Self-realization is a remembrance

It is important that everybody here recognizes this subject is not something to be learned about. Self-realization is a remembrance, but the fact is that you are not able to remember What you are without allowing yourself time to accomplish this.

Satsang basically means the joy of being "free" from "yourself", from this "me", this false "me". The problem lies in the fact that people never have time to be idle, since they are always busy and in the puisuit of further occupations; they don't free up neither time nor space for that, because their own things make them too busy. The more things they accomplish in the outside, the more they have to strive to keep them. This way, people do not free themselves time up to investigate the nature of Reality, because they avail themselves of time to service this "oneself", to maintain what the "person" has built and preferably to build further, and all this means fear, suffering, and worries.

Therefore, is the wealthiest person the one who possesses things or that one free from worries about pursuing possessions? Who has time to investigate the illusory nature of oneself? The one worried about keeping accomplishments of this "me" or that one willing to give up this "me" and all its possessions or believed possessions? I am going to reformulate the question: who is ready for Happiness? Is it the one who has possessions or that one who is investigating the nature of this illusory possessor of things? Who is truly a Sage? Is it the one searching externally for fulfillment – in things, people and goods, or that one engaging solely in the investigation of this "oneself" illusion and of how foolish is to attain things in the outside? Then, what is real ignorance and Real Wisdom?

When people come here and say this is not easy, I look at them and ask: "Is your life easy?" People say this is quite difficult, but I say I consider quite hard the way they are living their lives. I consider very painful to live in suffering, with attachments, frustrations and full of desires that are never achieved – because they end up turning into new desires. To live in the ego is trully hard! To live thinking, to live worried is an overburden...

So, as I've said in the beginning, it is just a matter of remembering THIS, and not of learning about IT. You believe you are a person, you were born and you will die, and I say: You are God! You are Consciousness! Your Nature is undying, timeless, spaceless, pure Presence, pure Reality. Your Presence, the Presence of all, is the Presence of Happiness! I am saying your Presence IS Happiness, and not that Happiness will once reach you. Happiness will neither be found nor acquired – IT is You! That is why Happiness, Love, Peace, and Freedom are unattainable in the outside world; there is only frustration in the outside world.

Basically, what I mean is: abandon everything! You got to abandon everything in the outside world psychologically! You can do that! This is my invitation to you in Satsang. This time dedicated to this is tremendously necessary to Awakening. Stay with the beauty of this Awakening, of this Truth blossoming, of this supreme Freedom. Remembering THIS means you end the suffering, the illusion, the ignorance about yourself.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 23rd, 2018. First published in Portuguese on August 30th, 2018. For further information about our meetings, please click here.