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What Are You Without These Constructs of Time and Space?

2019-10-03|0:50-5:20, 6:12-6:28, 10:50-11:55, 15:53-16:40|Watch on YouTube

Ananta invites seekers to investigate what remains when all constructs of time and space are stripped away, pointing to the timeless, spaceless nature of one's true self.

Time and space are merely mental constructs that our intellect uses to try and paint a picture of this human existence. What are you without these constructs of time and space? If these were not valid for you anymore, what are ‘you’ then? [Silence] These are very, very flimsy notions, very flimsy notions. Because you can see from your own experience that, time wakes up aeer you wake up. Time wakes up aeer you wake up (Aeer in quotes) and yet the coming and going of your very Being is also observed. In which time is that observed? So time is only a function of the waking state. And yet the coming and going of Being itself is also observed. In which time is that observed? That is not in this world’s time. So these flimsy limiting notions of time and space which allows our mind to paint a linear story of our life and then we get so involved in making it a better story… You want to make it a love story. You want to make it rags to riches story. You want to make it an enlightenment story. You want to make it a healthy story. But if these threads are pulled apart, you see that there is no time, there is no space. What is lee? Where are you now? We don’t know any of these things. We live in this human condition in a seemingly shared delusion. And that is the struggle of the ones who come to recognize the Truth because nobody else agrees with them. And you start questioning your own recognition saying, ‘Maybe I am the one who is deluded, because everybody else seems quite natural to conform with time and space, with how things are… I cannot really tell yesterday from tomorrow.’ I do not know whether this repository of images which we call ‘memory’ is actually a projection of the future. How do I know it is past? And yet, it seems to be that in this human play, there seems to be these prevalent ideas which everybody has used to try and make some sense of this existence. But ‘this sense’ we have made out of this existence is nonsense. Existence is not sensible in that way. It is supremely intelligent in another way. But that divine will, that supreme intelligence, is not decipherable to our minds.

Key Teachings

  • The question "Who am I?" points to an identity that exists beyond the mental constructs of time and space
  • True self-knowledge arises not from thinking but from direct recognition of what you are prior to all conceptualization
  • The constructs of time and space are limitations the mind creates; what you truly are precedes these limitations
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From: This 'Nothing' Is Not an Absence. It Is Only the Absence of the False - 3rd October 2019