You Just Are - 25th April 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to dissolve the false sense of separation by recognizing that God or Consciousness is all there is. He teaches that through surrender or self-inquiry, one discovers the infinite being in which the entire universe rests.
If God is everywhere, then where are you? Any idea of separation is just a false concept.
The entire universe is resting in your being; there is nobody here controlling anything at all.
You are the unchanging awareness, even prior to the beingness in which the universe takes birth.
contemplative
Transcript
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If God is, then there cannot be an 'I' which is separate from God. You see, these ideas that, 'Oh, there is a God somewhere and I am here,' the idea is that there is a God everywhere except me, and God is running my life or God is doing this to me or something to me, good or bad. So already we have created the dichotomy. There isn't any 'you.' If there is a sense that God is, then is it a God that we believe in half-half? A God half-powerful? Now he needs our help? It's a concept, actually. God is doing everything, but he needs your help? Arrogant, maybe. Insane. So either we see that God is, and therefore everything is His problem, everything. Forget about this 50% God, 50% me; this is what gets us in trouble.
And if you don't have this sense of surrender at all—that all that is, is God—you don't need to force it. I'm not making anyone guilty here. What I'm saying is that if you don't have this sense that God is all there is, then forget about God; find out who you are. According to Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, these are the only two ways to come to self-realization or the direct experience of who you really are. So if there is a sense that there is God, then let everything be God's. And if you don't have this sense, then find out who you are. This is the meaning of surrender or self-inquiry.
But if you have this idea that, 'Oh, there is a God, but when will I come to the truth? What is happening in my life?' then it is not surrender, you see? What is the point of there being a God and no freedom? If there is still God and you, then what kind of God is that? And when I ask you, 'So what is God?' you say He is everywhere. He's everywhere, He's all-encompassing, all-powerful, all-pervasive. And where are you? If God is everywhere, then where are you? Any sense or any idea of separation that we might have is false. No separation can ever happen. If there is a 'you,' then know that it is just an idea that we are picking up. In our experience, God is. God is here. That which is, is God. This Consciousness, Being, is Consciousness.
If you remove ideas about what God should be like, you can experience what God is like. In fact, we are only experiencing God. And then it is said, 'God, Jiva, and world are false.' Being is false in this way. Inside the world or outside it, you want to come up with what is true. Wait, really let's wait. So even 'I am' or 'I exist,' even that is not original to what I am, and therefore is ultimately false. This can come from the recognition that I-am-ness itself is having awareness. Awareness needs to make no proclamations. These concepts of true or false itself do not apply to Awareness because it is the ultimate reality. So if there is a reporting of what is true and what is false, then we are already operating in the relative realm. Already the experiencing is in the relative realm to say something is true or false in the manifest creation. So it is true that from the ultimate perspective, even 'I am' is not true, and yet in the relative perspective, all that we can see is true is that I am.
So who is this I am? Some of you come to the realization that even this I am is appearing to that which I truly am. But it is most important to look at this. Is there anything apart from this I-am-ness here in this realm? Is there anything outside of your Being? Can Being stop existing right now? Can you stop being? Now, this is not theory, by the way. It is not theory. When I am saying, 'Can you stop being?' don't think about it. Right now, try to stop being at all. If there were a world without this Being, is there any appearance which is not experienced by this Being? Is it outside of this?
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We have mistakenly taken the boundaries, the sensations of the boundaries of this body, to be the boundary of this Being. We have mistakenly taken the sensations which suggest the boundary of this body to be the boundary of the Self. The body is a set of sensations, an experience within this Being. Everything that appears in this manifest universe is only experienced within our Being. Even the idea of space and time is within this Being. In asking you, 'Can you stop being?' I am introducing you to your own presence. There is no need to visualize anything, to create anything, to believe anything. Notice how everything is just an experience for your Being, just an appearance within your Being.
The sound of the fan, the temperature of the room—all of these are experienced within you. They do not exist outside of you. Even the imagination of what is seemingly outside is experienced within you. It has no existence prior to that. The entire universe is resting in your Being. Check now and see if anything is outside of you. Is there anyone here, anything here, besides this presence, besides this Being? Notice how everything is just happening on its own within this Being. There is nobody here controlling anything at all.
Check and see if there is an entity here that has your name. Check really. Try to find the one who wants freedom. Check if you can find anyone who has any wants or desires, any needs or illusions. See how everything that we call the events in our life are nothing but energetic movements within your own being. See how there is no one suffering any experience which is appearing. Come to terms with your own vastness. Now when the mind comes and says something is happening to you, notice that it is just a joke, because nothing can happen to this infinite Being. And yet, all is experienced within this Being.
And then the mind comes and says you must do something or not do something. But who is the doer? Everything is appearing and disappearing in the light of your own existence. You are not a good person or bad person, or a spiritual person, a man or woman, a father or mother, a wife or partner. You don't need pieces of paper, plastic, or metal for your existence. You just are. You don't rely on anything in the universe; it is the universe which rests in you. Drop all concepts, all ideas of the truth. You don't need to remember anything at all. No need for any belief. The ego is just a belief, or a set of beliefs.
What is present is Consciousness as your Being. And even the denial of Consciousness can happen only within the Being. You are aware of this Being. This Awareness is even prior to Being. And even the Beingness in which the entire universe takes birth is only an aspect of what you truly are. This is the unchanging Awareness. You are aware now. Only Awareness is. Only Awareness is you. And as we gradually bring attention back into the world, don't be so quick to go with what the mind is saying about you. Know that it is speaking about the non-existent one.
By simple checking, you have found yourself to be this Being, and ultimately that which is aware even of this Being. Whatever the mind might say does not apply to this Awareness. Anything from the past, let it go. It might call you and say, 'I'm very important, take me,' but you let it go because it is not for you. It is only an idea. Remain without ideas and concepts. Know nothing at all. Don't even try to know. No need to know. Knowledge is not close to you now; only true knowingness remains as yourself. This supreme intelligence does not need the support of your mind. You always have been and will remain this Awareness. This is the truth. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti. If the mind is selling you something, don't buy it. If it is saying something happened or nothing happened, don't buy it. Silence—embrace it if you can.
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