How Do You Know Your Experience?
Rest as the unchanging witness of all appearances; don't identify with the screen's content - whether India, Ashram, or anywhere else - and recognize that what Is is already enough.
Anantaji I just, actually it’s about something that was raised before, I just see so much Grace in my life and …all this Hme I could spend at Babajis [Mooji Baba] feet and also in his ashram. Feel so much graHtude and also in India …just no words. But I can see, I sHll feel this itch of going somewhere else or even going to India again as if I can rest and just stay sHll, I don’t know if it’s part of the spiritual ego I don’t know it came up today very strongly and I can say, ‘I’m fine now. I’m happy why going somewhere else?’ It comes up [Chuckles] the feeling to be at Babajis feet or Tiruvanmalai, I can see is coming and seems to be in conflict with life I’m having here at the moment and even if it’s beauHful, its perfect, I just see it playing so I felt to speak it out.
Thank you, thank you for exposing that it’s very good. And I hope you won’t mind if we meet it at a different level because your name on Zoom is Atma Vidya so [Chuckles] I want to fist meet it at a different level and then see how that resonates and then we can dig in a bit more if needed. So really if we were to talk about what we can see because you started by saying that. What you can really see is that this world appearance is constantly changing. And what you can also see is that you as the Pure Witnessing of this world appearance is not changing. (Stop me if I’m wrong or we are going too far.) Atma Vidya actually means that you can see that Unchanging Reality which is the substratum of all that changes. Now idenHficaHon or suffering is when the Atma itself takes itself to be something in the realm of the changing, of the changeful. So you remain the unchanging as far as that is concerned, don’t take yourself to be anything which is in the realm of the changeful and let whatever has to change in the world play itself out like it has to. So whether the screen shows India, if it shows Ashram, if it shows whatever else, that is just what the screen shows [shrugging his shoulders]. You see, but you don’t take yourself to be in the content of the screen. Or at least “just in the content of the screen” From there you have no trouble, how the life of this one plays out, where it goes, where it doesn’t go, we don’t judge our self either way, because can we really say what is beZer for us? We cannot. But the light of Consciousness which is moving all of this knows, beZer than all of our individual minds. So allow that to move this life, allow that to move your feet, your mouth and everything. And don’t make this a problem that you are dealing with at that level you see because if you deal with it at that level you will reinforce the noHon of being the body-mind who has some individual voliHon or agency to decide and then desire comes into play, doership comes into play, duality is already in the play. So just, what is the Unchanging? Something there is yearning for the Unchanging no? but the Unchanging is already there, as Your Self. So don’t idenHfy with anything other than that. then you will see that, the world play, whatever may show up, is just a play. It doesn’t really change anything in your Reality whether you are in sleep state or dream state or waking state (we talked about all three states in a way today) so you see, that plays out. Did you decide that I’m going to visit you in the dream today? ( makes a reference to what she reported earlier that she had dreamt of him)
[Laughing] No.
Just showed up no?
Yes.
The same way, everything in this world appearance just shows up in the Light of Consciousness Itself. So don’t be so concerned about that and don’t make Your Self an object in that. You see, because that representaHon is very far from Atma Vidya. [Smiles] It’s very far from Atma Vidya.
Thank you, thank you.
How does it feel?
It feels good. There is so much contentment that comes, the mind doesn’t understand. Why to go somewhere else, you can just rest and stay. SHll something moves this body and feeling to go somewhere else is just a …[Shrugs]
The mind proposes this humble sounding noHon called ‘beZer’ but the ‘beZer’ is the cause of a lot of mind mischief actually. Because hidden in noHon ‘beZer’ is the idea that what Is, is not enough.
Yes, yes. So there is just the feeling to be content and not keep planning but to stay here in this moment.
Yes, yes and to stay ‘here’ means, it’s not about ‘here’ in Hme and space. To stay ‘Here’ is to not idenHfy with an objecHve limited enHty in Hme and space.
Yes, thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
You are very welcome.
Key Teachings
- You are the unchanging Pure Witness of all world appearances - don't take yourself to be anything in the changing realm
- The notion of 'better' implies that what Is is not enough - allow Consciousness to move your life rather than mind's desires
- Everything shows up in the Light of Consciousness itself - like dreams, they simply appear; don't make yourself an object in that play
From: To Get Freedom Actually Is To Give Freedom - 21st May 2021