The Arjuna Paradox
No experience can add to Awareness - the most sublime reality is already here in every moment, yet we miss it seeking spiritual experiences like we once sought worldly ones.
Every experience comes and goes.
Every experience comes and goes. But even if it comes and stays, what will you actually get? Suppose Shiva comes in front of you and dances the Tandav (The most primal play of construcHon and destrucHon of this universe). What will it change for you? For that which is Aware of this or even witnessing even this, what will it change? What will you get which you already don’t have? So, this… and we don’t realize it, I am not meaning to sound harsh or something [Laughs] I am just trying to blow this stuff out of your head. This, in a way is form of like spiritual materialism. We want great experiences, we wanted them in the past through various other things, relaHonships, money and things like that, and now we want them through our spirituality. But really it isn’t about that. If you had the most sublime, the most amazing experience, how would the witnessing change? What would that add to the Awareness? And the most amazing phenomenality is tasted every moment but because we have become mindy about this taste, it has become like a mundane human existence. How you know that what you are experiencing is not Narayana ? How you know? [Smiles] That which is the preserver of this world, is that not This?
Key Teachings
- No experience, however extraordinary, can add to or change Awareness - what you already are is already complete
- Spiritual materialism is seeking grand experiences through spirituality, just as we once sought them through worldly relationships and things
- The most amazing phenomenality is already present in every moment, but we miss it because we have become 'mindy' and treat the extraordinary as mundane
From: To Come to God, To Come to Being… Is Simply To Recognize Your Very Existence – 4th February 2022