Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.
After all, what is Self-Realization? Self-realization... Some also call it Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment. Self-realization is the Consciousness of Truth of simply Being. Yes, that's right: simply Being This, is one of the most difficult things for a human being. And it is very paradoxical, because you are Being, you cannot be anything else. You cannot be anywhere other than where you are, and yet, paradoxically, you do not assume the Reality of Being what you are; and, paradoxically, you are always somewhere else outside of this place that you are here and now; and yet you are here. You are the Self and you are here. Paradoxically, you don't assume Being and you don't assume the Truth of being here.
Psychologically, you are always somewhere else; psychologically, you are always being something else.
So, Self-realization is simply Being. Be What you are, and that is now. This has proved to be the most difficult thing, because psychologically you are always being guided by thought.
The psychological condition of the mind is this: past and future. Here and now is just, at most, a door where you, as an entity, as a person, as someone, are coming from the past, going through the door of this present, this instant, this moment… you are arriving in the future. This is the absence of your Natural State of Being, this is identifying yourself with what, in fact , you are not.
The whole human problem resides in this, in living guided by this psychological time, in this psychological orientation of time, which is basically thought. Either you are in the past or you are in the future. Life is something that is present here and now. There is no past, there is no future – psychologically speaking, this is not real. We are not denying yesterday or tomorrow. What I am saying to you here is that you were not there yesterday and you will not be there tomorrow, you can only be here and now. It was like this yesterday, today it is like this and tomorrow it will be like this, and yet, human beings live in this condition of psychological time.
The sadness of loneliness is the illusion that something on the outside, a certain condition, a special person, is missing in your life, so there is this pain, the pain of loneliness. It is curious this illusory psychological state created by thought– I am referring to this state of psychological time – because even in the midst of family, surrounded by children, spouse, grandchildren, this pain of loneliness is still present, the existential void of being alone, this pain is present. This loneliness is not being caused by the absence of people around you, but the real cause of this pain of loneliness is the sense of an egoic identity living isolated, based on an imagination of not being loved, not being accepted.
Here, I'm giving an example of this feeling of loneliness, but this feeling of loneliness, you see, is something very close to the feeling of depression. So, we have a lot of labels to stick on different psychological frames of pain of that order – the pain created by thought, supported by this idea of past and future.
So, there is this inner chattering, there is this inner restlessness, there is this internal imagination, there is this fear… This is all the presence of this psychological condition of emotional disorder, of inner disorder. There are a few hundred, thousand labels, names that can be given to internal conditions of unhappiness, these so-called pathologies. And that is the condition of the human being, unless there is the Awakening of one’s Divine Nature, Essential Nature; unless one assumes the Truth that Life is here and now; unless there is a break in this condition of inner disorder – I mean the end for this egoic mind, for this dualistic mind, for this mind that creates this separation between what you are here and now and the idea of what you need to be, become, achieve, attain, accomplish to be happy.
So, Self-Realization is assuming Life here and now without the sense of “I,” of this “I” that, psychologically, needs to be within this orientation of memory, remembrance, recollections.
This is the end of this inner chattering, this monologue, this internal dialogue, this movement of neurosis, of insanity, of anxiety, of loneliness, of anguish, of internal disturbance, complications like depression, insomnia, this sadness, this burden, that regret.
And, to escape all this, the mind has been involved with several things, always looking for on the outside, because of this pain that is present, because there is this duality, this sense of someone unhappy, someone sad, someone anguished, someone unloved, someone rejected, someone forgotten, someone who apparently can have it all and still feels unhappy.
All of this is present, and to alleviate this, the human being has sought certain relief for this pain in drugs, sex, new relationships, various therapy techniques. The so-called meditation practice, which is also popular these days, meditation for de-stressing, meditation for relieving anxiety, meditation for relieving depression, meditation for... these various meditation techniques and practices, it helps, yes, but it is only a temporary relief device, a form of self-hypnosis therapy. This relieves, yes, but it is also still a form of escape.
We haven't learned to get in touch with this pain of being somebody. This is very, very important. We don't realize the importance of looking directly at it, of having self-awareness, in ourselves, here and now, of this pain without rejecting it, without trying to escape it, without trying to run away from it. We need to get closer… it is necessary for you to get closer to what is here and see what thought is producing, what feeling is saying, what emotion is trying to express, what that pain represents, how much investment of that duality is present in that pain.
Let's clear this up for you. When there is sadness, it is surrounded by story, thought, remembrance, memory: “someone made me sad,” “a situation made me sad,” “I was abandoned” ... There are numerous reasons for sadness, for example. And the illusory basic idea is that “I am sad.” “I never approach the state to realize that it is a state” – it is simply a state in the body and mind. “What I do is separate myself by creating the idea, sustaining the old idea of ‘me sad’.” And if there is this duality “I’m sad,” then the thought “I need to do something,” “I have to get rid of it,” “I can’t take it anymore,” “I can’t stand it” arises. So, there is this control, there is this judgment, there is this analysis of the situation, there is this attempt to resolve, because this “I,” which is, in fact, just a fragment of the state itself that has separated itself and wants to control, wants to resolve, wants to get rid of, wants to do something, wants to run away…
Do you understand what we are saying? This is how we work, always in the illusion that there is the experience and “I,” in this case sadness and “I,” “I” and this thought of worry, that to forget, to “get” free, to escape it, “I will” drink, “I will” eat, “I will” practice yoga for that purpose. Yoga doesn't have that purpose, that's not the purpose of yoga, but that word is in vogue, and whatever we're doing in the direction of a meditation practice, we call it yoga. And this meditation here came in for that purpose. The purpose is not to find out who “I” am, it is not to bring about self-awareness, it is not to break the sense of separateness, duality, break the egoic sense, break this illusion of the experiencer, of this experience. That would be the ultimate end for the sadness, for the worry, for the anxiety, for the depression, for the fear, “but I didn't learn anything about it. Since childhood I've been running away, I've been escaping, I've been looking for this or that, for something or another to alleviate it.” And it's true! When you drink, when you smoke, when you use a chemical substance, some drug, or when you meditate, there is relief, but it doesn't solve.
We are here telling you that Self-Realization is the end of the sense of an “I” present in the experience. When you learn from yourself, in this self-observation, within this self-awareness, Self-knowledge happens.
This is the real way to approach Meditation. This Meditation is here and now, in this instant. Whatever is arising – a thought, a feeling, an emotion, a perception, a sensation – all of it is now seen without that sense of duality, because I don't walk away, I don't try to escape it, I don't try to find a cave to hide, a shelter to protect me from this experience. It breaks the sense of ego-identity; this breaks the pattern of psychological conditioning. So, you are in front of this portal to Self-Realization – some call it Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.
Note that this is possible when there is Self-awareness. So, whatever you are doing, without Self-awareness… and here I have included this so-called yoga, as some call it. Especially in our Western culture, there is this idea of yoga for these goals. No, Yoga… the purpose of Yoga, of Jnana Yoga is, for example, the science of direct Knowledge of the Divine Truth of your Being – that is Jnana Yoga. Here, my recommendation is based on Jnana Yoga. Jnana Yoga points to that Oneness, to that Communion. The word Yoga means “to unite,” it is to return again to the Divine. No escaping means represents that. Only in that Self-awareness is this possible, and in order to have Self-awareness, this attention to yourself is necessary, this self-inquiry is necessary, this investigation of the Truth about who You are here and now is necessary, so self-consciousness, self-investigation, self-inquiry, self-observation becomes the basis for Self-awareness and therefore for the revelation of what I have called the True Meditation. And when the True Meditation takes place, That which has no name is revealed, which is beyond time, which is beyond the mind, which is beyond this egoic mind, this condition of psychological conditioning and suffering for this “me,” for this “I.” It's the end of the sense of duality, it's the end of duality, it's non-duality. This is Divine Realization, this is the Realization of God, this is Self-realization.
If this is something that makes sense to you, this is the proposal here on our channel. We are working this out with those who approach. We have online meetings; we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats.
If this makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel and, if it touches you, let's work on it together. OK?
Until the next meeting.
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