The question is: where is the Truth? Where is the Truth? What is the Truth? Is this question for a theologian to give us the answer? How about a philosophy professor? A priest linked to a certain line of spirituality, to a certain religion? What is Truth? Where is God? Who am I? What is life? There are so many questions! Who can answer?
Is it possible for you to look inside yourself and, upon perceiving this internal movement taking place within you – here I am referring to this movement of restlessness, dissatisfaction, desire, fear, worries… There are many fears and endless questions inside. Is it possible to look at ourselves and find, in ourselves, an answer that is a final answer to all of this? An answer that answers all these questions, all these questions? Where will be the end to this confusion? What is suffering? What is desire? What is fear? Returning to the central question: who am I? Where did I come from? What am I doing here?
Note that all these questions are born out of restlessness. There is no Stillness, there is no Serenity, there is no Peace, because there is no Freedom. So, we don't have Love present, we don't know what Happiness is. Here we are talking, dealing with the Awakening of Consciousness and the Truth of the Awakening of that Energy, that Power, that Presence, which is available to each one of us.
Here, I refer to this Kundalini Power. Kundalini is another word for Consciousness, the Real Consciousness in you. Here, I do not mean this mental consciousness. For example, we are here aware: you can hear, you can see, you can feel… This is possible because of that consciousness. But in deep sleep you cannot see, you cannot hear, you cannot feel, and however, Consciousness remains present; but there is no conscious “you.”
So, let’s work, in this video, on that. After all, what is Consciousness? It seems to me that the answer to that question is the answer to “who am I,” and that shows us this Energy, this present Power, which some call Kundalini and others call Consciousness.
This is a language among the sages in India. They call this Consciousness as Kundalini; this Kundalini they call Consciousness. Ramana Maharshi said “Consciousness, Kundalini and God are different words for the same Reality” – these are the words of Ramana Maharshi, the Sage of Arunachala.
The Truth about your Being is the Awakening of Spiritual Enlightenment, it is the Awakening of Consciousness, which is the Kundalini Awakening. When That is present, You are Consciousness, the same Consciousness present in deep sleep, in the waking state and in the dream state.
In general, in this mental consciousness, in this personal consciousness, we only know this consciousness of hearing, speaking and feeling. Here, I am inviting you to pure Consciousness, To That which transcends this speaking, this listening, this feeling, That which transcends the waking state where what we call “being conscious” appears.
So, there is a difference between being conscious and being Consciousness. Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening places you in this new situation, which is to be Consciousness, in this new condition of pure “being Consciousness.” That pure “being Consciousness” is Bliss. Being-Consciousness-Bliss is the True Nature of each one of us, it is What we are. This is beyond this “being conscious,” being able to hear, speak, feel, move in the waking state, or in the dream, and disappear into this “unconsciousness” in deep sleep.
In general, we know waking, dreaming and deep sleep. In deep sleep we are unconscious; in the waking state we are conscious; and in the dream state we are conscious – it is mental consciousness. In fact, there is no difference between the waking state, which is what we are living, and the dream state. In the dream, we also have contact with the world and never doubt the existence of this dream world while we are dreaming. Here too, in vigil state, we have contact with this waking world and never doubt the reality of this world. This is because of this mental consciousness.
We are identifying ourselves with the body and mind and therefore have these numerous questions that we asked at the beginning of the talk. We have all these questions because of this restlessness. Restlessness comes from not knowing the Truth about who we are.
We do not know ourselves. We are always confusing ourselves with thought, with knowledge and with experience. And knowledge, thought and experience are nothing but memory, they are nothing but memory. All of these are memories, they are remembrances.
Our life is based on thought, which is time. This is because all the experiences we go through are photographed and archived within us. And what is that? This is thought. And that’s basically what? Thought is memory, so thought is time.
We spend thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years of our lives living a vigil life, a dream life, a deep sleep life, but a life basically in this state of identification with the sense of “somebody” present living all of it.
That “someone” is a belief, an idea. You believe, for example, that you are listening; being conscious, you are here listening to this speech. Because you are conscious, you believe that you are someone seeing this image now, these gestures here. You are falling into a prank. The brain is producing these assimilations; they are the brain’s reactions to these impressions of images and sounds, and thought is telling you that “someone” is present in this experience – that “someone” is the “I,” the “me.” And yet the only real thing going on here is a single phenomenon. This phenomenon is the phenomenon of Consciousness.
It’s not being aware, being conscious, someone aware. Here I refer to that Consciousness which transcends the very phenomenon of sound, sight, body, mind and all experience in the world.
This might sound really weird, or a little weird, to you, but I wanted you to look at it with a little bit of a different appreciation. In general, we are very intellectual and want to apprehend things intellectually. Here, I want to invite you to experience the Truth of that Real Consciousness that is You in your Being. That’s the way for you to get beyond this prank, go beyond this very funny thing. A prank is a funny thing! And here it may seem strange: we are living a great cosmic prank, a great divine joke. We are in front of Reality, which is this Consciousness, playing with all these apparitions, with all these phenomena.
So, This… One, Real, True… The only present Reality is the Truth that does not separate. It unfolds in all these phenomena, in all these experiences; It unfolds as body, mind, world, waking, dream, deep sleep; It unfolds into someone talking and someone listening – this is not the Truth; the Truth is that there is only One Consciousness present.
The Awakening of this Consciousness, which is Kundalini Awakening, is the end of the illusion of the sense of separateness, of duality. So, we are facing the Reality of Being. Here, the expression is “Advaita,” the Non-Duality. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta.
Here, I quote the expression “Advaita Vedanta” only as a reference. You will not reach, understand and experience It by reading books, studying Upanishads, Scriptures. You have to discover It experientially.
And, here, I want to invite you to get to know closely what Meditation is, Real Meditation; here I refer to the True Meditation. Here, on our channel, we have a very intense playlist working on this, showing you what the True Meditation is, what I call the Real Meditation – in practice, experientially.
So, you can realize the Reality of your Being, but your Being is the Being of God, the Being of Existence, it is the Being where there is no separateness. When there is this Kundalini Awakening, which is the end of the illusion of the sense of separateness, this great divine trick is revealed, this great Truth of God, then Life is Joy, Beauty, Love Truth, and Laughter.
All this is strange, because, when looking through the eyes of this egoic consciousness – which is an ideological consciousness that judges, compares, evaluates, that sees from this condition of being inside the prank –, when looking at the world, the look from the viewpoint of this “I,” this “me,” this ego, is a look of contradiction, of conflict, of suffering, of anxiety, of fear, of desire, many desires, and countless questions. But, when you Awake, Awake to the Reality of your Being, you can look at it all and see the great divine play, the Truth of God present. This is the encounter with Happiness, with Being, with Consciousness.
Note, this is the subject that we are working on, within the channel.
This is the only answer to all these questions, to these countless questions, to this apparent complexity, to this psychological complexity that our lives have become within this condition of ego-identity.
If this is something that makes sense to you and if your purpose is to Wake up in this life, to go beyond this illusion, this dream, to be able to look and see the great game and relax in this Happiness of being Consciousness, leave your “like” on this video, subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you that we have online and face-to-face meetings and also retreats, to work on this together.
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