Welcome to one more meeting on Paltalk. Once again, we are together in this opportunity...
In these meetings, we recommend all of you to turn fully within, to look at this honestly, in your own daily experience, to find out, to clearly see all this, this whole evidence of what we are always saying to you in Satsang.
Here we are not dealing with a theory, but rather with something you can and need to have for yourself: a clear evidence, in your own living, in your own existence. You need to realize the reality of what we are dealing with here, what we are constantly saying to you. You need to realize the evidence of this Consciousness, this Presence, this Truth we bring that is not limited, not stuck to time, not imprisoned to the past or the future. The prison is all in the mind, in the involvement you have with thoughts, remembrances, memories, with what always happens at this moment as imagination. You need to abandon this, to find out the importance of valuing the evidence of that Grace, that Consciousness, that Presence.
That Presence, that Consciousness is your Reality, the Truth about yourself, free of images, imaginations, thoughts. You do not need to wait a moment for that Grace, that Presence, that Consciousness. You do not need to identify in yourself that Presence, that Consciousness, since you are already That. You only need to disidentify with what you are not: thought, memory, recollection, images, imaginations, what the mind projects as being real. You do not produce that Realization. You do not make it happen to you. You do not bring it from somewhere. This is already present there. Here it is a matter of discarding what is not, discarding this illusion. So, you do not need to wait for Grace, Consciousness, Truth to come. You honestly see this evidence of Consciousness You already Are, right away, discarding imagination, discarding this movement, which is the movement of the egoic mind.
You have to abstain from this addiction to thinking, imagining, to project yourself into time as a present entity. You need to start this abstinence, abandoning that addiction. It is just a thought in the form of images, memories and imaginations. It is just thought that imagines you with these qualities of a person, placed within time and space, with limitation, with an age, with a healthy or sick body, as an entity moving in time and space, walking towards death... it is just thought that creates this. Thought creates the imagination of memory, of someone's story.
Do you see that?
The whole problem is just thought. The key is to not rely on thought. You rely too much on thought, you are addicted to this thing. You need to abstain from that, from that trust in these images thought creates internally, in this machine, in this body-mind. I am showing this to you, checking this out with you in Satsang.
Satsang is this association with the Truth, with Reality. We are together investigating the nature of Happiness. Happiness is inside each one of us, our Real Nature. It is the center of our own Being. However, thought, in its imagination, projects this outside on images of objects or people: objects and people that will make us happy. Basically, thought works with images of people, things and places located within time and space. Time and space are also part of this imagination of thought. So, things will make us happy, people will make us happy, places are important, and you are like the center of that experience – everything to make you happy. What I am saying is that Happiness is the Nature of Being, of Consciousness, of Reality, of this Truth that is You. It does not depend on things, people and places. It does not depend on time and space. All these are just creations of thought.
There are some moments in your life when you, for a few seconds, are completely free from people, things and places. A usual example is this: you are before a scenery, a panorama; before a beautiful sunset on a beach, sitting, watching the Sun going down over the horizon; or in a beautiful dawn, watching the sunrise in those waters, rising... At that moment, in that silence interrupted only by the sound of the waves, for a brief moment, the sense of the personal "me" is completely displaced, completely swept away, and with it, thoughts, images of things, people, places and the image of the body itself. A moment of complete forgetfulness of this "I," this "me." That moment is of pure Consciousness, pure Presence, pure Happiness! The absence of the "I" is Pure Happiness! When the sense of "me" is not present, that Truth is present, that Happiness is present; present as your Real Nature, in the absence of this "me," this "I," this sense of person. Here you do not desire, do not fear, do not yearn, do not seek, do not search for anything. You are just relaxed in your Being, in your True Nature. All excitement disappears, all activities of your mind disappear, all mental activity ceases. You return to your Natural State.
This is what you also experience in deep sleep when all the egoic mind's excitement disappears and you wake up in the morning saying you enjoyed a wonderful night, a dreamless night! Everyone loves deep sleep since everything disappears there: the world, objects, people, places... Everything you say you love so much in the waking state is not missed in deep sleep. It is a real rest! The ego fears death, but something in you loves to die every night, loves to abandon the children, husband, family, possessions, everything that normally, in the waking state, gives you a lot of pleasure, a lot of joy, since these same things also cause you discomfort and suffering. In the waking state, you live in this duality between pleasure and pain. In deep sleep, you are beyond pleasure and pain, beyond duality, beyond this world – which is the world created by thought – of things, people and places.
Wherever desire reigns, fear is present, and basically this is suffering, misery, the state of alienation of your Real Nature, of your True Nature.
I repeat: you do not need to produce this Natural, Real, True State of Happiness; It is already present! What you need to do is to abandon this illusion of separateness, of the sense of "me," of what thought creates when it places you within time and space, looking for things, people and places, or trying to get rid of it all.
Is that clear?
As long as there is this illusory need, which is this idea to remain as a present entity, as long as this is present, illusion will be present. As long as there is an illusion, there will be suffering, misery, desire, fear. Enlightenment, Awakening or Realization is this Bliss of Being, this Consciousness, this Beatitude of Being, of being completely free from this illusion, the illusion of this present entity, this person, this me, this I. So, this Happiness is Love, Freedom, Peace, God. That is the only thing you came to accomplish in this world. You did not come here to do anything else. You did not come to get married, have children, have grandchildren... you came to realize God. You did not come to become a famous person, an important figure. You did not come to become a football player, a president of the republic, a businessman, self-employed, scientist, doctor, lawyer, teacher, father, nor grandfather... all of this is part of an appearance that will soon disappear.
Everything you Are and were born to Be, is completely free from that, something internal completely free from that story, as pure Consciousness, Presence, Being, Happiness, Love, Truth, Freedom, God. You blossom as a human being when you are beyond this illusion of being a "human being." To blossom as a human being is to blossom as God.
Question: What is surrender?
Marcos Gualberto: Surrender means abandoning yourself, abandoning that sense of someone, that story of someone. Surrender means assuming What You Are, completely abandoning the illusionary belief about who you are. This work is possible in Satsang, before a living Master.
A living Master is the one who chops off your head. Before the Master, you soon find out what surrender is. God draws you in His Love, in His Grace and shows you what surrender is. Those of you in this room who have not yet been in presential Satsang, I invite you to come to Satsang. This is a question that is being answered in presential Satsang. It is the key to this Realization. Devotion is that surrender, and that surrender is that abandonment. All of you in this room are here only because you have already been touched by this Presence. Some of you have been deeply touched by this Presence, and when you hear this speech, you know what I am talking about. You were touched by this Divine Love, you are receiving a call from God, a call from the Truth, exactly for this surrender, this devotion, this abandonment. So, come to Satsang, I am waiting for you here.
OK? So let's stop here! Namaste! See you next meeting!
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