Nothing is Greater Than Your Natural Existence - 3rd January 2018

If it needed a thought to be true, then that would be a useless truth. Now, what exists without any concept? If you didn't have the concept man, woman, husband, wife, parent, employee, manager, business owner—all these are concepts. Even 'body' is a concept entity, a set of sensations that are experienced. You label a similar set of sensations and call it 'body'. Suppose you did not have the concept of body, you did not have the concept of world. If you stop existing concept-less, then your existence is here, isn't it? So this existence is all there is.

The greatest error has been consciousness believing itself to be something limited. So this existence has been confused, has been in the Lila played as if it is the existence of somebody personal. That person is not here, has never been, except as a belief system. And you're tired now, but I'm happy because it is effort to believe yourself to be something. And I'm happy if you're completely tired. Otherwise, your time with it is... if you are completely tired, I'm very happy because you played with all the motions now. You tried to think this way, that way, all positions you've tried, and you come to me completely tired. Tired and say, 'No, I've tried everything, it doesn't work.' Music to my ears.

I've tried to be humble, I've tried to be special, I've tried to be a devotee, I've tried to be an enlightened one, you see? You've tried all these positions and none of it works. If you see these things, I'm very happy. But if you still say, 'I have been a devotee, when will I become enlightened? I have become humble, I have been humble, when will I become special?' then it means that you've tried, but you're still yearning for some other positions to see if they work personally. But if you see, and if you also learn from the experience of so-called others and quit it, you will come to this realization that no personal position works. No matter how glorious that something might be after the 'I am', it cannot meet the glory of 'I am' itself.

Nothing is greater than your natural existence. This is all that you will ever be. So the Shankara said that the root of all trouble is ignorance. Only this ignorance. What is this ignorance? Just this: 'I am something.' So in which way will you let 'I am' be? A simpler way to put it is: in which way will you leave 'I am' to just be? Leave it alone. Unmolested by any notion you might have about yourself. Who's willing to try it for a few days or few minutes? Truth is here. Existence is here. Consciousness is consciousness. Don't worry about Ananda, don't worry about peace.