You Are Beyond This Body and Manifest Universe - 19th February 2018

The other seeming error that many of us make is looking at the movement of the outer shell—the coconut, as I've been calling it—and saying that this coconut has to become holy, or be like the ocean. I've been saying it's really trying to fit this insight that we are having about our Self, and we are trying to fit it into this body-mind interaction in some way. But that cannot happen because the insight you are having about yourself is that you are much beyond this time and space, beyond this manifest universe. And this body-mind exists as a tiny aspect of this manifest universe. So trying to fit that which is not related to these three dimensions anyway—four dimensions including space and events, including time—is an impossibility. You are dimensionless.

If I was, you know, with people and I tell you, 'Can you fill a bucket of water in this?' and this is a two-dimensional container, you cannot fill water in a sheet of paper. In the same way, as long as we use an object within time and space, you cannot fit the Being which is beyond all dimensions into this. This is an aspect of this Being. But if you see, 'See, yesterday this happened, I didn't sense this again,' you are mistaken the coconut to be the Self. So don't wait for the symptoms of your freedom to start appearing in the coconut. If they have to appear, they appear. That has nothing to do with your reality. The root is here. Don't wait for the diagnostics of the coconut to confirm that timeless, spaceless Being you are.

I'm not telling you about something which is happening tomorrow or in the future. I'm not telling you about something that you have to find in this special world. When you recognize that you exist, the basis of this recognition, is it contained in time and space? This existence, say 'I am,' is it subject to time or space? You have already left the universe. You left the universe in this moment of recognition. You are not in this phenomenal realm. Then you try to bring it back to this seeming sentient one. So when we say, 'Have I got it?' or 'Do people start recognizing the truth that I discovered?'—why isn't it? I hardly see it. You're still talking about an identification with one aspect of the thing. You are the entirety of the screen, since the movement of light and sound yourself as the projector is making. You are the light of all things.

Your light animates this entire universe, and the body is just one aspect. The light animates the sun. There is no sun unless you are. So we have believed the mind's version of you, which is this limited version. But something has never felt at home completely with that. Nobody ever completely feels at home with the idea of just being a body. That's why even those who come to Satsang, even those who don't come to Satsang, they say things like, 'I will rest only when I'm dead,' or 'I must have had this experience in my past life.' And when somebody passes away, much of the world says, 'May they rest in peace.' But if they were just the body, what is left to rest in peace? So nobody has completely felt at home with just this notion of being the one.