Don’t Miss Out That Which Is the Most Obvious

So, can we come to this intuitive insight, this clarity; which is the simplest, most original. What I’m asking you to do, is to not miss on the most obvious. Don’t miss out that which is the most obvious. Don’t be scared of the most obvious. For some of you it may even, as you’re coming face-to-face with your own Reality, which is the most obvious, you might even feel like you are encountering the fear of death, the fear of the unknown… whatever label you put around this fear. But don’t be scared, nothing will happen, except that your false delusions are being swept clean. So don’t be scared to meet what Is, in the most simplest way. Guruji [Sri Mooji] uses this term ‘Is-ness’, so, we can use that. So, what Is? What Is? Don’t apply your intellect … with the innocence of a child, what Is? A child may say, ‘This room is, these people are, there is all of this (let’s call it the world) … the world is’. What else? Then let’s say, there is some pain in the body or there’s some pleasure in the body. So let’s say ‘Bodily sensations Are’. Okay, what else? Then some may say ‘My mind is very active’, or ‘My mind is silent’, so these ‘thoughts’ are, let’s say. What else? What Is? Then, if you really look you may say, ‘There’s a sense of Existence, a sense of Being-ness, a sense ‘I am… I am’. Then you say, ‘Ok, what else Is?’ Then you may say ‘I am aware of even this’, so there is an awareness of even the sense of ‘I am’. Now if the question is put to you, ‘What does not come and go? What does not come and go?’ Then you will see that it is just this Awareness, this Primal Witnessing, this nirguna brahman (Self without attributes) that is my Ultimate Reality. And all of it’s worldly manifestations, that which is the saguna (with attributes) nature, the qualitative nature of the Self, it is all transitory, ephemeral, coming and going. Now, because this Self makes this recognition of itself, must something change in that which is coming and going? Must the body which you seem to identify with because of the centrality of the perspective, and all of these things … must that body now get a halo, or something? ‘Here comes the one who discovered the Self!’ [smiles] … like that? None of this is mandatory. Now that body which we identify with, must that only start speaking scriptural words? It doesn’t have to be any of that. So I use the metaphor sometimes that the ocean identified with the wave, and then discovered that the wave is just an aspect of it’s own Self, and in reality it is the boundless ocean.