Self-Discovery Is Your Own Discovery of No Thing

What shall we look for? Or what are we hoping to find? Nothing! [Chuckles] tiow many of you found nothing and how many found something? If you are forced to pick. [Chuckles] The Ones who say, ‘We found nothing’, it can be said in two ways. Isn’t it? Did you find ‘nothing’? “I found nothing. I have been coming for five years, found nothing, It’s a waste of time” - That is one ‘nothing’. There is another nothing: no-thing. So your Self- discovery, will be your own discovery of your ‘no-thing’ because you are not a thing. To find that no-thing, is to find something in Satsang. But to find that no-thing is very difficult. Very difficult because it is impossible to find. Your finding will not get there. You have to check on what already ‘is’ first. Because if you start the expedition, if you start the journey, then you will be a journey-er, a seeker. But before you can start the journey, let’s confirm that ‘you’ went missing in the first place. Because what is the journey? - To find my Self. The journey is to find my Self, (isn’t it) for Self- realisation. So where did you go missing? When did you go missing? What are you already then? What are you already? Now many of you will feel that; “Yes, yes, I know all of this intellectually, but I don’t have a direct experience of It and the Masters say, I must get a direct experience of It.” But I'm going to tell you that the direct ‘experience’ of It, is impossible. [Chuckles] Because an experience means a perceptual finding, a ‘seeing’ perceptional-y or phenomenally. So if your idea of direct experience is to find something that you will see and you will say: “Ah! [Pointing outwards]’ or this way [Pointing towards Himself]: “Ah! I looked inside inside inside, first I looked inside these sensations [Pointing to head], then I looked inside these sensations [Pointing to shoulders], and I looked inside these sensations [Pointing to chest] and inside these sensations, I saw It - there you were. This is where I was always hiding. Ah! That’s it.” That is not going to be It. And if it is going to be It then that is going to be a false alarm. You will just find some chakra or something like that and you will confuse that to be enlightenment. It is not that. To search for yourself in a bundle of sensations, you will only find sensations, isn’t it? So where to start this exploration? And before we can start this exploration, what is your original state? What is your original condition? So, what I'm saying is impossible and already many of your minds may be protesting saying, “What is he saying? He is not giving me a solution”. I am just identifying how we're deluding ourselves - Where not to go. Before we see what to look at or where to look, first I am telling you what not to do. So what did we agree? No idea? So if you're expecting to have a direct experience of the Self, as if you will recognise something phenomenal and say, “Yes, that's it, Eureka”. Then [it’s] not that. But now if that is the case, then what does Self-recognition mean? Is it a false statement? So when the Master say ‘Know thy Self’. Is it false because what I'm saying is, you cannot know it in your heads and you cannot know it as an object of sight. Then what is lee?