The Only Choice Is to Not Go Along With Your Thoughts - 22nd June 2016

Yeah, you're completely right that there comes a time where it seems a bit indistinguishable between the voice of the mind and the voice of the presence, the intuitive presence. So it is best in those cases to drop both of them. Don't go with any voice. Don't believe anything. And just see that life continues to unfold in some way or the other. And then what might happen is that as you stop believing any words, you will find that this intuitive sense becomes stronger and stronger. But the funny thing about intuition is that as it gets stronger, our interest in trying to control our life in practical matters also reduces.

So I can't actually imagine going to the Satguru within and asking what to do about my job. That inquiry is not there. You know that whatever is moving is happening through His will, through the Divine will. And then what you will find is that as this intuitive voice becomes stronger, you will not be able to make use of it for anything seemingly personal. You see that it's here just so that it can share this presence, share the words of Satsang, and point all those who come to your presence to the truth of who you are and who they are, which is one. So that's just a bit funny about this: that as this intuitive presence becomes clearer, more obvious, and natural, you find that your interest in trying to control the movement of the flow of your life and seeking guidance about what your next step should be actually reduces.

So you find that... okay, I'm going to share this very candidly with you. I know without a doubt that this intuitive presence knows the future. I know without a doubt that this intuitive presence knows the future, and sometimes it does give you a message about it and things like this. But I cannot find it here to refer to it and say, 'Please tell me what's going to happen tomorrow, what's going to happen in a month.' I just don't have that. I find it very funny even when I hear reports about, you know, you can predict and say this is what the future will be like, this is what you must do. Because here I just don't have that sense. It sort of is like this entity of the presence here is broken if I go to it with some sort of personal requests and personal ideas. And just this also: the personal fear about what's going to happen here, about money or relationships or the body—the sense of fear about it is gone. It does not seem like this concern about what's going to happen to this body, to the money, or to relationships exists here.

So as you go through this and you hand over power from the mind to the presence, you will find that we wish that we had a voice which could tell us what to do and what the future will be like. But when that presence becomes strong, that interest in wanting to know what to do and what the future looks like itself starts to vanish to a great extent.

So until this intuition deepens, like you're saying, should we practically... would you say that just going with any course of action and just trusting God and just saying, 'Okay, this seems right,' and then just picking one and not getting too much caught in a mental space, is that sort of what you would recommend?

If this is what I would say, just to make it simpler for you, it is exactly what Bhagavan also said, which is that as long as you feel like you have some choice, as long as you are still believing that you are the doer of your action, then make the choice but to not go along with your thoughts. That is the only choice you have to make. When I say don't believe your next thought, actually it makes all of this quite simple. At least that's how it seemed here. I know that we have reported it's not so simple, yeah. But what it feels like here is that as long as the sense that 'I can do something, I have some choice' remains, the only choice I have to make is not to believe what my thoughts are thinking. Everything else is moving on its own. And in this just letting go of the next thought, we find that this concept of choice-making and doership itself starts to lose power.

So all you do is not believe a next thought, no matter what the situation is, no matter what the world is expecting from you. You don't know whether you're going to go into your job and say 'I quit' or 'I'm going to stay for ten years.' Mooji shares this too. Then a supervisor at the college or school came to him and said, 'You have to do this, you have to do this.' He just found this mouth saying, 'I quit, I can't do this.' Where did that come from? Hmm? Yeah.

So life always moves in the way it is meant to move. It is the presumed choice-maker, the presumed decision-maker, which is false. In believing our next thought, we take on the role of this presumed decision-maker, imagining decisions. But you will come to the discovery that there is no such thing. All of this world is actually one movement of Consciousness. There is also a law in physics which says that every time we change the energy level of one atom, the rest of the universe has to adjust itself energetically to that change of energy. So every atom is interrelated. So imagine that when we warm up our hands a bit, we're changing the energy of the universe and every atom between here and back. So this physical realm, even physicists are coming to similar conclusions as Advaita, to see that all of this is one interrelated movement. Just like there is one ocean but seeming waves. When the wave is going up and it's crashing against the rock, it thinks, 'I am crashing against the rock.' But there is no wave; there is only ocean. There is no wave separate from the ocean. The discovery comes that this oneness is the only Being, one Consciousness movement.