The Silence of The Reality of What Your Are - 14th Sept. 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that silence is our natural state, not a condition to be achieved. He teaches that the highest truth is found by dropping the belief in a separate 'me' and recognizing the ever-present, non-phenomenal silence.
Silence is the natural space in which all things appear and take form.
The highest teaching is silence because it reveals what has never actually been lost.
Drop the belief in this person and notice that this silence is what you fundamentally are.
contemplative
Transcript
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So let me ask you my favorite question because we are going to be on a break for the next end anyway and I feel that this is a crucial question. So what is, after all this Satsang, the recognition? What is the truth?
Oh, it feels like nothing's coming because the truth is... is this. It's this. The fragrance of this truth is in silence because I'm nothing that would be really, really meaningful in any way. So to sit in silence is really the best that can be done.
What would be the difference between a schoolboy who has been asked by his teacher to sit in silence versus the sage sitting in silence? For someone coming to Satsang being in silence, is there a difference between the two or is it the same silence?
I would say ultimately it's the same silence, but within... for the schoolboy, there's an idea of someone that needs to be silent, someone that needs to maintain silence. Whereas in Satsang, we may come to the understanding that silence is what's already present and there's no one... there's no one needing to keep silence or maintain silence. It's the natural space in which things appear and take form from. So even in Satsang, maybe if people are new, there may be a feeling that 'I need to be silent and my mind is so busy and I need to quiet my mind.' And then there's a claiming or blaming, I guess, of a 'me' that can't be silent. And it's that belief in this 'me' that takes ownership of thoughts, the mind, and sees the mind as evidence of this 'me' that creates this sense that 'I need to be... I need to be silent, I need to sit in more Satsangs and go to India and bathe in the Ganga' or whatever to really fully feel this silence or to be this silence. But it's just this belief, this belief that what I am is other than this silence, that creates the illusion that it's not already present.
So when the Master says to be quiet, what is he really talking about?
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Drop the belief in this person. Don't pick up any belief and notice that this is quiet. This silence is already... is really what you are fundamentally. Don't entertain, don't engage with any thought or any idea. As soon as it's said, 'But I always do this' or 'I always do that,' you've already... already in the question 'I have trouble with this, I have trouble with that,' already you've bought the assumption that what I am is other than the pure space, the silence of this. Nothing else. In your mind, you made yourself into a thing.
For the reality of what you are, is it possible to not be in silence at all? Outward silence or even our inward silence, which is the dropping of the sense of individuality? This being in silence, both outward and inward, just is like a beautiful invocation to the silence you truly are. It is like the Bhajan to that truth must only be silence. One Satsang said, 'Can we sing the Bhajan about the truth?' and the truest Bhajan to that one is our silence. Because actually, the reality... we cannot even say it is silent because silence and noise do not exist there. And yet, if you have to choose between the two, you might... we have to say that it is completely silent because that which is non-phenomenal cannot be said to be communicating in that way. Therefore, all these forms of phenomenal silence are just a beautiful invocation to that which we truly are. And that is why the sages must have said that my highest teaching is... isn't it? Oh, I want space... the screen froze, okay. I didn't hear the last bit.
No, that's okay.
I'll repeat that bit. That's why the sages have often said that my highest teaching is actually in silence. They have not said the highest teaching is in the words. They've not said the highest teaching is even in the energetic transmission. The highest teaching is silence because words can do a nice clean-up job of bad concepts, transmission can bring you to the recognition of this Beingness, can still the mind, but this silence of the sage, your true silence, can show that which has never actually been lost. But it is not a phenomenal seeing. Would you like to add something to that?
Very beautiful hearing that. In fact, I was enjoying so much hearing that, that even the words of the mind were struggling to arise. Thank you. It's really good to be with you. Thank you for being in my life.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.
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