This is another opportunity to turn to the ever present Reality. Satsang is the opportunity to an encounter with the Grace. The word "Satsang" represents the encounter with God, the encounter with the "Sat" (Being).
Everyone is connected to the illusion, because everyone considers him/herself "someone", and he or she is paying a huge price for that. People relationships are on the basis of desire, fear, anxiety, pursuit of fulfillment in others, pursuit of recognition, of feeling loved, of being accepted, resulting in all forms of requirements and misery. This has been the price of illusion based relations – what I have called as "relationship".
Relationships have no Peace, no Freedom, no Love, no Truth. They are relations where something will always be demanded or searched, and such demanding behavior entails conflict, suffering, quite miserable things. One part always demands something of the counterpart, being this "counterpart" indeed his/her own self-insufficiency, his/her own neediness, his/her own unhappiness, his/her own misery in pursuit of something placed apparently in the outside.
The mind cannot reflect on this because it is unable to recognize its self-limitation. From the moment you get up in the morning on, you carry the sense of "person", demanding, desiring. It is essential to notice this self-limitation, to observe the mind insufficiency, to see all the distressing and conflicting movement where the mind is confined to. This is strictly required, since without it, you cannot take the leap beyond these boundaries, this suffering, this personality.
I am just portraying the movement of the "person", of the personality. The mind cannot think beyond the limitation of the personality. It is "successful" in this identification with this false "me". So when you come to Satsang, you face the greatest and most outstanding challenge of your life: to go beyond this fake life, the life of the "person", the life of this false "me", and thus to discover what means living in your true Divine Nature, in your true Self.
When you live in your Being, in your True Nature, there are no more requirements, no more desires nor fears. Thus, there is no more "requiring", but "offering". Love is this Freedom to provide, to donate. Love is wealth! Love does not beg, does not require, does not seek, does not wish. It has no longer any sign of this old egoic mind movement. You are Consciousness itself in your Being, you are Truth itself... You are God! There is no more "requiring" because there is this Totality, this Completeness. So you are completely sensitive, open... You are Free!
Only in Satsang it is possible to clearly see and perceive all this game play the ego has been getting into against itself, by means of supposed relations with others – actually, it happens to be always a relation between the ego and itself, in its incompleteness, loneliness and ignorance. You need to figure out how to go beyond this personality, beyond this false "me", dissolving that root. The oddest thing in all this is to speak of personality as if it were something real, and yet it is not.
You must undergo full and absolute Truth experience in order to trully find out this personality does not exist. This "me" is only a conditioning, a belief, a cultural and social model, a false movement of what we call "egoic mind". That personality you take for real, that "person" you believe you are is only a collection of experiences, memories, remembrances and beliefs. When you are offered this opportunity to investigate, being then able to realize this illusion, you cannot be caught anymore; this "sleep", this hypnotic state, this belief vanishes.
Some call It as Self-Realization, Awakening, Enlightenment... It is the end of illusion, of the sense of self-identity. Thus, life is present, but in its Totality, in this sensitivity and openness. There is no more that "you"!
This Silence, this Presence, this Grace, this Reality, this Natural State is called in India as "Sat-Chit-Ananda", that means, Being-Consciousness-Happiness. There are no more requirements, no more searches, no need from external things... You are Free and nothing and nobody can drag you back into unconsciousness, into the limitation.
Amém🙏
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