श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

Whose Light Are We Shining In?

Your Being is the light in which all experiences appear, and this light remains completely untouched by whatever arises - whether anger, love, darkness, or joy.

Seeker

Well what I am seeing is maybe there is some reference about experiences I had and I was not feeling like, like that, like that, that was…

Ananta

That was when you were Free.

Seeker

Yeah, not now. This cannot be Freedom. Because I am feeling….

Ananta

Because your Being, whatever it may be your Being is not enough right now.

Seeker

Yes, yes.

Ananta

Your Being is not enough now. So the God which is available to you right now is like a subsHtute teacher, the main teacher was the one that you experienced few moments ago and this subsHtute is not good enough. Like fresh God is not good enough, that God was the real deal. I am just saying these things that soon it will start sounding absurd to you. Your Being which is the light of your experience (everything that you are experiencing right now) even though your mind may be judging it and saying ‘Oh, this anger, this is not good, this is constricHon this is bad, this is angry people in front of me or people love me are in front of me’ all these is being interpreted. Now, whose light are they shining in? Whose light are they shining in? Have you had ever had an experience when you were not there and your Being was not there?

Seeker

It is my light.

Ananta

It is your light. This light, whatever may come up on the screen, is this light being touched?

Seeker

No.

Ananta

It is untouched by whatever may appear. So the light of your Being, can you show me a moment when it is not enough or it is different from a previous moment? And you wake up and you may have whatever feelings may shine in that light. Without that light, you cannot experience even a feeling. So check the light and tell me when the light is not enough. Like can you taste your own light right now? All the light in which you are experiencing the percepHons in front of you, in whose light is that light shining? Without what would this experience not be possible? What will happen if you shut the physical light? If the sun went down and get the lights…is percepHons gone? No, we will sHll perceive darkness. Your experience of darkness will be there. In what light is that experience? In what light is darkness experienced?

Seeker

In my light.

Ananta

Your light. Now, is that light different when it is dark and when it when there is physical light?

Seeker

No.

Ananta

It is the same. In the same way, whatever the percepHon maybe, whether we label it as dark or light, good or bad; the light is untouched, your Being is untouched. Can we make this Being more worthy or less worthy? What can we do to it? Now can we draw down a liZle bit more, even beyond this - Although this is the end of suffering itself. But who is Aware even of this light of Being? You are Aware - without having to think, without having to move an inch. You can't stop it, it is just your natural condiHon, you are Aware of even this light of Being that ‘I Am’. I is Aware of Am. Am is made up of the same I. What can happen to this ‘I’? And all of this can you see in your head? Are you just inferring this as thoughts? All that is being said, are you just taking it as a concept? You cannot do it. All that you can do is make a photocopy in the concept. When you are looking at the light of your own Being, it is not a sight looking, it is not a perceptual looking. It is a intuiHve looking. You are intuiHng it. You are not knowing it or seeing it. I feel like I am going to use this word more. What do you intuit? What do you intuit about who you are?

Key Teachings

  • The light of your Being (I Am) is always present and untouched by whatever appears in experience - whether labeled good, bad, dark, or light
  • All experiences happen IN this light; the light itself is not affected by the content of experience
  • Awareness of this light is your natural condition - you cannot stop it, it is intuitive not conceptual
beinglightawarenessexperienceuntouchedintuitionfreedomselfthe self

From: The Self Is Not Going to Be a Product of Your Thinking - 22nd August 2019