You Don´t Even Have to Drop This Something - 3rd January 2018

You might get the idea that it is to make something out of you, to make you an enlightened person or something like this, but it is not. That is why all these ideas of 'How will I get there? When will I get there? How come this one is getting there, this is just their third satsang and they got it, I am not getting it' happen to so many. It's all fiction, you see? Because the idea is, 'Oh, we need to get rid of the something notion.' You know, the idea of getting something in our neutrality, in our emptiness of truth, was not there; then there would be no truth. If truth needed a thought to be true, then that could be a useless truth. Now, what exists without any concept? If you didn't have the concept man, woman, husband, wife, parent, employee, manager, business owner—all these are concepts. Even 'body' is a concept, entity, a set of sensations that are experienced. You will be able the similar set of sensations and call it body. Suppose you did not have concept of 'I,' you did not have concept of 'world.' If you stop existing concept-less, your existence is here, isn't it?

So this existence is all there is. The greatest honor has been consciousness believing itself to be something elevated. So this existence has been confused, has been in the Leela played as if it is the existence of somebody personal. That person is not here, has never been except as a belief system. And you're tired now, but I heard because it is effort to believe yourself to be something. And I'm happy if you're completely tired; otherwise, you time will use. If you're completely tired, I'm very happy because you played with all the notions. Now you try and think this way, that way, all positions you try it, and you come to me completely tired and say, 'No, I've tried everything, it doesn't work.' Music to my ears. 'I tried to be humble, I've tried to be special, I'm trying to be a devotee, I have tried to be enlightened one,' you see? Or try to all these positions and none of it works. If you see these things, I am very happy.

But you can still: 'I have been a devotee, when will I become enlightened? I have become humble, I have been humble, when will I become special?' Then it means that you have tried, you're still yearning for some other positions to see if they were personally. But if you see, and if you also learn from the experience of so-called others, and kriti will come to this realization that no personal position works. No matter how glorious that 'something' might be after you attach it to 'I am,' it cannot meet the glory of 'I am' itself. Nothing is greater than your natural existence. This is all that you will ever be. So Adi Shankara said that the root of all trouble is ignorance, omniscience ignorance. What is this ignorance? Just this: 'I am something.' So in which way will you let 'I am' be 'I am'? A simpler way to put it is: which way will you leave 'I am' to just be? Leave it alone. I'm elicited by any notion you might have about yourself.

Who's willing to die for a few days or few minutes? Truth is zero existence is here. Consciousness, subconscious, don't worry about Ananda, don't worry about please. In India, it was the Maharashtra, if not mistaken, there was a wedding and this very rich person, he got a gold shirt made for himself, like a solid gold shirt made for himself, very sure. So this could be a good example. Who's now you are wearing the shirt, but what do I see you doing? You're holding for 25 paisa coins, one rupee coins on the street. So I say, 'Why do you do that?' You say, 'Because I want to become rich,' you see? But look at you, you're wearing this gold shirt. You have the biggest treasure that is there in this country. 'No, no, I can't see it.' Is it? So how do I believe you? 'Come, come, I show you in the mirror.' 'No, no, like not because that one rupee, I might miss a rupee if I go with you.' That is all that is happening in satsang. I am telling you that you are all there is, and you're saying, 'I sure, if I believe you, will I be able to pay my bills next month? Will I lose my job?' I am showing you that you are even the presence of God is an aspect of your own Self or greater compliment connected. There's nothing that you have to do to become that because you are that.

That's our concept first clarify the re. So said something very beautiful also before we started the broadcast. He said Bhagavan used to say that you will find me only then you find yourself. It's like me... was it woman who say, 'I went looking for God and I found myself. I've been looking for myself and I found God.' And all of us know these things actually. If I also to also ask you, is the Self ever-present or does it come and go? Ever-present. So where to look for the Self? In the present. Can there be an incomplete Self? Can there be a half-Self which is trying to become the full Self? Even stranger idea: can you lose yourselves that now you are trying to find it? Lose yourself in stopping to asking this for a couple of years now. Nobody has actually lost themselves. Just don't be stopped existing for a moment, then I appoint you to existence. Nobody can do it. You just are effortlessly. The truth is here.

And don't confuse what I'm saying to be some sort of inaction. That is level confusion. The actions or inactions of the body will continue to happen. I'm pointing about the 'you' which is much beyond this body, but beyond this universe you are. So much beyond of this universe that even to say the universe is your body is stretching it a bit. You that is so Maya is that is the illusion, all this. It is so much beyond me. This world has given itself the power to consider itself to be just this limited body-mind. Yes, the ego, that is a divine mystery and how it is playing this game of seemingly struggling to come out of this identity. She's struggling to meet yourself now as you are. It is nobody, there is no world, there is no universe, there is only the Self. All distinctions are mental, whether it is a subtle negative, whether it is with qualities, whether it is Saguna, without qualities is only the Self. The mind wants to divide; the Self is a very united. And our notions are nothing but distinctions in time and space.

If you stop making distinction then time and space... when we start making distinctions in same time, 'Oh, it's okay now, I would, what about the future?' So can algorithm set some good energy? One is also distinction. Where is the future? Anybody experienced it? Is the past any clearer? I have evidence of the past except this very unreliable memory. All these also distinction. It is one consciousness playing this game of light and sound, and the mind is designed to chop it up into pieces: past, present, future, being other, my family, other faculty, eyes on the Haiku, my truths. What is this 'me' and 'my'? Never got any more except suffering. I was saying yesterday, I don't know whether it was in the broadcast or after, my perfect silent retreat one day will be that in which outer silence is irrelevant, but you're empty of concepts about yourself. You... I'm glad we'll replace the person. The better person is that we have a Robert De Niro mask, now you trying to replace it with Tom Cruise or dot o changer the quality of your identity.

What is this 'me' and 'my'? It never got you anything more except suffering. I was saying yesterday—I don't know whether it was in the broadcast or after—my perfect silent retreat one day will be that in which outer silence is irrelevant, but you're empty of concepts about yourself. You see, I'm glad we'll replace the person. The 'better person' is just that we have a Robert De Niro mask now and you are trying to replace it with Tom Cruise. Don't change the quality of your identity over these masks. If you remain empty of these, I promise you, you will meet only the light of consciousness. What is here is you. And I can tell you that contentment is not far behind.

I know that for many of you it happens that you come to inquiry, you come to insight, and you see that it's just so plain. There is nothing here. What's the point of this? But if you leave it be, if you let it be, you'll see that natural, effortless being has the perfume of contentment about it, an ease about it. So don't put the cart before the horse. As you remain empty of notions, you'll start to taste the fragrance of the joy of being so beautifully. I never wanted something again. No one wants to pick up the mask again. It just seems like too much hard work, actually. I have no trouble with it, except that you feel like you're too lazy to do all that effort to behave as a person.

If you're swimming in fresh water which is drinkable and I told you you have to climb the top of that mountain to get half a glass of water, would you do it? So spiritual seeking is like that. The great Indian saint Kabir Ji said it very beautifully. He said, 'The fish is thirsting for water in the water; all I can do is laugh.' The truth is even funnier, isn't it? Whatever is thirsting for water, where will you find it? The second best news is that you don't have to believe anything. You don't have to believe anything I'm saying. We don't have to use any belief. All you have to do is just check for yourself.

Ananta says that there is the unchanging. Can I find that in my own experience? What is unchanging? Find out that which witnesses all that changes without changing. What has no matter, what has no limitations or boundaries? What is beyond your waking state, dreams, and deep sleep state? What remains untouched when this waking state goes? Can you take anything from here into sleep? Every phenomena goes, but you are there. So, all those who made a deal with me that you're going to remain motionless, I'm watching you. And we meet tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. okay?

I have to be careful. If you take it seriously, you know the golden rule: if anything you hear in satsang makes you feel unworthy or guilty, just forget it. We're just playing with these things. Nothing is serious; it's all done anyway. So don't come tomorrow feeling guilty, you know, 'Father, we said that I'll be motionless but I picked up so many notions, I don't deserve to be in satsang.' This is a beautiful book I was reading many years ago before I met Guruji, called 'A Course in Miracles.' What happened is that after the initial scribes passed away, there used to be a lot of debates in the Course community about what was meant by this. People would fight and argue, and it became more about the debating, actually.

Then one of the original students of the Course was invited one day for one of these debates and he said, 'Just take those pages, tear them, and throw them away because they are not worth it.' So all these pointers, if they just become more words for you to be something 'better' with, then you don't need any pointers. The only purpose is, as one said, satsang is to remove the thorns and then throw these thorns away. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today.

The question is, what is against you? Sometimes things tell you, 'I will do this,' and then you do things. For whose benefit? You can take a sample. I can put examples of my senses. Due to accidents, I thought the evening one might even ask me... the next thing came back to me. I said, 'Satsang says that they want a graduate.' I was working. I mean, if I have nothing, please forward from this field. Basically, you will not do, you do not make, you do not change them necessarily. So you know, a little bit of every push, utility makes things. Meaning what? Some real pressure. Same with anything. This satsang gets you to see back early. The worldly life also. Become a sannyasi who chose sannyas. Please, a master, yes. But you know, in the world where worse things happen, all those things will be lovely. Find out until you understand. It's not that there's nothing on in your... there's nothing. That's all you have to do. Everything works. You will be pushed into everything and that will not prevent you from doing what is appropriate.

Ananta says, 'I'm going to that satsang.' I don't feel there are wonderful things. Wait until the time of retirement. Other family have an official move on after retirement to please, of course, the money he won't get. Verse 65. But one year... so it shouldn't be seen. I have a feeling that what they are laying right there is ourselves only. Like this, the children look into the mirror. Don't cheat. Don't cheat the mirror. Look at the mirror. What do you like? What provisions to study?

See, I'm happy that not to me... foolish one of the disciples' letters. And I wrote the first, just for the first one, mercy. But I did not for a little longer, but a little visit. Yeah, some of them become down. I've come to know of the loss. Luckily, I knew simple old... he was not keeping his box, but I did not think so. See, it has to end like this. My sincerity to yourself, money, and others' concern. Of course, it is a sad loss and the grief is heavy but inevitable. The invisible hands of the tree are sensed in such occurrences, then in those which are considered as happy. The truth, the truth absolute, is so in the form of... it is all mercy. This action or grief, where our ignorance makes us view otherwise, thinking some is good, some bad, and some official results are the outcome of our reverence. God never errs and His movements are never out of place.

The absence of that which we call 'the new'—evolution will ever take place. For instance, we will not... childhood will not drop out, then the childhood functions in this world. And I wish, and my wife... it is nice. Let me first say also it is true. We say that you find another because he is in portrait artists. It means that I can see the different lengths and easy heaviness and complex dissolute. What is our Atma is always perfect. It cannot be done. So obvious it is. The family owned some post recently. This member system we spoke about. The result is as it is to be. And one can say, 'Okay, thank perfection to my actual illness.' But I married my first venture very recently. Since many countries, Spanish seems better by setting sannyasi. But nature, you sense that things should... you see that this is saying all these without speaking.

In that room, he used to say, 'Witness is a website using for your father's name, Ram.' That's what I said. It's not existing, just my... I am much pleased with your signal under these letters. I want to understand and give credit to your particular difficulty, that's in carrying out a very most essential item which is all in all. Yes, it appears simple. Vichara is easier at the outset to most of the requirements, especially modern. But after some time, either inertia, extremely overcrowded thoughts setting in, check up further progress. Cannot push away inertia, dullness, instability. This condition sets in as the inclination itself to overcome also gets weary. And if the stream of thoughts happens to rush, then also another sort of difficulty.

It is true the kind of flow in the beginning makes one feel sure of reaching the end without any other means, towards which an adverse personal emotion also springs up. Moreover, it is the law of nature that governs everything. Brahman is equally opposite of balancing to the weighted. So if one wants to know a thing which is simple, he should stand in a place from where he can balance himself against all compounds and complexities. Meaning that he should possess such a power to ignore or overcome what is necessary to accomplish. Believe I'm using a pen... since my open what I want to express.

A man has to journey through a jungle, traveling without a weapon, thinking there will be no wild beasts. If he goes without equipment because he is already absolutely sure of his convictions about safety, and if perchance he comes across any toxic creature, he will have to regret for having not equipped. Similarly, before reaching the final goal, a man has to pass through a dense forest. The heart of the jungle is the subconscious mind. There are so many thoughts of subtle desires and vasaanas are hiding there. Then they spring up and there is no roaming about the passage.

So a formula deliciously given by a self-realized soul is not only a perfect weapon but also a charm against evil. This is only a poor simile, yet significant in what he wore. The formula itself is fully the goal and the substance and the essence. I can understand why it is not appreciated and further why the difficulties are experienced so far. So good, no harm. It will be sacrificed if we were agreeable and patently... well, not palatable. Everybody will rush for that. Baba is also not demanded. If we come right, there will be no regret. The gratefulness in the course of time.

There is a simile by Sri Ramakrishna. There was a kind of disease, a man affected by which tastes sugar as bitter. But the medicine, which is sugar itself... so the disease is there, he takes sugar and it's bitter. But the medicine is the sugar itself. To those, he tastes it thoroughly and then the disease will get cured and the sugar begins to taste its usual sweetness. So with mantra japa, this can go hand in hand with each other. That which is to be realized is the meaning of the formula. That is its essence, very existence, or something which is right in the sun, moon, and so on. Its super Shakti.

What is it that lights up, influencing the sun? This consciousness. It cannot be denied. This sense which cannot deny the existence is existence itself. While repeating, if you are particular about this sense, it is powered by the name in a collective sense. The formula is the name. Chit, or conscious sense, is the substance. In the same way as you hear a man's name, you can see the man himself involved. You say the name of the Lord. So when you're chanting, you bring a whole... we follow with other times. I do not know if there is which is against your inclination, which is in question.

Remember the significance of Chidambaram. Hear my narration of the issue of the vision while coming from the Bavaria. The moonlight which disappeared before my sight. The sunlight came from somewhere and probably would read it without the presence of the sun. Both disappear. That's an appearance. We came to be facts in the absence of further regulation which took place subsequently. There my strength was the sun, which was also not final. That knowledge which realized that previous conclusions were false gives the final touch with the exact conception and realization of infancy. Even something which also in a manner is revealed to seekers perfectly to the fullest satisfaction, and also your experience about that Lila which swallowed you up. And that is that in a second.

Disturbingly, all these things come in satsang, a transition. So it's not really what you feel. We'll be going to... you say, 'But my body and person persistence.' There's a 'my,' possessing my... this of us, my body, there's a surface. Who is the possessor?

Even something which also in a manner is revealed to seekers perfectly to the fullest satisfaction, and also your experience about that which swallowed you up. And that is that in a second, this later disturbingly all these things come in something, a transition. So it's not really what you feel. We'll be going to you, say, but my body and persistence. There's a mic, I possessing my mic, this of us, my body, there's a surface. Who is the possessor? So, Mr. Coffee go to you, there's about ten experiments. What would I know with the devolution? This is something we just, this will, but the fact we know that that time relevant. What is this thing? See, technically say, I portion, what is it? But what is and so this point.