You Are The Space in Which All Notions Are Arising - 23rd May 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that the Absolute is self-luminous and non-phenomenal, existing beyond the mind's concepts of existence and non-existence. He guides seekers to recognize that the world is inseparable from Brahman and to surrender the personal sense of doership.
The absolute cannot be realized or experienced by another; only the absolute can realize itself.
There is no thing called the world independent of Brahman, just as coldness is inseparable from ice.
The body does not create the mind, but the mind creates the body.
contemplative
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Some questions, I'm happy to look at them. What you is working fine. You is number given the blue versus the 60 over by Sonia Venkatesa member, it's 40. Many, the absolute is immaterial and so material sources of light like the Sun do not illuminate it, but it is self-luminous and therefore it is not inert nor dark. The absolute cannot be realized or experienced by another; only the absolute can realize itself. In whose light is the sunshine? All this absolute is immaterial, not in the sense of material—oh, that's not in the sense of unimportant—but in the sense of being non-phenomenal. Now, what can shine light on something which is... if something is not a thing? If something is not a thing, what can bring light to it? The sun's light falls on all things, or even something which is not normal. That which is not a thing, the absolute, is immaterial in the sense of not being a material substance, and so material sources of light like the Sun will not illuminate it. But it is self-luminous to the extent that the very light of existence itself comes from this which is beyond light and darkness. And therefore it is not inert nor dark. This is very important because anytime we say 'not a thing,' the mind visualizes a dark, empty space. When the mind helps with that, it means its picture of a very dark space. Because who is the witness even of that? The witness of dark or light? Is that dark or light? With myself, I put up witness for light. What is that? Is that dark or light?
This absolute cannot be realized or experienced by another. You cannot be... there cannot be the absolute and another. If there was the absolute and another, then the absolute would not be absolute. Only the absolute can realize itself. The infinite consciousness is even purer than infinite space, and the world is even as that infinity is. But one who has not tasted capsicum does not know its taste; even so, one does not experience consciousness in the infinite in the absence of objectivity. Even this consciousness appears to be inert or insentient, and the world is experienced as such. Even as an intangible ocean, tangible waves are seen in the formless Brahman. The world also exists from the infinite, and exists in it as the infinite. As the world has never really been created, it is the same as that. So this absolute is beyond holiness, beyond infinity, but the best words we have to describe it is modern serenity.
Now, that which emerges from this, which is this consciousness itself, is being itself, or even this universal realm as we call it, the universe itself. All of these are all Brahman. So this is that infinite potential in which these finite manifestations appear, yet it continues to remain absolute. This is the uniqueness of which it is that whole which, once it manifests, also remains completely as it were, which is not to be found in any phenomenon. In phenomenon, if there is potential for something and it manifests, then it runs out of that potentiality. Like a spring, if it has potential energy stored up and if it springs out, expresses itself, it manifests itself, then it has no more potential energy. But this absolute... and yet when the notion of self is destroyed by the withdrawal of the field of ideas from the mind, that which is, is the infinite. Very good. But the notion of self is destroyed by the withdrawal of the fuel of ideas from the mind, then that which is... that which is not sleep nor inert is the infinite. It is on account of a finite that knowledge nor unknown exists as one in the absence of the intellect.
So what is when a notion... we didn't know what it means to exist, what existence works here? I know that we are grappling with the Holy Grail, but satsang itself, the very I-am-ness means... but suppose we had no notion in the mind of that. I don't know what it means to exist. Now here there are no distinctions. Where there are no distinctions, yet even the distinction between the absolute as it is and the beingness which emerges from this can be tasted later. They are the same. Just like you cannot experience it, not explain the taste of capsicum to one who has not tasted it.
Lord, during the cosmic dissolution, this world which is clearly seen now, where does it go? Ram is having a conversation with the great sage Vashistha and asks: 'What during the cosmic dissolution, this world which is clearly seen now, where does it go?' Vashistha says: 'From where does the son of a barren woman come?' Because we're going to mind the language those because it's composed here. 'From where does the son of a barren woman come and where does he go?' A barren woman's son has no existence ever. Even so, this world as such has no existence ever. This analogy, only because we have taken the existence of the world for granted. Consider this: is there a bracelet-ness in the golden bracelet? Is it not just gold? Is there a thing called sky independent of the emptiness? Even so, there is no thing called the world independent of Brahman, the absolute. There is nothing for the world independent of Brahman, the absolute. Just as coldness is inseparable from ice, what is called the world is inseparable from Brahman. Water in the mirage does not come into being and go out of existence; even so, this world does not come out of the absolute nor does it go anywhere within. It is not created. It is either real or unreal. The creation of the world has no cause and therefore it has had no beginning. It does not exist even now. How can it reach destruction?
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So this is the Sun God speaking. When one, on the other hand, thinks 'I am a little body,' he becomes mortal. Being one whose consciousness is extraverted, he experiences pleasure and pain. The yogi, on the other hand, whose vision is introverted, does not entertain ideas of pain and pleasure. In this connection, there is a legend which I shall narrate to you. In the country of Magadha, there was a king named... do not remember. There was his wife. There was also a handsome young man of loose morals known as Indra. One day during a discourse, the Queen listened to the story of the seduction of the famed Ahalya by Indra, the king of heaven. Now they are seeing there is a man with loose morals also named Indra, and this is Indra who was the king of the heaven in the story. As a result, she conceived a great love for the young man Indra. The Queen was distraught with love for Indra and with the help of one of her maids, managed to have the young man brought to her. From then onwards, Indra and the Queen used to meet each other in the secret house and enjoy themselves. And she was so fond of Indra that she saw him everywhere. The very thought of him made her face radiant. As their love grew, the relationship became public and it reached the King's ears. The irate King met in an effort to break this relationship and punished them in numerous ways. They were immersed in ice-cold water, they were fried in boiling oil, they were tied to the legs of an elephant. Indra said to the King laughingly: 'O King, the entire universe to me is nothing but my beloved. So it is to her, and we are unaffected by all these.' So Brahman, only mind and mind alone is the individual. You can punish the body, but there's no punishment to the mind. No one can bring about the least change in it. When the mind is fully saturated with something, whatever happens to the body does not affect the mind. The mind is unaffected even by wounds and curses, even as a firmly established mountain is not moved by the horns of the little beasts. The body does not create the mind, but the mind creates the body. The mind alone is the seed for the body. When the tree dies, the seed does not, but when the seed perishes, the tree dies with it. If the body perishes, the mind can create another body for itself.
This means big mind, consciousness. Anytime the mind is good mind, it is that being itself, consciousness itself, which is parent to the small mind, which is referring to mind in the sense of existence. We will also explain later. You, in your own consciousness, create the world as you like. The infinite consciousness, the mind, one's own consciousness, and the infinite space are all of one's options for being read by the infinite consciousness. All right. The part which has page 336, the sage says: 'The truth is beyond heart and understanding. The supreme peace and omnipresent transcends imagination and description. There arises naturally in it the faculty of conceptualization.' This self-understanding is considered to be threefold. Seeing, the being, and the absolute. You can see this. It is said it is easier to squeeze oil from singles and the pressure goes between in your hand because even that needs a thorough back meter. This ness is what is most natural. This zero. This is to do nothing. But even to do nothing, you must be there. No simpler than because even like then we have the idea that 'I am going to do nothing,' then we try to do the 'doing nothing' to resistance as something there. One way it will not be natural is to try and be natural. This existence... there are no nothing. Nothing is more harm existing. This will become like the submarine Nautilus. I like that game. The main mission is you're buying a need or something you exclusive or else it will come. What will come? Let them come and go if it feels like something really has.
Since yesterday, she's been doing the motionless and speechless without the motions of right. By those community, she feels a great discomfort in the body.
Yes, the habit which is this, this evening addiction. You are in the fitness. Don't bother about what it is doing and don't say it's very strong. If you are directly that which is recognized when a machine is... that which is recognized when you sneeze, isn't it also there even when fully playing with notions? Yes, yes it is. The unchanging self. That's what I keep saying. Satsang is a strange game. The strange game where at one level in reality even this is not needed because you are the self and the self alone and nothing has happened to the self. Yet when it seems like we're that suffering individual, therein lies satsang. It can seem to be the best, the best time to do something. Do so. While in reality we have done to me with those who came like people, suffering individuals who came with too much here or there, stress and anxiety and sense of meaninglessness. Behind me will display this game. They recognize that even during the suffering, I will just go hunting inside, giving myself to be something else. The play of such, who is self, is always yourself. If you shall gain in this world, it has always been one of his. I go claiming him. Atma is what now or it is going? Meaning followed by suffering is inevitable. Even the design of this world, spaciousness, person is divine presence. That's why it is three.
Are you saying I know that there is a time where it can feel like this is the choice? There is a time where this can feel like it is a choice, and as long as it looks like it is a choice, we must make this one. I've seen that very often we fall into the trap of when it comes to coming to the truth, you say, 'No, everything else we seem like, you know, we are choosing more picky decide.' So if you sense doing, decision-making is alive in the rest of life, then do not come to some sort of this equated in. I agree. Then you make the choice to be okay with the choice to market either next form. Then we will see that the number has been a choice anyway. As long as there is a belief in individuality, there is a belief in personal. The sense of choice is very much present, even though you might be in some sort of denial that 'No, no, I am not the doer.' But then you come into this like an active doing of them on doing because you heard in satsang that you are not the doer. So that if you consider yourself to be is neither doer nor non-doer, because that one does not exist either. Here it is as if it is not applicable to us, and I live it is not applicable is an emai.
A belief in individuality is a belief in personal doership. The sense of choice is very much present, even though you might be in some sort of denial that, 'No, no, I am not the doer.' But then you come into this blueprint of an active doing of the undoing because you heard in satsang that you are not the doer. So, that 'you' that you consider yourself to be is neither the doer nor the non-doer, because that one does not exist either. You see, it is as if it is not applicable to us. If it is not applicable, it is like an email sent in error. It may come to you and say, 'You must go to the police station to get verification done.' So, that is all that we will subject ourselves to. Then you read, 'Oh, it is for somebody else.' I don't have to spoil my affinity with the police. In the same way, all these emails in the mind are not meant for you. The mind has the wrong address. What's happening is it's trying to reach a person.
If you think you are going to end up on the streets, that means now you want to achieve food. You don't have to. You can just sit on the bed and say, 'Oh, I don't need to do work.' Or you think you need to work very hard. Neither of them is applicable then. And then you see, when we see the body, you just need to come with the idea of surrender. The idea is that, 'I could do this,' which means that, 'I must become this way, I must become passive.' But that is not going to work. If I do it, I have no notion of how this life should turn up and why here, what actions. It can feel a bit wobbly. You do not know what the future holds. Do not try and control the content of your experience in the field of experience. So, I don't even want to tell you it's an adventure, because that creates an expectation. An Indiana Jones adventure normally exists, but nobody knows now. Suppose you have gone for a movie and you want to control every scene of this movie to follow if you like it. Why are you running your life like this? You want to know why every scene works. So, that is the point of surrender. Everything is for this. It has nothing to do with activity or action. It is about your inner attitude toward activity. Your action is possible, more activity is possible, or no activity. Both are possible and they have been done already by consciousness.
Like a surrender, and this body is... who was this one? Like, what is this move? Nobody knows. If I tell you, I have no idea. I have no idea. You think you are the body; the body's going to die. If somebody wants to give it freedom to do that, then you must think that you are something beyond the body. If you like, before the body dies, let me find my freedom. You know, before the body dies, let me find my freedom. If you just believe that you are the body, I'm showing the truth and still consciousness can choose to play as not interested. Yes, consciousness already knows the truth and yet it chooses to play. There is no limitation or right lines for function. What does it have to do with you, consciousness? You do it. What does it have to do with you? Nothing or everything. But basically, inherent in that question is, 'Oh, so now consciousness has seemed to be missing.' Keep going back to the walls. But why do I seem to use this? This 'me' is non-existent because the one that sees the truth, that has come to the recognition of its own source, that one does not have this first 'me' or 'my' or 'mine.' There's nobody who's been loved, or you can say that to this one, everything is the one.
Is there a sort of dissatisfaction from the mind for this answer?
Yes. Which answer? The one that leads to the dissolution of concepts. To get satisfaction in the mind is a certificate of approval. This one will keep you involved in doing these conceptual ideas on which you can feel like, 'Now I know what is going on. Now I can control the content of my life.' What joy does it get? It is doing its job very well. It is the design. And you have played this for total to pace yourself, to pace yourself as if you are a limited one, to come to the dissolution of this limitation that never happened. In all cases, it's not working. This 'me' is followed by 'my.' Sometimes there is a gap between 'me' and 'my.' Unless you like 'me, me, me' quickly. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. That's how it is.
Yes, there's nothing missing. The notion 'I am' is persistent. A concept, usually. I don't have much energy with this one. When you say, 'Mind, who is looking?' If you are referring to yourself as a body, then it is true, the body is dying. Every body is dying. But if you're not referring to yourself as the body, then what is the mind? The mind is that very thing. They live in the room and the mind is dying. That is the life force. The one that is the very history is dying. 'I'm so scared, there is nothing left to go down.' In satsang, we know you leave. When you leave satsang, you say, 'I'm so scared because I'm too scared.' Or next to me, even satsang is also too much. So, besides some states, right to the field, now what if you didn't label this sensation 'fear'? Oh, you can't go get it. So, saying there is a subtle sensation, suppose there was something wrong with your interpretation. You are not falling in fear; you're calling it our faces technique.
She says, 'I feel like I don't exist.' To me, that is...
That's very good. No, it's become such a regular thing that whatever most of you are conveying to me as bad news, to me it sounds like good news. 'I feel like the me doesn't exist.' It seems that the feeling of separateness is there. Yes, let's follow the notion of separateness. Whatever feeling might be there, the feeling of the feeling... the thing separates you because you are not on this side of the feeling of separateness and there is not something other than you on that side of the thing itself. Okay? Both of you can use both sides of all types of that feeling. That feeling is you. There is a feeling happening within you. The left of the feeling is you and the right of the feeling is you. What is the separation? When we label it 'separateness' and insist, then the mind crashes. This mind says, 'I feel like I don't exist.' To me, then the mind comes and crashes. It exists. What did the mind do? This offering of notions. You are the space in which the notions are arising. You are the space in which all sensations, all perceptions are coming. Now listen, because writing on this space, then they vanish into some space. They welcome a boon. Say, 'Mind, try to really come make one scratch, make one mark on this space.' In physical skills, then we become little like this. Bring it on. Very calm. I would say, 'Okay, bring it on. Let me see you make a scratch on this space.' You can't even make a scratch on this space, which is much more... I am much more subtle than even this space. So, if you can't make a scratch on this field, that's right.
Your magnificence is much beyond what it's like. Your royalty, okay? And you saw your prince. I really got on it. We do heavy work. It is what... so, you're Prince Harry, you're getting married just now, and suddenly you see the tiny ant which is walking with positivity. You say, 'I can't get married, this is a tiny ant in the church.' Your truth is much greater than that. Your world itself is beyond that, even higher than that world itself. And this tiny insect comes. There is no suffering. Nobody is able to count. The one who accepted the body is not contained in the body. It's a mind pretending to be the policeman, containing the body's heat. What can you not do? Even the death of the body, that is outside the scope of your monsters. It is like you have an all-expenses-paid holiday, you see, in Barbados and Jamaica. All-expenses-paid holiday in bulk, but it feels like you're trying to hide between the curtains there so that you can have an extra meal. If you want to live like that, we understand. Being automatic, as I often say, either you can have a God or a problem. And this will not be motivational temperament, the logical ones. It'll just sound like extra, extra. But I'm telling you this because I know you have what is outside the scope for what cannot be managed by the Divine. And so, I can see how my conditioning is not used to part with them. But only when he has practiced, it doesn't have to be surrender, they don't have to be white. It can be either of this. At least if they want us to come to satsang for a few minutes, already start to pass back here. Give back is fine. Just a few moments in your life where you're not ending the mind's talk. Just a few moments where you're not ending the mind's talk.
Yes, he says nobody tells us in school about these three facts.
We can be grateful many things work. The whole paradigm of using concepts to know something is very, very... we come into even this quest for freedom, we search for meaning as if one day when we know enough, we'll be free. That means that suddenly the great unburdening is this. Nothing is important to use when you are unburdening yourself. It can sound like a very obvious thing, which is why you do nothing towards any consequence. You just be. Then you will see that conversations can happen. It is decided by nobody, but there is no deal that there shouldn't be any fight. Yes, no pride, no guilt, no events. Isn't that nice? Together today by light, without a back guarantee. I live in gratitude. Thank you all so much for even sitting. Om Shanti. Satguru Sri Mooji Baba.