Everybody Knows the Self

Is The Truth That You are Discovering Just for Satsang? Is it clear to you that You are Aware. Is it clear to you that there is no distinction between this ‘You’ and ‘Aware’? Who is this not clear for that ‘I’ and ‘Aware’ is the same or are they two? ‘I’ which owns Aware… is there an ‘I’ like that which owns Awareness? It is clear that ‘I’ and ‘Aware’ is the same? When ‘I am’… it is the same Awareness which is now experiencing itself as Being or tasting its own Being, is it like that? That is it then! That is it then because all questions, all confusion, all-suffering, is what we add to the story aeer that. ‘I am’… but, but, what about my human life? This is okay for spirituality but don't I have a real life to run? Who is buying into this stuff? So this jugglery who is it for, is it for the Truth? Is the Truth that you are discovering just for Satsang? Like this is the Truth for Satsang and there is the Truth for the real world, so called real world, practical world or this is the Truth - Truth, full stop. This is worth contemplating because somewhere there may be an idea that I have to juggle both aspects of myself. I have to juggle both aspects of myself. I have to get hundred marks in my spiritual aspect and I have to get hundred marks in my practical aspect. Now what is the substratum for all practicality? Your breath has to happen, your heartbeat has to function (all of these) without that you can't be practical much, maybe for a few seconds. [Smile] Now, how are you being practical where these things are concerned? I tell you something else no scientist has figured out (and I am open to be corrected if this is wrong, I heard this from a credible source) what keeps the atoms of this body together. What makes it one seeming unit? So there is a force which is keeping all these atoms and molecules together (apparently and this is speaking in a worldly way). Now that is the most practical thing. If that force stops working then this body that we want to excel at practicality would not have any function. So all of this stuff is happening anyway, all of this stuff is happening anyway. On top of that you say ‘but practically I need to decide what to do next, practically I need to decide what to do next and for that I need to use my mind.’ But the mind is the most hopeless instrument to use for this. One it cannot decide anything at all, it just offers up concept aeer concept of the concept. Consciousness itself zeroes in onto them. The second thing is that the mind does not know how to ‘do’. It does not know how to speak, my mind does not know how these words are coming out. Your mind does not know how the listening is happening. Your mind does not know, my mind does not know how to move a finger. Tell me, if anybody's mind knows? You may have concepts about it, you may have ideas about brain chemistry and brain physics and all of that. But can you fire any of that? Like I keep saying can you fire a neuron? Can your mind tell me how to fire in one neuron, two neurons? Nobody can tell us. So what is practicality that we are doing? We cannot decide, the right choice may not come up in the mind at all. So what is all this decision making about? Then Consciousness may not choose to give the right choice belief, may choose to go with the with the wrong concept. [Smile] So this guy in the middle which is neither Consciousness nor the mind, how is that going to play a part in this? This practical life, in whose light is it shining? Shining in your Being, in the light of your Being, on the screen of your Being. These are not just words. In the light of your Being all of this beautiful intricate play is being played out, so the notion of a non-existent one coming in the middle and running a practical life is completely fraudulent. Either Consciousness is running or the practical one is running. Now, can you find this practical one? Where is it that he should run your life? If it is the mind, the mind does not know decision- making or action. Choices or actions are out of the scope of the mind. Who is this great practical one and why is it that we believe that Consciousness as this pure Being cannot run a practical life when it can run so much? Isn't it just a mind’s subtle attempt to make these categories of spirituality and practicality and get us involved in that kind of play and say ‘Yeah, yeah.’ Look at the mastery or even the trickery (let’s not call it the mastery) the trickery of the mind. Because you are discovering something so immense about yourself that even the universes wake up within you. This is what you are discovering within yourself that the entire universe wakes up within you; you are discovering this but what does the mind come and say? ‘Yes, yes, all this is okay for Satsang. All this is okay for Satsang but what about your real life? Come on’. Can you see the nonsense? And then he says ‘This is good, thank you Mr. mind, this is good I needed that because I was becoming too spiritual, I was becoming too spiritual, so now I need to do the process of integration.’ So ‘I’ the non-existent one will now integrate God and the world and the running of this body mind's life in the world, I will integrate. Who are you? Who are you? Don’t exist. Because I must be God plus something no. Like God is running that is not enough I must be something extra God like extra to God, which is going to say ‘Discovering God in Satsang that is fine but that one can't run the life of the body- mind in this world, that's where I come in.’ Who is that ‘I’? Has anybody ever found this one? The non-existent one should run the practical life, the pure absurdity, pure absurdity, please rid yourself of this nonsense. It is just mind survival tactics. Then we say ‘I want complete dissolution of the mind Hll then I am not free. Bhagwan had said mano-nasha. Only aeer mano-nasha am I free.’ But then we ourselves believe in the categorization coming from the mind. So how will it happen? ‘So for the practical life I need to do this.’ Who, who? That is where you started by the way. Are you seeing the trickery in this. You started with the question ‘Who am I?’ and you found who you are which is beyond this universe and then the mind again sells you the story ‘But that is just… in Satsang you are that. In the real life or practical life you are still this one, don't go too far.’ And we go back to the same delusion, the same misidentification because now we want to be superman or super woman and we will integrate all this. Not only will we integrate, we will also embody God in one body. [Smile] God will become so Hny that we will embody like everywhere we go we'll just be like God. How will we embody God? [Smile] And is God doing a bad job of embodying. Is the need for these services? Have we asked like we are starting this whole new service. Is there need? Is God messing up is it? Who is running this body? We have seen everything in the body is run by God already. So nobody should make these stupid mental categorizations. Because you have earned your Freedom. You have been to enough Satsangs. You have done enough inquiry. You earned your Freedom. Now do not fall for this simple April fool's day trick and say ‘Yes, yes, very good, good job and now about, what about embodying? You forgot about that, look, look, your teeth are not shiny enough. Your eyes are not transmitting enough.’ [Smile] What do you want and what embodiment do you want? How will this body represent God? Isn’t the universe already representing everything to represent. Stop this rubbish kind of emotional attachment to the body trying to be some great thing. Who can juggle all this? That one has to exist firstly! And then Advaita is - there is no two - so if there is only God then who is going to juggle God and the world?