After all, why is it important to be in Satsang? What are we doing here? What is it like to be here? First, you have to intelligently doubt there is a real distance between you and Reality. That is the greatest difficulty for majority. You never question what is Reality, not even if there is any distance between you and It. Here, Reality is synonymous with Truth.
We have a perception of the world, which is the perception of objects. After all, what is the distance between this awareness and the objects witnessed? If you investigate this directly, you will notice there is no such distance. Thoughts, sensations and emotions are objects, because they can be seen in that consciousness. So, what there is, is an apparent separation between object and consciousness.
Everything that happens to you, internally or externally to the body, is still object of consciousness. It is the consciousness that becomes aware of all this. Notice that, in deep sleep, there is not such thing as "consciousness" and there is not world either. We usually link consciousness to perceptions, to experiences – "If there is no experience, there is no consciousness". But here, we come into a very important aspect.
It is generally believed when there is not such consciousness, there is not anything else, and this is not true either. There is Something beyond that consciousness with its objects, and that Something is present independently of each and every experience. This “Something” is not the “nothing”, but That which transcends what you call consciousness and its objects.
You are here to discover the Truth about Yourself. There is no distance between You and Reality! This Reality is What is beyond this awareness of objects and of these objects in consciousness. The Revelation of This is Real Meditation!
This direct investigation will show you there is no separation, no real distance between You and Reality, which I rather call as Divine Consciousness, which is not this consciousness of objects that only appears through experience. I am talking about this Consciousness that transcends object and perception, that is, that transcends experience.
The perception you have of the world is about thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations... All of this is part of the history of this body, this mind, this world, it is within this duality of consciousness and object. Awakening is the end of that duality, of this separation between consciousness and object. This means living in your Being, in your Essential Nature, free from dependence on the idea of being someone in the world.
To be someone in the world means this duality "I and the non-I", "I- thinking and the thought," "I-feeling and the feeling". In the ego, you live in the illusion of a character's story, which is part of the objects of which this limited consciousness is aware of. Your Essential Nature is Something beyond that limited consciousness. It is beyond the duality of subject and object, thinker and thought, the character and its story. Meditation is the basis of the Realization of the Self, of your Essential Nature.
Duality means the illusory existence of a consciousness as a witness and an object being witnessed. The object is the mind, the body, the world, but none of this is real! This is the "reality" of the mind's dream creating the sense of separation. There is no separation! The thinker is just an idea, another thought. It is very important that this be clear, since all your problems are based on this duality "the experience and I".
There is no "the experience and me" – the experience is present in that "me", and that "me" is present within that experience. If you are in your Being, you are free from the illusion of that “me” in the experience, free from the experiencer, free from duality. You need to find out what Meditation is, otherwise you will remain trapped in this web of duality, the illusion of separation.
*Online meeting transcription held on March 11th 2020. For further information, click here.
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