Live the Truth, the Reality of Your Being

In these meetings, we are handling with the end of the representation of "being someone”, to what we have been trained, educated, and conditioned. This gets very clear as people's lives have no Joy, Love or Freedom. What they call "joy, love and freedom" are unconscious desires and actions, as well as fear, much fear.

So, the whole society leads us to that direction, for if we do not become "someone" in this world, we will be a "nobody." Being "nobody" is interpreted as a very negative thing within our education and culture; it is like being a loser. Thus, since childhood, we are educated to trust in "being someone" and to work towards that direction. This is what society has taught us, and we end up paying a very huge price for being engrained in this representation, in this desire to "be someone."

Everybody puts a lot of value on this. If the purpose is "to be someone," the desire is to be important. So, people’s relationships are based on self-importance, which represent instability, anxiety and fear. That’s why people are concerned all the time with their self-image, pursuing to be loved, wishing to not be forgotten.

Is it not like this? Isn't that a fact? Is it not what happens in the world? Do people live in love, in joy and in freedom, or are they living the way I just said? What is your case? Are you working on this "thing" of going beyond the known human relationships, fully loaded with tremendous and terrible demands?

Satsang is this encounter with Reality, with Truth. So, our invitation is for you to live the Truth, the Reality of your Being, to go beyond this representation, because all this is the egoic mind, the false "me."

One curious thing is that there are many approaches for Self-realization presently. I do not know what is taken as Self-realization or Enlightenment by the majority of people. It seems to me that it has much more to do with a "self-illumination" than with the true Realization about yourself. Therefore, what has been called as "self-realization" or as "enlightenment" is still part of this illusion, this egoic structure, for it is an imagined thing, an invention of the mind; it is part of the old structure of the “me,” of the old egoic mind.

So, the question is: do these studies, meditation techniques, meetings of people exchanging ideas about enlightenment, sharing their convictions and beliefs, really work? The first thing you need to realize is that the relationship with the world around you cannot be based on the desire for self-importance, based on the pursuit to "be somebody," including (and mainly) an "enlightened one" or "self-realized one.” All this is still part of the lie. Each day there will be more people interested in this subject, and the more people come up, the more "gurus" will emerge, too. The demand for enlightenment will produce more supply.

I want to invite you to have a real approach to THAT. Therefore, your relationship with the surround needs to be real, based on Truth and not on theories, on beliefs, on concepts, on ideas. You cannot approach THIS like someone would do with a subject that needs to be externally studied. This is not something you learn at school such as mathematics or any other objective, external science. You will only know what, in fact, is the Truth about yourself through self-inquiry. This is possible only when you get out of this old structure, this representation based on the desire to "be someone."

When you are "someone," you can only see others. In other words, if you seek self-importance, all you desire is to see important people and to be like them. So, you also end up transferring this to these self-realization works, wanting to be as important as your "guru," making it a cheating, a lying game. Thus, there is no truth in this search for the Truth – the "guru" and his/her disciples are untrue.

This is happening because there is no real relationship, no real encounter with the Truth about yourself, but only a relationship among beliefs. A complete breach to this is required. When you observe yourself, you can also see your surroundings, this game, this illusion. Only then, the subtle ego, disguised as a "seeker of the Truth" or as "teacher of the Truth" can be demolished.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 30, 2018.

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