If You Knew Who Lives In Your Heart You Could Not Trouble Yourself

Fundamentally we are just saying, if you were to recognize who lives in your Heart, then you could not trouble yourself. It's all a case of mistaken identity. As long as you take that one to be a personal entity, an individual entity, you will suffer. And that one, the same one is playing this game. And once that one comes to, in the play, to the part where there is recognition about what it truly is, then it is impossible to suffer. So, all that we do in Satsang is to come to a recognition of that Beingness, and then at some point you can check who is Aware even of the Being, that which we call the Self. The Self that is aware even of the pure presence of Beingness, completely beyond the considerations of birth and death, waking and sleep. All these opposites just don't apply. And that recognition all of you will have today. The recognition is not in question. It is the resistance management which comes after that, or the conditioning management that comes after that which gets to most of us. And whether we call it habit or conditioning or vasanas, it doesn't matter what term we use. So, the recognition is undeniable and we will check on that right now. And I don't want anyone leaving Satsang today with the feeling that 'Okay, I didn't really recognize what he is saying'. I want you to come up if you feel that, so that we can look through, because it's not possible for you to not recognize. It's only possible for you to misidentify the recognition when you benchmark it against some expectation of what you must discover or what must happen as a result of that. Clear what I'm saying? It can sound a bit academic, so I'll try to say it more simply. So, it's not that the recognition can be missed. It's what you expect the recognition to be, which can confuse you. Or, what the outcome of the recognition should be, that can confuse you. With me so far? So, how many of you are non-existent right now? You don't exist. Anybody non-existent? Right at the back? Not existing? Even in full-on tantrum you have to exist, isn't it? In big anxiety, all that happening, but first you have to exist for all of that to happen, isn't it. So, that is what I'm talking about. Don't you know that you exist? Do you have to know it in your head? You may know it in your head, but that is irrelevant. But that existence is known in a different knowledge source which later we will give it a fancy word, but right now you don't have to bother about. So anybody who feels like they're non-existent can raise their hand or they can leave the Satsang [Chuckles]. So, there is nobody like that. This knowledge of Being or Presence or God is that simple. Except when you become mental about it, mindy about it. Or when you want something out of it. Simple. Now, are you aware or no? You are aware, finish. Again, you did not perceive this Awareness and nor did you have to think about it. It is something which is recognized in a more primal way. So, to come to God, to come to Being, to come to Consciousness, to come to Presence is simply to recognize your very Existence, your very Presence. And to see that I am aware even of That, independent of Being and Being is to discover that pure Self, that pure Awareness which is your very true nature, whatever your mind may say about it. [Silence] That is the crux of all of this and it is super simple, super simple. The rest of it is just dealing with 'But'. But, but, but...you see, and that 'But' is about desire, it is about what I want, even from this. So, whether we call it expectation or resistance or conditions, it doesn't matter. Now your Being, which is just Being, without an idea of anything at all, how can it suffer? Try to as your Being suffer without any idea. Anybody who succeeds can raise their hand. I want to see a Being that can suffer notion-lessly in the Unborn. Who can do it? [Pauses] I realize, I can sense the 'but's' are starting to arise, but stay with me for a bit. [Chuckles] You can see that this Being is untroubled, this very moment, without doing any Sadhana, Pranamaya, nothing needed, in this moment you are untroubled, unhassled by anything. You could have started five minutes ago in some deep sort of mental maze, as if I'm stuck in a big chakravyu (maze) but just simply to recognize that my Being is just Being. It wants nothing, it needs nothing, it has no boundary, it has no limitation, it is not opposed to anything, it is not for anything. You just Are. Who has lost me so far? Lost me anyone? Now, whose Being is this? Who can say 'Property of...' what, whom? Whose Being is it? Who does it belong to? Does it belong to your parents? Does it belong to society? Your children, partner? Whose Being is it? The idea that we take ourself to be, the Being takes itself to be, can it belong to any idea like that? Who can hold this Being, Who can control it? It is beyond all these considerations, isn't it. Anyone not recognizing what I'm saying? And don't get into peer pressure. I'm not going to give you marks, passing feeling marks. It's clear, no? So far clear. Then, now try to make yourself suffer. Your Being is just too free. It's not allowed like that, it's too free too soon. Not allowed. So, suffer a bit. How will you do it? You may get a thought, it may say 'But I am suffering. It's not that easy. He doesn't understand my life, my situation'. Some thought like that you need at least. So, believe it, identify, you can do it if you try hard enough [chuckles]. Succeeding? ‘Kinda, sort of... ' If I really tried, I could, but I know what happens when I do' [Chuckles] But even if you did believe and even if you did suffer, [Clicks fingers] right now – all gone. What kind of magic is this? You could have suffered for a long time, but right now [snaps fingers] your Being is back to full Being, full power. [Pause] So, it is not in time. You are not in time. You come to what I'm pointing to instantly, and whatever process has to be taken care of, let that be my problem. You don't worry about things that are in time. Let time be my problem.[Silence] Let what is here beyond time be discovered by you right now, and whatever the mind might propose to you saying 'But, what will happen when I leave Satsang', all that nonsense, let that be my problem. So, the recognition of what I'm pointing to and the dropping of this conditioning, both are [clicks fingers]. That's it. Now, if you take on projects which you don't need to take on, which is to make yourself always happy, or stay in this state constantly, or some nonsense idea like that, then you will invite yourself to become an object in time again, because then you're concerned about 'Always' and 'Constantly' and all these things in time. And what do you have to take yourself to be, to think that you always have to be happy, you have to take yourself to be what? You're not saying 'Oh, Gods Presence that is here should always be happy'. You're talking again about yourself as a body-mind, as an object in time, in space. But what you are recognizing yourself to be, this Being, where is it sitting? In which space is it? Inside? Don't use inside. Being is inside, but inside what? I can tell you that inside the body is just more bodily things, blood, flesh, bones. So, it is inside you, but not in space. Inside you, but not in time. And therefore we have to use terms like 'inside' provisionally. Actually, to what you are there is no such thing as inside or outside. Now, that's it, that's all that we really need to say.