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Who Is That One Who Wants Freedom? - 14th February 2018

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Ananta guides seekers to recognize their natural state as the unlimited spaciousness of consciousness. He emphasizes that the individual 'me' is a non-existent mental construct and encourages meeting all appearances without taking a position.

The notion of the me is everywhere; the reality of the me is not to be found.
You are this big space, this unlimited sense of beingness, in this very moment.
If you take off the mask of ‘me,’ you will see that God is here.

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Transcript

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Ananta

Namaste everyone. A very warm welcome to satsang today. Mooji Baba ki Jai. This is a good experiment. What I was going to say, other thing is that as we come to satsang, we're learning how to meet everything in life with as much spaciousness as possible. I don't want to say meet it completely as space, because that also becomes the main expectation, resistance. As much spaciousness as possible. So there could be some events which are appearing in front of us, and it can seem like when they are happening, all our attention is sucked into them. But it is never true that you are contained in any event, but it can seem like it. As we are not believing our interpretation about them, as we are not buying what the mind is saying about them, you see that naturally more spaciousness will come. Naturally you will find the spaciousness which is already there, actually. Same thing with thoughts. If we meet them as space, then we meet them as somebody who wants, and we meet them as if we need them, and that's why they seem to cause some trouble. What if you were to meet everything as space? And spaciousness is one of the primary attributes of consciousness because it is so unlimited; it is naturally that which contains all things.

Ananta

So this big space, unlimited sense of beingness, is what you naturally are in this moment. And when the mind comes and says, 'But, but me, but me,' just allow it to come and go in your own spaciousness. 'But this can't be it'—allow it to come and go in your spaciousness. 'But this doesn't help anything'—allow it to come and go. 'Who have I got it?'—allow it to come and go. No species, because we can hear about positionlessness every day. It's still there. Sound is still there. Allow it. We speak about positionlessness, we hear about positionlessness, and positional asthma slightly. This full spaciousness, and I say motionless existence. They're talking about this whole spaciousness, and you all know this by now, at least as a concept, because in the last so many weeks, at least once I talk about this bar. And yet you are noticing the habit to take on position, the habit to take on position in spite of hearing about positionlessness, motionless.

Ananta

And this is why we have satsang every day, because I know that this habit has been nurtured, nourished by consciousness itself for a long time in the play. And that is why Mooji says that satsang is we have for God, eat my God. Consciousness itself is playing this game. Consciousness itself is identifying as the limited one. Consciousness itself is coming in the aspect of the form of the master and reminding itself that it is not limited and that nothing has ever happened. The 'you' to which anything has ever happened is not the real you. On appearances, they belong to nobody. And as long as we continue to make portraits of this 'me' in the order, add on special qualities to this 'me'—'Oh, this me is not the doer,' 'This me is like this,' 'This me is like that'—it is still a fallacy. There is no 'me' like this. There is no individual 'I'.

Ananta

So if what is happening in satsang is that you are getting these little special things to add to the 'me,' if that is what is happening, then better we start fresh. I am saying that there is no landing place for any of this. There is no landing spot. This is just appearances moving in space. Landing spot, adjustability, where it lands 'me,' where it lands 'I am this way,' 'I am that way'—it's just a motion. It is the concept. If there is no such entity there, it is just presumed. The mind will point to the circumstantial evidence and say, 'Oh, this body, this body is me. Is this not me?' And then you ask, so uncle asked, my problems, how many were related to the body? Money? The body doesn't care about money. Relationship? It is not the health of the body. The body itself is not concerned with it. And my most powerful concept at this time: freedom. If the natural body has more national teachers seeing us in the instrument sitting here, you have to become fine, no chains.

Ananta

So to use the appearance of these sensations called the body as evidence of the 'me' is pure fallacy, because all the things that you seem to care about, what do you want something to do? So who is that one who wants freedom? When you go looking for this one, you will naturally find this peace, spaciousness instead. And when you are finding the spaciousness, the mind is saying, 'I'm finding nothing.' And where are you roaming to find nothing? 'I find nothing.' What is the space in which you look? You see, 'I look inside.' Inside what? You don't know anything. 'I look inside.' See, I say inside one many ways. 'I look inside the body.' But if you are looking inside the body, you will find flesh, blood, bones, all these kinds of things. What is this 'inside' that you are looking? Is this outside? Appear outside. This inside, you see, 'I'm looking inside,' and this outside, it appears outside this inside. It doesn't. That's why I am saying that don't touch this machine. It moves nothing. We're just speaking a lot of nonsense and we can buy into history.

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Ananta

And the biggest nonsense is that I must be a limited entity somewhere. Nobody has found this one. Nobody has found this one. The price has gone up over the four years. We want some dollars—$200, to $1,000, to $2,000—for anybody who can produce this person. Nobody has done it because there is no such entity there. There is nobody language. This 'me' is just a Russian. How long have you not had enough? 'But what about me? What's in it for me? And will I be free?' What are you doing to be out of seven billion? Six point nine nine nine nine billion, when you have some offering to help the 'me,' I have nothing for this. But I have something for you. If you take off the mask of 'me,' you will see this. To keep going with this Mahamantra of the ego, 'What's in it for me?'—there is just nothing. Everything is glittering to the non-existent wall.

Ananta

It is only in satsang that you're being reminded of the truly existent one. Only in satsang are you hearing that God is here. You don't have to get to God; you are it. This is the only existence, being. And in fact, you're being reminded that even before this 'I am,' you are. Even before consciousness, the Absolute you. When it is completely clear and apparent to you right now, no matter what your mind is saying, this truth is not such a weak truth that it just goes away. It is always just here. You are along. We take some perceptions or sensations to be 'I.' So if you say, 'Help me,' can we make a deal now? When you say, 'Help me,' can we make a deal? And the deal is that my job then is just to remind you of what you really are. Why should I also get into this self-help, so-called, and Facebook lands? 'Me help' programs in the world are called self-help. The several programs are called such because when I talk, what is happening is that you say, 'Help me,' and I say, 'Okay, let's find out what's happening to you, why you in reality.' You say, 'No, no, that's fine, but help.' And because you live in inception so long, when you say, 'I am this,' I don't want to come to you now because I know what you're going to say. And when I look, then I will find that what you're saying is true.

Ananta

The biggest gift I have for you is to show you isn't what takes birth to the new. The unlimited being is an aspect of you. That's that synchronization. Sometimes our abilities... I'm saying you have just been appointed the King of the Universe. You've just been appointed the King of the Universe, the Queen of the Universe. You're saying, 'But what's going to happen to my cat now?' You're hearing what I'm saying? You have been appointed the Queen of the Universe. You will find a cat sitter. All of this play is in service to your joy. 'Who's going to feed my cat?' And by no means am I saying any of this to create any sort of and so Galle, who does worthiness for that? You're doing this wrong now. It is inviting to this way of this consciousness speaking to consciousness. And what it sounds like, I'm completely aware of how it is, how it seems to clearly she's here though. So for many years it was like this, why my gurus I'm dead like something is resonating, but just this illusion: 'What's in it for me? What am I getting? Have I got it?' Oh, hard to shake on this 'me.' Even on Zoom, it says 'Ananta' in a bracket, 'Host,' or 'Mommy.' The notion of the 'me' is everywhere. The reality of the 'me' is not to be found. But your true reality is always here. All of you, hundred percent of you, have seen there, empty of the marks, can give a console. There is no separation. Most are credit limited. No 'me' has ever existed.

Ananta

You see that in this moment, if you check, okay, just assuming hypnosis from the mind, 'Come, come and have something special other than me.' Consciousness gives its assent to this idea as part of this play. But now consciousness is reminding itself that this play doesn't make a scratch, doesn't make a dent on the reality of consciousness. That which is aware of this dynamic aspect, the whole consciousness, this soul pure muses, taken the notion of being affected by any appearance. This pure one. That's why I've been asking you: So what are you representing then? When you say 'I,' what are you representing? Why are you discriminating? Why are you only representing some sensation? Why don't you also represent the space in which the sensations are? And still, why don't you represent also that which witnesses even this being? To present your entirety, check this for yourself. The 'I' is being represented. Are you only representing some sensations, some perceptions? Why don't you also represent the space in which they come? Are they outside? If this feels outside of you, why don't you also represent that which witnesses all of this, that which is aware of all of this? Is that separate from you? So it is you to present the whole of 'I' just there is the perceiver of all of this. Sit down, tell you, that which perceives all of this. Sit outside, witness the Sakshi of all appearances. At what distance is it from you? It's the distance in your existence.

Ananta

All of these perceptions, including these words that you are hearing now, in the space of your existence, all these perceptions, sensations are appearing and disappearing. Who is aware even of this? Is that also a perception, a sensation? And yet it is you. You are aware, undeniably. You might even deny words, but even that denial doesn't hold good, because even that means if you say 'I am unaware,' you will only say 'I am aware that I am unaware.' So that you are aware is undeniable. And this you that is aware is neither a sensation, nor a perception, nor a concern. Is this one coming and going, or rather sensations, the perceptions, the concepts coming in? So if all the sensations, perceptions, and concepts are coming and going, and so far we have represented 'I' to be these sensations and concepts, but you are finding this greater you which is aware of all of this, and narrator, it is unchanging and it does not comment. Then you are discovering your greater truth. Is it something which is beyond the communion of sensations? And as you're discovering this, some of you will feel anything and some of you will feel nothing. What you're seeing is that which is aware of feeling continues to remain untouched by it. So you don't have to refer to the appearance of again some sensations on feeling as a benchmark. If you say that 'I feel nothing,' what you're saying is that 'I'm aware, but there is no sensation of feeling.' If you say that 'I feel like my entire world is on fire,' what you're saying is 'I am aware that all these sensations are on fire.' That which is aware, nothing has happened to that in either case. Who I represent just by sensations among again? If you want the sensation, just the sensations and not this place in which they appear, just all perception, sensations, and space, total fitness also now say something from here.

Ananta

For a while it can seem like the ground has been taken away from under the clutches of entities like this. I'm here to tell you that I'm called European cycling in this world with trainer wheels, with touches of, and now the trainer wheels are being removed. You can feel a bit probably. And when you saw those, I didn't say that others to make sure that you don't follow the easier job. That's a secret. You want to learn how to cycle, but you're learning.

Ananta

It needs total fitness also. Now say something from here for a while. It can seem like the ground has been taken away from under the clutches of entities like this. I'm here. Can you see that? I'm called European cycling in this world with training wheels, with touches of... and now the training wheels are being removed. You can feel a bit wobbly. And when you saw those, I didn't say that others to make sure that you don't follow the easier job. That's a secret. You want to learn how to cycle, but you're learning to fly. You felt like you came into spirituality to learn how to live your life better; you're discovering that life is just an aspect of you.

Ananta

She speaks, she says sensations, this religious and the singing of all of this. All difference at best is this qualitative, and all separation because of the qualitative seeing is unreliable. Sees what? Undeniable that you are aware of all of this. It can only come if you place a reference point to yourself in this position. If you identify this sensation as me, then my sense of distance can come. Think this is this one for me. But if you have not placed a reference point which is phenomenal, the concept of distance is not applied to you. You just even just giving it to the mind, one thought please, any belly just it just kind of yeah. But this does not change. But the genie giving our aside to what the mind is saying makes it seem like I have now become limited. But the good news is that never really happens. Even with belief in the mind, nothing really changes in this. This is only your perspective. We here believe that we take on the ocean who starts to believe that it was just a wheel or just a drop. Never really happened.

Ananta

Yes, even the mind is just an aspect of consciousness. Anytime that I get this question, 'Who is the mind?' Antahkarana. When you are always against the mind, they are not against the mind. I'm just telling you that it is not telling you the truth. It could be some character in the movie which is all part of the movie itself, whose role it is to come and lie about everything. I am is reminding you that it is lying about who you are. And complete the accepting of the mind or its nature as it is, is designed by consciousness to allow it to play in this limited way.

Seeker

You can't let the 'me' come back. You can take all this. I don't want anything.

Ananta

There is a fear. Fear is very natural in a way. That's why to be in satsang is also so good. This feels like you're going to Antarctica. You've heard many stories that many along income. There's nothing to fear, but you haven't met someone who says, 'I've been there, I live there, there is nothing to fear.' So big difference in this hearing it in a book or reading it to the booth says Antarctica, that's nothing to fear. Say without this will become.

Seeker

I'm surprised too. So the first time feels like you're speaking was like it's so, so clear that there's only to see everything. Even if there is any sensation to identify it is something, it might have felt that having these sensations... it's okay when you don't identify it is nothing. It just as you say, it comes and it goes. When you don't, I can say that you don't me at all. It's just that seeing that it's like, 'Oh, it must be me here.' And also there's some to see how the split ends. How do you has to take the shape of this body? How will it take the body? How can it do that? You must be laughing inside. That's how it feels now. I know asking me crying for something, we just have to talk down. It's okay. No, but he come and cry and think fifty. You can see maybe from my past I can see that complete let go. A lot has happened yet I can see that, Father, like how you are so to say that without any worry about, 'Okay, I have to still have to have some control of my life' or something like that.

Ananta

I don't usually say to anyone that you have to trust me. I just say when you say, 'But I trusted you when I trusted God doesn't help,' then saying, 'What was a trust like?' Was that was just that I touched you and now make it happen the way I wanted? That's what I was thinking because that thought also came to me to see if I really trust that way. Whatever happens, it is His will. But you only trust like that, or is it still that His LASIK has to be there but it has to be my way, something like that? I have that thing happening something.

Ananta

It's you, that's right. And I don't know about that, how much twist it has taken in that part in that this self-knowledge what you coming to the recognition. Then you see that energy, all of these appearances happening in the light of my existence, my consciousness. And that consciousness which is playing with all of this light and sound seems to be playing with it in a very beautiful way. So we can trust this without the 'me'. The trust is very easy. And we try to make the 'me' more trusting, that can seem like very big job to do. If there is the same one you say you doing this to me, then this is the fallacy. The same there is only one. So if it is the doer, then it is also the experience. So there is no room for me. Remove the devotion and the experience your shape aspect from this 'me', then it doesn't have Lexus and one is like this.

Ananta

Surrender brings you to the same point as inquiry. In both cases, the 'me' is gone. In surrender, the 'me' is one people that would move and the experience of both Antahkarana, the idea that I am the doer, I am the experience of both upon. And inquiring, it is investigated and seen that there is no individual limited entity.

Seeker

Yeah, I can see that because initially only the tool part was given there and experience what was happening slowly. Cuban or maybe to say yeah, what is happening is that as you know inquiring also you seem that there is no that limited landing one will be the experiencer. So even the seeming and over doesn't mean to happen because there is nothing to do it. It never belonged to a limited one because the limited will never existed. That's what you're saying, isn't it?

Ananta

Look, there is no how does this phase take on the pretense of being limited? You see that you're seeing this clear now. What would be difficult? All of this for it is occurring is in our starting point right now. Actually was the 'me' and then we have to get rid of it? But in a starting point right now, there is no is to use your knowledge. It is this unlimited spaciousness believing itself so the plane in the game it is me the movie it is then for the characters it can seem a bit dangerous, some concern about this. My job is to remind you that you're talking about when I go back home is the whole world to be an appearance within your spaciousness? Are you going to be an object which goes into the home like this motion that are not an object? This motion that I am an object is the one that is being shaken off again. This more difficult emotion they died how quickly silenced anyway.

Ananta

Now whichever certain one say you let's see your nutrition they really as we talk about this a lot also designed to this. It's so quick to just talk about it, it's just gone. It's like I used to wonder if this weakness of this mind, how to kill this house. Nick here it is how we can use even our great insights to make the ocean of limitations he deal. And also there's a sea receiving of that even if is not true you know anything comes it so clearly see it is something which is perceivable then it's not true. In the moment you see that it's gone, it's gone today. I'm not even saying we don't even have to say not true. You can just say, 'Okay, it is there. What else is there?'

Ananta

See, sensations are there, the mind is getting activated, we feel about it again. You see all this. So you see where all these actions are, all this hot activity, same space way this voice, this body, outside bodies. We perceive all these iterations are the other wave of displacement. So both the sensations and the space in which the sensations are, you are aware. This awareness is your fundamental nature because everything else is coming input all perception to all sensations and ultimately even the space of existence you see the I am itself is also coming, but this awareness remains unchanged.

Ananta

If you clear this game of identification for being more times a million more lifetimes, the truth is they want so now so with the report card because you'll be come to the report card which will say at time ten minutes ago it was like this, like this, ten minutes after the time it is like this and then some popular is happening as family. What is not helping this? What happens this sort of check the dials keeps checking on the state of our freedom? What can it truly say about stream you talking anything just like taking a bucket of water from there which is not which is not let's do something just saying that side water inside. I think that anytime anything is picked up it feels like it's not you want to become God and you want it more than anything else. Give you chocolates it's also be got first mini chocolate chocolate okay words what we do is after we end the bar you all so much for unions at them today but guru Sri Mooji Baba.