Wherever You May Wander, You Are Always ‘This’ - 12th January 2019

Now the journey is really, really super fun actually because it is already over, you see? It is already over here and now, but it is the seeker usually just keeps picking up the journey over and over again. It's like you take a flight from Boston to Bangalore, you see, and you've got to Bangalore and you quickly fly back and take the flight back again, you see, because the journey is over. 'Oh, this is it.' But, but, but what happened? He went back to Boston. How is it over? If you say, 'Where is my seventh chakra?' or something like that—back to Boston. This is it. If you say, 'What happened to those fireworks during my experience three years ago?'—back to Boston. Any notion that you attach now, now... I was saying yesterday that if I said that a cat is going to walk through this door in a minute, you deal with that looking at the door much more than when I say the truth is apparent to you now.

The truth is apparent to you now, right? No, no. 'What? Maybe for him...' All this, give it a chance. What is here now? This is the shortest journey ever. Quicker than immediate, you see? Quicker than time. You are it. Faster than you can sit where you're already sitting, you are the Atma. What is the journey between you and when you are already sitting? How many steps you have to take? Let's hear.

Zero.

More intimate than that is you yourself. But if you grasp at the idea, then you can start turning around the whole of Bangalore, the whole of the world. What do you do? 'Why? I want to get to where I started from.' Suppose the goal was to find exactly where you're sitting right now and you start walking. Are you going to get closer to it or further? Until the point you go around the world and then you come closer, so you can come to it that way, you see. But where will you reach? Exactly where you are now. Wherever you may wander, you are this. You could not lose yourself if you tried.

So what is happening then? Okay, if you do like this, that it is more immediate than immediate itself, more now than now, then what is this game all about? And because you have unlimited potential, you have the potential also to consider yourself to be something that you are not. So you have the potential to consider yourself to be this bucket of flesh and blood, which is really a family in its nature. But if you want to consider yourself to be this, nothing can stop you. If you want to play like this, nothing can stop you from playing. This play is called the Leela. But it is not true that you can ever become just this in reality. Or that the truth is not here right now—these things are just not true.