श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

Absent of Any Connotation Is Your Reality

The mind's narrative is a habitual addiction that obscures Truth, but Awareness itself is already present and you exist fully without any story - this is the freedom that is always available now.

Seeker

Awareness.

Ananta

There is an Awareness of it. Awareness of perceiving, is that apparent or not? Apparent or no?

Seeker

Yes.

Ananta

Who is unaware of their percepHons? Anybody unaware? Cannot be, cannot be. So this Awareness how is it disHnct or different from you? At what distance and how much Hme away from you is it? So then what is the problem? The problem is that there is a narraHve and the mind is nothing but a presumed object, which is the speaker of this narraHve. When the narraHve appears then that seems to be more aZracHve than the Truth (at least for the Hme being) or even not more aZracHve but more habitual, more of an addicHon to go into that story. Even now when I say ‘find yourself in this way’ you may say ‘Oh, am I ge^ng realized, am I finding the Truth? Is this it? Am I finally ge^ng it’? So as long as you keep carrying this monkey on your back of this ‘me, me, me’ then it may seem like that gets blurred, the Truth seems unaZainable. But just [Clicking of figures] empty of that, just empty of that which is God's gie to God right now [Clicking of figures]. Nobody can start closed. Everybody starts open right now. Right now yourself is apparent to you. [Clicking of figures] No maZer how hard you try in this moment you cannot be bound, right now. Then when you go to the towards the hypnosis of the mind, which may be aZracHng your aZenHon and your belief and we fall into that narraHve then it can seem like ‘I am just a bundle of flesh and blood, I am just liZle person who is going from place to place, who was born, who will die’ all this nonsense comes from there. Without that what is your story? [Smile] Why do you need a phone call from the head to tell you about yourself? You can see by now that it is a wrong number no? [Smile] Can we not see? Its may be saying even now ‘Hello, I’m sHll here.’ Do not listen to this guy, this guy is dangerous. He is going to mess up your life because you will be lost. None of that is going to happen this is just fear tacHcs. Even Guruji [Sri Mooji] had this fear that he become a hunchback beggar like Quasimodo on the streets of Brixton. Does not happen like that. Without the mind who are you? Right now! Who are you without this story? Don’t you exist anymore? Don’t you exist anymore? Exist or not? You exist without the stories!

Key Teachings

  • Awareness is always apparent and present - you cannot be unaware of your perceptions, so the Awareness is not separate from you
  • The mind creates a narrative/story that seems attractive and habitual, but this is like a 'wrong number' - a hypnosis that obscures Truth
  • You exist without the stories - in this moment you cannot be bound, regardless of what the mind says about you being just a body
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From: Without Using Your Mind, What Is Here? - 26th October 2020