Very good! “Satsang and the contradiction” is our subject here with you.
We are in contradiction, we live in contradiction, there is an internal contradiction within each of us. We want to be different from who we are, but look what a curious thing happens here: we don't really know who we are, and yet we want to be different from who we are.
Notice what we are saying to you. There is dissatisfaction within a human being. He is not happy, he is not happy with what is presented to him, with what is shown to him, with what, at this moment, seems to be or shows itself to be. He’s not happy with himself. Human beings are not happy. They have moments of satisfaction, moments of pleasure, moments of fulfillment. They have moments of joy, moments of peace, moments of love, but they remain dissatisfied with themselves, with how they present themselves, to themselves, and also to the world, to others.
We live with an inner dissatisfaction that, no matter how much you accomplish things, you still feel unhappy and dissatisfied. So, there is this continuous search or pursuit of something to be happy about: “How to be happy, how to find happiness, how to find peace, how to find freedom, so that the end of this suffering of anxiety, depression, this existential emptiness happens?”
So, there is a state of contradiction. It is in this state that the human being has lived. The human being is living within this frame, this state. And here, this meeting is called Satsang. Satsang is a Sanskrit word for “encounter with Truth.” The wonderful thing about this expression is that it hides nothing – it is the encounter with the Truth of That which is here and now.
Humans live idealizing something different from what is here, without even realizing what is present here and now – this is the psychological condition in each of us. The mind lives in a state of restlessness, dissatisfaction, conflict, loneliness, boredom, suffering, contradiction. So, we want to explain the reason for this contradiction.
You show yourself here and now dissatisfied, carrying this sense of lacking something, in this search for something out of this common condition, because your psychological state, your mental state, is one of disorder, conflict, and suffering. So, you have moments of temporary fulfillment, moments of temporary pleasure, moments of temporary satisfaction, but there is a dissatisfaction in you, there is a constant search for fulfillment to fill you in an eternal way. So, there is this ideal of happiness for this “I,” for this “me.”
We, here, are offering you, in these meetings, in this channel, the possibility of the Recognition of the Truth of That which is You, not of what you seem to be; which, by the way, you are unhappy about. You show signs in yourself of unhappiness; it’s how you see yourself in the relationship with the other, with the world and with yourself.
These moments of dissatisfaction, of unhappiness, of lack and of suffering… you've been trying throughout your life to fill it, to diminish it, to find a solution to it, and yet, over the years, you've discovered that there is actually no complete, final, permanent solution to all of this.
Fear is something that haunts us, sadness is something that haunts us, disappointment, frustration, these different names we have given to these pathologies of contradiction, of conflict that we bring, of suffering that we bring, and none of this is resolved. And this is how you see yourself; this is how you show yourself, and this is how we are. May we discover the Truth beyond who we are or who we present ourselves to be here and now in this moment? May we discover our Real Nature, our True Nature?
What in us that shows itself here… We show ourselves, here, dissatisfied; it’s how we are. That is what is seeking to be different, to accomplish something different, to achieve something different, to become something different. It is not the Truth of your Being what you show yourself, what you, here, present yourself, in this life, in this world.
So, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of Consciousness, is the Awakening of your Real Nature, which is your Being. It’s not how you show yourself, it’s not how you present yourself, it’s not how we are; it is the Truth which is the Truth of God, which is the Truth of Intelligence, which is the Truth of Consciousness.
So, the Revelation of This is the end of what we show ourselves to be as people, in this ego-identity, in this pattern of behavior, in this egocentrism…
Here, with you, we are working on the importance of looking at what we are, the value of looking at what we are, as we are now. We're not going to get away from it, we're not going to escape it; we will look at this boredom, this loneliness, this aggression, this violence, this fear, this desire, this ambition to become, this tendency to escape from these internal states of pain and suffering.
Here, I want to invite you to look at it, just look at it, without getting confused with what appears – because this is what is shown here, this is what it is, this is how we are, this is how we present ourselves; this is how we are being with ourselves, with the world, with others – to see this sense of the present “I” supporting this model. It is in this Self-awareness that we have the basis for Wisdom, the basis for the Awakening of Consciousness, the Awakening of Intelligence, which is the Awakening of Liberation, of the Freedom from this egoic condition.
So, when there is Self-awareness, you have an approach, which is the approach of looking at what is here and now, without any rejection, without any escape, without any model already planned for a solution for this, without any ideal, without any project… To look at it as it appears here and now. This look shows this sense of separateness, it shows this sense of duality: “me and what is now here.”
This duality, this sense of separateness, is called in India dvaita. Dvaita is this duality, it is “me and this experience,” “me and this feeling,” “me and fear,” “me and anger,” “ me and envy,” “me and desire,” “me and ambition.” That condition is the condition of egocentrism, it is the condition of ego-identity, it is the condition of dvaita, the condition of duality.
Apart that, we have something new, which is no longer of dvaita, it is Advaita, it is Non-Duality, Non-Separation, You in your Natural State of Being-Consciousness, Awakened, who Realized God in this life – they call It Spiritual Enlightenment.
Our work here, in this channel, as well as in face-to-face meetings, online meetings and retreats, is to work on that with those who approach, for the Awakening of your Real Nature, which is this Intelligence, which is this Consciousness. This is the Awakening of Consciousness. This is Spiritual Enlightenment. This is the end of this contradiction, the end of fear, the end of desire, the end of dissatisfaction, the end of ambition and envy, anxiety and depression, the end of unhappiness. It only occurs when the Flourishing of your True Nature, which is dormant there, in this body-mind, takes place.
This Real Nature of yours is Consciousness – some call it Kundalini.
When this Kundalini Awakening takes place, which is the Awakening of this Consciousness, the end of this contradiction takes place. Then, in the Kundalini Awakening, there is the end of the egoic contradiction, of the sense of separateness. Therefore, the Kundalini Awakening is the Flourishing of Advaita, of Non-Duality, of Non-Separation. Non-Separation is the Reality of your Being with Life, because when there is no separation between That which is You and all Existence, and all Manifestation, the world, the other and God, when there is no longer that duality, what is present is Love, it is Peace and Real Happiness.
This is the subject that we work with, within this channel. This is the Real Revelation of your own Being, it is the Real Revelation of your True Nature. That’s what we have in this space, in these meetings called Satsang. OK?
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See you soon in the next meeting.
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