This is the Foundation for Your new Life
The unchanging awareness of one's own being (I Am) serves as the eternal foundation upon which an authentic spiritual life is built.
One child said, that my life is for 'me' till suffering happens. It is for 'me' till suffering happens. Now we need to examine that very closely because she is saying something that many of you may actually believe, but not want to reveal. So, this 'me', it would be alright to live for this 'me'. There's only one main problem in this. And that main problem in this is, that this 'me' does not exist. And even if we say it is your imagination or, it is an illusion, even in the imagination we have no construct of this 'me' because at best what we construct is this body. But this body itself is not the center of most of what is troubling us. If we come to Satsang for 'me' for example, suppose we wanted spirituality to serve us, then this much is apparent that it is not here to serve the body. So, we do not really consider ourselves to be the body anyway, and if we did, you would not be here in Satsang in the first place. That you are in Satsang proves that you don't take yourself to be just the body. But you may from time to time take yourself to be an individual entity which is completely unfounded, it is literally unfounded, you cannot find it. And this is just the symptom of the other 'but'. It is just the symptom of the ego's shadow, it is the symptom of the mind. So, that you continue to be in Satsang reveals that you realize that that is not the way to live. You no longer want to live in the ego shadow and live a life which is between birth and death, chasing after nonsensical things and claim things for yourself which you cannot find the owner of them ever in the first place. So, you're done with that kind of life, and that makes you stay in Satsang. But it's good to notice this because this has to be plucked out in some way. And the way is God. Because to replace the imaginary one with that, which is all that is tangible in Reality, leaves no room for the false one to remain. So, this 'me' we cannot find, and yet our life seemed to have been devoted to that one. This Being is the very presence of God which is here, and it is apparent. So the first thing for all of you, if it is not apparent, is to make this apparent, come what may. Don't pick up any other project whatsoever. If you have a doubt about the apparency of God's presence in your Heart, then leave everything else to God and just focus on this inwardly. Outwardly it's okay whatever has happened. Don't bother about a single thing except finding God in your Heart. That's the only thing that matters at this point. Because that will be the foundation for your new life, that will be the foundation for your eternal life. Otherwise we're just fighting among categories in our head. There is an Advaita category, there is a spiritual category, there is a worldly category, there is a work category, relationship category, then we're just fighting amongst all of this. So drop everything else that you think you know, that you're right about, that you have to do, because if you do not come to God right now, we don't know how many breaths we still have left. So, right here, right now. I'm making it very straightforward for you. Find that which is Being. Find that which truly exists, the Presence of which is God's presence, is God's light, is your tieart, is the Satguru presence. tiow many of you feel it is apparent? No peer pressure, because your simple raising of the hand will change the course in this conversation. So, have full integrity towards yourself. And really, it's never about winning a race. It's really not about getting there first. And I'm going to be around in one way or the other till every single brother and sister finds this. So it's not really about rushing. Right here, right now your very Being is present. It's a beautiful discovery because through this presence we can hold on, we can grab on to the toenail of God. Through this presence he's made the gate for us to hang on to, metaphorically speaking, the toenail of God, without which, in our present human condition God would be unfathomable. So, to discover the formless Reality of God except in our concepts or our imagination, if it was not for the presence of the Satguru within us, the presence of the Divinity within us, then it would just be conceptual. So this is the tiny tip of the iceberg which we must hold on to for dear life. And don't discount this discovery at all, because it is in this very light that this entire universe and all the universes that came before it and will come after it are created. Although it might be a mere toenail for God, it is the creator, preserver, and destroyer of this universe. All aspects of Consciousness and God appear within it. All aspects of time and space appear within it. So it is very important to discover and to remain in this presence. Some of you sent me some reports because I use the term 'God's light' and it doesn't appear as light to you, and that is fine. It is fine in terms of how it appears is not important, as long as you can validate for yourself, that when you check with yourself 'Can I stop being?' something becomes apparent to you, your Beingness, your aliveness, your presence becomes apparent to you. As long as you can confirm it on that basis, then you are not going wrong. Now, in this discovery which is the discovery of the very light which gives light to the sun and the moon, which gives light to all the millions and trillions of planets and stars, gives light to millions and trillions of universes which may come and go, and please, please, please don't hear what I'm saying metaphorically or poetically. I'm not making poetry. This is not a feelgood exercise. I'm telling you things as I have found them to be. Exactly like you would say, okay now, if I take a left from here, what do I get. I'm pointing you as literally as giving you directions on the street. So, don't allow your mind to create this whole dreamlike aura about everything, „oh this Being is the light of this universe, it's so nice“. I'm saying literally it is. The world is made up of this Being and you have the privilege to come in its presence. We have the privilege to come in its presence, that light which is God's presence, God's Divinity we can encounter for ourselves. So don't give this to your sceptical mind or Advaita mind, or something, that says „Yes, yes, but what about...“. Let's meet this really because your mind cannot fathom one hair on the head of this Being. Only in your completely naked meeting with it will you fathom it.
Key Teachings
- The foundation for spiritual life rests upon recognizing the eternal Self (I Am) rather than transient phenomena
- True transformation occurs when one abides in pure awareness, establishing a new life rooted in being rather than doing
- This foundation is not built through effort but through recognizing what has always been present