Truth is the very Light of every manifestation, and I always speak of Truth as a synonym for Consciousness. When there is Consciousness, Truth is present, and Consciousness is much more than being conscious. For some people, this notion of Consciousness is to be conscious, as opposed to the state of fainting or deep sleep, for example, that we call as "states of unconsciousness." I do not mean that when I use the word Consciousness, but I mean the Light of every manifestation, and That is beyond being conscious or unconscious.
You believe someone in deep sleep or in a faint is unconscious due to the lack of Consciousness, but that is not true. This Consciousness is beyond "being conscious" and, of course, beyond "being unconscious." It is quite difficult to accept, in the mind, there is no unconsciousness. There is only that Consciousness! When the mind is unaware of something, you call it unconsciousness. That is a very interesting subject... In deep sleep, what you call "being unconscious" is the mind being unaware of the experience of the world. However, Consciousness is ever present, beyond being conscious or unconscious of the world.
Every manifestation is an expression of Consciousness, but the Consciousness precedes the perception of that manifestation. In other words, Truth never ceases to be What It Is. It never disappears in fainting, deep sleep or death. It never ceases to be What it is: Consciousness. So, you need to stop being afraid about this concept of death related to the disappearance of the body or of world’s notion, believing everything is over, since in this Consciousness, that is the Truth, nothing begins nor ends.
This Consciousness, the Truth You are, is immutable, is not subject to changes. Only the mind’s experience is subject to changes, and that is what you call "being conscious," but it has nothing to do with the Truth. When you wake up in the morning, that "being conscious" dawns, but that Consciousness does not need to "be conscious." This Truth You are is beyond those vigil, sleep, deep sleep, unconsciousness or consciousness states (in that sense of "being conscious").
When you wake up in the morning, you have this state called "consciousness," when you perceive the body, the world and the mind. However, these are just appearances in this mental experience, where the senses (hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste) are at the service of the mind. These senses are also part of the mind, of the dream, just like this world you perceive, but I repeat: these are only appearances, none of this is You, what You are. By identifying with any of these experiences, you end up having this notion, this feeling, of a separate, individual identity, which is the basis of fear, of all searching, all suffering, all confusion, and this is the egoic mind state. It is so clear that no one, in deep sleep, has any concern about not being alive, about the possibility of losing one’s life, of dying. There is no fear in deep sleep, since there is no “dream” created by this sense of separation, in which the illusion of a present identity is present.
This is another speech for you to let go of this psychological concern with this terrified, scared identity. When you are under the effect of anesthesia, this whole experience of "being someone" weakens until it disappears completely and, after that, nothing lacks, nothing is frightening nor worrying. That illustrates how transitory is this so-called "consciousness," it comes and goes with the mind. When the mind is present, the senses are working well, and that is what you call as "conscious life." When you interrupt that through anesthesia, fainting or deep sleep, everything is at peace.
All this sense of existence is only an appearance. When you come out of deep sleep, fainting or anesthesia, which here means becoming aware of the body, the mind and the world, it is quite clear something existed before, was there, before this experience of being conscious, otherwise, that would not be possible. That is, it would not be possible for you to be conscious now if there was no Consciousness before. This is very basic: you are coming back, and if you are coming back, it is because you were somewhere.
Participant: And where were we?
Marcos Gualberto: You are what you are, and here is where you had been, are and will be. Only the presence of the mind is what comes and goes, not You. This is fascinating, of great beauty! That is why I said this Consciousness is the Light of manifestation. Now it has become clear. Consciousness, the Truth, precedes every manifestation, is the Light of that very manifestation. Understanding that is beautiful! Following this even intellectually is quite interesting. You cannot stop being What You Are, just as You do not become what You are not. In other words, You were never born, so you cannot die. All this is marvelous, something of great beauty!
Participant: When we receive anesthesia, nothing exists, everything disappears. How do you live in this world, relate with others, make decisions, being this Nothing?
Marcos Gualberto: From the viewpoint of the Essential Nature, of that Source, which is a non-conceptual thing. This sense of conscious presence arises, this sensation of being and of experiencing arises, and that is what, in itself, works in the world. The illusion of a present identity is not required for this “conscious presence” and this “sensation of being” to be present there, working, operating... So, here, in this discovery of Meditation, of your Essential Nature – that is this Consciousness and the Light of every manifestation – when That is present, that illusion of the sense of separation is useless.
You, as Absolute Consciousness, as the Real and True Light of this manifestation, are beyond to be and not to be, the body and the world, the manifest and the non-manifest, the duality and non-duality. Do you think the Sun knows its own light? The Sun is absolute light, but it does not know its own light. This Absolute Consciousness is the Absolute Reality. Here, I am using the Sun as a figure of speech, but only in the sense it does not need its own light and it is unaware of it. This Absolute Consciousness is beyond knowing and not knowing, and in this sense I compared the sunlight… not in the sense of being conscious or not, but in the sense of not needing light, as the Sun is pure light already.
You, in your Being, as Absolute Consciousness, are pure Light, the Light of the manifestation itself, so you are imperishable. Only the body and the world vanish; the mind, the idea "I am," is what vanishes. You are, and this is the Light of every manifestation, the non-conceptual Consciousness. This Reality is beyond all characteristics, expressions and definitions. Awakening to this Essential Nature, to this Essential Identity, is to find yourself moving in the Realm of the Absolute, where phenomena are not as important as the mind sees.
Your Essential Nature is beyond this "awareness of being." To put it simply: Something in you knows this feeling of being aware, of being present, but what You are, is beyond this feeling, and that is what I am saying. This Something is always unknowable, indefinable, indescribable, nameless. So, there is a certain temptation to believe that this Natural State of Being is a state of peace and happiness, which here is the opposite of conflict and war from the point of view of the mind, but the Natural State is beyond this "peace" and “happiness” the mind imagines. Everything the mind knows is through comparison and experience. If the mind imagines peace, happiness, it does that based on its experience of conflict and war, so that is not the Truth yet. That is not Peace, Happiness, and this also works for Love, since what the mind knows as "love" is sensation, pleasure.
What the mind knows are sensations, and all these states are objective things, they come and go, appear and disappear. For example, today you are happy and tomorrow you will already be sad; you are at peace now, but soon something will happen, and you will lose this quickly. That's all you know. However, What You Are is, evidently, beyond all that, beyond these states. At some point in Satsang, there may be a resonance, something pointing out to this Dimension, since there is a certain contact, but soon the mind returns, assumes its place again and starts to objectively and subjectively translate, interpret everything. This is automatic, and all the mind knows is to live based on experiences.
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