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Is Any Thought Bigger Than You? - 6th November 2017

November 6, 20174:1231 views

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Ananta teaches that no perceived sensation or thought has inherent power over the perceiver; it is only by misidentifying as a limited body-mind that one feels overwhelmed by life's appearances.

Resistance is what gives power to that which you are trying to push away.
Can any object perceived become greater than that which perceives it?
If you are not an object, what is too much for you?

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Transcript

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Ananta

When you are trying to push something away, then it can seem like it is very strong. A resistance is what seems to give it power. In your openness, I am telling you that the thing is not really that strong as we consider it to be. Everything is perceived as a set of sensations. Now, what is too strong for the perceiver of them? How loud or how big does something have to be when it comes to love, or to be the perceiver? You can imagine the image of an ant, but this image keeps growing. This ant is as big as this body, but it could keep growing as big as this room, as big as this building, as big as the entire earth. This ant, which is so tiny, the visual of it, the image of it, moves. Now, is it bigger than the perceiver? Is it? To the perceiver, it is just another image, isn't it?

Ananta

Can any object perceived become greater than that which perceives it? Any thought you can have, it feels like it is shouting and screaming, throwing a big tantrum. But in your Being, in which it is appearing, it is only if you introduce yourself in this image now—and you introduce yourself as a person, a body—then that ant is so big and it can become scary. But if you are not a thing, if you are not an object, what is too much for you?

The Thread Continues

These satsangs touch the same silence.