श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

I Am the Travel Agent to God`s Light

Ananta guides a struggling seeker to recognize God's presence in the immediate Awareness of this moment, urging them not to exchange true Life for the ego's illusion.

Seeker

You are menHoning a lot about living in God's Light. And I think we all know the value of it. And, as [a Sangha member] said, there are a lot of like, forces. When we are in our strenght or when we are happy, these forces are coming. They are there, but I feel like, at some point I just gave up. Because I came just from Sahaja [Monte Sahaja, Ashram of Sri Mooji] and it seems like no force was with me, but it seems like life is always test, test, test. And at some point I said, okay, I'm done, and I don't feel this urge or love for God, in it's full strenght like it was before. (...) I just wanted to share this with you, like, some kind of unhappiness is just in my field, and I couldn't just shake it off. Yeah, I just wanted t bring it to you.

Ananta

Yes. Thank you. Of course, my prayer and blessing is that you and everyone comes to this Light while the light of life is sHll here. You've seen with the events in your country [referring to the earthquake in Turkey] that you can never predict how long this life is. I want to tell you one thing, that no mind has so much power that it traps you conHnuously, even when it seems to. What it does is, it says „Oh, now you are just too caught up in the mind“, the mind itself will say that. But everyone has room to be free from it, at least for a few moments, when we're not under the grip of this selfish mind. Use those moments to dive fully into God. Start with one moment. Start with right now. Then the next moment where you find that there is room, the mind is not that convincing for this moment, find God. The mind will tell you, no, unless you can do it all the Hme, there is no point. But I am telling you that, use every moment that you get, starHng now. God is here. God is here, yes or no? What is true in your Heart, is God here now?

Seeker

...Yeah...

Ananta

God is here!

Seeker

Father, God became same for me like – I don't know how it is called – God means pain for me. This is how it is here [poinHng to the head]. So that's why I feel like I don't want God anymore.

Ananta

Yeah. All this, let's forget about everything that we've concluded in the past for a moment. So don't worry about any equaHon like that what we've had equated, none of that.

Seeker

[inaudible]

Ananta

You don't want to forget? Just trust me and forget all this for a moment. Just tell me if God's Light is apparent to you right now.

Seeker

I think I don't want to look in that direcHon.

Ananta

Yes. And that's why I'm prodding you, I'm pushing. Because someHmes a child doesn't want to take the medicine which is helpful to them, so the father has to push and say „come, come, come with me for one moment. You can go back to your stuff in two minutes“. Right now you come with me, because I see the struggle in your face. Because the Truth is apparent in your Heart, but something wants to deny that so strongly and say „no“. But you can't get yourself to do that also, so you're really struggling in that way. Because you can't deny it also, you can't confirm it also, so you're stuck. So I'm saying, don't worry, it's safe to affirm the Truth as you are finding it right now. Your mind will hate it. Your posiHons will seem like they are crumbling, but you must return.

Seeker

Father, it is not about God in its Reality, but how everything is here.

Ananta

It's very simple. Every moment in this life is very simple. It's either lived in God's Light or in the mental hypnosis of the ego shadow. That's all there is, there is no other complicaHon. Everything else is just thought belief systems, thought paZerns. So, my job is, I am the travel agent to God's Light. That is the only Hcket I have. You may want to resist it with all your might, you may say no, I built a comfortable home with completely raHonal thoughts and conclusions which are very true sounding in the ego shadow, which is actually a life lived in hell. But I cannot stand my children living there. I am saying, you come. Because you are open, I know you are, in spite of all your outward outer defense and desires. I know you are open in your Heart. So you come with me to what I'm showing you. Let's try again. Is God here or no?

Seeker

I don't know.

Ananta

Are you here? Are you present? No?

Seeker

I didn't say no. While you asked, I'm just looking.

Ananta

It's simple. Are you here? Are you hearing this voice?

Seeker

Yeah.

Ananta

That You that is aware of the percepHon of this voice, is God. How will we deny it now? That Awareness has a holy presence which lives within your Heart. Not your physical heart, but your spiritual Heart. That pure Awareness has gieed us with its Presence. We must value that gie above all else, no maZer how convincing the mind is. No maZer how much the mind says, these other things are more important. Don't make that exchange my child, don't make that exchange. Because we don't want to imagine a situaHon where God makes that exchange and says „Not you“. Not on purpose, but under the hypnosis of the mind you say to God „Not You“. But what if God said to us one day „Not you“? Would we be able to bear it? Would we be able to live? So why do we do to the Father that we don't want the Father to do to us? We must say Only You, Only You. At all costs. Even if it seems painful, even if it burns. Only You Father, only You God, only You, Satguru Presence. And if you do it more when it is difficult, then the mind cannot bear it. [Reading from chat] One child says, someHmes it feels like God says „Not you“. Feels like. No, it just thinks like, because we want something else out of it. It is unimaginable when God was to ever banish us from his Light, and all you would have is a Zombie life. What a beauHful problem all of us have. God is here. And I'm pushing you all, stay with God, stay with God. Suppose the discovery of God itself was not available to us, and all we had was a Zombie life. Lifeless, just flesh and blood, just food. And we die. We are in a beauHful posiHon by God's Grace that we have God in our Hearts, palpable, tangible. And yet we say, but what about this, what about that. Don't do that. With all my love, all my authority I want to plead with all of you, don't do that. Don't exchange true Life for death. All you have to give up is that who doesn't exist anyway. Your ego is non-existent. If you become the most special one in this universe, what are you going to get? They will build statues in your name, but your name itself will be gone. With all your might, fight on my side. Fight on my side. Because everyone needs your help to shine. The best gie you can give the world is to shine. Don't fall for your mind's tricks and invitaHons.

Key Teachings

  • The mind does not have continuous power over you - there are moments when you're free from its grip; use those moments to dive fully into God starting right now
  • The Awareness that is aware of perceiving this voice is God itself - God's presence lives in the spiritual Heart, not the physical heart
  • Do not exchange true Life for the ego's mental hypnosis - say Only You to God at all costs, even when it seems painful, because the ego is non-existent anyway
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From: The Best Use of Time Is to See That You Are Not in Time - 28th September 2019