Understand the very basic and simple principle: once conflicted, "you" are there, but God is not present nor is Truth. This is a basic principle. The first lesson you have in Satsang is: you are not Real, you are fraud. This self-importance separates you as an entity from life, from existence. So, what bothers you, distresses, disturbs, causes conflict, points out this sense of separation, which is the illusion of this "I" in its self-importance - this fraud. This is misery. This is suffering. This is unhappiness.
Liberation is not the liberation of "someone." It is the liberation of the illusion of "someone" present, who is in conflict and gets disturbed, who has friends and enemies. This is basic. This is the first lesson. I would say that it is the last lesson.
When "you" are present, there is no beauty, because there is no Truth. “Ugliness” is slavery. You are “ugly” only when "you" are present. When "you" are not present, there is no “ugliness,” there is no malignity. When "you" are not there, there is no conflict, fear, suffering; there is no ego nor the illusion of the experiencer. There is no experiencer in the experience. It is only Life ... Life without "you," the world without "you"! It is God! Without "you," everything is God. Without "you," everything is Life, Love, Happiness.
Do you now understand why I have been saying that the Nature of the experience is Happiness? The Nature of the experience is the experience itself, and it does not come into conflict with itself. There must be an illusory element included in the experience so that experience gets conflicting, disturbing, unhappy, problematic, hard. It is this elusive element of the experiencer that comes into conflict, due to this thing of making friends and enemies. Friends become enemies, as we can see here, now. A great friend becomes a great enemy; a not so great friend becomes an enemy with no importance.
All our relationships are settled in choices, for it is what fulfills the experience of an experiencer. They are choices you make or choices by love. When it ceases to fulfill the experiencer, who had opted to choose and has decided for these relationships, these same relationships become unfriendly, unwanted. So, it is when we make old friends become enemies, and old lovers become the most detestable ones, and so on until the grave. You walk, walk, walk until the arrival at the grave.
Life happens without ego; and without ego, there is no conflict. So, Life is Happiness and Happiness is the absence of the sense of "someone" in choices, alternatives, decisions, and positions. Only then, without doing anything, you can be Life itself, leading or being led; being led or leading; life leading itself and allowing itself to be led. So, everything is in the right place and mind is no longer needed. Here, mind is the presumption of intelligence capable of conducting, driving, and pointing you a better way, a safer way without misfortune and adversity - which is a lie, an illusion.
The arrival of the Guru in your life should be (I wish it were immediately) the end of any choice, decision and independence to do or not, to resolve or not, to decide or not. However, it is not like this. When the presence of God, who is the Grace, the Guru, arrives, He finds "home" occupied and cannot dwell there. God can barely visit it, quick visits as a guest makes.
The Guru, who is Consciousness, Truth, is God, the Presence, Reality, Life, should be the Guide, not the guest who makes a quick visit. The Guru should be accepted at "home" as the real host, the true owner of the “house.” So, Life guides Itself, takes over; and when Life assumes this Intelligence, which is so much beyond mind, beyond ideas, choices and beliefs, It can solve everything.
For that, yes, there is nothing to be solved. You need to appreciate the Truth above your own decisions, choices, ideas, beliefs. You need to give this up, not intellectually, verbally, theoretically, conceptually, but indeed and truly here and now. When you give up all this, "home" can be cleaned and emptied of all "trash.” That’s when the "Visitor" can stop being a "visitor" to become the real host, the owner of the house. However, the "house" has to be cleaned, totally cleaned, so the host may not be in a hurry, not in any hurry, as the guest is when he/she arrives other’s home, and may recognize that it is his own "home" and remain there. You have to make room for it, so that this "Visitor" acknowledges himself/herself as the very own host, the owner of the "house."
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me". – these are the words of Jesus in the Bible.
The question for you is this: is there room? This is the question: is there room? Is there room there, if you are full of knowledge, experiences, courage, pride, friends and enemies, full of things? If you are full of values, such as wealth, prestige, power and certainties… Anyway, the "house" is too full ... very full.
* Presential meeting transcription, originally held in a meeting held in João Pessoa city, Brazil, on June 2016. First published in Portuguese on July 16, 2016. 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
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