The Self Never Comes and Goes, but Every Perception Comes and Goes

In a way, this is what I was saying to the earlier one also. The deeper you go within the more someSmes a sense of fear will come and the fear is about the unknown, about death, about living in limbo, about being lost and … this will be transcended. Stand your ground, stand your ground of the NoSon-less-ness, stand your ground in the Unborn and this will be transcended. This is just the withdrawal symptoms of the addicSon to our limited idenSty. And as we let go into the Unspeakable, into the Ineffable Reality, this is just the withdrawal symptoms which will come and say ‘But, what are you here? You are nothing. You are lost. Stop following this guy. [Smiles] You are gevng nothing. At least with the mind, you were making something out of your life. You had a plan for all of these things. Even it is a bad plan at least there was a plan.’ [Smiles] Here he is saying ‘let go, let go, let go. What are you going to get? He doesn’t even tell you that.’ [Smiles] So it is a bit of an unfair bargain to the mind but I don’t want to give you a fresh prison. I don’t want to give you a fresh set of chains just to Se yourself up with. So I don’t want to give you any promises. I can just say that ‘Through my Master’s Grace levng go happened here and I have never said give me back what I had before this.’ [Silence] That’s all the reassurance I want to give you. When these feelings or these sensaSons seem too scary, where there is no space to look, then it’s okay. Then just forget about it, go through it, you will be fine the next day. But when there is some space, when you can look, then you may want to invite yourself to look in this way and say ‘How much of my space do these sensaSons take?’ [Silence] And what happens there is that your aienSon starts to look around a bit rather than just being fixated at those sensaSons. It starts to look around a bit and see, look at the container of that sensaSon and if you give yourself this invitaSon then you have the room to check in this way, then you may find that this room has no boundaries. So no maier how big that sensaSon may seem it is just a funcSon of how fixated your aienSon is on it. Because your Being is limitless, there is no boundary to it. In fact, this enSre universe which itself doesn’t have any boundary shows up within your Being. So how can your Being have a boundary? And this will become your true insight that you will see. Many Smes I make this example, I say, if I make a dot on a wall and it’s a black dot on a white wall and I ask most of you ‘What do you see?’ You will say ‘Yeah, I see it. I see the black dot.’ ‘What else do you see? No, is there anything else?’ ‘Black dot Father, I don’t see…’ And I say ‘But, what about the wall?’ That’s what happens with these sensaSons also as they show up. Because they show up and we are sort of programmed to do that, we feel like ‘That’s all there is.’ but we miss the substratum, the surface on which these sensaSons are arising and once you learn, once you learn to not to be so fixated with what is showing up and you are just living in that Pure Observing, Pure PercepSon, then you will see that this is nothing. All these things can come but what is it to my Being in which this enSre universe comes and goes? And it’s not just me saying that, Ashtavakra [A Sage] said ‘You are that boundless Ocean in which the arcs of the universe, they come and go.’ So even if you feel like this one is lying then Astavakra I am certain was not lying. Well, he is at the ulSmate level but provisionally not lying. So why would he say such thing that ‘You are that boundless Ocean in which the arcs of the universe comes and goes’? How far is that this definiSon from this definiSon that ‘I am a mere flesh bucket, I am a mere flesh bucket who gets shaken by mere sensaSons’? It’s very far, isn’t it? And I am not saying that to make anyone feel guilty or something like that. I am just saying that to try and broaden your perspecSve. What is true? Explore that. You have some very different definiSons no? One is that ‘You are this boundless Ocean.’ One is that ‘You are this bundle of food that you have eaten, this bundle of food that you have eaten.’ These are very drasScally different representaSons. So the exploraSon is up to you, which one could you be? Which one could you be? What is truer about you?’