Remembering Beloved Amaya

Okay, I’ll tell you a secret: When you are not identifying, that is the awakening to the Self. It is not a two-step process like okay, first switch this off, then switch that on. Because that is already on, just getting seemingly obstructed by the distraction of the mind. So, this is what Buddhists meant when they said, ‘Buddha nature is never concealed.’ You never have to go turn the Buddha on; Shiva is never hidden — you don’t have to go to Shiva and say, ‘Come on, get up!’ [Laughs] He is always on. So, the Truth is always on; it is the distraction of the false that is dropped away now. Otherwise, very subtly in these ideas, the mind can make a doer out of you again, it can make a grasper out of you again. Now, I was talking about the mind versus the voice of your intuitive Presence. Sometimes, I can get a question like this also: ‘How do I distinguish between the two?’ And, you will notice that with the mind, there is always a sense of grasping, always a sense of some wanting, some neediness, some thing. Even if it wants to ‘get it’, even if the claim is ‘I just want to get the Truth,’ you will find this sort of trying to grasp, with the mind. But with your intuitive Presence, it is just sitting around. [Laughs] It is not saying, ‘You must get this now.’ It is just there because it is not concerned with time, it is not concerned with space, it is not in a rush. Mind is somewhere always rushing, ‘Let’s get it now!’ But your Being and the intuitive voice, intuitive Presence of this Being, is never rushed, is never pushy, is never saying, ‘You must, you should.’ It’s just there. And the good news is that if it is not clear - this difference - forget it. Don’t rely on any voice. If there is a confusion, is this intuition or the mind, forget it. You don’t have to decipher it. Just sometimes you will hear it so clearly in your heart that this question will not be there. So, this question is very, very important actually. And that is the whole fundamental basis of jnana yoga [path of knowledge] in a way, which is that the Truth does not need anything, and all that is needed is to shine our light on the false. And in shining our light on the false, the false dissolves. And it is seen that the Truth is just naturally always there. It is not the outcome of a process, it is not the effect of a cause, it just is. And too quickly we go to a conclusion that says, ‘Now, now, he said now [snaps fingers], but nothing happened! Maybe I need to do something. Let’s go wake up Shiva. He must be resting.’ [Laughs] It’s not like that. Shiva is just apparent to you; you might not have the vocabulary for it yet, you might not have a perceptual experience for it, but it is always there. That which you could awaken will go back to sleep. That which comes, goes. And here the mind is just out of moves. ‘But it can’t be just this, but what about true Self-recognition?’ It is here. ‘What about that experience? When people laugh and cry at the same time?’ It is not needed. If it comes, it comes. But many can get stuck in those experiences also. So many we have seen like that through the years, we have seen that many can have very strong so-called awakening experiences but can get stuck in the idea of the experiencer or the specialness of the awakened one. Nothing is needed. This is a very worthy exploration. As you are, just as you are, you are All There Is.