Does Awareness Have to Deepen or Mature? - 7th September 2017

I don't know why that's 'deepen' or 'mature'. There's a very nice... 'have to deepen' or 'mature'. This is a very good point and I had stored this. Aida was also saying earlier: what is the maturity that is happening? You must see that it's very good. So you see that awareness is quality-less, so the sense of progress or maturity cannot apply because that is also a quality. So for the Self, or the truest Absolute Self, nothing is changing. The awareness that you recognize has always been that, not changing in quality because it has no quality, and yet it is empty of quality. This is the only discovery that we'll make, which is now.

What is it that is maturing? What is it that is dropping? What is maturing? Maturing means that we are dropping all that which we falsely believe about ourselves. Whatever consciousness has attributed to itself—'I am this, I am that, I am this'—this is the way we have to live, 'this is my plan, this is my future'. All our predictions, past and future, all our qualities that we've given to ourselves, that is what you will say if the associated consciousness also reveals. So we come into unassociated being.

So Gopala came, and Gopala that is here now is—and don't quote me on this—is much more mature now. What changed? For awareness, nothing changed. Consciousness playing in this expression of Gopala, who continues to be my teenage son, he is maturing. Why? Because most of what was believed by that aspect of consciousness earlier does not believe now. Only some sticky ones are there which seem to come back over and over, but these don't have that much power. So in a sense, what happened to the Self? Nothing. But for that aspect of consciousness playing as Gopala, there was a lot more in your basket of goodies. All of you, I can see now.

So this is a process of maturing which is part of this outward play of consciousness. So what is coming to the recognition of awareness? It is consciousness. Awareness is your own dynamic aspect, your own dynamic play. You see, all qualities come from the quality-less one. So that all these qualities took together in a bunch is called consciousness. Since 'I Am' is the primary quality, the primal vibration, the primordial... we see the Self before is what? It's the same Self alone, but then it plays as if separation happened. 'I am something, it is another', all these. So dropping of all these false ideas is the spiritual maturity.

So what happened to the Absolute? Nothing. That's right. At some level, if you are millions of lifetimes with full conditioning, nothing really happened. Yet at some level, now at another level, from the point of view of consciousness, to come from associated consciousness to pure consciousness—in a way to say, or unassociated consciousness—the greater we receive, partly that is to play the pure play. In this, is anything changing for awareness? Yeah, those are saying, or once it's my thousandth time, I think: nothing changed for awareness because it is always the Absolute, quality-less, solidly.