All right! I believe that the most important thing is to study ourselves, and we can only study ourselves if we leave aside what the philosophers, psychologists, and specialists say. We can only study ourselves by looking at ourselves, becoming aware of what is happening here and now within each one of us. So, the purpose of these meetings here in this channel is to have a contact with this Truth, with the Truth of our Being, with the Truth of our Divine Nature, of our Essential Nature. We cannot have this on an intellectual level, on the level of words, on the level of concepts, on a verbal level. An approach to ourselves requires an approach to Self-Awareness. I have called it the Truth of Self-Awareness. It can only be the Truth of Self-Awareness because it is not something you are reading in a book; it is not something you are hearing from someone else; it is not something you are learning from another. It is something you are discovering in yourself.
So, what is the Truth of Self-Awareness? This Truth of Self-Awareness lies in the observation of the movement of this “I,” of what this “I” represents, of what this “I” implies, involves, and means. Here it is a matter of looking at ourselves, studying ourselves, becoming aware of ourselves, because no one can give us this, no one can do this in our place. So, our work here consists of an approach, an approach to the revelation of who we are.
There was a Sage in India called Ramana Maharshi, known as the “Sage of Arunachala Hill.” When people went to him, they were led to this question, which he put before them. The question is: “Who am I?” All that really matters in this life consists of recognizing the Truth of who we are, this was called by Ramana Maharshi as Atma Vichara or Self-enquiry. Thus, the Truth of your Being is revealed when there is an approach to the Truth of Self-Awareness. It is interesting to say this here too, nowadays people use the expression “self-awareness” intended to become aware of the person they are. However, the person they are consists of a belief about who they actually believe themselves to be. So, the idea of being a person, the idea of being someone because of an interest in some kind of fulfillment, benefit, or to obtain something, because of that people may want to approach themselves to have this so-called self-awareness. That is not what we are talking about here, we are talking about True Self-Awareness. That is not what we are talking about here, we are talking about True Self-Awareness. It is not self-awareness for personal development, to get something, to achieve something, to better relate to your boss and get a promotion, to better relate to your employees and get more production from them, to get a better ability to deal with your customers and sell more products to them or improve as a person. So, there’s a preoccupation in the “I” to self-improvement as people to have good business, to have good relationships, to be successful and that’s not what we're talking about. We are talking about the Truth of Self-Awareness, the awareness of what is going on within each one of us, observing this model, this program, this format of psychophysical-being that we assume in this life – I refer to this sense of an “I” that, in fact, is an egoic identity that is present.
The person you believe yourself to be is involved in a constant search or quest for some form of satisfaction, fulfillment, achievement, and success, which is merely ambition. Then, in this attempt to self-improvement, what the ego is seeking is a better outcome for this “me,” for this person, so there is no truth in it. No matter how great the achievements of that person may be, no matter how great the achievements of that “I” may appear, without the Truth of his Being revealing itself, of this Real Consciousness... I do not speak of this consciousness that you have, here in the channel we have explained the difference between this consciousness of the “I” and this Real Consciousness. The awareness of this Real Consciousness that is your Being is the Realization of God, it is the Consciousness Awakening, and here I refer to the Real Consciousness Awakening, not to what people have called “ consciousness awakening.” One goes through a mystical experience, one has some perception of something outside of one’s common life, one’s ordinary life, and one believes that one has gone through a profound so-called “spiritual” experience, that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the Real Consciousness Awakening. The Consciousness Awakening is the end of the illusion of a present identity, which is the “I,” the ego, that is the end of the illusion of “someone” being present within this instant, who has had an experience, who can talk about it afterwards and who, because of that experience, can now have a slightly different life. We are not talking about that. We are talking about the end of ego-identity, Something that has happened for millennia to beings like you, like all of us, who were born into this world and Realized Something outside of that egoic sense, that sense of a separate I, of a separate identity – as happened to Ramana Maharshi and a number of other beings who Realized the Truth about themselves.
So, we are working here with you on Something outside of the illusion of “I,” the awareness of the Truth of your Being, Something that becomes possible when you approach Self-Awareness. We have a life attached to desires and fears and because of that we confuse our life with the life story we have. In this life story, we have a family, we have a job, we have those we love or say we love. In fact, this sense of life story for this “I” is just attachment, we are trying to uphold this life story, all the forms of relationships that we have achieved in this life story, as being something personal. Then, if we are married, if we have children, if we have a business, if we have a job, if we are within a relationship with the world, it is always this sense of a “me” present, in this self-centeredness, loaded with desires and fears in this relationship with all this; and this thing we call “my life,” “my story”; and there is fear in that, there is a lot of attachment in that, there is conflict in that, there is suffering in that. We are here proposing to you a completely different life, a new way of living, a new way of feeling, a new way of thinking, a new way of relating to this so-called “life” that you call “my life.”
Here I tell you that, based on the Truth of your Being, on the Recognition of your Real Identity, which is not a personal identity but the only Reality here and now, beyond all duality, all separation – duality is this: “me and the other,” “me and life,” “me and the world” – this duality pattern of existence is not the Truth of your Being. Your Being is That which is present as the Reality of all this manifestation, of all this existence. Non-duality is the Nature of Being. So, the Sages, like Ramana Maharshi and all others, have always put the beauty and importance of Advaita, of Non-duality. Once you Realize your Self, it becomes clear that there is no separation between you and God, between you and another, between you and life, then it is no more “my life,” it is no more “my business,” it is no more “my family,” it is no more “my child.” All these are images that we have in our relationships with the world, with the other. When we are in contact with the family, it is this “I” in contact with the family, it is this “I” in this ignorance of being “someone,” of having this separate existence that is attached, clinging, and to this thing we give the name “love.” We have inanimate material possessions like a house, a car, a carpet, and we have living possessions like our pet, our husband, our wife, our children. This control, this possession, within it there may be affection, there may be caring, there may be appreciation, but none of this is love. What is present is attachment and the fear of losing, and it becomes very clear when you look at yourself and realize that you have some level of envy of the other, you are jealous of losing, you have a desire to control, you become aggressive when you do not achieve this, when your desires are frustrated or rejected by the other you claim to love, and you become angry, you become violent. It is very clear that there is no love in our relationships, there is too much fear, too much dependence, then what prevails is the ego, this ego identity, the illusion of “someone” being present.
Here we are working with you on the end of this “I,” of this ego, the Realization of the Truth of the Awakening of Consciousness, your Being in Love, in Real Peace, in True Happiness. Then, all this “happiness” that you imagine, all this “peace,” which is the peace of politicians talks, the peace those religious people who talk about in their pulpits and in Bible school class, that is not what we are really talking about. We are talking about a Peace that surpasses all human understanding, the Real Peace. We are not talking about the love that people know. There are many songs about love, but is that true? Are they talking about love or are they portraying psychological dependency, attachment, desire, fear, betrayal, emotional dependency? None of that is Love. It is not Love what we feel, because if there is an “I” involved in it, what is present is the “someone” illusion. Are we together?
So, what we are working on here is the investigation of the nature of the consciousness of the “I.” In this “I” there is the thinker with his thought, there is the one who feels with his feeling, the one who is emotional with his emotion. There is this doer with his deeds, with his actions, with his achievements, then there is this separation, there is this duality. Right now, there is the speaking here and the illusion of “someone” listening, that is a belief. We believe that we are inside the body listening to someone. This listening is a movement present here and now of the senses and the intellect is also present here within a conditioning that may be accepting or rejecting, agreeing or disagreeing with what is said. In fact, what we have present is the illusory sense of an “I” established here and now in this experience of listening, evaluating, judging, comparing. There is no Truth here and now for this “I,” this is the illusion of ego-identity, of the person who we believe ourselves to be. The work here consists in recognizing That which lies beyond this agreeing, disagreeing, this “someone” listening, this “someone” speaking. The awareness of Oneness, of Non-separation, the Truth of Non-duality, the Truth that there is only God, in that consists the Truth of Love, the Truth of Consciousness, the Truth of Peace, the Truth of Consciousness Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment.
An approach towards yourself makes you realize the beauty of the contact with True Meditation in a practical, experiential way, and this is the end of illusion, it is the end of suffering, it is the end of all this confusion, which is the confusion of the “I” within this particular life, within this frightened, complicated, distressing story. The invitation to the Truth of your Being is the invitation to the Realization of God, the Realization of Beauty, the Realization of Love, then everything is included here: friends, relatives, neighbors, employees, the boss, the family, but nothing is separate from this Love. And when there is Love, there is no confusion, there is no suffering, there is no fear, there is no desire, there is no attachment.
That is our subject here in this channel for you. If this is something that makes sense to you, I want to invite you to leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel; please leave it in the comment: “It makes sense.” And I also want to remind you: here in the description of the video there is our WhatsApp group, we have online meetings on the weekends to investigate all this together, ok? Also, we have in-person meetings and we have retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, we'll see you soon!
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