To Be is Simple, To Not Be is Impossible - 31st January 2018

Just recently, someone said, 'Father has given up on us.' It's a beauty! 'Maybe Father has given up on us, so that's why he's not trying to take us through the complete truth now. He is saying that you are enough.' This is not true. I have always been saying this in different ways: that what is here and now is the greatest Being ever, beyond time and space, beyond any objective appearances. You're here in Satsang to meet yourself now. In many, many places all over the world, you can meet many different people, different objects, situations, different events, different experiences. But Satsang is where you come to meet yourself. And actually, anywhere that you meet yourself is Satsang. But so auspicious is this meeting that the idea of meeting itself dissolves you.

So if you feel like something has to be done, then my advice is this: meet yourself without judgment, without expectation, without interpretation. You are meeting, and because this is the meeting that Buddha had, Buddha disappeared. This is the meeting that Jesus had, and Jesus disappeared. That is why it is this very Divine Presence now that we have called Buddha or Jesus. As you meet yourself, the idea of 'you' disappears. You will not become an enlightened person, but you will come to see that what exists is only the enlightened Being. This is your effortless and timeless truth. Such is the power of this meeting that after this meeting, you will see that there is nothing else to be but myself. So I say that wherever you may wander, you will only find yourself.

Sometimes you will say, 'But Father, there is something missing.' All this, if you see that you don't know really, then you will be open to the recognition that your recognition, this discovery that you're making now, is exactly what all the sages have spoken about. If you leave all the stories of the metaphysical things and the halos and the siddhis, if you keep them aside, you will find that the recognition is always the same. You will only recognize that which you have always been. And those who now want this truth for truth's sake, they'll find this so easy. But those who still feel that it is a journey, the ocean should still mean something for this coconut body, they sell themselves into a little journey, play with the struggle.

When you look and you look, you find that you are there. And then this 'you' is gone, and the one that is looking is there. Is there room for 'me' here? It has put all things together, but there is nothing separate from God. So all that can occur and disappear is one: the light of God on the screen. A few months ago, I used to say that whenever you make a report about this place—and I would call those who have some conditioning around God can say Consciousness—but report when I see this place: God. God. I'm not getting it, it's not working... it can sound like this. But the word God is what you want. Why even open to the possibility of anything else?

The one who is checking, each one... so there's an individual identity which is not there, and yet one is able to check this. This one is which one?

The one that is checking is also an appearance. So what is this appearance appearing to? You know all of this. So the knowingness is you. What exactly is the question? Did I steal this? This is what I mean. No matter what the content is, what the appearance is, without you, can there be an appearance? Can you have the experience of an appearance unless you are there? And it doesn't matter, ultimately, how much traffic is there on the road. It doesn't matter unless you have the idea that you have to cross. If you're not trying to become anything or trying to get anywhere, the road can be full of traffic or it can be completely quiet. You're just on one side.

The trouble is if I were to say you have to transcend all the noise and come to the peace. It is beautiful, but you don't have to transcend anything. That is transcending: to see that I'm on the right side of the road already is transcending the wrong side. Just make it up. So to transcend something, as we shared in Satsang here, really means to see that you were never caught up in that. It's a concept of the mind. You just see that there's nothing to you. It cannot hurt you. There are series of sensations, energy constructs coming and going, so ephemeral, so recovery-less. This is fine. To you, it's just another silhouette, a shadow, just there for a blink of a second.

Where is the mind now? Already gone. And yet it will come back, and still, already gone. Already gone is more natural. You will need at least one tiny movement in time to refer to it at all, compared to the neutrality which is already present here. So it is the neutrality which is timeless, and these notions about yourself which have been high. It is the simplest discovery that you can ever make about yourself, the most valuable. Unlike the rules of this world, where the fruits are usually in proportion to the effort—more effort, sweeter fruit—usually. But the great thing about this discovery is that it is the most effortless, and it is sweeter than the most sweet. What is the simplest discovery? When we come out and say, 'Hold this recognition.'

Much more than hidden in plain sight. We have been seeking the Self. I was thinking these days, how many steps do you need to walk to sit exactly where you're sitting now? That is nothing. Effortless. To sit where I'm sitting now is effortless. To be who you are now is effortless. All the effort is to recognize that 'I am.' We take it on. Satsang means we take away all notions of what this should mean. 'Now I'm here, so then what should happen? Now my relationship should be better.' People here... whose voiceover artist was it? She said, 'I come for the tagline: Because I'm worth it.' Why come to this recognition? Because nothing else is worth anything compared to this.

And mostly you will also come to this recognition which someone was saying: 'Father, in general, most things have gotten better.' But the thing is, if I say that to you, then you keep waiting for that expectation to happen, and that itself becomes like the little finger that blocks our vision of the truth. The expectation, the interpretation of what this should mean, itself can seem like it's a cause. Nothing can really block you because there is nowhere to go, but it can play as if this lowers our recognition of the truth. Is there any good reason for not knowing who you are? As people say very often, 'What is the point of inquiry? Why should I?' What is the good reason to not know?

We have so much information about so many trivial things. Who is this? Where does this come from? Which kind of food? Which country does this come from? You know, where was it? Is this Indian or Japanese? You want to know all of this, and then you say, 'Well, who is the first?' Because everything else is in relation. 'I and my family, my children, my relationships, my money, my freedom.' What if you could just... for all of these things to become clear, you just have to clarify the 'I' part? There's an old Indian saying by the great Saint Kabir Ji: 'The fish thirsting for water, I can do nothing but laugh.' Why does it happen? Unless the fish believes that it is a cat in some barren desert, then it cannot play with this game of thirsting for water.

So this is what is being clarified to you in Satsang. What you really are is not a cat in some barren desert looking for water. You are the fish entity where the water itself is. Thirsting for water? When I say let go of the cat, meaning let go of the cat thoughts. See that you are the water itself. There is nothing to thirst for. Someone responds to me, 'But that is spiritual bypassing.' Can you say it? Let go of the cat thoughts because you are not the cat. You don't have to deal with any of this. You're the king who somehow believed that he is the beggar, has feelings of lack, feelings of misfortune. What better gift can I give you than to show you that you are the king?

So that we are not bypassing anything; we're accepting all things as they are, which will be between the reality. But I know that sometimes when we say 'look deeper,' it can seem confusing. Then look deep enough. So forget about the world, let's look at the source. But still, stay in your heart. When you clear intuition and surrender to it, or plan to its validity, you don't have to replace one belief with another belief. We graze on our beliefs, the 'doing' and 'not doing' ideas about yourself. The beliefs, all that you think about yourself, what you are discovering about yourself in this most auspicious meeting... can you show me how you can pose as something limited without the mask of emotion, without the concept?

You see that to pose as something limited, you'll have to have an idea about yourself. What is this? Just all there is. Most naturally is your natural existence something which is limited? Do you have a boundary? You don't even have the notion 'body' or 'man' or 'mind' because all of these are just notions. A visible filter, a set of sensations which appear, and we have taken a collection of them and said, 'This is body.' The set of sensations for the world, another set of energy constructs called the mind. But all sensations, all perceptions, are just appearances appearing and disappearing. What contains you? Where is your start and end?

Without the presumed 'I,' without the presumed 'me,' what do you want? Freedom is not a state. Seeing that your Being is completely free to enjoy whatever the state might be right now is freedom. It is not hankering for a particular set of experiences: 'Mind should completely stop, body should be free from pain, free from conflict.' These kinds of ideas. How is that free? If it has to be just a certain way, it doesn't sound like freedom at all. It's stuck. It's stuck in a box, and the box is all these ideas we have about it. To see that your Being is spacious enough to allow all things to come and go—the recognition of your neutrality irrespective of the quality of appearances—is freedom.

Therefore, your 'me' is just a mask, just an idea. You can never leave the Presence. The Presence itself is the Presence of God. So to bind you, you would need something greater than God. There is no such thing. What can appear in this world that can bind your vastness to existence and make it limited? Look for yourself. There is nothing greater than holiness. So let this that which is, which warrants reverence of its very existence, that which is so immaculate... you won't be touching any other. The holiness preserves a reverence. This there is a sense that I am an object in this world, but all objects in the world... it is the undiscovered deity of the waking state, the light of which all appearances are. So there's a question or two from especially those I see new to Satsang. Thank you all so much for being in Satsang today.