You Know Your Self - 26th November 2019

So the only ignorance is the Self taking itself to be the not-self, you see? And who is that Self? Who is that Self? You are. So what you take yourself to be is the fundamental—it's the fundamental question: What are you taking yourself to be now?

Now the thing is that I want to add something to this, which is that even if you're taking yourself to be 'I am the Self, I am the Self,' the Self, you see, then that is also limiting. 'I am the Atma, I am Brahman'—then it becomes a question of belief or conviction, but it is not about that. What is your intuitive knowledge? And what if we said intuitive knowledge is that which you know but you don't have to think and you don't have to perceive? Do you have something like that, or is it just a mythical construct? Is there something that you know that you don't have to think or perceive? Go for that, if you're going for anything at all.

What is that which you know? That means no concept and no seeing of any sort. Something like that you know, no? Do we know something like that? I don't know. Yes, please come back to my favorite: What do you know when you know nothing? This is what was being conveyed in that. So this Atma Gyan, this intuitive experience that the Master has called it, he also said that it is universal. So when I ask this question, I have no doubt about it. I have no doubt about the fact that you know yourself. It's only what you take yourself to be which gets in the way.