In these meetings, we are talking about the truth of Stillness, of Silence, of your True Nature. We are talking about such a Stillness ordinarily unknown. Every speech in Satsang points to this Stillness that you are unable to achieve. You cannot find the Truth! So, the search for Enlightenment is useless since you cannot find your Natural State. This is not like finding something or someone you have lost. This Enlightenment, Stillness, Freedom is our True Identity, and It is not an object, neither is something noticeable or able to be found.
You cannot move towards Quietness, you cannot disturb Silence or find What is not lost. Any move you make will disturb This, this Silence, this Quietness, and you will be just moving away from the Truth about yourself. When you understand this first step, you will be already taking the last one. When you understand that everything you are searching for is still part of what the mind has been projecting – this means it is part of the thought, of your ideas, of the imagination – your search will show itself to be completely useless and, then, you stop doing it.
So, this peace, this freedom, this happiness you have been searching for, as well as the enlightenment or the realization of God, all of them are within the imagination created by the thought. So, it is still an object being sought, as if it were something that could be perceived, achieved or known. Here, I am telling you that This is outside the mind and, therefore, it has nothing to do with any object or representation the thought may recognize. Therefore, This is out of the known. The Truth, your Real Nature is something like this, and this is Enlightenment. For this reason, this sounds simple and, at the same time, very mysterious. It is not something you can find by searching for, and any thought is just moving you away from This.
Notice how important this understanding is, because when this is clear, you stop your practices, you stop every form of spiritual search, all this external search. The Real Identity, your Being, is not something to be found or obtained through spiritual search and practices – this is a completely mistaken attempt to approach it. It takes place by a mysterious action of "Something" greater than you. So, the real approach to the Truth is completely free from desire, intention, exercises and practices. The reality of your Being is beyond the mind, the known and what can be perceived. There is no "someone" who can discover This; there is no "someone" in this discovery, then there is no will, no desire, neither is there intention. So, I always invite you to be quiet.
You are too attached to several forms of beliefs, and that is why you live in a world full of problems created by the thought itself. The world seems to have many problems; the others seem to be very troublesome... You will always see things differently from what they really are. I call this way of seeing the world, the life, yourself and others as a "dream". This internal state of confusion reveals itself externally as if it were "other people in confusion," "the world in confusion," and "life in confusion."
I am not talking about this body-mind quietness attainable through spiritual practices. If you practice some meditation technique, you can quiet the body and the mind. Everything calms down: thought gets quiet, the body gets quiet... in other words, you enter into a state where you stop the mind and all the body activities, and then you have the sensation you are meeting the truth. This is a moment without any disturbance, achieved with the help of a mantra, a song, a breathing technique or a voice speaking slowly, in a slow way, leading you to this state that you consider the state of the "truth," of the "silence," of the perfect "quietness."
So, you remain there for half an hour, forty minutes, an hour, an hour and half, perhaps two hours, and after that, you have to get up, to go to the kitchen to prepare your food, but when you are in the kitchen washing rice or making the baby's bottle, the mind is already back. Or after these two hours you have to get up and go to the office to deal with the papers, to answer e-mails, and you perceive the thought is back, and it brings the character again with all the burden of its history. Therefore, we are not talking about this kind of body-mind quietness.
I say that to you, because people ask me: "How to keep this meditation state day by day?" The fact is that they see the state they have experienced for half an hour, an hour and half, two hours, as if it were the state of Meditation and of Nirvana contemplation, and then they see themselves out of "nirvana," out of "Samadhi;" the mind is back. The fact is that people do not like very much what I have to say to them: this is not the real Meditation, the Real State. I try to talk to them in a pleasant way, but, even so, I think that it does not work.
I want you to find out your Natural State of Meditation, not this artificial state you reach through practices, which is still part of an exercise and is not natural. This state may be of great relaxation to the nerves, to the muscles, to the blood pressure, a great relaxing to the sleep; it provides great benefits to the body and to the mind... It is a moment without stress, without worries, without family (because family is really a worry). In it, your ego is "knocked out" during thirty minutes, an hour and half, two hours, and after that, it gets up and it goes back to the "ring," with the gloves ready again, because it has already rested, it has already drank water and dried the sweat, so it is ready for more twenty two hours for the day you have ahead, including the sleeping hours – in case you have meditated for two hours.
Then, you ask me: "Why cannot I remain in such a wonderful, quiet state of peace?"
The answer is: "Because it is not your Natural State, but a state created by a technique, by a meditation practice." You have to work the rest of the day and your boss will not allow you to sit cross-legged to do this practice during business hours, be it at the doctor's clinic, be it at the office, at a plant, at the barrack or somewhere else; your boss wants you to work, because there is a place to work. I am not speaking ill of your meditation practice, I am only saying that it is useless to this purpose here; it may be surely useful, but it is useless to this purpose here.
So, this Quietness we are talking about is not the quietness of the body and the mind; it is something beyond this meditation practice. It is the Quietness that comes naturally when there is attention to the illusory movement of the "me." This is the Real Meditation! I have insisted a lot on it. Therefore, when you are open to observe the movement of this false "me," you begin to discover the Real Meditation, be it at your work (at the office, at the plant, at the barrack, at the doctor's office, writing a prescription, taking care of a patient, and so on) or at the kitchen washing the rice and making the baby's bottle. It is necessary to observe the mind, what is happening inside you in this relation with the world around you, day by day, when your "me" is upset; your "person" is hurt, offended, annoyed, moment by moment...
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