It is important that you make your own discovery. What I give you here are indications of what you will discover within this work. These indications are actually revelations of what you need to discover for yourself. The lotus flower gives us an example: its leaves live in water, it drinks from that water, draws life from it, draws beauty from it, but the water does not touch the flower. It is in the lake, but the flower itself is on the water surface. When the rain comes and falls on it, the drops roll down into the lake and the flower remains on the surface, untouched by the water. The lotus flower gets rid of the water when it tries to touch the flower.
You also need to become aware of the reality of your world. You live in this world; your physical life is in this world, which is a world of thoughts. Thought has produced this all around you! Your physical existence and your story as a human creature will happen one more year. Your environment, as an apparent individual entity, is this human life. The lotus flower's environment is the lake, but it is not touched by the water, or when it is touched, the water does not stay on top of it – the water rolls back into the lake. So, the flower is always dry, free from water, even though it lives in the water. Likewise, although this physical and psychophysical existence is in this world, your True Nature is not from this world!
I can tell you that within this work, you will find out that thought is not the instrument, the sustenance, the truth you need. It will never be an instrument capable of helping you to live in harmony with life! Thought is not the instrument of Life; it will not help you to live in Peace, in Truth. Thought is chaotic, contradictory, and imaginative, it is out of Reality. Thought does not deal with Reality, but with imagination, with contradiction, with phenomena. If your life remains grounded in thought, you will be a lotus flower suffocated by water. But this is not the case with the lotus flower, as it does not allow itself to be suffocated by water. If the water level rises, the flower follows it, rises with the water. The flower does not accept living underwater. In this world, people are like a lotus flower, but they are submerged in water, suffocated by it.
My emphasis is always on this matter of thought, and why? Because I realize that you spend most of your time busy with thoughts, and they take you to a relationship of "flower submerged in the water," they ward you off from Reality, since thoughts put you in the world, in this "water world," which is the mind's world. If you are busy with what thought creates – and this is what the egoic mind is busy with – you are living in the ego, not in your Divine Nature. Thought is something dead, it does not touch Reality.
Thought speaks of a Spirit, of a Consciousness, of a God, of a Life, of Immortality, of Intelligence, of a Love, of a Peace that it does not know. It does not know, because it is dead! In thought, you are submerged in identification with a character, with this character you believe you are who hates, loves, misses, needs, suffers, desires… Isn't it so? Am I wrong? Show me a memory that is not a photograph of the past. Have you ever noticed that it is impossible for you to bring a memory that is not a photograph of the past? And if it is a photo, it is not Reality, it is a memory impression. Thought is something dead! Your relationships are not alive since they are all based on memory.
There are those who talk about the importance of creating a right world by right thoughts, of accomplishing what you want, desiring the right thing. You need to be attentive to discernment. The human being is too naive! They let themselves be convinced by what they hear and convince others without a more accurate, truer, more honest investigation. You will not create the world using the thought, the world is already ready! What they could do for the world they have already done, and what some still need to do in the world, they will do, dreaming as they are.
When you come to Satsang, you are invited to stop dreaming, to leave the world alone. Will the world fail to be created or reasserted itself over and over again? No. Thought will always be creating the world. The world does not need your thought, another one in this dream context, seeing oneself as a separate entity, able to control and do things. A Buddha is the one who sees the game, and for him this is just fun. The Buddha is not in the game.
As I just said, thought is something dead. It cannot touch Reality. It is the one that creates problems and goes in search of the solution. Thinking brings you ideas about what the world should be like, and you can stay in that game, trying to create a world different from what you are seeing, believing, as a separate entity, to be in control, to be able to manage and to correct life, creating what you want, as if it could bring you harmony, peace and happiness. As if it were based within the Reality of Consciousness, the Reality of Being. No! Thoughts are contradictory, dualistic, problematic, imaginative...
The planet is not in danger! The world does not need help! Yes, you are in danger, as you cannot see, hear, deal with thought as it is, with feelings as they are, with emotions as they are. You are the danger, a danger to yourself, and that is to be out of Reality. The danger is to be out of Reality, to be unhappy, to be "someone."
Of the nearly 8 billion on the planet, how many do you believe dawn on the first day of a new year, like this 2021, and are already before something like this? How many are warned or called to This? I am not wishing you a new year. I am calling your attention to Life, without all this old, dead thing that is life in the thought. There is something in you beyond time and space, which precedes this manifestation called "world," all this creation, all that thought has created. There is something that precedes all this! Precedes the body, the mind, the story, the thought... That lotus flower lives in water, it drinks from the water, it is in the water, but when you throw water on it, the water rolls over. When you really understand what I am saying, nothing else can remain.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna, "The world does not abide in me." Another time Krishna also says, "Do not be impressed by my words, it is What I Am that matters." In India they call the Vision of What You Are God's Realization, which is the Understanding that You are the beginning of all manifestation, the only Reality, and there is no longer the prison of thought.
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