Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 2 Vs. 22-25 Commentary and Contemplation - 10th August 2017

I am not the body. I do not have a body. I am awareness, not a person. My thirst for life bound me, but in the evening of life, I am here to enjoy. I am not the body. I do not have a body. I am awareness, not a person. My thirst for life bound me, but in the evening of all, I am the first one. I am not the body. In fact, not so many believe it, or do we have a belief that a human being is the body? If we really examine, we will find that in most cases, the second part—'but I have a body'—is the report. We report about the body like this: 'my body is tired' or even when the body goes away, we say 'may they rest in peace.' It is only later we will be able to find this riddle's focus. But we already see, most of us already see ourselves to be beyond the body. You see, you feel like 'I have a body, I am an entity, a person, the owner of this body.' Now, that entity, that person, that agency—we find that actually there is no such entity here. You merely got this. This is not a limited entity; this is the power, the Divine, this Being, the enjoyer of all things.

But what the separation says, let's clear that up. It says this is your container; you have this container and let's define your limitation. In computer terms, suppose you had an idea that an entity is sitting inside this head. It means 'I can see that it will not contain me,' right? I claim it as 'I can see,' but maybe not so keen to come inside. This is what it does not mean—that there is nobody. If there is no feeling for the country, a perception appearing which is not against people identified as an entity, it works in collaboration in some way with perception. It also continues to be an object of perception. When you see this, it is because it is an object of perception within the visual as well as the conditional. We are patient with autism, and that is where the mind has something to say: that 'this body might be you, this is what you are.' That was conditioned very strongly with our parents, with our mind. This is it: 'move your hand, do here, walk here.' We carry down all of these things as a bit of very good conditioning, and then everything on top is all done based on that.

If you see that this is just a visual perception, and then you contemplate perception, all this stuff is experienced in which container? The container of Being. This is also contained. Visual being becomes a sense of space. Where is that space? That is also within the same. Time is there. Experiences are in what field? In that which you exist. There is existence of time and space for you inside your Being. It will speak some an inference. Can you tell? False alarm. Thinking we are discontinued and arise from our experience is accused inside. There is no big world, although they might be seeming to come from outside. They are discontinued within that space. Okay, that'd be excellent. Then we didn't realize the true meaning of space. Not this idea of 'oh, we are one because of some reason, because we all experience thinking just perceptions.' We are not one because of that; we are already one. It is not fixable, but it is performing because we will do without an inference. We are without, because already that blur of experiences is there. That is our experience. We have been taught by this mind, actual conditioning seemingly coming from the world, that it is not that way. That's why I'm committed within this function outside as you go forward about you in the limitation of myself.

The waves of the mind boil various ways of the world. But when the wind subsides, the limitless ocean—the ark of personhood—is swallowed up along with the universe. In the limitless ocean of myself, which the waves of the mind boil, the mediate waves of the world arise. But when the wind subsides, the limitless ocean, the ark of personhood, it's swallowed up along with the universe. Is it what we also know? The boundary dissolves. We don't make this too concerned, and we don't have a description of your limitation. If limitation is defined in you, then you will find that worship of the gold... I am shaking my head over there. For this one, I'm shaking my hand. Go away. She's finicky. Human being is actually full of that, of trance with it. If you're seeing it, it is that once you just do this, a fool be that. He'll come to use that 'I experience observation results and pieces that I need to contain them.' The 'I' and 'Being' them readily stop. Let me see. They automatically see that the pencil here, that's not so.

So take me to this one. Do you love me? I'm talking with really, really phenomenal presentation of Advaita. Then all of that is for a of rice. That's it. There is no... as I say that your position is not of this. In a moment, I'm pointing you to that. It will be on time and space. It's worth that the position of time and space is within you, within your Being. And these are not the things that you should inquire into. You just keep inquiring into 'Who am I?' and all that will become your fun inside. But sometimes it's good to share because then ways to keep the other records contained with the body can be really kicking. And we could keep inquiring, and even at the end of inquiry, you might come to this. She has a little redness that stayed within this. If the mind takes hold of our recognition and fainted in this way, so sometimes I shake you out of this idea that you are contained by the person.