Just as You Are, You Are All There Is

What do you mean by 'do'? I know it's a very absurd question, but what is 'do'?

Yes, yes. So, 'to do' includes the concept of someone doing, isn't it? Otherwise you would just call it a happening, like there is a happening happening. Actually, a happening is not happening, but in the interim we [can use it]. What is the difference between 'doing' and 'happening'? In 'doing' we presume that there is a doer, correct? And happenings are just happening. Now, who could the doer be if there was such a one?

But the person has to exist to do, isn't it? Is it the person?

Where is the person? It's just an idea, you see. You could imagine there is a cat sitting next to you. Then, what could the cat do? Ask the cat to get you a glass of milk. In the same way, the person is also just an imagined set of notions. And an imagined set of notions cannot actually do. So, who must be the doer then?

So when no one is doing nothing, what are you doing?

[Chuckling] But there is no one doing anything. Then how are you identifying?

[Chuckles] Don't try to solve it here [points to the head] my dear. That is one tip I have for you because what I'm pointing to, you cannot resolve in your head. You just have to meet me in your heart, and it'll be clear what I'm saying. So, just provisionally I will give you some pointers, so that it will be clear. That which Is has to be the One that does. Isn't it? It cannot be that that which isn't happens to somehow do. So, find out that which is, and you'll find out that it is your very Being. And that Being is the One Being, whether you call it God or Consciousness. The One Being, One Beingness is the One Doer, and is also the One Experiencer. So, that Beingness, playing in the presumption or the mask of separation, will go through suffering. Empty of the mask of separation there is no such thing as suffering. So, in Satsang we're just removing the mask. And the mask contains the three D's, I call it the Three-D-Ego. The idea of separation which is duality, the idea of desire which is 'I want something', and the idea of doership which is 'What can I do to get what I want?'.

So, find out who is the True Doer, who is really existent. And see if that is an individual called Saloni or whether it has any name or form. What is your Reality? Before we can say 'I did', [unless we are being conversational, conversationally of course we can continue to speak like that], when we say 'What should I do?', what are we talking about, who could be the doer? Who could be the experiencer? Investigate that further, then all these questions will go away. So, I'm giving you the tools to transcend these questions, otherwise we get stuck in the conundrums of what to do and what not to do. Also, in the Upadesha Saram which I played just now at the beginning of Satsang, Baghavan [Sri Ramana Maharshi] has pointed to a very similar thing in that, talking about action and non- action and whether that is really relevant in the realm of True Being. We start to realize that the frameworks that we have about life, they have nothing to do with life. Ideas that we superimpose on to the pure perception of what is manifest and the obligation to dance to those frameworks and perceptions, even our ideas of good or bad, right or wrong, life dances to its own tune, like the dancing Shiva Nataraja. You cannot tell him, don't dance like this, dance like that, this is good, this is bad. But if you take yourself to be separate, if you take yourself to be an individual that is an agent or a doer, if you take yourself to be something which wants and desires, then that is what suffering looks like. You can't even say that you will suffer because of that. In fact, that itself is what suffering looks like. The constricted state, the mask of the Unlimited operating in the Lela-presumption of its limitation, is suffering. So, life actually is very, very simple. God is operating. But, if you want to break it into an understanding, God is operating in two modes. One is operating in the presumption of limited personhood, and one is operating without the presumption of limited personhood. That's it. There is nothing else to solve, resolve, sort out. And even this actually is under the primary principle that God is operating.. With the mask God plays with the game of suffering, and when it's done with suffering, then God plays with the game of openness and emptiness. And don't fall for any provisional things to solve along the way. You solve the mask,dissolve. Tell me where you are and where I am.

When that intellectual pointing or understanding just becomes obvious, most obvious, then all these side-shows will not attack you, they will not hurt you.

What you speak is very beautiful in some sense, because your words sound as if it is a snake which is eating its own tail, and then it will completely vanish, you see. Because if you resonate with Self inquiry, then inquire into the one who resonates with Self inquiry, and you will find that this Self inquiry is [snaps fingers]. Because that is Self inquiry, to explore, or to investigate the nature of who I am. So, if you say 'I resonate with the Self inquiry', then it's very beautiful, because that gives you a very good starting point, because you can ask, ‘Who is the 'I' that is resonating with the Self inquiry?’