Contemplation on the Ashtavakra Gita Ch. 1, Vs. 1-4 - 31st July 2017

If you look at this potential model, it contains like three, straightforward and obvious. Yes, even this is the true knowledge fails at times. How many of us are perceiving this world, this earth, we move? We are sitting on it right now. It is moving at a rapid rate, moving at a rapid rate around the sun and around its own axis, revolving and rotating. But is this our perception? Is this through our eyes or hearing this? No. And yet we know this. So there is another type of knowledge which is beyond actual knowledge. What type of knowledge is this? It's conceptual. We have a concept about what is happening without it necessarily being of direct experience to our perception. So what are the type of concepts we know that we don't have a direct experience of? Contemplate a little bit, write down a couple of them where it's just concepts. You got the knowledge because you heard it from a credible source, heard it repeated over and over.

And even beyond sensory, which is using the senses, we have internal perception. And conceptually is also the perception which is seemingly inward. Inner perception, imagination, memory, emotional presentation in and play. Still, it is a knowing of these, but it doesn't use real elders and fills. And then in the realm of concepts or set of thousand stories of hell with that, it's a true knowledge we default to. Knowledge we will type in Austin, your conceptual inner perception, and this is available to everyone. Like I said, 'How is knowledge to be achieved?' There must be a knowledge which is beyond all these. This is higher to all of you. So what are the parameters of this kind of knowledge? Parameters is that it must be direct experience, direct insight, but also it must be unchanging. True knowledge, unchanging. It cannot really be unchanging. The curtains in my house—if somebody asks, I'll say, 'So what color are those curtains?' You see a repetitive, 'Oh, it was,' or it could have been at some point of time. It is always in if we cannot authoritatively say something is true. All we can do is that I had a direct experience of it. It's into from the realm of change. I cannot authoritatively say that this is true right now and it's always true.

So when we are looking at true knowledge, it must pass the parameters, of course, of direct insight as well as if we manage. So what is it that you know that is both your direct insight and is unchanging? All of us are Janaka are teaching this. He said, 'How is knowledge to be achieved?' Contemplate first a minute on whether you ask me what is like this, unchanging, and that which is not just conceptual but your direct insight. You see something like this and it motivates. And I'll come back to this question as to what a Kalamazoo survived. So the first sentence of the future self, the very deep contemplation down like a very straightforward question: 'How is knowledge to be achieved?'

And also, 'How is knowledge to be achieved, detachment acquired?' Detachment: what does it mean to not be attached to anything in this realm of of you who understand attachment must first understand what attachment is. So what is attachment? I first moved into this house a few years ago for the first time in my life. There was a garden, a small terrace garden on this house. First time, first time renting a share which I described yourself, I had a garden for the first time. So what I did is, in my initial enthusiasm, I planted some seeds. There were already some plants and grass in pots. I planted some seeds. What happened is that every day I would wake up and the rest of the garden for some time would be invisible to me. I would first see what is happening with them. What would come out? The good seeds would also be plants, would also be weeds too. And yet there was something which is attached to the outcome of these that I had planted. What is it that makes one set of appearances 'mine' and on the other set of appearances 'not mine' or 'not as much mine'?

So when this 'me' is there, one of the strongest legs of this 'me', one of the strongest support systems of this 'me', is the idea of 'mine'. Now this idea of 'mine' is where suffering is. Because what did we just discover about this world of appearances? Constantly changing, will be constantly changing. Be holding on to something as 'mine' and not wanting it to happen to it, it's going to be suffering. The resistance to change. So this resistance to change, we already seem to add something we call that 'mine'. That becomes an attachment. 'This should not be taken away from me.' And also comes in the opposite way, which is to look at something and say, 'This is not mine, I want that too much. I want that.' It also causes suffering. So attachment is the idea of 'mine', something also for which is this sense of individuality, the sense of 'me'. So we will take the tile about a little bit. Desire, aversion—the whole storm of attachment in which we then 'I don't want this to be mine,' 'come back to me,' the pain, the impatience, change with could be anything. So what is it that we've attached our identity to? We attach ourselves to this specifically, but as this realm of the changeful is everything here, this really changes. Notice how the idea that something is 'mine' is essential to cause so much suffering and has its basis in an individual entity called 'me'. How identically realize all of these conditions King Janaka says: 'Detachment acquired, liberation attained.'

So as we go through the first two parts of this question, which is true knowledge of the Self, that which is unchanging, and the dropping of these conditions of attachments in the end of seeming separation, the end of duality, then obvious byproducts: we recognize we are. We don't apply all of these conditions on the Self. This itself is a beautiful description of freedom, a holy free description of liberation itself. Ashtavakra said, 'Dear one, shun the experiences of the senses like poison.' Shun the experiences of the senses like poison. We don't have to go that far if we don't want to go to at least what we saw already, that there is something beyond our sensory experience. So if for some time, at least during the time in which we're in second gear reading of the scripture, keep these experiences on one side. See what else is there besides this sensory collection, they being with you in the recognition. So if you want them to do school, then it is: 'Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, charity, kindness, simplicity, and truth.' And the first time I remember, I saw a girl, I just picked up this paragraph, I guess this, 'Let's move to the real stuff.' Look of your time. So not so much that came up to say, but I feel to be that crazy fool either immediately is taken each of these pointings, we create space for the recognition of the physics. Let's go over a minute how that could happen. 'Turn your attention to forgiveness.' What's the meaning of forgiveness, or the opposite of forgiveness? It is to hold a grievance, hold a grievance putting...

I feel to be that crazy fool where immediately each of these pointings is taken, and we create space for the recognition of the Self. Let's go over for a minute how that could happen. Let's turn your attention to forgiveness. What's the meaning of forgiveness, or the opposite of forgiveness? It is to hold a grievance. Holding a grievance, which is the idea that is getting perpetuated, the idea is that there is a 'me' again, there is another before me, and I am right in building a grievance against this one. So, it is so cool where the recognition of the Self leads to the dropping of grievances, and if it is full of grievances, it creates no space for the recognition of the Self. Then it operates like so.

Satsang is like coming to this exhibition, and we will find that anytime you come into the satsang with a lot of... you might have just had a fight with someone, or not even come together for something like this. It might seem like it's a very important thing, and yet by the time you come to the end of the session, you might feel some facility, maybe having lighter shoes, and something automatically changes. So, that grievance got knocked away because you came into the presence of satsang; you came into the presence of your own recognition of the Self.

Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity. It is interesting. Sincerity means not to be in a false denial, not to believe this lack of integrity. And you know, first thing anyway, we are in denial about something or the other. You keep stressing on this one. You keep saying if you have integrity, everything will work. If you have integrity... and this I could never really understand. He used to say, 'A nice Rico web, thanks read, I am that.' Now it becomes more and more clear. This is all about this: are you reporting from direct silence, or are you reporting from something which is just conceptual, this debate with an inference? If you can look at some clarity of integrity, what are you denying when a question is asked to you? What is it that you find when you look within? What we're reporting from is an inference of uniform words as a line to the students.

At what rules we are not getting to any sort of a greater denial business. We've heard the term that you are the Self or you are awareness, then actually they are still believing a lot about themselves. What suffering is being experienced? And yet when the conversation happens, people will say, 'Nobody here to suffer' and 'this awareness.' And just the word 'look' is not the smell of it. So many times, we come into this standard, just intellectual, a sort of equally... hence so many times the words of Advaita, the words of the direct path itself, become very good food for the ego because we refuse to go beyond the words of it. It should feel like in the word, inside of the wheels. So, the words that messed up on those two wings, times through the word is please let them lead you to the discovery of this ever-more word lurking, watching myself.

I used to say that we need to fight speakers, that I am not technically... even that is not true. Forgiveness and charity, kindness... and often I said that true spirituality needs the world. One of the byproducts is kindness. Kindness doesn't mean that one which is choosing kind words this way, a smile from the top or no short speech, not like that. It means if it is a waste on the level in their heart, they are compassionate, their heart feels what is best for who they are engaging with. You can find everything back to the Master. It always wins, belonging to your longing for the truth. So, the words are seemingly kindest from the kindness in the heart to lead you to the truth. This game is the Vedas' hand. So, kindness is the theology of condensation.

The truth is simple; the mind is very complex. The complexity comes when we are empty of experience and we're full of meanings. It can become very complex. We say more and more without direct insight. The whole here is discovering for once, and it's so simple. I know that I exist. What does this mean? How do I know that I exist? Things capable, incomplete, we didn't know of their existence. Wipe out at the console. We do not require... you might not have the best voice logically, but everyone is always yourself. Which Self? Move 'I am.' And even these would be figurative, given to the mind. What happened? It makes complex spiritual ideological. So, more and more able to it completely, then at the end of this, to turn your attention to forgiveness and charity, kindness, simplicity, and truth.

So good is this. The books which is team, which is experienced with the different because between without changes definition of an appearance, there exists changing. I will exact again until this district to be able to heal themself, inviting and being in the front. First of all, then this Advaita, beautiful practical advice from how to create more space for with recognition. And because Ashtavakra is a very, very direct teacher, because I don't spend too much time on this, it goes straight to the root of it.

The next verse he says clearly: 'You are not earth, you are not water, fire, nor air, nor are you empty space.' Very important. In deities, these are referred to as the five elements. So, you are not earth, water, fire, or air, nor are you empty space. So, if we look at this cotton which is brought to us through our senses, we find that everything that is perceived is made up of these elements. When we hear we are not this, we feel like there sometimes to you the word 'space' also and fathom. Yes, I keep saying it's not a spacious space, it's a hot space and become of length, width, and height. That's why I could see the page says this. After saying you are not earth, water, fire, air, nor are you empty space, the mind kicks off with anything this which it works, which is this flat blank space. And this is the Self. Who will cancel even that? This is black, have a length, would have a size, and then people see that because small as having machine also.

It is: 'You are not earth, water, fire, nor air, nor are you empty space.' So, my question to you is, if you are not earth, water, fire, air, and we are not even space, what would you be? What is it that you are? This is the beyond these, and you are to speak to me your direct insight. And that before I close today, I'll come and ask you very harmful focuses that you are that is not what it may not be relevant, what even the space in which the aiming eleven something which is we take the lemon. Liberation is to know yourself as awareness alone, the witness of these things. That I saw was that doesn't beat around the bush. Fifty-one prepper is he was issue bonini scriptures and many chapters on describing the qualities and how severe could see all of the things. I saw her one was Venus said all that he had to evolve accessibility is what are the qualities to instill. He goes to this: none of this filter to world and not even the space in which they seem to appear. Water rain at the room to the witnesses to be given dancer and also to clean to find out to avoid the words 'you are awareness alone' can seem like edges worse.

So now, two minutes check on tact with this. Is this a phenomenal something like the system? Don't exist. Any phenomena that is coming up, go phenomenal to check what we sent. Is this that also phenomenon? Is that also changing? Is that made up of five elements or space? If your mind is coming with the report, safe and move it to sit back. Okay, the week let's meet about who are not earth, water, fire, air, nor empty space. Liberation is to know yourselves as awareness alone, the witness. Okay, it says: 'Abide in awareness. Abide in awareness with no illusion of person, you will be instantly free and at peace.' Abide in awareness, no illusion of person. So beautiful that the 'how to' is when because when the pointing is heard, 'abide in awareness,' the question can immediately come, 'But how do I abide in awareness?' He says, 'no illusion of person.' This is one statement, even it's a very important point. It is only the false that must not be picked up. To abide in the truth is not that you have to go to work, which is can see there were the truth were always there. Why don't I mean is a false identity? The illusion of person is not picked up right now. You are awareness and abiding in it that you have your dynamic players consciousness to follow, to pick up the illusion that you are a person. Look at the assumption in the pretense that you are something limited with no illusion of person, you will be instantly free and at peace.

He's talking about you. My favorite things to do is to... and I'm getting confused about abiding now when it interviews to ask you to leave it. Move begging me to break clear what the case is trying to say is leave. I went home for three taking these three seconds. Don't be aware. One, two, three. Did it? Did you become unaware for an instant? You need to pay. I was unaware would mean that there is awareness of a particular state which you might be calling and the water. It will be impossible for you not to be the same. We are always the awareness alone, always the Self. That's why they say abide in awareness, which only means to not pick up the false identities, the illusion of the person, the delusion of imitation. This is for college, not to think about you. It is also all attachment, idea, mean. How we're answering the question later on, I was true knowledge to be a game and detachment to be harm. So seeing that you are this witness is this entire phenomenal feeling, and to see that you are this awareness, there is no individual 'me.' With the illusion of 'me' it's picked up all of you. I now know how this illusion gets victims and sickness. Whose is that? If it is limited as if it is a dignity line using the power of our attention and giving the sense of giving belief to its mine, which always... can you see that you are a limited innocence that goes for design of consciousness? So now it is get it, the game of individuality, and now they exist from the game also it wants. So exactly deuce from this play of existing this because why creates for itself with play of substance which is I think what function is speaking with consciousness.

Rather than try not to abide in awareness, then you see that to abide in awareness truly implied this or to older they are limited in their... we actually abide in awareness, but you pick up with singing a legion of suffering, of individuality, of separation, of duality and desires worship. Okay, okay, good enough for the reason shortly be covered by voices, but I feel they're very, very strong, very powerful bases of asking. Before we go for today, I want to ask you: what is that knowledge that you would... you felt you have which is beyond the knowledge of the senses and want knowledge of concepts and even beyond the knowledge of perception, inner protection like imagination and memory and emotions and sensations? Who would like to offer an answer?

Yes, this is he. Um, I wrote, 'I am the knowing of that.' The knowing.

And you wrote it, yes. Anything? Oh, is it norm? I don't know. I thought after I was just... no, I don't even know if that makes sense.

It will complete sense to me, a complete. So this is exactly what we've been telling for so long. If I may begin with the question: are you aware now? And you say yes. How will this move? We are not seeing a perception of a level, we're not seeing the size, shape, color. You're not even experiencing it for some duration time. You cannot even... can you say that unlike dynamic aspect which is present into the when it itself over here to that in a minute? If you have to, it's a case for being for consciousness. You can say that yes, I experienced the further Sophie 'I am,' but even if 'I am'ly, it is a subject which witnesses even this. This 'I' which is now 'am,' I have this 'I.' You don't taste as a perception, we don't see it with sight, we don't hear it with you, we don't taste it, we don't smell it, we won't touch it. It's not a memory, not an imagination, none of these, and yet it is I any times and it becomes.

In to the when it itself over here to that in a minute. If you have to, it's a case for being for consciousness. You can say that, yes, I experienced the further. So, I am. But even if I am, it is a subject which witnesses even this—this 'I' which is now 'am'. I have this 'I'. You don't taste it as a perception. We don't see it with sight, we don't hear it with ears, we don't taste it, we don't smell it, we won't touch it. It's not a memory, not an imagination, none of these. And yet it is 'I'. Any times, and it becomes very intelligent when you come into this sort of a denial of even the self. And sometimes, because the exploration will happen for thousands of years, the terminology can become a bit confusing and confuse some of us. So, there are selves that we speak about. Not-self, for example, is spoken about in Buddhism, which is another word for like a personal self. So, the self that we speak about is the Atma, or the Nirguna Brahman. So, let's not digress into that direction.

This that witnesses everything, including that you exist, it is undeniably 'I'. It is the most intimate. It is beyond intimate because it is you. That is why this question 'Are you aware now?' is like a very innocent pointing. It pieces through your 'yes'. It's very important. Unlike any other 'yes' of taking this as them with exact same single direction. I ask you, is there a coconut in my hand here? Why? We could also post a true knowing that there is something which is, and then upon learning languages, that it's called 'coconut'. This is first step to mean. And conceptually you can say, 'Yes, I perceive a coconut and therefore I can see it.' If I say, 'Is there a coconut in my hand?' you say, 'No, I don't see it.' No. But I ask you, 'Are you aware now?' You don't perceive it through the senses. We don't. It might not even have a concept of it, although some of you might because in Satsang. And yet you say 'yes'. Why? Then if I say, 'Okay, maybe you're imagining a coconut,' but I ask you, 'Are you imagining this?' You say, 'No.' Is it coming from some memory of coconut? No. This is coming from your inside right now. To be aware now needs no memory, no other perception. It is almost direct recognition of the Self, of consciousness, which is your, which is a dynamic aspect that immensely of the Self, is self-awareness itself.

While fools as it, it is a limited entity within giving an alpha. And now coming to the recognition of its own source. While consequence, you come to the recognition 'I am that I am'. Before the recognition 'I am God' or 'I am consciousness'. And then is the recognition—or it doesn't have to be in this order, but usually in this order—but 'I am that which is even before I am'. And how is that permission found? By just with your floor inside looking at this question: 'Am I aware now?' And if any complexity that are several fellows we came on, and then he also gave the answer to the next question which we feel is, 'Okay, yes, I see it, because how do I abide in it?' Then that's all what we really say. In fact, the other day in that when I did a poll and so many of you said, 'I see from time to time, I recognize myself.' And thankfully most of you said when you are in person and you check for yourself to find this recognition, but it seems difficult to abide in this because we have made abidance also another doing, something for us personally to do. As I've been trying to say, that abiding is nothing but this is happening naturally. But you can just hold that this you are not abiding. This is pointing which seems to follow a more and more imposing of individuality.

This is the meaning of full knowledge with the calculative life, which is one perception that is one conception. I think which is beyond emotion, temptation, languages, we are given constants beyond even 'I am'. With awareness, this witness to all that is phenomenal, go on venerable experience. It's like golden light and sharing with all those who are coming here is the big from your insight and not from your influence. But that means is don't judge the experiences that you're having and label them. Just allow your words to be other line responsible to what you're experiencing directly. With this integrity, this conservative or what is being shared by the great sage Ashtavakra will be very happy. And he says, 'I am Atma and content mute, but I am this constant stillness, the background of perception.' Say with sleep, I said we'll come to that part later where I explain how system the mind is can seem confusing sometimes when I say that you are even beyond consciousness. You are that awareness which once surface is born and is all back into it. It can seem like we're speaking of some sort of duality, but actually we are speaking about one. We're speaking about one time.

So qualitatively it seems like there are fighting, it is one 'I'. Qualitatively it seems like appears within it something called a signal. This doesn't make it two hands, it's still one 'I'. And I am. So this amply you can see it hasn't changed. It happened identification, all of this might happen many times. Unless then we take the Jahi, it goes back to sleep, the car goes laughs. All right, let's just move. It is only with awareness even the signal is made of the work of the hand alone. I'm sophisticated of one of the see Elsa long away in Italy. Yet the qualitative appearance of consciousness is undeniable. So it is not the same as when we say that the person is just not there. I believe it's true that consciousness also is not there as we sing, we just awareness which next is being states if granted on the person on the other hand. And yet flex if you carry the belief about yourself, but actually you're just a visitor here from Mars. Suppose you carry this belief about yourselves, would there be an actual Martian here? Would there be a qualitative taste of this Martian surface? We could only be the base of this sense of separation, the sense of identity, but never really is equipped into the ultimate like that. It means activities too. In fact, Maori creation with a sting of my being case with existent aspect of myself. We show that in more detail later. Any other answers there? Anyone do it that you want to report to me about any of the questions that I asked? Can type it out or you can speak it out.

Hi, and I'm talking to me. Hello all. Yes, my dear son, quickly.

Hi. I love the direct non-perceptual recognition of that which the concept awareness points to.

Very good. See that again.

And um, the direct non-perceptual recognition of that which the concept awareness points to.

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