This Is The Essence of Satsang - 30th January 2018

So as usual, I have some very good news for me. The good news today is that you are the Atma. You are the Self now. What is the good news? What's so cool about this? What's so cool about being the Self? What's the big deal? The big deal is that your greater reality is beyond time and space. Now, this is a very beginning, and to recognize this is what Satsang is for. Because so far in my life, we've always identified ourselves with something which is contained in time and space. All our reports about ourselves have been about an object which is within these four dimensions. But you are the Self, which means that wherever you might be and whatever time it might be, I can say this to you and it is the truth. That is why I don't have to pick and choose a time, and I don't have to pick and choose a place. I don't have to pick and choose your circumstances, don't have to pick and choose your relationships and the status of them, don't have to worry about your monetary status, because all these things are in the realm of time and space. You are that which is beyond dimensions. You are the Self.

Now, there can be some confusion about this, and if you give it to the mind anyway, everything becomes confusing. But one of the confusions about this can be: 'So if I am the eternal one, then what was I doing before I created the world? What will I do after the world is gone?' Because our eternity can seem like, 'Oh, it is that very long time.' See, nothing can seem like I've just been sitting around for a long time, millions of years, and then I create this world, then I dissolve this world, again sitting around for millions of years. But this is confusion. This is a mistaken notion of eternity. Eternity means that which is beyond time. It is not infinitely long time. Eternity means that in your life, time and space, they appear by your will. They disappear by the will of consciousness itself, or the will of the Self. So to ask what the Self is doing when it is not creating the world is a mistaken notion, because that 'when' does not exist. There is no time there.

Now, what's the cool thing about this? The cool thing about this is that your Self right now is not subject to time. Only that which is appearing in its light, this realm of appearance, this content, is subject to time. So it is not that your being is getting any older. It is just independent of time. And this is a very important rule. This content is moving around in time and space, but you are independent of these. Your very existence right now—and you cannot stop being this being—is already beyond all time and space. So allow that which is moving in time and space to move. Allow this dance to happen as it will, but recognize your greater reality, which is effortlessly present. Recognize this: you are here, God is here, Self is here, Satguru is here. But this 'here' is not a 'here' contained in time or space. There is that which contains all things.

Now, it is some kind of magic that this being, this Self, which is beyond time and space, plays as if it is just your person, so limited in time and in space. But this is never true about you. So all that we are recognizing is that which is already true about you. And if there are seven billion conversations which are happening in this so-called world right now, 6.999999 billion conversations are mostly about you as a limited entity. And it is a very rare conversation which is inviting the recognition of the unlimitedness. And this conversation is called Satsang: the company of the truth.

More excellent news for you, which is that as you remain empty of interpretations and judgments, empty of concepts, the recognition of your true Self is inherently present. The truth is apparent to you. So you don't even have to struggle with this recognition. You don't even have to struggle with making it stable. It just is. All that can seem to happen—one had this very beautiful example—one day he was sitting with his devotees and using a tiny finger, covered his eye. And the devotee said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'Just like when we use this tiny finger, it can seem to prevent us from seeing the entire universe, the same way a tiny concept, a tiny notion about the Self can seem to obscure the greater reality of what is here: the timeless, changeless Self.' And this is completely apparent to you right now. Meet yourself now and you will see that this is true. All limitation, all boundary, all duration are just notional constructs for you. They have no reality.