Some Recaps of This Year's Main Pointings - 25th December 2017

And I feel like looking back, I feel like a lot of this year has gone in showing you that you don't have a boundary, that you don't have a limitation. And many of you have checked this and seen that all limitations have either been an idea that you had or have been some sensation which you are feeling that it defines you. Your limitlessness is here right now. You don't need to take a magic pill which will make you limitless; it is what you are. This is your own discovery, your own insight. You are discovering that you are the ocean itself. But to be clear, some of you are playing that you're trying to fill this ocean into a coconut. You're trying to get your mind to approach this; trying to get the mind's certificate saying, 'Yes, yes, you are the ocean.' But the mind is that limited instrument which is designed to convince you about your limitation, about your individuality. You see, you're seeing that you are the ocean, but you are believing what the mind is saying—that you are still a coconut. You cannot gather your magnitude into this limited object. You want to own freedom personally; you cannot do that. The body will not become free. It is not this body which is finding freedom; you are. Then the body is seen like all the waves are seen, a part of you on the surface of you.

A big part of last year has also gone in dealing with all those 'buts'—the doubt. 'But, but, but...' inside. 'See this, but... yes, I know this, but... but I saw it last week also, but it is gone now.' Using all this, all the 'buts' and 'ifs,' in a word, I have invited you back to right now to see what you truly are, to experience the truth about yourselves. Not what it means to the future you, not what happened to you yesterday, not any idea that you have about yourself, but in reality what you are. You spent many months studying the beautiful Ashtavakra Gita. It is such beautiful... every verse is a beautiful clue to this insight about the Self. Each one of them, any one of them, can blow away any idea of identification that you might have.

We have been blessed with the presence of such fine words of Satsang. I've said often that most of Satsang is not in the words; it is the presence of Satsang itself. A lot of the identification getting cleaned up is happening. But this does not mean, that does not mean that the words are not important. The words are beautiful pointers that you are using for your own contemplation, and this is the best use of the words. The best use of the words of Satsang is not that you believe them; that might be the worst use. If you're creating another new belief system based on the words of Satsang, then that is not the intent. The best use of the words of Satsang is, after you hear them, to check them for yourself.

So if the master says that you are the one solitary witness of all there is—beautiful, oh, it's the Ashtavakra Gita—the one solitary witness of all there is as you are, what prevents us from checking on this right now? Just some doubt, some resistance can come, but you are valuing the truth more than doubt. You are checking to see, 'The great sages said this, would he be lying? It must be the truth. Let me find out that which witnesses all things.' And where do you come to? You come to your own self. Your insight is very clear, but many, many, many times we will buy into this doubt from the mind which says, 'But I didn't see anything at all. I didn't find the Self.' And we spent a lot of time in explaining that you will not find the Self as an object. You will not find something which has some quality, some attribute. That's why I've given all of you this beautiful pointer: Are you aware now?