Even the Silence Is My Master's Voice

Does it still feel a bit true? Because, if it doesn't feel true, then discard it.

How many rooms is he taking? In the house of Consciousness, how many rooms is that serious guy taking?

So, let me try to say something before you get to your question. Now, in your experience of life, from your report, you will either have this one who's taking all the house, and when he's taking all the house, nothing to be done, suffer through it.. Now, when he doesn't have the house, then what should we do? Should we think about the time when he has the house and waste even this time? You see, because this is also that one's trick, to try and keep holding on to the house, even when it cannot hold the house. You say, when the belief is strong, there is nothing that can be done, I'm just identified, I take myself to be this limited one, there is nothing you can do. Now, if it is not the case, what is the best gift you can give yourself? Is the best gift that you can give yourself to wonder about those times, and feel like 'Why can that not happen, why does it keep happening to me, when will I be free from this', or is there a better gift than that?

Exactly. Very good, very good. Once you have that insight, then the main trick of the mind has gone. Because the mind cannot truly persist. It takes too much energy for the mind to keep convincing you that you are limited. But then what happens is, that it plays these episodes and then it keeps replaying them and says 'See, yesterday this happened to you, this happened to you' and we sort of are in a hypnosis and continue 'Yeah, I don't know when it will stop, let me ask Father, what can we do'. But, Father can just point you to right now. Full, full God is here. Full God is here right now. Nothing is missing for you right now. So, a better strategy, rather than holding on to these moments from the past, is to embrace the fullness of your Divinity right now.

You being who? Who will not be?

Body-mind will never be fully free, body-mind is just going towards death. It will never know eternity, you see. So, if you buy into the representations that this one is selling, as if there is a possibility that they could be true, now does the mind even have the capacity to examine how much fear is there? Can we really look and say how many grams of fear have to be there, how many kilograms have to be there for the mind to say 'It's a lot'? The mind can sometimes take the littlest thing and say 'It's a lot' or this big [spreads both arms] and say 'It's a lot' or this big [spreads arms even wider] and say 'It's nothing'. The mind is a completely unpredictable clown. There is no real consistency to it's reports of the so-called truth. But if you keep dancing to the tunes of this clown, then our life will become funny like this. And, it doesn't seem that funny actually.[Chuckling] There is no consistency in the mind, it's not like it's a fair player. Sometimes it will take the most absurd thing and say 'Oh, you're so great, you're so fantastic'. At other times it will take very sweet things and say 'But you're really terrible', you see. So, don't dance to the tunes of this one, because the mind is saying 'There is so much fear'. Does it have a measuring tape to be able to measure how much fear is there? It cannot even count a hundred oranges. How can it count how much fear is there? Show me hundred oranges in your mind right now. No? You cannot be sure they are one hundred. Maybe five, with seven you're already gone. Saying 'But your life is like this, you have so much fear', six oranges it can't count straight, and we use its judgments to judge our life. [Pauses] You see, no, I'm not blasting you. I'm just saying that the reports of the mind are so absurd and for us to be able to take them as some sort of representatives of Truth is even more absurd, you see. The mind will say, a little bit it'll find something, maybe it's a muscle cramp or something, and then it says 'Oh, that's too much fear. There is too much fear'. And then we say 'How do I fix that fear, why does the fear still come!' Does it really know any of these things?

Exactly, exactly. So, stay true to your insight, because you had pristine insight about what you are, and don't fall for these just absurd notions from the mind and ideas about ‘it knows how much of something is there.’ Trust your heart, your heart will tell you how much fear is there. If you say from your intuition, you can sense that there is this much oppressive something, I am happy to hear, but it won't be like that.

[Laughing] We have some caves in our building now, and for some time the ones living there cannot leave their caves, we have some of them living here. But the complete possibility of Freedom is there for them and for you. There is no difference in the cave or non-cave. But mostly what I'm saying to you is that forget about destiny, karma, time, all of these things, they do not apply to the insight which you had about yourself. If you keep taking them to be real, these notional ideas, then you will take your notional idea of yourself to be real as well.

Who does destiny apply to? So, mind says this may not be your destiny, whose destiny? Is your Being in time, destiny, or is impacted by karma, or something like that?

Who will go out from here?

No, I'm not Advaita chopping, I'm just seriously asking if we take this to be real. But after, in a Satsang way, you recognized the broadness of your Divine Presence and the Absoluteness of That which is aware of even this Presence. To take yourself to be something that comes and goes and all of that, is it really true or are we operating on some ideas from the past?

Who, who my dear? I might be sounding like an owl [Chuckles].

That's about all. 'I was thinking' itself is the answer. It doesn't matter what you say after that. Once you say 'I was thinking', it is clear what the problem is [Both laughing]. You could be saying 'But I was thinking about the Magnificence of God' If you were thinking about it, no chance.

Yes. In India, I don't know if you've ever been here during the time in India when you play Holi. Did you ever experience the festival of Holi?

So, if you leave the house, basically then you expect to get covered in color. Yes? So, the mind is like that. If you go to thought, then don't expect that you will have your pristine white clothes as they are. Expect to be covered with misery and suffering. Some people have these ideas, in the North, in Delhi they used to, when I lived there, where it was really strong, this festival, so I especially as a child, some people would have these ideas that 'No, no, people should respect my wishes, I don't want to get colored', but in the end they were fully colored up, there is no chance. Like a very Satsang festival. You can have any ideas about how you should be treated, but you will be fully drenched in water and color within a few seconds. So, you may have some ideas about 'Oh, my insights will save me from my mind and I can visit it and still have a good time'. Nothing like that, it just doesn't work like that.

Maybe we don't know what to do when these metaphors come up [Chuckles].

If you speak from your heart, it's the voice of my Master speaking. Very good.[Silence] Even the silence is my Master's voice.