Then What is Satsang For? - 15 Apr 2016

The way of the world is to go from that which is simple to that which is more complex, more difficult—a level one, level two, level three. The way to build a foot-piece in this world is to go from that simplicity to more and more inside through complexity. But the way of this Satsang, the view of spirituality, true spirituality, is to go from that complexity into more and more simplicity. And if you find that something is grasping to understand, something is trying to get some conceptual expertise, let me know that can be dropped because nothing that I am saying actually needs to be understood in that way, you see.

So even when I say 'please understand,' what I really mean is 'please look.' Because nothing here really is abstract. To the mind, it is completely unfathomable and therefore it seems totally abstract, but to you, the reality that you are, nothing is extraordinary here. That is talking about you, you. So it's not that we must take on more and more conceptual understanding, but more and more get used to just checking for ourselves as to what is really here. And if you notice that there is something like a grasping for more and more understanding, even that can be dropped because in that there is this sense that 'I will now, today, I picked up these new concepts; tomorrow I'll pick up some more; maybe in a few weeks of Satsang I will really have got it.'

Father, your sound is a little bit low on my end. A little bit close to... now?

Oh, tonight's so much... how's it now? That's better? Thank you very much. Maybe I just... below that, okay. I speak like this, it's okay for you there? Okay, great, great. I got used to this mic now and I'm like... usually how I speak outside Satsang is raised off like this. No, no, I'm just kidding.

So what were we saying? There will be the sense that this Satsang is good because every day I can pick up some new spiritual concepts and in a few weeks that I will have my bag full. Then it's not really the same Satsang. I mean, it's in some sort of a mental Satsang where these words are just being picked up, said, 'Yeah, this one sounds good, so let me collect this one. This one, okay, I knew before, so this can go. This one I don't really agree with, so this can be kept aside.' So a disagreement actually must not come from a fight between concepts, you see. A disagreement must not come from 'this is what I believe versus this is what you say,' you see. A disagreement, if any, must come from this sense that 'I checked on what you see and I find that it is not true.' This is beautiful contemplation and always reveals something.