Who Can Predict the Next Thought? - 25th June 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that suffering arises not from external situations, but from the mind's interpretation and identification with thoughts. He guides seekers to recognize their natural state as the Self, beyond the conceptual person.
Nothing in the world has inherent meaning; the lack of peace comes from your ideas about it.
The mind is like a wrong number; it is calling for a person who is not there.
You are the Self. You do not need anything to become what you already are.
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Transcript
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Namaste everyone. Welcome, welcome to satsang. Receiving Satguru Sri Mooji Baba’s grace, we are finally paying for some peace. Because we already identified the tormentor, Ashanti, we want this peace because somewhere you must have already identified that lack of peace is the tormentor. And most of us in satsang also identify like that. Where does this lack of peace come from? It might feel like it comes from a situation. 'Oh, my partner's behavior is the most common one.' In India, 'What is like this? Oh, my knees are like this.' Irrespective of cultural background or geographical location, it feels like it is a particular situation which can lead to lack of peace. But there is nothing in the world that has inherent meaning. And paradoxically, this statement has a lot of meaning. 'Nothing in the world has inherent meaning' is a very meaningful line, at least from a certain perspective. So can we explore if this is true and see if there is a root to peace?
And this lead to lack of peace? I'm purposely not defining it. Then appearing, a body could appear in the same way that this, whatever it is, is appearing. It seems to me like the situation or a set of perceptions. Now, how can this lead to lack of peace? Yes, but before you can have ideas about it, maybe you do know what it is. You can say, 'I know this is water.' But once you know it is water, especially if you live in Bangalore, it can cause a lot of lack of peace, isn't it? This building itself used to have two bore wells which used to give us water. Now we have to get five tankers every day. They are not able to do that. So once you know this is water, then all your concepts of water can come. 'What's going to happen in five years? Bangalore has no water. What are people going to do? There are going to be water wars.' So, lack of peace. But before we defined it today, if you're not into some sort of conceptual happiness, you know, if there is such a thing as water, it can lead to everything. Such a good tool.
So concepts can be this way. If there's such a thing like a neutral concept—neutrality is part of the mind because any concept in itself, even if it says what it is, we are then talking about the positiveness of the being or the presence of it. So anything in just the appearance of it is not in itself having the capacity to create the lack of Shanti. Thought is the lack of peace. And we're all at some level, which is understandable, so as long as you feel like a certain set of things have to happen in this way and then peace will come, then we have misidentified. From time to time in the movie, we place it in the apparent appearance or whatever is being perceived. It is our interpretation of it. An innocent example: water. We can have so many concepts about it. You can take on whatever you can take on water. After giving a hundred concepts like this, you might feel like, 'I have to save the water' and 'Don't waste water.' And I can make that part of my life. Or we could become in service to water. Thales said everything is made of water. He said that what we are made up of is water itself. Some would say he said it is water. Become whatever shape. Beautiful concepts about water, but not the thing in itself which is the cause of trouble. And this is true for all. It's never about the thing. And what is it at all? What you think about it is the cause of this lack of peace.
Now, who can predict the next thought before it comes? Before your next thought comes, can you predict it? In satsang, multiple actually believe that we are creators of our thoughts, or we function sort of like, 'I should not think negative, I should think positive.' Because these kind of things are very privileged. A thought will come back. A thought here could also tell me, 'Say this is just a concept for us people.' This thought can come, or the thought can come, 'Really, I have it.' But both of you had these thoughts, and nobody can predict what the next thought will be because that itself, that prediction itself, will be a thought. Once you identify the source of trouble is this, and we cannot predict which thought will come, then are we lost on this roller coaster? We've identified the source of suffering to be the thought, and yet we do not know which thought will come. So that means that we have caught this never-ending roller coaster of suffering. It does, because it is skeptical, because there is something in consciousness itself that has the power to make meaning out of it, apparently, or to not give it meaning.
When a Master says nothing in the world is inherently meaningful, not even the need to stand up here, we can say that. But even that we do not need to say, because even that could be to look at some of the suggestions of the mind. So this hand has zero inherent meaning. A thought can say it's positive. Now, if just by the appearance of these forms, meaning is given there, it will seem like we're stuck. 'Now I have to suffer.' So every time a negative thought comes, I suffer. Every time a positive thought comes, 'This life is good.' Oh, and truly they love to say that this is all there is. Good. Because consciousness takes a continental business to fulfill orders using the power, one of its most primal powers, as much as or maybe more than time and space. Although if you come here, you won't ever fall for the power of belief. And when I'm saying consciousness, I mean you as consciousness. And the power to believe, as a Master would say, 'Give me one touch, go visit, believe in the same.'
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So now we have seen that the end of suffering is in a notional business. Knowledge, for instance. But the famous Masters, their invitations can go more to arrive to peace. He mentioned often, 'Disconnect.' Why should they be allowed to disconnect? Because they are not representing the truth about who you are. Are they representing an identity which at best is the limited version of you? Who gets like... once you figure out somebody has a wrong number, the system is no office over there. We went up, it is all day, we will get the wrong number. So you took the wrong number and somebody said, 'You have to come to Monica first, okay, because this will happen.' Now, if you actually continue to have that conversation going to the girl that is being referred, it is meant for James. And then you would only go from hospital to hospital. Something proposed, an emergency had happened. What would we feel about such a situation? Stupid, isn't it? But this is the play of Maya. That it is a wrong number. The mind is calling me. I am something so far I do not know, but I am not the mind itself. We need more retakes or the I sleep. No duality. More time is on being this because the wrong matter is persistent. I don't know why I'm spending so much time on this. You don't know Jesus, the one that is here.
The lack of peace comes from not the thing in itself, but that idea of the thing. And it is possible in consciousness to begin the fingers, even loose ideas, a monkey tsunami of ideas. And why is it whenever doing a motion, why is it this? Once that's going to be speaking, I seem to be speaking to the origin of 'me' which I cannot identify. Nobody has found this person. I have asked for failure. It is wrong. Now the secret is realized: this suffering leads from this. Everyone functions on satsang because they are suffering from something. Happy other, including eventually this thing that I do anyway. We are support for knocking the character urge that God created bit. Till that time, find out who I am. This life is not enough for it; it is not worth it. So that about yourself and some other can be a beautiful movie. I could not desire in a way that it sets fire to everything. I desire it sets fire to everything else. I mean, like what one started with you. He is you are. He said, 'Be as you are.' They are not this. Finished. That book is a unique one. 'Be as you are.' Because the instruction is that we don't... we have whatever you have. A rare book. Most books come to the conclusion at the end. This book says, as much as we often do, they start from the beginning: You are the Self. You are not this limited one which you take on the pretense of being, that you imagine yourself to be. It sets fire on this side. And I say God is what you're tasting, Ram is what you're hearing.
Once it is on like this, that in your naturalness, in Shanti, in peace, is there any distinction? Maybe you can contemplate this. The human mind can tell you the story that we didn't reach there. There is inherent separation. We will find that actually nothing has distinction. There are only sensations which claim to give you the sensations of separation. Oh, they are in a way best where people... we lose our language, you know? We only use every language. Solid edge. Is there a second? Leave you. But if you have to use some language, then use the term that you feel is most divine. One might say Self, some Atma, some might say Guruji or God. So part of that is very common, is spoken, but we still really use that body that we refer to him. You are the Self. None of what the mind says really applies to you. Anything trying to go there is really... it is not that trying to be a person is here then you have to copy denial of it and see if we are the Self. It is that this person was never actually there. There is no tangible entity. It falls apart. It is just a massive thought everywhere.
Nobody can tell me if I wasn't the money. Is it in your bank account? Whose money is that? Is it this body's money? That you can give million dollars, you cannot create one extra cell in this body. That what you don't see. What is like a dog? We were there. All this money, body refurbishments and pepper. Gradually people get these ideas and little creation of this here, this. It's like all the way over. And then there were also great bones. Listen to more. This is like that. You are the Self. You are not the body. You're not here. The mind is getting used to this. So these motions on the flattery and succeeded. Be read for now. But I want to realize that for meaning, any money just to remind you that you are the Self is not enough. Just to remind you that the Self is talking out. Then there is a next chapter. Now why did the sequence of it for my mind's eye enter a different sequence? I will in fact see the next chapter to be: Listen to me, even if you can today as I get to be limit, you get that me. Do not come with us. A greater power will make you consider yourself to be the Trinity. You come to us to do because divine person I've ever given now. A good form, no divine persons me, okay, subdivided and to the present. They quickly find that this one is the divine. You allow these motions to be depicted by that behind, both of which are ended.
When we say, 'I surrender my life,' what do we actually select? Mr. Mind brings one idea of control. He said, 'Give me all ideas, please.' This way or that way. We're not talking about that half-surrender which is, 'You are upon and I surrender to you. Make sure I go left.' You like this piece? I had what you have to go let go, starting to the track. But we're not talking about that surrender. We're talking about that saying, 'Left, right, stay here, anything backwards, forwards.' Do you experience what are these pension business? Back to the same place. Then in surrender is different. Parting problem. What is there for me to be? None of what the mind is actually said. Because first, in satsang, I ask yourself, ask yourself: Who are you? Well, I would say, what does 'I' represent? And I sincerely like somewhere maybe we got a disservice to be invited back with you. It's not a mantra. You can anything. Good devotion can serve as a good one. It's a question saying, 'Not all pieces are you making the chain of your limitation.' The time, motion after motion, a house of cards erected in a fashion. It's like me. How deep it is. Oh, to find out looking, what is that motion? Who are you? Cannot find this little doctor. You before we vacuum. Listen, listen. I cannot find this one. It becomes clearer there. And that was it. I think including this coating right back with more. Most agree we can apply. Okay, clear after this from the difficult stuff so far. What it will go through the direct step and nothing else. It is.
The chain of your limitation, the time, motion after motion, a house of cards erected in a little fashion. It's like, how deep it is? Oh, to find out, looking, what is that motion? Who are you? You cannot find this little doctor. You, before we vacuum, listen, listen. I cannot find this one. It becomes clearer there, and that was it, I think, including this coating right back with more. Most agree we can apply. Okay, clear after this from the difficult stuff so far, what it will go through, the direct step and nothing else. It actually means it, but if this motion persists that 'I am not able to' or 'I can see this' or 'it's too difficult to abstract,' that difficult stuff is also there because maybe this situation between God, then there is another power that is needed for us to pick up again.
The more gossamer, even before beliefs can be given to it, we looked at what to do. The different, which are belief, we can surrender. They are going to inquire into the nature of them and see whether they speak the truth about us, or you can give it your attention. Now, attention's earth is officially a mystery, being away, and yet it seems to be quite a difficult one for you to master. The famous example: don't think of a pink elephant. And you can decide that 'I will not do it.' Don't think of a banana. 'Yes, I do it.' And here, in a second, it starts to come. And unless attention goes to these thoughts, there is no question of believing them or not.
So when we come into these realms of this one who performs, then we'll come to you. So keep your attention on mine, you keep it on, we'll keep your attention on the chanting. Even if I remain in the content of the now, it is like this: are you touching me? This mindfulness, a place to breathe. If you leave it, this kind of let attention, then I'm so focused on just activity itself, there is no scope for the emotions to be both these videos. And all of these are not actively, not against any of them. It's only that what is often seen in this play is that the strongest are identifying to the subtitle: 'I have an educator' and then 'retreated five hours yesterday.' She's our asana, upside down position. 'Yesterday I was many things.' Beat them, the minutes of meditation. Now, quiet the meditation was doing, the tap is sound. Well, here we excelling at this notion of meditation itself, seeing how mindful I am, giving so much mind to that.
How to take these things? If somebody pokes it, then you know you're building. And I think if somebody pokes it, I mean, you get poor. 'Do you meditate with seven hours yesterday? What is beginner level? You know, what did you see? You saw seven lights.' And you'd be surprised, I mean, 'Oh, crown chakra edges, you know, we did your prompt equation, we didn't come to astral travel and Akashic records until late.' That then comes off. Hey, what you go around this, we call spiritual practice. So know that the fact it's not identity is one poking into play or some education again, some not do this. Everything which feels like this is too much safer then, if you look at this on the devotional singing, obviously Yoga is any good, it is innovative. There, all these things are available easily. Go through these beautifully designed techniques, we come to the Shanti that we're looking for from right in the beginning.
But in all of you, there rose to the potential to create a lot of lack of peace you when you start the practice so beautifully. I filled up the great weekly. The mind will say, 'Do this to me.' Like, you want to come on, you don't believe in going clowns, won medals, advanced, super super long, super support. But I want, yes, all these kind of things. But in themselves, when we take on the motion graph, then you can seem like the fact is except simply over there, motionless less. Which to practices on working in something like authorizing chanting? Remember that sing, but don't become a secured. They're very, very possible for us to pay for something. So do you feel the devotional singing itself? And for even that to become whatever I ever felt he was taken back on the single position.
The third part gets into the educator. The patient is fine, some dirty Englishman, but when you feel like this will become my new identity, and the more that all identity responds and ultimately will to the lattice pieces because our gear that 'I know something' for the demeanor. 'I know something' means 'I'm right about.' And famous, famous thing which is very popularly said: 'You want to be happy, what do you want to be right?' That we cannot suffer unless you feel you're right about something. This is the thing about the 'I know.' I've been going on for some time, but if you can hear this part, it's really important. Your beliefs will always feel right to you. That is the nature of belief itself. That's how you believe them, with it always feeling that way right. Nobody ever believed saying, 'I feel like I'm in the sense that having a belief if I'm the king of the world, but actually they feeling like it is not them and not the people.' So they need to cancel itself out and come to this modality opening of the new system things complete, select affluence.
And that is why we chose like, are they not to say that for the eternity is a completely destructive process? But what is it actually is fine. They're not trying to destroy your house or your body or your relationship. What is it actually? This one, a belief system. Whatever we think they're right about, it is going to get pasted in the stock. Make it reality that you're not, but because of the very nature, if you like to continue destructive. Thank you for your hand to love you along the way, even under there in the play of their lives, are we sold under the use of even tough it can be seen right. Top situation, I feel like that we in this point, he's pulling the gun from under my feet and I seen a place where I can laugh now. 'I'm just going to be lost.' You can feel like that because the direct seed is bombard the place your conceptual house is different.
There be no vote on the animated movie, the trailer. He said, 'Please have a veto to dock everything. I want to leave the truth.' The way we said it this way or not, Volusia, and then go clean. You asked for it, now give me everything. I don't want your stomach only, I do this stuff, I don't notice stuff. I want every notion that we think is better. So what are you hiding in your attic? No, he's like, 'Oh, nice to housing done.' Definitely right upon you feel like 'I'm wrong about everything.' But can you even see like this, the presence of one country and a Miss America? I'm moving, I know how he is. Many times in India we will say that many times the whole elephant goes through the wood with the tailgate slip. Every time is the silly ideas will find it funny that many of you given up the globe you like with the more shipping important ideas mailari. The gold keeps you, what are just some strange silliness, a different interpretation.
And we do a Libyan and when the discipline teaching self-referential routine, sometimes I get these complaints: 'But then doesn't it apply to everything you are saying as well?' It does. The country she does, and yet this is the funny part of the claim. It is, it has to be saved and then left, just like something is on fire, then you put water on the fire is out. The gonzo analogy of using forms to remember the Father they are trying to convey with enterprise. My machine is able comma, I'd say only truth I can speak in stack: 'I have.' But I do actually, I mean that is not true. So then get me say that nothing that won't take book is on English. I am back. So ultimately we can say that as long as the limited perspective is being too deep, it is very helpful.
So no words are treating it in the other and they having this way of consciousness when a limitation seems to be, it's, let's even come up with a nice metaphor things you all know that I take this example. I'm Jamie Ishwari, I have a very good friend. I feel like if you meet this lady, she will feel that she's of Western. You should say, 'Okay Father, when are you introduce me?' I can't introduce you. And then she say, 'Why not? You just said she can be my best friend.' I said, 'Yeah, but she found this.' 'What do you mean better? At least I need a photo.' It is, I mean one phone conversation, but once you had that because we got your condition to name and form, then you know somebody for some time and you had beautiful changes tend to be to love this one. You need to constantly see their photo over here there was shootin.
So because we got so used to name and form and the Master also uses appears in form and then uses its. I also do moments once it electrifies for yourself what that is. Can you name them or in the company of some CDC please imagine how blessed we are just like to have this kind of occasion also. But you know what they don't know usually? This either sitting in silence will visit each other's presence or they are speaking a very mundane stuff like large. They are not saying what is the true nature of reality is it a very much before consciousness of consciousness before and they are not having these countries. They're going to be talking enough because even these ultimately our conceptual, but as long as we feel our house of cards is real, then something has to come and settle on fire.
So when the word does fisherman's except it is not a pirate. They have some certificate of but they are definitely pointy you do differently is compared to where the words of the mind of like a places well after spoken so much moving my people. 'What should I do?' It is a man with the concept 'I'm yourself.' So to presume to be sharing some clarity but even more confusing because how artists are settled in with a particular methodology to get to the truth, but now I'm confused seven more require your time think about. I don't know. Here is the parallel that without any objects you are fully complete in writing in Vietnam. Most unlikely you all want to be if your baby they said what that will create if you feel like you have to meditate for around here is to find the truth and I can tell you that you have finished 9999 those 365 days 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds already. This is the moment of truth. Don't waste it.
Nico, this is God himself. You, you don't need anything to become anything more. People needs to become working practice to become more and more ready to next. And then when this will give you sitting under the tree nicely today, I feel like that people he saw that there is this God, this being, Atma, that we the presence of the divine. I said, 'Man, we like it this one.' That is a good like that because I don't feel like any of you apart ever seen what happened. So what is now being this time self Islam is completely apart you. Now the mind we want to go mental with this mind we were Ortega maturities. It can even use this garden twist now they're very like metal wheel without any form of actually insert or what God is now and what is the benefit of that meant we think that that best will become makin up with that rule on Facebook. There is a maximum graduation certificate they've meant to live a with a knowledge so remarkable giving yourself this metal certificate they're not a concept to knowing you.
If we get a question before we sign off belong. Father, I have a question today. I have to choose between staying at home meditating and following the satsang but with no money, or going to stay as I exactly hospital for one or two weeks in order to get a certificate to help me financially. Do you have a feeling about this choice? Did I have to make our question today? I have to choose between staying at home meditating and following the satsang with no money, or going to stay as I exactly hospital for one or two weeks in order to get a certificate to help me financially. Do you have...
There's one time that is an oxidative equation at one time that you were watching Mooji's retreat at home and somebody came from they were visiting by an NGO for few days so use their attitude. Then he came to me with this dilemma and there is this other Ji visiting back row and all we wanted to see. So what should I do? Should I come for the...
There was one time that there was an Ashtavakra Gita retreat at home and somebody came from... they were visiting by an NGO for a few days. So, he came to me with this dilemma. He said, 'There is this other sage visiting nearby and all we wanted to see him. So what should I do? Should I come for the retreat?' So we talked about it later also. I said, 'No, no, of course, in the retreat or something like that, observe this conditional mode.' So I said, 'Go very well. If we take you, you don't decide. If the decision is not clear, you might let life decide and you will know which way you'll recover then.' But inside it, you have to be honest and say there was a hope that he'll come through Mooji. So then, it hasn't happened. It surprised me a bit; he didn't come. But the day after that he came and he said, 'Thank you so much for giving me the required space again, because unless I'd gone, I would never have known that that's not for me.' So we can never presume in which way life will go or what has to happen.
Sometimes life puts us in this kind of situation where it seems one in two or three strongly feel like going into just silence. But remember that this silence of inclusion is the answer. Remember that the silence of inclusion is also an answer from a teacher. It can be a difficult answer to swallow because otherwise you could feel like, 'I have a cheat code to life. I just go to my heart and it just tells me left, right, right, right.' I have become a villain as well, you see, wearing lighting. So whatever it can be, it can be selfish in the usage. So many times it will just be... it's like us to hear what we want. It seemed like there was a time where Bhagavan was not answering 95% of the questions asked, but that was the answer. Their not answering was the answer. Which are they using to you?
You see, this other great master said to his disciple saying that, 'You have become very advanced now. I'm not able to help you anymore. You have to do this. Go to this sage to use your video properly.' So he came to the sage feeling somehow maybe... so this sage was sitting over there. This student comes and says, 'Master, my master... let's see what he taught me. My master wishes to send me to you because he said you will be able...' In this master-disciple part, there may be old hearing. 'Master, my master wishes to send me and he said that you will definitely help me come to the final.' They tried a few more times. Then, as obviously when things don't go as planned, what comes? And we decide to say, 'You must be fully arrogant and my master must be mistaken. You are not an enlightened being, you know.' So they're not answering anything that I'm asking. So then this master spoke. He said, 'You have been asking me, I have been answering you.' That's so beautiful because I can actually... we have to be rid of this 'yes' and 'no' button for you. Right and left, and right, up and down. Your this idea... they have nothing to do with reality. First of mind, we fact you say, 'Okay, but I have to decide whether I move to Rishikesh or go to...' but something like that. You ask yourself. If it is not clear, then leave it. It won't be sorry.
I'm feeling awfully arrived at this time. Satsang has been money. It might feel like life, but my Father, I call it Papa, the least you can do is help me with this simple decision. At the beginning of satsang, to me, you were very angry. Very angry that you're burning this house down. Now all there is is like to remember I have your permission. Okay, although whenever you speak—let me see if I can speak slower—whenever you speak, the sound of your voice is accompanied by a lot of digital background noise and I find it difficult to understand what words you are saying even with earphones. It was bringing a lot of frustration as I value your pointing, but I have surrendered to it being this way and I fall at your feet from my heart and I realize that this is the best pointing. This is somebody who, if you confusion, I cannot stand the person anymore. The harder I tried, the worse it seems to get. This is creating a lot of suffering. You speak a lot written about that.
Yes, my dear, that's right. Remember that I'm not really proposing a strategy. Some of you have written this repeatedly. These emblems, our king will be about these ploys that we have, of the strategies for freedom. What are some of the popular ones? 'I want the truth so then I can be at peace.' So it's still with the emotion of getting something. 'You want the truth then I just want to kill the ego.' Like this kind of thing. 'I cannot stand the person anymore. I just want to kill the person so that then I can be at peace.' This giving strategy also doesn't work to kill the person. Like Bhagavan said, the thief dressed up as a policeman pretending to begin to see more strategy. 'I want to be loved.' Will you go to that somebody attractive actually who's evolved in order to love? Will you go to the bed? Or does it actually mean... and we can, if you like, eating food or mind leaving food ourselves to these kind of silly tactics between actually 'I hate you now, I want to be rid of you, so I am just going to dance.' Oh, very an actual value, whereas you're pretending it. But actually, I wanted to do if you can actual surrender that you're so smart that your mind with this... are you going to pull this on me? So these kind of things are very popular. You can feel like it gives us a strategy to be rid of the person. The belief means our strategy. It is more immediate, more real, more naked than that.
And to find God now, we won't be the strategy. The finding, the time to find, will get in the way to recognize God now. There does not need a plan to see the person is not here now. The one that you cannot stand is the only one. The one that is saying 'I cannot stand the person anymore' is the only thing possible in this moment. In that moment of saying, but if now even that is gone, you're absolutely right. The harder you try, the worse it will seem to bear because it just activates the whole personal intent to be rid of the person. And if it's not clear, you can share everything tomorrow. Today, any need or do is actually the... so much for being in satsang today in spite of all the audio difficulties. But Guruji didn't tip about him. Thank you.