or you know it? Presence is... can say like that. But then how would presence be aware of absence right now? So the space of presence seems completely united with the sense of being aware for you right now. This is good enough. This is good enough. If you stay with the experience of presence, then you don't have to bother about anything else. This is the realization of God, presence.
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