If You Found Your Self How Would You Know?

Are you the one who got confused, or the one that was seeing it, or the one that was saying it?

So if you found yourself, how would you know? This is leading to the confusion - Is this me, is this me, is this me? [PoinHng to different direcHons] All of these posiHons. Which one is me? So what is the benchmark you are using to confirm. Like everyone looking for the Self (presumably), suppose you came to Satsang and said today you got it. How would you know you got it?

Okay, this we can live with, so you will know it. When you know, you really know. Now there is an ‘I’ that you know like that. That you have always known. That is being re- cognized, that is being seen again, re-cognized. So, which is the ‘I’ you've always known?

You’ve always known?

But to assume you have to be. It's not that just this space is assuming.

You say, I admit. So you know that ‘I am’. The one that assumes, before assumpHon what is it?

The assumed only assumes? That which is the product of the assumpHon, itself cannot be the creator. It itself is just the product of the assumpHon, it’s just an assumpHon – ‘I take myself to be this false I.’ So the one ‘that takes’ has to be prior to the ‘taking’. Isn't it? So that one is which one? The one that assumes is which one? The thing is that when you are natural about it, it is obvious. Now because it is put on the spotlight, it seems all confusing and why it seems confusing because we try to use the wrong tools to find the answer. We are trying to either perceive it or think about it. But when you speaking naturally, ‘I always assume that I am the limited one.’ But pre-assumpHon, you are That. You have always known that. Our aZempt to capture it (in our mind) cannot work, because it is bigger than the mind. So what is it that you know most naturally? Before any assumpHons what is that for which you are to make no assumpHons, presumpHons. If all your assumpHons went away, what would sHll remain?

It’s a good sign. This is a good sign. This is very common sign and it’s a good sign because the fear will come like this. Because this is the fear of the unknown. Some may even call it the fear of death. If all my ideas about myself, I'm not sure of any of them, suddenly then ‘What am I doing? What's going to happen? What is this about?’ Even without these messages just like a very primal fear can come. But let it come and if wobbling is happening let it wobble also. That’s fine. That’s good. But the quesHon sHll remains. You say I assume myself, always I assumed to be the person. So the ‘I’ which assumes cannot be the person. Because the person is the assumpHon. So which is that ‘I’ which always is and then has the power to assume. It is that natural actually, that straigh{orward. Who is perceiving this now?

So this ‘you’ is the same ‘you’, your Being-ness. It’s that straight forward. Now if I ask you who is perceiving it then it complicates the quesHon. The Reality is that simple. Did you see this ‘me’?

So without seeing you are able to confirm it.

This thought you see, this voice you see, you see everything you perceive. You do it. This ‘you’ is not personal, but this ‘you’ can assume that it is. So I am taking itself to be ‘I am something’ is the assumpHon. Is the play of individualisaHon which is never here. So if got it then you got it. Cannot lose it actually But if you try to make it mean something for ‘me’ [inaudible] because when you say, ‘Okay, if I got It, then where's my halo? Where are my superpowers’ then forget about it because you are again taking yourself to be individualised one. If you live your insight, which is always available, uncontaminated - no trouble.