You Are Free From It - It Is Done - 3rd January 2018

You are the Atma. Actually, Pavan said that if I just tell you that you are the Atma and you see this about yourself, you have this intuitive insight and the Atma—the unchanging, the pure witnessing principle itself, the one that has no limitation, no border, no boundary—then no instruction you need now because you are the Atma. The instructions are needed when you start to believe that you are something. And let me say, 'I am something' you're not referring to that something as the unlimited, unchanging Absolute. It is an idea about ourselves and the body: 'I was born, I will die, I have family, I have money, I have so many things that are mine.' All this becomes the basis for the notion 'I am something.' And all of the sages are ever saying is giving new ways to get rid of this 'something' notion, the identity or 'something-ness.' A master invites us to taste the isness of the Atma, which is beyond all phenomena.

Isness is not something. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi said, 'Who am I?' and he said if you start the inquiry expecting to find something, then you will be frustrated, but you do not find something there. The Atma is not a thing. So there also mention Maharaj. Nisargadatta Maharaj said, 'Stay with the sense I am.' He didn't say, 'Stay with the sense I am something.' He said, 'Stay with the sense I am,' and that itself will become the gateway, the portal to the true I. So these pointers are available to us. We can accept the invitation to see ourselves as we truly are. We can inquire into the reality of the Atma.

Another beautiful way, if you can call it that, is to surrender. Although some things you give to the Satguru to go, thank you. Instead of saying just be, just and all that requires to be is Guru's grace. But then we remain empty again of the notion 'I am something.' Not a thing is built. Best news, and one day all of you will react like you won the lottery. And the response is that you don't have to even drop the 'something.' You don't even have to drop the 'something'; even that is done for you by grace. In this moment, you are egoless. If you are not believing me, if you are believing that 'I am not, I have any book you read,' then that you picked up to something. What I'm saying doesn't need beliefs. You are egoless right now in this moment. So there is no ego. You cannot define a boundary for ourselves. What is ego? Just the idea of the limited notion I have about myself is ego. But you are free from it. It is done. It was never an entity.

Happy, you know? All that you've been working hard to do is already done. There is no greater lottery you can win. You are the Atma. I am not saying you are the Atma if you come to 400 satsangs. You are the Atma because only the Atma is. 'Is' is a very beautiful word. If you've not—many of us have not truly explored it because we've used it in many ways. So we can say the table is, the hand is, the computer is. But what does it mean to exist? What is 'is'? What is it that memory is not? It is you. These bodies will come and go. All these experiences are unique. Your experience of consciousness doesn't like redundancy at all. This very same experience in this exact quality you will never experience ever again. Perception will be different, the sensations will be different. So all that plays the game of being born and dying, the sages have said, is not the ultimate truth about you. What is that which never is not? Even to say that it does not exist would mean that it has to be there to be aware of its non-existence. What is this that beautiful notion? You are.