What's the point? Parvati's Report - Part 2 (After)- 25 May 2015
Saar (Essence)
Ananta facilitates a space where the seeker realizes that while no effort is needed to be the Self, one must actively notice and stop identifying with what they are not.
There is nothing you can do to be yourself, but you must notice to stop being who you are not.
In every moment, you have the power to choose your place of Being over the voice of your thoughts.
I know what I am: I am peace, joy, beauty, and so much love.
intimate
Transcript
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If you want, I can give you the other 'after' because we had the 'before' in the previous Satsang.
Yes, my dear, of course. We'd love to hear that. So you should watch the two videos; that's 'before' and this is 'after'.
I am... I don't know who you're speaking to in the room, but last night in Satsang, Mooji said—and this is a direct quote because it landed so deep with me—somebody said to him, 'Mooji, there's nothing I can do.' And he said, 'There's nothing that you can do to be yourself, but there is something you have to notice to stop being who you are not.' And that, if there is anything that you have to do, is all you have to do: you have to just constantly notice what you are not. So there's not really a doing to become what you are because you are already that, you know? So it like stayed in my brain, and I don't even remember something I did a minute ago, so it must have stayed in my brain for whoever you're talking to.
And my report is a few things about that particular Satsang. One of the main observations I have... and if anyone is watching this for the first time, it's a Satsang we had a few days ago and it's called 'What's the Point?' It's called 'What's the Point?' because that is what was going on in my mind the whole time and I kept saying it: 'What's the point? What's the point?' And a few things: the first thing is it was like I had absolutely no control over the tantrum that was being thrown. I really... you know, I must have got like a hundred messages saying thank you, and I really in some weird way believed that it was meant to happen, kind of thing, you know? Because it's very unusual for that level of mind stuff to come.
It was the greatest blessing. First of all, the greatest blessing was that I could bring it to you. I love you so much for that and I appreciate you so much for that, because if I had gone through that alone, I'm not sure that I would have come out the other side with so much peace and love like I did, you know? And it was just because you keep like just stay on point with me, you know, which you don't think people do on their own. So I just first want to say thank you for that. And it was like a mind attack just before a retreat, because I think I could feel something was coming, you know? And I was having a lot of resistance and a lot of like... I was believing, I was really believing the negative thinking in my mind about the teaching.
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So I think it was the first time in my life that I really weighed in on all of the teaching and it was bringing me to such a point of despair. It literally took about five minutes of Mooji talking for it to just like vanish in retreat, but it started on the day with you that I spoke to you. Even though your pointing irritated me, you know, because it's like, 'Yes, I've heard these things a million times and they're not working, they're not working, they're not working.' And I kept on saying that to you: 'It doesn't work with me' and 'Don't tell me that,' you know? But it worked. It worked because you kept asking me and I just didn't have the answers. But what also worked in the middle of all of it was this beautiful grace of Satsang sort of designed it, and I just stopped believing what I had been believing.
I'm so grateful to you and I'm so grateful to Mooji because one of the biggest points in that whole sort of ugly part that I had was about the despair that I feel for the ego never going to go away, you know, and for it always to come up like a troublemaker, and I feel like I have no control over that. But Mooji said in retreat—and it feels like every day he talks to me about this and he talks directly to my heart about this every day—but he really, like in the first fifteen minutes, he was talking about: you choose, you choose, you choose every second, every moment you choose. And at those particular moments, I was choosing to listen to my thoughts and my thinking about the teaching instead of choosing my place where I am. And he said that and it just turned it; it like switched it all off. I just, you know, I just choose differently. I'm not saying that I'm going to be perfect for every moment, I'm going to... you know, act properly, and I'll probably come to you with some kind of melodrama, but I know what I am. And what I am is peace and joy and beauty and so much love, and I'm going to choose that.
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