Here we are in one more moment, in which what matters least are the words, as we have always said. Although these words are coming from this Silence, in this sense they are somehow important, but only as a result of this Silence. The mind feeds itself with words. The ego, whose base is in the known, loves words, and knowledge is this platform that sustains all this movement. Truth is not knowledge. It is only Truth. Whenever there is definition of Truth, we are no longer with the Truth, but with concepts, ideas and beliefs about it.
In these meetings, like any other meeting, whether through Paltalk or in person, we use speech, but there is something bigger than speech, What makes real work possible. Intellectually, words can entertain, generate admiration and even bring a certain satisfaction of pleasure. Every sensory experience is like this: seeing colors is pleasant for the eyes; touching objects is pleasant or painful for the sense of touch; hearing sounds can be pleasant or painful. Some words can bring a certain pleasure and inner fulfillment, but they are just words. Truth has nothing to do with words.
You can really spend years studying, as you just said that for years you have studied Gnosis and have asked if it was all useless. However, we cannot transform theory into practice in this field of Realization. Theory remains just theory. In Satsang, we deal with something else, which is the possibility of unlearning, of the abandonment of all beliefs, theories, ideas, practices and all concepts. In Satsang, we are dealing with this "I Am" - the non-conceptual "I Am", That which is not an idea either. We are talking about this Reality outside words and concepts.
For a few brief moments, you can have a glimpse of It, whether you are in meditation practice or not. Nevertheless, neither meditation practice or any other method can bring This to you in a definitive way. The establishment of this State does not come from practices, from techniques. The intellectual study of That is the farthest, the most distant thing from This. Realization is the "ripe fruit" of the "tree", when Consciousness, which is that Real Presence, assumes its place. So, this Realization is your Natural State, but in It there is not you, it is only Realization.
However, in this Natural State, there is no this "you" that you believe to be; There is You, of Whom you know nothing about and will never know anything, because when this Realization happens, the one you believe to be is not present. This is the result of a work, not of a practice, a technique, a method, a system of study. This is the surrender of that sense of separateness, a total action of Grace, of this same Presence, of this same Consciousness, of this same Reality - the work is totally of the Grace. In this sense, the Guru is fundamental, because the Guru is not an entity separate from that Grace, that Presence, that Reality. The Guru is that ripe fruit, is the Presence of Grace, the Grace in the form. This sounds very strange for the dualistic mind, especially for the one born in the West.
The figure of the priest, of the pastor, the rabbi, the religious leader is always a figure of authority, of “someone” separate, like a tutor, a teacher. But a Guru is not a teacher, not a tutor, not a separate entity. I speak of the Guru, the unique Guru. The Guru is this Presence, this Consciousness, which can assume a human form, but that is not a separate entity. The separateness is a mental illusion. It is the mind that creates the “separate figure” of authority, in the figure of the tutor, the teacher, the Guru.
We are talking about an internal Presence, which is simultaneously external, which interpenetrates all and everything. There is no separation between you, in your Real Nature, and the Master, the Guru, the Presence, the Consciousness, the Grace, the Truth. What I speak to you today, I speak from my experience here, from the standpoint of the contact with Bhagavan, Sri Ramana Maharshi. There is something present in this Presence ... There is something real, functional and that makes all this work happen.
There is only You! You are the Guru! You are the Master! You are Consciousness! I am not talking about those thoughts, feelings, and sensations that happen to you, because those only pass through you, but they are not you in your Real Nature. You are the same Guru who appears outside, for when the disciple is ready (which is the internal Guru ready) the Master (who is the external Guru) appears, without any separation. It is through the Grace of the Guru that this work takes place. Today I am here sharing with you what this Grace, the Grace of my Guru brought to this mechanism called Marcos Gualberto: this Liberation, the Consciousness of "I Am". This "I Am" is "What He Is", and "What He Is" is What You Are, which is What I Am.
All sense of separation has dissolved, has collapsed. There is no more conflict and there is no more fear; there is no longer the illusion of someone in the experience of the world, and of a world separate from someone. You were born to realize This, this non-separation between you, God and the world. This non-separation is the awareness of that Consciousness. It is the Consciousness of this Reality. It is the awareness of this Presence.
Your Real Nature is Love, Peace, Truth, Silence. It is Consciousness, is God. This is not conceptual, this is not verbal and not a belief. The time for you has come to let go of all beliefs, all concepts and theories about it. The invitation to face-to-face Satsang is an invitation to a real work in this direction, to abandon all concepts, theories, talks people in general listen to, besides all the books and words. There comes a time in your life when you realize you cannot remain with beliefs, theories, and concepts. There are thousands and thousands of techniques and works, all promising certain harmonization, pacification of the mind, and a certain silence and balance. That is not what we are talking about in Satsang. We are talking about the end of the sense of separation, the awakening of wisdom, of this Self-Realization, this completeness of your Real Nature.
The speech in this meeting, in this space does not serve this purpose, for it is just another set of words being said as a warning about the no need of words. This is like a trumpet blast, in which you listen to the trumpet and take a certain action, not getting attached to the blast itself. The purpose of the trumpet blast is to move you to a certain action. So, the "trumpet call", which is this speech here, is for you to go beyond it. This is only possible in face-to-face Satsang before a living Master, the one who no longer lives in that sense of separateness.
A Master appeared in my life in 1986. From 1986 to 2007 a work took place here, a period when I would go in and out of this State of Silence, but that would not be already the final settlement, the completion of this work in this organism, in this mechanism, in this “machine”. The conclusion only happened in the year of 2007, on that night of June 2007. Along all these years, a work was happening here, happened here in this mechanism, in this machine, all for His Grace, through a very direct contact. I cannot find the right words to explain it... there are no words to explain it.
There is no way to realize This without this Grace, without the power of this Presence (the Grace of Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Sage of Arunachala, Jai, Jai, Jai Gurudeva, for His divine and inexplicable compassion). Only in the eyes of God it is possible to see God. Only through the eyes of God it is possible to have the eyes of God, what in India they call Darshan, the look of the Guru. The look of God is that look of the Guru, of Presence, of Grace; the Grace in Its look. It is the Guru's compassion, this love of His/Her divine Presence that makes the devotee's heart blossom towards the very own recognition there is no separation between the devotee and the Guru.
Tonight, in this meeting, we have this moment of Grace, of Silence, of Presence, but words cannot express That. The reality is that this Presence is still alive. On the night of April 14, 1950, my Guru left the human form. Nisargaddata died of cancer; Ramana Maharshi died of cancer too, and Jesus, on the cross. However, this Presence is not the form, It is not within the time of death, but beyond the name and form; It is not Indian, Jewish or Brazilian. That Presence is that Consciousness. This is the real Guru, the one who is beyond the body, beyond a terminal illness, which only ends with the body.
That’s it…
*Online meeting transcription originally held on May 30, 2016 – First published in Portuguese on June 27, 2016. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 19:30 pm (Local time: Brazil BRT). To participate, download Paltalk App. For further information, click here.
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