श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

Falling For Mental Temptation Is Falling For Slavery

The 'me' is a fictional story - you are the pure witnessing consciousness unlimited; suffering comes from investing in narratives that don't actually exist, and the Truth is now apparent for those willing to relinquish the false.

Ananta

A deal we made while we were not on the broadcast… We were just meeting here. A deal we made was that we will not suffer on behalf of an entity we cannot find, not suffer on behalf of someone that we can’t find. So, this is a powerful deal and it's very rational as well ,although I am not usually rational ,but this deal is quite rational as well, it will appeal to your rationality. Why suffer on behalf of someone that you can’t find? [Silence] And then one child says ‘what if that one is real, what if that one is real?’ Then when you find that one, then you can suffer on its behalf… till then … because you trust and you love me and I am saying -There is no such one, don't suffer. If I am proven wrong , then tell me ‘Here is the one that I am suffering on behalf of, this one, and Ananta you were wrong.’ Let us both suffer. I am happy to make that deal but you are just suffering from fictional things that have nothing to do with your Reality …because they seem meaningful to your story, that's all. You do not want to have a blank page in your story. Either bad or good, something must happen. If nothing is happening…I am bored. [Silence] So stop it now. You can stop it. ‘You’ as Consciousness have full power to stop. ‘You’ as the person does not exist. So, you cannot fix it personally. You cannot complete your narrative ,because the one who has the narrative does not exist. ‘You, you’ that one with the position, that has to go, ‘you’ go. Nobody needs you. [Smile] Just go.

Seeker

Get out.

Ananta

Get out! [Laughter] Gopala is prompting us to say ‘get out.’ [Sangha Smiles] So whatever representation you have , that can get lost. Nobody cares; it has no value, especially to You. All this false gibberish. We are done with it. You say, ‘But, but, but..’ ( Ananta makes a chopping action) None of that. ‘But it's true’ It's not. ‘I am really feeling this’. Are you? Feelings arise and subside, what is your relationship with it? The world arises and subsides, what is your relationship with it? Thoughts arise and subside, what is your relationship with it? The power to identify is to make these false relationships. But you have come for the Truth to Satsang ,the company of the Truth, Sat- Sang. How much falseness should we nurture in Satsang? Satsang has to be fifty one percent ‘Sat’ (Truth) forty nine percent’ Jhoot’ is it ? Jhoot is Lie. As long as the proportion is higher,you will be like ok.. is it like that? Or can we be relentless now, at this point, to chop away all that is false? Can the false serve the Truth that we must nurture it? Which one of your stories are you not done with yet? If you're not done with it you haven't suffered from it yet enough or maybe you have suffered a lot from it but you've invested so much into it that you feel like ‘you want to succeed, you want to win and then get out of it, you don't want to leave it like this.’ There is no need to hold on to the false. You say ‘I want the Truth.’ The Truth is being made apparent. So you have no excuse now. The Truth is being made apparent. Your mind will keep saying ‘but, but, no,no, it is not clear’ all that nonsense, but even you can smell the lie now. You can smell it, it is not true. The Truth is apparent to you ,every time you check it is clear to you and all of you are pretty open and empty now whether you believe it about yourself or not. But don't fall for this mental temptation. You realize that falling for temptation is just falling for slavery. Mental oppression ,if slavery is too strong a word you can call it ‘oppression .’ It tempts you with a story and then the story oppresses you or at least it seems to oppress the protagonist of the story. You in Reality are never oppressed. Where is the ‘me’ right now [Clicking of fingers]? The one you are going to present in two minutes from now, where is that [Clicking of fingers] right now? [Clicking of fingers] Where is that right now? Where is the ‘me’ whose story you are going to share or you are going to believe, where is that? [Silence] It is just a pure witnessing of your Being within which all these perceptions are shining. That’s all that's going on. Pure witnessing of your Being, Unlimited Being in which just pure perception of these beautiful sensations are being witnessed, that is all. Where is the ‘me’? Where is it? Where is the one with the story? Can anyone find such one? You say ‘I feel a constriction, something, something’ but You witness it, You know, or are You it? Anything that arises or disappears does not touch That which witnesses it. So if there is no ‘me’ that you find then what are we talking about? What are you talking about?

Key Teachings

  • Don't suffer on behalf of an entity you cannot find - the 'me' is fictional, a story with no real protagonist
  • Mental temptation is slavery - the story tempts you and seems to oppress, but you in Reality are never oppressed
  • You as Consciousness have full power to stop; you as the person does not exist - the witness is never touched by what arises and subsides
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From: I, in Reality, Remains Untouched - 26th August 2019