Hi folks! Welcome to one more meeting here on our channel. Today we are going to talk about the matter of psychological pain. What place, what real space is there for this so-called "psychological pain," for all this internal conflict human beings have lived, human beings are living for a long, long time? And that has been the condition of each one of us until this Awakening.
Thus, Awakening is possible, because, within this possibility of Self-Realization, there's no room for this so-called "psychological pain." We're going to talk about this now.
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Let's continue! This psychological pain… it is about this! What is this psychological pain? We know what physical pain is. It's that pain you feel when there's a cut on your finger or when, in some way, you have your body injured by some object. So, we know what physical pain is. When there's a cut, a wound or injury in the body, it feels pain… injury due to illness… we know what physical pain is. Now, what about psychological pain?
I want to ask you, where in you is there space for this so-called psychological pain? The pain of sorrow, the pain of sadness, the pain of loneliness, the pain of anguish, the pain of rejection, the pain of jealousy, of envy… What room is there for this in your Being? What room for is there in What You are?
So, see, it's not Real! We're dealing with something purely psychological. This egoic sense has cultivated pain. So, pain is something that reaches the ego, reaches this false center, this false identity, it's not something that reaches your Being, it's not something that reaches You.
Thus, you need to comprehend this in a quite clear way. As long as you remain identified with the ego, identified with what thought has built around this character you believe to be, psychological pain will remain.
This psychological pain has no real basis, it's something produced by thought, produced by these images thought builds inside you, about you. I've called this "self-image." The image you have of yourself, the image you have of others. This self-image, this image you formulate imaginarily about who you are, is the image subjected to this pain. It's the one that is hurt, that is wounded, that sees itself in suffering.
So, that's the only room of pain within you. As this self-image is not Real, as it's part of this imaginary world of thought, this psychological pain isn't Real.
This work of Self-Realization reveals to you the Truth of your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature, the Truth of what You are. Our work here is to explore this, to carefully approach and learn how to look directly at what's going on inside us.
So, the expression "self-inquiry" or "self-observation" is something quite important within this context.
Once you observe yourself, you recognize in yourself the illusory basis of this psychological pain, be it jealousy, envy, anxiety, worry, sorrow, resentment, hatred... Once you can see the illusory basis on which these expressions of feelings, emotions, sensations… once you can see this basis, you can break up with this structure.
The basis for this is this self-image, the basis for this is this false center, it's this false "me," it's this illusion you've been cultivating in this idea of being "someone," who owns things, "someone" who can lose things, "someone" who cannot be forgotten, who cannot be abandoned, who needs to be loved, who needs to be acknowledged… We're dealing, basically, with fiction: the fiction, the illusion of self-image. That's the egoic condition of this "person," of this "sense of person" we carry with us.
Therefore, the basis of this work of Self-Realization is to observe this mistaken movement, this contradictory movement of thought.
To look at this is to be able to really break up with this pattern of pain, with this pattern of external confusion. So, this is our work in Satsang. Satsang means association with the Truth, meeting who You are. We have the opportunity to look at this and to deepen this work in ourselves, as we become aware, conscious, of how false this egoic self-defense is.
What kind of flags have we been raising and lifting? What kind of a situation have we been upholding, defending, protecting?
See, this is all about this false center, the illusion of that center – a false center with totally false idealisms. But, we have been upholding this through inattention, through unconsciousness, through this mechanical, unconscious pattern of life we are living.
The invitation, in Satsang, is the invitation to Liberation from this pain, to Liberation from this suffering, from this psychological suffering.
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