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The Feeling of Falling in Inquiry is Still Within You - 27th October 2017

October 27, 20172:1743 views

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Ananta explains that the sensation of falling into a bottomless pit during self-inquiry is the mind's interpretation of a limited identity dissolving into its true, unlimited nature.

That which you seem to be falling into is actually that which you have always been.
Can you fall anywhere which is not within yourself?
The mind interprets the recognition of the unlimited as a limited object falling into an ocean.

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Transcript

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Seeker

When you say a slight falling into a bottomless pit and I do the self-inquiry, yes, it can feel like this—a falling, falling, unlimited ocean.

Ananta

Find that there is nobody who's falling. That which you seem to be falling into is actually that which you have always been. The recognition, so far, because we are conditioned to believe ourselves to be a limited object, you're coming into the recognition; it can be interpreted or translated by the mind as if 'I, a limited object, I am falling into the unlimited ocean of myself.' But actually, what you're finding is that you have always been this unlimited ocean. Emphasize, ask yourself: Where is this unlimitedness? This unlimited bottomless pit, is this bottomless pit outside of you? Can you fall anywhere which is not within yourself? Only if you have the notion that you are a limited object.

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