It Is Impossible For I-Awareness to Suffer (Ashtavakra Gita 1.9) - 8th October 2016

So the Sage says, a single understanding: 'I am the one awareness,' you see. So this understanding is not a mental understanding. It is this: I am aware, you see. I am aware. It consumes all suffering in the fire of an instant. Now, when we see that I am this awareness, how to make this awareness suffer? Now, impossible. That which is no-thing, how can that suffer?

I think this side of the room has lost me. I should keep looking. It feels off the hook because he said, okay, entire Satsang also if it goes was just on: how can awareness suffer? How can you suffer? Only by believing I am something else. Perfect.

So the Sage says, a single understanding: 'I am the one awareness,' consumes all suffering in the fire of an instant. So don't we see this to be true right now? And we see I am this awareness. It is impossible for this no-thing to suffer in any way, see? So then all suffering must be a pretense or make-believe.

How many are feeling that what I am seeing is make-believe and suffering is real? Because this is where the mind's story will come, no? Sounds too, too far out. Everyone at least knows now that you have to believe something to suffer. Therefore, make-believe literally must be suffering. Without a belief, you cannot suffer. Therefore, the power of belief must be needed for suffering to come, see?

So like she said, I am this awareness. I cannot suffer in reality unless I believe myself to be something else. And even the power of belief only comes with the birth of this sense of being, isn't it? First I must exist, and then I have the power to believe something, you see. But...