The Way Back to True Understanding Is Through the Atma

Right now in this very moment, without thinking a single thought, what is here? What is here? What is going on? Not able to see because it is not that nothing is going on, because what is, is beyond our conceptual capability. Our ability to understand is too tiny, you see? And just like we don't expect the picture to understand what is going on, or if there's a plant around—usually there's one—so we don't expect the plant to understand what is going on. You see, in the same way, we do not have the capacity to decipher what is into our narrative of what is going on. It's a subtle point or a very important one.

That which is, is first separated by the mind into that which is perceived, you see? And that which is beyond perception is completely neglected. So in none of our narratives that which is unperceivable is there. But in this moment, what is your experience? And I'm using the term very broadly, experience. Is it only perceptions right now? You able to get the question? In this moment, is all there is just perception? Huh? Can confirm that?

Yes.

That's very good. If you can confirm, it's very good. But if you were to be involved with the narrative, the narrative doesn't talk about that which is the pure awareness, the pure witnessing of everything that is perceived. It makes it seem like it is conceptual knowledge. The Sakshi is just a concept we learn in spirituality but not the direct insight which the Atma itself gives to us. Am I going too fast? Okay. How to say these things? I don't know why I'm saying these things.

So the narrative of the mind keeps the elephant out of the room. And which elephant is this exactly? But it is the elephant which is holding all the perceivable universes on its trunk like a grain of sand, and that is the reality of it. This perceivable reality is a tiny grain of sand. So in the play of Maya, the main meal is forgotten and it is just one tiny starter which is taken to be the entirety of it. You see? So if you were to say that this is Satsang with Ananta and all of us are listening to him, it would be a huge understatement about what this is, isn't it?