There is Just the Self - 15th January 2018

So you must still be there to see it. This 'you'—what can you say about it? What you're seeing is fine. Now, if you try to bring your mind into it, then you will bring confusion into it. You said very beautifully that 'I look and I saw that there was nothing.' I saw that there was nothing. This 'I' is what I am asking about. The one that saw the nothing itself—was it something or nothing?

Nothing.

Then how is it 'I'? How do the 'I-ams' come from? Can nothing have an 'I'? Therefore, it is nothing and yet it is 'I.' That is impossible for the mind. Impossible. That's why Guru is a mind bypass. This the mind cannot fathom. Meet yourself and don't say anything about notions or anything. You don't have to give me an answer. You don't have to give yourself an answer. Let all interpretations come and go. As long as it feels like we didn't come to this conclusion, don't come to this conclusion very easily. As long as it feels like a contract, these interpretations come and go and we need some formal instruction. Either surrender it or inquire into it. Bhakti or Gyan always will be needed if it feels like interpretation is still meaningful for the Self.

For many of you, it is so natural as you are meeting yourself in this way. You're meeting your own truths actually by nature. But know what I said the other day: as soon as you interpret it, it can seem like it is limited or personal. As long as you judge, it will seem like it is a limited entity. That is all that is going on. Meet yourself naked of all interpretation. This is your natural state in this existence. We are not fighting anything. You don't have to get to any state because you're not trying to get to any state. Nothing is getting in your way because some of our most favorite interpretations that we might buy—'It cannot be this simple,' 'Am I doing this right?', 'Where are the fireworks?', 'Does this mean I have caught it?'—I'm making this list so that all of you can recognize them when they come and know that they're just interpretation. 'I don't feel it,' 'I haven't dropped something yet.' At the level of awareness, what I'm using is just pointing you to that. And then we don't judge. At one point, you know when you are with it properly that it is done.

Now let's look at this presumption right now, because even we say it often, but you can see that it is regular because it is so here, it's so available. But this is the most powerful being in the universe. What you're discovering when you meet yourself is the most powerful being in the universe and beyond. It is regular only in the sense of its availability. Now it is there. It can seem like this one special one who you—the most well-addressed emotional needs—that can seem like home. But know what this multiplied. We have already said the truth is ever-present and it is unchanging. Therefore, what you're meeting now as yourself, it means no change. Even the 'Wow' or the 'Okay, okay' is the coming and going. If what you say is true, that 'I am not attached to the Wow,' then this interpretation will not have power.

Where am I right now? What happened to your being in reality?

So I told a lady the other day that I promise I'll take her home. Now, where you are and wanting to change much is—we mustn't use it so that once we exclude everything, we'll come to the recognition of this God which is everything. And once you include everything, you come to the recognition of this God which is everything. So my Father said what I said: there are two paths. Bhakti, which is to include everything—you love everything, include everything—and Gyan, which is to go within and find out what is the truth. But the conclusion of both is the same. Consciousness is it.

Only if you have a definition of mind? Yes, because the word mind has been used to define something limited for so long.

So I am introducing you to your universal being, but not you personally. This is we. Understand that which is universal, that which is all there is, has been taken like this being has been moving through all this identity. Yes, that's also the being. The pretense does nothing to the being. It is like the master. Yes, the story is the interpretation. 'Did I realize?' and 'I saw that it is completely possible for you.' Statistical analysis: how does seven billion—what are the odds? You have good odds. What should it mean? What does realization mean for you? Maybe that really and that was this. What should happen when you realize the Self? I am saying that you are a completely enlightened being at this moment. You did not—you are not till you got this. You are a completely enlightened being in this moment. And even when you believe something about yourself, if you interpret yourself in some way, you just become opposition. Opposed. Everything is included in this. I'm talking about now. You're talking about past and future. Past and future are included in this, but make no difference to your reality now. Okay, let's first settle on what is now before we settle the past and future. I am saying right now you are the most enlightened being ever. Or do you see if there's something missing? Are you self-realized?

I knew that. What is the bet? Your answer will be the same now.

Settle it for the now. Attention is going, yeah? God needs to control his attention to be God? I am saying that right now you are God. You are the Buddha, you are the Christ, you are Shiva. And you're saying what you need to do to become all of that? I am saying you already are.

What's catching my attention? There are a few things that motion you have to talk. What did you lose now? Attention. Attention is going red and now my enjoyment of actions. Attention can leave. Enough attention can leave you.

Is it? All of this is a big city. Every moment, every moment the phenomenal play is happening and you're still there. When do you know me? What should happen for you to be free? What is different between you saying 'You are like this, but I am not like this'? What do you say about this one that is different from me? I am saying we are one, we are the same. And they will come and go. You are as you are. Easy. As long as we had an idea that we have to get to something, it can seem like, 'Oh, this is what it is.' I am saying that your Self is unchanging and it is the truth of what you are. Then where must it be now? You confuse the Antahkarana to be the Self. Now the play—let it be down to play. It's completely free. Play as it likes. What does it have to do with your Self? How does it matter? Work done and my aspect of you is doing well. My aspect of you is doing Satsang. My aspect of you is doing all these—they are playing in their own field. How does it matter to your reality? As long as you make this correlation, we believe this personal aspect must exclude the Self or something like that. I am trying to filter it. The ocean and the coconut. You don't confuse this body to be something special either. I'm saying some mythology to you, or you see it is your own insight? So what is it, what I'm saying?

So you want the license to keep doing whatever? Forget what's in it. Meet me now and while meeting right...

As long as you keep confusing the ocean and the coconut, it will seem strange. How does it matter what words you spew, what this body speaks, and what actions happen in this body? What does it matter to the ocean? It's against whatever waves it has to. What are you? Are you the limited entity, the coconut? Or are you the unlimited ocean which is the sea? And then now, what are you now? What are you believing yourself to be in this report? The one that is with the checker guy—that is called the ego. I am saying, what did that have to do with the Self that you already are? As long as we keep picking up this limited notion about ourselves, then 'What do I want?' which is desire, or 'What do I do to get that?'—all this play of duality will go on. Okay, can you do the reverse? Just be this body. Become this body in truth. Don't be the Self, just be the body. Do it. Can you do it? Why? Because you cannot just be the sensation that you're perceiving. You see that you are beyond that. All that is moving is the will of Consciousness. What is the will of Consciousness? What is the reminder that you are not something limited? You are God itself. Nothing is opposed to it. The confusion and the... that's why I said you don't have to drop any of these bad habits. You just have to see what you are. And you see that there is only one will, which is the will of Consciousness. In this, 'Am I doing the right thing?' or 'Am I doing the wrong thing?'—this confusion gets you. You get some relief from it. But what can remain is that it might feel like you're just hanging, like I was saying, on a little chair which is being moved around by a higher power. So then it can feel like, 'Oh God, why are you doing this to me?' What if I have this kind of victim mindset? That can come. So when this goes away, then you see that the will of Consciousness—this Consciousness which has the will—is not different from you. The Self is there only in the light of which all these movements happen. It is only the interpreter which says so.

We're talking about how there is no practice, not getting on notions. For after a while, you get better at spotting when you just... yeah, I'm sure that you probably... we also went...

What I'm saying is that when we come to any sort of control over attention, that... and I'm not saying so much that no practice is needed. What I'm saying is that you are the Self irrespective of what practices happen. You are. And to recommend yourself, go through it. It's simple. It's just like you would say, 'Just see what you are right now.' If you say, 'Okay, but we take two dozen hoops to jump through something and then I'll be able to see yourself,' then that would be what I'm saying—the 'if' of that. So I said the other day that depending on what our implementation is, we get into this realm of potential which is practice for you. So we could have some practices like combining what we first come into, or then they could have some practices like keeping your attention just with the breath. All of them have to do with attention—how to control attention. Just as we were saying the other day, so that this conditioned one consciousness does not happen, the 'I-ity' does not seem to happen. It can happen if that is your natural attention. So I have nothing against that. But if you say that 'I will move to become the Self after those practices' or something, that is what I am pointing at.

You should take care of this. If somebody is a Guru, then you cannot say, 'You should be doing this or that.' It is the Guru who tells the disciple, 'You should be doing this or that.' You should be doing that. My life is that we have before that we can just meet us. You can meet for coffee.

Once you say 'Guru,' then you're referring to the Guru principle, which is your own Guru present in fact. We can trust it. The point is offered up from there. It can be so. It will come here. Say either you can have a Guru or you can be transmitted. That even two fingers there in the gospel to eat. Thank you all so much for being in Satsang today. Guru Sri Mooji Baba.