Consciousness, Presence is the real meaning of Being. Right now, you are this Consciousness, this Presence, there is no way to escape It. This Consciousness, this Presence is the nature of Reality.
There is no lack of Presence, there is no lack of Consciousness, this is never missing. What is lacking is the awareness of this Presence, the awareness of this Consciousness, and this is what we always investigate in these meetings. That is because this Presence, this Consciousness has imposed upon itself an apparent limitation. It has imposed this apparent limitation, the limitation of the thought, the limitation of perception. This is basically what we call as unconsciousness.
However, we cannot divide this Consciousness, which is synonymous with Presence, into unconsciousness and consciousness. There is no such thing. There is no real unconsciousness in this Consciousness.
This Consciousness is always Consciousness, and It is always this Presence, that means this Consciousness is ever present. This Presence is pure Consciousness. The Nature of the Self is being Consciousness. The Nature of the Self is being Presence. This is the Divine Truth, the Truth of God. This Consciousness is also called as Happiness. In India, they call as Ananda. Ananda is Happiness, and therefore this Consciousness, that is "Chit," is also "Sat" (Self, Truth) and also "Ananda" (Happiness).
Our work in Satsang aims at this direct observation. It is not about having special knowledge for this Realization. So, it is not about learning It. We do not need a specialization for this Realization, we do need a surrender. It is necessary that you "give" yourself to this Presence, surrender to this Presence. In other words, it means giving up that egoic mind, that sense of separation, which means disidentifying with thoughts and this illusory perception. So, That, which is present, manifests itself.
Participant: Is it necessary to go through holiness to realize the Natural State?
Master Gualberto: The nature of the Self is pure sanity, and sanity is holiness. So, let it be clear: it is necessary to abandon all illusion. The illusion of separateness is the cause of all misery, of all suffering in the world. Misery and suffering are not the nature of the Self. So, holiness or sanity, which is the nature of Consciousness, the nature of the Self, is the end of misery, the end of the illusion of separateness.
Therefore, sanity or holiness must be understood in this way. This means going beyond illusion, beyond suffering, beyond lie, this sense of separateness. The ego lives in this illusion, in this lie, and that is the only sin. Sinfulness lies in this sense of separation. When this is present, illusion is present, lie is present, suffering is present.
It is necessary to go beyond the illusion of separateness, beyond all this mistake, beyond all this format the egoic mind knows. Man has lived for millennia in fear, envy, anxiety, jealousy, desire, ambition, and all this is within this format of the egoic mind, in that way egoic mind moves. It is necessary to go beyond all this, beyond this dependence of the egoic mind, this slavery, this illusion.
In that sense, Truth is not for those who live in the lie. Truth is only present when there is no lie. Truth is the Real, and the Real is present when there is no illusion. The ego, in its model, is pure delusion. The sense of an "I" present in its envy, jealousy, possession, control, ambition, desire, fear, is pure delusion.
There is no way for those who are striving to realize this Realization of the Truth to match This with the lie, with illusion, with this egoic state of pure ignorance, pure fear, pure desire, of pure suffering.
You must have a life focused on the Truth, a balanced life, a life of surrender to this Truth. Human beings are under excessive behavior because of this identification with the egoic mind and its desires, its fears and constant search for pleasure. Human beings have abused the body too much, have been involved in all kinds of actions that damage this machine, this mechanism, that organism. So, what we can see from this is that there is no love for the Truth.
It is necessary a balance, a discipline, a certain prudence with regard to this machine, to this mechanism. The man has abused this: too much food, too much sex, drugs ... all kinds of searching for sensations, creating more and more insensitivity in the body, making the body more and more insensitive. You all know this sort of things very well. This mechanism, this "body-mind" is here for this Realization. If it is destroyed ... it is gone.
So, sanity is the key. This sanity is this holiness, this balance, this discipline; this mechanism, that "body-mind" dedicated to this surrender, to this Truth. You have to dedicate all your years, all your months, all your days, all your hours, to this surrender, to this realization of the Real Nature of the Self. You need a healthy body, or a relative health, in order to make this possible. So, those excesses are completely inadvisable. The egoic nature, the nature of mind is this constant pursuit of pleasure.
Participant: Is the excess of working included in this abuse?
Master Gualberto: Yes, excess of working too. In fact, work is not the subject of the talk of this meeting here, but work is also a great prison, a great and wonderful prison. Do not underestimate the ego with respect to work, it loves such thing. This gives you a strong sense of existence. There is a great fulfilment, there is a great pleasure in it. It is not only the issue of money that one earns, but also the work itself is very fulfilling. The ego transforms anything into a great source of pleasure, fulfillment, achievement. Balance is also needed.
You are here for God, not to work. You are here to realize God, and not to live for having sex all the time, eating all the time. The mind is this: it seeks refuge, seeks its continuity... this constant pursuit of fulfillment, of satisfaction, of pleasure, and when you do it, you mistake yourself for the mind.
So, you become a slave – a slave to the pleasure of food, the pleasure of having sex, the pleasure of working. I am putting three examples here, but there are many, they are diverse! There is also the bondage of the pleasure of drinking, smoking, "taking" (drugs)... this complete identification with the body.
Mind loves this sense of being someone in the experience of doing, feeling, obtaining, accomplishing. The question was whether holiness is fundamental... Holiness is this sanity. Without this sanity, there is no holiness. It is completely insane living in the body, identified with the body, living for satisfying the desires of the egoic mind, in which the body is confused with. The body mixes itself up with them and you mistake yourself for the body. Then, there is the constant feeling of being the body, of being in the body, of being someone inside the body, because the thoughts are spinning around those satisfactions, that search, the search for accomplishing desires. Do you realize the importance of this we are saying?
The whole society, the whole culture – this world we live in – encourages this, explores it. People love going to the mall. There is a constant search for objects. There is a constant search for the experience of the senses – touching, feeling ... "I am the body, I am someone, I need to get this, to get that." The mind revolves around this constant search for pleasure, satisfaction, fulfillment of desires. If it is stuck in it, you are in a prison, and so you impose that limitation on yourself. When you mix yourself up with the mind, you are imposing upon yourself the limitation that you are the body, that you need this or that.
All that you really seek is not in the mind. All you seek, in a real way, is Peace, Love, Freedom, the Happiness of Being, that Nature of Consciousness, which is "Sat-Chit-Ananda." All you are seeking is the Truth about yourself.
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