Why is Something So Meaningful to Me? 16th October 2017

As long as whatever is happening is helping us to unburden 'I am' from all notions of 'I am something,' it is satsang. Whatever is giving more notions to this 'I am something' is contradictory to the sharing of satsang, which might include even the words of satsang. Including—it might sound contradictory to what I've been saying, but really it's true—including if it is just the notion 'I am God' or 'I am consciousness' or 'I am awareness' or 'I am the Self.' If these are just notions that we are giving to ourselves, then better to not have heard these words at all. And that is why for thousands of years, actually, all these words were shared in secret. Upanishads: sit close, close to the Master's feet and share. So nothing here must be applied notionally or conceptually to ourselves. Everything that is here is just like a barbershop to trim things away, trimming the weeds. We have no wings for you here; there's no masks here to remove the masks. And I definitely don't want to give anyone a spiritual mask.

That's why I enjoy a question like this very much, saying, 'Which is clearer about laptop or my life this or that?' making highlights and what happens. So, and it's a very good thing to take duty. The quest is not with the spiritual mask or something like that. We'll see how it is. This fear is coming. I am using that to check: What is what here? What is attached? Whose laptop is it? The inquiry is very simple like this. Surrender means just with this insight: 'God is here. Everything is His problem.' All that is moving is in the light of consciousness, whether we use the term God, Guru, Self—it doesn't matter. You know, just words. We have to use it. Bhagavan also said very beautifully: 'God, Guru, and Self are one.' So whatever we claim naturally, it would be good that we can see and move, but we lose their potency, we lose their meaning. But whatever still comes, then we can pull that into your inquiry and see: Why is this so meaningful to me that I am clearly happy to exchange my holy divine presence for just this notion of myself? Whether it is relationship, whether it is attachment, whether it is health of body, whether it is freedom—the concept of freedom. Why are some things so meaningful or valuable to me? Always speak.