If You 'Check', It's Game Over for the Mind - Jan. 16, 2015

So it's like this: we were in heaven, all standing in heaven. Then the voice of one monkey, one naughty character comes—Loki, the god of naughtiness or whatever—comes and says, "You know, if you go from here, you go left, you go then you turn right, then you get to heaven." And he's got such a strong, authoritative voice and is so convincing. When you buy it, you start walking. "Where is heaven? Where is heaven?" And somebody says, "Okay, okay, you're almost there, just a little more and you have to cross..." Then you keep walking another, then another. You say, "Okay, this one didn't give me good directions, let me go to another one." Then you change. He said, "No, you took the wrong turn, you have to go back now, walk this way."

So then eventually you meet someone who says, "Where are you walking?" "I'm getting to heaven. I'm seeking heaven, you see. I'm seeking freedom." "But where are you right now?" "I don't know. I seem to be lost. I seem to be lost." Say, "But check. Check, where are you?" "No, no, but it feels like I'm lost." These are just very real examples of Satsang questions. It's just I'm exaggerating to make the point. So what is the objection you get? I say, "Just check. Where are you? Where are you now? What is here now? Is it not heaven?" Say, "It doesn't seem like it. Where is the joy? But it doesn't... I still feel like I'm lost."

Don't give that feeling. Just check. Just check. Don't believe your thoughts because your thoughts are now conditioned to tell you that you are not in heaven. It's like this. So all these examples are the same. See, we said like Kabir Ji had said: fish thirsting for water. But actually, water thirsting for water itself, and water saying, "How do I find water?" And then the Master says, "What are you?" "Oh, it doesn't feel like I'm water. You say I'm water, it doesn't feel like..." Don't go with the feeling. Don't. What are you? "How do I check?" Oh, this is very real Satsang issues, very real. And the same, the same questions. And then the drop of water will say, "Yes, yes, intellectually I understand, but how do I feel it? How do I experience it?" It's all the same stuff.

So how do I show water that you are water? You have to check. See, I can only remind you that you are. I can only remind you that you cannot be anything else but that. If some of any of you have a better way, then please tell me. It'll make life a lot easier here. How do we tell water that it is water? See, this resistance is only the resistance to check because the mind knows, the ego knows, that if you check, it's game over for the mind. So it keeps feeding you some doubt, some issue. Either doubt about what is being said, or the doubt about who is speaking, or the doubt about the medium also. Say, "Okay, but I'm just watching online on YouTube. How can it be that my story ends with the Satsang online? I have to have those one of those great experiences in in-person Satsang, you know? And it should be that this laughter should come and it should not stop, and I saw those videos with Papaji and it should happen like this. Here nobody's watching also. Who's chronicling my freedom? I'm just sitting here watching on YouTube or sitting on the Hangout. This is not good enough an end to my story. Can we continue the story like this?"

What to do? Says Father, you are a comedian today.