Everybody Knows the Self

Yes. It goes very well with the theme of what we’ve been speaking about. It goes very well with the theme of what we are speaking about; in terms of just accepting the uncertainty. Accepting the mystery and at a deeper level, just to realise that whenever we think we are certain, we are not anyway. Like, our concepts of certainty have been blown apart so many times in our lives that it’s funny how we still hang on to them as if they are true. That is a fun part of this Leela, that the salesman has sold us fake goods for so many years, for so many millions of times, and yet we seem to be willing to buy the fake merchandise from this seller of certainty or clarity, where really no certainty or clarity is available. And to just show up open and empty like this is very good, actually. It’s very good, because we never know anyway. Suppose we’re really certain about what I’m going to ask, but you show up and I say, “Okay, Mahesh,” and then you just forget, or something totally different comes out, and you say, “Where did that come from?” You see? So, we don’t know really, and once we start to accept that, that we’re not as big or smart as we think we are, then life is much more open and empty. We are not trying to direct the flow of it so much.

That’s it. You see? Because we can never tell, conceptually, what is True. Like, it may reiterate one opinion repeatedly, and then, like, “Yeah, actually, Ananta is very… He’s actually criticising me.” (Laughs) And I have no intention like that, but you can create this sort of idea and with repetition and force, it may seem more and more believable every time it comes; but this master key that really any conceptual representation is never representing what shows up. You know? Forget what is; even what shows up in the manifest is not properly representable. So, it’s good that you let both go. That is what I’m talking about: let both go. Let both the opposites go. The mind will say, “But then what? Is it this way or that way?” None of your business. None of the mind’s business. None of your business, none of the mind's business.

So, as we are letting go of our belief in thoughts, we must remember to let go of our belief in thoughts about thoughts. Because what happens for most in this kind of spirituality (in this kind of Satsang) is that because we become more and more intelligent to what kind of sneakiness and what kind of trouble thoughts can create; then our representation, which is also conceptual, about thoughts themselves starts to feel relevant or valid; and then that can become a trap which is very difficult to break through and may create some apparent distance. So, just like the mind cannot really say anything about the world or any perception, it cannot truly say anything about the mind itself. So, all mental representations of what the mind is can also be thrown away - is all I’m saying.

(Laughs) That’s what I’m saying, just mental commentary on the mind itself and what we can do with the mind. So, really what I’m saying (just to clarify that point) because it can be confusing, is that what I’m pointing to is independent of what concepts you may have or not have. But if we take those concepts to be valid representations of what Is, then we are just shaping up for suffering, because no concept is large enough to represent what Is. And if we take them to be true or if we believe them, then that is to give them the certificate of being valid representations of what Is. And when we take the false to be a true representation of what Is, suffering is the alarm clock that shakes us out of that.

Yes. So, in one aspect of your Being, there’s confusion. Okay? So, there’s understanding sometimes, lack of understanding - all of that is playing out. Now, is there another aspect of your being?

That’s it.

So, let that aspect; where all these oscillations can happen, let it happen over there. Don’t judge yourself on that basis whatsoever, whatever may be happening there. You are reaching this deeper intuitive place where it’s independent of what may be conceptually understood or not. So then, it doesn’t matter whether you have the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica in your head or it’s completely full of the opposite of whatever the encyclopaedia says. It doesn’t really matter, because you’re not relying on that for any true representations anyway.

Frustration doesn’t mean bad news, by the way. In fact, part of my job as a Master is to frustrate you.

Even communication; as you’re getting used to accepting the mystery or confusion, you’ll find that, in the midst of your head being fully confused, your heart will be able to use your mouth. As I know, most Masters if you ask them, they’ll just be like, “But I don’t know anything. I don’t know why all of you come to me. I don’t know anything.” But they’re talking about here (indicates head). You see? They’re talking about here. There’s nothing that I can really conclude from here; but the Heart speaks. The Heart allows this mouth to function, and it can only point. The mouth can only point.

Yes, yes. Very beautiful. Very beautiful.

Yes and this Love is so much broader than any concept of Love that we had. Like, growing up in our culture, movies, songs, we hear about love, and we’ve all experienced love in that way as well; but the Love that you find in your Divine Presence is so much beyond what can be spoken. Very beautiful, and yet it points, everything it is pointing to is for that.