Back in the Hypnosis of the Mind or Fresh?
Your Being is always only in the company of Truth; ignorance is merely the appearance of identifying with masks that can never change what you fundamentally are.
Father, when you said, ‘Can you stop Being’, it became quite obvious that you are Being and can’t stop Being. Then it was coming that Satsang is to be in the company of the Truth, then I can never not be in the company of the Truth. How much ever… no way is it possible for me to not be in satsang…
And that is why ignorance doesn’t actually exist. As all the Masters have told us that ignorance - avidya is just taking yourself to be something which can never be. You see, your Being is always only in the company of the Truth but that Being itself has the potenHal to take itself to be something that it is not and that is called ignorance or Avidya; it can never make it true that way. So, ignorance is never real.
So whatever I may take myself, me the Being to be, the reality to that thing is being given by me, I mean the Presence.
Exactly, that’s why I say even at the center of the falsest idenHty only the Truth is shining. The ‘I’ that is shining through even the silliest idea of ourselves is sHll the true ‘I’. The ‘I’ which then plays as ‘I Am-ness’ which is Being and then Being takes on these masks of ego and posiHon and right and wrong, all of these things. So, the Truth is never shaken. S1: But you can’t be in Satsang without being in Satsang, you have to make an effort to go to Satsang…
Yes [Laughter in the room]. The provisional answer is yes.
Key Teachings
- Ignorance (avidya) doesn't actually exist - it is only Being taking itself to be something it is not, but Being is always in the company of Truth
- Even at the center of the falsest identity, only the Truth is shining - the 'I' shining through even the silliest idea is still the true 'I'
- Being takes on masks of ego and identity, but the Truth is never shaken - you can never not be in the company of Truth
From: Back in the Hypnosis of the Mind or Fresh? - 18th November 2019