Please, in This Lifetime, I Want To Be Free
Saar (Essence)
Ananta responds to a seeker's confession of choosing Maya despite years of Satsang, teaching that staying in God's presence is itself the work, and that real surrender always feels like a genuine risk.
If we do his work, he does all our work. His work is to stay with him.
If it doesn't feel like a risk, it's just armchair, feel-good spirituality.
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Transcript
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Father, though I am blessed many times with his presence, he blesses me, and in Satsang through you also, I keep choosing Maya. I keep choosing, believing in this body, in this mind. And I am saying this maybe over and over, years, but still the same. I have to say it. So I don't know. You bless me, you pray for me, whatever it is seems to keep me here. This bond is in this lifetime. I want to be free.
Yes. Maya.
Why do we choose Maya?
Because I think I can get something from it. I know better than God.
At least for that moment, it seems like there is an offer which is better than being in God's presence. You see, and that offer may be trouble. You see, it doesn't have to just be temptation or little things. It may seem like there's a problem that I must solve. You see, now the beautiful thing is that if we do his work, he does all our work. You see, so what is to do his work is to stay with him. Is to be in his presence. Is to live in the heart where he has blessed us with his light, to live over there, and to allow this body mind to be moved from there in the light of that. You see, there is no better way to do our work than that.
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You see, this is what we forget, because many times, and I am talking about myself, many times it can seem like I need to come into the egoic mode of operation to do the work. You see, whereas the one who actually, the only one who has the capability to do anything at all, is forgotten in that process. You see, so there is complete safety if we continue to take his name. Don't let the mind scare you out of that.
And it needs a lot of faith, because what I posted on the contemplation group just before this, before coming to Satsang, was that many times it will seem like a risk. Can I really let this go in my mind at the moment and stay with God? You see, and if it doesn't feel like a risk, then we are not really. Then it's an armchair spirituality, just a feel-good sort of spirituality. If we haven't been able to enter God in that moment, then we are not being spiritual in that moment.
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