That Which Is Obvious to You and Yet Never Perceivable, Is You

Entitled: That Which Is Obvious to You and Yet Never Perceivable, Is You Link: https://youtu.be/aGaoA1mQfc0 Time: 29:34-42:13 Anantaji Satsang Excerpt – 12th February 2022 Who Am I Really We come to Satsang to be rid of this personal identity, this individualization which never really happened in the first place. But because Consciousness has the ability to believe what notions it itself is producing in its aspect called mind, then in that, in the spell of that belief it takes itself to be what it is not and that what it is not seems to be paramount or fundamentally important for the time being. And then even to get freedom, many times we come from trying to get it for the ‘me’- I want freedom, I want it now. I want to see god. And just the other day I was joking -But who are you to see God? What makes you entitled to see god? Only God can have the Darshan (insight) of God anyways. So coming back to the staying as the Self all that is needed is that you remain in your pure perception when the realm of perception is there, which is the waking state then you remain in your pure perception. Then when the realm of perception is not there, as is sleep state, you don't need to worry about it anyway. So don't pick up any notion, don't pick up any idea, any position: right- wrong, good- bad and you will notice that this realm can take very good care of itself maybe not according to the ideas we have about what that should mean but independent of your ideas of how it should be or should not be, it is just fine .And remember to include this body- mind that you call ‘you’ into the perception of this world, which is taking care of itself. From the Unborn, all action, activity, all the play of life whatever is needed can play out, God does not need your mental intervention to run your life. So that is how to remain free from this limited identification. Now some of you may say ‘Okay, I am free from this limited identification but who am I?’, ‘How do I come to the discovery of that? Who am I really?’ Now you have been told over the last year or so, millions of times, by this expression that whatever tools you think you have to be able to do, to undertake any search for the Self are not suitable for the search for the Self. So anything you can do to search is not suitable for you to find [Chuckles]. But the minute you stop relying on those tools, then the Truth of what you are is just apparent to you and this apparent Truth, that which is always apparent, when it comes into focus, that is what we call the recognition or the awakening. And don’t trouble your awakening or spiritual insight by trying to understand what you have recognized. Don’t understand what you have recognized, you can’t do it. So, let's try a live example right now. So if I tell you ‘Who is aware of your being? Who is it? It is you. But this You that is aware of your being, I guarantee you that you cannot see it, you cannot perceive it in any way and you cannot conceptualize it. Now, how will you confirm this? If you can only confirm this by understanding it first conceptually, then it is not the true understanding. Don’t rely on that. If you can confirm this because you see some black and empty void, then that is not what we are talking about, because that is just another perception. Who is aware of that? It is you, that much is clear. That clarity comes from your intuition. You see, you are never confused about that. So continue to rely on that same intuition and in that intuition you will have, you are having, a very clear insight about your true nature. And if you try and make it an understanding, you will again obscure it. Am I able to get through to some of you? You see, because I see, eh, now, having been in Satsang, for most of you the insight is very obvious. It’s quite straigh|orward and apparent but the need to understand it and the need to make something out of it, like make it mean something for the life of the ‘me’, you see, is what continues to trip you up. So maybe some more focus from here will go on that aspect now, because I feel like I have clarified now quite o}en in terms of how to come to this pristine insight very effortlessly. But when you need to really confirm in your head, ‘have I really got it?’ you see, then you’re going to the wrong tool, for the affirmation. You see. You’re going to the wrong device. It’s like you’re looking at the weighing scale to tell you the time. [Laughs]. That is not going to happen. So if you go to the mind and say ‘Hey Mr mind, what did you think of that intuitive experience of awareness that I just had?’ You see, it will trip you up either way. Either it will tell you ‘What are you talking about, look at how angry you’re just ge~ng? How can you have had the intuitive experience that he is talking about? Don’t fake it okay, just stop it!’ or it will say ‘Yes, wow, that was fantastic! So how can we keep it like this all the time?’ You see? [Laughs]. It will trip you up that way. So it will still try to make it a part of your narrative and try to insert the whole thing in time, whereas instantly, you see, right now, you can come to that direct insight about yourself which is not in time. It is not objective in any way. It doesn’t have an a_ribute in any way. [Silence] So now, do you want it to mean something for you? You see? You want to be enlightened because of it? [Silence]That is no deal, you see. Do you want a halo? Do you want siddhis? [Laughs]. That is why I made the third bowl, specifically knowing that of course it is a perception and of course it is a bundle of concepts. And yet, most of the times I hear questions about okay, so even when you say very humble sounding questions which is like ‘okay I had this insight’ (which is already now you gone far because you put it in your narrative) But suppose you said ‘I had this insight, now what?’ You see? You’re still yearning for something out of it or at least like you’re yearning for a meaning, ‘What does it mean for ‘me’’. You see? And in that meaning-making we invent the ‘me’ again. Because that ques#on does not come from that You which you discovered yourself today. It again comes from Mr mind. You see? So there is no deal that the Absolute Reality, once, once the manifest aspect of It comes to the recognition of It then It must help the non-existent person in any way. [Silence] There is nobody le} to be either free or bound in that way. . . . tiighlight from Satsang- 12th February 2022 Love, Peace and Joy Are the Very Natural By-Products of Your Being Link: h_ps://youtu.be/WKVAmLvruv0 Time: 15:15-22:52