If You’re Not Labeling, It Is All One Appearance - 6th April 2016

This example came up in Satsang: that if you suddenly started behaving like you're a Martian and you have to get to Mars, you're here but you started believing that you are on another planet, Mars, and say, 'I want to get to Mars.' If you encounter such a person, what would you tell them? What would you say? You would say, 'You are already here.' They might say, 'Whatever it is, it doesn't feel like I'm here. It doesn't feel like it. Show me the Martian.' You look like a Martian? Where is the Martian? Just check where you are already. Just check what is this place. It sounds exactly like that. You are already here. Just check what is here already. Who are you now, really? A Martian? These are the kind of things you will see.

So Satsang is not something esoteric, mystical, or abstract. It is just tackling this simple wrong belief that 'I am a person.' It's all that we do. Yes, exactly. Yes, yes, yes. So it doesn't matter what feelings come, because it was only the Martian mind which convinced itself that 'this feeling should not be here.' All feelings are allowed. As long as we rely on the report in the mind, even about the feelings, then it will seem like I'm stuck in this identity. If you feel like you're stuck on the wrong planet, but it's only an idea or a set of ideas. And where do these ideas come from? Only one voice is testifying to you being an individual entity, and this is the voice of the mind.

No appearance is indicating a separation. Only after we label these appearances, then everything seems to be separate. Already, it is one. Many will come and say, 'I don't see this oneness,' but actually, if you're not labeling, even right now, it is all one. Just one appearance right here. If you don't go with the mind stream which is saying 'this is this, this is table, this is person, this is person with this,' then it's all just one appearance. And it is so clear that I am this witness of all these appearances, including the appearances within this body. It is only one witness which is ultimately not a witness at all, just the Witnessing itself. The person is not even an appearance; it is a second-level delusion. It doesn't even appear. And so I say that it's very simple. Did you find the existence of this person entity? At least until then, can you not believe in it? Did you find some tangible evidence of the existence of this one?

Questions are already there. There's a question from Nancy. She asks, 'Ananta, what are these thoughts that come up anyway?'

I call them energy constructs, basically just bundles of energy which are coming up to appearance. Just like the rest of this appearance is just a form of energy, all made up of Consciousness itself. So this particular form of energy which appears as if it's a voice which is communicating, telling us who we are, what we should do next, and basically resisting everything which is appearing in this life, commenting about everything, objecting to most things, wanting to hold on to many things—this is how these are experienced as thoughts.