What Makes the Falling Away of Identity Happen? - 8th August 2017

That's a good question. She says the falling away of identity cannot be will. What makes it happen? First, for this, you have to clarify what you mean by 'will'. Let me clarify the question for her. If there was something like free will, who would it belong to? If it belonged to a person entity, then that would mean that there actually was an entity that came into existence. Now, if no person has ever come into existence, can it ever have anything, including will? So that which doesn't exist, should it have will? I think not.

Let's look at this own whole one for me. If you look a little more simple, there is no blue cat like that. So how can that blue cat have will? For this, would the blue cat want to go outside the room? What is the will of the blue cat? We are talking about there is no such thing. In the same way, if we say that the person has some will, we have to first find if there is such a thing like a person, or is it just an idea like the blue cat? This was the first option: who could have will? So when we say it cannot be will, then we actually might mean that it cannot be will from a personal perspective, because no such person actually came into existence. No such entity is here.

Then you might feel, 'If not my will, from which perspective?' What is the next perspective? In the light of this consciousness, like 'I Am', then the parent play appears and all the movements apparently happen. Now, all of this is what we can say is the will of consciousness. Why the play happens cannot be defined. This is not an answer which matches up to some standard of proof. Again, we say it is the will of consciousness because we find only consciousness. We clearly see before all that is happening, because we see the design and the pattern and everything that is happening, the ruler of this must be conscious. If it must be willing, it is consciousness.

As I surrender, we say it: 'Twam Karta, Twam Bhokta.' I am not the doer, I am not the experiencer. You, God, are the real consciousness, the one doer, the one experiencer. So from that onwards, I say we can say everything is the will of consciousness. Therefore, even the dropping—the picking up and the dropping—both must be just the will of consciousness. Everything is grace. Nothing, not a blade of grass moves unless it is that the will of consciousness plays out.

Now, there is the third perspective also you can take. You can say that my true essence is the Absolute, that which sees that even the will of consciousness is being witnessed as some aspect of myself. But I, as the Absolute, am the witness. By my being, I am aware of my being. I am aware of my beingness. It is so pure, so unconcerned by even the concept of will, yet everything comes from within it. So will does not apply at the personal level. It does not apply at the Absolute level. It only applies at this level, which is the level of consciousness.