The Simplest Discovery Is the Sweetest - 1st February 2018

What happens when you meet ourselves without dissertation, without judgment, without concept? Remember that there is no condition that any appearance should be a certain way. Unconditionally, you are the Atma. Sometimes I say these words and I look at your reactions and I'm hearing what I see. Unconditionally, you are the Self. At least to me, it sounds like a pause for big celebrations. Would it feel better if instead of saying unconditionally you are the Self, if I were to tell you ten conditions? If you were to satisfy those, then you will be the Self. Would that seem more tangible, concrete?

So first, you have to wake up every morning at 4:00 AM and perform Om Namah Shivaya and start with 108 Surya Namaskar. So that's the second condition. Then one hour of Ram chanting at six o'clock, and you have to go meditate deeply on your inner light for one hour. Okay, listen. Did you see what I'm saying? Sometimes it can feel like if I say do this and do this and do this and do this and do this and then you will get the taste of the Self, it could sound much more tangible and concrete than if I just say: See what you are now. Meet yourself fresh in this moment. It doesn't matter what has been happening in this body. It doesn't matter what the future holds. You are the Self, unconditionally.

You can play like this as long as there's a deep identification of yourself as an object. Then it might feel like I need some objective. Only if you consider yourself this object, you see, will you feel that keeping this object in a certain mudra can get something special for this object. But once you are done with that identification, you see that I'm not this object at all. I'm the space in which all these objects come. Actually, even that space is some aspect of my being. In which position matters? Which object in which size matters? This does not mean that there is an aversion to any of this. It's alright. Its own play as the play of appearances is happening. It's alright.

But there comes a point where you see that the truth must be simpler than any of this. As I was saying yesterday, what is the simplest discovery you can make about yourself? And this is also opposite to how it works in the world. In the world, if you come with a lot of effort and do a lot of hard work and heavy lifting and heavy thinking, then you might come to all the sweet that you are looking for. In this quest for Self-recognition, the simplest discovery is the sweetest.

So what is the simplest discovery that you have made about yourself? That discovery which needs no preparation, no precondition. That discovery for which the events in your life, the state of your body and mind don't matter. What is this discovery which is independent of appearances? This existence, this being which has played the game of taking itself for granted, now reveling in its own magnificence. It is as simple as meeting yourself without any interpretation.