Just Let Go of Whatever You Think You Have to Control

Don’t have to control attention. Don’t have to control thoughts. Don’t have to control anything at all. All the control was pretence anyway. Allow life to unfold. And none of these instructions is for you as the body. So allow the body also to unfold as it is unfolding like the world is unfolding. It’s a part of the world. Don’t separate yourself, your body from the world. So words are been spoken, actions are happening with the hands and feet. It can happen. You don’t have to represent this reality in a bodily way. In fact, you can’t. You don’t have to start looking like a Sage. Just let go. The body will take care of itself. The actions, whatever it is meant to happen whatever is meant to unfold will also take care of itself. Just let go of whatever you think you have to control. The fallacy is as silly as, Consciousness taking itself to be a flower first and then saying ‘How am I going to bloom? How are my petals going to grow?’ [Smile] So the flower can’t grow it’s petals. Because there is no such individuality there. So allow the might grace to unfold everything. And sometimes it feels like it needs a bit of courage. ‘What if the grace messes it up? I wanted it to go this way but what if the grace has some other plans?’ Then in any case what do you feel like is going to unfold? If the grace has other plans but you had a different idea. What do you feel is going to unfold? It is like often Guruji [Sri Mooji] also jokes about this one. What to make God laugh? tiow to make God laugh? Tell him about your plans. So needlessly we are creating trouble for ourselves, suffering for ourselves, by trying to control this river. But what tool do we have to control it? Firstly what we take ourselves to be itself is false and then we want the non-existent one to control the life. That just cannot be. So to remain open and empty is also to remain empty of this false doer-ship. Empty of the false idea of control. Let it all unfold. But remember again that (many times I am repeating this point again) many times what I am saying is applied to the body. And we feel that ‘As a body now I should just sit around or something’ even that we can’t control. But we come up with these strange ideas. ‘Does that mean that I should just lie in bed all day?’ But I haven't spoken anything about the body. You let go. You are not the body. You let go. The body like the rest of the world is taking care of itself. The good way to check our body conditioning, our body attachment is if I tell you ‘What is the effort you are taking to run this world?’ Most of you will say ‘Oh, the world is running effortlessly.’ But when you say that you are taking your body out of it and saying ‘I am just running this part of the world’. [Gestures of hand pointing body] But actually the entire realm of perception is running in the light of Consciousness on its own without any personal intervention. tiow could the non-existent one intervene in any way - this is the fallacy. That is why I say that ‘In the never-ending debate about God’s will and free will the only seeming end to this debate is to really question and if there was free will whose would it be?’ No? If somebody… if it belongs to…. who? Free will means we say it as opposed to God’s will. Actually, God’s will and free will are the same. God’s will is completely free. He is completely free to will as he pleases. But when we say free will we are talking about some individual doer-ship. So whose doer-ship would it be? Where is the individual? So, that is ignorance or avidya. To take to be real that which is not real, is ignorance. So, as we let go of this notion of ‘trying to control’ of ‘trying to manage’ then we are open. But if we make that … but if we now try to manage our ‘being open’ only so much [Smile] then that itself becomes our new spiritual condition. That is why I am saying ‘open beyond trying to be open, empty beyond trying to be empty. Not even that pose, not even that position. Just empty.’