Your Being Is the Substatum for All Feelings - 23rd January 2018

What is the connection between the feeling and the fruits? Can the feeling meet... restate the doubt that comes to me. It is one that says to me: all that you really care about is the feeling that motivates everything, to like the good one and dislike the bad one. By feeling, I mean, for example, this: when one feels positive about life, this is when it is just an enjoyable feeling of being alive. Thank you so much for sharing beautiful Satsang. It's my joy to be in something so beautiful in this life.

What you're finding is that your Being is the substratum for even all feeling. And until discovering that this substratum is unshaken no matter what quality of this sensation might come, including feelings, no matter... you'll find them in the perfume of your presence. All these, there is no shortage, although there is no hugeness or expectation about them. There is never a lack of this beautiful perfume or feelings like these, like love and joy.

So allow yourself to just taste your own existence, even if it feels empty of sensational feeling for a bit. And as you're getting through this peace of your flavorless Being, you will find that all flavors are accessible to you, no? And pretty soon the distinction between good and bad will not seem so strong. It will still be tasty; you will still be able to differentiate between grief and joy, between salt and sugar, but you will not have so much feverishness or preferences about one thing, this taste or that. In fact, you will come one day to this seeing that all these beautiful feelings are just in service to your presence.