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See For Yourself What the Truth Is - 8th June 2016

June 8, 20165:2831 views

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Ananta emphasizes the importance of relying on one's own direct seeing as the primary reference point, allowing for a deep inclusiveness where diverse spiritual expressions are accepted with love without causing internal confusion.

Rely on your own seeing so much that even apparent dichotomies in teachings no longer bother you.
Once you see the truth for yourself, even the greatest authorities cannot shake your inner conviction.
Remain true to what you see; this is the integrity that Nisargadatta Maharaj spoke about.

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Transcript

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Ananta

What also will happen is that as you become more and more settled in your own seeing, you'll find that all of these beautiful masters can be heard and you learn to rely on your own seeing so much that sometimes when something even seems like it's a dichotomy to something, it doesn't bother you because your own seeing becomes the primary reference point. And if something, at least if something is not shared from here, you have an opportunity every day to come and say, 'You say like this, can we look together? Because something doesn't seem to be resonating in the way that I am seeing it and the way that you are saying it. So can we see together and see what you mean by this?' I am very open to this kind of contemplation together, and we look together and see.

Ananta

Because as you're coming more and more into the silence, all of this will seem so obvious to you. That which you find, like what you were saying earlier, which seemed to be so conceptual some time ago, will become just so obvious and simple. And you find that even the greatest scriptures, what they are saying—you see, Ashtavakra Gita, all of these—they seem like they are just kindergarten textbooks. They'll not seem so fancy now; they seem like so obvious. Yes, yes. So then, then there will be a great inclusiveness and then all different expressions of the sages, the masters, will be accepted. Because one is talking about love being the ultimate, one talking about being is the ultimate, one is saying there is no awareness, one is saying there is only something else, whatever. Then as your reference becomes your own seeing, then all of these are also accepted with big love.

Ananta

The ability to cause confusion, that will reduce more and more. That is the point of this direct sort of Satsang, because I want you to see for yourself what the truth is. And once you see and confirm over and over that the sun comes out from the east, then you can hear from the greatest authorities, you can read in the most honored scriptures that actually the sun comes from the west—it won't shake you because you've seen for yourself what the truth is.

Ananta

What happened here also so much is that mostly what is being shared by various teachers is accepted with a lot of love, a lot of enjoyment. Even if someone comes—and I have heard things like this—that awareness is just a functioning of consciousness or something like this, and when you see that, you see for yourself that there is this awareness even of being and there is a phenomenal witnessing which is functioning of consciousness, you see, there is not this impulse to reject or to criticize or to say, 'No, no, they are wrong and I am right' or something. Just yes, it's just an expression. It's being expressed like this. Who knows who's right, who's wrong? That is not of any importance. But I have to be true to what is seen here. The same way, you just have to remain true to what you see. This is the integrity, as Maharaj said. So the words of some we are using to just check into our own seeing, and if it resonates with our own seeing, we accept it. If you find that it seems to be different, then we come up and say, 'This is how I see it, can we look together?' This is very beautiful. Bye.

The Thread Continues

These satsangs touch the same silence.