What
is intended in these encounters is for you to really and intimately
approach yourself. It is important for you to be closer and closer to
yourself. Your mental conditioning is something that moves you away,
whereas attention, careful observation of yourself, brings you
closer.
In
general, people believe they know themselves. Human being believes
he/she is alert, attentive and awake. Actually, when you do not
approach yourself, what you perceive by seeing yourself is just
repetition – the repetition of your prejudice, beliefs and
conditioning patterns. So you do not know yourself. All your movement
is of estrangement from yourself. You do not know yourself. You do
not know others neither the world.
You
are confused about your relationship with wife, husband and children,
at work or anywhere. So, a real approach to yourself is necessary. It
is necessary to recognize who You are. And it is interesting when we
talk like that, because, in fact, you cannot know who You are. You
can only know what You are not. You are not an object separate from
yourself to be recognized.
So,
it is not about knowing who You are. You are the very own Knowledge!
You are That which is able to know! And what you can know are not You.
You can know your body, your mind, your thoughts, feelings,
sensations, emotions... None of this is You! You are this Presence
that knows, that can know all of this. So, if you have a real
approach to yourself, you will be free from everything that is not
you, from all illusion about yourself.
A
very common thing is you see yourself as a person. But it is
important you remember that all you can see is not You. You are That
which sees! Then, if you see yourself as a person, you are not this
person. This person is an object, and you are this Reality that sees
this object. This person is an image you make of yourself, you have
of yourself. This person is not real – no person is! All people are
just images the thought creates therein.
So,
if you do not have a real approach to yourself, you will still not
knowing who You are, and naturally you will not know others, will not
know the world.
All
you have is just repetition of beliefs, of opinions, of ideas,
judgments, prejudice, because all your relation with others, with the
world or with yourself is imaginary. While this imagination remains,
this illusory relation of subject and object remains. There is not
Consciousness! There is not Truth!
Realization
is the Awakening of the Truth about Yourself. It is the end of this
imagination, the end of this subject-object relationship. If you
understood this correctly, you realized that this subject is still an
object, part of imagination.
You
should accept this possibility I am presenting to you here. You must
have a very receptive attitude to this possibility of verifying the
truth I am putting for you here, about how the illusion of your life
in this old pattern has been. That is why we call it
self-investigation: the investigation about the Truth we are, about
what we really are, about what You are.
Satsang
means the encounter with the Reality,
with the Truth. We are pointing out your Natural State, which is not
the state of the mind within this conditioning, this repetition, this
programming. Then, being open to this investigation is something
fundamental.
Every
thought inside you represents a concept, no matter if it is a word or
an image. All of this is part of this mental world, of this world
imagined by thought. The purpose in this encounter is for you to go
beyond the mind, beyond this program, beyond this programming, beyond
this mistaken vision of yourself, of others and of the world.
Something the thought produces and sustains, which you are very used
to. Taking a leap out of this means knowing your Natural State, which
is Meditation. The complete liberation from this world imagined by
thought.
So,
as you have just heard in this talk, all you see running in this
program is just conditioning; it is just mechanical repetition. This
is your psychological relationship with life. It is essential that
this end! You think, for example, you are listening to someone
talking, and what you are listening to is just repetition, mental
programming. They are just beliefs, prejudice and ideas being heard.
This listening is not real! In fact, we are inside a program of
repetition. That is why nobody understands each other, there is no
comprehension, there is no intelligence. It is the same old pattern!
You
think you know someone or someone knows you, but, in fact, there is
not anybody in this. It is just the same old mind repeating itself in
this or that mechanism, in this or that human organism. This explains
all this confusion in the human relations - all jealousy, envy, fear,
anxiety, confusion.
Liberation
is to awake from this! It is to discover Peace, Love, the Truth about
Yourself. This is the Truth you bring in Yourself, the Truth of your
Being. Truth is pure knowledge! Once in your Freedom, you can know
everything but without being a prisoner of anything.
*
Online meeting transcription, originally held on November 21st,
2018 - First published in Portuguese on January 12th,
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