Am I Really an Object in this World? - 9th November 2017

Individual existence. So, just because the movie has many characters, does it make it that they are true? It is animation. You could have drawn out hundreds of characters. Each is different. Donald Duck is different from Mickey Mouse, and both have different interests, different things that they want to do, but the light of the projector is the same. So, are you that character? Are you the light? In your expression, all of this is there, but when you come to Satsang, we are open to this question: Am I an object in this world? Am I really an object in this world, or could it be that it is the other way around? The world is an object. And you don't have to have had the insight of this, but at least we must be open to this question. And if it seems too far out or something like that, this might not necessarily be the best Satsang to come to. So, just this much openness has to be there: Am I really this person? And if there is constant belief in this person identity, then is there some real basis to that belief?

The way we keep on working on improving the person, becoming a better person, which has its place in the world, but there are millions and millions of places which are telling you how to become better people. This is one place where I'm saying you can question that pre-supposition that you are a person first. And that 'I don't know' is a little bit scary. 'I don't know' is a little bit scary. So, we don't know. It is bound to that fear, what the next move is going to be from consciousness. If you can find that 'I don't know' and yet something is open to the looking, then you will see all these words that I'm saying are not some fantasy. When I'm saying that you are that light of this universe, it will be your direct tasting experience. But initially, that fear of losing the identity will come.

And once we see that I am not a person, there is no individual entity here, the myth about so many people in this world will also go. A lady came a long time ago and she said, 'I can see that I am not a person, but I cannot believe that my husband is not a person.' But you will see that there is no individual entity here. It has always been this play of light and sound, this dance itself. That's why we call it the Leela, you know, of God. We also have seen that not a blade of grass in this Leela moves until unless it is the will of God. So, what is the person? Even if the person was there, what would be its role? If even the blade of grass is moving with the will of God, what is the person's role? Every dialogue which is going to come from the actor's mouth is going to be the will of consciousness. What is the person's role? Every hand movement is going to be the will of God. What is the person's role?

So, it is something that we have learned. We have learned to become a person. We've been taught by people around us, our parents, and this mind has constantly taught us that we are a limited entity, we are this person. And now, as we are checking, all these notions will fade away. Just the green sliver of openness and you will see. Here, I don't say to anyone, 'Believe my words.' You don't have to believe my words. You just have to take one or two lines which you feel find some resonance in your heart and just look. What is self-inquiry? We can do this. Mooji says he has a thousand-dollar cash prize for anyone who can show him the person, who can have in this place, they can produce this person which I believe myself to be. Just watch yourself. Who am I?