Observe Where We Are Using the Label 'I' - 7th Oct. 2015

Often times I say that if you want to see God pretending to be a person, then believe your next thought. This is the way in which God is pretending to play this game. Just like children play the game of 'doctor-doctor', God is playing the game of 'person-person'. And God is completely safe in this game. Nothing can go wrong; nothing can happen to God. But for the person, it can seem like there is some action, there is some adventure, there's some danger, there's some sorrow, there's some joy, there's bondage, there's liberation. So no matter what happens in this life, you remain unthreatened, unhurt, and you are not even suffering. It is just a pretense of suffering. And sometimes it might feel like an attack when I say that, because we value our emotions, we value our thoughts, basically because we value our identity. But you are nothing here. Nothing. Nothing is being experienced personally. Nothing is a personal experience. This is not to say that experiences are not arising; it is only to say that there is no personal experiencer. It is the one Being which is the experiencer of all of this.

So if you don't add it to our story, if you don't say 'Why does this happen to me? When will it stop? Where am I going from here? When will I be free from this?'—all is our habit of storying. And what are we saying? 'I see there is no person here. I see no person is here, but you know, I'm not sure whether this will stay tomorrow or not.' Who is speaking that then? If there is no person here? Or many times what we actually mean is that 'I personally have discovered that there is no person here.' Because it's habit to give everything personal attributes. Who is concerned? Concerned about the past? Who is concerned about the future? Who is concerned about this body and the energies that are experienced in this body? Who's concerned about these thoughts? It is only the nobody they imagine.

Like Suchitra said the other day, that Bhagavan said there never has been an ego, never has been an ego. Then when we say that 'I only see the ego,' what is it that we mean? Is it not just another label for nothing? Who can actually see the ego? Who can actually see the person? You can see the body; the body is appearing, but the body is not the ego. We can see the pretense, maybe we can say like that. We can see God pretending to be personal. This we will continue to be able to spot. But truly, nobody has ever seen this ego because it doesn't exist. And it's a beautiful divine mystery as to how that which never existed can seem so real, can seem so tangible. The separate 'I'. Can we say that 'I will never seriously believe myself to be this one that I cannot see'? Are we willing to go along with the presumption of this, the presumed 'I'? Observe where we are using the label 'I'. Are we using it for that which is here now, or are we using it for something which is just a figment of our imagination?

Dojan says: Please talk about how do you know we will come to true and absolute realization? Please, how do you know we will come to true and absolute realization?

Because this is true. And it is taking a lot of effort to pretend to be the false. And it is seen in this world that this effort, you will give up on. It is impossible that you will not tire of this false. Nobody can say exactly when it will happen, or even whether it will happen in this lifetime or next lifetime or a million lifetimes later, but the false cannot last. And don't get disheartened when I say million lifetimes later, because a million lifetimes is nothing to you. To that which is infinite and timeless, it's nothing at all. Say no more million times. If you're done with the play, then you're done with the play. Then you don't pick up your next thought, then it's over.