श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

The Ultimate Truth Is So Simple

Just relax and allow the mind to come and go without judgment or conclusion - when who you are is apparent in open emptiness, stay there.

Seeker

It just feels like remembering the guidance that was given...

Ananta

Don't remember anything. Don’t remember anything. It is not a classroom like that, it's not an exam where you have to remember what's been said. Just relax, first relax, all of you. [Silence] Just allow. If relax means just allow, then just allow. Don't worry, you don't have to fix, change, hold on to anything, nothing. [Pause] If there are any mental stories about being at the edge of the cliff and you just have to now make the final leap, or just now you're at the precipice of this extreme full understanding and you're just to grasp that final grasp, and you'll get it – all of that is nonsense. Just throw it away. Don't bother with any of that. There is no rush, there is nothing happening, just relax [Chuckles].

Seeker

Something wants to say, because this happens all the Hme ...Waking up in the morning, usually there is a lightness about it, I don't understand anything at this moment, it's alright. And I go for a walk, but at this moment it’s not feeling that way, because...

Ananta

Stop. When I say Open and Empty, that means that we are not to judge or evaluate any feeling that is coming or not. It is completely beyond percepHon what I'm poinHng to. So, if the percepHon feels like something is grabbing your throat and squeezing it, or you feel like you're at the top of a mountain and it's all space and all the clouds under you, it doesn't maZer. Either of them don't.

Seeker

Is this defending a story right now?

Ananta

Any percepHon the mind will use as if it is evidence to create its narraHve.

Seeker

Would you stop it? How do I just sit here and just allow it?

Ananta

Yes, exactly. Just allow it, and then let's see what comes. Just with the words of the Zen Masters, keep your front door and back door open, all thoughts are visitors, let them go, don't serve them tea. Just relax. [Pause]

Seeker

Is the one in fear at the moment the imaginaHon?

Ananta

Don't know anything, don't conclude anything. You don't have to know. [Pause] I will start all interacHons like this- first you relax [smiles]. [Silent]

Seeker

Don't let me run Father. Something wants to get up and run down the road right now, I don't know why.

Ananta

Don't worry, it's just a thought. You relax, let the thought come and don't worry, nothing is happening. The thought can run, you don't have to worry.

Seeker

With the hopelessness and everything coming up, just let it go?

Ananta

How do you know what is coming up? With what instrument can you tell what is coming up? The mind cannot tell about anything at all.

Seeker

Because I don't want the mind to trick me any more. [Silence]

Ananta

When the mind says, ‘I don't want the mind to trick me any more’, it is the thief dressed up as a policeman, pretending to help you. NoHce that and let it go.

Seeker

Father are you here?

Ananta

Yes, yes, yes, I’m the one that cannot go, the mind can come and go.

Ananta

So before concluding that this is, what’s happening to me- ‘I’m fearful’, ‘I’m burning’, ‘This is what’s happening’ just check- how do I know? Do I really know? Because once you take the problem to be real then you can spend years actually trying to fix it. Do we really know that the problem is real?

Seeker

I just want it to be quiet and peace.

Ananta

How do you know you want that?

Seeker

Because it's my nature to be peace.

Ananta

How do you know it’s your nature? [Silence]

Seeker

There’s a knowing because it’s been experienced, I hear Guruji so much in my mind right now saying,rest in peace, and the Masters and Saints saying rest in the I am.

Ananta

So never mistake the spiritual aspect of the mind or the spiritual pose of the mind to be your intuiHon. [Silence] Just because it speaks spiritually doesn’t mean it’s telling you the Truth. It is the spiritual encyclopedia for everything that we've learned which the mind uses spirituality to oppress you. In satsang we are cleaning up everything. Guruji says- don't make taZoos out of my words. Just everything must go, everything must go. What is your heart saying?

Seeker

Something in my heart says it's okay to even just if you have to today just lie in bed all day and let the world go

Ananta

Try again. Let's go to the heart together. What is your heart saying? [Silence]

Seeker

It's not saying anything

Ananta

Rest here, rest here. [Silence] Wait for it to guide you and how will you be certain it is the heart, because the mind is very good at posing?

Seeker

When that happens the body starts to shake.

Ananta

I’ll tell you a trick, a foolproof trick, which is- when who you are is apparent to you, then you know you're in the heart. [Pause] So when i ask you- are you aware now? it is apparent to you, stay here, is open and empty. just live here. never need anything else.

Seeker

There's a lot of yawning that happens like, like like energy, like noise coming out

Ananta

everything is okay, whatever is perceived is perceived, we don't have to conclude what it means

Seeker

it feels toxic if that makes sense

Ananta

don't make sense S; Okay that's beauHful sorry father.

Ananta

no it's just this is like i'm saying it's for everyone, all of us are here and we need to hear this so this conversaHon is just a catalyst for that

Seeker

Thank you, thank you everyone.

Ananta

So it is enough even for today's Satsang you can just noHce the way the mind plays, the way the mind is perceived and how it is possible for you to be open and empty and allow this mind to come and go.

Key Teachings

  • Don't remember or grasp anything - just relax and allow. There's nothing to fix, change, or rush toward.
  • Don't judge or evaluate any perception - the mind uses everything (including spiritual concepts) as evidence for its narrative. The mind cannot tell anything about reality.
  • When who you are is apparent (open and empty), stay there - this is the heart, not the mind posing as something spiritual.
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