We will address today, here and now, in this meeting, in a few minutes, this subject of Spirituality, the True Spirituality. Generally, people use the word “spirituality” in connection with all kinds of religious practices and beliefs. So, for many people, religion is mistaken for rituals, ceremonies, dogmas, and beliefs. They believe they are living the Truth by being under these so-called “religions.” It is organized religions with their practices, ceremonies, rituals, and dogmas, and each person believes he or she is living the Truth and each one has his or her religion. They are within a context of doctrine, of dogma.
I want to work with you today on this True Spirituality. It is not about the various organized religions existing with their beliefs, rituals, dogmas, doctrines, and practices. Here we will work with you on the Truth of Spirituality. I could call it True Spirituality, which is, from the viewpoint we put here, like Real Religion. We are not, I repeat, interested in rituals, dogmas, or ceremonies. Absolutely. We are working on the Truth of the Revelation of your Being. This Truth is the Truth of God. So, this is where we find True Spirituality. The Truth of your Being reveals the Truth of Religion. That which is you in your Being is the Divine Truth.
Human beings come throughout the history of humanity in search of something outside of this ordinary life, where there is despair, suffering, sadness, and anguish. So, they've been wondering for millennia if there is something beyond all that, beyond this mess that is human life, and this search of man has found an external way to develop. This external way is organized religion. In this man’s quest or search for the Divine Truth, he is externally lost in rituals, beliefs, and dogmas. And there are several paths or religions; then we live discussing our dogmas in these religious practices or following these organized religions; We are discussing our beliefs and doctrines with each other.
Here, I want to work with you on this; we are putting an end to all of this. We want to discover the Divine Truth, the Truth of God. Yes, there is Something beyond this human condition of sadness, suffering, despair, and conflict. There is Something. That Reality is indeed the Divine Reality, but It cannot be found externally, in rituals, ceremonies, doctrines, beliefs, or attending the so-called “holy” places. We spend some time there, go to one of those places, and when we go home, we are still the same person. While we are there, we can sing, listen to the Scriptures, discuss the Scriptures, and listen to lectures on the Scriptures, but in our practical, experiential life, in our living, in our day-to-day life, this is just a theory, it’s just a belief, an intellectual thing. Yes, I want to tell you: there is a Divine Reality here and now and that Reality reveals itself when Your Being reveals itself. A life in Happiness, Love, and Freedom, in this Intelligence, in this absence of the ego, and, therefore, in this absence of all this egocentric behavior, where we are constantly producing suffering for ourselves and the world around us.
Our relationships are troubled, desperate, sad, problematic, and unhappy because we don't realize the Truth of What we are and don't assume the Truth of our own Being. This Real approach to Spirituality has not yet happened. When there is True Spirituality, your Being reveals itself as the Truth of God, and if that Truth is present, our relationships with each other are relationships of Love, of Divine Complicity. That is a life in Happiness, in awareness of the Truth that the only Reality present, which is the Reality of everybody and everything, is the Reality of Being, of God. So, this life is possible for each of us, but we need to discover the presence of Truth, and it is not outside. It is Something present when you start looking inside yourself, when you learn to look inside this movement of inner restlessness.
Our brains are conditioned and programmed; they constantly react to every external life experience and every representation of images, memories, and remembrances. Our brain continually reacts in a conflicting way because it reacts from a false center, the “I,” the ego. Thus, the ego separates itself from external experience. All these experiences that our senses have contact with, sight, hearing, all this contact we have with people, objects, and places, there is always the sense of an “I” separating itself from this experience and clashing with it, or internally clashing with images, memories, thoughts, and the feelings that arise. There is always an “I” to argue with this experience, which is an experience of memory, recollection, and remembrance. As we go through experiences, we store those experiences and they are now part of a memory; and when they come up, just as a reaction of the brain, there is this element that separates itself, which is the “I,” to come into conflict. So, internally and externally, we are in conflict, in an internal state of contradiction in ourselves and the world, in conflict with ourselves, the others, and life.
So, what is this Truth of Spirituality? It is the awareness of the Truth that the only Reality present is not this idea, the idea of “I,” but rather the Truth of God. This state that the human being has been searching for millennia or has been trying to discover externally, is Something already present as the Truth of our own Being, our Divine Truth. Then, True Spirituality is the awareness of that Natural State free of “I.” This “I” has been separating itself from this external world, thus creating this duality. That feeling you have of existing as a person is what we are talking about: there is no such person. This idea of being “someone” in this contact with others occurs because thought has created an image of who you are. You mistake yourself for this body, for this internal movement of thought that occurs, which are very particular memories of this particular brain; you see yourself as a particular, individual entity.
This core idea of “I” gives you this sense of individuality, the illusion of this individuality. So, you see yourself as “somebody,” as a person separate from the other, from objects, from the world, that is because you see yourself in the body and the mind. You see yourself as “someone” living a personal, private story, and now, in this search of something beyond this boring, complicated, difficult, and suffering life. You are in this search of something beyond all that and, externally, in some practice, in a ritual, in a ceremony to follow, following or submitting to a system of religious doctrine so that you could have this encounter with God, having this Truth of God as Something outside, too. So, there is this illusion of the “I” in this particular idea of God. Here, we are showing you that the Truth of What you are is the Divine Truth, and It is already here and now as the Truth of your Being. Happiness, Love, Freedom, this life in Completeness, this life free of confusion, disorder, and all this suffering that, psychologically, we have, we are living, and this is possible when you realize the Truth of your Being, the Divine Truth that you are.
That is our subject here within this channel; the approach to this is the approach to Meditation. Learning, discovering, and realizing what it is to look at this inner movement, a movement of this “I” that sees itself as a separate entity. Perceiving that this idea of individuality consists of illusion, investigating the Nature of your Being, discarding the illusion of this egoic pattern, the egoic mind, this mental conditioning, this psychological conditioning; this is possible when there is this approach to yourself. Looking at what you are, this Truth of Self-awareness about yourself shows you that you are not this set of memories, remembrances, and ideas. You are not this centralized image called “I” separating itself all the time from the external world, external experiences, and from everything that, internally, also appears as memories, thoughts, and feelings. So, there comes the end to the sense of separateness of this “I” and the “world,” this “I” and what goes on inside in these registers of remembrances, memories, and recollections; that is the end of this duality.
In India, they know duality as Dvaita. Non-Duality, the end of this illusory sense of separateness – this separation between you and the world, between you and the other, between you and God, between you and a thought, a feeling, a sensation, an emotion – the end of this duality – the idea of being present as the one who is the author or experiencer of these experiences – is called Advaita. So, this is the principle of the Truth of your Being, straight from the Vedas, from Advaita Vedanta. The awareness of the Reality of What you are, the Direct acknowledgment of it, this Truth reveals itself to be the simplicity of the Divine, the simplicity of God, and this is True Spirituality, the Truth of Religion. This is here and now showing itself as life in Compassion and Kindness, where there is Love, where there is Beauty, where Happiness is the Nature of That which is you, the Nature of your Being. The beauty of it is that at this instant, all sense of seeking or searching for external accomplishments disappears because Happiness is that Completeness. All the pursuit and searching for something outside, in these practices, rituals, ceremonies, in what has been called “religion,” which is this organized religion or this spirituality linked to the esoteric, mystical side and all kinds of things, they all disappear. The Truth of your Being is Divine Truth.
Here, I am telling you that you were born to realize It, you were born to realize God, so it is about your own Being, your Real Nature, your True Nature. Human beings live outside themselves, identified with the psychological condition of contradiction, conflict, suffering, and internal psychological conditioning, psychological conditioning; they live far from this Truth that, paradoxically, is Something already present here and now. However, they are far away because they live in their subjective world, their psychological world. In this world of the “I,” this entire notion of time is very important. Look at yourself and you will notice that the movement of thought in you is constantly revolving around thoughts about the past or about the future, “I am not happy, but I will be happy,” that is the idea, “I have no peace, but I will have peace.” Then, we always have this psychological notion of time, of living in time, of a present identity, which is this “I” that I am in time: “I was, I am, and I will be.” Psychologically, there is no Truth, Freedom, Peace, no knowledge of God; there is only this belief, hope, and this idea about God. We always live within this fear – the fear of the ego-identity – so we get involved with all kinds of things in search of that Peace, Completeness, Freedom, that Happiness. Despite all we accomplish external things, everything internally remains the same; we remain unaware of that Beauty, that Grace, that Truth that is experientially understood when we realize What we are – this is what some people call the “Awakening of Consciousness.”
Here, I am telling you that Enlightenment, Awakening is Something for your life in this lifetime; so Reality reveals itself, and when It reveals itself, everything is fine. That is our purpose here within the channel, to work with you on this, the end of that “I,” the end of the ego, of that sense of duality, of separateness between you and the Truth, you and God, you and life; the end of it is the Revelation of the Simplicity of the Truth of Spirituality. Thus, True Spirituality is naturally, simply Being, without any idea of past, present, and future, without any need for a future, without that sense of a fearful “I” here in the present because of the past, that “I” scared by what one lived, fearing in the future to see the repetition of those same old things. When the sense of “I,” which is the ego, is no longer present, What is here and now is the Reality of God; This is the Nature of Being, the Divine Truth, Bliss, and Love.
That is our subject here inside the channel. We are working with you on online, face-to-face meetings and also retreats in addition to these videos. If this is something that makes sense to you, so leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel. Here in the video description, there is our WhatsApp group, ok? If this is something that makes sense to you, come to our meeting, also online, ok?
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