What Would Be The Best Work? - 12 May 2016

But you know the functioning is happening now, Father. To come for Satsang and all the time...

It is lost at Satsang because I need you to come to Satsang. I'm like spending quality time with the kids, then getting them ready to go to the park... you know, suddenly the whole dash of energy is coming, but otherwise it's just like me... like I'm like some... oh, I don't know. I just feel like... I don't know why I just feel like complaining.

Like me, one time, maybe more than a year ago, one of the Sangha members, she had two or three or four family members in the hospital and lots of things were happening at the same time. So she was tending to this one, tending to that one, and some were really serious in the ICU. Something was happening and I called her up—she was in Australia at that time—so I spoke to her and she said, I don't know, or something like this (I'm paraphrasing a bit because I don't remember accurately), but she said something like, 'There's this to do and there's this to do and there's this to do, and my body here feels so completely exhausted that I don't have the energy to move a muscle, to move an inch.' And I saw that the response that came from here was that whatever is really required to be done, the energy for that will also come.

Now what happens is that... okay, so in any case, what happened over there is that I spoke to her, she sends me a message the next day saying exactly that: that whatever really had to be done, just the energy for it came up over that and the body moved, everything just happened. You see? It is that the mind comes and it says, 'But see, now you don't have the energy for this also. You're not taking good care of the kids also. You're not doing a good job at work also.' So all of these complaints the mind is having, actually, because the mind is trying to make the pretend person out of you again. And it's saying that if you leave it up to this that is just here—this consciousness, this being—then it's not going to move, you will become a terrible mother.

How do you know these things? Maybe your one minute of your being around them without carrying the sense of personhood would be better than ten lifetimes of you being a wonderful mother. How does the mind know any of this? So don't go on these dismal small things. And I can tell you that there is no better mother to have than you have: a mother who is not a person at home, who is not pretending to be a person at home. What a great blessing and a great gift it is for the kids. So this is what I see: that the kids are actually being blessed because their mother is in Satsang, is open and recognizing who she is. But with the mind, see? 'Oh, now because you come to Satsang, therefore look at this, now you're not taking care of the kids.' It's all rubbish.

It is the same mind that makes the other... lines in the sand. If my country... anything goes... be like playing with them or doing any activities or anything, so it seems like the mind is saying I don't spend any quality time with them anymore.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. What would be the best quality time? The best quality time for anyone in this appearance, in this room, would be to come to the Darshan of God, to come into the presence of God which is removing the person out of the picture. Then the unfiltered, unadulterated presence of God is here. Don't you go with your mind's report card. If you fall into that trap again, it will tell you all these stories. It's not about activity, activity, activity all the time; that is just fed to us culturally. There is no higher quality than to be in the presence of those who have dropped the idea of being a person.

Then you will find, like here, not just calling you mother... I'm all over the world, they are calling you mother. How it happened? Here there was no planning. Oh, Father, yeah, two kids also... there was no plan that I'll have, you know, so many from all over the world will call me Father. Why did they do that? They must be finding some quality time. So it is not about that. Because this, the mind can come like this and can tell us, 'Don't chase Satsang, do it just once a month' or something like this. 'You have kids, you have responsibilities, you have other employees who rely on you.' All these stories of the mind, if you keep buying them, then it's the same old person idea.

So we are astronauts. What is our discovery? Which space, which realm are we discovering? This realm of seeing what happens when we drop these ideas of individuality, of identity. And it's a worthwhile endeavor. In a few years, if your kids have some real complaints, they can come to the Father and tell me, 'Because of you, you know, yeah, this is what happened.' Just the mind trying to create it now. But now you must not fall for some special mind trick. Don't fall for these same old, same old ones. Let's not fall for the same April Fool's Day trick. Let it be a little creative. Let it come up with something innovative, really do some hard work. 'You're not being a good mother, what about work?' All this we've looked at. It's okay. It's the same old stuff.

Now what else does it have? Just this... this mother thing and this work thing, which I put it on her... I just wanted to, like, before the mind just kind of snowballed into something big, I just wanted to... like I was just checking myself at the right time, not letting...

It's very good to do this. Is there any fear from the mind?

No, it doesn't seem to be any fear. It just seems to be in this lethargy and no energy to do anything, and some work-related... but just wanted to put it out, Father. I just didn't want to carry it forward anymore because the mind, the thoughts have been like the mosquito, like you said, but I just wanted to... they wanted to build on itself.

Very good. Can we all agree today—there are maybe a few of us who are listening—can we all agree that if you had to look at this concept of work, and there was a doer here who could do some work, then what is the best work that this doer could be doing in this realm? Is it the making of money? Is it the best work, getting more plastic and getting more metal and paper? What could be the best work if there was a doer? If all of us were doers and we say, 'Okay, now we are going to do the best work,' what would the best work be? What we're doing just now. Exactly. According to the mind, is it the worst work? Is being lazy and just wasting our life? What are we doing? What's the point of it anyway? My voice, what is it going to give you? Nothing, Father. Nothing. But I can do nothing for you.