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This Truth is Apparent in Your Notion-less Existence - 25th December 2017

December 25, 20175:1230 views

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Ananta emphasizes that the eternal self is already apparent in one's motionless existence, requiring no effort to find. He invites listeners to drop all mental notions and boundaries to recognize their inherent freedom as the timeless witness.

The self is beyond time and space, and the universe is just a coming and going for you.
Empty of notions about yourself you are free; believing in a reference point creates the ego.
If the self is eternal, it must be here now and it must be you.

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Transcript

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Ananta

Now, all of this that I said can begin to sound a bit complicated. So, how do I get to the Self? That's why a big part of the year also went in showing you that in your notion-less existence, this truth is apparent about yourself. There is nothing that you even have to do. This is the best news ever: that that which you're looking for doesn't have to be found at all. How is it expected when I'm sharing this good news, but I don't see that? I even ask, wondering, if somebody said to you, 'What are you sitting here doing? It was announced on the radio you won a prize for one million dollars,' isn't it more excitement will come? If you hear music? But I am telling you that there's nothing you have to do, and it is apparent to you that you are this Atma, this Self, which is beyond time and space today.

Ananta

Why is this not the best news that you'll ever hear? That you're beyond time and space? That the universe is also just a coming and going for you? You are the eternal final witness of all of this, independent of anything that you might get or not get in this life. How to find this? Here and now, it is already seen what you are. Don't go to the mind's certificate. Don't buy the notion that this one is selling you. What are you right now? Are you contained in something? You have a need? Don't even wait for the mind to conclude whether this is true or not. Where in time do you have always been? If the Self is eternal, mustn't it be here now? Mustn't it be you?

Ananta

If you are saying God is everywhere, are you really meaning God is everywhere but me? How do you really mean it? There is no separation that ever happened. All of this is the play of one consciousness. For the one that is all there is, what could you possibly want? For the one for whom all things are happening, are happening within it, what could it possibly do? It is when consciousness takes a position about itself—even if it feels like it might be the highest position, the enlightened position—it is still drawing a boundary around itself. Empty of notions about yourself, you are free. You believe in a location, in a reference point about yourselves, you draw an imaginary boundary and you play this game of personhood, ego.

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