Being is something that requires an approach entirely different from what you are generally used to. When we go to a meeting to listen to someone, we hope to learn something there. That is not the purpose of this meeting. I have nothing to teach you here, but you can investigative your life here with me, about how your life is going and what is happening to you.
So, the purpose is not to teach you something, but rather to investigate something with you, which I consider of utmost importance. Satsang can bring a profound change, something that can have tremendous meaning. We are talking about a change in your way of seeing yourself in life. You would not be at this meeting if you were not looking for something beyond this ordinary life that everyone is living. If there was not a real internal search, you would not be here.
Human beings have been living in conflict, and this has been so for millennia! Human beings live on this planet in conflict – with themselves, with others, with everything around them. Human beings are seeking peace and creating war.
So, what we have to say to you at a meeting like this is not something you are not already aware of. You may even know it. What you do not know is what to do with this. What to do with these internal conflicts? How to get rid of suffering? How to discover a quality of life in which you are at rest, in a true internal rest? How to live in peace? How to live intelligently? How to live with that perfume of Freedom, of Love, which is to live a life without conflict?
We are proposing that you investigate this and ask yourself if this is possible or if we are really doomed to live the rest of our days looking for what makes us happy. Perhaps some people are already doomed to live like this until the end of their days, precisely because they are doing what does not need to be done. They are mistaken. The vast majority of people are radically wrong. That is why there is so much conflict, so much suffering, so much despair. There is no Peace. There is no Freedom. And words like "intelligence," "love," "happiness," "freedom" are interpreted in a very superficial way, since no one knows what this is. People do not know what this represents since they are under this doom, this condition of an eternal search for something out there. They are looking outside because they were raised, educated, encouraged to do this. These people are us.
Those who represent humanity live like this. When I was young, I was also somewhat encouraged in that direction. But something internally was saying there was something else. So, when I use the expression "we," I include myself, but actually everything is different here. I do not see anything that way. Not anymore. For me, the words "intelligence," "freedom," "happiness," "love" and "awareness" have a totally different meaning than that which is used by people applying these words.
You cannot keep on depending psychologically, internally, on what others think, on what they accept or reject by the traditional way of seeing themselves, of seeing life and the world around them. Some people have used the expression "Awakening," a word that is already quite emptied of significant, real, profound content. It has also been trivialized. However, This is what human beings need! When I say "human being," I mean you who are here in this room.
All your conflict is with yourself, and your desire is its base. It is your conflict that generates dependence, which upholds fear in relationships, which makes you depend on others – and here, others are anything on the outside. What you lack is the Silence, the Silence of your Real State of Being, of your Divine Natural State of Being. All you need is to find this enchantment for the Truth you carry within yourself. You need to be in touch with This. Otherwise, you will be continually moving under this world of desire, continually looking for something outside. Looking for anything! People are also things, they are nothing but images. They are images of special things. More special are the ones we love, or less, for the ones we do not love so much. They are also special to annoy us, grieve us and make us miserable.
This deep pain of desire upholds this dependence on objects, which are images of these so-called "people" we are in constant contact with. Apparently, they make us happy or sufferer. I say "apparently" since this is not true. The problem is never outside! The problem comes when you trust what thought says about what people are saying about you and themselves. It is always the internal thought.
I have been emphasizing this a lot to people who come to this work. They live in thought, so they are sure of the conclusions they draw. This is so childish. When you trust this, you suffer, you ward you off from yourself, from your Real Ideal. Your Real Ideal is the association with Silence, with the Love of your own Divine Nature. You ward yourself off from your True Nature when you believe what thought says, what mind says, in this relationship mind has with these objects.
You were born for Intelligence, for Freedom, for Consciousness, for Truth, for Love and Happiness. This is the Nature of Being!
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