Sense Of Lack Is Another Mind Trick
The sense of lack is a mind trick - there is no lack because Consciousness is complete now; Freedom is about recognizing your true nature, not about how the body should express it.
Now I follow those simple poinHngs, which earlier helped me like align the things to happen along the things, like thoughts to flow and not ge^ng involved in that. But that thing earlier brought me peace, so much joy and so much light, but I have the sense of Being, but that this is sHll a sense of lack and incompleteness which was not there earlier when I was immersed in my Being. I want to ask for your help for that.
Good, good, okay, so there is a sense of lack right now. And there was a prior experience where this sense of life was not there, it used to feel completely complete.
Yes
Now, the sense of lack it is just a mind trick. There is no lack right now because lack would mean that ‘God is not enough right now, God was enough then.’
Yes, maybe I feel that.
So this is a very powerful trump card that the mind plays someHmes saying that ‘Your prior Seeing was very full but now there is something missing. It is not the same, there is something wrong’ and it uHlizes this kind of imagery from memory. It projects all kinds of things saying ‘you were so Free then’ all of those things. All of it in an aZempt to be in denial of God right now. So your Presence, your Being, your Consciousness, is it lacking? Is it less?
No, in itself it is not but in my expression it feels like. In my expression, in my expressions it feels like ‘I am lacking.’
So expression has nothing to do with it and I want to tell all of you this because all of you at some level may be judging yourself based on this expression. What comes out of this mouth, how the hands move how the feet move that has nothing to do with Freedom. Freedom is free to use this body instrument to express in any which way. What you are realizing is that ‘you are not this body, this body is an appearance along with the rest of the world.’ So isn't the whole world your expression? Why is this body only your expression?
Yes, yes.
SomeHmes in Satsang we use these constructs just to clarify some things but this is not the final poinHng that ‘Okay, this is your expression, this body is your expression.’ In the light of your Being this enHre world emerges and there is no disHncHon, there is no separaHon between anything in the world. And this body is just another percepHon within the world. So like we say ‘let this be, let the world be’ then it must include the body also be. So if you pressurize yourself in this way and last Hme also we spoke about exactly the same thing. If you pressurize this yourself in this way that your Freedom must be well embodied in this one body; then nobody can do it, nobody can do it. Your Consciousness is all there is and you are beyond even that Consciousness. You are beyond even that all there is. Now, how will this body express all there is? When the body has to go lee also, it has to go right also, it has to speak Truth also, it has to speak lies also, it has to go up also, it has to go down also, all there is. You have to stand sHll also and jump up also. How will this expression represent Consciousness and is that what we are really aeer? Is our quest for Freedom so that we can give something special to this expression? Is it about freedom of this expression? Is it that ‘I’ come to Freedom ‘I’ realize that ‘I am Awareness beyond even the play of Consciousness, so that this realizaHon helps me as a body or an expression (whatever you term you want to use)? Now, the mind will tell you ‘but if this expression doesn't change, if sHll angry words are coming out of the mouth and acHons don't seem like acHons of an enlightened Being then what is the point of Freedom?’ It plays like that. Now what is the point of this Freedom then? So the point never was to give something to this body. The point was you as Consciousness to come back, to stop playing the play of being limited, to come back into its True recogniHon, it's True realizaHon. Is that not available fully right now? Is the recogniHon of your true nature not available right here, right now?
It is available.
It is available. So now cut off the linkage that that recogniHon should mean something for this expression. That is how arrogance comes. Arrogance means what? You try to be something special in this body because you have come to some realizaHon of what you are, that is arrogance. That ‘I know, I have found the Truth.’ Is the Truth saying that? The Truth never lost the Truth. So if you make the linkage again between the recogniHon and how this one should play out then that is the ferHle ground for arrogance. What should happen once you recognize yourself? What should happen to the body? It should become all like sadhu (sage) like, is it like that? What should happen?
I was not talking about the body. I was talking about the peace and the bliss and joy. I was talking about that.
Yes…okay so peace, joy, bliss; they are in service to whom? Who are they created for?
They are there, they are just there.
Ah, so Consciousness if you have to build a narraHve of some sort we can say that ‘Consciousness projects these primal forces; love, peace and joy’ and here we are not talking about that which is inherent in the Self itself. We are talking about that which can be objecHvely tasted ‘ah, there is so much love’ like that. ‘oh, there is so much peace, ah joy, joy, ananda’ so we are talking about these aspects, not that which is inherent in the Self itself, which is just beyond any qualiHes. But if you are talking about these then the creator of these must also be Consciousness, isn't it? And they are here to serve whom? They are here to serve Consciousness itself no, for Consciousness’s own joy, for Consciousness’s is own entertainment, there are love peace and joy. So the one that is tracking these is saying ‘this should be more or this is not enough.’ But Consciousness is not making a mistake with that. Are we in this quest for Freedom so that we can have more love peace and joy?
No.
Leave them.
Key Teachings
- The sense of lack is a mind trick - there is no lack because Consciousness/God is complete right now, not lacking anything
- Freedom is not about how the body expresses - the body is just another perception within the world; Consciousness is all there is
- Linking self-recognition to how the body should express creates arrogance; the recognition should stand alone without conditions
From: You Bring the Joy - 9th November 2020