No Matter What the Content of the Experience May Be, You, Have To Be, First

No State Can Change You No state can change you. And such great changes happen for you in a few hours. This entire realm is going to disappear for you. Everything is going to go till nil, and yet You will remain. And you might find that a brand new realm is there suddenly, and you seem to recognize even that. And you might feel like that you belong to that realm, you play with that for a bit, and then that will go. It might seem like you spent an entire lifetime. One time it happened like this. Some of you probably haven’t heard this story. So, at six-thirty or seven-thirty in the morning, the children came and woke me up and said, ‘Bye, Pa, we are going to school.’ So, I said bye to them, so this realm was there. [Smiles] I said bye to them, went back to sleep, everything gone. Then, a different place came. I spent one whole life, grew up, spent an entire lifetime, and then, funnily — because Being has a sense of humour — in that realm, I was half an hour late to an event — after living this entire life [smiles] — I was half an hour late to an event I was supposed to attend with my wife. And I could remember how that time was passing and worrying about getting late and all of these things. And then, after having lived that life till that point, suddenly this realm came back — when the entire lifetime was spent, but in this realm only half an hour had passed. And, why did I say that sense of humour was there? To make sure, [smiles] the Being, to play with itself, it made sure, it noticed the passing of that entire lifetime and especially an additional half an hour, just to make sure that it could not have played this game of ‘Oh but that must have been happening in a super- fast speed [laughs] or something like that. So, time and space are so much just projections. Has this happened with you? Like you feel like you had a short dream but actually a lot many years passed in that so-called dream. So, time is as malleable as space. Now, the funny thing is that we accept it about space. We don’t say, ‘Oh, the dream is a limited thing. If I run to the edge of my dream, I will fall of the edge of the dream.’ [Laughs] There can be mountains or rivers and you can keep looking at things — it’s unlimited. But when it comes to time, we feel like, ‘Wow! How did that happen?’ But it’s the same as space, actually. So, just like all of this, that can be experienced. You already are not confused about your Reality in that way because you have seen all this coming and going. Your Being, your Self, is not confused about any of this, actually. It is just that somehow, there is a habit of playing as if we are the confused one by picking up a limited idea of ourselves. And what is that idea? Any idea. [Laughs] That’s why Unborn, notionless Existence. As we were saying, even the most harmless sounding ideas can very quickly make a limited reference to yourself. ‘The coconut is green…. Yes, last year, I used to really have green coconuts. They had really sweet water in them.’ We make reference to ourselves very fast. And is the coconut green? Anyway, that’s a different conversation [Laughs] So, replace your knowing with wonder. In fact, replace your knowing; wonder is organic. You can’t try and create wonder. [Laughs, widening eyes] This is just acting. Let go of these limited ideas of everything.