The Three Main Keys - 29th March 2016

Yes, yes. This is awareness aware of itself because it is not phenomenally seen. It's a non-phenomenal seeing. All phenomenal seeing belongs to the being. The being is phenomenal. The being itself is phenomenal—the root phenomenon. You see, it is like the boundary between the non-phenomenal and the phenomenal. It is the root phenomenon, the Om, that I-am-ness, the primordial being.

In a way, like the mind is the body and the word is the eyes? Like when I'm in the store and I just want to come back and not be a person sometimes, and just to come back... it feels like that, but I want to clarify not to be mixing or mind coming. Maybe a clearer one is that the awareness is the witness of this movie which is playing, and the being is the light of the projector as well as the screen and the movie itself?

Just as it is, simpler than simple. I just say another Guruji, and sometimes I say, 'Okay, as you say.' Occasionally I verify. I feel that mind is making it a little bit difficult. It joined me to see it and then breathe and then come back. And this clarifying is because it's an instant, and what came was like the sensation of I am is very strong, divine, and then the eyes who sees that—the awareness—it's something like... yes, it's not my own.

So let me tell you that I have given you three main keys. Three main keys. The first key: because you are free right now. The reality of what you are is free, but you have the power to pretend to suffer. And how you have the power, or how you use this power, is only by believing your next thought. So the end of suffering is available right now if you don't believe your next thought. This is the first key. Then you say, 'Okay, so this is the end of personal suffering. I see that I cannot suffer unless I pick up a thought. But what about consciousness, or God, or being? Can you show me God?' And I say, 'Yes, I show you by asking you this question: Can you stop being?' And you find that the presence is here. And this presence is the light; when it comes on, then this entire manifest creation starts to play. When it goes off, there is nothing, no phenomenal existence. Then you see, this is the I-am-ness. So in the Bible it says, 'God said I am that I am.' So this is that discovery: I am that I am.

Then you say, 'But what about the Absolute, the Self?' And for this I ask you: Are you aware now? And you say yes. But you have not had a phenomenal experience to say yes; it is prior to that. This is awareness aware of itself, the knowing of the knowing itself. No mind can fathom this, but in reality, you cannot miss this. So the struggle is only the mind trying to understand this. If there is a struggle, it is because very naturally, like a child, you say, 'Yes, I am aware.' This 'I' that is aware is awareness only, because no entity can be aware, you see.

So with these three keys, it unravels this entire seeming spiritual journey. The dissolution of the person is the non-belief in the next thought. No person can exist unless you believe your next thought. It doesn't even exist then; it exists only as a pretense. But you cannot pretend to be a person unless you believe your next thought. That's why I say: you want to see God pretending to be a person? Believe your next thought. You see, that is the only way it can happen. Then I say, this experience of consciousness, I want it to be my direct experience. How to find it? Now this inquiry is very cleverly designed, because if I said 'Go find out being,' then it seems confusing. 'Is this my being? Is that my being?' My being is not clear. That's why I say: 'Can you stop being?' Then I say 'Stop being,' it becomes clear. No, this being is here; I cannot stop. See, this is a very quick way to come to the direct experience of beingness.

And then the last question we can ask in two ways. First is: 'Am I aware now?' So clear awareness aware of itself. Or the second way to ask is: 'Who is aware even of this being?' This 'I' that is aware of this being is awareness itself. And actually, if you stay with these three simple pointings, you cannot get lost anywhere in this. I try to create a mind-proof design, you know, like a foolproof design. The mind is a fool, so a mind-proof design. And yet it comes with some tricks, obviously; that's its job. Anything else is mind, we can see like that.