You Cannot Not Be That - 10th November 2017

So today, what are we doing? Are we pretending to have the bondage problem and then working towards our freedom? Are we to see that there is nobody that is bound and yet play with bondage for a bit and then leave it? What is the other seeker position? Are we going to play with 'I got it yesterday, today I lost it' or 'I've never really got it'? None of these are true about you. You are only misunderstanding what is here. You feel like, or you believe, 'I am just a person sitting on the floor, sitting on the couch, sitting in the room.' But this starting point itself is not true. No person is sitting here. This is such an inventive idea, this commotion.

So then, if no person is there, then what to do with that which is there? Let's give that a name. That which is there, what do you want to call it? If you want to call it God, do you want to call it Consciousness, you want to call it Satguru, Being, I Am? You choose. Everyone is with me so far? No person is there. With me so far in that? You find it. You can't maintain it, it's not an 'it' yet. I Am. I Am. It's a qualitative experience. I exist. Even to say 'I don't exist' can happen only within your existence. I Am. What do you want to call this I Am? Whatever we call it, whatever we call it doesn't really matter.

Now, what is this 'I' that is aware? Now, for some of you, it means a lot. For some of you, no. So this terminology might seem a bit strange, but a simpler way to ask this is: Who is even aware of this Being? What is it that is aware of my Being? Who is the 'I' that knows? Does that have a name? Does it have a shape, size, color, anything? Now, you cannot be that. You cannot not be that. You cannot leave that. You cannot become this which you believe yourself to be.

So when in some forms of spirituality it is about killing the ego or demolishing the ego—'the ego must be killed,' they say—it is talking about this 'I'. Kill the 'I'. Here we see: Has it ever really been there? Is this person there? Is it the one that cares about freedom? Is he in this, in this, in this pocket? Is that one hiding? Produce the one that wants freedom. It is not. It never has been you.