The Natural State

As some of you have already noticed, this meeting is the most important encounter for you, even though we are dealing with something unusual, which we call the Natural State. Although it is your Natural State, it is rather unusual. It is quite paradoxical. How can something so natural be unusual? Nevertheless, we are also dealing with a fact: you cannot easily find a human being who is entirely happy. Real Happiness is still a rare thing. A fulfilled and self-realized human being is the one who is living in his/her Natural State, which means knowing the Truth about oneself, no longer living in the illusion. Illusion is commonplace. Non-illusion is the Natural State. Your job here is to discover the Truth about Yourself.

We are calling True State as your Natural State, which is this Consciousness present without effort. There is no need for anything special, no acquisition for This to be present. This Naturalness is free from all and any influence of the mind, from all forms of conditioning. Thus, it is something easy to be intellectually understood; but, paradoxically, it is something difficult to be experienced, due to all this set of conditioning, ideas, beliefs, because of all this programming of fear and desire.

When we use the term “Natural State,” we are talking about this present Consciousness, clear, pure, free from fear and desire. "Natural State" is just another expression, a set of words, but it is not the Truth. It is not the State itself. At this very moment, there is this State, which is Consciousness, speaking and listening. Therefore, this phenomenon of speaking and listening appears within that Consciousness, which is this State. So, we are facing something simple, natural, but the mind has made it complex and difficult to perceive.

You exist as Consciousness! As Consciousness, you are prior to this common state of the mind. You are prior to thoughts and feelings, perceptions and emotions. You are prior to birth itself. After all, what is birth but an idea?

When you wake up in the morning, you have no idea of the Truth about You. The idea that comes in the morning is that you are alive to live another day, but while you are sleeping, in deep sleep, there is no idea of being alive or dead. Consciousness has no idea about itself. Only thought formulates these ideas. As Consciousness, you are neither alive nor dead. You are this Reality prior to any idea. In the morning, the thought "I" appears and, with it, the world. Isn’t it? So there come duties, obligations, sense of responsibility, and all this notion of desire and fear.

The Sages from all times say just one thing: you will never realize the Truth. It cannot be obtained. It cannot be found and will never be known. Truth is your Real Nature, and all you need to do is to get rid of the illusion about who you think you are. This is prior to the mind, to the idea "world," and the idea "I am alive and I am inside the body." So, You are where you need to be, but you do not know it. You never stopped being What You Are, but you just do not know it.

Thus, this is not the result of an adventure or an achievement in this so called “spiritual world.” Self-realization, as we call it, is the direct realization of what is present, here and now. So, everything else will be resolved, the whole illusion disappears, and as illusion disappears, Truth is already present. You are This! You are Freedom, Happiness, Wisdom and Love itself! You cannot lose your True Nature.

There are only thoughts, experiences and objects arising in Consciousness. There are thoughts but not the "thinker." There are actions but not the "author," the "doer" of these actions. This is your Real Nature. So, we are talking about something Natural, not something special. You carry this sense of separation and this illusion of thinking, doing, feeling; that is, the illusion of being someone. Although rare, some people are realizing the Truth of what is Natural, the Truth of their own Being; and this discovery is fascinating.

Therefore, Enlightenment is not a matter in the future, or something that has been lost in the past and now it was necessary to regain it. You will not become enlightened tomorrow, because "tomorrow" is only an imagination, another idea of the thought itself about future. You are your own Home! You are not walking towards It. It is already present, because You are here and now. So, you're already at home. As I said, this is somewhat paradoxical.

However, in the mind it is like this: what is present is like it wasn’t, and what is not present is like it was. You fell into a trap set up by illusion, by the movement of thought, which we call mind. Because of being in that trap, you see yourself in the past, in the present, or in the future. However, You are already the Timeless and Natural Truth, here and now. You were never born and you will not die, because you do not exist as a separate entity. If you want to know more about It, you cannot. Either you are This or you will never know anything about It! You are THAT when you awaken!

This is my work with you in Satsang: to show you your Natural State of Meditation. This is the only access you have to Yourself, the only door to this Home that is Yourself. This is a door that opens from inside, giving you access to Yourself. This talk here is not the work itself, because it happens when you are with me in Satsang, and only then all that you are listening here makes perfect sense. It is when you can access yourself and enter through that door, in this Silence, before this Presence, this Grace, this Power.

Online meeting transcription, originally held on May 19th, 2019. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm Local Time: Brazil BRT, except during retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please access: http://mestregualberto.com