In Neutrality, Reality Is Apparent - 6th December 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta invites seekers to remain in 'neutral gear,' dropping the false sense of personal control and doership. He points toward the dimensionless nature of Being, which exists beyond the four dimensions of space and time.
The idea of personally doing something has no impact on our phenomenal existence.
Your existence is not contained in space-time; you are the dimensionless witnessing of all appearances.
Letting go is your gateway to divinity; give up the pretend steering wheel of the mind.
contemplative
Transcript
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I welcome everyone to satsang today. Jai Satguru Mooji Baba Ki. Your gear is on neutral. You know, no trouble. Just keep your gear on neutral. The automatic is a neutral gear, so remain in neutral. Neutral means positionless. Positionless, as I have been saying the last two days. And I have been saying also that in this neutrality, what happened? Did your sight stop? Did your hearing stop? The guilty—the faculties—stopped functioning? Nothing stopped functioning. The heart is still beating, body sensations are still there, the world is still around. All that needs to happen is still happening. So, getting into a gear is the false sense of control.
It's like you have your plane, you're pretending to play PlayStation or something, but your joystick is not connected at all. And yet you're feeling, 'Oh, it's happening like this.' My son plays this football game called FIFA. He plays it very well. And once I had the other controller and I was like, 'Okay, we are playing.' And it was going well. I was looking at the screen and then I thought, 'How come I'm playing well today?' To my realization, he said, 'Father, it can't be you.' And we realized it was playing on the computer and my controller was actually not connected at all. This whole while I was feeling like I was playing. So it could have happened that way that day, that it was going well, so this idea was coming, 'Oh, I am playing well.' But suppose the computer is playing badly, you would be like, 'Ping, ping, terrible!' Both options are possible, but the 'I' was controlling nothing. It was not there.
In reality, this gear, this joystick, is not connected to anything at all. An idea of personally doing something has no impact on our phenomenal existence. What is happening is happening. We are dropping just this false sense of control which we have never had. And you know that I like to report from direct experience. So from direct things, right now, I am telling you that there is no Ananta sitting here speaking these words. There is no objective entity who is the creator of these terms. These words are just appearing in the light of presence. We can't even say 'my' presence because it is one presence. That's why the other day I was saying that the perceiving of them is this big; there is no 'two.' It is one appearance.
So the speaking is happening, but I remember there was a time that there was a sense here that the words that were coming here were being spoken by some 'me,' some entity. But this is just not true. The non-existent one cannot move a finger. The mind might come and say, 'Yes, it is,' but I cannot show you. Whether it happens or not happens is up to the will of consciousness alone. The mind does not know how to do any of this. It's just like the words of many in the world. Those who are not in satsang also feel like they're creating their thoughts, so they're trying to think positive, which is useful at some level. But now we're seeing that even this concept to think a certain way is not really ours. Thoughts are just coming in. Just like these words are being heard, in a different qualitative way, you are perceiving your thoughts. Both are just appearances in your consciousness, in your being.
When you are, then all of this is. When you are not, then no appearances. Even to presume that it is like—you might have an idea the world moves when I am asleep—that can only happen when you are awake. Even that presumption cannot happen in your sleep. What exists independent from your existence? That must be there. If there is something like that, it must be there when you are not. But you are finding that if my attention is not on something, then I cannot truly say that it exists. I can only presume. So we are getting out of this presumption business. Then you're not presuming anything because we have presumed 'I am this' and this presumed 'I' is never you. So when Guruji says, 'Who are you without your stories?' it means the same: Who are you without these presumptions about yourself?
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In neutrality, no presumption. In presumption, there is wrestling. In neutrality, reality is apparent. It is only a notion that there is something missing. How can something be missing for the one without a boundary? The idea that I stop at the body is a presumption that is not natural. We have presumed that we live in this three-dimensional or four-dimensional existence, but I'm taking you out from there. That which we call 'going within'—when we say 'I'm going within, I'm checking on the source, I'm staying with the I Am'—which dimension is that? Is the 'I Am' sitting within the body? If you call a doctor and say, 'Okay, I'm going to open the heart with a surgeon's scalpel or something,' will we find where 'I Am' is sitting here? It is not in this dimension.
What are the dimensions that we feel we exist in? The three dimensions. What is it? X, Y, and Z. Three-dimensional. What does it mean? Front, behind, left, right, and up, down. These are the three dimensions in which we feel. And the fourth dimension is the presumption that we are living inside a time movement. Movement happens in time, we can feel that. But when you go to 'I Am,' is it in front or behind? Is it left, right, up, or down? Where is it? Contemplate your very existence. Where is it? You have left this universe. It's not a big deal to consciousness. You can see it like that because we have considered ourselves to be an object for so long that it can feel like, 'No, I can only move in this way.' But really, this inquiry 'Who am I?' introduces you to that greater aspect of yourself which is not enclosed in any dimension.
Tell me where it is. Where are you? Where is your existence? In which direction should I come to meet your existence? Should I come from behind, up, down, left, right? You cannot find it that way. This simple thing will show you that you are not an object, because all objects are within these four dimensions: three-dimensional experience and the fourth dimension of duration or time. Isn't this so cleanly obvious? And you just check: my existence is not contained here in space-time. And this will become more and more natural to you, and the idea of being an object will start to sound funny. I know for many of you what I'm saying might sound a bit out there right now, but you will come to this point where it is said with Ashtavakra: 'I was able to see that this apparent universe is nothing but a firefly dancing in front of me.'
So this cow then jumped over the moon. The moon is your objective world, the appearance. We are going beyond. Where are you witnessing this world from? And even if it feels like 'I'm witnessing it from behind my eyes,' find out who is behind these eyes. Who are you? You will see all of this in your neutrality when your belief is not so caught up with 'what's in it for me' and your attention is not fully invested in the mind, and you are starting to recognize your own beautiful being. This is that one. This is God. This is consciousness. You just because the question is simple—'Can you stop being?'—doesn't mean that the insight is not tremendous.
You don't have to find that which is so obvious. Here, you can't even stop it. Stop being for a second. Don't exist. Go away from yourself. Separate yourself from your existence. Don't be. Who can do this? And this is clear to all of you now. The only misunderstanding is that this being is personal. This being is not that. Being is. If this is the idea from the mind, they say, 'I can't stop being, but what's the big deal of that?' It is the biggest deal. Your being is the biggest deal ever. Everything else is one in a billion truths, but you have thought that you were a small 'I am,' just a 'me.' It's so mean. This is the mask of the mind. That universal being has been considered to be little. Don't buy this story. I am this being, running all these lives, all these appearances. It never has been any other way.
And this being has played with the mask of individuality now for long enough. You are reminding this to yourself. Long enough have you played with this grinding morass. Now you can totally and lower everything to this. In this pretend game, hand over everything that has always belonged to it, back to it. Let your mouth just be an instrument for being. Let your hands be an instrument for being. May all your senses serve being. Let all your relationships become the relationships of being with being. Allow being to take care of this body, shelter, food, and clothing. Give up any sense of control. The idea that you are the doer—all doer and non-doer—both you give up. The idea that you are the experiencer or you are not the experiencer—both you give up. The idea that you have surrendered or not surrendered—give both you give up.
The idea that you are free or not free—all together remaining neutral. The idea that you are the Atma or not the Atma—both you give up. The ideas about life or death—both you give up. Attached or unattached, me or other—all this play of opposites, give up or balance. You are not contained in any of these. No content is your truth. The idea of being in satsang or out, finding peace or not finding peace—give up all these notions. Letting go is your gateway to divinity. Give yourself the biggest gift: go on self-recognition. Not with the conceptual denial of what is so apparent to all of you. Dancing the idea enough, even spiritual fantasy. You see the glory of your home.
Remaining neutral means don't make anything a thing. I think as others feel strong words to be with your environment. The world is nothing but an automatic response to your true way. So you don't have to do anything about it. Your heart is longing for the truth. The truth is inescapable. You don't even have to go looking for it. It is to take the garment off a little more for them. It's going to feel like a little bit that you're taking hands off the steering wheel. It can feel like they're still moving, so it can feel like a carnival. It can feel like, 'I want to hold on to some idea. Can I please have the idea I am the Atma?' Okay, for some of you who are new, I can be okay with that. Hold on to this idea, 'I am the Atma,' but the Atma does not need the idea of the Atma. Anything that needs an idea is not the final truth.
There are some thorns which help to burn up the concepts. Use those for a while and then you will let them go, but not for long. The ride is a lot more fun. Okay, now you're not trying this on. It's a metaphor. You're not going to hold on to the steering wheel or the pretend steering wheel of any concept. Let go of all your crutches and see nothing will happen to you. You are completely safe. But if you have some idea about what safety means, that will also be squeezed out of you. So no gear, no steering. Life is moving. It's about time in any case. We have not done such a super fantastic job holding on to the wheel and the gear. Now try it this way. You tried it your way for a long time. So my way or the highway—and it only sounds like the highway is the worse option. You would actually do this. Try the highway now. Jai Satguru. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Satguru Sri Mooji Baba. Jai.
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