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Stop Trying To Understand What-Is, Meet What-Is

2021-03-12|2:14:50-2:31:42|Watch on YouTube

Stop trying to understand What-Is through the mind - there is no separation between Satsang and practical life; God runs all of life, and the heart knows Truth directly while thinking creates the illusion of a separate self that worries.

Ananta

Is there any message from the mind, any narrative, which you still think has a lot of Truth in it?

Seeker

Yes, in last days something came very strongly and in regarding practical things. Some worry and fear about future. And I saw that in that moment I can observe the play but still is like a powerful identification with this.

Ananta

Yes, yes, so the minute we make the category of practical (and sometimes of course we use the word in Satsang also but the instant we make the category of practical) I have seen many of you feel like that becomes out of the scope of God or out of the scope of Satsang to take care of that. So then we become open to worry… because this is about practical life! Now, God can't take care of practical life. But God is taking care of life, the entirety of life and these categories don't exist. Who is making your heart beat in Satsang, the same one is making your heart beat in so-called ‘practical life.’ The one that is making the breath flow, all of these functions happen, all of that God is only doing. So if they stopped in so-called ‘practical life’ and it was up to the mind then the body would be dead in one instant there would be no practical life. The second thing is that when we say ‘in my practical life’ is it an invitation to believe in our separation in our identity again. And therefore then because I am back to being a little old ‘me’ then I can worry, I can be wondering about the future. So then does it cease to become God's life because it is a practical aspect of life? Whose job is to run practical life?

Seeker

It is clearly not ‘me’ like in a personal way. Its God, the Self but when the worry appears or strong emotion appear I see that it's a mental knowing that ‘Oh God is running this’ but it's not in my heart because I still go with it.

Ananta

Let us clarify this, let us make sure this is true, okay. The ‘me’ is a mental knowing, God is not a mental knowing. At all points there is no ‘me’ in existence. Existence is God, Consciousness is God just naturally. So the notion of ‘me’ is a conceptual knowing. Right now if you do not know anything mentally there is no ‘me’ then in the job world or whenever you say the ‘practical world’ is there a ‘me’ there and God is just a conceptual construction?

Seeker

No, no, no I saw that it is the other way around.

Ananta

Exactly.

Seeker

God is it is the Presence and this the addiction have…

Ananta

Good… so does your Being change between Satsang world and practical world? Does your Being change?

Seeker

No.

Ananta

So, now the worry is for whom?

Seeker

It is worry or feelings or something and ideas. Yes and it seems like it's coming back to an entity which is in front.

Ananta

I will remind everyone of this - The false or the illusion or maya is designed to ‘seem’ like and ‘feel’ like. And if we keep saying that ‘just because something seems like Truth it must be true’ then we will keep falling for maya. So just because something seems like it is going to an entity, does it mean that there is an entity? Have you verified that?

Seeker

No, there is no entity, there is no…

Ananta

No person. But?

Seeker

But I think of this a lot and…

Ananta

Stop that. [Ananta Sangha Smiles] You do not have to think of it at all. Not a lot, a lot is too much! You do not even think about it a little bit. You intuit about, you be with your intuition about it. [One hand placed on heart] The place of knowing the Truth is your heart. The place of falseness is thinking. The place of limited constructs is thinking. Do not try to come to the master-knowledge in your head. The true knowledge will not be available because you think of something a lot. You may think and think and think for many lifetimes but the Truth will never be a product of your thinking. Become headless my dear, headless then no category of practical and Satsang no category like that life is just life.

Key Teachings

  • The categories of 'practical life' versus 'spiritual life' are false mental constructs - God runs the entirety of life including heartbeat, breath, and all functions
  • Worry and fear arise when we identify with a separate 'me' entity; saying 'my practical life' invites back the belief in separation
  • True knowledge of Truth comes from the heart/intuition, not from thinking - thinking is the place of limited constructs and falseness, not the place of knowing
practical vs spiritualfalse categoriesgod running everythingworry and fearidentification with meheart knowingmaya illusionno separation

From: Stop Trying To Understand What-Is, Meet What-Is - 12th March 2021