Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 18, Vs. 44 & 45 Commentary and Contemplation - 5th September 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that liberation is the recognition of all perceptions as a single, undivided appearance within consciousness. He emphasizes that the individual self is non-existent and that true refuge is found in neutrality, not in escaping the world.
The individual thing that we consider ourselves to be is not present.
The price we pay for the garbage of individual identity is the price of suffering.
You are on the train now; you don't have to run inside the train to reach the destination.
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Transcript
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A mind seeking liberation depends on things or perception. The mind of the liberated one, who sees it, is smoking and mistreating desire. The mind of one seeking liberation depends on things or perception. The mind of the liberated one perceives nothing, and this freedom is bland. How do we make things out? Are you perceiving one appearance? But how do I make a team? How do I make a separation? All then is a—this is this, is this, is this. What do we actually perceive? Is it one appearance or is it the collection of these things which get together to me? These things arising include all perception. Does that one appearance include all perception, including arts, memory, modulation? Everything is perceived in the same space.
Perception receiving one... oh, let's you say everything that you're perceiving, we're experiencing it inside me.
Setting for that one, at least you're not happening museums outside of curves. Wherever your attention is going must be traversing within yourself. You cannot actually send your attention to the room. There is no physical property which we're sending to the room. Can this seem like there is something within me which I'm moving there, and I seem to get the sound of the world more clearly? Nobody on the booth who can catch your attention is not a physical object that is actually coming into this sort of physical tension. Is this moving to big plants? And everything that we perceive is a play of this circuit. So this one appearance now, the mind of the liberated one perceived moving and as you desire, so empty of these labels, perception is still going on. Moving, the action and reaction of this body also to see, but it is seen that it's all with this one space. It does not separation. It does not make change, you see. It does not make self. That is the most important.
Then you have the second to be inside of the phenomenal way or not. This much is important: that you see that this individual thing that you consider yourself to be is not present. This what we see on the individual thing that we consider ourselves to be is not present. So whatever the name is that we have, the programs, and this is the name now for an individual form or Lila, we can say like that. But is it actually pointing to something? Somebody timid, men and women, I'm adding that money fear sensory experience much as they do titles. They seek refuge in caves and they try to unlink the world. This is exactly what we were looking at right now. There is no sensory experience more phenomenal experience which can hurt the reality of what you are.
Now don't pick up the idea that, 'Okay, whatever might be coming and this viewer should not arise now that I'm here' or something like that. Fear can also come, but you will see that no matter what is arising, it is not hurt the reality of what you are. You might actually do funny body. We will see that in this play of consciousness, this entire movie keeps going on. That which witnesses it, that which is the light of the movie—the light which plays all this play of light and sound—is unhighlighted whatever the movie might be projecting. And remember to include this body as part of the movie. Then you'll talk imitations of how this body should react, whether it continues to feel pain or whether it reacts in anger. Judit in this appearance, she says no, he says just by you figuring out it's a dream doesn't necessarily give the dream characters from advantage in this dream. Yes, I'm sorry experience. So then a life seems to go beyond this holy play of just running towards pleasure and on more a frumpy a reality you recognizes beyond.
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You see refuge in caves. I do. I think the world is what said the ostrich. The ostrich will put its head in the sand and just hope that everything will be according to how it wants, but not willing to look at whatever is appearing. So many who are seeking refuge in caves, mouse would be like that. Escapism does not work in that way. Even if you escape or they will alter events, if you still believe yourself to be a limited entity, if you're still bleeding or your mind is saying about you and suffering, we find you wherever you are, whichever cave you might be living. The hole is here.
Ah, who says I don't want to know order, just need to throw all by your grace, Father. This is the feeling.
Then see that it's all, all is gone. The office will keep coming to pick it up. The salesman will keep trying to sell you this garbage. What is the price we pay? We pay for the garbage of individual identity with the price of suffering. I know the words can seem harsh, hoping that something worthwhile will come from this ego because our denial of consciousness and denial of for 3D is that we consider ourselves to be something limited. It is one sitting there trying to do it, so we double back one. These words will work on their own by a twist coming into that Satsang, allowing your attention to stay with these words a little bit. It's enough of the job you have to do.
Like the one is to say that you're on, you're on the train now. The train is going to the destination. You don't have to run inside the train. Many are tired in such Satsang because of that. You come to Satsang and you still don't inside, putting them inside the train modes. It's finding so difficult. What is difficult? Presence of Satguru is here. Whatever need to be pointed to is being pointed to. You have really no job in this. That which you consider yourself to be, hold this neutrality.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.

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