Consciousness does not talk. Consciousness is silent! The mind talks. Consciousness is beyond the sound and the silence. You cannot hear my voice. However, you can enjoy my Silence. In the mind you express thoughts. Consciousness is only Silence and has no expression. What differentiates an Advaita teacher from a Master is that the latter never talks, while the former talks a lot.
With a teacher you learn since he or she has something to teach. With a Master you unlearn. The Master does only one thing: He destroys all your knowledge, once it is useless. Knowledge only deals with the known. The known knowledge is only for dreaming. Through knowledge, you build a rocket and launch it into outer space. Then, the rocket leaves the earth, breaks the law of gravity, and goes into outer space. However, the rocket, the earth, the law of gravity and outer space are part of the dream. They are good for nothing else, just for that. If knowledge is not useful to realize Happiness, then it is useless. Knowledge is going to put a satellite in space, and now the GPS will work, the TV channels will broadcast the signal, but nothing the TV channels show will bring Happiness. So knowledge is useless.
There are doctors here, in this room. Through medical, scientific knowledge, you can cure your patients. They will have a healthy body and they will live longer, miserably. Sorry doctors, your knowledge is useless! It only prolongs the misery. I have just proved to you that knowledge is useless. It is just to prolong the dream.
Silence destroys the dream. Silence represents Conscious Immortality, Supreme Happiness. So, Silence is important, knowledge is not. Sorry doctors, your knowledge is rubbish. Atomic science, quantum physics, nuclear knowledge are useless. None of this can make your eyes shine with happiness.
I am not a doctor. I am just What I Am. And you are just What You Are. That is enough. You do not need to know anything in this world. Just know yourself. This is the only valid knowledge. If you know who You Are, you know you are not inside there. You know there is no one to know oneself. So, you know everything is Him, and He is revered in everything. Then you behold Him and enjoy Him everywhere, and He is your joy. So, the only knowledge that matters is knowing who You are. You were born for this.
It is not my words that are making "this thing" work. This thing called Satsang happens by itself. There is no one there. You do not come back because of the words. There are many writers, philosophers, many scientists... and they are impressive, admirable people. There are many wonderful people in the world. Isn't it? You have to learn to have fun with all this; you cannot take it too seriously. They are playing important people. Let them believe they are impressing you. But do not be impressed. They do not know Conscious Immortality. After death, they all become ghosts. And you know how ghost's life is, some ghosts are friendly and some are not.
And what changes? Nothing changes! If you do not live your Real Nature here and now, anything internally is still the mind, in a time created by the mind. Reality is here and now. Everything else is mind's creations: spiritual places, heaven, hell, "lower zone" ... If you are identified with the mind, you are in time, you will go to one of these places, it is unavoidable. But if the mind has disappeared, if it has immersed in the Source, the material and immaterial universe disappeared.
That is beautiful, isn't it!? The end of the dream!
Is there anything that distresses you more than that? To desire what is not here and now? To want something to be different than it is? See the peace of the Sage: He wants nothing. The Sage is just having fun, laughing at all this madness.
Do you get that?
God pours Himself out abundantly. Life is Grace, Joy, God, there is only God! His game seems very cruel for you, some are being born, and others are dying... Yesterday, I saw a bird eating an insect. The insect was flying and the bird was faster than it. It is a game. There is nothing wrong with your life. You have no personal life because there is no person. There is only the game. So, whoever has come and has already gone, it is all right, do not demand anything that has already gone, and do not demand anything that has not come yet. Everything will come, and everything will go away. But it is a game. Do not make it personal. Then, you learn to live as a Sage, without attachment, without desire, without fear.
When people ask me, "How can you live like this?" I ask them the same question back: "How can you live like this?" That is the same question. The Sage is asking the same question as the fool. How to explain this? It is a mystery.
Your certainty about everything is huge. Abandon this. Abandon what you believe you know. You know nothing!
There is an expression used out there in a pejorative way. The expression is: "in blissful ignorance." Have you heard the expression? But it is a wonderful expression, since it accurately pictures the Natural State. It is of complete ignorance and of an unbelievable sacredness. Your Natural State is of an in-blissful ignorance. It is quite paradoxical. The one who shares the Real Knowledge, knows nothing!
Isn't it paradoxical?
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