How to Get This Completeness?

Identity has to be there first. Okay, but for identity to be there, what has to be there first?

Okay, limited entity has to be there. Okay, so before there is a belief in limited entity, what has to be there first?

Okay, in between there being a limited entity and Awareness, is there an intermediary step?

Sense of Being. You have to exist. So, even this Being, I Am — can you be identified in your deep sleep state? [Smiles]

The waking state has to be there, or the dream state has to be there, for there to be identification with something. Identification, for it be there, it needs something that you can identify with, and something is only there in the presence of your being. So, this ‘I Am-ness’ has to be there, which becomes the foundation for even the identity. For jeev-atama, which is individualized Consciousness, there has to be atma, there has to be a sense of being, before the being can take itself to be individualized. Now, this being, under the spell of its own child, which is the mind, starts to play as if it is individualized and plays with these three Ds. I have a better idea for this Being — find out where you came from. Instead of rushing towards what you are projecting in this material objective-seeming world, find out where you came from.

Just by looking. By looking, enquiry, to look at your own source. If you ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ and you are open, then the truth has to reveal itself to you — if you don’t burden the truth with your expectation of what it should be. In fact, it’s not even a ‘has to’, it reveals itself to you. If you look within and you are open, the truth is revealing itself to you. Open means you are not burdening the truth with your idea of what it should be. Do you go into the enquiry with an expectation of what you are going to find? So, if you are doing that, then the reality is not so small that it will fulfill your idea of what it should be. The instant you ask who you are, what is it that you discover? That very instant when you look within and check, what do you find? You find something that you have never lost. [Smiles] You are it. But if you can describe it, then it is not it. At best, it can be described in negative terms — it is not that, it is not that, it has no colour, it has no size, it has no shape. Is this lost to you? That which witnesses everything that has colour, size and shape, does it have color, size or shape, any of these? Is that not you? Who witnesses everything that has some attribute? You do. And that you which witnesses, what is its attribute?

No attribute. Finished. Then? [Smiles]