What Is Always With You?

What is most apparent to you, always? Because if you are waiting for it to become apparent, then it won’t become apparent. What is most apparent to you now? And if we start simply… I am happy to do this exercise thousands of times. What can seem like; if you are sitting, then it is apparent to you that you are sitting. If you are lying down, then it is apparent to you that you are lying down. But what is even more apparent than that? What is even more apparent than that? You will say ‘That I Am’, ‘That I Am’ is even more apparent than ‘I am sitting’. But can I take you one step further, (which is) what is even more apparent than that? That ‘I’, that Self, which is beyond Being and not-Being. And I also outline for you what can trip you up, get in your way. If apparency for you is that you will see it as a perception, forget about it. You would not even be happy if you found yourself and it was just an object which could be perceived. [Laughs] ‘I went around entire world looking for gold, but all I got was some scrap (like a chocolate wrapper or something) [Smiles]. If at the end of the day, if after all this search, all you found was the Self, which was objective, like a perception, then what is the whole point? Just another thing that is perceived, isn’t it? There is no big deal in that. Forget about it, it will not become apparent this way. Or if you are expecting that there will come a time where you will be convinced that you are the Self. But conviction is just a question of belief, you don’t have to be convinced that you are sitting, do you? [Laughs] It is something beyond concepts. Even if I come and say to you ‘You are not sitting, you are lying down’. (You will say) ‘No Father, when did you have your eyes checked last?’ [Smiles] Because it is beyond concept, but I am talking about that which is beyond even perception. Beyond even perception, it is that obvious to you that even your perception cannot shake you from that, whatever you may be perceiving. You know it beyond the possibility of forgetting it. This is the meaning of diamond in your pocket. Like it is always just there with you; your Reality, the Self. But you are expecting it to be something else. ‘I looked for it everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, and then I found that it was always in my pocket’. What is always in your pocket? If you even take these clues very simply and just look instead of storing them up as nice stories in your head. If you just look, what is always with you? Always with you, even in sleep state? Only your Self.