The mastery of Being

In Satsang, we are talking about Happiness, Freedom, God, about ourselves, about What is deeply held within us. Happiness is something that depends on mastery: the mastery of Being. Few people in this world are interested in Real Happiness, since few people plunge into themselves to find this out, to become aware of This.

The mind's nature is to the external, to the outside. The mind is interested in satisfaction, fulfillment, comfort, pleasure, desire… People come to me, but they are not interested in what I have to give them. They are too dispersed, too attached on externalities, on external achievements. However, Happiness is not in external objects, but rather in us, inside us! And the mastery of Happiness, the art of Happiness, is Being. It is not having things, like a new husband, a new house, a new car, a new sentimental, emotional, physical accomplishment... The mind is interested in that.

Happiness is this State of Being, while the mind's activity, all its excitement, gets in the way of This. People are interested in their projects, in their thoughts, in the world of shapes, in the world of appearances, colors, names – in externalities. Beauty will not give Happiness. Wealth will not give Happiness. Objects will not give Happiness. Knowledge will not give Happiness. You only find This internally, only within you...

All my interest lies in Happiness, not in something of the mind's world. Mind is confusion, disorder, suffering. Mind is samsara. Samsara is a word for "wheel of confusion," "wheel of deception." If you intend to realize Happiness, you must become a master in that science, in the science of Being, and leave the mind. Mind is conflict, war, chaos, pain, suffering, misery. The mind is quite stupid!

What do you think? Do you want to be free? Freedom is here and now! Remain tuned to the Heart, turned inwards, and go beyond appearances, names, shapes, colors. Externally, outside, is the hurricane, and in the hurricane's eye, inside you, there is the calm.

I love sharing This with you: Truth present here, right now. So, become a master of Yourself. Find This in Silence. Find This within you, not outside.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on July 7th, 2017. First published in Portuguese on March 14th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.