We have a purpose here in this meeting, in this work. The purpose is to get an approach together to the Truth about the Divine Revelation, the Revelation of God. So it's about how to find God. Now notice: this is where we need a new way of approaching a subject like this because we are facing an issue that is not so simple.
Our minds have ideas about God, about the Truth of God. We have been conditioned to think and move in the world in this so-called “search for Truth” or “search for God” within the prevailing model, the common one. In this ordinary model, our brain, which is part of this mind in us – which, by the way, has not been investigated or understood – this brain works by giving us suggestions and ideas based on principles we have received. So, this “search for God” is just another one of those things. Then, we have God as one more thing we look for in life.
Here, we have the purpose of having a Revelation of the Truth of this encounter, but we need to discover that it is not by searching, by seeking, as we generally do, that this becomes possible. So, the point here is not to discover the truth about who God is, where He is, or how to find Him; here, it is about discovering first, before anything else, the Truth about who we are.
So, here in this encounter with the Revelation of the Divine Truth, in this encounter with the Clarity of the Reality of God – some call it the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, or the Realization of God, and so there are various names for this encounter – it becomes possible when we first understand the importance of Self-Awareness, the Truth of the Revelation of the understanding of who we are. We cannot have an understanding of life, of others, of God without first understanding how we work, without first getting an approach to the truth of how this mind works, how this brain works, and how we function.
People generally believe in God; they study the Holy Books in an attempt to get an approach to God. Notice that everything we study becomes part of the knowledge we have, and this knowledge is the result of a brain that carries this information, that has this thought model, which is the knowledge of that area, of that given thing. An approach to the Truth of God cannot go in this direction.
In general, the vast majority of people are moving in this “search for God;” they are moving in this direction towards an approach to theoretical knowledge through intellectual studies and analysis. So, we are continually dealing with words when dealing with the intellect. Our intellect is based on words. Our intellectual knowledge is based on this whole form of language we know, which represents the model of thought based on all experience, knowledge, and all acquired memory.
So, our thought is the basis of this knowledge we have, but this thought, as the knowledge it is, cannot deal with something outside of it. All knowledge, experience, and thought are only portraying what is within it, within the principle it knows or recognizes. Notice thought is something limited – the result of experience, memory, and recollection. Thoughts are ideas. When we are dealing with a Reality outside of thought, making use of thought is completely useless. The Divine Reality, the Reality of God is not within thought; it is Something outside thought.
There is no way of having an approach to Reality about who we are without a direct understanding of this model, which is the model of thought because we are, based on it, all the knowledge, experience, and memory acquired over millennia by human beings. And all this is part of the known, time, and within this limitation.
How can we approach the Truth of God through knowledge if knowledge is part of all this time, which is memory, remembrance, and thought? The thought is limited. Memory portrays what is already known. So, we are continually dealing with the past when referring to experiences. Therefore, the experience is helpless in bringing us closer to the Truth of God. So, as experience is something within the known, it naturally does not open this door to this Reality of God since the Reality of God is Something outside the known, outside the limitation of thought, memory, knowledge, and, therefore, of the experience itself.
It is crucial to approach this very clearly. People say: “I've had an experience with God,” “I need to have an experience of God.” You see, the one who experiences and the one who saves the experience is the “I,” the person. So, we have to investigate the nature of the person and see if that person can, with this experience, experience a reality outside this limitation of the “I.” And here we are saying: this cannot be Real. You cannot have a Real vision of What is beyond the known, the describable, thought, the experiencer, and therefore beyond the “I.” It is, therefore, a great illusion on our part to believe we can have an experience.
Another curious aspect of this matter of experience is that there is no experience here and now at this instant. We are always portraying or reporting on past experiences. At this instant there is the experiencing, but there is no experience. And when the experiencing becomes part of memory, we can call it an experience.
Then, the Reality of God cannot be an experience because it cannot be part of memory, of the past; it is not something within time and therefore, within the known. That's why it cannot be part of it. So, every experience you can have is always an experience in time since it can be recorded by the experiencer. Thus, what is the nature of the experiencer; who is the “I,” the person, this “me”? What is the truth about this “me”?
So, we first have to approach an understanding of the truth about this “I,” about this “me,” this person; then, it becomes possible to go beyond the experience because there is no longer this element that is the “I,” “me,” the “person,” the experiencer, the one in us who records the experience. The end for the person who records the experience is the end of that experience, so a Revelation of God is possible. But this Revelation of God is in the experiencing.
The only Reality present is the Reality of God – but this experiencer cannot be present recording an experience and turning it into a belief, a memory, an image, and a remembrance. Everything we can do within an experience and then keep it as an image, a memory, a belief is still part of that “I,” that acquaintance, that thought model. It is all still part of that ego, that person, that “me,” that “I,” that experiencer.
We do need a Revelation of the Truth of God, but the “I” cannot achieve this through knowledge, experience, or through its model of practicing to perceive Something outside of itself. See that, how delicate the Truth of the Revelation of God is. The Revelation of God is the Divine Life, the Life of God in the absence of the “I,” of the experiencer, the seeker, the knower.
Thus, we need an understanding of the Truth about who we are. That is the importance of Self-Awareness. Without Self-Awareness, it becomes impossible to understand this element that is the “I,” the experiencer, the one who lives by cultivating remembrances, memories, and experiences. Without discarding this illusory identity, the Divine Reality does not show, present, or reveal itself.
Follow this carefully. We need to look at what we are and thus become aware of this limitation, which is the one of this seeker, experiencer, knower, this person who studies intellectually and has experiences at the level of feelings and emotions. Notice: all of this is still within the realm of the known. The experience, the feeling, the emotion, the sensation, this so-called “intuition,” all this is part of the time, still part of the known; therefore, it is still part of knowledge, something present in this “I,” in this experiencer.
When we look at this movement of the experiencer, which is the “I,” we study this movement of the very illusion of the ego-identity present in the experience of feeling, thinking, acting, and also in this process of accumulating information and sensations. The end to this model of memory is the end to the illusion of this ego-identity; then, we have the Revelation of What is outside the “I.” Thus, the Truth of Self-Awareness, the importance of Self-Awareness shows you the beauty of the end of this experiencer and, therefore, of this experience. That is the end of time. Notice that time is that memory, that past, that accumulation of acquired knowledge and experiences the ego, the “I,” cultivates. The end to all this is the emergence of Something entirely Unknown, New, and Real, which is outside of time, of the known, of the experiencer.
Thus, contact with Meditation, with the Truth of Meditation, reveals What is outside the known and, therefore, outside the limitation of this “I.” Hence, the Truth of understanding this false “I,” this illusory identity, is what we call Self-Awareness here. So, Self-Awareness is the discarding of this ego, this “I,” and the emergence of this Reality, this Truth of experiencing.
We say that the Reality of God reveals itself in Self-Realization, and this Self-Realization is life at that instant, in the experiencing, moment by moment. All experience ends in that experiencing. So, this is an entirely new life; it requires a new brain, mind, feeling, action, and vision, always a new and clear vision of what life is, of what the other is. That is the Revelation of your Being, of your Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God.
We are signaling to you here that there is the possibility of an end to this search. The Divine Realization, the Realization of your Being, is the Realization of God, and that is the end of this quest, of this search, the end of this involvement with studies, and with a constant search for new so-called “spiritual” experiences for this encounter. So, the Happiness of Being, the Beauty of Love, the Grace of a New Life where there is no longer this element, which is the “I,” calling this particular experience of yours “my life.”
So, that's our subject here with you. When we understand that we were born to Realize the Divine Truth, the Truth of God. For this purpose, we have meetings here online on weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to participate in these meetings. We have face-to-face meetings and also retreats where we work on this with you. So, we invite you here now. If this makes sense to you, please give your like, subscribe to the channel, and say “Yes, it makes sense” in the comments. OK? And see you. Thanks for meeting us, and see you next time!
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