Whatever You Are Becoming is Not You - 15th June 2016

If we lost the ability to understand all the words, all concepts started sounding so gibberish, what would you really lose? Ya kak kak ya ba ba ba yeah yeah no yeah. What would we lose? Just our basket of concepts. Would life stop? What concept do we need to be? What concept do we need to see? So the spiritual concepts are just making you spiritual people, and it'd be better to forget about them. If Advaita Vedanta is making an Advaitin out of you, better to forget about it because many things we have been, many roles. Get utterly to be tired of this role play. Whatever you are becoming is not you. If you're becoming more spiritual, it's not you. If you're getting better at something, it is not you. This that changes is not you.

So what are we doing in Satsang? There we are just looking at what is. It is not about becoming free, because that which can become free cannot be you, because becoming anything, including free, implies that there is a change which is possible in you. It's the point of asking 'Who am I?' to see what it is right now. Who am I right now? And any conclusion we pick up about this is only our denial of what is.

The Americans sometimes say that if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. What I like to say is: stay in the kitchen of your mind. It seems hot for a second, for a minute, for a while. This openness, this aloneness, the oneness seems a bit wobbly. It seems a bit hot for a while, and to escape this heat you clutch onto the name, as if it is going to help us. Just for a while, if we can stay open without any crutches, without the identity, coming to this naturalness, lightness of being. We are coming to this point where believing the interpretation about life seems like too much hard work. We are coming to our childlike innocence. Right now, you are the unborn.