There is a real and ultimate Natural State of Being. You cannot remain deluded about it, even because you were born to that Realization. Life has an impersonal representation, that is, It does not care about the ideas you have.
The egoic mind, by its nature, is frequently concerned with any and every thought related to the external world or the inner world. The mind does that in its pursuit of fulfillment and satisfaction, and this is quite frequent for every person.
The illusion of the impermanence of your Natural State causes you to constantly mistake yourself for what is not real, since you know nothing about "who you are." You have a so vast and strong illusion about yourself: you see yourself as an impermanent being, completely identified with what happens externally or internally. To mistake yourself for that is what I call as "identification with the egoic mind." Yes, there is something impermanent, but this is not real, it is not You in your Being, in your True Nature.
For many and many years, you have been mistaking yourself for the egoic mind and thus mistaking yourself for states that come and go; so are your internal states and their external representations. So, you have been mistaking yourself for emotions, thoughts, physical sensations and sensory perceptions. You believe this is you, and as you have noticed how impermanent this is, how it comes and goes, you believe this is your real state.
When you come to Satsang, I invite you to see that all this is an illusion. You are mistaking yourself for illusory states that come and go and therefore you are assigning an identity to what has no identity – that is the sense of duality, the well-known sense of separateness.
Sensations come and go, as well as thoughts, emotions, the body... only in this sense there is nothing permanent in this world. Impermanence is the sign of what appears and disappears. This is the sign that marks all appearances. While you remain in this way, taking it as real to yourself, as if it were "you," you remain in the illusion of duality, no matter how great you can say and teach about it, neither how much you talk about love, peace, freedom, happiness and consciousness.
Self-realization has an infallible mark, just as illusion has a seal that can be easily identified. When we speak of Self-realization, we are talking about God's Realization, God's Consciousness, non-dual Consciousness, and This is not what comes and goes. Therefore, you cannot speak of Enlightenment or Self-realization if this "mark" (of appearing and disappearing) is still present and if you still identify with states that come and go.
As the mind is very skilled at rationalizing, it will do so. If it is an educated, trained mind, that has studied this matter of enlightenment for a long time, that has seen many speeches, visited many gurus, studied many books, watched many videos, it will infallibly rationalize it, and at that moment you may fall into a trap – the trap of being "enlightened," without being Enlightened; of being "realized" without being Realized at all.
Your Natural State is unchangeable. You are Consciousness. This is your True Nature. So, if you are going through states with this “mark” of appearing and disappearing, it is a sign you are still mistaking yourself for the egoic mind; in this or that aspect, you are still trapped to the illusion. So, it is important to investigate this, what cannot be done intellectually. It is necessary to surrender this false “me.” You have to give up on that personal identity that causes you different moods from moment to moment.
The difference between a movie screen and the films projected there is that the films come and go, but the screen remains the same; one same screen for many films. Some films are romantic, others are horror, thriller films, and so on, but the screen remains the same. So is your Natural State, different from these images that come and go, because your Self remains unchanged, untouched by any experience, sensation, emotion and thought.
However, if you are experiencing the experience of thought, sensation, emotion, perception, but entangled with it, it is useless rationalizing it, saying "this is not real, it comes and goes," although it is a fact. It really comes and goes, but you are also coming and going with that – this is the illusion of "being someone" – and it is so for everybody. So, if you feel enlightened, this is the quality test, the fireproof. If you are Real, then you are That all the time – you are a Jivamukti, a freed Being in Life (free from these identifications, from the illusion of the "experiencer"). Do you get that?
I started by saying that Life does not care about you, because It carries the "mark" of impersonality, of naturalness, of reality, of immutability. Everything that appears in Life changes, but Life itself is What It Is. Life can express itself through changes but remains immutable in its nature. Such is your Real Nature, your Real Identity. That is what we are dealing with, when you come to Satsang (different from what people have been calling as satsang out there).
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