Well! The purpose of these meetings is to show you that it’s possible to go beyond this condition: the condition of the egoic mind, the condition of that consciousness I’ve called mental consciousness.
Reality is What is present here, at this moment, and it transcends this state of mental consciousness, transcends this state of consciousness of the egoic mind.
The mind lives within a project of past, present and future. I’m referring to the egoic mind, to this movement of this consciousness common to all. Spiritual Awakening, the Realization of the Truth about who You are, transcends “being conscious,” it means being Consciousness, not simply being conscious.
In general, you mistake being conscious for being the Truth about who You are. You are conscious of what is happening here, right now, around you. This seems to be so, it seems to be true. What you have here is a representation of what thought has about this present moment. So, this “being conscious” means being bound to identifying with an illusory identity, which is this person you believe to be. In other words, you are in a state of sleep when you mistake yourself for what thought says about what is happening here, right now.
This is the basic prison of time, of psychological time, of the illusion of time. This is where the difficulty of living in Completeness, in Freedom, in Peace, in Love, in Happiness lies, because everything you have in this “being conscious,” or in this apparent consciousness you believe you have, everything you have is what mind tells you about life, about yourself, about others, about the world. That state is the sleep state. The Sages have called it sleep because it is a state of unconsciousness.
In this unconsciousness, the behavior of the human being, for the most part, is very, very insane. Violence, for example, present within the human being, is a very strong, very clear aspect, and one of the things human beings don’t realize is that this movement of violence is a movement based on an existing suffering in them. And this suffering is present because of an internal contradiction.
What happened was the following: human beings created an internal identity, they carry an internal identity, and this inner identity demands life to be as it wishes. This inner identity has a model for what life should be like for itself, however, it just doesn't fit, life doesn't fit, life is what it is. And as life is, as life shows itself, there’s an inner contradiction, inside, there’s a rejection, a struggle. In this contradiction, what is present is the presence of suffering. Thus, that explains all this violence in human beings. Their relationships are conflicted and suffered because of this violence.
Then, there’s violence in the relationship between you and those you say you love, between you and those you want to love, or those you should love. So, there’s a conflict within you, and this conflict is expressed in these relationships you have with those closest to you, with family members, with friends, with people at work... So, there’s always an internal contradiction upholding suffering and, therefore, violence in relationships. This is easy to see by those who pay a little attention to their own behavior, which is also not so common, because, in general, the level of unconsciousness, the depth of unconsciousness of the majority is very, very big.
Our job here in these meetings is to investigate the Truth about who we are and, naturally, to discover that there’s a quality of life completely different from this life based on the egoic mind and, therefore, free from violence. First, be free from suffering. As long as you don't free yourself from suffering, you’ll be an aggressive human being. Aggressive in gestures, aggressive in speech, aggressive in behavior, in actions, aggressive in relationships.
We don't have much compassion for those who are violent towards us, but this is already part of violence in ourselves, and this only exists in us because of the suffering that already exists within each one. We’re not patient with ourselves; how would we be patient with others? If we are suffering, we don’t accept being attacked, but this aggression is, rather, inside you than inside the other. But all this passes in a way you don't realize, because of this unconsciousness. I’d say because of this consciousness, this mental consciousness.
And what is the difference between this mental consciousness and What I’ve called here in these meetings of Real Consciousness? This mental consciousness is consciousness based on the model of thought. So, what thought dictates, what it describes, what it affirms inside your head, this is assumed to be you, to be yours – this is mental consciousness. You mistake yourself for it; you give an identity to that thought when you put an inner identity to it.
This is a general, generalized belief. Everyone believes they are conscious of themselves. In fact, the consciousness they have of themselves is the mere consciousness thought has of who they believe they are. And life guided by this condition is, of course, conflict, suffering, violence. So, that mental consciousness is useless. You need to go beyond that.
Thus, our purpose within these meetings is to tell you that there’s something beyond the mind and this state of consciousness as you recognize it in yourself. That would be the same as saying to you: there’s a Consciousness outside of that consciousness you have about who you are, and you only discover this Real Consciousness when you doubt this mental consciousness you have; in other words, when you start doubting what thought tells you about who you are, about what is happening to you, about who the other is, about what is happening to others or what is happening in the world.
That's why Ramana Maharshi left a question; the question is "who am I?" Here, the purpose of this question is to show you that you are not who you believe to be. Human beings don’t ask themselves this question “who am I?” The state of mental consciousness or general unconsciousness is so strong, it is so dense; it is so deep in the great mass, in the majority, that people never question themselves, they never ask themselves if they are real in what they think, in what they feel, how they react, in what they do. So, it’s a responsive movement, a reactive movement, this movement of the “I,” of the “person.”
Therefore, the question “who am I?” … it opens a space for the investigation of something that transcends this person you believe to be and that you are absolutely sure you are. This is mere mental consciousness. Understand this… Mental consciousness is that, it's within that context of existence based on beliefs, on ideas, on concepts, which is basically memory, the memory about you, the story about who you are. But this story is nothing but thoughts, nothing but thoughts. With those thoughts you identify yourself, and thereby you have created an inner identity, an internal identity, in that experience – this is what I’ve just called mental consciousness.
There is something beyond that, and something beyond that is experienced by Meditation. And now I'm going to say something very strange to you. You need, first, to become conscious, aware, of this movement, which is the movement of the mind, of this mental consciousness. Only then can you go beyond this mental consciousness. When you become aware of the movement of the mind, of all its movement, of everything it has represented to this “me,” to this “I,” to this person, to this character…
To become aware of this movement is to open a door to go beyond this movement. This movement, which I’ve just called mental consciousness, is nothing but psychological time that thought creates – past, present, future, imagination, remembrances, memories, anticipation, future projects.
This psychological time is this mental consciousness. As long as you don’t become aware of this movement, which is the very movement of unconsciousness, you cannot go beyond that unconsciousness. That movement, which is the movement of this mental consciousness, is unconsciousness. You need to bring Consciousness to transcend this limitation of unconsciousness. This state of unconsciousness is a human disease, a condition of human pathology. The egoic mind is not natural.
I've been using this example: you have all your teeth in your mouth and none of them are hurting right now, because if they were hurting, you wouldn't be here listening to me. This is a sign that when the tooth hurts, you are not in a state of peace; you are in a state of distress. The presence of toothache is a state of oral, physical unhappiness. So, the presence of the egoic mind is not natural, it is the presence of unhappiness itself, it is the presence of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me.”
This is not natural. It has been seen as something natural, but it’s not natural. It’s not natural to live in violence, it’s not natural to live in suffering, it’s not natural to live in fear, and it’s not natural not to be able to sleep when you go to bed at night because of the volume of worrisome thoughts running inside your head, compulsive thoughts, with no control… You can't do anything about thoughts at all!
Thoughts run through this mental consciousness in a completely disordered, uncontrolled way, and you only realize this when you lie down at night and can't sleep. But actually, throughout the day, your inner state is experiencing this, is experiencing conflicts. Some are camouflaged and almost don’t become very apparent, even because, due to the different daily activities, some are apparently forgotten, but they are there. Then, you throw yourself into other activities and you don't realize that there is a thought in the background, a certain volume of thoughts in the background, creating disorder, creating distress, creating suffering. And when you lie down to sleep, as you are no longer busy with anything that might make you forget or not notice, what is deep down comes to the surface, and now you can’t sleep.
So, this state of insomnia is not natural. This goes for insomnia, it goes for anxiety, and this goes for conditions, whether more critical conditions of depression or milder condition of depressive states, but it's not natural to suffer. This is not part of your True Nature, your Real Identity; this is not part of your Being, of What You are.
What you were never told, I’ll now tell you here: you weren’t born for unhappiness, and all these are states of unhappiness. All the conflicts, contradictions… are innumerable! They are present states that, over the years, you get used to, you got used to. Some people reach a state of pain so acute they look for help, go in search of a doctor, a specialist, a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a psychiatrist and, in a certain way, they help you, but there’s no final solution to the egoic sense other than its disappearance.
And this channel, here with you, in these meetings, I want to tell you that this is possible, the disappearance of this egoic sense, this sense of separation, this condition of mental consciousness, into this Vision of the Reality of your Being, which is You here and now as Consciousness. So, the tooth doesn't hurt anymore; so, there’s no longer pain in the tooth; so, you are in your Being, now you are in your Natural State, and not in this state of lack of control, contradiction, conflict, psychological, emotional and physical disorder.
Our meeting is for the investigation of the Truth about who we are. The question “who am I?” is the basis of this. With this base, you have the possibility to step into this art of Being, Pure Being; not of being conscious, but of being Consciousness, which is the art of Meditation.
So, here we touch on this need for Awakening to Meditation. Yes, that's right, Awakening to Meditation. Meditation for the Awakening of this Consciousness is needed, but before this Meditation for the Awakening of your Essential Nature – which, as I am putting it here, is Truth, Peace, Sanity – you need, first, to awaken to Meditation.
What I've noticed is that people, when they approach, they don't realize the importance of first awakening to Meditation. If they fail to realize the importance of awakening to Meditation, they’ll not approach Meditation to Awakening. So, the Awakening of your Being, the Radical Healing, won’t come from outside. No one can help you in this regard, or any help you can receive psychologically from others is always palliative; this is not the final solution.
The Real Health, Real Sanity, comes from within. The True Mental Health comes from within; it comes from your Being. Your Being is Consciousness, It is not touched by contradiction, by conflict, by desires, by fears; It is not touched by appearances, by forms, by names; your Being transcends time and space; your Being knows no disease... This contact with the Truth of your Being through the True Meditation – this is what we’re dealing with.
This True Meditation I call the True Practical Meditation. Only that can show you the Truth of What You are, beyond this consciousness common to all. Your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, of being Consciousness, in India they call it Samadhi or Turiya State. It's not the vigil state, it's not the dreaming state, it's not the deep sleep state, but it's the Turiya State, it's a fourth possible state for you in this lifetime. And that is the Realization of the Truth, of Spiritual Awakening, or Spiritual Enlightenment, or God’s Realization.
Here, on our channel, we have several playlists delving into all of this. We have a playlist about the True Meditation. I recommend you come and check out this playlist. Another very important playlist, within this context, is the Kundalini Awakening, What makes all this work possible internally, in this body, in this mind, for this Natural Awakening of your Being, the Real Flourishing of this Freedom, of this Love, of that Peace, which is the Divine Truth, to happen.
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