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The One Self is Seeing All Things - 12th January 2018

January 12, 201810:0132 views

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Ananta explains that the entire waking world, like a dream, is a projection of one's own consciousness. He guides the seeker to realize they are the one Self, not a body-mind contained within a world.

The entire world vanishes; nobody else is there to see anything at all. All of this is your projection.
You are not contained in this body; this body is just another appearance in your dream.
There are no others. All of this is the Self shining in the light of your own consciousness.

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Transcript

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Seeker

Namaste. No, in deep sleep, in deep sleep there are only awareness. Awareness aware of himself and also aware of nothing. I mean, in deep sleep there are no world, no world. When I wake up, the world come. So awareness need my body-mind to see the world? No?

Ananta

Don't need, but it plays as if. Awareness doesn't need anything at all. It is when it plays with its dynamic aspect, which is this sense of your existence, then this sense of existence can play in any way that it wants. When you have reported things like out-of-body experiences—and some of us have also had them—so the body, although our usual experience is body is the tool of perception, but it is also completely possible for this consciousness to perceive all things without a body. This is not limited by any limitation at all. All of this are just moving images in its light.

Seeker

But normally this awareness need this body-mind to see the world? Normally you can see, use, use... yes. So if I'm this awareness, if I'm the Self, the same thing yours, yes, we see the same world? No, same one? What you are seeing is all there is to be seen. There is nobody else seeing anything at all. Just the awareness see, yes?

Ananta

That's the One Self which is perceiving all things. The idea of others itself dissolves. And that's the proof, you know, to know I am not this body-mind. Because when I'm asleep, this body-mind... and also there is more proof because at least for those of us who have dream states, is it then there you can see that there's another body there, another world there. Not only are we not the body-mind, but we are not a body-mind contained in a particular world. In dream state, in a dream state it can seem like there is just as vibrant a body full of pain and pleasure, and all things are there. Every time and space, everything is there. So this constriction about being an object located in this body-mind, all the way when we start to investigate, but there are other states which come like deep sleep state—nothing at all, like you say, only awareness itself—dream state, just like this waking state. But when we are in this realm, we call that dream state, and we are there, we might be following this dreams.

Seeker

And if I am this awareness, this 'I', the Self, why I cannot see the world when this, when this body-mind sleep through another body-minds? If I am the Self, there was like eyes of the Absolute looking the world, and why I am not able to see the world, this world, from another eyes?

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Ananta

Wait. So if you are this body-mind, then that would be true. But we just saw that you are not this body-mind. Before, when you sleep, it is not this body-mind that is sleeping; it is consciousness itself which has gone back to its source. The entire world vanishes. Nobody else is there to see anything at all. This is like when the dream ends, what happened to the other dream characters? Why can't you see through them? That dream world... but I mean in sleeping, in deep sleep, you sleep state, no dreams, agreed. But I'm saying that we can ask the same question for the dream state, saying, 'I saw all these people that were there, they were also seeing, but now that the dream is gone and I've gone to sleep state, why can't I see through those ones that were there in the dream state?' Where you can say changed, same. All is shining in the light of your own projection, of your own consciousness. But whether you call it a dream, whether you call it waking, makes no difference. There are no others in that way, you see, because the entire dream is your projection. The entire waking is also your projection.

Seeker

But dream, I dream my, you know what, and the next dream was no dirty dream. But the world in awake stay, awake stay still there.

Ananta

This we presume. So suppose the dream just started. Is it possible for us to have a dream where we are having exactly this same conversation? Yeah, isn't it? So this dream, suppose it just started. You start with memory saying, 'Who are you? What am I doing here?' You see, the so-called memory which convinces us of the continuity is also available in dream state. Nobody starts a dream with amnesia. Everybody knows all these are my family, these are my friends. So memory is another projection of consciousness itself and presents this world of continuity, but it is not verified through insight, this continuity. But I have already seen the same one. Everybody in the dream also sees the same world. Where is everybody? Only in a projection within you. Isn't all of this is a projection within you? That's why I said right from the beginning, the insight that we are getting, we try to contain that as if we are... it is being seen in this body or something. But what you're discovering about yourself is that you are not contained in this body. This body is just another appearance in your dream, in your whatever waking, whatever you. So then the concept of everybody itself is no longer there. This is only reason why Bhagavan said there are no others. All of this is you.

Seeker

This is me like... but in mind or like Self?

Ananta

All of this is your Self, yeah. Your mind is just one aspect of the Self, which is this bundle of thoughts, memory, imagination, these. And there is no such thing as a mind; it is just a concept that we use to single out a certain set of sensations, you see. Just like there is no such thing like the body; it is only another label for a certain set of sensations. Just like there is no such thing as the world; it is another label that we use for another set of perception sensations. There is only this happening.

The Thread Continues

These satsangs touch the same silence.