You need to discover by yourself

Here, what matters is that you make your own discoveries. What I can do is to give you some tips on what, for sure, you will discover within this process of investigation. These tips are, in fact, revelations, and when you discover by yourself, you see the confirmation of this Reality.

An important thing I can tell you in advance, within this work of discovery, is that thought is not the instrument you need. Thought is not the instrument that can help you to live in harmony with life, because, in fact, the thought inside you is completely chaotic, contradictory and imaginative.

So far, you have been relying too much on thought, in such a way that your life is almost entirely based on it. Your confidence in thought is huge, which explains why all these problems are present in your life and, curiously, present on the planet. Then, you end up believing (and this is also just a thought) that you have put the planet in danger. The planet is not in danger. Although all this confusion has been created, it is not the planet that is in danger. You are in danger!

Thought is something dead and cannot touch Reality. It talks about “me,” a spirit, about a soul, about a mind, about a creation, about a God… Thought says many things. It creates problems and then it seeks for a solution for them. The ideas you have about yourself, about others, about the world, the planet and life are just contradictory, imaginative and problematic thoughts. So, this is a discovery you need to make: trusting in thought is illusion.

That is why I keep on telling you thought is not the instrument that will be able to help you. It is the one that has been creating our culture and has been sustaining this old philosophical, spiritual, political structure, and everything else. What I mean is that thought cannot touch Reality, because thought itself moves you away from That. If you want to find out the Truth, you need to be out of thought, beyond it, and thus you will be beyond imagination, contradiction, beliefs, ideas. Then, the touch of the Present Reality takes place, which is free from thought.

We were taught that God has created the Universe. If you admit that God exists, that the Self has created the Universe, then you cannot deny that God is something prior to the Universe, beyond the Universe, something beyond time and space. Every perception you have of yourself and of the world, based on thought, is within time and space, and therefore it is unable to reach That, which is beyond time and space. If God is a Reality prior to all the manifestation, there must be a faculty in you that is able to recognize It, such faculty must necessarily be out of time and space.

There is Something in you beyond time and space, prior to creation, and only This can visualize the Truth of God, the Divine Truth. Only this Consciousness, which is timeless, non-spatial, which is beyond thought, body, mind and the world, can visualize the Divine Truth, can realize the Truth of God.

Therefore, before this Comprehension of the Truth about Your Being, of Self-Realization, talking about Happiness, Truth, Love, God has no reality. They are just words, more ideas, more beliefs, more thoughts. When you try to visualize the absolute Reality, What is timeless, through concepts, beliefs, spiritual practices and all kind of study, you are just in one more illusion. However, when you reach or realize this Consciousness, the Nature of your Being, you have this visualization of That, which is timeless, which is prior to names and forms, prior to all manifestation, to the entire Universe.

In India, they call this Realization of Truth about your Self as the “Realization of God.” It is when all sense of duality, of separation is collapsed and it is clear that You are this Principle, that there is only this Principle – It is the Unique Reality! It is in this Reality that every manifestation arises, the entire Universe arises as well as every notion of time and space, with thoughts and ideas.

However, as long as you are absorbed by the belief of being the main protagonist of your world of history, by this idea of being the main character, this important person around whom all the history happens, nothing that you have just heard here will be possible. This is the old model of the sense of “me” in duality, in separation, with its desires, fears, dilemmas, conflicts, and problemas.

Satsang is the end of all this! This Reality that You are, is beyond this history, this known and unknown, beyond the past, the future and that what you call as present moment. It is something unspeakable, indescribable. This Consciousness is the own Truth in Itself.

What I am saying here to you may seem rather strange because you are conditioned to accept this whole story as real – the story of this character, of this “someone.” However, there is not “someone” without this story. Without it, everything you know about yourself disappears. The one who believes in oneself as being a “person,” believes in oneself as being the body and mind, and he/she does this because ignores completely the most important factor of one’s existence, which is this Consciousness.

The Sage’s experience in this relation with the world, with the body, is completely different. The Sage does not see all of this as an object, but as the own Consciousness, assuming a temporary, momentary form that will soon disappears. Then, while the common man emphasizes the objects, the Sage emphasizes the Consciousness. So the thoughts as well as feelings are not problems, because the emphasis is in Consciousness. Also, the sensations, the senses, the perceptions, the objects, the world, the body are not problems… the emphasis is always in Consciousness.

The Sages know that everything is Consciousness, so there is no problem. There is nothing separate from this Consciousness! There is no room for fear, desire, conflict, frustration. There is no room for all of this, because there is no division, separation, duality, and there is no difference between manifestation and Consciousness.

However, what you have just heard is something that needs to be realized. That is why I said at the beginning that I am giving you a tip about something you need to discover by yourself. Only then, This will be Real, True. Without this Truth, you are just before words, new beliefs, new concepts, which are useless. This will soon become a mundane interpretation of the Truth (and everybody has done like that). This mundane interpretation of the Truth is what people have called spirituality, which is a kind of fragrant, beautiful, praiseworthy and pleasurable form of ignorance to be heard, but that is still ignorance, illusion.

* Online meeting transcription, originally held on on September 4th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on October 10th, 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