The Truth about You is beyond the mind, beyond this sense of a present identity. You feel you exist as “someone,” you feel yourself to be “someone,” to exist as “someone.”
This is how you feel in life, in existence – a “person” present. You have a father, you have a mother, and you have a family... The condition of the “person” you believe for yourself, you believe you are – to feel yourself like “someone,” to believe you are “someone” – this belief puts you in this life, in this existence, in a psychological condition of duality, of separateness.
When looking at the world, you see the world outside and you inside the body – there is nothing more illusory than that! This sense of seeing and what is seen is only one phenomenon happening in this Consciousness. This Consciousness is the Reality of the “you present and the world” phenomenon. There is no world and you, there is only this Consciousness. This Consciousness makes the “me and world” phenomenon.
Notice that “I” is an idea and the world is an appearance for this idea. So, this appearance, which is the world, and this “I,” which is an idea, is something present in this Consciousness. The only Reality present is this Consciousness. This Consciousness is your Being. There is no separation, there is no duality.
So, the subject here, so important, is this; it is the matter of non-duality.
The Truth about Yourself is the Truth about the world; the Truth about the other is the Truth about this “I.” This Truth is the Truth of Non-Duality. Non-Duality is the Truth of the whole Manifestation.
The Understanding of this experientially... This may seem philosophical, it may seem theoretical, intellectual, verbal and yet this is something that can be experienced – the Realization of this Truth that there is no separateness, any separateness, between you and the world. If there is no separateness between you and the world, there is no separateness between you and life, you and others, and you and God.
This is straight from Advaita Vedanta. That’s the subject we're dealing with. We are pointing out the Truth of Non-Duality, the Truth of your Divine Nature. The Truth about You, about who You are, is the Truth of God.
This feeling of being a person is within this set of diverse beliefs that, psychologically, you have, which include others, the world, God, and everything around you.
Notice, we have a memory, which I've called a memory of facts. Your name is a memory of facts; it is a memory of facts. One of the facts present in your life is in this memory: your name. Your story is another fact, another memory. Here, I refer to the story of this body-mind, to the biological, physiological ancestry – this is a fact, and there is a memory present there.
Your body is the result of this memory, and all the thoughts inside you are the result of this memory: the memory of facts. All knowledge – the language you speak, the country where you were born, all the technical knowledge you acquire throughout your life, your age, your birthplace, your name, the name of your parents, of your grandparents – all this is part of this memory of facts present in this body-mind.
You mistake this body-mind for a present identity. This body-mind is part of this Existence, part of this unique Life. You see yourself as an identity separate from Existence – this is an illusion; this is part of a belief; this belief is no longer part of this memory of facts.
So, we have the memory of facts… Your name is a memory – I mean this body-mind that has a name. The story of birth, the language, the culture where you were raised, where you live, all of this embeds in your brain as a memory of facts.
Although there is also a psychological memory. The belief of being an entity separate from Life, from the Whole, from Existence, is within this psychological memory.
That psychological conditioning is part of this psychological memory. This illusory sense of separateness brings with it this psychological memory. This sense of separateness, within this psychological memory, upholds every form of conflict, contradiction, and suffering, in relationship with others, the world, and with life.
The present fears, the various psychological fears are part of this psychological memory. Human beings carry many fears, many forms of fear. They are afraid of the dark, afraid of old age, getting sick, and death, they are afraid of being abandoned and rejected. There are countless psychological fears, within this psychological memory, for this imaginary “I,” for this entity that sees itself separate from life.
All conflicts, all the dilemmas, all that psychological complexity, which is this mental consciousness, this egoic consciousness… This egoic consciousness is psychological memory. Envy, jealousy, greed, avidity, inner disorder, anxiety, every form of psychological disorder, pathological, psychological, and emotional disorders, are upheld by this illusion, by the illusion of this separate identity.
This is all part of that conditioning. In that psychological conditioning, there is this belief, the belief in this illusion: the illusion of individuality. There is no individuality! We have the individual, particular aspect of this body-mind, with its story of memory of facts. In this sense, there is a difference between that human being and another. Each one has, in this body-mind, a story, a memory – the memory of facts.
So, we are different in that sense. Then, in this biological aspect, there is this difference; in this aspect of the memory of facts, there is a difference. However, psychologically, inwardly, as far as this psychological memory is concerned, there is no such individuality. There is only one Consciousness in the world!
The present fear is the present fear in the human being. These fears, which we just put here for you, are something present in every human being since they are basically the same fear. Fear is something common to everyone, envy is something common to everyone, jealousy is something common to everyone, greed... These fears, like fear of death, anxiety, sadness, anguish, and emptiness of loneliness, this is something common to all, present within this psychological conditioning, this false individuality we believe we are, we believe we have.
Our meeting here is for a change in the structure of this psychological memory because it is a psychophysical memory. All this condition of memory, of conditioning – and this is where cultural, social, spiritual, philosophical, hereditary conditioning comes in – all this psychological conditioning present in this egoic consciousness, in this mental consciousness, needs a change, a transformation.
Here, I want to tell you that it’s possible to go beyond that, beyond this illusion – the illusion of this individuality – to the Realization of your True Individuality.
The word “individuality” is interesting. The word comes from “individual.” The word “individual” means “without division,” and it means “a single being.” The human being, psychologically speaking, is not a single one being. Violence, pain, and psychological suffering, this is something present in all of us – this is the psychological condition of the human being.
Only in the sense of this Consciousness of Being that is What we can attribute to God, to the only Reality... God is the only Reality, which carries the True Individuality. The best news here is that this Reality is the Reality of your Being. Therefore, the True Individuality, which is the Individuality of Being, of Divine Consciousness, is your Real Nature.
Thus, Spiritual Enlightenment – here I refer to the Real Spiritual Enlightenment, the True Realization of your Divine Truth – is the end for that illusion, which is the illusion of the ego, of the “I,” of this false individuality, this background of psychological conditioning, that which puts us in an artificial, unnatural condition of egocentrism, of separateness. Then, we act like egocentric beings.
Your Being is Consciousness, it does not carry egocentrism. It is the illusion of this individuality, it is this sense of “I” that behaves in this egocentrism, in this format of egocentrism. The Truth of your Being is Love, Happiness, and Peace. The Truth of your True Divine Identity… some call It Spiritual Enlightenment or God Realization – assuming That in this life, assuming That as this Truth that is You.
The Sage of Arunachala, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, shared this message and left this legacy here: Atma Vichara. So, Ramana pointed out that Reality. His question to anyone who approached was “who am I?” From Ramana, this opportunity has arisen for you, in his Grace: the opportunity of self-investigation, of self-inquiry. The question is “who am I?”
The observation of the movement of thought, the movement of this egoic consciousness, the movement of this psychological memory… I am not referring to this memory of facts; I think that was clear. You need memory at a certain level: to speak a language, to remember your address, and to perform professional work... This knowledge, this memory... this memory is functional, important, and necessary. Here, I refer to this psychological memory – the end of this illusion is the end of it… it seems to me that this has become clear to you.
And how is it done? By self-observation. You need to break this program, this conditioning, this way of functioning, of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Self-observation through Atma Vichara… The question is “who am I?”
You are not going to ask yourself that question – not intellectually, not verbally – you are going to approach yourself by Self-Awareness, through Self-Awareness… the observation of every thought here and now, every feeling, every emotion, every sensation, every reaction...
The reactions, in us, are coming from memory, from that psychological memory, and if they are seen when they arise, and you don't put that identity of the “I” back into that memory again, the memory is undone, it is broken, it vanishes, because there is no sense of “someone” to feed it.
The problem is that when a thought arises, the idea, the belief, of “someone” thinking arises soon, then this duality arises, this sense of duality, this sense of separateness between the thought and the thinker.
When a feeling arises, that’s a reaction coming from that psychological memory – that’s in the body, that’s in the mind. When this arises, you don’t acknowledge in this Self-Awareness, in this look, in this “who am I?” You put identity into it when you separate yourself to reject that feeling, thought, or emotion.
So, there is the illusion of this present identity, the illusion of this individuality fighting against this appearance. It is an appearance here and now, something from the past seeking to project itself, at this present moment, into the future.
This has been going on throughout your life. Every time a thought arises, there is this belief that you are thinking; an emotion, the belief that you are the one feeling it. You mistake yourself for the body and the mind when you give an identity to that sensation, that feeling, that thought.
So, this work is Self-Awareness. Simultaneously, this is contact with the True Meditation. The True Meditation is being aware of yourself here and now, moment by moment, without mistaking yourself for thought, sensation, perception, emotion, feeling, or a thought. You just observe; you don’t mistake yourself for it and don't give identity to it.
This is part of what I have been calling the True Meditation here. We have on the channel a playlist about this True Meditation. How to realize That? How to break this identification with the ego, with this “me,” with this “I”? How to break this identification with this model of thought, feeling, and emotion?
Notice how important this is! Some people say: “I've been trying to get rid of thoughts for a long time because I've already realized that thoughts create conflict...” “To get rid of feelings,” “ to get rid of sensations, perceptions, of emotions.” And that’s not it! It’s not about getting rid of it! This attempt to free oneself confirms the illusion of an identity reacting; it confirms this sense of duality present. However, if you observe, just observe, without separating, there is the end of that identity since there is the end of this separateness, there is the end of this duality.
Then, what is present vanishes, because it has no reality in your Being, it has no reality in your Essential Nature, and that’s not part of your memory of the facts; it’s just psychological conditioning, something present in humanity for millennia, something present in your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, in all your ancestry, in all those who came before you. But you can break away from that, and that is the work of the Awakening of your Divine Nature, which is the Awakening of Consciousness – some people also call it Kundalini Awakening.
We have a playlist here talking broadly about this subject: the importance of this Awakening, this Energy, this Consciousness, this Divine Power you bring, which is Kundalini.
Thus, our subject is the end of illusion for this psychological “I,” for this psychophysical memory. When Kundalini Awakens, it is this Energy that changes the body, transforms this structure, this body and mind; that’s when that psychological memory is undone, it’s nullified, destroyed… it doesn't last, it doesn't continue – some people call it Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening.
Here, on our channel, we are investigating this with you. Ok?
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See you next meeting.
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