A Thought Is Always Telling You Something Is Missing - 20 Jan 2015

The mind can only speak rubbish. You could be saying the best sounding things; the most well-dressed thoughts are nothing, are just garbage in good clothes. What do you need a thought for? To need a thought would mean that there is something missing. If there is nothing missing, then what guidance is required from this false interpreter? The thoughts are always telling you that something is missing; that is what is called a need, you see. You believe that thought and it becomes a need. Even if the thought is saying 'I am that', thoughts say 'I am that', which means that there is still a 'that' which is away from me. There's even a separation in even this saying 'I am that'. It cannot say anything. It cannot say 'I am that', 'I am this', 'I am here', 'I am now'. All of this is coming from the mind. It does not mean anything because it is putting everything in this framework of time and space. It's putting everything in this framework of time and space because that's all it knows. The mind does not know what is prior to time and space.

So be clear about this: that you are not here. You are not here spatially. You are not here spatially, you see. Many times it is said in satsang that you are here, just here, and the mind hears this as 'here' in this location in time and space. It is not this. Where are you right now? Where are you looking from? This body is located in time and space. The mind, the thoughts, are appearing in this appearance in front. They seem like they're in front, but where are you watching from? Are you watching from inside this body, somewhere inside this space? How big are you? How big are you? Are you something small sitting inside this head? What's your size? Tell me your dimensions, let's see. And how long have you been in existence? What were you before your body came? Who are you in deep sleep? Who are you in your dreams when another body comes? Where are you looking from? What are you looking as?

Who is aware even that some seeing is happening through your senses? Through your eyes, there is awareness that seeing is happening. Eyes are open, then there is awareness that no seeing is happening through the senses. But did this awareness change when they were seeing or not seeing? Did the witness get affected? Then how can that which seems to appear in front of these eyes have any effect on us? If the witnessing was unchanged whether eyes were open or closed, then how can that which is appearing only when these senses are functioning—how can that affect you, what you are? Then why do we give so much importance to that which is appearing through these senses if it cannot even touch you, if it cannot come close to you? If it's not even in the same realm, it's not in the same universe, you see.

This is the projected universe. This is the projected universe. You are not in this universe; you are just the witness of this. That's why I say that even if this entire universe was to burn to pieces, I will be untouched. And then when this is said, something for some of you starts getting pushed, some buttons start getting pushed. 'Oh, but my loved ones are here, my attachments are here, my master is here.' Maybe these kind of things. It is not true. If it was true, then this appearance would be actually affected by some appearances. This is what is called the special relationships, isn't it? That these special relationships could have some effect really on what you are? But that is impossible.