Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.
I want to invite you in this speech, in this meeting, to go beyond this condition, which is the condition of thought. Here, I have called it True Meditation or the True Practical Meditation. It's something you can do in any place, anywhere. It doesn't require a special environment; it doesn't require a quiet place, a place without noise.
In fact, you need to find out what Meditation is, and True Meditation does not require a specific place to happen. You need to learn how to deal with your own thoughts, and here you need to discover the art of Meditation, of that contact with the Truth of your own Being.
So, I want to show you here today, in this meeting… We are going to talk about Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment, as we have been doing here on our channel. And I want to show you how you can make it effective, make it happen, in your daily life, in your life. This is done by self-observation; it is basically that.
In general, when a thought arises within you, or a feeling, or an emotion, you never put yourself in a position to observe them – neither thought, feeling nor emotion. What has happened to humans is that they mistake themselves for the mind and the body. So, whatever is arising here, at this moment, at this present moment, you mistake yourself for this. There is a Space in you, there is a Place in you, there is an Inner Condition in you that is completely outside the condition of thought, feeling and emotion.
In general, human beings are not aware of This, because we live in a state of consciousness I’ve called mental consciousness. You haven’t assumed your Natural State of Being, which is Pure Consciousness, so you mistake yourself for the experience of thought, feeling, of emotion. Our approach to a thought, in general, in this condition that I’ve called psychological time – because this is the condition of the egoic mind, of people’s minds – the way we approach it is always mistaking ourselves for it, it is always identifying with it, personalizing it, having this inclination to particularize that thought, that emotion, that feeling.
This creates the illusion of a center, of an identity present, of this “me,” this “I,” this ego. And this way of approaching what appears as a mere appearance, a mere phenomenon – a phenomenon that, by the way, appears and disappears – it is not something real, in the sense of being eternal; no, it's something that comes and goes. But you mistake yourself for it and experience it as yours, as you.
I want to tell you that there’s a way for us to go beyond this psychological condition of pain, fear, anxiety, depression, anguish, hurt, resentment. You need to begin to observe the movement of the mind, what the mind represents, what it represents when thoughts arise, when emotions arise, when feelings arise… this direct observation of mind, the simple and direct observation of the movement of mind, because this way you discard this notion of time. The only Reality in life is this present moment.
When thought appears, it’s reporting a story, telling you a story, giving you a suggestion, telling you something about what happened to you. As you always see yourself in the body, having experiences and going through experiences, and thought keeps that as a memory, as a remembrance, when it is told to you by thought itself, you simply believe it.
So, there’s always this inclination within you to live within this illusion. Mind carries this illusion, the illusion of time. Human beings live, psychologically, tied to this condition, to the condition of psychological time. In this psychological time, either they are in the past, or in the future. And it's always thought upholding that notion of time for that identity you believe to be. So, thought is always telling you things, creating anticipation that upholds various forms of fear within you. Thought does this by creating a future, based on ideas, on beliefs, on negative imaginations, or giving you hope, giving you proposals of imagination called “positive thoughts.”
You are always in the future or in the past. Your relationship with life, here and now, is not real. You are not in touch with the Reality of What You are here and now. Your relationship is always based on beliefs, thoughts, ideas, judgments, comparisons, imaginations, due to the presence of the illusion of psychological time, that time formed, structured, supported, created by thought.
In these meetings, here on our channel, I’ve given you tips on how to break this condition, and the secret to the deepest practice of Realizing the Truth about who You are consists of this simple thing called self-observation. It’s important that you discover that self-observation, this self-observation Ramana called self-enquiry or Atma Vichara, this is the beginning that sustains the basis for the Revelation of your Being through the Self-knowledge and Meditation.
Here on our channel, we've been covering this subject for you, we've been talking a lot, a lot about this subject here with you. So, we have several videos on this channel dealing with this important issue of True Meditation. True Meditation is that powerful instrument to end this illusion of time. And why does this happen inside you? Why is this programming undone? Why is this model of thinking broken? [Why] is this model of consciousness I’ve been calling mental consciousness undone? Because along with this work of Meditation, the Awakening of that Power happens simultaneously, which is the Truth of God in You.
Since you were a child, you have heard expressions like: “God is within us,” “God lives in our hearts,” but we never understand it. And here I'm telling you it's basically this: Consciousness is your Being – This is God! In fact, it’s not that God lives within you, the truth is that you have your Being in God. This is your True Nature, this is your Divine Nature, this is your Essential Nature.
The Truth of God is what You are here and now. So, this notion of psychological time of “someone,” this “me,” this “I,” which is coming from the past, living this present moment and moving towards the future, that’s just a belief, an imagination. Thought is saying this, it is saying that time is real. There’s no reality in any of this! Life happens here and now. All this apparent succession of time we witness between sunset and sunrise… events seem to take place in time. This is always within this perspective of the senses, and not from the perspective of Reality, of Consciousness, which is your Being.
The beauty of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment is that with the end of psychological time, which is that time constructed by the imagination of thought, creating, upholding all forms of conflict, contradiction, imagination and suffering, is that when there is an end for that psychological time, you assume the Reality of your Being as Consciousness here and now; and all that ends, the illusion of the sense of separateness ends. Then, you find in yourself What has been known for millennia in Hinduism, and also known in Zen, and also known in Christianity, under different names. I speak of Advaita, according to Advaita Vedanta, according to the principle of Vedanta, within Indian scriptures – non-duality, non-separation. There is only One, without the second; there is only One, One Reality present – it is the Reality of God.
What I’m saying is that the end of suffering is possible when you Realize your Self, when you Realize the Truth of who You are. What You are, is Sanity, is Beauty, is Grace, is Truth. The illusion of this apparent human insanity is based on the illusion of this sense of “person,” of a separate identity, living in time and space, which is not real.
Our job here together is to show you This, to tell you that it is possible to Realize This in this life – the Reality of your Being. And it's like I’ve put it just now at the beginning, the big tip for you is in this work of self-observation of the mind, observing the mind, seeing its reactions... just observing, becoming aware, being a witness that doesn't get involved with what arises. If a thought, a feeling, an emotion appears, if there is a perception in this observing, without mistaking yourself for it, without fighting with it, without rejecting it, just becoming aware of what appears... if it is something painful, this pain is at the level of emotion or sensation in the body. Thought arises and brings a story about it.
The point is that until now, until this moment, you were mistaken for this, you were entangled with this, but now I’m inviting you to just observe. If it shows up, ok. You become aware of this appearance, but you don't invest an identity in it, you don't invest in putting an identity present in this experience. You stay just with observing, you stay just with feeling, but you don't feed what thought says, and the way not to feed it is through becoming aware that it's a thought that can be observed. The problem is, for a long time, you've been identifying with it. So once again, one more apparition, one more moment, and you've lost yourself in it.
Here, our job is to become aware without mistaking ourselves for it, without identifying with it. Then, that Space opens, which is the Space of Consciousness. When there is that attention without any volition, without any will, any choice, any identification with it, an Energy appears. Actually, before that same Energy was lost in this condition of identification with feeling, emotion, perception, but now you are giving yourself the art of self-observation.
Ramana said that this is like asking yourself, “who am I?”, “to whom does this occur?”, “to whom does this feeling occur?” “[to whom] does this emotion occur?” “[to whom] does this sensation occur?” When you do that, this Energy, which was previously lost in that old and ancient condition – it's the very own Energy of Consciousness – It starts working in that mechanism, in that body-mind for a change, for a transformation. The mechanism of transformation, in India, by yogis, is called Kundalini. Then, you have here the Awakening of that Divine Power.
I’ve been talking a lot about Kundalini on this channel. In practically every speech, or almost every speech, I touch on what I consider essential to be understood by you. Reading books, listening to speeches, performing so-called spiritual or ceremonial activities, rituals, none of these can really confer this Liberation, this Spiritual Awakening, without Kundalini Awakening, without this Energy, without this Power, without the movement of this Presence, which is Consciousness, within you, changing that structure, which is the structure of the body and the mind.
We could be more technical about this, but that's not our interest. You don't need to understand this, how it's technically processed. There are books that explain it, but it’s not our concern here, it’s not our interest, because here what matters is what Master Ramana Maharshi himself shared during his days. He said that this process of Kundalini Awakening is something natural, something that happens naturally, you don't need to understand anything about It; it’s the simple Awakening of the Consciousness, and Consciousness finds in this body, in this mechanism, how to Realize This.
It's no use trying to understand It intellectually. People comment, they read a lot, they study a lot about this subject, but this has a merely verbal, theoretical aspect. What matters here is a direct view of this Truth about who You are – this brings about Kundalini Awakening. It’s no longer a theory, it’s no longer a belief, it’s no longer a concept. You experience in yourself a change, a transformation.
And there comes the moment when this body-mind no longer responds in a reactive way to those old patterns of thought, feeling and emotion, which previously upheld a self-image, a set of beliefs, and all this is undone by Kundalini Awakening, by the Awakening of the Consciousness.
This is also a subject here on our channel; we have a playlist on it, about Meditation, True Meditation, and about Kundalini Awakening, in addition to other playlists here on our channel. So, that's our invitation to you: to look at it, to work on it yourself.
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