Where to Look for the Self? In the Now. - 3rd January 2017

There's nothing that you have to do to become that because you are. That's a balance. First, clarify the higher. So, say something very beautiful also before we started the broadcast. He said Bhagavan used to say that you will find me only when you find yourself. It's like Kabir Ji who used to say, 'I went looking for God and I found myself. I went looking for myself and I found God.' And all of us know these things, actually. If I was to ask you: Is the Self ever-present or does it come and go? You'd say ever-present. So, where to look for the Self? In the present.

Can there be an incomplete Self? Can we be a half-Self which is trying to become the full Self? Even stranger idea: Can you lose yourself so that now you are trying to find it? Lose yourself? I've been asking this for a couple of years now. Nobody has actually lost themselves. Just try to stop existing for a moment then I'll point you to existence. Nobody can do it. You just are, effortlessly. The truth is here. And don't confuse what I'm saying to be some sort of inaction; that is level confusion. The actions or inactions of the body will continue to happen. I am pointing about the you which is much beyond this body, much beyond this universe.

You are so much beyond this universe that even to say the universe is your body is stretching it a bit. That is so... they're using, 'Oh, this... it is so much beyond me.' This world has given itself the power to consider itself to be just this limited body-mind. Yes, the ego. That is a divine mystery, and how it is playing this game of seemingly struggling to come out of this identity. Try struggling to meet yourself now as you are. It is nobody. There is no world, there is no universe, there is only the Self.

All distinctions are mental. Whether it is Nirguna, whether it is with qualities, whether it is Saguna, without qualities, it is only the Self. The mind wants to divide; the Self is ever united. And all notions are nothing but distinctions in time and space. If you stop making distinctions, then time and space... when we start with a distinction, we say, 'Time... oh, it's okay, now we'll talk about the future.' So, can now get him some good energy? This is also distinction. Where is the future? Has anybody experienced it? Is the past any clearer? I have no evidence of the past except this very unreliable memory. All this is also distinction.

It is one consciousness playing this game of light and sound, and the mind is designed to chop it up into pieces: past, present, future; me, other; my faculty, other faculty. I saw the fight, my truths... what is this 'me' and 'my'? It never got anyone anything except suffering.