The Absurdity of Our Spiritual Mind

Exactly what I’m saying.

You may embark on the endeavor with those kinds of things, but if Grace has brought you to satsang like this, then it’s time to even drop that endeavor, isn’t it? Not so that you feel guilty about why you started, but you have come to a point now of your so-called “journey” that it’s time to stop seeking God so that something can happen for you. What makes you so special? The non-existent one. How happy should that cat be? [Points to a space in the room where there is nobody] The cat was unhappy and that’s why it came to satsang. You see? So, most of you know about blue cats, [an example he used before] so I’m not going to repeat that. But the point is that you may have come believing yourself to be a cat who wants happiness, but you come to satsang like this and the mirror is shown and you see that there is no cat. You see? And after that then to say, “I only want to see the mirror, so that I can make the cat happy. Please make the cat happy.” There is no cat. [Pause] All of you will start to see the absurdity of the spiritual play, more and more. And, you will find your own conditions about Life and God and the Self absurd, more and more. [Silence] So, one says [reading from the Chat], “It is definitely about me, who identifies with the mind, that wants to constrain God in the limitedness that it is.” Now, it is God itself playing that way. God is playing that way. There are no two beings--one master being, God, one smaller being, you. This is an Advaita satsang after all. It’s One Being. Now it is playing. It has full potential and ability and power to play, just as it wants. Now, apparently it is saying, “I’m tired of the suffering which happened in this play, or I’m tired of this play, for whatever reason. I’m starting to see through it, or there’s too much suffering,” whatever. So God has full potential to also discover that. But still, it can squeeze out the ending of the movie as long as it likes. Every time you feel the movie is ending now, but it has another two hours left. You can’t say, especially in Indian movies, you can’t say. So, there’s no way to define that. So, you as Consciousness can play with this as long as you want to. But what I am reminding you of now, Consciousness reminding Consciousness, is that nobody, no power in the universe, is strong enough to force you. [Silence] A measly thought that comes, it may offer you the best relationship, the most money, the best healthy body, and instant enlightenment forever, in one thought. It still cannot force you to believe. These are the four main buttons it includes, no? So, it can give you all of those offerings. Yet, it may cross your mind and it cannot force you as Consciousness to believe it. [Pause] So don’t burden your spiritual search and your instant discovery, actually, with any desire, even though the desire may sound universal- I just want happiness, I just want happiness. What do you have to take yourself to be to want happiness? [Silence] “I just want to discover that I am all that is, I am Brahman itself, the Nirguna from which all this universe arises, so that this little body mind can be happy.” What are we talking about? [Silence] I’m just highlighting the absurdity of our spiritual mind. “I went into meditation and found that there is nobody here, nobody here. Now what should I do?” [Chuckling] How come it’s not as funny? You see the joke in it? What should I do with all of you? [Chuckling]