What Remains Untouched When Waking State Comes? - 8th December 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to recognize that they are not objects contained within the body or the world, but the unchanging witness of all perceptions. He invites a shift from conceptual knowledge to the direct, empty recognition of Self.
What is that which witnesses the coming and going? Is that itself an appearance?
You have never been contained in this objective boundary. You are that which remains completely untouched.
For the true knowledge, all that is needed is the dropping of the forms.
contemplative
Transcript
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The way you heard yesterday, you will understand your examination has started. We found that the exam sheets which you got already have all the answers. Everything is done. Now what is your mood? Do you want to have something to cancel, something to show how much you have learned? You've got this wonderful surprise the minute you enter it. If you don't see it, then see it now. Everything that had to be completed is complete. To add some 'and', 'if', 'but', 'but'... to do that you have to specify what is missing right now. What will you speak except about the appearance of something? What's on the other side of the appearance? What witnesses this appearance? Who is aware of them? Where is your doubt here?
Dance is happening here in the world of the dancer. So many of you have been getting messages, even incidents, emotions. Emotions are being felt, pain obviously, but this dance continues. The entirety of you, are you in this moving, moving, moving? You see, because if you are in that, then you are also coming and going. Then you don't need to worry anyway, you will be gone. So if you were just an appearance, I would try to fix something. But if you are not contained in any appearance, in the dance, but you are that which witnesses all of it, that is aware of all of it and yet remains completely untouched no matter what the content of the dance may be, so which is your truth? What contains you? What defines you?
Now what will happen is that you might feel like you are an object contained within this body. Okay, let me go really slowly. Body is an object. So all that an object can contain is only an object. Can an object contain an object? It can have the space to have other objects. So it sets space for other objects. So if you are something which is contained in this body, then you must be an object. Now this object has never been found by anybody. Cut open the head, you will not find the object called 'me'. Cut open any part of the body, you will not find this object. So as you see that—and all of you know in your heart actually that you are not an object—this is the mind. The mind might be fighting right now trying to find a hundred reasons to convince you that actually you are an object. You might be suppressing these kind of answers, but your heart is telling you no.
Even this body... I want after this body, I will be. Even this very popular notion that 'I will rest in peace' after this body is gone. Even such a popular notion that means so much of humanity actually in their heart believes that they are not bound by these bodies. And as you are starting to see that this body is nothing but a set of perceptions, a set of experiences, a set of sensations, then what is the mind trying to do? It is trying to fill your notions on oneness with the rest of the world. Meaning, 'Okay, I cannot be the body, but I can't yet see that I am one with the world.' But that is the next container the mind is giving you: that you are an object contained in this world, or you are the world-object itself. You see, but that is also nothing but a set of sensations, a set of perceptions.
So you don't have to try to find oneness this way, like this: 'Oh, am I one with this computer?' So if you've broken one objective boundary, or you see that you have never been contained in this objective boundary, now you're trying to broaden that into an objective boundary, but it's only consisting of more perceptions. But what is that which is beyond perception? What is that which does not come and go? All perceptions, they come and go. All appearances, they come and go. What is that which witnesses the coming and going? Who is that that can even say they come and go? Is that itself an appearance?
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Then you are starting to see that we are not even in this world. Just like you saw that you are not just this body, you are starting to see that you are not just this world and not just this universe. All of this is still the dance of perceptions. And many bodies were identifying with many worlds which you call your own world. And here in this realm you say, 'This is my life, my world.' And in a dream you say that is your life. In deep dreaming, then you feel like that is your life. Whole consciousness is projecting various, various realms for you to inhabit. Find that one which is beyond all of these fields. What does not go to sleep in your sleep? What remains untouched when the waking state comes? What remains untouched no matter what the sensation might be? The strongest sensation might be there, the strongest pain might be here. Is there entirety of human being? What can you say about that which witnesses this play? Biggest grief might be there. Is there entirety of human grief?
So we are not to get into any sort of denial of the world. We can look at the appearance as an appearance. But if you use that definition of reality which says that reality is that which is unchanging, does that dissolve a bit of our attention or no? And if their life is going in the play of appearances, then there will be enough in this drama to go on with various something... it will be easy. If you're happy to spend this entire existence just playing with this set of appearances, that's fine too. But I am speaking to those who are willing to look beyond. What is beyond this play of coming and going? And if it is beyond this play of coming and going, it must be here now. It can never go.
And for the true knowledge of this, Knowledge with the capital K, all that is needed is the dropping of the forms. You don't have to come to reality actively because that would be contradictory. You can't come to that which is not coming and going. It must already be here. But just for a moment, can you be empty of this conceptual layer of depth? Also favorite ideas about yourself, of all that you have learned, all you... including all the Satsang you ever attended. Nothing you heard, nothing you understood, nothing. Not one step you have. What you have always just been here. You were, you know. And if your answer is just an inference, then better you admit that you don't know. To hold on to a second-hand answer, even if you have heard it in Satsang, will not get you... that is not integrity. No judgment, no experience, nothing learned. Completely naked of any concept. Oh, I will...
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