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Free to Feel Sad and Grumpy in Satsang - Feb.16, 2015

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Ananta encourages a student to remain in openness with heavy emotions, teaching that one should not resist or label feelings like sadness, as the underlying awareness remains eternally untouched by the content of any appearance.

You don't have to be a certain way; it is better to come to satsang as you are.
There is an awareness that this feeling is present, but this awareness is untouched by the feeling.
I refuse to believe the voice of the interpreter, no matter how truthful or meaningful it might sound.

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Transcript

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Seeker

Father, could I say something? Could I say something? Yes, my dear, of course. Um, um, there's such a sadness here, such a, a very heavy sadness. And, and it feels so wrong to be sitting in your presence and to be feeling sadness. It feels like exactly the opposite of, of how things should, should be. And, and so I just wanted, I just wanted to say it to you and to bring it to you. And that's, that's all. That's, that's all I wanted to say.

Ananta

We have to play this game of muting and unmuting the mic today, that's why the, that's why it seems like it's pausing a bit. It's very welcome. You have to come as you are. You don't have to be a certain way. In fact, it's better that you come to Satsang if there's this feeling, some feeling which is like this. It's better that you come.

Seeker

I, I didn't want to, want to to be in, in the hangout with my grumpy face. I didn't. And I, and I left for a bit, but when there was a space again, I just felt I, I have to, to come back in, even like this. Yeah, I'm not really sure. It's not about anything. I'm not really sure what's going on, just right.

Ananta

Is this your grumpy face? Show, show how it goes. How does it go, the grumpy face? Is that as grumpy as it gets? Doesn't get any grumpier? Now she's working hard to be grumpy. Very... just a feeling? Just this energetic feeling, or is there something, something more to it? Is there some belief about something, or no?

Seeker

Nothing, nothing, no. There's nothing there. It's just a, it's just a, a feeling of, of heaviness and sadness and no, with no story attached whatsoever. Nothing, just a feeling. But it was a feeling that, that made me want to, want to avoid being in your presence because I didn't, I didn't want to be here with you with that feeling, I guess. So I knew I had to be, if that makes sense.

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Ananta

Let's, let's, let's not resist this feeling also because it feels like, you know, because once we label it as something 'sad,' then we feel like automatically we say that it should not be here. So let's not say that. Let it just be there and just see that it is also part of the appearance, isn't it? Whatever the feeling might be, no need to give it a label also. We don't know what it is, just is. It's appearing and we're completely open to whatever gifts it is carrying for us. We see that it is free to stay. There is nothing which needs to fight it to go away. It's completely free to stay and there is nothing here which is getting affected by this feeling. There is nothing here which is actually touched by it.

Ananta

There is an awareness that this feeling is present, but this awareness is untouched by the content of the feeling. So it doesn't matter if this feeling is here, if it goes away, it comes back; none of this makes any difference to me. All this is part of the play and I am completely open to this play, whatever it has to bring. And I refuse to believe the voice of the interpreter, no matter how truthful or meaningful it might sound. And in this openness, all is well. All is well.

Ananta

Very good. And all of you also, this is very good for you to know that we don't say that come to Satsang only when you're happy, you're feeling good or something. Fact, you must come to Satsang if you feel like there's some resistance to Satsang. Feel like some resistance is there, even it could be boredom. 'Oh enough, enough, same, he says the same thing only every day.' The Satsang is not here just to share laughter; here to share everything, everything.

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