Life is a beautiful game! If you see it clearly, that is how life looks like: a great play, a great game, where Consciousness performs all the roles. Here, the point is that “you” perform roles and are in this game without knowing your True Identity, and then the game remains hidden. Sometimes, as part of this great play, there is the Acknowledgment of your True Nature, and being in Satsang is a great opportunity for That.
Right now, we are experiencing a global problem, as we are in a real war, in our “Third World War,” against an invisible army of a virus. This is a health problem on the planet, but we cannot see that as a game, a play, a divine performance. In the mind, you see that as a terrible drama, however, when you see the Show, this is not what you perceive. When you do not see the Show, you see all this as a drama, and why? Because you are used to performing roles without knowing your True Nature, your Real identity.
When you mistake yourself for the role and you do not know it is a Show, all this is taken very seriously, so there comes the drama, the huge drama of life. Your involvement as a character in this play or Show, without Acknowledging the Truth, is taken too seriously. All dramas of life seem to appear from the lack of this Acknowledgement, that is, all your problems belong only to the “person.” In other words, the idea of “person” is the unawareness of the Show.
The character does not disappear when you became aware of it, but it is rather recognized as such; the character does not disappear in a flashlight. Some people imagine Enlightenment as something like that – a flashlight, and that is why “enlightenment” is happening at large scale around the planet. I am certainly being ironic here, since this is only part of the ego-identity drama, provided that the ego does not enlighten itself, but it can see or imagine itself “enlightened.” For example, some people dress themselves in orange-colored clothes or in some kind of special clothes, carry a “japamala” in their hands – a sort of rosary beads – let their beard grow or shave their head completely and reach “enlightenment.” As this is happening around the world, these people also start to achieve some disciples and to teach them the “spiritual truths” they know. This is also part of a role the character may act, completely unaware of the representation of Him or Herself.
However, there is another aspect of this Show, through the clear Acknowledgement of the Truth about Yourself, and this supposed character will likely keep on living an apparent "ordinary life.” This apparent character does not need to tell others there is neither real character nor real Show, but only a theatrical performance, a great divine joke. However, there is also a probability for this apparent character to start sharing that. Now, we are talking about the Sage, the Realized Being, and not about those who are deceiving themselves and, consequently, deceiving others, totally unaware of that unconsciousness.
Are you all with me? Is it clear? So, Freedom is unique, is the Acknowledgement of the Show. Consciousness recognizes Itself as part of the Show and as the producer of the entire Show, in this or that human mechanism – this is the Real Awakening. The Awakened, the Realized Being, the Sage, can share That to others, or not, and if they are open to that communication, they can also reach that Acknowledgement, that same Awakening.
Another point here about the play, this game, is that all of this is happening without a spiritual or evolutionary purpose, as the mind likes to frame. To the mind, everything must happen in line with an evolving, spiritual or some sort of purpose it may create. However, this play has no purpose; it is just cosmic entertainment, sacred, divine celebration! The Supreme Consciousness, the Divine Truth, God or whatever name you may give to the Author of all this, is a cosmic, phenomenal, self-produced entertainment.
Some days ago, I called this as "a cosmic joke God is telling Himself," but I only didn’t mention how funny God considers that... God finds it funny when you can laugh at that! So, it is a laughing entertainment, but you can only laugh at that if you Awake and see the game, the play; that is, when you are able to see the divine entertainment happening. If you cannot see it, you see drama instead. It is difficult for you to accept the reality of all this since you do not have Consciousness´ eyes to see what happens. The mind sees what we have just called as “Third World War” as a horror, whereas the eyes of the Truth see it not like that.
There is only God doing everything, whether your mind understands and accepts it or not. There is nothing outside that Consciousness; in other words, nothing is happening outside that Divine Will – that is the Sage's, the Realized Being viewpoint. The fact is that all of this is a great divine game, where You are that game and there is no existence apart from What You Are, from your True, Real Nature. The beauty of this encounter called Satsang, that means an encounter with Reality, with the Truth, is the possibility of being able to perceive the game, what is behind it and the beauty of this all. It is a fascinating game! Being born and dying are part of it, but it is difficult to see it that way.
In Satsang, we are dealing with Life as It is, not as you, in your mind, believe it should be. Life happens without all that thinking content. It is beyond all concepts, beliefs, ideas, judgments, opinions, this whole notion of justice and injustice, of truth or illusion. Sages name as Liberation the Blossoming of the Truth about Yourself, the Acknowledgement of the Reality, of the Show, of the game, Sages call That as Liberation. This is the end of the illusion of that sense of duality "me and the world," "me and others," "me and life," "me and the Divine," since there is no room for that within Reality, it is just a space of acting, of theater, of Show, that, ultimately, is not real.
It is difficult to accept that as real since your perspective of reality comes from the mind’s experience. However, Life is beyond thought, imagination and all the concepts the mind can produce. To identify with an illusory character is to mistake yourself for a belief, since this "me" is an imaginary psychological sense, just an appearance, an apparition in Consciousness. Your illusory life is based on these false fundamentals, in the belief of this psychological “me,” this psychological identity, this fantasy. To identify with this "me," with this psychological sense of an identity, is to mistake yourself for an imagination.
I want to invite you to allow Life to be What It is. So, instead of striving yourself to abandon this drama – and here this means the idea you can die from coronavirus – I want to invite you to give up this effort, to abandon the illusion you are “someone” with power to control something, such as life and death. When you are completely free from the sense of “me,” from the illusion of that identity present in the experience of living, You are a Realized Being, Awakened, free from the sense of separateness.
Notice I am not talking about an experience. I have just told you that some characters can imagine themselves free from the idea of being "characters," yet feeling themselves like a character. You may even catch a glimpse there is no character, no identity present in that experience, but every experience of this kind comes and goes. When that experience, the glimpse, is present, the imagination of being free arises, but later that old “me” comes back and, at that moment, it becomes clear this was also just a belief, one more experience, and that’s not what I am talking about.
I am talking about Something Real that becomes steady internally as your Natural State of Being, here and now, and not about the “sensation of enlightenment,” the “experience of enlightenment,” not about the temporary perception that all this is a great Show without anyone present here and now. I am not talking about an experience, but rather about an irreversible plunge, without return, where the diver vanishes into the Ocean of Reality.
Therefore, it is not about making an effort to get rid of the thought, the imagination “I am someone,” nor to become “someone enlightened.” Actually, the effort to get “enlightened” is quite dangerous, since you do end up “enlightening yourself” when you strive for it. That is, you fall into another trap, since previously you were a “person without enlightenment” and now you are an “enlightened person”, still unaware of the Show, of the game, as you still mistake yourself for an experiencer, for “someone” present internally. Enlightenment is the end of the illusion of “someone” present; it is Consciousness in Consciousness by Consciousness, within Its divine entertainment, Its play, Its game, where there is nobody.
So, Enlightenment is to allow Life as It is, without “someone” inside the Show, the play, without all this effort to abandon the “me” or to achieve something, without this state people name as “enlightenment.” That is what we are dealing with in Satsang. Currently, this period of reclusion, when people are living their own quarantine experience, is an opportunity to observe this.
This rest or surrender, this surrender to Life as It is, does not end the body’s life. Life goes on, but no longer overburdened by the intricacy of imagination, of thought. I call This as Natural State of Happiness – Life, here and now, without all that imaginary acting thought produces, creating a huge overburden of a false, illusory identity called “me.”
In this Natural State, you no longer search for something like peace, love, happiness, since Peace, Love, Happiness and Consciousness are already here and now as Life Itself! I am talking about You and your True Nature. You are That, you are Consciousness, whatever you look like. You may be fat, thin, tall, short, it does not matter at all. Here, I am not talking about what is apparent, but about What is beyond appearances. You are Consciousness.
Appearances can grow, reduce, change, transform, appear and disappear. For example, they appear when children are born and disappear when people die, but they are only appearances. The forms are disappearing in what we call as "death," in what we call as "war against the virus," but everything unfolds within this Consciousness, this Supreme Reality, and all of this is simply the story of the play, of the Show. I will end by saying this: everything you see, everything that happens, is just part of the story of the Show, of the game.
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