If You Put It All Aside, Are You Still Here? - 18th April 2016

Still here.

Now you stop experiencing the sensations from your own body. You cannot sense that your own body is here. You cannot see it. And now no sensations are also coming from your body, so your body seems to have gone. Are you still here or no? All emotions, feelings, sensations also, you are not feeling anything of these. They are also gone. You are still here or no? No thoughts arising also. All thoughts are kept aside, not appearing. Thoughts also gone. You are still here or no? In this place, no love, peace, joy, all are gone, but you are still here. Now even this sense that 'I am, I exist,' if it is gone, will that which witnesses even this not remain or no? Now is this one not what you already are? Have you... do you have to become this one? Is it effortless to remain as this awareness? Have you ever been anything but this actually? If you ever become now any of this appearance, try to become something which is just appearing and show me if you succeeded. And all things are gone, is the awareness of them also gone? Can there be anything without the awareness of it? Can we truly report on the existence of that which we are not aware of? There must at least be an imagined idea of it. Plus, to be able to say that it exists, there must be at least a mental concept of it to say that it exists without me being aware of it. This knowingness, this awareness, this is unchanging, unborn, undying, in front of which, made up of which, this entire phenomenal play happens: the birth of the universe and the dissolution. So if this entire universe was to be put in the basket or to be burned, this awareness would remain, the undying witness. You're getting used to being boundary-less now because the king is coming to the recognition of that from which it arises. Because the Absolute is the unchanging, does not have state, does not have delusion or recognition. It's... it's dynamically... the dynamic aspect called consciousness, it is playing like this. Playing as if it is forgetting what it is and playing as if it is remembering or recognizing what it is. Clear consciousness, God's presence, absence, even ultimately awareness and awareness knowing, not knowing—none of these is ultimately the truest definition of the Absolute. Not even the Absolute or not Absolute. That's yet... then we have to use terms in this plane and therefore terms like awareness or knowingness or the pure witnessing now, see, are beautiful pointers to that which you are.