The freedom to live without choices

The mind has no perspective about What is unnamable, unthinkable, unspeakable, indescribable. We are talking about something that is outside of this known dimension, of mind’s dimension. In Satsang, we are always dealing about what can be investigated and, therefore, about what is still part of the process of the mind, but that is the possible way to have a direct perception of What is beyond it.

In this new dimension, there is no limitation, which is something so common in the mind, because there is not anyone. Therefore, it is not about "someone" understanding it; however, the investigation of the limitation is something that becomes crucial to perceive What is beyond this "someone," this supposed entity present. In this way, we can see What lies beyond the mind, beyond what can be described, beyond the known. The investigation prepares the way for the leap that happens beyond the investigation itself.You are here to go beyond the beliefs. While you believe you are someone, you remain within the dimension of the known and, therefore, without knowing this new dimension. The Realization is the Awakening of this new dimension, of this indescribable, unknown Reality.

The mind lives within the limits of the known, of the restrictions of its beliefs. The way to see the world, the situations and life, through the mind, is always within these restraints. Everything that the mind seeks – and it is always in search of – is within these limitations. This is the movement of the personality, the movement of the ego-identity. Thus, there is a constant struggle, because the mind is always in search of safety.

When you are free from the "person," from this personal sense, there is no more fighting. It is when there is a deep understanding that this "person," this personality is just a hallucination. So, you are free from the burden of memory, from the search for safety, from the fear of making mistakes and, therefore, free from this thing so heavy that is the choice.

In the ego, you live within this concept of choice, due to the fear of being wrong, of not being successful. In fact, you have been conditioned, by culture, to seek safety, to accomplish things, to get success, and all this is based on choices.

In these meetings, we investigate the patterns of this ego-identity, this false identity that you believe to be; the fear, the suffering that this represents and the prison that is present in it. And why? Because you are not who you think you are. You are attached to choices.

There is a great and extraordinary Happiness in life free from choices. In this Self-Realization, in the Realization of the Truth of your Real Nature, in this "living" without choices, there is a great and extraordinary Intelligence. Your Natural State offers a great Freedom, a great and indescribable Creativity. Your Natural State is wise! In this Creativity, in this non-choice, in this Intelligence, there is the complete freedom from fear.

God is this Reality, is this Mystery. We can call This as Consciousness, too. Consciousness is What is present when there is no more the hallucination of the ego-identity. The mind cannot achieve this perspective, because It is unthinkable, is out of imagination, outside of the thought. So, all that old fear, the seek for safey, and all this search for results and external fulfillment disappear. This is the maturity of the Intelligence, the maturity of the Natural State, of the Realized Being, the One who "came back home." Just like in the parable of the prodigal son, the one who returned to the House of his Father. Something quite paradoxical, because this Consciousness never stopped being What It Is. So, the period that the prodigal son had been away was something very real in his imagination, but it was never, in fact, real — from the point of view of the Ultimate Reality. The "return of the prodigal son” takes place in this question: "Who am I?"

When you practice this self-inquiry and explore that deeply inside you, there comes a point of maturity, when the mind says: "I do not know!" Only then, in that "I do not know!", a space arises for the instantaneous and extraordinary perception of the Truth about yourself. Only then, That, which is timeless, unnamable and unspeakable, reveals itself. At this point, "the prodigal son returns to the House of his Father," but in reality, he never left there. He had a huge egoic and hallucinated flight of fancy. Ego is pure hallucination!

When there are surrender, self-investigation and this full commitment, the abandonment naturally happens and the illusion of separation dissolves. I have called it the "collapse of illusion," which is the Awakening of Intelligence.  

In this self-inquiry, in this exploration, the mind can immerse in the Source and disappear, because there is this abandonment, this surrender. So, this vicious circle of delusion of the egoic mind is broken.

You have gone through many directions, but all of them are within that circle of egoic hallucination. You, in this circle, have never found, nor will ever find the Happiness, Peace, Freedom, because This is not part of the egoic mind, is not within the hallucination.

* Originally published in Portuguese on June 26, 2018 ** Transcribed from a speech in an online meeting on the evening of May 11th, 2018 -Meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on 10:00 pm. Download Paltalk app on your smartphone or on your computer to participate.