11 Clues to Awakening - 16th August 2017

Because last few weeks somehow I've been speaking like this about the clues to awakening, so yesterday I was feeling like I want to see what all the clues which are the natural pointers are. Something just came from there, so eleven I've found so far. Eleven clues to awakening. First is really looking for that—the place of that of the finding this Self-recognition, right? So we're looking for that, as if I am that. The first is that which is the witness of all things. That which is the witness of all things. Ashtavakra Gita, for example, says: 'You are the one solitary witness of all things.' This is what we're looking for. What is it that witnesses all things? So, one that immediately can be popular: 'You are the one solitary witness of all things.' If we can find others' examples, and more important than finding the examples is to use these clues to do the inquiry.

Second is that we say 'unchanging.' That clue means unchanging. The word that came to mind once when yesterday or day before we discussed these words, we said the Self cannot be enhanced also. Even that should mean unchanging. Third clue is that which is beyond limitations or boundaries. Beyond limitations or boundaries. What that came to me when I was contemplating this is the words where I am the shoreless ocean. Shoreless ocean.

Fourth is that which can only be found in the present or now. That which can only be found in the present. It means that it is our presence. It does not come and go; it is not subject to time. Also, look at many times we say it is that which is not coming and going. See with that which is not coming and going, which means what? That it must be here now every time you use it.

Fifth: that which has no desire or aversion. That which has no desire or aversion is beyond attachment. So we just look at some of the words; the entire chapter actually is about that which has no desires or aversion. Sixth: that which is beyond doership, beyond action and inaction. That which is beyond doership.

Seventh: that which is beyond separation and union. We want both the concept of separation and union. Eighth is an important one: that which cannot be found by the mind. That which can't be found by the mind, and that which cannot be described by any concepts, judgments, or inferences. That which is your direct insight beyond any phenomenal perceptions.