Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 18, Vs. 87-95 Commentary and Contemplation - 14th September 2017

He goes where he will, unhindered by opposites. His doubts rent asunder, he is truly blessed. So there is a behind-me beautiful interaction in satsang with Papaji, my Master's Master. Papaji affectionately found perfection. So somebody came to him, he said, like sitting over there, said, 'I don't see God. Show me God. I don't see God.' What did he say to him? 'Don't doubt.' All this falls. 'Don't doubt.' He used to say, 'Put this one doubt again: I don't see God.' Which it can sound like it's wordplay, just playing with words. How can the doubt be removed? 'Don't doubt.' All these and see what is.

The wise one has no sense of 'mine.' To him, earth, stone, and gold are the same. The knots of his heart have unraveled. He knows neither ignorance nor Rajas. He is excellent. May you wish you excellent revelation. The wise one has no sense of 'mine.' To him, earth, stone, and gold are the same. Again, there is scope for misunderstanding this. This is how it is. So it might feel like once I see there is no separation, it might feel like this whole world becomes like one blurry appearing. But if there is a stone in your hand, you can make all the difference between stone and gold. It's not that. He's still talking about attachment. If the sense of 'mine' is taken away, then whatever is appearing is accepted as Prasad, as the appearance within the play. Then not picking and choosing our next experience, not saying 'What's next?' This is very good. The mind is constantly proposing something next. When lunch is here, the mind is already thinking about what's next. Okay, I came to this experience, now what's next? So this whole thing of wanting to be agencies, saying that 'I want something to be' and 'I want or I don't want them to appear'—this is a misunderstanding. That which is appearing and disappearing is all moving with the supreme intelligence of consciousness. And I say more simply: God is the ultimate chef and He is not messing up your recipe. Yes, we have this complaining attitude: 'God, why are you doing this to me?' The hash out of our life. And then you start to see that everything is a play of consciousness and you will find that the boundary line which you have defined between yourself and God itself starts to fade away.

Then you come to a point where you say one experience, one doer. Then one day you might even come to this point where you say that which is either the play of this outer experience, even consciousness comes and goes as far as I am concerned in reality. Again, I'm saying all the clues for this discovery are presently here. What is that witness that witnesses all things? And that itself, you please, what is it that I mean? The unchanging. Every form changes. You think the changing, what you mean the unchanging? Pointing to the same thing. All these clues. The only thing is, don't expect to find a thing. Don't expect to find something sitting there itself. 'I will come to the Self and maybe it will...' but not in the way that you are expecting. It will be empty of all qualities. All qualities are in this. This is always some point, one assignment I've given some time ago and some of you who joined after. There is that one evening I set of these, just use what is tabulated here, which is before going to sleep, I made a list of all of them. Then I gave this as a homework assignment, which was to look at these things and see which choice is up to this. This one solitary witness. The one solitary witness which is looking at all things. Then you are without any boundary, without limitations. I am the one ocean in which the ark of the universe rises and sets. All the voices are there. What are they pointing to? This way.

So anytime you might feel like, I say, looking for the witness, you might feel like looking for a supernatural entity, which is another clue. Is there? It is boundless. So an entity must have a boundary. But witness is even this idea of entity. And you might come to this idea that 'I am something which awakens in the waking state,' which is the unchanging reality what witnesses all of these shapes of the coming of the waking and the dream state. That you might be happy with this is that all the things are there pointing to your reality. Don't come into any sort of mental conclusion, the conceptual idea. The discovery will not be conceptual. In fact, mostly you will find yourself empty of words. Now go to Amos. You will find that it's a difficulty to speak. Proclamation will become very tough. The idea that 'I found it' or 'I have not found it' both lose their relevance. The idea 'What should I do now? What should I do next?' seems to resolve. Could you find yourself to be a part of what's next? Find yourself beyond the universe. So what should appear in the universe? A pencil? Yet for you to know all this worldly knowing loses the relevance, but it can continue to be part of the play.

Lo, the liberated soul has no desire in his heart. He is content and indifferent. He has no equal. Resistance? He has no equal because there is only one. There are no two, only one. Free of desire, he knows nothing of knowing. Only free of desire, he knows nothing of knowing. He says nothing needs saying. He sees nothing to see. Only free of desire, he knows nothing of knowing. There is nothing he needs saying. He sees nothing to see. He who is without desire excels, be he beggar or king. He no longer sees good or bad. Not in the worldly or corporate form of excellence. This everything is significant. Look at it more as another thing we should excel to imitate it. More as under wonderful. What is lust or a screen of the desire for truth to the yogi who has reached life's goal and who embodies virtue and sincerity? What is lust or the screen or the desire for truth to the yogi who has reached life's goal and who embodies virtue and sincerity? So this at the same time, this which is beyond this worldly view. So what is the sage pointing at? So he's saying he has no time to overcome lust, no time to overcome these tendencies which seem to exist in this play here. Find out.

What is lust or a screen of the desire for truth to the yogi who has reached life's goal and who embodies virtue and sincerity? What is lust or the screen or the desire for truth to the yogi who has reached life's goal and embodies virtue and sincerity? So, this is at the point at the same time, this which is beyond this worldly view. So, what is the sage pointing at? So, you're saying he has too much time to time to overcome lust? I try to overcome these tendencies which seem to exist in this loop here. Find out who you are, right? The truth which is beyond all of these, and these will themselves settle down. They take care of themselves and be seen as a very natural phenomenon in existence.

In the experience of one who is free of desire and suffering, who is content and reposes in himself, how can it be described and of whom? In the experience of one who is free of desire and suffering, who is content and reposes in himself, how can it be described? Self-explanatory. The wise one's state never varies. Sleeping soundly, he is not asleep. Dreaming in reverie, he is not dreaming. Eyes open, he is not awake. I hope it leads by now, when we are at verse 94 of chapter 18, we need to look at what the sage is saying. What are the keywords? It is a pointer for your essential condition.

We say the wise one's state never varies. Sleeping soundly, he is not asleep. Dreaming in reverie, he is not dreaming. Eyes open, he is not awake. So, what do we do? Stop, no? You see, the states of waking, sleep, dream—any state or the reality of you, no, is constantly changing. Or you continue to be that eternal witness? You continue to remain that unchanging one. We will continue to window on this solarization and key of qualities. So, whatever state can come in here. So, this is not an ode to sages or something like that. Maybe like this, I feel like, 'Oh, this is just a homage to the great sages, they're so beautiful.' All of this happens with them. They are pointers for you.

If you see, what is it there? What is it that begins, actually? Is it not this? So, it is easy to find this reality for yourself. It is not to say that the saint is something special and we are far from that, because for the sage, all these things are happening. Just to find this for yourself and see that on the first of Ashtavakra, it is about you. What is that which is not concerned by the waking state? Exactly of you. Just contemplate. The waking state, you can say, it is a realm of appearances. So, is the entirety of you an appearance? I can just enough hippies. But if there's something about you which is beyond the waking state, beyond these appearances, start to make this discovery. Start to make this.

Then this sample disfiguration is for more and more within this unsaved struggle. You actually took up feverishness about something within a state which is just itself appearing and disappearing under the funk. You are not contained within it. All is already so beautifully taken care of. Then to design, there is no mind, there could be no suffering. There is no ideal collaborative me. The mind itself cannot be a man of knowledge. He seems to think but has no thought. He seems to have sense perceptions but does not experience. He seems to have intelligence but is empty-minded. He appears to be a person but is not.

A man of knowledge seems to think but has no thoughts. Again, he is not attached to the inner identity, but their own thoughts are cuckoo. He seems to have sense perceptions but does not have experience. Again, it means he does not take the position of their individual experience which you can see. They are still there. Do all the city is, is a room full of people. See, we tasted an experience. Now you know individual is to get sort of this. Like there is no these words and I was saying earlier, did not entire just speaking these words. There is no actor, we can say, which is experiencing all of this. We are this emerging here, what we call as just emergence and disappearance in our own consciousness.

So, that's what it means. He seems to have sense perceptions but does not experience. Otherwise, I don't explain it like that, that is simply contradiction. He seems to have intelligence but what is even after all conception? Moving is put aside. We will see as you see, whatever you see, but more than that, you so much actually valueless. No, I meant the articulation speaking, which is actual articulation, nothing. How do you know about this and that? He is not attached to the inner identity, not attached to the conceptual belief system. And the final one is the tincture: he appears to be a person but isn't. So, the sage is that output equation of one who is that aspect of consciousness.