Who Is This ‘I’?
The mind's confirmations are unreliable jugglery; true Self-Knowledge is knowing your Self simply, now, not as a journey.
The game is to want things differently.
This is the trouble [yes] the trouble is that. So that is what we started Satsang with no? To say what is the standard now that you have to meet to confirm that it is you or the Truth has to meet for it to be true? Or for the recogniHon to be true, what standard does it have to come to? Like ‘I have recognized now’ and she exposed this standard which said ‘when the mind confirms that I have recognized’. But many Hmes, the mind does confirm. And then de-confirm. [Laughter] Like ‘You had it…now… you lost it’. [Smiles] So it cannot be that jugglery of the mind. How do you know your ‘Self’? Is there a how there? Is there a how, is there a when? Is there even a what? Do you know your Self as a what? This, how you know your Self in this simplest way is Self-Knowledge. Bhagwan [Sri Raman Maharshi] said something beauHful or was it Maharaj [Sri NisargadaZa] who said…. (they probably said similar things) but they said ‘Till you recognize this Self- Knowledge, all, everything else is learnt ignorance. And when will this ‘Hll you’ happen? Now. [Smile] Unless you decide that it is a journey or a process. Like it is already true.
Key Teachings
- The mind confirms and then de-confirms spiritual progress—this jugglery cannot be the standard for true Self-recognition
- Self-Knowledge is knowing your Self in the simplest way, not through a process or journey—it happens NOW
- Until you recognize Self-Knowledge, all else is learnt ignorance
From: The One That You Are Trying to Help Is Not You - 17th December 2019