Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 2 V. 20 Commentary and Contemplation - 10th August 2017

We're looking at verse number 20 from Chapter two: 'The body exists only in imagination, as do heaven and hell. Bondage, freedom, and fear are these my concern? I am pure awareness.' The body exists only in imagination, as do heaven and hell. Bondage, freedom, and fear—are these my concern? I am pure awareness. So this verse is not to be taken end-to-end. It was that 'I am pure awareness' is the main thing. The words only set the three clues to find the Self. The three clues to find the Self: find that which is the witness of all phenomena. Like that, and it's the answer. If they decide to spin phenomena, then we find out who it is which is even back. So if it is a mental image or the concept of something, we find out who it is even then.

The second clue: what is that which remains unchanging? If it is coming and going, then it cannot be the reality that we are looking for. What we have is the unchanging thing; it's the change which seems apparent. Or second, if you already have the change first, this is well with a little for change. So we are looking for that stability, that which is the Atma. So for you, I know that because this is holding one solitary witness of all the rest. Second, that is not coming and going. You figure out that you do not come and go. And third, it must be all correct inside. It must not be something that you're just curtains are some or read in a book once the exam comes. So direct experience is that.

For most of you, I will use the word awareness as little as possible. The more we use it, the more it will be for the way it happened. Once I got—I rarely get upset with this Sangha—but I got a bit upset once and I noticed that everybody has become very casual and just making jokes about the Brahman and the ego case. But do you know what happened with that? All of these words are some; they have a certain sanctity about them. To realize them, it makes them run out the middle in very big space. They stop being those pointers, those potent pointers that they are. So keep it sacred. Keep it sacred pointing. It's like the anxiety; this was critically wakeful for in something. So 'Am I aware?' or 'Can I stop?'—all the time, where even all of these become meaningless and irrelevant. Don't be in a rush to proclaim anything.

Get now them to Google. I know they are thorns, that thorn that we are using to remove other thorns, ultimately also to be thrown away. But as far as detecting right now, then don't be in a rush to throw it away or to put it down. Don't become food waiter too quickly. Be one of the ghouls who are you asking to go to inquiry? Inquiry is a discipline. When we had to have them, the word which mental one day, the same works well consecutive one do, but they will tell me then all idea of worship properly will see this instrument just moving like a new phase. Is my being number will set of consciousness? And then those words will have a different frequency. And then we say we care to even this inquiry. I'm nothing like this one; we will carry a different frequency, mark on special.

So again, 'My concern? I am pure awareness.' So when we find giving the truths, you find the Self. And what is which one I'm talking about? What concern can you have as that awareness? Then the concern comes. We are not to pick up an idea of unworthiness or gain focus. You can sharing the words of then didn't realize. Oh, so for now, if concern about comes, that welcome it. And the concern comes, welcome it, invite it in. Face of his business is going on. Remember those money in the bank which is the way? No, no, you can't be concerned about means one nicely with this eyes. It's like this. So don't treat anything as an obstacle now. Here is the Satsang: everything becomes a tool for your recognition. Come in resistance of anything. Don't come in some sort of—oh, we were talking to family alone—into any sort of great agonizing. That way it also gives you the best room for the ego to perpetuate itself in juvenile.