The Healing Is to Recognize That You Are Not Your Mind

Don’t use the wrong instruments. You will not get it with that. It is impossible to NOT get with the right instrument and it is impossible to get with the wrong instruments. If you want to discover some giant form of God, as a huge, humungous perception, forget about it! It is like saying ‘get a weighing scale, and say “I want to measure the amount of light that there is in this room”. Can you do it? You see? Same way, get a weighing scale and say “How large is this room?” So, trying to use the mind and perception to find that ‘Self’ that you are, is to use the wrong instrument. If you don’t rely on those for a moment, and tell me it is not apparent to you, the Truth. Don’t use your mind. Don’t rely on your senses. Now? [Pause) And even for the confirmation, don’t rely on your mind! [Laughs] You probably won’t find it funny, but … [Laughs] you see, what we do is, we say “Okay, I’m going to let go…Let the thoughts say what they want… Let my perceptions be whatever… Now, what is happening to me?” Who is going to confirm that? Who is, who will we rely on to confirm that? Not the same ones, not the same instruments which we let go of? We do that often! We “Let go… (Imitates a person letting go, with hands up in the air)”, and Ahhh.. “What am I perceiving now because I let go?” We let go and then “Is it clear to me? Am I Brahman? Am I Brahman?” [Laughs] It is not like that! So, neither to recognize, nor to confirm, you can use the wrong instrument. Some of these are subtle things, although I am making fun out of them. But we do this often to ourselves and trouble ourselves. If I say, “Ok, check!”, and then you say “Ok, I am checking…. No mind…. No perception….Independent of all perception…” And then you say, “Ok, what is happening to me?”. Then you go back to Mr. Mind, and you say, “Ok. What do you think? What is happening?”. Not to do that! If you want, you can see this. These are the subtle traps of spiritual seekers. How will you confirm whether you are discovering or not? It cannot be to go back to the wrong guy. The same old salesman, whom we didn’t want to buy from, you don’t go back to the same old salesman and say, “Am I doing a good job avoiding you? Buying from you?” No. Obviously you don’t do that. But we end up doing that! That’s why it can seem so tricky, this spiritual journey. So neither for the recognition, nor for the confirmation, you use the wrong instruments. And if you are not using the wrong instruments, you are always 100% coming to the right discovery. It is impossible to miss if you are not waiting for confirmation from the bad instruments! Bad, in the sense, bad for this. Clear or no? Now fail without using the mind. Fail at this. Fail at discovering God, or Truth, or your Self, without using the mind. How will you do it? You can’t succeed with the mind, that’s for sure! At least all of you who’ve come here, or most of you who’ve come here, should have recognized this by now, that using the mind it is not possible to succeed in this search. Okay. Now, fail without using the mind! ‘Lose your Self’ or don’t be clear about who You are, without using the mind. Succeeding at failing? [Laughs] Can’t fail, can’t fail. right? Because the truth is so, so simple, but it is subtler than your mind can fathom. But it is not too subtle for You. [Pause] Ok, ‘succeed’ without using your mind. [Laughs] It doesn’t even feel like success or some achievement, or some… because it is so natural. If, it is the Self-discovery, Self-knowledge, Truth that you want, then it is just as simple as that. This is actually all the instruction that you ever need.