We are before a straightforward talk! Words’ meaning is not of our interest in meetings like this. Words are easy to be found at a conference, by reading a book… Our point here is not to share teachings; we are only inquiring. The purpose is for you to understand, in your own direct experience, what we are pointing out. The approach here concerns knowing or feeling straightforwardly, what creates an extraordinary shift of perspective. It can bring you a new way of living, of experiencing life. So, Satsang points out this possibility – that is the purpose of our meetings.
One of the foremost things to understand about this is that you cannot have a Real Vision of Life, of Yourself and, at the same time, keep the vision of yourself and life in the format you used to have until now. This can literally turn your perspective inside out. Self-Realization destroys your world!
You are not in the world! The world is present in Yourself, but you are not present in it! Some of you have not investigated this profoundly. So, you wake up in the morning, go to work and are alive, but the Universe is dead. In the Awakening, something different happens; you wake up in the morning, take a shower, go to work and everything is happening, but now it is happening to nobody. The Universe is alive and “you” are dead. The natural Universe functioning is happening, and That is the Real You, and not that old “you,” that “you” from the old perspective, the old way of seeing life and yourself, that “you” who sees yourself as a person, living inside a body, having different issues and uncountable problems (emotional, psychological, social and even political problems).
These problems are only there because “you” are alive and the Universe is dead. In your True Nature, you are Life, the Universe itself, and you carry no misery. This “little world” of yours is small, fraught, complicated, full of pain and suffering, without Peace, with broken relationships, unhappy marriages, lack of purpose, confusions and conflicts with the family, with the parents, with the country politics, with the whole external situation happening in the world. That is “you” alive and the Universe dead! “You” and your “little world.”
The world of “me” is always a world of problems, conflicts, dilemmas, suffering, fear, anger and everything else. That is inside you due to your belief in a separate “person,” due to the lack of deep self-investigation. You need a passionate, zealous, diligent intent, and then you can see Yourself, Life, the Living Universe. Otherwise, you will remain in your “little world,” full of unsolved issues. Notice you will never be able to change anything outside. The world has been like that since its beginning. Soon you will be gone, and everything will remain the same. It is a constant work in vain, a psychological activity of conflict, pain and contradiction.
Reality is Absolute, beyond all ideas, beliefs and characteristics. Something in you knows your Real Nature, beyond “to be” or “not to be,” beyond the so-called “consciousness” or “unconsciousness,” “life” or “death.” Thus, by plunging yourself into Yourself, you will know Real Meditation, the True Nature of Being, of the Truth, of the Living Universe. Then, the whole world – not your “little world” – can appear under this Supreme Consciousness Light – and not in what you call “consciousness.”
Reality is non-conceptual, not an idea, a belief. When you wake up in the morning, that Supreme Consciousness is present. In fact, before waking up in the morning, this Supreme Consciousness was already present. In this State of Being, of Consciousness, you perceive the body, the mind, the world, this Living Universe without “me,” without the sense of “someone” waking up, having breakfast, going to work… That is a fundamental position! You may think to listen to all of this is very beautiful, but that is only the “song melody.” Do not just listen to the “song melody”! You need to hear, celebrate, dance, live the “song”!
That is like the Sun... No other object makes the Sun brighter or less shiny. You are the Sun shining in the Space! You are present and shining, but whenever you mistake yourself for the mind, for the beliefs arising, you end up limited.
Now, you are a person waking up in the morning, taking your bath, having breakfast, going to work… you do that for forty, fifty, sixty, seventy years, and then you die. You can only die because you are not the Living Universe, but a “person.” You always carry this illusion of the “sense of a person,” and that is your fear.
Your Essence is pure non-duality, non-separation. When you perceive the body, the mind and the objects within this Consciousness, it is like the Sun shining in Space. Neither the body nor the mind, nor the world, neither the objects nor the experience can overshadow, change, increase or decrease the brightness of that Sun. That is your Natural Condition even now. When you identify with the mind, you lose yourself on personal identity; you start having opinions, judgments, making conclusions, so you collide again with your little world.
In your Real Nature, You are beyond all states, experiences, beliefs, concepts, agreements and disagreements. In your Being, You are Happiness; you cannot be angry, unhappy, unsatisfied, feeling yourself miserable. But when you collide with your little world, all this Clarity disappears, and this whole Vision of Reality vanishes.
One of the foremost things to understand about this is that you cannot have a Real Vision of Life, of Yourself and, at the same time, keep the vision of yourself and life in the format you used to have until now. This can literally turn your perspective inside out. Self-Realization destroys your world!
You are not in the world! The world is present in Yourself, but you are not present in it! Some of you have not investigated this profoundly. So, you wake up in the morning, go to work and are alive, but the Universe is dead. In the Awakening, something different happens; you wake up in the morning, take a shower, go to work and everything is happening, but now it is happening to nobody. The Universe is alive and “you” are dead. The natural Universe functioning is happening, and That is the Real You, and not that old “you,” that “you” from the old perspective, the old way of seeing life and yourself, that “you” who sees yourself as a person, living inside a body, having different issues and uncountable problems (emotional, psychological, social and even political problems).
These problems are only there because “you” are alive and the Universe is dead. In your True Nature, you are Life, the Universe itself, and you carry no misery. This “little world” of yours is small, fraught, complicated, full of pain and suffering, without Peace, with broken relationships, unhappy marriages, lack of purpose, confusions and conflicts with the family, with the parents, with the country politics, with the whole external situation happening in the world. That is “you” alive and the Universe dead! “You” and your “little world.”
The world of “me” is always a world of problems, conflicts, dilemmas, suffering, fear, anger and everything else. That is inside you due to your belief in a separate “person,” due to the lack of deep self-investigation. You need a passionate, zealous, diligent intent, and then you can see Yourself, Life, the Living Universe. Otherwise, you will remain in your “little world,” full of unsolved issues. Notice you will never be able to change anything outside. The world has been like that since its beginning. Soon you will be gone, and everything will remain the same. It is a constant work in vain, a psychological activity of conflict, pain and contradiction.
Reality is Absolute, beyond all ideas, beliefs and characteristics. Something in you knows your Real Nature, beyond “to be” or “not to be,” beyond the so-called “consciousness” or “unconsciousness,” “life” or “death.” Thus, by plunging yourself into Yourself, you will know Real Meditation, the True Nature of Being, of the Truth, of the Living Universe. Then, the whole world – not your “little world” – can appear under this Supreme Consciousness Light – and not in what you call “consciousness.”
Reality is non-conceptual, not an idea, a belief. When you wake up in the morning, that Supreme Consciousness is present. In fact, before waking up in the morning, this Supreme Consciousness was already present. In this State of Being, of Consciousness, you perceive the body, the mind, the world, this Living Universe without “me,” without the sense of “someone” waking up, having breakfast, going to work… That is a fundamental position! You may think to listen to all of this is very beautiful, but that is only the “song melody.” Do not just listen to the “song melody”! You need to hear, celebrate, dance, live the “song”!
That is like the Sun... No other object makes the Sun brighter or less shiny. You are the Sun shining in the Space! You are present and shining, but whenever you mistake yourself for the mind, for the beliefs arising, you end up limited.
Now, you are a person waking up in the morning, taking your bath, having breakfast, going to work… you do that for forty, fifty, sixty, seventy years, and then you die. You can only die because you are not the Living Universe, but a “person.” You always carry this illusion of the “sense of a person,” and that is your fear.
Your Essence is pure non-duality, non-separation. When you perceive the body, the mind and the objects within this Consciousness, it is like the Sun shining in Space. Neither the body nor the mind, nor the world, neither the objects nor the experience can overshadow, change, increase or decrease the brightness of that Sun. That is your Natural Condition even now. When you identify with the mind, you lose yourself on personal identity; you start having opinions, judgments, making conclusions, so you collide again with your little world.
In your Real Nature, You are beyond all states, experiences, beliefs, concepts, agreements and disagreements. In your Being, You are Happiness; you cannot be angry, unhappy, unsatisfied, feeling yourself miserable. But when you collide with your little world, all this Clarity disappears, and this whole Vision of Reality vanishes.
*Online meeting transcription originally held on March 25th, 2020 - First published in Portuguese on October 29th, 2020. For further information about our meetings, please
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