This is the Voice of Your Own Recognition - 4th November 2016

So what did we learn today, children? We learned that you are nothing, but it is a very good nothing. It is nothing; it is that nothing from which all things come and they go. Now the root of all of this coming and going is the sense 'I am', the sense that I exist. Atma, Consciousness. With the light of this 'I am' switched on, all of this play comes on: light, sound, electricity, gravity, universe—all these forces. Attention, belief, all of this is a beautiful movie being played upon itself by Consciousness.

The only seeming trouble is along with this movie came this voice. It said, 'You are the protagonist of this movie. You are this character which seemingly lives inside the protagonist's body, and you must control the events of the movie according to the preferences of this character.' Now we bought this idea that 'I am this body-mind'. This itself is divine magic, you see. For Consciousness to play in this way, as if it is just this tiny object itself, is some divine hypnosis. It played this way because it wanted to experience the life of a person. It got too bored being everything, being all there is, so it wanted to get a taste of what it would be like to just be an object. So it created this mind so that this mind could constantly be selling the story of the separation.

Now it is tired of playing this game, and in coming out of this game also, it created a beautiful scene for itself in the movie, which is your coming to Satsang, your doing the self-inquiry or any path. So Consciousness pretending to be a person and then dropping the pretense of personhood is this entire game. So this path, the path of inquiry, is to see things for how they are. The unreality, the changing nature of this phenomenal existence is seen, and we are interested in the truth which is unchanging. We are interested in that God, that Self, which is unchanging. Therefore, that which changes is kept aside. What remains? We find that this Consciousness remains. But ultimately, even this Consciousness comes and goes with the coming of the waking state and the dissolution of the waking state into dreamless sleep.

We find that even this Consciousness goes, but there is a witness even of something called sleep. Even to say that there was nothing in sleep means that I am aware that there is some state called sleep in which there is no phenomena, not even the root of all phenomena, the primordial vibration 'Om' itself is not there. So this which is beyond the states is what we are in reality, and this remains unchanging no matter which state is appearing. Anything appearing in the waking state cannot hurt this reality, cannot touch this reality. This is the discovery. And then this world becomes just a wonderful movie to watch. Nothing to attack, nothing to defend, nothing to get, nowhere to go, nothing to do. And yet all movements of this dream character, dream character body, they continue to happen in their own natural way. This is all there is, and this is the voice of your own recognition of your own truths.

Now if you want to see God pretending to be a person, all you have to do is believe your next thought. But if you're tired of God playing the person, then you, God, please don't believe your next thought. This is God having a monologue with herself, himself.