What I´m Saying is That We Are The Same Fundamentally - 26th Sept. 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta describes the shift from a self-centered life driven by desire and doership to a spontaneous flow guided by an intuitive inner voice. He emphasizes that liberation is simply the cessation of believing the false mind.
The primary shift was moving away from the ego's mantra: 'What's in it for me?'
The voice that speaks in satsang is not the person's voice, but the Father's voice.
There is no difference between us; some just believe themselves to be something that doesn't exist.
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Transcript
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Can you tell me how a master lives?
I don't know. I can tell you what seemingly changed here without using any labels like master or anything. So, what seemingly changed here—and I've said this often—is that it seemed like before this change happened, it seemed like I would go into every situation believing the mantra 'What's in it for me?' So, everywhere that I was going to, it seemed like I was interested in those situations where there was the sense of me getting something from them, you see, from the situation. And even when I was meeting people, it was more about 'What am I getting from him? What am I getting from her?' So, life seemed to be rooted in this mantra: 'What's in it for me?' This was the primary intent, to try and get something out of this life.
Now that voice has settled down. So it doesn't feel like I walk into situations with this sense of trying to grasp at something, trying to get something. It seems a lot more lighter, you see. And that is another way where I say that our vision becomes more global. Somebody said the other day, 'But you're still seeing through these two eyes.' Yes, I see the senses still function the way they used to function, but the sense of focus doesn't seem to be only on that which I feel I can get something from. So everything becomes lighter, everything becomes brighter. It seems to have become brighter because also when we see that when our attention is so much into our thoughts and we try to engage in the outer world, it can seem like the vision becomes blurry, you see. You can try to do that right now also. Try to think about something clearly and pay attention to something outside, an object outside. You'll find that some blurriness will happen both in terms of the thought and the outside external vision. So this blurriness seems to have reduced to a great extent.
So everything seems much more light and bright. There seems to be much more time, you see, in the interaction. So many times when I interact with some of you, it can feel like you're not really listening because you're contemplating what you are going to say next, you see. Already the mind starts functioning in that way and attention gets distracted toward that. For a master, it seems like they're not worried about that at all. They're just allowing the flow to flow spontaneously. That's why they can be completely with you in the interaction mostly, you see. Always best to not put any 100% type things, you see.
So this sense of... what does this actually mean? This 'What's in it for me?' actually is a very subtle form of desire, isn't it? Because this desire is what also is an amplified or magnified form of the same 'What's in it for me?' How do I... what is the experiences I want from life? What is it that I desire? So this sense of desire seems to get very light, you see. We're not asking, making specific requests from the universe or giving specific orders to the universe, you see. So many have this misconception also that, oh, once you're free or something like that, you can just command the universe to give you this or to give you that. And you also grew up reading some kind of stories like that, you see. But you find that there is nothing specific that you really want from this life. So you find that that kind of desire is settled down.
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What is the second mantra, which is the mantra of the mind? 'What should I do?' 'What's in it for me?' and the second is 'What should I do?' So this 'What should I do?'—with the dissolution mostly of doership—this sense of 'What should I do?' also becomes very light. So the sense of both are interrelated in a very strong way, but this 'What's in it for me?' and 'What should I do?' starts to become very light. The rest of life remains pretty regular. This body is this body. I've not got the ability to project this body into some railway station or some... you know, if I want to pick up somebody from the airport, you have to get in a cab and get there. So that seems like the senses seem to be working normally.
Okay, importantly also, I find that after some time there was the arising of this voice that speaks, you see. This voice that speaks in Satsang was different from the voice which was usually speaking through this mouth. And when it first started speaking through this mouth, there was a great sense of reverence even here to this voice. So I started coming... first there was a sense of, 'Wow, this is great stuff.' I have to admit that. So when this mouth started being used by the intuitive presence, there was also the mind which is still sitting around saying, 'Wow, this is good stuff maybe.' And there's a development of trust in this voice. So after the 600, 700 Satsangs that we've had, I find that this voice can be completely trusted to share this truth, so-called truth of Satsang, you see. The company of the truth is shared in words through the presence of this voice which is not the person's voice, which is not Ananta's voice. It is my Father's voice. The voice seems to have changed midway through. So I feel one of the greatest gifts in this life has been the arising of this voice here, my Father's voice here. So this has so much reverence that is felt here.
So the dropping of... to put it simply, the dropping of desire and doership, these two which are troublesome, the ego's desire and doership, and the arising of this interior voice is what seems to have changed here. No other supernatural abilities. So much love. You can't chill love. He's going to make me cry now. I feel most importantly what I want to tell you is that there is no difference. We are the same. We are one fundamentally. Of course, that is why this is Advaita. But even in our phenomenal functioning, fundamentally we are the same, you see. It is just that most of humanity seems to be believing itself to be something that doesn't exist, you see. And all of us have that power. And there are some who are not believing themselves to be that which doesn't exist. That is it actually, you see what I'm saying?
If you can keep it simple like that, you see, the point of Satsang is to reduce the seeming distance between us. I don't want to tell you things which make you feel like, 'Oh, but that is too far for me because I still have desire, I still feel like I'm the doer.' You'll feel like that if you hear me say things like, 'Oh, the desire reduces and doership reduces,' you see. So rather than focusing on that, I've given you a pointer which does all of this on its own, which is: as we are not believing the false, then all the truth is revealing itself on its own. And what is the voice of the false? It's only the mind, which is also Consciousness, and yet it is the trickster part of Consciousness designed in the way to make us feel like we are personally involved in this game. So you're letting go of this voice. That's all that is seemingly needed for the game.
The Thread Continues
These satsangs touch the same silence.

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