This is your time to go beyond this world

The work with my Guru last 21 years. I did not do anything at all, but only messed it up. I cannot remember even one thing I've done to help him. You will know what I am saying at the right time. You'll look back and say, "Wow! I have never done anything that could help my Master in order to be here looking at life this way."

If you ask me if I can remember the resistance, yes I can; I also remember the uncertainty, the insecurity, the fear of getting crazy, the uncertainty; I remember the feeling of not knowing what was happening to me and where I was going to, whether I was going somewhere or not.

If you ask me that, I can remember many times when things got hard, but it was in such a surreal dimension that it seemed to be happening to a character, it seemed to be just an imagination within time. It was like watching a movie and saying, "Look, is has happened this and that." It was a movie; it had nothing to do with What is Real. The "movie" was there, taking place on a "screen," having nothing to do with what I Am, but only now I can say that.

Therefore, you will be able to remember how much you have messed up, but you will not know what the Guru did to break this illusion; you will only know it has been undone. It seems he would have taken you by force, pushing you through an invisible door you have never seen before your eyes; he would find the door and he would push you through it against your will. This looks very crazy, but it is like that.

In fact, all this "process" was not really a process, but a dream. When you wake up from a dream you say, "Wow! There was no process happening! It was only imagination, nothing ever happened!" The feeling we have is this: “It was only a dream!" When Realization settles in, you look back and say: "There were mountains, seas, forests, but it was just a dream".

Isn’t this beautiful? I don’t know if I am being successful in picturing that clearly to you…

Then, you realize... by yourself, you realize It! Therefore, you have the authority to say: "Wow! There never was a time when I was not what I Am. I Am What I Am, I always had been!" - you realize it directly.

Then, you realize... by yourself, you realize It! Therefore, you have the authority to say: "Wow! There never was a time when I was not what I Am. I Am What I Am, I always had been!" - you realize it directly.

This is your moment to go beyond this world, to leave behind the story that you were born, you are a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, that you have children, family ... It is time to establish yourself in your Being, in your Real Nature, in your True Identity, which is the Consciousness of God, Happiness, Peace, Intelligence, Freedom. When there is no more history, bonds, birth or death, fear, desires, wishes ... there is no more exteriority.

This is God's business, not yours; yours is to remain still. Your job is to get out of your routine, get out of your script, and you know what I mean: to be a grandfather, a mother, a father, a wife, a husband, an entrepreneur; to be "someone" in the world. So, when you abandon the script, there is a room for the Divine, for God to bring you back ... He will bring you back again to that Place. He will take you by the hands and bring you back; He will make you return to Yourself. You've never been anywhere else. This is your place, you only have forgotten about it.

Jesus tells a parable about this: the parable of the prodigal son. You know the parable, don’t you? The father has two sons, and one day one of them loses his mind and says, "I want to live my life. I want you to give me my inheritance because I want to leave." The father asks, "Are you sure?" He answers "Yes! I want to leave!" Then the father gives him his early inheritance and says, "Here it is, my son. You want your inheritance, take it." Then the son travels to a distant land with his inheritance and begins to overspend the money: he goes to the brothels and parties until the day the inheritance ends. As he sees himself without money, he went out to look for a job, and the job available for him was to feed pigs.

The years went by and there he is, getting old in that life, feeding pigs, all dirty. According to Jesus’s parable, there comes one day when he looks up at the sky with his hands and face all dirty, his smelly body, and he remembers his home and says: “Wow, what a mess!”  The parable says he comes to his senses and thinks: “Gosh! What a mess! I have such a rich father and look where I ended up!” He had a moment of lucidity.

Look at you all! Satsang is a moment of lucidity. Some of you are beginning to suspect that it is worthless marrying again, having more children, building more business, making more and more money, building things... Some of you have already understood that you cannot waste this "inheritance," which is the physical energy, the health that remains there for the body and money and time, with other things. Look at you! It is a moment of lucidity!

In the parable, Jesus tells the young man says: "I will return to my Father's home”, and so he does. When he is on his way, someone says, "Look! Isn’t that your son?" Even far away, the father looks again and says, "Wow! It seems to be him, yes!" The father asks someone to help him. When the son arrives, the father welcomes him with an embrace and says to the son who had stayed at home: "Look, your brother has just returned. Let's make a party."

Then, the newcomer son takes a bath and perfumes himself. The father orders to bring the son a nice cloth and puts a ring on his finger saying: "Let's kill a calf and make a party." The son who had stayed at home says: "Father, what is this? I've been with you for so long, you have never made a party like that for me, but this one, this ungrateful one, ran away from home, took the money, spent with the whores" (It's written this way in the parable of Jesus; it says that he was with the whores, which is the symbol of lust, pleasure and human stupidity). "He spent everything with the whores and you prepare such a party?" Then, the father looks at him with a compassionate look and says: "My son, there was never anything lacking for you. All I have ever had is yours, but your brother was lost! He was dead, but now he's alive!"

When you turn to God, you turn to the Truth, you go back home ... You remember again! God is bringing you back. You only come back when He brings you. This work happens from the inside to the outside, so it's God bringing you back. In fact, He is bringing you to Himself, and therefore it is not the other way round: you coming back to Him. While the religion, with all its “isms”, is concerned about changing the people from the outside to the inside, Truth flourishes from within out. That is why it is not about practice, but about an honest intention, within yourself, to give up. This emerges from God Himself, from Consciousness itself, from Being itself, within you.

So, you pay attention to all this disordered, biased movement of the mind and you begin to appreciate the Truth, to abandon everything for It, to literally die for It. You really have to die for It! You will get in the way sometimes, but at these moments the Grace of the Guru, of this Presence, the Divine Grace, the Holy Spirit will be stronger than you and will reveal to you who you really are. That is why you need the Grace of the Guru, the Grace of God. "For by Grace are you saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" - it is written in the Bible, it is the same message.

* Presencial meeting transcription originally held on march, 2018, in the city of Cabedelo - Brazil. First published in Portuguese on March 15, 2018. Visit our agenda and join us: http://mestregualberto.com