Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.
The question is: how to reconcile worldly life and the Realization of God? It seems to me that, in this question, the intention here is to find out how to bring these two things together. The point is that it seems we don’t understand what worldly life or the Realization of God is. That's why we have this question.
First, let's understand one thing: there’s no separation between Life and God, between Life, God, and You. There’s no separation! This separation is ideological, conceptual; it is just a belief, and we try to unit these things. That's the thought: to reconcile the world and God, you and God, you, God and the world.
The question is: what is life? The question is: what is God? The question is: who are you? Well, I say: if you solve that third question, you have the solution to the other two – if you solve the question “who are you?” By asking yourself the question “who am I?”, you’ll understand that there is no separation between God and You, and what you call the world is an appearance within this one Consciousness, which is God, which is You. So, there’s nothing to reconcile.
Here, the most important thing for you, right now, is to learn about yourself. Learning is something extraordinary, learning is something wonderful. The way we understand this issue of learning is by using the comparison of this learning we have received in this ancient and old format since childhood. How do we learn a profession? We have to study, we have to practice and we have to get experience.
So, we acquire the knowledge, the practice, the experience, and thus, we become a professional in that area. This is the way of learning that we know, this is the way we learn things, since childhood we’ve learned this way – we acquire the knowledge, the practice, and the experience.
Practical experience and knowledge make you someone who knows something, who knows something; this is the usual way of learning. Here, I want to invite you to a new way of learning. First, to learn not about what is outside. It’s not about “someone” learning something, but this “I,” this “me,” this “you” learning about yourself.
Here, you need a new way of learning. The first way of learning is by accumulation: knowledge, practice, and experience. This second way of learning is through observation. To learn about yourself requires attention that puts you in a position where there is a new moment being seen every moment, each moment; and in this seeing, in this learning, there is no accumulation of knowledge, practice, or experience. It is a learning in which unlearning happens; it's not about accumulating, it's about abandoning; it is not learning more, it is having the revelation of something outside this “you” that you already know, that you already have; it is to go beyond this experience of being “someone,” to the new, the unique, the indescribable State of pure Being.
To learn that requires Self-knowledge, so we need this knowledge about ourselves.
The interesting thing about the Self-knowledge. Since it is not something - and here I refer to this Self-knowledge… Since it is not something an expert is giving you the hint on how to do it – you are not learning from a psychologist, from an analyst, from someone who understands the “person” – you are learning from yourself.
It’s not learning as a psychologist teaches, as the analyst teaches, as psychology books teach; it’s learning by self-observation. This learning requires a look at yourself here and now, at this moment, and an entirely new look, because it is a look free from the illusion that there is “someone” looking at this, that an observer is looking at something, observing something, seeing something – when you do that, you fall into the old condition of accumulating knowledge, accumulating information.
Then, it's not knowing yourself in the sense of psychology, but rather in the sense of the Perception of Consciousness, here and now. In this sense, this “knowing yourself” is Meditation, the Perception of Reality. Meditation is the Vision of Yourself, without that sense of an “I” learning something, knowing something, discovering something… Meditation removes illusion, removes the veil of duality.
Which duality is this? It is the duality between the observer and the observed thing, between the learning and the apprentice, between the one who learns something and something being learned by that someone – this is the real approach to the Self-knowledge. So, here we have the true presence of the True Meditation.
Therefore, learning about yourself is discovering that there is no such thing as this “me,” this “I.” It puts you in touch with something that transcends the egoic mind, transcends this bulk, this weight, all this content, which is the content of the mind, of the mental consciousness. When looking at yourself, there is an emptying of this content; that's what I call the True Self-knowledge, the real learning about ourselves.
Notice that this is the beginning, the principle, the fundamental basis of the art of being Consciousness, Pure Consciousness, without that sense of “I,” without that sense of ego, of that “me” – that is Meditation. Let's make it easy and put it in a very simple way. The idea you have about yourself is a learned thing. This is the result of knowledge, practice, and experience. The sense of “I” is present. It is this sense of the “I” that is offended by people, hurt by people, saddened by people, angry with people, and also claims to love people, to like people; it is this sense of “I” that has friends, that has enemies… This is nothing more than a learned thing.
The sense of “I,” that sense of the ego, is something that has arisen over time. I am referring to this psychological time created by thought itself. So, this “I,” this “me,” this “person,” this egoic mind – I’ve called it mental consciousness – this is a result of time, of psychological time. A set of memories, remembrances, and images have formed this “I,” and it is this “I” that is trying to find such thing “reconciling between worldly life and the Realization of God.” It is exactly the absence of that “I,” the disappearance of that “I”… This is the disappearance of this duality, this sense of separateness between you and life, between you and God.
Therefore, our work here is to Realize the Truth that there is only God, there is only this Consciousness, only this Presence… and this Presence takes a form that is this apparent world, and this Presence is that Consciousness, which is the substratum of all this perception, of all this vision, all this experiencing of Life, an experience without the experiencer, a look without the observer, Life as It is, Life as It shows itself, without the sense of an ego identity - this is Spiritual Enlightenment, the Real Realization of God; and this doesn’t exclude life of relationships with the world, with people, with objects; the relationship with places, with things; the relationship with feeling, with emotion, with thought.
Here, what disappears is the illusion of the ego, of “me,” of the “I.” Life as it is, is Love, Beauty, Happiness, it is Peace. Contradiction, conflict, and suffering, this is present in this sense of separateness, in this sense of duality.
So, the art of learning about yourself lies in going beyond this “yourself;” the art of learning about yourself lies in the beauty of understanding that this “yourself” is not real – this “me,” this “I”… Thought formulated this and made you believe that there is “someone,” while only thought is present. What I am saying is that thought is present and presents itself as a result of this memory, these stored experiences, accumulated in the brain, and thought says that there is an identity present producing these thoughts. This is the thought itself telling you! Thought says "I." It's trying to pass as you and it's been doing it for a long time; this is what I’ve called being identified with thought. We are identified with thought, so what thought says, we believe we are saying it; what thought presents, we believe we are presenting.
The model of an identity psychologically imagined by thought is the one that feels, thinks, does, likes, the one who doesn't like, the one who has opinions, judgments, conclusions, evaluations... We believe that’s us, and indeed it is this background, this conditioning, this mistaken identification with thought that is creating this sensation, the sensation of "someone" in action, "someone" in choice. The extreme gravity of this is the presence of psychological suffering present in each of us.
Fear has its many and varied forms, fears are diverse. The “person,” the “I,” “me” is afraid – the husband is afraid of the wife, the wife is afraid of the husband, and in turn, the father is afraid of the children, and the children are afraid of the parents. Fear makes us say things, tell things and act by hiding, disguising, using the subterfuge of lies, all because of the presence of fear.
Thus, there are those fears and there are other forms of fears. The human being lives in fear; they live in this tension, in this stress. They are afraid of the past – something they have done can be discovered, then, they try to hide it from others, because there is fear. They carry the fear of being caught, of being discovered, of being unmasked. They are afraid of the past – human beings – are afraid of the future. Fear has many expressions. The sense of pain present, for example, in anxiety, anxiety frames. Some are lighter and some are much heavier, hard, sharp, and painful, because of fear. The nature of the egoic mind is fear. This is the sense of being “somebody” in this experience.
So, because of all this desperation, this deep psychological conditioning, this life tied to these stakes – the stakes of fears – all tied to a central stake which is the stake of fear… Psychologically, we are in this condition. This is suffering; this is something of extreme gravity when this sense of “me” is present.
So, you approach this work and you also try an ideological way, also imaginary, also thought-based, to achieve this nameless, formless, indescribable, extraordinary, great, and intensely beautiful thing called God, and you believe you can achieve that by reconciling mundane life with it. And for you, mundane life is life, the life of relationship with the world around you.
See, understand this… There is no such thing because there is no such separation. The only problem lies in this background of psychological conditioning. It is not in Life as It is, it is not in the world as it is, but rather in this sense of a present “me,” of an ego identity present in this experience.
So, through the Self-knowledge, through this direct vision, this look at yourself without mistaking yourself for the illusion of “someone” present. When a thought arises, it can be observed; when a feeling arises, it can be observed; when a sensation arises, it can be observed. And observe without judging, without comparing, without rejecting, without trying to get rid of whatever is coming up here and now. This is the way we approach the real learning about ourselves, it reveals Self-knowledge, it reveals that there is no “I,” and “me,” no identity present in this experience. Then, what is here vanishes.
We never come into direct contact with fear, because there is always the idea of “someone” to control it, to do something against it, to get rid of it, to try to delete or forget it; and the greater the effort in this direction, the more the egoic sense establishes itself, upholding this fear. So, human beings live their whole life in fear, anxiety, depression, and sadness, with this pain of loneliness.
They can’t sleep properly at night, because they suffer from insomnia, they have several frames of psychological pain, unhappiness; and to escape this, they turn to drinking, sex, drugs, to therapeutic meditation practices, which temporarily works as a self-hypnosis since they can temporarily relax, they can induce a psychological state of calm, more tranquility.
However, this silencing of thought, based on a technique, on practice, doesn’t solve this. This psychological turmoil needs to end and only the True Meditation can do that.
This contact with yourself, which is the True Meditation, is the most extraordinary thing we have in this life, in this existence; it is the art of being Consciousness, which is Meditation. When this happens, the Awakening of Consciousness, the Spiritual Enlightenment, flourishes. Then, a change takes place in the body itself. This energy that was wasted before in this ego condition, in this “I” condition, in this “me,” which was wasted before in this conflict, in the conflict of fear, desires, choices, imaginations, chaotic thoughts, of all this inner chatter; this energy that was wasted there before, it turns inward and a change takes place in that body-mind.
Then, the Realization of the Truth about who You are flourishes with the awakening of an entirely new energy within your body. When it awakens – in Yoga this is known as Kundalini… when it awakes, there is a change, a physical and psychic transformation in the organism itself, something entirely new has emerged – some people call it Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.
That's what we're talking about here on our channel, also in face-to-face and online meetings, and we're going to work on it together. Oh, and subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so.
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