Inquiry and Surrender

Produce such a thought. Pick such a thought that your Being has to bow down to it inherently. Tell in your mind-“Produce such a thought.” And you’ll notice that, in that representation, is your deepest attachment, as the false. So, what to do when this attachment comes into your light? Just by coming into your light, it maybe losing its power. It may be losing its power. But, if you feel like it’s still potent, it makes you dance every time it comes, then either surrender or inquire. Either you surrender it if you are of devotional temperament. Surrender it and say, “Not my problem. It is my Master’s problem orGod’s problem.” If not, if you don’t feel like surrender really applies in your case, then inquire. “Who is suffering from this? Who wants this? Who is the protagonist of this story?” So many pointers have beengiven to you, thousands and thousands over so many Satsangs. Use any of those tools and inquire into it until the notion becomes laughable. It should become laughable. But most of you, I have to say, that you’ve been in satsang that you’ve been in satsang and I feel like you can just notice it and (gesture of it disappearing). But it’s not a competition. Like don’t have an idea of yourself as a very super advanced spiritual seeker. Therefore, you should be able to see and just blow up parts like Terminator or something. You don’t have to get to some super advanced level. Just go with your intuition about it. If you feel like just your noticing now doesn’t take the juice out of it, doesn’t take or the sting out of it, then inquire or surrender. What I’ve said now is basically the encapsulation of, if you can call this a path, starting from Bhagavan,(Ramana Maharishi) then that is the encapsulation of that path. [Pause] Now the mind will come and say, “But, but, but…” this is the knocking from the mind. I want you all to really play on my side now because, the mind is coming with the same old stuff, same old stuff that you’ve seen and played with and seen that movie a hundred times. Then, you should be able to just playfully tell the mind, “No, no, this is gone. Come up with some fresh material!” How long will you suffer from the same stuff? I’m mean, if we are Sangha, let’s make the mind work hard for its suffering! How long are we going to dance to the same tunes? “Oh, no, no, no, it can’t be that simple?”; “Oh, no, no, but there is nothing to hold onto there.”; “Oh no, no, no, but when I go into work and I see my boss…” Come on, we’ve played with this stuff. “Oh, and my girlfriend called me…” Same, same stuff. Let’s at least go to the mind and say, “Come on, is that all you’ve got? That’s all you have? Same old tricks. At least come up with some new magic.” I want to hear a problem which is not about relationships, about security, money, security—all of those things—which is not about the body and sensations in the body, whatever else, and it is not about spiritually or our conceptual ideas of freedom and what states freedom should bring and what should happen to me after I’m free, and all that spiritual “me” nonsense. So, these four things. If any of you have a question…and I’m going to come up to all of you with your hands up, don’t worry. I’m just challenging you a bit, eh? Who has a question which is beyond these four things?