Throughout human history, human beings have been searching for something beyond themselves; something sacred, Divine, something beyond this condition of life as we know it. So, the question people ask is: “How do we know God? How to find God?” Here we need to have some clarification on this. We need to be very clear about what this “knowing” or “finding” actually means.
What we have said here is that this “finding” as we idealize is impossible, and that this “knowing” as we also idealize is impossible. That’s because we can only know what can be recognized by us, and we can only find what can be found by us. But what is the truth of this “we”? Who am I? What is the truth about me? What is this “me”? Notice, we don't know the Truth about who we are, but we want to know the Truth about who God IS. Here we have to take a new approach to this.
In this search or seek as human beings have been doing, they have been looking for examples of those who have found or known God, so we go to the Holy Books and see what they have to tell us about this encounter. That's our reference. But notice, we stop there. Then, when the organized religions tell us about God, they tell us what the Sages, the Mystics, the Saints experienced about this Truth, which is the Divine Truth, and we remain in the realm of ideas, concepts, theories, verbal formulations, we remain in beliefs.
Is there anything beyond that? Beyond this theoretical, conceptual, bookish testimony. Is it really possible to get closer to the Reality of God? Not to remain within that old and well-known condition of repeating what the Saints, the Sages have said, but to have a direct experience with that Reality. Is it possible to have an awareness of God?
So, let’s go a little deeper here with you. We don't have a vast amount of time in a talk like this, to explore it further we have several videos here on the channel working on this with you. Our main subject here on the channel is this Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment, which is nothing other than the Realization of God's Truth.
So, what is this approach? How does it become possible? First we have to investigate the Truth about who we are if we discard the illusion of what we are, what we manifest ourselves to be, what we present ourselves to be. When I refer to this illusion of what we are, it's this model of existence centered on the “I,” on the ego, in this sense of an identity present separating itself from Life, separating itself from Existence, separating itself from God. Here is the illusion.
You see, the Truth of what we are is the illusion, this illusion is the Truth of what we are. We have to understand what we are here and now, these aspects of this ego-identity. That's why without understanding who we are, without the Truth of Self-Awareness, we don't have the Truth of approaching the Reality of God, because the Truth of Self-Awareness is the discarding of this illusion, the illusion of the ego, the illusion of the “I.”
The “person,” this sense of egoic identity, of self-centeredness present in this “I” is, in fact, the result of all the conditioning of the history of humanity, of human history. The Realization of Truth is the end of this “I,” the end of this illusory center, which is the ego, the end of this sense of separation. So, yes, we have the Realization of God, the Truth of God, the Reality of God here, right now.
Then, when we deal with this “knowing God,” this “finding God,” we are dealing with this acknowledgement that the only Reality present is the Reality of God. There is a beautiful Indian expression for this. The expression is Advaita. Advaita means Non-duality, Non-separation, it means “the one without a second.”
So, the Truth is the Truth of Non-duality. The only Reality always invariably present is the Reality of God. There is only Him, everything else is outside, within this model of dream of separate identity, of egoic identity, which is the illusion of this “I,” the illusion of what we manifest ourselves to be, which is not the Divine Real Reality we truly are. To discard this illusion is to become aware of this Truth.
So, what does it mean to know God? What does it mean to find God? It is to acknowledge the Reality of what is present when the “I,” this ego, this model of psychological conditioning, of egoic programming, of actions that are therefore egocentric, centered on this illusory “I” are no longer present. Then, we have the Reality of the Truth of God. Thus, what is this “knowing God”? What is this “acknowledging God”? It is something Revealed when there is an emptying of all this psychological content of egoic identity.
What does this egoic identity consist of? All the programming acquired over thousands and thousands of years, throughout the history of humanity. This sense of egoic identity is what the human being manifests as conditioning. So, all this human conditioning we manifest at this moment in this belief that the person, this “me,” this “I,” is a reality, is a present truth, carries an identity that separates itself from life, that separates itself from the other, that separates itself from God. Note that this is exactly what keeps us in this condition of dissatisfaction, suffering, confusion, psychological disorder and emotional disorder.
So, when human beings talk about “finding God,” what they really want is to discover something beyond this condition, which is the condition of this separate identity, in contradiction, in conflict, living through these various aspects of fear, anguish, violence and suffering. Becoming aware of the Truth of what we are is something that is revealing itself when this Truth of Self-Awareness comes closer.
What is this Self-Awareness? It's an approach to this movement. As you become aware of the movement of the “I,” of the ego, you perceive this sense of separateness; you perceive it to be what it really is: the illusion of an identity present when thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and sensations are happening. Perceiving the illusion of an identity present in this experience. When there is this Self-Awareness, the illusion of this present identity becomes clear.
Notice what an interesting thing happens to us. If a thought is present, the idea in us is that we are thinking that thought. Note that thoughts are appearances, they just appear. This idea in us that we are producing these thoughts is not true, they are just appearing. We don't produce thoughts, we don't control thoughts, we don't dispose of or get rid of thoughts, we don't put them here, we don't take them away either, they just appear. There is no such thing as a thinker producing these thoughts, controlling these thoughts, getting rid of them when wants to and bringing them in when wants to.
Observe that thoughts are memory reactions. There is a visual or auditory stimulus. Whether externally or internally, a stimulus arises and a thought arises, but there is no thinker behind that thought and yet we have the belief that we are thinking that thought. Notice this in yourself. When thoughts arise and you want to get rid of them, you can't. In fact, the more effort you put into getting rid of a particular thought, the more you strengthen it.
You want to get rid of a thought, you can shout at it, you can fight with it and it's still there. Thoughts are reactions of memory. It's something that appears without any control on your part, because you as the thinker aren't real. The idea of the thinker is present because of the thought present. When there is a thought, there is the idea of a thinker thinking that thought, wanting to do something with it, liking it or disliking it, wanting more of it or wanting to get rid of it.
So, here we come across the illusion of the duality of thinker and thought. The same thing happens with feeling: it's a reaction to a stimulus. Then, this reaction, which is actually the result of an experience that appears now due to a stimulus that is occurring at this moment, is a reaction of feeling that comes from the past; this reaction of emotion comes from the past, from thought, comes from the past, and we place in this thought the idea of a thinker; in this feeling, the idea of someone feeling, of an emotion, someone emotional. Thus, we have this principle of duality, of separateness.
Then, the idea of an identity present, which is this “me,” this “I,” is a concept, a belief, a psychological conditioning, a model of thinking, feeling and acting within a principle of conditioning. The end to this is the Revelation of Divine Reality, the Revelation of the Reality of God.
So, what is the awareness of the Realization of God? It is the awareness of the Truth that God is the only Reality present. This is revealed when the sense of this ego-identity disappears. Becoming aware of yourself, looking at this movement of the “I,” this studying of yourself, this looking at the whole process that goes on inside you – thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, perception – looking at this without intervening, without interfering, then the Truth of the Revelation of this Being shows itself because we have Meditation, this Art of Being Pure Consciousness.
Then, there is a break with this principle of duality, of separation. So, we break with this movement, which is the movement of the experiencer, the thinker, the one who is sustaining thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions from a center. Investigating this, approaching this, is the most efficient thing we have for the Realization of the Truth of knowing God, which, in reality, is to verify the Reality, the Reality of this Being, the Reality of God.
We are working on this with you, more than in these videos here, in online meetings on the weekends. I'd like to invite you to take part in these weekend meetings, you have our WhatsApp link here in the description of the video, so that you can take part in these meetings and investigate this closely. There is something present in these meetings that is much bigger than these videos. Through questions and answers, through contact with Meditation, with the awareness of Being Consciousness, which is Real Meditation in practice, we can get closer to this work. Then, I'd like to invite you here. You can join our WhatsApp group here in the video description. Go ahead and leave a comment here: “Yes, that makes sense,” and subscribe to the channel. And see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!
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