Guru Purnima - 30th June 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that the outer act of bowing to the Satguru signifies the ego's surrender into its own true presence. He invites seekers to move from individual doership to the recognition of non-dual consciousness.
The holy presence of the master is your own unassociated being.
Surrender means saying: whatever may come, I will let it be, for you are the doer.
The mind's function is to say you are separate; the Satguru is the voice of unity.
devotional
Transcript
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Welcome to Satsang today. Satguru Sri Moojiji Ki Jai. I want to share a few words about what we've been doing. Some of you might be watching online and wondering what is going on. Maybe if you were to explain what all of this represents without words... the outer expression signifies something that we want to convey is happening at a deeper level. Okay, if I bow, what does it mean actually? I see you, I acknowledge you, I meet you as another. It is a meeting between the heart as one. So what is the meaning of touching feet, bowing down? This etiquette we follow in India is very common, so most of you don't need this showing you have rhythm. [Laughter] So what is the meaning when... what is this? What is it out there, the representations? What does it really mean? It represents what are we trying to convey with an image: merging into the holy presence of the Master.
What is the holy presence of the Master? It is your own unassociated being. So these outer representations are really depictions of what is truly happening. Consciousness has been playing as if it is an individual entity, the person. Consciousness now is coming to the recognition of the full presence of its own existence. It is conveying that which is done with name and form and moving towards this being. This being's only hope is that it can be with Him, although it is very beautiful. So it represents the inner movement. And why is it today we are doing this? What we're doing today, hopefully my next week... and these are willing and you know, ruling that has come to pass. Well, Guru Purnima is like... you have a Mother's Day, we have another key part of the season in India. One day is allotted to the Master, Guru Purnima. It's a full moon night, very auspicious, completely, and we celebrate the presence of the Master in our life.
So next week, then there... the Sangha here wanted to have the celebration in advance, and that's completely fine because actually every day Guru Purnima takes place. Every day is Mother's Day, part of a thing which is so important about that particularly. And yet we can use this as an excuse to celebrate the Satguru's presence, the Satguru's experience in our life. I want to express my gratitude to my Father, my spiritual Master, Sri Moojiji. It's not all... it is lost without you. You can feel your feet. Thank you for adopting me in this way. Thank you for allowing this mouth to be with you, allowing this mouth to speak words from your presence. In India, we have a mediator God. Sometimes we say, whether you like it or not, I am at your feet. In English we say that you're stuck with me now, Father. You're stuck with my heart, I'll love it forever. And Guru, this is suitable then, that I will always convey the thing that truly cannot be shared. The joy in life is to speak of all the unspeakable.
You must have felt that if you were bored and alone, please then stop this decision. This pushes them. Leave a beautiful pen. It's only okay. It is actually this... all these large, all the announced... this body, it is serving as a medium for all this to come to your feet, Father. Many, many men... you threw a party, business fever, so many times, so many videos to fools, all the radios here on activities. This is then to express my deepest gratitude for this beautiful life. And I mean, we are coming to the light of their presence as a result of this beautiful seva, their cheerful forming and complete surrender. I was telling someone yesterday that it is apparent actually how powerless we are compared to the children. You realize this most when you have children. You realize that all the chess with the children and they have you wrapped around their finger. Usually the same way, the Master might seem to have some followers or something, but it is apparent. It is in response to your longing for the truth. He's just here to serve. He's just here for that inward turning that is happening for you.
All that is here is by my Father's grace. I think it's for this you to come to your discovery of the Satguru within you. To have some representation of your inner person, we are so used to relating to form. So you need the outer form to come and speak in a voice which is deeply familiar, which seems like the voice of my own heart because it is. At this point, if there is the point of this offering, it is to be servants to this longing to turn inward to your presence, to your being. Then you find that the outer and the inner, they are not two. There are not two Anantas. So then this is for you saying now, I think often as we are, we also thought you were this yesterday. Like in the outer, as we discarded once, then there is discovered... you find that there is no distinction. Everything actually is within your being. There is nothing that you could see which is outside of your being, outside of your presence.
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My job, if there is one, is to help in this way, serve you in this way, that you see what you truly are. It's completely inclusive of everything. The mind has one function, which is to say that you are separate. The mind likes to divide us into compartments. The Satguru's presence is the voice of unity, the voice of inclusion, not excluding any. The voice of acceptance, the dropping of the resistance to what is. For me, this celebration actually signifies you fully bowing down to your intuitive presence. Satguru is very akin to nature itself. Yeah, there on Facebook, someone says, 'We do that, have local minions, properties with using my... it catches the vortex and I'm at your feet. I experienced so much peace, so much love and benefit in joy already in his tail off with your head.' It is as if you fit the Master who sat here and experienced all this peace. And why did you get up?
Very beautiful. If you're just looking at it phenomenally, your bodies, then it can seem like, what kind of question is that, why did you get up? It symbolizes something else. If you say that you surrender, what if you take back this surrender? Relationship and money, body and the Master... 'The Master can't deal with all of this.' Then what is our surrender? Is it only which is fluid, which is something that we do during session? 'Why do you get up' means only that. I used to say often earlier that between inquiry and surrender, they're not actually two. Conceptually I was okay with surrender, the behavior, but the past here in myself, my intellect, my mind is so deeply ingrained. This letting go and saying, 'Now everything is my Master's problem, come what may,' seems more difficult than anything else. We have spiritual practices, things to do for all of this, but it's pointed out there's a chance... it's only so that we can come to this non-resistive letting go of the display of the world. Letting go of this idea that the Satguru cannot run this life, that there has been somebody here individually that has been doing all of this and that one now must achieve something, get to some freedom or liberation. That sounds like much more heavy lifting to me than to truly say from the heart, 'I surrender.'
What does it mean? Many of us, we face... I'm not speaking about this Sangha, I'm speaking about humanity in general. Many of us will say, 'Yes Master, yes God, please I surrender to you, take care of everything.' But what you're actually saying is, 'Take care of everything the way I want it taken care of.' It feels like we have now a cheat code to life. We wanted it and now I heard that surrender is the best thing to do, so I'm just going to surrender and make sure it goes well. Okay, that is not really surrender. As we sit at the Master's feet, please be whatever may come, whatever is, I will let it be. You are the doer and you are the experiencer. Don't cut the phone book. This is surrender. It's popular these days to talk about worship and moderation, but we can continue to hold on to individual experiences. Once you are the doer and the experiencer also, make sure you do jobs which... when we come to this recognition, there is only one, this consciousness.
I like to explain with these images. In truth, there is no individual experience. It is consciousness itself. To explain this: in every moment, consciousness itself is playing as a deluded one, and consciousness itself is coming to the simple recognition: I am that I am. These are the words of your own heart. The beautiful devotional song, which are the words: 'Since I am holy awareness and my toes once I connect with you and my ceiling day of this relationship with the phenomenal world seems to do the cleaning.' I am this way. In this relationship in your heart, you will actually discover that the meaning, the joy, the wonder in this world, as you clear seeing yourself, seems to become so amplified, so heightened. As individual entities, we are looking for meaning in this existence in a very frustrating journey where everything is constantly changing. Our search for meaning is like a search for stability you don't find in an ever-changing world. Then what can you anchor yourself to? Anchor yourself to that which the Guru is pointing to, which is your own presence, your own being. This is the true meaning of the Guru: one who points to the light behind the light, your truth. You will find that no ego has ever existed with its screaming darkness of individuality.
And so in another prayer, consciousness has to be before your presence of the Master. I'll say something with a little bit somber actually. Someone wrote a message and she wanted to come to the Sangha and share that with me for a couple of weeks. She said, 'I've been watching Satsang and they are helping, but I want to know whether you welcome me. I suffer from severe depression and anxiety.' Everyone is welcome, definitely. Please come. She said, 'I have no money, so also give me some seva to do so I can earn money for that table and at least be able to eat.' We don't accept seva like this, but I said, 'Just come, and if you find a place to stay, we'll take care of the rest.' That was about two weeks ago. Thank you so much. I let you know that I'll come. Yesterday on Facebook, I saw the whole message that this one... she actually killed herself. With the brightness of the blessing that we had in our lives to be able to come to sit down, so just see how consciousness experiences a spectrum of everything that can be experienced here.
Probably also to share this to real face and remember, you see that which is very words to fit in. Keep asking, 'When are you coming?' Anything like Papaji to be a big leaf visible together. Then Papaji happened to be in that one city and wanted to give a surprise, go to their house. He went to this one town. Why is somebody... because not voting accurately, play music or whatever is the memory here of these coaches. Physically he went to this one house, the wife opened the door, and he said, 'Is this one in?' And the wife pointed to a photo of him. 'This one is what is left when I am writing.' Always not to spoil the movie. I was doing with elevation. This one bit, yes. So place this confidence for that and happen in this expression both sides, all over the place. I'll handle things, all kinds of practices, many masters and many times less. So the sense that I got it, yes, that will defend that I lost it every time. Who's picking up over there to philosophy? I felt life is the final answer to be very good at directing those things.
And yet this inner temperament, or more than contentment, this experience of divinity which all of us somewhere are searching for without necessarily knowing that this will work here. Longest experience, our own divinity. This will upset like that would be for the first time in which it aims to escape to this longing. It was so clear what is the check, what is it likely to as I visit other taking this last time and make it into this occasion. Basically as we play, please see also who are online also and all of you have a beautiful performance in the capital. Great spring water, auspicious plants, all love, peace, all joy, all that is auspicious in your lives.
One last thing: allow your presence to bless everything that comes in you, of you. It already is, yet let's be in this allowing. Don't think we can choose what is blessed and what you don't bless. All of this is your creation, all of these appearances and even the space between the appearances are your children. Bless everything that the world gets, every appearance in this world. Now your inner Satguru blessings to let this beautiful creation... Om Shanti Shanti Shanti. Thank you all so much for being in the Satsang today. Satguru Sri Moojiji Ki Jai.
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