Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 7 Commentary and Contemplation - 15th August 2017

So to me, that all of this is one movement of consciousness. It is moving with only supreme intelligence, that which runs time and space, gravity, electricity, all of these forces. It's so supreme intelligence. So that is doing a job, it is running this already. But I, which is the witness of this world, am neither enhanced nor diminished by it. Very, very subtle also because we say that the absolute, the apparent universal fear, but I mean life. So the absolute, like the potential for the appearance, but unlike potential and manifestation, it's not that something happens to the potential with the manifestation. Because in the middle, remember, so complete, total state, complete in spite of a complete universe coming from the being, very emergent with the appearance of your consciousness. It will look like the universe itself is also unlimited, but that mystery is unlimited and it continues to remain untouched. If this is coffee, which striving and falling, the universe takes place with its own way. I am untouched, neither enhanced nor diminished.

All the judgments that we make about ourselves, all the judgments we make about ourselves on the basis of this phenomenal movement. Something happens, some interaction or something happens with life, and we think we would mean something in that panorama. What is it? So sense of the body, the state of our relationship, yeah, like a rating slash money slash work and ultimately, yeah, peace or freedom or the search for liberation, the search for some meaning in the reporting, the reporting of our own journey. So within this, based on relationship, based on money, based on body, based on how well we are doing as a seeker, the one who is searching for the truth, we make judgments about myself, ourselves, according to state. Sage says, 'I am neither enhanced nor diminished, no matter whatever movement.' So in hearing these words, can we take it as a pointer? Let the universe be, whose reality, including the play of your own body, is part of this universe moving, running on its own projector. It's there, the screen is there, all of that light and sound is there. Consciousness is playing this movie. Then extreme like consciousness itself, it's playing, it's making an effort to play as if it is just one of the characters. It is playing as if it is an individual entity, a limited identity.

Go from being our own content into our own living discovery. This little bit of openness, open here, it's like a glow in a foot in the door so that we know that it is wonderful and we'll do that pathways address the small. This we live like a boss if you can. Most Advaita scripture, Ashtavakra Gita, that are nearly enough to somebody that has hope in doing like, and we will talk about this and they say, 'Oh, when you will get it?' Because it can seem like the most difficult. You can relate to these words: 'I am the shoreless ocean, the ark of the universe from the moves, but I am untouched.' So for those who are setting event of a long time thinking like this is a complicated, but I am giving you the cheat code. A little bit of openness, follow these clues, you will feel like, 'Okay, forward like the Veda speaking to my own experience.' It must become like that. Pointers that we have read, all it is pointing to the direct truth. Once we come, nothing like else, this could be my voice because this is exactly what I'm discovering for myself without any pretense, without any proclamation, just as if that you're finding the boat and stuff.

We see the symbol of openness. You can follow these clues and let the mind just come and go a little bit of time when all of this was straightforward. Many times in the past I thought they were not. Journey with me to secret food. After many years of sadhana and even seen an omission, then you will be poisoned. Is it good? Don't step over the words of the food. But time is going along because, because life also gives me more complex, so maybe we can go for that, more accessible to believe. But if there is something like a criticism, I will say that is one. When I say open, I mean do you see you like you cannot darks to the tools of the mind for the just a few moments. The mind will clear a lot of things, especially when it's faced with this direct knowledge. So can we not pick up a notion about ourselves just a few moments? We have that much you can lose, that much willingness or shoes. Because if it is not there, then these words can also act as the conclusions the mind will mix this with already existing notions and it continues like where they came even more complex.

The way I keep saying, insist on that will be go in fact and not with our inferences, judgment, notions. People of the other side for some time, we see when you're checking about what's called reality, what is it that you want? Because the mind's of its supremacy fit in. This is the time where the mind will come in this to make a possible wave. The gaze of the Master, do we have that much openness as you can allow the mind to move for a few minutes without picking up the notion of an individual limited me? As much as present this discovery, which is what all of us are really longing for, because we were infertile easily replace him to still he discover. If it was for one in a million, then we are that one, the quickest or rare number of people. Because you, you either college inaudible waiting or written under the you are here and seem to continue to be here. It must be some days when I'm opening this for this plus there is that brought you here. Soon your suffering will become a super kingdom, will become natural.

'In me, the shoreless ocean, the universe is imagined. I am still and formless. This alone I abide.' 'In me, the shoreless ocean, the universe is imagined. I am still and formless. This alone I abide.' This is talking about mystical the Self. It is not in objects nor objects in the pure infinite Self. Self is not in objects nor objects in the pure and infinite Self. The Self is trying to query free of attachment and desire. In this alone I abide. Thank you. It is not if you will, it is not if when you would be subject to change in movie. I would understand why you would want another object. I'm an object and I want to enhance my feels by adding other objects, other things which should activities by my glass. No, don't mind a nice coaster. Then consider to give his objectives entities and we also believe.

The Self is not an object, nor are objects in the pure, infinite Self. The Self is triply free of attachment and desire. In this alone I abide. Thank you. It is not, if you will, it is not that when you would be subject to change in a movie, I would understand why you would want another object. I'm an object and I want to enhance my pills by adding other objects, other things which should activities by my glass. No, don't mind a nice coaster. Then consider these objective entities, and we also believe that I can desire something; I want something to make myself come to appear a better, stronger, or whatever. So this illusion of enhancement is based on our feeling that I have an option. Now the verse is saying that you're not an option. In the world of objects, you will not find yourself. And when I say objects, we must include every phenomenal appearance because normally you'll see, like a case, when I find this, that is the discovery of the Self. But actually, from the perspective of truth, even this is an object. It's phenomenal. That which is coming and going is an object.

So again, looking at a phenomenal wedge for your discovery, all the tools are there. Find out that which witnesses all objects and find whether that is itself an object. Is that itself an appearance? They will have a quality. Every given object, everything, has some attribute in its own some form of joy, some color, some feeling, some taste. All these are objects; they have a quality. Is the one witnessing—does that have a quality? You that is perceiving mala tastes, what perceives this? What is aware of this? Does that have a quality? This will be your direct insight. But like all other insights, this insight will not give phenomenal difference. When I say that there is a computer on the table, but a computer on the table, how did you do this? This process of answering is fine. So you perceived an object and saw that this is composed of the shape of a computer. Is there a green apple on the table? I will say no, it's not. See an object like that. But are you aware now? Or did you see this one? You do not see anything in that way, and yet the answer is yes. It's not even coming from conceptual models, which is our direct because now I am aware.

So this what attracts all the witnesses, this is what we usually call aware of the Self. Am I aware now? This awareness, bigger more phenomenal discovery beyond working objects, beyond all quality. What knows what is the variable rate? Existence, awareness alone. So now visit match recluse or to get that witness to the whole thing. You see, the cyclist's awareness is unchanging. What is it that is unchanging? This as it is, that is so simple. Subject to change, time and space, name and form. Get a direct insight, a direct is of G. Yes, I brought up to refer to a concept. See that this trick matching is here. This awareness is formless. But unlike the green apple and the computer, when you perceive something as a phenomenal object, feeling it, you can say the Self is not an object, nor are objects in the pure, infinite Self. What if you see it? It means that in this, the absolute awareness, it is beyond any objective universe, and yet within itself actually rival systems. I am existence-consciousness. This is the Self. Then is worth truth. I have this consciousness, and then your fortunes way exist in this play of the world. Stars, space, all those things appear and explain what happened to me. That awareness window sixteen happen. So everything into Self, source of everything, greater than light which manages at the fader said.

None of the objects in the, nor other objects in the pure, infinite form because the source and make one touch objects. I am awareness alone; world is the passing show. I am awareness alone; world is the passing show. I can part rise of acceptance or rejection and we're here. Don't take so much an issue with the arising of thoughts; it is the identification with them. This is the source or surface of things. You see the force on the mind, all of this born with the form of resistance. It can still give ourselves a limited position. The only job of the mind is to convince consciousness in this way, to convince consciousness itself that it is a limited entity. This is the marvelousness. Consciousness itself wanted to taste this world as if it itself were a limited entity. You convention is not so big together. I hope it's audible. Yes. Upon itself, Maya has given itself this. We did for it, dealt with what we can call my car, and we give unto itself the power to believe, to pretend. This which can be something limited, I make-believe some clearly are now things we might feel like occurring on mobile to believe that I am a person would lie to you if you look at it.

Notice that even scientifically it is impossible. Suppose you have a belief that I am doing something, I am moving my hand. It seems like the most obvious thing. I can move my hand. But if you really start to explore it in science, which degree would you need to fire these many million neurons to move a hand? How to fire these many neurons? So this is happening in another way. To the success you set for every atom, and scientists think, and for every atom, the probabilistic determination of what its next position will be. So that includes atoms of this which make up this body. Already the probabilistic density domination of where it is going to be next is designed. It is we can feel like I move, non-existent. I can claim to be the void of this and not another will be. See a documentary that came two years ago, that is, before the thought comes but I must do this or I can do that or I should move my hand, already the nervous system is getting activated. The movement of the hand before the thought comes, before this evening intent is there, there is already big consciousness which is the one doing, one moving, one experiencing. That's created for itself whose play of individuality would belief in a separate identity.

What is the mind color things? This thing is good because it let go, then I will become the most responsible, will take care of my family. That is not exactly the opposite of what is being said because even that implied the sense of individual control. It is meant to move will intelligence. It is that you will not interpret it, consider it to be the movement of an individual entity. The tree and so there also has to be. You will find that all of this, what is this a stream? All of this is a movement of the arc of the universe. I am the shoulder, a solution in which this movement happens of. I remain untouched. This is going to be or is already your office capris what I tell upon sales resistance. Okay, okay. On this chilly there's constant mutation, there's constant flooding. It's for us to transcend this, transcend all the ideas. There is no ego here. Transcend our ego. Ego means what? The sense that there must be a separate entity here. Practically no separation and there what happened? This equation has ever happened in reality. Resists of content so facade okay.

And you also can share my favorite metaphor example that I use that's fun to make. We look at this mode here. So suppose that in the world which had no mirrors, you could not check on your shape or size or form. Now everyone is telling you that you are a cactus. When we want to do, you look at what you have either to take you. Not only everyone, but those who you have a voice, it constantly is confirming that you will attract what do you think to be happy. We made the next bowl of money. What is the motive with order? The creditor said next bowl of you Jaden, now get a good education. When you have a healthy body, do we have to find a good life? When you react, make it up for me and you will be happy. But has the cactus satisfied within you? He's moving from bowl to bowl, school back and all various. We try to find this eternal bowl of that. Somebody comes and says enlightenment, freedom, your final bowl of never-ending nectar. Up with such bowl of milk, bowl of amrit, you can enlighten. So the fact this is what I want, I've seen it. None of the give me happiness which is stable, which is unchanging. So I will just complete an IVA to it. That means those leading to always be happy is to find this bowl of milk called Mukti.

Then we start looking for that master, no teacher who can choose to be enlightened with this as a master. If we're lucky, obviously in such a master who can pay you, come the bowl of health. But I have a bowl, I don't have a good meal. What do I have? What I do have is a middle which you will feel separable. You will not find a cactus that is been changing all of you. You will find yourself to with that which is beyond any cactus and beyond any goal of the variation. The duration with cactus conditioning and seek to be so strong, putting the do we see for ourselves in a credible River Street with our own insight? And we do the inquiry, you're checking movie on Who am I? The bonds constant point is reputed: Who am I? So should we find the cactus? Nobody has come and said I look within and I actually found a person sitting there. Nobody is go move. It is powerful person, yes. You just after the Self-recognition, how is it a traitor you to believe there to be a cactus? So this is the power of conditioning. Is it the momentum of conditioning? It's all wrong said that given our to sanitize the off, it continues to spin for a while till it comes to a stop. So the momentum of our conditioning carries, continues to tell us the story if I am an individual entity.

We must save, will save that let's search. Truth will come and we will seek identity itself. It wants some attention in the form of that unending bowl of nectar we have Ananda. Till then I will not believe in potential search it and we'll have Ananda there. It keeps picking this up other with me when you keep looking for the geese part of it and then the truth and being part of it are not valued. If you let me be after to have this list when I can form that I came to. What do you find if you just allow yourself to just be? You can have no condition very long model. It has to come if you've got little. You can make the discovery that you are the Self, unchanging, the witness of all the Vedic is come here. When one can ordinary one objective for two are there will please forever love these goes. All of these are for you who taste here in service to you. God doesn't have to run after them. The previous consider ourselves to believe something evil, something other than the first. Then all these invited appearances, over these little things that we are tasting, yes to come in booth is open it about is even worse admitting come vengeance is we finding something which is objective which is impersonal. That also will commit lose this opportunity to find that this is not coming to completely possible you.

If you feel like you're step and what's coming to the Self-recognition, I'm always happy to engage, to inquire, to be able to look at this. You can get up to the recognition, more than happy to. And if you feel like the recognition is here, to this and mental fog conditioning we tend to get them again. The best thing is said something and because at some motors anything you present a certain we will find that the mind will lose its inability power to envy that you are something smaller. There are some thoughts if you find this to kiss anxiety right now, who are they referring to? Including thoughts about freedom, about being the seeker. Then again, I'm sorry, ask yourself: who's here that is not free with the bound one? Since once we become laughable if I can I go to my bracelet from the summer sending the reports that there is talking, laughing. Thoughts are coming in Vegas in defining all of this place. Oh, it's so funny. I think I derive this sort of weeks which is sometimes we look at these thoughts, we check so much power in the past and we find that they're not open all of that that we like first child you're in here who you might have had a thought or some desire that you wanted a car or some Legos in it to something and you can feel like that is the most.

To my bracelet from the summer, sending the reports that there is talking, laughing, thoughts are coming in, defining all of this play. Oh, it's so funny. I think I derive this sort of peace, which is sometimes we look at these thoughts we gave so much power in the past and we find that they're not at all of that. Like a small child, you see, who you might have had a thought or some desire that you wanted a car or some Legos in it or something, and you can feel like that is the most important thing in our life and life depends on having this toy or something like that. It completely possesses you, and then you outgrow it. Then you find this was so funny. How did I believe that this toy was the most important in my life?

We see this exactly as you come into the recognition of what you really are. Indeed, you see it all about because the older things seem like laughable. How I all believed that having an object or being a certain way would bring me happiness. Now you can offer them that way. Why? Because they are gone, you see. Even if we won one goal, the seven-year-old child's desire is the same. We will have really grown, which is claiming God. I do what you need for having made in all our choosing. He is not on this table, unchanging. Huh? We will not be foolish that I will find you; I will find it in myself.