Our approach in these meetings is for you to become aware of this Consciousness. Realization, Awakening, Enlightenment, or whatever you want to call It, is not about becoming Consciousness, but about realizing the Truth that It is already present. You cannot become Consciousness, because You are Consciousness! You are the Consciousness of Consciousness in Consciousness itself! Therefore, we are dealing here with the discard of the illusion of unconsciousness. Follow this carefully... This unconsciousness is an illusion! Consciousness never ceases to be What It Is - Consciousness in itself.
Understanding this is important because then you see that this “me” is just a thought, an idea produced by the thought itself. You believe you are someone, but that is just a thought sustained by that unconsciousness for ignorance. However, even this thought is within this Consciousness that You are. Being identified with this thought is what I have called as illusory unconsciousness.
Today, someone asked me if Maya is prior to the mind and the body. My answer is that Maya is an illusion and is thus present in the mind itself. Maya is not prior to the mind. It is the mind's own illusion. Mind carrying this sense of separation is illusion, and that is Maya. Therefore, it cannot be prior to the mind and the body.
So, you are not going to become that Consciousness. You will assume the Truth that there is only Consciousness and This is You. You are not the mind. You are not the "I" nor the body. You are Consciousness!
It is beautiful this contact in Satsang with the One who is seeing This clearly. Only the One who is no longer mistaken oneself for the illusion of the mind, for the illusion that is Maya, can see This clearly. The beauty of investigating This with a living Master is because He/She provides you with a perspective from the viewpoint of His/Her Real Nature, of His/Her Real Being.
This is a timeless perspective and not an intellectual one. The nature of this Consciousness is timeless and is outside the intellect. Therefore, this is the real approach way to the true Satsang. The mere intellectual, verbal understanding of This is not Satsang. This is not the perspective or the formulation of a living Master. So, the emphasis here is on this internal position, on this position outside of the mind, outside of the perspective of intellect and time.
In other words, you cannot eliminate conflict through analysis, because it is part of conflict itself. Analysis works with images, comparing them, and this makes it remain as a process limited by thought, by imagination. This cannot change the mind, because it is inside itself. The real transformation occurs only when this movement of images and thoughts ceases, which is when there is no more any restriction. So, no analysis is needed anymore and conflict ends, because now you enter this dimension of Totality, which is Consciousness.
If you try to eliminate conflict through analysis, you will sustain the illusion of an entity present, making comparisons and working with images. This does not work! That is why this process never ends. The mind will continue to appear, because images will continue to be produced, and the mind knows how to do this very well. When the mind produces images, it separates, divides and compares, and this sustains conflict, suffering, so there cannot be Self-realization.
Self-realization, in a real way, is the end of the illusion of this “I,” this “me,” of this sense of identity that searches for fulfillment. So, we can call This as the simple and direct Realization, the Realization of Truth about Yourself. That is why I started by saying you do not become Consciousness. You are already Consciousness, the Consciousness of Consciousness, in Consciousness and by Itself, because there is only Consciousness!
What happens in this process of the Realization of the Truth about Yourself is the direct verification that there is no "someone," there is no mind, there is no "me," there is no sense of identity and separation, because this is all in the fantasy of the thought. Is it too complicated or are you with me? You will not be able to grasp it, if you try so intellectually. If there is no intellectual effort, but just an attentive passivity in listening, the understanding of what I am saying here will come to you.
I will give you an example of this: when you wake up in the morning, there is no "you" waking up. There is only Consciousness expressing itself again through this mechanism. So, this mechanism recovers its functions for another day because of this Consciousness and not because of a “me,” an “individual” present, a “person” present. This Consciousness becomes aware of events, of situations of another day, and, interestingly, all this is happening in this Consciousness itself. It is not something separate from It. It is its own world experience. In other words, there is no such “I” there! There is You, but You are that Consciousness! There is no such “I,” this “person” you believe you are, because this is not real.
This is beautiful! It is just wonderful to know that there is no “someone” doing anything; that everything just happens as it does, and not because it has to happen or was planned to happen. It just happens because it happens! Just like that! There is nothing to do and there is no one who can do anything.
When you are comfortable with this vision, then what I mean as Meditation is present. It is about accepting the possibility that everything is perfect, that everything is in its place. This is Real Perfection. It is your body living in You. It is not "you" living in your body. It is the world living in You, not "you" living in the world. It is Life living in what You are. It is not "you" living life! There is nothing to do and no perfection to obtain, because That is already perfect as It is! There is nothing to obtain, to conquer, to achieve…
This sense of “person,” the “I”, the ego is the illusion of unconsciousness, the unconsciousness in its own illusion being supported by thoughts, beliefs, imaginations, ideas. Your personal concerns, your desires, fears, your relationship with life, with your body, with the world, all of that is imaginary. None of this is, in fact, happening outside of your imagination. All this is just the imagination of being "someone." There is only Consciousness, and It is common to everything, to everyone, without distinction and separation. The funny thing is this constant search for freedom, for transcendence, but to transcend what? What is the kind of freedom that is being sought? All of this is in imagination.
But to find This out is something that requires investigation, inquiry, self-observation. When you take on this work, you are ready to discover What You Are: Freedom, Consciousness, Happiness. So, you are ready for your Natural State, which is Meditation.
Understanding this is important because then you see that this “me” is just a thought, an idea produced by the thought itself. You believe you are someone, but that is just a thought sustained by that unconsciousness for ignorance. However, even this thought is within this Consciousness that You are. Being identified with this thought is what I have called as illusory unconsciousness.
Today, someone asked me if Maya is prior to the mind and the body. My answer is that Maya is an illusion and is thus present in the mind itself. Maya is not prior to the mind. It is the mind's own illusion. Mind carrying this sense of separation is illusion, and that is Maya. Therefore, it cannot be prior to the mind and the body.
So, you are not going to become that Consciousness. You will assume the Truth that there is only Consciousness and This is You. You are not the mind. You are not the "I" nor the body. You are Consciousness!
It is beautiful this contact in Satsang with the One who is seeing This clearly. Only the One who is no longer mistaken oneself for the illusion of the mind, for the illusion that is Maya, can see This clearly. The beauty of investigating This with a living Master is because He/She provides you with a perspective from the viewpoint of His/Her Real Nature, of His/Her Real Being.
This is a timeless perspective and not an intellectual one. The nature of this Consciousness is timeless and is outside the intellect. Therefore, this is the real approach way to the true Satsang. The mere intellectual, verbal understanding of This is not Satsang. This is not the perspective or the formulation of a living Master. So, the emphasis here is on this internal position, on this position outside of the mind, outside of the perspective of intellect and time.
In other words, you cannot eliminate conflict through analysis, because it is part of conflict itself. Analysis works with images, comparing them, and this makes it remain as a process limited by thought, by imagination. This cannot change the mind, because it is inside itself. The real transformation occurs only when this movement of images and thoughts ceases, which is when there is no more any restriction. So, no analysis is needed anymore and conflict ends, because now you enter this dimension of Totality, which is Consciousness.
If you try to eliminate conflict through analysis, you will sustain the illusion of an entity present, making comparisons and working with images. This does not work! That is why this process never ends. The mind will continue to appear, because images will continue to be produced, and the mind knows how to do this very well. When the mind produces images, it separates, divides and compares, and this sustains conflict, suffering, so there cannot be Self-realization.
Self-realization, in a real way, is the end of the illusion of this “I,” this “me,” of this sense of identity that searches for fulfillment. So, we can call This as the simple and direct Realization, the Realization of Truth about Yourself. That is why I started by saying you do not become Consciousness. You are already Consciousness, the Consciousness of Consciousness, in Consciousness and by Itself, because there is only Consciousness!
What happens in this process of the Realization of the Truth about Yourself is the direct verification that there is no "someone," there is no mind, there is no "me," there is no sense of identity and separation, because this is all in the fantasy of the thought. Is it too complicated or are you with me? You will not be able to grasp it, if you try so intellectually. If there is no intellectual effort, but just an attentive passivity in listening, the understanding of what I am saying here will come to you.
I will give you an example of this: when you wake up in the morning, there is no "you" waking up. There is only Consciousness expressing itself again through this mechanism. So, this mechanism recovers its functions for another day because of this Consciousness and not because of a “me,” an “individual” present, a “person” present. This Consciousness becomes aware of events, of situations of another day, and, interestingly, all this is happening in this Consciousness itself. It is not something separate from It. It is its own world experience. In other words, there is no such “I” there! There is You, but You are that Consciousness! There is no such “I,” this “person” you believe you are, because this is not real.
This is beautiful! It is just wonderful to know that there is no “someone” doing anything; that everything just happens as it does, and not because it has to happen or was planned to happen. It just happens because it happens! Just like that! There is nothing to do and there is no one who can do anything.
When you are comfortable with this vision, then what I mean as Meditation is present. It is about accepting the possibility that everything is perfect, that everything is in its place. This is Real Perfection. It is your body living in You. It is not "you" living in your body. It is the world living in You, not "you" living in the world. It is Life living in what You are. It is not "you" living life! There is nothing to do and no perfection to obtain, because That is already perfect as It is! There is nothing to obtain, to conquer, to achieve…
This sense of “person,” the “I”, the ego is the illusion of unconsciousness, the unconsciousness in its own illusion being supported by thoughts, beliefs, imaginations, ideas. Your personal concerns, your desires, fears, your relationship with life, with your body, with the world, all of that is imaginary. None of this is, in fact, happening outside of your imagination. All this is just the imagination of being "someone." There is only Consciousness, and It is common to everything, to everyone, without distinction and separation. The funny thing is this constant search for freedom, for transcendence, but to transcend what? What is the kind of freedom that is being sought? All of this is in imagination.
But to find This out is something that requires investigation, inquiry, self-observation. When you take on this work, you are ready to discover What You Are: Freedom, Consciousness, Happiness. So, you are ready for your Natural State, which is Meditation.
*Online meeting transcription originally held on October 30th, 2019. For further information, click here.
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