Who Is This 'I' Representing? - 6th February 2018

What is the 'I' representing in doing this? The connection, say, or to sleep? I see right in this 'I'. What are you representing? Because it's a totally awesome use, anything else, and it seems to be central in our existence, this 'I'.

And if you check and you find that only a certain set of sensations which are being perceived, those are 'I', and I can tell you that there is no actual reason why that should be so. All these reasons are just notional, just conceptual. So in a way, we can say jokingly that you are being unfair to yourself if only some perceptions you claim as 'I' and everything else you claim as 'other'. There is no real reason for this distinction. Then you come to this point where you say, 'Ah, all that is appearing is I.' There is no reason to draw this line between 'I' and 'another'. All that is appearing is 'I'. But then I would say you're still being a bit unfair because you are not including that which perceives all these appearances, and there is no reason for this distribution.

So we've gone from identifying with only a certain set of sensations to saying that all of these sensations, all these perceptions within my own being, there is no distinction to be found here; to then seeing that I am that which also perceives all these appearances. And yet in itself, although it is known, it does not have a qualitative appearance. You have included all that appears and disappears and that which perceives this appearing and disappearing, and you see that both of them are included in your very existence. Now you have included both the worlds as 'I'. Not just the worlds actually, but also everything in which the first bird seems to be running about in. That entire space and time has also been included in you, that which perceives the first bird.

And now that you see this effortlessly, you find that you are aware of even this perception. This third bird, the unchanging, unmoving awareness, it's called the Absolute. Why Absolute? Because it is absolutely unchanging, absolutely untouched, and absolutely without any levels available. And this is what Satsang is. I know that every day I come and say different things, so this is what Satsang is really: from just this limiting notion that 'I' is something so small and tiny, just a certain set of sensations, to include all sensations, all perceptions, all appearances; to include that which perceives and is the screen and the light of all these appearances; then ultimately to find that perception or no perception, which is aware of perception or no perception, remains my unchanging Self.

And although there is only one Self which includes all things, there are aspects of myself which are changing and there is a greater aspect of myself which is energy. And you don't have to get to this, you don't have to become this. This is what you already are. All division, all distinctions, all limitation, all separation is just from concepts.