You Have To Leave the Hand of Maya To Meet the Truth

So, one quesHon I have been given in the chat the last few weeks, but I`ve not been reading because I just keep missing the chat these days, is this one. It says: “Dear Father, I wanted to check with you on something for a while. My restlessness has been driving me to move from a comfort zone type of environment to a more challenging environment on the work and personal front. But then, I seem to regret it. I have been going along with this movement. But the quesHon is, is this restlessness that seems like a driving force the mind, forcing 'me' into something I should not get into, or is it Consciousness doing what is best and the regret part is just the mind? What is the best way to deal with such restless energy? Ignore it and stay where I am or to go with it, and, do I really have a choice? Please, rid me of this quesHon.” Ok, very good, very good. So, this narraHve has these constructs, you see, and Hll we don`t reject the constructs, Hll then we are not free from the narraHve. And it is only the narraHve which causes the suffering. So, you ask a quesHon 'What is the best way to deal with this?' If you take yourself to be a body-mind, then take everything as being done by Consciousness and being experienced by Consciousness- Twam Kataa, Twam Bhoktaa-which means 'You Lord are the One Doer and the One Experiencer'. And as long as you take yourself to be the central protagonist of this narraHve then that is the advice for you. It is Consciousness doing what is best and everything is Grace. Once you see that you are not anyone that is stuck in this story, that has this flow as this story seems to define, once you see that you are just the pure witnessing principle to which nothing has ever happened, but in the light of which the enHre Universe comes and goes, then you will see that this will automaHcally not apply to you anyway. So, if you feel like it is too much, then, and you feel like – and I hear this many Hmes - 'Let`s get real, finally I`m a human'. So, if that is the idea, that ulHmately spirituality is something that human beings use to make their life beZer, you see, then in that narraHve the only way to make your life beZer is to leave all doership and experiencership . Surrender it to the Divinity, whatever aspect of Divinity that aZracts you, to surrender it. If there is a longing, if there is a yearning in your heart to go beyond this idea of the human condiHon, the idea of being a body- mind, then you see yourself to be this Pure Awareness which remains untouched in this enHre play which is happening on the screen of your Consciousness, but you are not touched by it in any way, then you will not be so affected by the ups and downs in life, by these changes in life. So, depending on your representaHon the answer could change. My final advice is that leave all representaHons. Don`t represent yourself either this way or that way. Don`t know what to do. Don`t know what not to do. Don`t either plan or become spontaneous. Just remain open and empty. You see? And, possibly we have spoken about this before, don`t do any spiritual diagnosis, don`t do any diagnosis of any sort. Don`t know what is beZer or worse, don`t know what is good or bad for you. Just leave it. [Pauses] Ok [Looking up the chat]. In the chat, there is one more. The quesHon is: “So, it`s okay to be purposeless in today`s world where everybody around runs behind one purpose apparently, and just be the true Awareness that we are?” Ok. So, no [Laughs]. No. That 'no' may come as a surprise to most of you, but what I`m saying is, neither be purposeful nor be purposeless. Just be empty. You see? Now, what can happen is, because I hear this quite oeen, because when I`m saying 'Don`t make meaning', then we make a new meaning which means that everything is meaningless. When I say 'Don`t make purpose', then we can feel like the meaning of it is that he is saying 'Be purposeless' – no, but even 'purposeless' is a posiHon. You see, it is too limiHng for your Reality. To be purposeful is too limiHng, to be purposeless is too limiHng. Just be empty of both. Just like I was saying just now, like, many Hmes in spirituality what happens is that some planning happens in the mind 'Now, I`ll drop all plans and only be spontaneous'. You see? Now, I have never heard a more rigid plan like that. But I realize most of us don`t hear it that way. 'I will only be spontaneous' is a very rigid plan. In the same way, to be purposeful and purposeless is sHll two sides of the same coin and the central character in both of those posiHons is not what you really are. Who is to be purposeless or purposeful? That one doesn`t exist. And the same thing with doership also. Like, in this new age kind of sharing, many Hmes we move from the posiHon of doership into a non-doership posiHon: 'I am not the doer'. But, who is that which is not the doer? Who are you that is not the doer? So, neither doership nor non-doership. Neither purposeful nor purposeless. Neither planning nor spontaneity. Just fully empty. Not that empty which is the opposite of which is full. Empty of both, full and empty. If it is an opposite, if you`re taking a posiHon, I`ll give you a Hp which is broad, which all of you can use: If you take a posiHon and you can think of its opposite, just drop it. If you`re feeling like 'I`m being very spontaneous, spontaneous', you see, and you can think of the opposite of that which is 'I have a good plan and then decide things', then that 'Spontaneous' is sHll a posiHon, drop it. Like, you`re completely being non-doing, 'I`m just not doing, I`m not the doer, I`m not doing' and you can think of its opposite which would be 'to do', you see, doership, then drop your non- doership also. The mind will get frustrated, because this neutrality it does not understand. The intellect is like a pendulum, it likes to go this way [gestures to the lee] or that way [gestures to the right], neutrality it doesn`t get. So, what am I saying? Just noHonless, posiHonless, empty, of empty also. Don`t judge yourself in these limiHng ways, you see. You are much beyond these kind of definiHons. So, neither you are what this report is sharing about you, nor is everybody else what you are sharing about them. All these are just ficHonal ideas in our mind. [Silence] The mind is forcing you, compelling you to come to a conclusion of how you must be, how you must exist. But Existence doesn`t need that help. It doesn`t need a definiHon of how to be. How is your Being happening right now? How are you Being? It just is, no? So, this light of Being doesn`t need assistance saying 'This is how I must be', purposeful or purposeless, doer or not- doer, meaningful or meaningless, driven or empty of ambiHon. It doesn`t need any of this, either way. Even spiritual or not spiritual, forget about it. If you`re being spiritual, you`re not being spiritual [Chuckles]. If you can be spiritual, you`re not being spiritual. Just forget about it. [Pauses] Thank you, that was a useful quesHon, my dear. I know the expression came out a bit strong, it was just because all of us can have these ideas which are in the opposite and we feel like one end of the opposites will be beZer than the other end. But it`s not like that. Just leave both, empty handed, empty handed. Very good, very good.