The Direct Understanding

We have only this moment for the Real Understanding of Awakening. The mind is always creating the future and also reproducing the past. All these are just ideas, imaginations! The fundamental aspect of these meetings is the possibility of the Direct Understanding (something experiential) that this Presence we are has no limits nor is it located in space. This is not a special kind of knowledge; therefore, you are not going to perceive This through training or special education.

We are facing something that is prior to the mind, to the knowledge of the intellect. Truth is something quite obvious and internal, and naturally of a direct access to everyone. Truth is not something the mind can know or not. Mind can know or not know its things. Your Divine Nature is not part of the mind. It is not its thing. So, it is not possible for the mind to know or not know about This. Thus, Truth is about a direct experience or direct experiential knowledge. It is not something that depends on this intelligence or the ability of the intellect.

Another aspect is that Truth is independent of the condition of the body (whether it is young or old, whether it is healthy or ill). This is indeed fascinating! This “me” you believe to be seems to know a lot of things. However, everything it knows is part of the body and the mind, of its experiences in the world. Everything this “me” knows is within the known. In other words, everything it knows is itself, which is just an idea, a self-projection. This “me” cannot know another thing but itself, and what it knows is what the mind imagines about the body and the world, that is, about itself.

Therefore, That what You are requires no special knowledge, training, imagination, idea, belief, and no mental, physical or emotional experience. No knowledge of the mind can get us closer or move us away from That what we are in our own Being! What happens is that the mind, through imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation of the body, seems to hide This, this Vision, this direct and experiential Understanding. This is because, for a long time, you have invested in thinking, as if it was the most important thing! You have been giving too much importance to it!

Notice that without thought, you have no reference, knowledge or memory. This means you have no idea of the limit of the shape nor of an identity present. You need the thought to think in terms of age, nationality, gender and history. So, the own thought creates this illusory sensation that makes you see yourself as an identity, possessing good and bad qualities, virtues and vices, being good or bad. This is a limiting vision! However, you do not have such qualities or limitations, for your desires and fears, your virtues and vices, your intelligence or the lack of it, all this is pure imagination! The mind attributes these qualities and defects to itself, and it considers them as real, but there is no reality in this! Mind loves producing all this!

The beauty of Satsang is to discover this, the Truth about all this! Here have we the key of this Liberation! In your Being, you are Happiness, you are God! This Awakening, this Realization is to find out in yourself what this sense of “me” is, where it is located. If you investigate this, you will find out it is nowhere, it is just an idea, a concept, imagination. You have all the energy for this Awakening, for this Discovery! You have all potential! I am always talking about the Truth, about the Reality of your Being, everyday!

All you need is to discover the Truth about Yourself! The mind is mechanical and repetitive. There is not Real Intelligence in it! Ramana is Intelligent! Buddha is Intelligent! Jesus is Intelligent! Your Consciousness is Intelligent! If you are working all the time through this mechanical mind, you cannot be Intelligent.

This world of the mind is not real, that is, the world you see is not real. What is Real is beyond the mind, the body and the world. Your True Nature is Love, Peace, Bliss, Joy! You must abandon this “me” idea, this sense of separation, for this is what sustains suffering, the illusion of “someone suffering.” I have been emphasizing so much something to you, which is Meditation. Surrendering to the Truth through self-investigation is the basis of Meditation.

This is the direct way to Realize God, to know Him, which means to go beyond this illusion, beyond the sense of duality, of separation. This is Satsang! Notice that without the reference of thought, we have no idea about time, space, location, identity. So there is not time or space! Without thought, we cannot imagine two events happening – something that happened and something that will happen. In fact, this “me” needs the thought, because the “me” is not prior to thought.

Turning to This, plunging into the Heart, is to Acknowledge This! When you are present, You are Consciousness! When you are lost in the world of the mind, you are illusion. You have been wasting your life trusting in thought, that is why in your mind, you are always experiencing the illusion of the projection of a world, of a separate existence. In this Awakening, this “dream” disappears, because the “dreamer” goes away. There are not thoughts anymore, because there are not “dreams” anymore. This is Life, the beautiful Life!

*Online meeting transcription originally held on March 2nd, 2020, on an open online meeting - First published in Portuguese on April 19th, 2020. For more information about the meetings and how to participate click here.