Who Is Aware of This Mind?
The aware presence that witnesses the mind's 'I don't know' is what we truly are - never lost, never found in the mind, and always held by Grace.
Sorry I am replaced by I. I have replaced thing with I do not know, I do not know just this is coming in my mind. I do not know what…[ Looks hear and there] like this A: Yes, allow the mind not to know because it is not, it cannot know what we are talking about no.
Yes.
So allow the mind you know welcome that I do not know from the mind. See that ‘even though I do not know’ you are aware of that percepHon of that thought.
Yeah.
Are you ever lost about that? The mind is saying ‘I don't know about that.’ Who is, who is aware of this mind? Who is aware of this mind? It’s apparent that ‘I am aware’ that's how we are reporHng that my mind is saying. so this ‘I’ can never be lost.
Yeah.
And this ‘I’ can never be found in the mind.
Yeah.
So let the mind chant ‘I don't know, I don't know.’ Its fine, it does not maZer to us.
Acknowledges.
Do not try to feed the mind some finality.
Acknowledges.
Because it does not help.
Just someHmes mind takes the weakest link in your subconscious somehow. Yeah, for example maybe have from previous life or from the childhood like maybe of losing your parents or losing your the loved one. It’s just and just fear start to calms up or something else like for example for me I am young I do not have job. I have studied master degree. I do not have job, It has I am for last three years, for five years I do not have job. I do not know it is just I am just si^ng just looking outside that is it. So many Hmes your mind comes and ‘yeah, I don't have a job… somewhere everybody is doing this’ and then yeah, I just someHmes I idenHfy, someHmes I do not idenHfy and then it goes to space just nothing. Just yeah, it takes weakest link.
Always it always picks up. It is like guruji uses another metaphor that he says ‘the mind is ordering audiHoning for your aZenHon and belief.’
Acknowledges.
I suppose you going to America’s got talent or something then how will you plan your, what you are going to do on the stage? Suppose your job is to audiHon, audiHon on America has talent, how will you do it? Suppose you have all the skills, all the skills. You have you can present any aspect of your skill then how will you go for this audiHon? Oh, I am not so difficult.
In audible.
Yeah, but something you have to present and you have all the skills. So what do you present? What I would do? Okay. [Sangha Ananta Smiles] So because I have all the skills, I will just see the past episodes and see what the judge is like, you know what the digits give most max points to and I will present that in the audiHon. So that is the, that is the aspect we get so most belief what we already called ‘interest.’ So that weakest link that aspect which we ourselves are liZle doub{ul about that ‘am I messing up my life?’ And I am speaking from my past experience here because aeer meeHng guruji for many months I also was just si^ng [Smiles] just like some work was happening but not so much not as much as before meeHng him. And the mind will someHmes play this card either through the mind here or through the family saying ‘are you depressed? Why, do not you why are not you working? What’s happening?’ these kind of things would come. So it is natural for the mind to play these trump cards and you are right that it picks up that which is the winning one, which is the winning one no. Winning means gets aZenHon and belief. So that is winning for the mind. So because it can play and present any story it has the skills to present any story that which has won in the past, it keeps plo^ng, it keeps poking that one usually. Of course, it tries to present newer narraHves also but we are generalizing and saying ‘usually it does that.’ So do not be scared of this. It has been pure Grace that life has given you the space to contemplate your Reality without the pressures of too much going on the seeming outside world. So… and if something is needed in this life then it will provide the life energy and the opportuniHes everything will be just right. You do not have to worry about these things.
Yeah, just in this way I just wanted to oh, yeah, I do not know what's not… yeah like confirmaHon, like ‘yeah, this is right, just this being here, being in nowhere this fine, it is okay.’
It is absolutely fine, absolutely fine. In fact, it is a great gie that you are giving yourself and life is given to you. It is very good, it is very good, it is very, very good.
The mind will keep saying ‘now what, then what?’ Do not worry, do not worry, it is okay.
Yeah, whatever people say my mother, father. I have to be dependent on someone yeah like these things.
Whatever is actually needed, isn't here?
Yeah, it is coming by itself actually, it is coming by itself but without working just somebody gives or somebody… like a mom.
Just trust that Grace, trust that Grace, it is fine. That which will be given so our needs are always taken care of which are greed which someHmes don't show up and someHmes our greed also show up. So it is a very good deal we have.
Yeah, yeah, just I am saying just whatever comes in my mind because I think it feels like easy way to remove trash from the mind.
Yes.
Like what about the self-respect? Yeah, Indian parents, Indian mother, father like Indian society I am living in Spain. Yeah, yeah just doing nothing. Yeah, what about yeah, they are sad conHnuously, they are. SomeHmes she cried, my mother cried like that yeah.
All my blessings all my love to your mom as well and may she recognize and you do not have to force her to do any of that. May her heart open up to recognize the great gie that her son is ge^ng and you be really happy for that. Whatever her parental expectaHons are and things may they be they be modulated to such an extent that may they want the highest for their child. All my blessings for that.
Thank you.
Key Teachings
- The 'I' that is aware can never be lost and can never be found in the mind - we are the awareness that witnesses the mind's activity
- The mind picks up on our weakest doubts and insecurities (where we question ourselves) and plays those stories to get attention and belief
- Trust Grace - what is needed will come naturally; we don't need to worry about the mind's constant 'now what, then what?' questions