Ramana said, "It is easier for a breadwinner family man to realize the Truth than a Sannyasin, a renunciant."
The renunciant carries the idea that he or she has renounced the world, while the world is all inside. His or her mind carries the idea of having left the world, and a breadwinner family man, doesn't. All the breadwinner family man has to do is to renounce the illusion of being a separate entity from the world. And that's all I ask of you.
Let go of the illusion of being someone in the world, someone to others, someone to yourself. You just must let go of the idea you are a person with duties and obligations. These duties and obligations are of the Whole, not of the person you believe you are. God takes care of his appearances. They are unique appearances in Him. God takes care of them.
Your duty is to let go of the illusion you are there, carrying that burden, carrying fear, obligation, duty. You only have one thing to do: to surrender everything to God! You surrender everything to God when you give up this illusion of wanting to control, resolve and do everything. And that's what you do in the ego. You want to solve everything by yourself. Then, you are overburdened with concerns that are none of your business, that are not yours, that should not be yours.
There is a Power that governs everything, manages, takes care, controls, puts and disposes in His way. This Presence does and undoes in its own way! This is the Grace of Baba Loknath [the Guru mentioned by one participant of the meeting], this is the Grace of Ramana Maharshi, this is the Grace of the Guru.
You go to the Master and say, "Chop my head off!" The Guru will find a way to chop your head off, but you can't be like the turtle (hiding in the shell). The problem I see is that, in the mind, you can't take these steps. These are steps of faith! These are steps outside mind! In the mind, you will add, divide, subtract, assess what you can lose, what you have to negotiate, what are the consequences...
A mirror reflects images because that is the nature of the mirror. The world is like that, it works like the mind: it is always inviting us to time, to the future, to the past. The nature of the mirror is to reflect only what is presented in front of it. It neither increases nor decreases the apparent image that appears there. It's just an apparent image. You cannot take an apple inside the mirror, nor can you take a fork from a plate inside the mirror.
That image is just the reflected appearance of a three-dimensional object within time and space, but that object in the mirror has no reality. It's just an appearance. The original three-dimensional object is also just an appearance. The Real Nature of the object in the mirror and of that three-dimensional object is the Void. The nature of the mirror is the same as the object in the mirror and the three-dimensional object, of which their images are borrowed by the mirror.
Truth is outside the past, future, history, outside that three-dimensional object called "me," which appears as mind, body and world.
Your Real Nature is Consciousness! This is the only reality! Other than that, everything is leaving... it's already going away! There's no way for anyone to hold it back. So, let it go. Leave the appearances. Let them all go! If you don't try to hold onto them, they will still be there, like appearances, and they will be taken care of in a much better way than this illusion would do, which is the illusion you believe to be, managing, taking care of, handling it.
I want to save you another 30, 35, 40 years of meditation practice, spirituality practice. I want to save your life! I want to give you the Zen, Buddha, Baba Loknath, Christ! I want to show you where They are. So far you are looking at an object reflected in the mirror, which is as unreal as this three-dimensional object within time and space, where that object borrows its image. I want to break this mirror, undo this image! Without a mirror, there is no such image. I want to end this three-dimensional object! I want you to have the Void! It is the Void of Baba Loknath, the Void Buddha, the Void of Christ, the Void of Sat-Chit-Ananda. [a cellphone of one of a participant rings, interrupting the talk]
This is an example of what the world will do with you for another 10 million lives. The world will never let you hear the call to take a leap beyond itself. The world will always be like this, inviting you to come back again.
Participant: The world here is two sons and one daughter. They've already called three times!
Master: No, the world isn't them. I wish they were! The world is your idea of yourself, believing that you have children, that you have a family, that you are a person. This is the world! It's this world I want to free you up! It's not your kids, not your house, not your work, not your outside world. It is about that illusory inner world, in which you believe you are someone – someone who is a father, who tomorrow will be a grandfather and then a great-great-grandfather. I speak of this world in which you believe you are a person.
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