राम
Awareness & Attention

Your Default State is Freedom

2021-02-08|12:35-25:00|Watch on YouTube

Your true nature is already free; liberation is not a achievement but the removal of the mistaken belief that you are bound.

[Reading from the chat] Then One says ‘Am I in the playground of intuition by default, once I leave the playground of the ‘mind’? Yes! I am so happy with this question, so happy. In fact, I have to say that, before, aeer, during: it’s only there but it seems but as if ‘when we go to the mind’ then it seems to get obscured (obscured is a good word) but it seems to get blurred because you are playing with the mind. But actually, you are just there by default, by default. Your default state is Freedom. Your default state is Truth. And that is an important switch in the life of a spiritual seeker because otherwise we got so caught up in seeking and chasing our destination, we have stopped really looking at ‘where I am?’ That’s why I say - You never lee the destination. You will never be anything more than what you are today. You can never be anything more than all there is. That is already True. It is already here. You are aware of your divine presence and your divine presence has no boundary, has no limitation. It is the light of this universe. It is so, already. And yet in this seeming play it is playing as if it is this limited entity. Bhagwan [Sri Ramana Maharishi] said this very clearly ‘It is not that you will attain Self- knowledge. It is only that you will let go of ignorance.’ It is not that something that you are going to get. It is that which you are already are. And yet in this play it seems like you are wearing these glasses. The other day I was saying no, that ‘I was wearing these glasses and I was looking for them.’ [Smile] Why can’t you find your glasses when you are wearing them? Because they are imperceptible no? Like the frame seems to become invisible and you are just looking through so you just see. But it’s imperceptible. And in the world what happens is that (we’ve been taught) you only find something once you have the perception of it; then we can say that, I have achieved it. But the Self will be just like this imperceptible discovery. Which is already yours actually. You have them on, the glasses are already on. You just need to see that this is true. One of my close relatives, she is a Doctor she was wearing contact lenses and then she forgot she was wearing them, and then the next day she put on another set of contacts thinking she has lost her set of contact lenses. So she put the contacts on top of the contacts. [Smile] It was very much like a spiritual seeker. [Smile] You are It already you are still trying to get It. You are not It in your story. You are not It in your mind. You are It, just, just like that.

Key Teachings

  • Freedom is your default state—not something to achieve but something to recognize as already true
  • The mind creates the illusion of bondage through identification with thoughts and concepts
  • Self-inquiry reveals that awareness itself is already free, unbounded, and complete
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From: The Point of Spirituality Is Not To Come to Intellectual Clarity - 8th February 2021