Don’t Listen Today As If You have A Problem to Solve

Don’t listen today as if you have a problem to solve. Yes? Don’t listen as if you have a problem to solve and some resoluHon is going to come because you hear these words. Also don’t listen to try and understand. Something naturally may go to the intellect and it may remain there, its fine. Not to push against it but there is no effort to grasp at it. Don’t force yourself to try and understand what is being spoken. Just in a relaxed way. Because all that effort may be useful I tradiHonal classrooms, here it will only get in the way. And in your effort many Hmes you may make a shape in your head which will be quite different from what I’m trying to convey. In fact any shape would be quite different from what I’m trying to convey. So Satsang is like car wash almost. So just allow the car to be washed. I’m not saying zone out or bliss out, not that you can “do” that [Chuckling] I’m just saying, if you can pay some aZenHon, pay aZenHon but don’t force any sort of understanding or grasping at these words. They will do the job themselves. You can allow them to do. The best thing to do I oeen say is to get out of the way. The one that can do or understand, that one can get out of the way. So just for a moment, there is no problem with anything. Nothing is missing anywhere. Nothing is too liZle or too much. [Silence] And we have lost, for the moment, the ability to judge anything to be problemaHc. Nothing to resolve at all. Including the problem of trying to understand is not there. [Silence] The primal vibraHon of your Being is naturally present here. There is nothing you can do about it either way. You cannot make it more. You cannot make it less. You cannot make it beZer. You cannot make it worse. All these things don’t apply to your Pure Consciousness Being which is just naturally present here. You don’t have to try and stay like this, hold onto it or let go of it. Nothing. [Silence] Yes? And this very natural sense, I exist, I am [Silence] You are naturally aware of it. You don’t have to do anything with your aZenHon You don’t have to do anything with any thought. [Silence] You’re just aware that you exist. This Awareness that is aware of your Existence is your Reality. Is another name for You. And it’s natural. The Self that we are looking for in “Self RealizaHon” is just this. [Silence] And if you don’t bring any nails for which this has to be the hammer, there is no problem involved. You know what I mean? It’s like we are expecHng this to ‘do’ something for us. To ‘solve’ something or ‘resolve’ something for ‘me’. But did you noHce that in the enHre conversaHon so far, we didn’t encounter such a ‘me’. We saw that there is just a natural existence, and very, very natural awareness of that existence. At which stage did we encounter a ‘me’, not in Reality. Even if we call that which we perceive to be Reality, for a moment, even then in the perceptual realm we never found a ‘me’. So just like you would not aZempt to give pizza to your shadow, has anyone tried this, feed some food to the shadow? Because you recognize it doesn’t really exist it only seems like it does. So in the same way you are realizing there is no such ego or person as a tangible reality. It is only the play of thoughts which seems to create a noHon of a shadow character. It is the thoughts which are the shape and the character that is created is like the imagined character like as children we may have played and give the shadow a name. In the same way we seem to have taken that nonexistent shadow character to be a tangible enHty called me-whatever name and form we may have aZached to that ‘me’. And now we are trying to fix it, make it go away. But once you see that it has no reality, its apparent presence or absence makes no difference. So trying to get rid of this ‘me’ is the shadows own aZempt to get rid of the shadow. [Chuckling] It’s just the way we can interpret the play of the shadow can be that way but it has no use in reality. So if you came, if this was a hospital and this was the doctor’s room, and you said I have this problem, I take this character to be my reality and I want to be rid of it. [He picks up his hand and a shadow of it falls on his shirt] this shadow, I take that to be me, how can I get rid of it?

But I see it, I see it, it’s real! But you’re right. You find the Reality and the noHon of being the shadow resolves. So how to find this Reality? How to find this Reality is the essence of being free from the noHon that I am this shadow enHty, isn’t it? And the so called path which is really the pathless path has been emphasized from here over and over again. And from all the Masters who are sharing this poinHng to this Reality has been shared. And primarily what is important is to understand the wrong way to find Reality. [Silence] The wrong way is to try and find it objecHvely. As if it is a thing. Because you make yourself to be a thing in that. So if you take yourself to be a shadow and you’re looking for a bigger shadow to resolve the noHon of shadowiness, that is not going to do it. So don’t look for a thing and a thing is anything that can be perceived. [Silence] So what is a non-thing that you have come across? [Silence] What is not a thing? [Silence] You know what I mean by not a thing? Not perceivable, does not have aZributes-quality, shape, size, length, breadth, height, duraHon.

The Perceiver itself is the recogniHon of That which witnesses all percepHon but itself cannot be perceived. And it sounds like a very fancy concept but trust me it takes much more effort to understand it conceptually than to just meet it for yourself. So that’s the second Hp, don’t understand it conceptually. [Silence] Don’t make any shape of the noHon of the unperceivable perceiver because you can’t do it. Your mind will offer you some visuals then you take that to be your Reality. But whatever the visual is, it is not You, it is sHll perceived. Whether it is full of light or full of darkness doesn’t maZer, both are sHll perceived. This is all the insight we need actually.