If You Didn’t Have to Think Anything or See Anything, How Can You Struggle?

Pristine Discovery Your very Presence, your Being, your sense of Existence, ‘I Am’ this sense, you are aware of it. But this ‘you’ that is aware of it, is it a thought? We can look, is it like, just a conclusion like 'The earth is moving the round'. We have no experience of that. In our experience actually the sun seems to come and go. Isn’t it? Or the earth is moving at rapid speeds but our experience shows that it’s perfectly still. So we have a thought now, we have a conclusion, because it came from credible sources that it is actually moving at great speeds. So if somebody says ‘Is the earth is still or is it moving?’, we say ‘It is moving’ because we have that thought, we have that conclusion. A child does not have it but we have that thought. The second is an experience like ‘What colour is this sofa? - It is blue’, because you have a perception of it. If I told you it’s transparent, you say ‘Of course not Ananta what are you saying? It is blue. It is perceived. Now this ‘I’ that is Aware of your existence is it just a thought, a conclusion you heard from somewhere ‘You must be… I want to tell you, you are aware of your existence.’ It is not like that, it’s not a conclusion. So if you lost your memory and all the conclusions were lost, this would still be clear. Isn’t it? Now I say to you ‘But how you can say it is you that is aware of your Being? Did you see what is the colour of it?’ You say ‘It has no colour, it has no shape, it has no size’ and yet it is obvious to you that it is ‘I’ that is aware.’ It is not third party information, it is not somebody else is telling that you ‘Your Being is there’, you are aware directly. So this ‘I’ that is Aware, it is neither qualitative nor is it just conceptual and yet it is completely known but not in the usual way of knowing. This Known, this knowledge is called ‘Self- knowledge.’ And it is always present, everybody always has it but because we have mistaken true knowledge to be these conditions, these concepts and these perceptions and experiences, therefore, we feel like ‘But what did I get? I didn’t get anything. Is this the Self? This can’t be It. (The mind will come and say) But this can’t be it’. And this one is the trickster, this one is the voice of the ego, the separation. It will say ‘But, there is nothing in this for you.’ Yes, but what are you taking you taking ‘you’ to be. Who are you taking yourself to be? For the one that considers itself to be an object which is born and it will die, for that one this Self means nothing. But if you really look without any condition you will find that this Awareness, this Self is empty is of all of these considerations of birth, death, suffering, all afflictions, all that seems to bother us, everything that happens in the time and space, it is way beyond that. It is not created. It is not destroyed. It is not hurt by anything. It is cannot be harmed in any way. Like they say in Shastras ‘It cannot be burnt, it cannot be cut, it is just Is’. That is your Self which is shining at the heart of your very existence, even your existence is made up of this Self. So don’t let your mind come and devalue this pristine discovery. [Silence] Beyond anything that will come and go. Beyond the most sublime experience. Your real Self Ever present. Pure beyond pure. Empty of all afflictions… is Here. [Silence] You may exchange this for something that is going to die. Don’t allow your mind to make this exchange for you. All that the mind will offer, is something that is going die. Something that will come and go. [Silence] This voice that is speaking these words is your own Satguru Presence, which is your own divine presence. It has always said this in time immemorial… reminding you about your true nature.