To find out What You are, the Truth about Yourself, is the most important thing in your life!
You have many beliefs, many ideas about yourself. Here, through this speech, you end up asking yourself: “After all, what is the distance between what I am (or I believe to be) and the Truth?” “Maybe this belief I have about myself is not real. After all, what is the distance between the Truth that I am and all these ideas I have about myself?”
You constantly see what is happening through beliefs and ideas. So, you are entangled in an ordinary conflict, looking at life in bewilderment. Actually, since you do not know who you are, you cannot perceive what Life is! What is Life, if you do not even know who you are? The ideas you have about yourself do not provide you true answers, since conflict never ends. To keep on fighting amid all this conflict has already become quite ordinary.
Human beings live in conflict, since that is the nature of the mind. Thought, in its beliefs, strives to understand or to adapt to Life, but it does not work, does not pan out. All problems result from that! All your problems arise from the idea you have a private life, and it is never satisfactory! This “life of yours” is full of conflicts, dilemmas, dramas and problems.
So, you imagine a private life happening, “someone’s life,” “someone” able to make choices, to make wishes come true and to get rid of problems, what never happens! Some wishes come true, but constantly followed by conflicts. Actually, these achievements are just happening! If you observe it closely, you will realize they are Life events.
What is present is just Life appearing in this or that format, and the present mind “discussing” with This. The mind wants to find a solution to every problem, but the mind is confused! Actually, the very own mind is upholding the problem, just because you know nothing about Yourself, about who You are. As you do not know who you are, you do not know what really matters to you.
The mind is overwhelmed with concepts, beliefs, motivations and desires. You mistake yourself for the mind and go through this path searching for many things. You do not really know what is important to you, since you do not know who You are.
In these meetings, I am pointing out the importance of knowing what is important to you, to acknowledge your Divine State, your Natural State, your True State, free from all confusion the mind has created in this so-called “your life.” A mind in conflict, a life in conflict. The important thing is to Acknowledge Yourself! Then, these desires and this entire search for something to make you happy will vanish, since Happiness, Freedom, is innate, is your own and true Nature, your Divine Nature!
Thus, Satsang is quite important since it points out this direction, the end of the illusion of a personal, private, own life, of a separate entity, of this “me” you believe to be.
After every accomplishment, you end up learning they cannot provide you neither peace nor happiness. All this just because you, in this confusion and lost in the mind, have believed already for such a long time that you will be happy or will be in peace when achieving something you wish, you dream about.
Satsang provides you a sampler of that Peace, of that Happiness, of that Freedom already present within yourself. So, for the first time, you find out This is not outside, is not what a new achievement, a new accomplishment, nor a new social condition could provide you. This is all within the illusion of the egoic mind, of this turned-outward mind. This egoic mind is separatist, illusory and is constantly walking in circles.
I mean that, here and now, at this moment and past this moment, in your own Being, lies the Nature of the Truth. But, while you are searching for something outside, you forget what is here and now, already present internally.
All your education, all your learning, all the training you had throughout all these years, was for you to find happiness, peace and freedom on the outside, what neither you nor nobody else have ever found. However, everybody keeps looking for it! This is a mental conditioning.
You are quite educated, quite cultivated, quite cultured, quite skilled, you have already reached some goals, you have already accomplished several things, yet internally you are still lifeless, callous, in suffer, in conflict.
All this just because you do not know the Truth about Yourself, and you have not received a warning about it. No one around you wonders about "Who am I?" So, there is a lack of Depth, a lack of Beauty, a lack of Grace.
If Life, the Reality, your Essential Nature, has no Freedom to express itself internally, there is no Beauty, there is no Grace, there is no Depth. So, what remains is this dry, tuff and conflicting thing you name as "life." I speak of Real Life, beyond this "life." There is the Real Life in Yourself and there is the idea you have about what life is, this dry thing.
There is something in Yourself yearning for Something beyond all that, Something missing that you do not know what it is. You do not see yourself, you only have ideas about who you are. You do not see Life, you just have an idea about what life is.
To dedicate your days, the years you still have here, to investigate That deeply, to plunge deeply into Yourself and to find out the Real Quality of Life outside this "life" you believe you have, you believe you live, is a great possibility.
The cornerstone is to Realize that Truth, to look at what is happening at this moment, without interpreting, without judging, without wishing to change, without any form of fear behind that look, without any romantic, sentimental appeal, without any form of belief. Can you understand how important this is? To have a heart free of the burden of the mind, to live without the mind...
All this is the result of Meditation. Meditation is the Flourishing of this True State, of this Natural State, What I just called as "the foremost thing."
Realize the Truth about Yourself and find out the Peace, Freedom and Happiness I am talking about. Then look at the world and see what is happening there. You will have a completely different look from this "Place." When you are unhappy, you believe you are in the world to make it happy, to make a big difference in it. When you Realize your Natural State, you find out the world does not need you to be happy, you cannot make it happy, there is no world. The world is inside your head!
If you are unhappy, you want to make the world happy, yet this is due to this unhappiness. You see the world unhappy and miserable as you are in misery internally. When you Realize What You Are, the Truth about Yourself, you find out the Real Nature of the world, the Reality underlying all appearances, all manifestation. Nothing is out of place or wrong, requiring your assistance.
You are here to Realize This, to Acknowledge there is no world. This Divine Realization is the Liberation of the world, the Happiness of the world, which is when you Realize Happiness in Yourself. Only then, you carry the Silence, the Peace, the Intelligence, the Compassion to share with the world What You Are. This happens through a quite natural process, without any egoic effort from yourself.
If you are Happy, you Realize the world's Happiness; if you are in that dimension of Peace, you bring Peace to those around you, and you can Awaken in them this same Peace present in yourself. So, do not worry about saving the world, the world does not need your help! You are not here for that, but rather to find out there is no world! Realize what You are, and so God will take care of everything.
So, my invitation is for you to "disappear," so that only this Divine Consciousness can shine. This “sense of me” needs to disappear. Here, when you are nothing, you are everything! Here, when you have nothing, you have everything! Actually, when you have everything, you have nothing. When you are "someone," you do not make any difference indeed, since that "someone" is just conflict, just confusion.
When you comprehend the need to investigate this, you are open to Yourself. So, a door opens, an opportunity for you to go beyond all this confusion, all this mediocrity, all this sense of dissatisfaction and human suffering, a gate for a Divine Life, for a Sacred Life, for a Life in God, for a Life in the Truth!
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