To Chop This Head I Have a Sword
The false sense of personal identity (the head) must be sliced through with the sword of discriminating awareness, not softened or refined.
To chop this head [referring to the mind] I have a sword. And the sword is this one. [Clicking of fingers] You are free before you hear the click. Every problem that you claimed to have had is gone now. [Clicking of fingers] Before you hear the sound you are as free as the greatest Sage who has ever lived. [Clicking of fingers] Only your Being is here. [Clicking of fingers] tiere there are no doubts or buts. The one who has the history cannot survive this. Meet your ‘Self’ in this open, empty, un-interpenetrated way. Don’t rush to a judgment about yourself. The doubt in [the] ‘mind’ will come and say ‘but, you have suffered for so long, it is not possible like this.’ [indicating within a click of the finger] But this one moment is all that I need actually. The head of this non-existent one is chopped every moment. But you have the power to reconstruct it. False knowledge goes… every moment it goes. But the Truth is so inclusive that it has the power to take itself to be the false. But there comes a point where it is done with that game. Satsang is the invitation to move from that game to a bigger game. You have played as the not- Self. You have played as the limited one. Now play as the divine. And you only played through your ideas about yourself. Those ideas are gone. But it is in your power to give them credence again. And nobody can take this power away from consciousness.
Key Teachings
- The 'head' represents the ego or sense of separate self that must be transcended
- The 'sword' symbolizes sharp discriminative wisdom or the blade of self-inquiry that severs illusion
- Liberation comes through direct cutting through of mental constructs, not gradual refinement