Whose Presence is This?

In our Absolute Reality - it is so empty that even the absence is not. It’s nothing that we can even fathom conceptually. But that in which even we cannot say that it is absent or there’s an absence, even the absence is not; therefore, we may say it’s an uZer innocence, an uZer absence, uZerly empty of any noHon, even of empHness. This cannot be met in any way whatsoever. Any human approach to this is not going to be fulfilling or saHsfactory. But there’s a Divine way to approach this. And that is through the recogniHon of the Presence of Being. And it’s actually very simple. All of us can confirm that we are present: “I am present” or ‘I Amness’ is present. Now, if this Presence was that UlHmate Reality, then it would be very strange to call it Presence, isn’t it? Because in the UlHmate Reality we cannot even say that absence is. It is beyond Presence and absence. So, we must invesHgate this Presence. Is it here? And if it is here, whose Presence is it? Who is that that is present? Whose Presence is this? And if I can experience this Presence, then how is it that I’m able to say that my Being is unlimited? Because as we know that all experience is a quesHon of meeHng through aZenHon, and our aZenHon itself is limited. So, our Beingness is on the cusp of Being, unmanifest and manifest. It is within which the whole construct of space, the whole construct of Hme – it is happening within you, within your Being. And within this very Being, the primordial vibraHon of its Presence can be experienced, can be tasted. So, within this Being, there is a Holy Presence, the Atmic Presence, the Presence of Being, the Presence of God, the Holy Spirit. And if you’re looking through this lens, so to speak, and it is only through this lens in a way, that we can claim to have an insight or Self-Knowledge in the form of a recogniHon. Because the ulHmate insight, the UlHmate Reality is not something that you will grasp with aZenHon, and no conceptual knowledge actually comes close to it. No conceptual knowledge can actually show you that you are That in which Hme and space take birth. For this, you have to meet your Satguru Presence within, the same Holy Presence within you. If these words are confusing to some of you, you may say, “but I don’t see how space and Hme take birth within me”. And yet, there seems to be a consensus in all the ones who are sharing from the highest insight, that: “yes, these are noHonal constructs that appear within my Self.” Whether it is a Sage like NisargadaZa Maharaj, who never went to school and was a very simple man living in Mumbai, or the most educated Vedic or VedanHc Master who could be sharing from the light of true insight, but also having studied all the scriptures. They will both confirm that this is how it is. Your Reality is higher than the world, the Universe, and all percepHons. There is only one way to meet this, and this is to meet it through intuiHve insight. Now, this intuiHve insight has one precondiHon. The precondiHon is that we cannot hold on to ‘me’ and do this. So, all our ideas, all our desires, all our aZachments, all our specialness, all our righteousness, all our knowledge, everything that makes us special or even ‘somebody’, has to be given up. It’s not that you can never have a glimpse of Reality through God’s Grace. If it has to unfold like that, you may get a glimpse of that which is beyond the limited ‘me’, but to really say that “I’m truly awake to the Truth”, it can only happen in the absence of the limited ‘me’. If you look at all spirituality, all religion, all cultures throughout the world, this point is mostly common to all of them. Whatever name - some may call it humility, some may call it the Unborn, some may call it ‘to be empty’ – this recogniHon, these insights are available to us only intuiHvely through the Satguru’s Grace or Satguru Presence. We must be empty to ourselves to meet this truly.