The Masters Report Is About Your Pure Being

I menHoned that, just rest in openness and empHness, just surrender, let go. If that doesn’t work, then inquire, ask yourself who am I, if that doesn’t work then you can do some chanHng, if chanHng doesn’t work, then you can just follow your breath, if following your breath doesn’t work, or you can’t get yourself to do that, then do some devoHonal singing, if devoHonal singing is not working, then do some hatha yoga, pranayama. All this is available, so whatever, in this phenomenal play, you feel like brings you to that empHness, but my worry is that you may be making a version of empHness which you are now trying to chase, like an experience out of the empHness which you may be chasing now, but don’t become an experience chaser, because no maZer what you do, what you will find is already here right now. That is not going to change. So, the Truth is what the Truth is. The Truth is always what the Truth is, it always Is. It is the Isness Itself, it is the ‘What Is’ Itself. But you may have an idea of ‘What Is’ should be. And if you keep chasing that idea of what it should be, then it will always seem like that elusive mirage that you come close to, but it seems to vanish just when you get it. Right now, this is the Truth. Right now, this is the Truth.

In a way, in a way. Why I say in a way, because that understanding is useful if it is a cleaning agent, if it is a cleaning agent, if it is the acid that we are using to clean up, then it is good. If it itself becomes the central premise, if the understanding itself becomes something that we think is the Truth, then that will need a cleaning agent also. So, understanding is only helpful to the extent that it cleans up all that is false. It cleans up all that is false. But if you make that itself into a central, you build an idol to the acid, then we are in trouble. But what I want to ask you, really, is who are you trying to help in this conversaHon?

Why is that?

Why you say seems to?

Why don’t you say: the Truth disappears? Why do you say: “seems to disappear”? [Silence]

Background is there. And you are where?

And who witnesses that you are playing? How do you know that you are playing?

Yes, yes. So, this one now, that wants to be free from the false, is that the one in the background or the one in the foreground playing?

So, you know that, that one, because it’s really nonexistent, that one cannot be helped, no?

This is the trump card of the mind, the trump card of the mind. It will say: Yes, yes, you had this pure insight of the truth, nothing changes there, this whole Universe comes and goes for it, but it remains untouched, but what’s the big deal in that? What did you get? What did you get? What did you get? What’s your answer?

But…

Are you the one that is just shuZling around from both, there is Truth, and there is false and you poor thing are going back and forth between these two, are you that one? Leave that one! You leave that one. That one is like the dog chasing his tail. That one is just like the dog chasing his tail, there is no actual answer for that one. Just leave that one. Don’t ask why, don’t ask how, don’t ask anything, just leave it [snaps fingers] leave it.

You learned too much, your problem now is that you learned too much. Because everything you are able to preempt now. Everything is like: Okay, now Father said this, ah, this is what it actually means. You see, and then you made it into an intellectual exercise. Now leave all of this, everything that you heard, leave it! Everything that you know, leave it! Even “leave it” you leave it! It’s not difficult, there’s nothing to get out of it. Just empty. One Hme, what happened is that one of the friends in the Sangha she said to me, “Inquiry stopped working for me Father. The inquiry was working so well and inquiry stopped working for me.” And that was the day I actually realized that most of the Sangha is not doing the inquiry at all, they’re just thinking they’re doing the inquiry. So then I asked her, ‘What do you mean by working for me?’ She said, “Earlier when I used to inquire, then I used to inquire, ‘who am I’ and there used to be peace, it used to work. Now I start asking who am I and these thoughts are coming- I have to send this email, there’s no peace. So, Father, can we inquire together? And we looked. Then, I don’t know how it played out, I’m paraphrasing now, but aeer a while it became a bit peaceful so she said, “Oh, thank you Father, it’s really working for me, or you are really helping me”, or something like that. I said: no, what you are doing is not the inquiry, what you are doing is spiritual sightseeing, which means that if there is peace, then you’ve come to a nice place and the inquiry worked for you, if there is some contracHon or some thought, that means you are visiHng some not nice place and inquiry is not working, you see, but inquiry is not meant to be like this, it is not meant to bring you to nice place or take you away from somewhere else, inquiry, what is the inquiry, it is who am I. So then I asked her: but who are you, if there is peace or there is noise, who are you? And that day, when I looked at the rest of the Sangha people, (this was before the lockdown so there were so many) and I actually looked at all of them and I asked them some quesHons and I said that none of you are really doing the inquiry, you are just doing spiritual sightseeing. It is impossible that the inquiry doesn’t work. It is impossible that open and empty doesn’t work! Only because it is empty of expectaHon, and if you have no expectaHon about something, then it is impossible for it not to work. But now, what has happened is that we made an expectaHon out of it, that if I start asking myself ‘Who am I’, then my life will become peaceful. But who are you? That is the quesHon. Who are you that are concerned about peace or contracHon? [Silence] Who are you that when you remain noHon-less, because what is the mind saying, the great Masters have said, Master Bankei said: All things are perfectly resolved in the Unborn, all things are perfectly resolved in the Unborn. The mind comes and says: No, maybe he was just fooling you, or maybe he was a liar, something like this. And we buy into that. We buy into that story and say: Yes, yes, actually you are a beZer Master than Master Bankei and I need to figure out some soluHon to this. The problem you don’t know, who you are trying to help you don’t know, but we get on that chase. And it’s even worse when you do know, actually. It’s even worse when you do know. Because then we made a version out of that, in our heads also, which will only add to the burden. So, just…it’s so, so, so, so simple, my child! So simple! I can’t tell you.

The problem is you know now. And that is why, the minute somebody starts to know, the minute somebody starts to know this, I have to bring out my sword. I have to bring out my sword and chop them. Because, the minute you start to know, then you stop knowing actually. [Silence] So know as much as a one year old. Know as much as a plant. Then you know. But if you know, then you won’t know. If you don’t know, then you know. You know? [Chuckling] My job is not to create a great intellectual out of you. My job is not to stuff your head with all the beauHful spiritual concepts. All those are available in the books. My job is to make you so empty, so empty. And that is why this suffering is a good friend of mine, because it will not rest, unHl all that you know is not made into ash, especially that which you know spiritually know.

It’s a good friend of mine. Because what is it aZacking? Suffering only aZacks the false. That is why it is a good friend. It does not have the potenHal to aZack the Truth. Nothing can aZack the Truth. [Silence] What gets aZacked in your suffering? You say I suffer twenty five days in a month, I suffer. So, that ‘I’ is not your Truth. So, I’m glad, I’m glad it gives you the propensity to come to Satsang and look at what is true. That’s why it’s my friend. If there was nothing that aZacked the false in this Universe, then the false would just go on like this.

Yes. And my good friend must be in service to the Truth, isn’t it? It cannot be in service to the false, so it cannot be bad in itself.

I’m saying it is done. Which version you want? Actually, because you are making a report on two different things, that’s why there can be a great disparity in the reports. I’m making a report on your Being, on your Self. You are making a report on the worldly body-mind expression. And that is why many Hmes, people get confused about the discrepancy. And many Hmes what happens is that the Master’s report which is about your Pure Being is taken to be something for the body mind and then we say “Aah, Ananta told me I’m done, so I don’t have to come to Satsang anymore.” This kind of thing. [Pause] So you just have to clarify, who your report is about and how long you want to play with that nonexistent one. So, you had an imaginary friend, your parents told you for long Hme: that one is imaginary, then, now you are also realizing that that one is imaginary and now you are sHll crying because that imaginary friend doesn’t have enough food to eat. Then the parent will tell you: come on, snap out of it now, how long do you want to feed that nonexistent one?

Very good! Very good!

So, if your progress is my problem and you have nothing lee to see, will you be ok with that?

How will you spend your Hme if you no longer have to track your spiritual progress?

The whole point of having a Guru is that nothing in life is our problem anymore isn’t it? What is the point of having a Guru and having problems? Then your problem must be bigger than your Guru. I think my mother told me, or somebody in the Sangha told me once: Don’t tell your Guru what your problem is or how big your problem is, tell your problem how big your Guru is.

Anything that starts with ‘but’, you cut.

You don’t have to deal with anything, you see. You don’t have to deal with anything. That’s what Bhagavan [Ramana Maharishi] meant when he said once you get on the train then you don’t have to constantly ask, you don’t have to constantly ask if it’s going in the right way, how much longer will it take, you know it will take you there. So, that much we can trust the engine driver of the train also. We don’t have to have some supreme devoHon, that when you get on a train, then we don’t have to have some supreme devoHon to say “Okay, this engine driver will go in the right direcHon , as the train is stopping in Delhi and it ends in Delhi” then we trust it and we go to sleep, no? That it will end in Delhi only. Does it require some supreme devoHon? No.

Natural thing. In the same way, once you call someone your Master then you just chill out, you relax, it’s the Master’s problem. Otherwise, if you don’t trust your Master as much as the staHon master [Chuckling] then that’s not a… then you are not using the right word, you’re probably just saying “friend” or “spiritual conversaHonalist” that we have conversaHons with. Then it’s not true that you have a Master. Master means Master’s problem. Everything is Master’s problem.

Very good, very good!