So, here we go.
When we refer to the word "person"… You have it in my speeches, you find it in the videos, you find it on my blog, you find it on my website… I always refer to this sense of a present identity, this sense of being "somebody."
There is a huge internal confusion in this "sense of person," because basically you don't know who you are, who you are. So, you get confused with this sense, with this "sense of person." This person's normal state of consciousness is something like a dream.
At first, you will not understand this very clearly. As time goes by, approaching yourself in this self-observation, you will find out what this expression "dream" really means. So, at first, it would be interesting for you to listen to this with an open heart for investigation.
The first thing here is the comprehension that this dream, or this dream state, is a way of identification. This dream condition, the condition of this state, is something considered as identification. It is a way of being absorbed by a set of beliefs, ideas, memories, recollections, and thoughts.
And why do we call it a dream? Because there is no attention. You are not Self-Realized, or you are not Awakened. And now we have another very interesting term here. Your Real State, your Natural State, is the Awakened State. It is the Self-Realized State. It is not this dream state. It is not this state of identification with mind and what it represents.
Mind represents memories, remembrances, recollections, and experiences. You identify with them and sleep, and naturally you experience this state you call vigil, but which is actually what I call "dream state." So, this condition is not the Real Condition of your Being.
In Satsang, we are always dealing with the Natural Condition of your Being. Your Real Condition, your True Nature is Happiness. That is the Nature of your Being. That is the Condition free from the dream. It is the Condition free from this state, which is the ordinary state, which is the state of the "person." So, you mistake yourself for the "person." What I want to tell you is that there are no people. "Person" is a belief, a concept, an idea, a formulation created by memory itself, by thought itself. You mistake yourself for that, and that is the dream state.
Your Real State is the Awakened State. It is the Self-Realized State. This is your Natural State, and this Natural State is the State of Happiness. It is the State of Peace. This is the State of the Truth about who You are.
So, what we've been saying in Satsang, what we've shared in these talks, these meetings, is the clear vision of the recognition of who You are, this recognition of who we are. When This is clear, when This is seen, the statement "there are no people," "people don't exist," becomes very clear.
You are Consciousness. You are Presence. You are not a "person." You are a Reality with Life. This Reality with Life is your True Nature. The True Nature of yours is your Real Nature, and that is Happiness.
So, every complication revolves around this "sense of person." Every difficulty revolves around this "sense of person." All confusion revolves around this "sense of person."
So, as you look within yourself and see the confusion of this "absorption," of the identification with this movement of the egoic mind, with mind's movement, which is memory, which are recollections, which are experiences, once you become aware of this lack of vigilance, of this lack of attention to yourself, to your own Being, this starts to disappear.
This Consciousness, which is your Natural State, Awakened and Vigilant State, is Love, Peace, and Happiness.
Then, Self-Realization – some call This Awakened State, Enlightenment or Divine Realization – is That. It's You in your Real State. It's You in your Natural State.
So, it seems to me that psychology deals very little, it has, in my view, a very small approximation concerning this, since there is no basic understanding that this "sense of person" is not real, that this "sense of person" is a belief, a formulation upheld by memory. Then, we stay into this game, we stay into this game, and this is not understood.
So, I'd like to put this here for you. Your work, or the work that can be done on yourself, is this work of disidentification, which is the end of this illusion of a sense of separation, and this has the purpose of revealing your own Being.
You may have even started having some glimpses of That. You may have already felt, at some moments, that this dissociation of this "sense of person," of this "sense of personality," with its history, its memory, its recollections... you may have already realized that this dissociation is possible, that this identity is not who You are.
So, my invitation for you is to have this approach: the approach to the Truth about who You are, the Truth about Yourself, the Truth of your Being.
Definitely, there is no "person." There is no "person" here. There is no "person" there.
We have been living, we are living within this condition because of this unconsciousness, what I have just now called a "dream," which is to be absorbed by these memories, recollections, ideas, beliefs, conclusions, and everything else.
So, remember: it's possible to recognize yourself, understanding the Truth about yourself. And this Truth, which is the Truth of your Being, is your Real Nature, is your Divine Nature, which is the Nature of God.
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