There Is Only One Being Appearing as All - 5th January 2018

We must also drop the notion that something special has to be discovered. It is completely apparent to you right now. So these are the main things that we speak about. And you will find that in your own investigation, when you look at all the other types of sadhana—be it chanting, be it devotional singing, any other mindfulness like yoga—all of these are meant to work in some way or the other so that our attention is not so much on this seller of notions called Maya. Because you are finding that adding anything more to yourself, to your being, is like wanting to add a drop of water to itself. If the drop of water was real, then at least we could make even one concession saying the ocean wants to become ocean plus drop. But what can you add on to this Being? What objects can you surround yourself with so that Being becomes Being plus one? Or what can be taken away from Being?

For the play of 'me' or 'mine', you need the primary notion that 'I am something'. But you are not a thing. That's why over the past few weeks we've investigated the nature of this world, the nature of this body, and we found that all of these are just notions we have created for a set of sensations, a set of perceptions. What is the world? A set of perceptions. What is the body? A set of perceptions. What is the mind? A set of perceptions. So we made theoretical constructs out of the appearance of these sensations, and some of these sensations we have labeled with 'me'. This 'me' does not stand up to any test of truth or test of wise. Why these sensations should be 'me' and others should not be 'me'? There is no actual intellectual reasoning or logic; it's just habit, traditional. Even before the mind is activated and the child starts to hear it from the mind, it's traditional because we hear it from the parents: 'Where is your hand? Where is your hand? There is your hand.' You are trained this way traditionally to segregate some sensations from others and say 'this is me'.

Now all this would be a lot of hard work and very oppressive. The good news is that no matter what notions have been picked up in the past, they do not survive the light of this moment. So long as I see that it's all gone now. But you need a spiritual strategy if you still feel like the 'but' from the mind still has some potency or power or reality. How many of you would agree that Being is here now? Only one? So that Being is here now. Now this Being, is it just an inference you're making or is it your tasted experience? You know that you exist. Your existence is here. So you don't need any inference. And for those who are still maybe because of some habit feel like this is not real, then you must not pick up the inference or join the gang which is believing that there is Being. You must try to stop being. Only then you will see that not only do you exist, you are also completely aware of your existence.

Now seriously, what is missing for the Being? Which means, again, you're just relying on what you are seeing. You're not relying on an interpretation; you're relying on what you're finding for yourself in your existence without a concept. In this room, in this natural way, is there something missing? I'm finding as I'm looking that my existence is here and it is unlimited. All of these perceptions are just a movement of light on my own Being. Time and space are conceptual names for something perceived. This body of Ananta is another set of perceptions. This voice is another perception. All of these appear on my surface. And I know that this is your experience. For a while you will play as if this recognition of this unlimited spaciousness of your own existence should mean something for one particular body, that one that you seem to be most familiar with, that 'me' that you have called yourself. But this recognition has nothing to do with this body. It does not belong to somebody sitting in this body. Consciousness has deluded itself and consciousness is freeing itself from this delusion. It's all part of its divine desire, its divine play.

So long as you don't have to hold on to anything... and this came and started speaking, isn't it? I didn't say this applies only to some of you or doesn't apply to some of you. I know this is true because your very truth doesn't need any preparation, no preconditions. Your existence, your Being, is the precondition for the existence of any appearance. We put something between the two. That in the broadcast, banging doors can sound like big explosions. But if satsang is in the middle of World War II, that is just another opportunity to see that your Being remains untouched.

So as long as we continue to play with 'but' and 'if' and 'therefore', more and more worlds will come. Suppose I say once it came and said something to everybody that you could say, 'I have a but, which is God is here, but...' Whatever. God is here and I don't believe it. But this 'I am' here, we cannot doubt that 'I am' here. So do you say, 'I just... okay, I said there's my fantasy little God' and we just need to see here? We don't need to talk. Yes, these creepy-crawlies, these creepy thoughts are here. And as you come into this recognition more and more, creepy-crawlies—because of these thoughts—also don't seem so potent, don't seem so powerful. And as they don't seem so powerful, then the space for this recognition also seems to increase. It's a very virtuous, very beautiful part of the play. Like getting into this individuality seemed so much of a quicksand, you know, this spiraling downwards, then coming back to our true Self, that is even more beautiful. Rising in the way we've fooled ourselves, covered ourselves conceptually, and now someone is not attached.

Sorry, I'm just shrugging it all off, but it will feel like it. And I know that you're noticing because it seemed so strong. If you had a notion that 'I went to Pondicherry and I freed you from that', it would sound like a job. No, because you're not attached to where I will give you something that you will be attached to. That which has been false is a symbol, it's a notion. Being emptied, not even being replaced by another notion, just being emptied out—that is going. It can feel like, 'Oh, that is a job,' because we've been holding on tightly to it. So you will refrain from all this conceptualizing. You can bring your attachments for a while; it's okay to feel attached. The seller of the mask doesn't have to give up its allure of the mask. The one that is selling the mask of your individuality doesn't have to give up Being itself, which stops buying from its own creations. You have the right to the creation of Being itself. It is playing that way, it keeps buying. But it is playing this way, it stops buying.

Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Although all that because other rooms for other privileged events... because something was not here, I could think that that has come from... sorry, or something that it is to keep in care that I should not broadcast. So thank you for finding in this way, but don't get this sort of any mistaken impression that it's over. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Satguru Sri Mooji Baba ki Jai. So many of you are here, we seem so happy.