You say you have been having the sense that you are disappearing into space.
When the ‘I’ merges or disappears in that space that you speak about, who are you?
Do you feel any break in your being?
Is there any jerk in experience, like suddenly there is a sense that you have become something else, or is it that you simply stopped becoming? You understand?
When there is no ‘I’, ‘me’, the doer of actions or thinker of thoughts, did you suddenly become the Absolute or isn't it that the ‘I’ as a seemingly tangible entity could no longer be found?
As you come again into your natural state, you will see:I was never the idea I had of who I am. I have always been This. And a joy is there.
It is the most natural and beautiful discovery and you know:I didn’t ‘become’ this, I have always been This.
When the ‘I’ merges or disappears in that space that you speak about, who are you?
Do you feel any break in your being?
Is there any jerk in experience, like suddenly there is a sense that you have become something else, or is it that you simply stopped becoming? You understand?
When there is no ‘I’, ‘me’, the doer of actions or thinker of thoughts, did you suddenly become the Absolute or isn't it that the ‘I’ as a seemingly tangible entity could no longer be found?
As you come again into your natural state, you will see:I was never the idea I had of who I am. I have always been This. And a joy is there.
It is the most natural and beautiful discovery and you know:I didn’t ‘become’ this, I have always been This.
I can be neither lost nor found, for I am the absolute unchanging Awareness. I grant myself the joy of self-discovery through my instrument and servant, the body-mind. There is no 'other' than my own self to find me. I am the all-encompassing Reality.
The restless mind does not take easily to self-investigation and quickly runs after familiar distractions. In many cases, it must first be reined in or pacified through the practice of japa, prayer, yoga or association with wise and holy company. Only then will it gradually develop the strength and attraction to enquire into its root nature. Gradually, this will result in the weakening of the tendency to rush outward. Eventually, the mind will sink inside the Shiva Being.
You must have enough of yourself in order to disappear and become the Being.
All of this is so incredibly simple. We learnt that whatever happens in our mind somehow is blocking you from going somewhere. I am saying that Awareness, the goal of all enquiry, cannot be on the other side of working through any process, because Awareness is that within which even the attempt to work through to get to something arises and is perceived.
If you hold on to being a person, you will not be free.
People are doing this all over the world.
They are going to spiritual gatherings and they are asking questions they believe are spiritual questions, but if they retain identity as a person, whatever answers they get, will not propel them beyond personhood into the clarity of being.
This is why I say, I give you only five minutes to evaluate the outcome of ‘your’ version of doing things so far and to jump out of the claustrophobia of personhood into real freedom.
Five, now three minutes, ample time to say ‘yes-take me home’ and thus re-enter your original being.
What holds you back?
People are doing this all over the world.
They are going to spiritual gatherings and they are asking questions they believe are spiritual questions, but if they retain identity as a person, whatever answers they get, will not propel them beyond personhood into the clarity of being.
This is why I say, I give you only five minutes to evaluate the outcome of ‘your’ version of doing things so far and to jump out of the claustrophobia of personhood into real freedom.
Five, now three minutes, ample time to say ‘yes-take me home’ and thus re-enter your original being.
What holds you back?
Give up the idea of a journey to Truth, and truth is instantly revealed. Give up this idea that you are near, this concept will take you to another birth, it is itself avoidance. And this silly 'I still don't get it', don't pay any attention to this serpent's voice. Keep quiet. Let's see if you are fit just to remain quiet. Your malignant relationship with mind as master is over. The mind can be used for normal service, but can never help you to be who you are. No heady philosophy is required to know your Self.
There's no one 'being aware', there's only awareness.
The mind can only attack you with some ideas about yourself that you have not said goodbye to yet.
Sometimes God challenges you
to find strength you don't have.
Only like this will you go beyond your imagined limits.
You must be pushed so far that you are forced to be humble.
Only then,
when your pride and arrogance are crushed,
will you discover muscles that are not yours.
You will find and use the muscles of God.
When you completely abandon yourself,
your ego,
this miracle
becomes possible.
to find strength you don't have.
Only like this will you go beyond your imagined limits.
You must be pushed so far that you are forced to be humble.
Only then,
when your pride and arrogance are crushed,
will you discover muscles that are not yours.
You will find and use the muscles of God.
When you completely abandon yourself,
your ego,
this miracle
becomes possible.
The most effective and auspicious spiritual practices are the ones that leave you without identity.
When you say ‘I’ - something says ‘I.’ I did this, I believe, no I don’t agree, I want. Watch this ‘I,’ not what it wants. The idea you have of who you are is suffering about ideas it has of itself. Watch this ‘I’ sense. Who will watch it?
It is possible to be in both worlds. It's like you're in this world, but you don't belong to it in quite the same way... you're not pulled into the dramas of life.
Relationships become claustrophobic if they keep you in a state of personal identification.
When they serve to reflect your universality, they are a mirror, a tool of liberation.
When they serve to reflect your universality, they are a mirror, a tool of liberation.
Self-enquiry is freedom from the ego, not freedom for the ego.
Then, something says ‘Stay here!’, is addressing the attention, the attention somehow must stay here for a bit, and then the attention which is trembling to go out, because that’s the reflex to go out to familiar territory, because it’s used to hanging out in the realm of the noise. And now it takes some effort to hold it here, and it’s like it wants to go out. But that’s also watched. And this is a very important point, this pull.
The one who is free, is not expecting anything.
You only have the privilege to perceive... Incubate in your Self, don't know anything... You stay empty.
If you are genuinely seek Truth know this: Wherever you are, wherever you may go, right there is a door into your inmost being.
What is That which is not the mind?
It is not the thinking faculty.
It is not time, memory nor the powers of imagination.
It is not the form. It is not the senses.
It is not even the dynamic consciousness,
because it is without limitation.
When it is referred to ‘It’, that which refers to ‘it’, what is that?
And where is it?
And who are you?
Are they two different components?
That which says ’ Only this is’ and that which effortlessly Is, are they different?
You must contemplate these things time and again.
Such contemplation is going to turn the mind into a desert and the heart into an oasis.
It is not the thinking faculty.
It is not time, memory nor the powers of imagination.
It is not the form. It is not the senses.
It is not even the dynamic consciousness,
because it is without limitation.
When it is referred to ‘It’, that which refers to ‘it’, what is that?
And where is it?
And who are you?
Are they two different components?
That which says ’ Only this is’ and that which effortlessly Is, are they different?
You must contemplate these things time and again.
Such contemplation is going to turn the mind into a desert and the heart into an oasis.
You are not seeing the beauty of this Universe because you are putting so many herbs and spices of your own intentions upon the world in order to give it a taste that you want, that your mind wants. Free from identity, your eyes perceive in such silence, beauty and clarity without the judging mind, just pure as it is. Watch life with silent eyes.
Trust your Heart. Value its intuition.
Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the True and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being.
Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the True and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being.
You can be without the psychological mind,
but the psychological mind cannot be without you.
You witness mind; mind cannot witness you for it is insentient. If it is clear to you that you are the observer of the mind and therefore understand, you cannot be what you observe, then who are you?
Investigate this.
Monte Sahaja, 22nd of January 2013
but the psychological mind cannot be without you.
You witness mind; mind cannot witness you for it is insentient. If it is clear to you that you are the observer of the mind and therefore understand, you cannot be what you observe, then who are you?
Investigate this.
Monte Sahaja, 22nd of January 2013
A starving man is not 'interested' in food,
nor is a drowning man 'interested' in air.
For one longing for Liberation,
Self-knowledge is not an interest, it's vital.
nor is a drowning man 'interested' in air.
For one longing for Liberation,
Self-knowledge is not an interest, it's vital.
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