Let Me Handle the Emails from the Mind - 21st November 2017

Many times what can happen is that we can start feeling that I've seen the truth, but why does this still continue to happen to me? If you've seen the truth, then you know the answer to all 'why' is consciousness. But then they don't feel like it is the right answer, 'why consciousness?' So what I'm saying is that if you see that it is just one being and all that happens, it happens because of some will, it must be the will of consciousness and consciousness alone. So this 'why is consciousness?'—to whom does it happen is also consciousness. Consciousness is playing with its own life, projecting this cinema, this movie for its own purpose. My favorite answer for what is the purpose is: it is so clearly and there is no purpose, but just enjoyment of whole consciousness itself. But even this can be misunderstood. There is no actual reason; consciousness cannot even have a need to entertain itself. Compared to the other explanation, this is the one that appears here the most because you can get stuck in this 'why, why.' I mean, if you see behind the 'why,' usually there's a 'me.' Look, that's why these days I've been saying replace the 'why' with the 'who.' Now you can't make the excuse that inquiry doesn't appeal to me because you've been inquiring 'why.' Inquiring 'why, why, why'—then you might as well inquire 'who.' May I inquire 'who'?

In the purposelessness, this is not the cleaning nihilism, but a beautiful purposelessness becomes apparent. That is freedom. Once you see the meaning of your own reality, once you see the truth about yourself, the feverishness to derive some meaning from this play of light and sound starts to fade away. Because this play is very compelling and without the right guidance, the story of the 'me' is also very compelling. It has been designed to be compelling that way. But the good news is that the right items are also being designed into the Creator. It can take the form of Arunachala, the form of the beautiful sages; it's all part of the grand design of consciousness to remind itself because it knows that the play it designed for itself is so deeply compelling. So then it wants to clear with your mind. All the sages are intimately sharing the same work here. It is all just one big misunderstanding about who you are. That's what everybody's saying ultimately. Some might say surrender everything that is happening to you as a way of recognizing this. Some might say inquire into the nature of this 'I.' Some might say let go of your mind by following your breath. Some might say chant a mantra. Some might say focus on the activities of the body, be completely with that. Whatever the path might be prescribed, the undoing of this false identity is the idea of the limit itself.

Now, I like to see that this is the easiest because this is your natural state right now. You cannot carry the monkey on your back to the next moment; you have to pick it back up. You're free from this monkey of the ego every moment, in its most natural state. Now, the monkey itself will come and say, 'Oh no, it is not so,' and when we buy into the story, it's back on your back. But nobody can truly say that right now, before picking up a notion 'I am an individual entity,' nobody can point to a limitation about themselves. They are believed interpretations of the mind. Check this now and notice that some sensations might appear, and the habit is to label these sensations 'I.' Some sensations, body sensations, our intuition could be the boundary of the body, might feel like, 'Oh, this is I.' This is very familiar, but actually, this is just a condition that we have learned to associate these sensations with. This is not our natural state, okay? We had to be taught this by our parents and by the mind. Consciousness practiced this; it practiced being an individual. But naturally, even now if you see, you will find that the sensations are appearing within you. You are the container of them, the boundary-less container, and no sensation can actually contain you. That's why the sages like Ashtavakra say that you are the shoreless ocean in which the ships of this universe come and take you—the universe, no less.

See, as this body, we start to see that these statements are not big; they are the most obvious. And continue: you don't have a star or name. Check whether any sensation can actually hurt you or scratch you. Go and check anyway. Any appearance—we call them sensations for now, perceptions if you like—what is it? Touch is another set of sensations, another set of perceptions. So perceptions and sensations are engaging with themselves and that which we call the world, but there is no meaning involved in that. The true 'you' remains untouched whatever the content of the perception might be. Then comes the invention of the 'me,' but you cannot invent it unless you have a notion about something. Any perception they may attach a notion to has the potential to become the idea of the individuality, the idea of the ego. What are the common interpretations? 'This sensation should go away.' This appearance, whatever it might be, 'should go away.' 'This appearance should stay.' Desire or aversion. Now that this appearance is here, 'what should I do about it?' Aversion. So all these notions come like this, and at the root of all of these notions is the core notion of duality: that some appearance is 'me' and other appearance is 'not me.' It is separated. Without the subtle labeling, the experience is not that of separation. Actually, consciousness also could not create a program in which you could forget itself in the right now. So naturally, you see this oneness. Your experience is always of oneness; your interpretation is that of separation. That's why I say that you have never left the destination.

So some of you might then say, 'Ananta, please now just take away this doubting mind.' Hearing this report is very awesome now. What you see is completely clear, and in this moment, I see that I am complete, nowhere to go, nothing to do, I am not limited. But this mind doesn't understand or it doesn't listen. So can we now let me handle the emails from the mind? The one who is sending you instant messages and messenger WhatsApp messages from the mind—respond to this with surrender. See, this is surrender. Let a higher power take care of this mind. Whatever notion it is offering to you, this is somebody else's responsibility; that is the Satguru's responsibility. You don't have to check your email, and even if checking happens, you don't have to worry about it. It could come with the title 'Urgent,' 'Most important action required.' So whatever it might be screaming, just let it be. I am not prescribing action or inaction, by the way. This has nothing to do with action or inaction. I am just saying that notice that without picking up a notion, actions can happen or inaction can happen. I'm not prescribing either; just don't pick up the notion of the 'me.' Let all the emails from the mind be responded to by the Satguru. That is it.