What Remains is This Inexpressible Awareness - 28th August 2017

So it seems that's the only way to find this no identity that you speak of, that I remain and all else is gone. No word is needed. I even felt what he calls 'you' actually, yes. What it means is just this awareness without any separation. I mean, I or you, and yet the discovery is the most intimate discovery that we are making about ourselves.

This is a beautiful distinction. As many times it can happen in the world that we come across a worldly object, we get so besotted by it, so then also we can have this feeling of forgetting about ourselves or the limited self. Like it is in India, they say 'Jab pyar kiya to darna kya'—when you are in love, then what is there to fear? And people have been known to give up their lives in these kind of things, you see, that kind of phenomenal love. So when we come to the discovery of this awareness, it is not a discovery like that, where we discover something outer and because of that we forget about the limited self. Here we are discovering something which is so intimately I, more so than anything has ever been, that we are forgetting about the limited self. And because it is the Self that is being discovered, it is unlike a worldly infatuation because it is not coming and going. Very beautiful, isn't it?

So, her experience of fearlessness, desirelessness has been in the past because of her infatuation with a worldly object. And you experience this kind of fearlessness of courage, it is because of our letting go of our limited selves because we got so devoted or infatuated with an outside object. Here what you are finding is that this innermost truth about your own being, that prior to even being, that which is not coming and going, which is not changing. Consciousness is discovering the immaculate nature of its own source and letting go of the fear and the desires of the limited self.

This actually fits in very well even with what Shanti was saying earlier, which is that the Satguru might seem to come in an external form and they can behave sometime, maybe feel like we've become so attached to that, and that actually has brought us so much peace in our life. But this will be the only external attachment which will lead you to your own inner discovery. That is the true function of the master. Immediately, currently, there's a lot of controversy around some masters and all this study, exploitation and things like that. So this is how you do your due diligence, if speaking this way for a minute. This is how you check: Is the master's presence, is the master's words, do they have the fragrance of my being? Are they pointing me to that unchanging reality that I am? Are they saying that the outer master is just a representation of your own inner holy presence?

And initially when we come to Satsang, we smell like this. What is the fragrance around a being in this? You'll find that words that have been spoken, many have reported also like this in Satsang, isn't it? They say, 'How do you... before the words are emerging from your mouth, I am already hearing them.' Some reported like this. They said that 'You are answering all the questions which I had without asking them,' saying that 'I find what I'm discovering as you is my own presence, my own heart.' All of this sense of any more sense of inner peace, all of this is how we come to this beautiful recognition.