No Need to 'Come Back' to What You Already Are - 8th January 2018

I'm very glad you brought it up. Now let's look at it together slowly. I don't feel like... I might have said the words, but I don't feel like the meaning behind the words has been to 'come back' to the Self. So, I'm not talking about any 'come back' to the Self. I am saying you are the Atma already, right now. If you didn't have this notion that 'I have to drop into the Self' or 'become the Self', what are you right now?

And what are you right now?

Yes, yes, but that's another sensation. Even if there's relief and gratitude, that's another sensation. Now you can continue to call that 'me', say 'I am that', or you can really look and say, 'Even these are appearing within me.' What is true? Are they just appearances within you, or are they what you are? So let's go back. I said you are the Atma. What do you see when you check?

We could, but that's also opening... that is an expansion or can be a contraction.

Just within you, what is that 'you' within which all of this is happening? You see, what we've used is phenomenal appearances to make a report about what we are. Now we are going beyond just the appearance of phenomena and truly seeing: What is it that I am in which all these phenomena come and go? And I'm giving you a proposition that you are the Atma. Now you have to check and tell me if I am right or wrong. But it won't be a feeling 'I am the Atma', it won't be a thought 'I am the Atma'; it will be a truer, deeper intuitive insight.