If you have some questions, you can ask and we will answer here for you. OK? By video… as we have here, someone asked: "Could you talk about the ego identity and the path to inner peace?"
Let's go! Why do we talk about inner peace? Why is there interest about this question, the question about inner peace?
Look, I can't distinguish between interior and exterior. So, basically, Peace, if it is real, It is the Peace. If you acknowledge the Truth, you assume the Truth of Peace, and this division between interior and exterior disappears.
The recognition of This is the comprehension about this illusion, the illusion of this ego identity.
So, look, this Real Peace is something present when there is an end to this ego identity, and when there is an end to this ego identity, this issue of interior and exterior, of internal and external, ends and disappears.
So, the real path to the Truth of Peace – and here, it is the Real Peace – is the end of this ego identity.
And you say: "Tell us about this ego identity." Basically, ego identity is the illusion of this "me" you believe to be: a "me" that thinks; a "me" that imagines; a "me" that idealizes; a "me" that is walking towards somewhere; a "me" that has purpose, aims; a "me" that has things to get rid off; or a "me" that needs more stuff to feel well, to feel calm, to feel peaceful…
In fact, this "me" is completely false. This is the illusion of someone present, at this moment, here in this experience.
Notice that you've had at some points in your life, some glimpses of an inner state of Silence, and at these glimpses of Silence, you didn't notice conflict outside.
So, this division between interior and exterior disappears for good when there is just a short glimpse of this Silence and Reality you are, and this happens when this ego identity is absent.
So, you've had some moments, in your life, when there was no burden, no anxiety, no worries, no fear, no anticipation, neither positive or negative, and, at that moment, maybe for one, two, three or four seconds, there was Peace, there was this Freedom, this Consciousness, this Presence.
When you are at a new place, when you arrive at a place where you've never been before, curiously, the impact of that place is so strong for the egoic mind that it, for a few moments, is knocked out and disappears for a few seconds.
Maybe it lasts for a few seconds, maybe for one minute, but, at that moment, the whole sense of separate identity, the whole story of "someone," this ego identity, vanishes.
So, ego identity is an illusion and your Real Nature is Peace.
So, when we deal with this issue of Peace, we don't talk about inner peace, we talk about Peace as your Real Nature, as the Nature of the Divine Truth you are, which is your Being.
Then, there is no room for the sense of separation, this duality between "me, life and God." The sense of a "me" is not present in What You are. The sense of a "me" is present in the illusion of a dualistic mind, a separatist mind, a mind, basically, in conflict.
That's why this Real Peace is impossible while the mind remains, while the ego remains, while this identity keeps producing ideas, beliefs, thoughts about life as it is, about life as it presents itself.
This work in Satsang shows us the importance of Meditation, that has – I've been saying this a lot – the investigation of the false as its basis. This investigation is, basically, to observe the false movement of the mind, this egoic mind.
That's the basis. This self-enquiry is the basis for the blossoming of your Divine and Natural State, which is Meditation.
As It is already your Real and Divine State, It is not something separate from you. That's why, at some moments, without being called or searched, It can, actually, appear… only as a glimpse of your Divine State, which is what happens when you arrive at a space like a beach or at the margin of a river, or you are at an open space, at a new place, when you look at the sky and see the new Moon… something can be the basis for That, for That to happen, but it is something not searched for, not sought, as it happens with the blossoming of Meditation.
We have talked about that. Meditation is basically something like that. All you can do to allow the blossoming of Meditation is not seek It, but rather to realize what is present here and now, basically preventing this blossoming.
So, the verification of the movement of the egoic mind naturally discards this movement. So, as Meditation is something already present, It simply appears, simply blossoms.
So, Meditation is synonymous with Peace. If you want to call it inner peace, OK. I'd rather simply call it Peace, the Peace of your Being. It is the everywhere Peace, the Real Peace, the True Peace.
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