GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for your presence. Today, I will read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called “The Heart of Mysticism.” In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: “In recognizing God as infinite, we recognize power as infinite power.” Regarding this issue of recognizing God, can the Master share his vision on this subject?
MG: Gilson, we are not dealing here with a concept, a belief, an image, a symbol. When we deal here with the Truth of God, we are not dealing with something that thought can translate, can represent and, therefore, can recognize. So, our questions need to be investigated. Here, the expression is “recognizing God.” See, you cannot recognize God. The psychological condition in which we find ourselves, within this limitation, where the model is the model of thought, because that is the model that we know... This model cannot identify That which is outside of the known. You can become aware of the Reality of God, but when you go beyond this condition, this mind as we know it.
So, it is not about recognizing God, it is about assuming the Truth of God. But we were educated, taught, shown this way, we were taught this way, they presented God to us as an element separate and apart from what we are, and now we are searching to find Him. This search is thought’s search, it is the search for the concept, it is the search for the image, the symbol, the mental representation, so there is no truth in this search. It is not about finding God! Here, Truth reveals itself when we learn the truth about ourselves, when we discover what it means to study our reactions, only when we are free from this format of psychological conditioning in which we find ourselves, only when we are beyond thought and, therefore, from this thinker, from this element present in each one of us, which sees itself as an entity in time and space, separate and apart from life, separate and apart from the other human being, separate and apart from God. When this pattern is broken, we indeed have the Vision of Reality, but this Vision of Reality is Reality revealing itself. The Truth, Gilson, about you, is that you are Divine Reality when illusion is no longer present. It is the present illusion that prevents us from having clear awareness of this Reality that we are.
Here, you see the photo of Ramana Maharshi, the Sage of Arunachala hill – he lived in southern India. When people asked him about God, how to find God, how to see God, he would say: “To be God is to see God. To see God is to be God.” In other words, Gilson, there is a present Reality, and the Vision of this Reality is the Vision of this Being itself. Here, in this life, the most important thing for each one of us is the full awareness of where God is, of where God is. In our thinking, we have been educated to believe – this is something of culture, of religious conditioning – that God is somewhere far away, separate from ourselves. Even when we use expressions like “God is within us,” these are expressions of belief. Thought formulates this, puts it into words.
So, what we have are imaginations about where God is: either He is in a distant place or He is within us. It is because we always look at this from a point of view of belief, of thought and, therefore, of ideas, of imaginations. We are not fully aware of this, of where God is. Can we be aware of this? The answer is: yes, since He is not something separate and distant, He is a present Reality, but He is present only when illusion no longer shows itself. It is only when there is no more illusion showing itself that this Reality reveals itself to each one of us, and when this is present, this sense of “I,” of the ego, is no longer there.
So, getting closer to the Truth about ourselves, studying what is happening here, in our mind and in our heart, discarding this sense of separation, having a complete and absolute emptying of all this old psychological content of conditioning, of beliefs, of ideas, of mental formulations, of concepts, discovering the Truth of That which we are... In this discovery, there is a discarding of this illusion, of this illusion that we present ourselves to be, that we demonstrate in life. This sense, Gilson, of a present person, who sees himself, herself, here and God there; this is the way in which thought has worked in each one of us. A direct look at the Truth of That which we are is a discarding of this imagination, this belief, this suggestion, this way of thinking and feeling about ourselves, and, naturally, of thinking and feeling about the other. This is the end of the illusion of this separation between you and Life, between you and God.
Here, we are always, Gilson, coming back to what we consider the basics for this self-discovery. The basics for this self-discovery are the deepest lesson. So, it is about learning to get closer to yourself and look at what is happening here and now, inside each one of us, when we have thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations... All of these are elements in us that appear at this moment and that are the result of a way in which this body and mind function. Much of this is within a format or model of psychological conditioning that needs to be seen. If we are unable to see this, if we are unable to perceive this, our psychological condition of existence will be a condition of ignorance.
The great truth, Gilson, is that we do not know the Truth about ourselves, and this is what explains all this internal confusion in which we find ourselves and all forms of suffering that persist in our lives. So, we live in a mixture of pleasure and pain, joy and sadness, happiness and unhappiness. What we know in life is within a movement that is already well known and recognized by thought, and this thought cannot reach Truth, it cannot approach this Divine Reality, since this Reality is beyond thought.
When you discover what it means to study your reactions, you discover how to let go of the illusion of this sense of separation for a Real Divine Approach, for a Real Awareness of God. When God is, it is when He reveals Himself; this is when “What is” is present as the only Reality; it is present when this sense of separation is not, when this sense of ego identity is not. Therefore, to see God is to be God. To recognize God is to become aware of your own Being in this instant, in this moment. There is nothing more important in life, Gilson, than the Awareness of your own Being, which is the Awareness of God.
Here, we are within a context of life where all types of situations are present, but situations created by thought, sustained by thought, within a way of existence where we are seeing everything separate and apart from That which we are in our own Being. We are not aware of That which we are, of the Truth about ourselves. We are seeing everything based on thought. Therefore, the element present in us of perception, of observation, of sensation, is the “I.” We have a feeling of thinking, feeling, acting, and doing in life. This feeling is born from this thinker, this observer, this experiencer. It is an experiencer who sees himself separate from experience, a thinker who sees himself separate from thought, an element within us that, at feeling, sees oneself separate from what one feels.
So, we have no awareness, at all, of the Reality of this Being that we are, here and now. It is the awareness of this that reveals the Truth of God, but as long as we are within this duality of “thought and thinker,” “experience and experiencer,” “that which is being seen and someone in this seeing,” we will be within illusion, within ignorance, this will be the psychological condition of existence of an identity that sees oneself separate and apart from God. Here, our proposal consists of this self-discovery, this self-revelation, the Truth of That which You are when illusion ends. That is why we cannot break this illusion without studying what is happening here and now, with each one of us.
This entire old movement of searching or seeking this Divine Reality, based on thought, is based on this thinker. This entire search, this search for experiences, is based on this experiencer. So, it is not about having perceptions or sensations, or experiences, or having visions that we can talk about later, because all of this is still within the scope of the known, all of this is still within the movement of thought itself, and here, the Truth of That which is God is outside of this, outside of what thought can know, outside of what thought can recognize, understand or capture. This is the nature of God; it is the nature of Truth. This is something that is outside of time, outside of what is known.
GC: Master, we have a question here from a subscriber on the channel. She makes the following comment and asks: “I have felt God many times in my life. Is this feeling something that I also need to observe?”
MG: Gilson, notice the question: “I have felt God many times in my life.” See, this element present within us is the element that stores experiences. This record of experiences is memories, it is remembrance, it is something that is part of the past. What is the Reality of the Truth about God? What is the Reality of this Truth? It is the one that is present here. That is Reality! So, the Truth about God is the Reality that is present in this moment. So, to your question, if we need to observe this: everything that arises as an experience arises for an element within the experience. That element that is separate from the experience is still part of the experience, and that element is in time.
There is a present Reality. Yes, there is a present Reality, it is the Reality of God, it is the Reality of this Being, but It is not part of time and, therefore, it is not something that can be remembered or experienced, because this Divine Reality is beyond the experiencer. Therefore, it is not something to be experienced nor is it something that is part of the past, like remembrances, memories or thoughts. Divine Truth, the Truth of this Being, which is the Reality present in each one of us, which is the Reality of God, is not in time, it is not in the known, it is not in experience, it is not in the past, nor in the present, nor in the future. It is something completely different from all of this.
And here, this Realization is assuming This. As we said a moment ago, it is going beyond the thinker and thought, the experiencer and the experience, the observer with what one is observing. That is why the truth of a real approach to Meditation is Meditation without this element present, which is the meditator. When there is the Truth of Meditation, there is the presence of the Divine Reality. There is, Gilson, nothing more important for our lives than a direct approach to the Truth of That which is God, as we have just said, the awareness of where He is.
So, there is nothing more important for our lives than an approach to Meditation, and this Meditation is the truth that there is no one involved in this, so we have the reality of Meditation. True Meditation is present when there is no longer an element present in the practice, such as the meditator. The question is: How can we approach this? By discovering what it means to look, just to look. To look at our reactions, be it thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations… to discover what it means to look! To look without this element that looks, to observe without this element that observes. The basis for all this is to put Attention on this moment, on what is happening here, in this moment. Our words, gestures, thoughts, whatever is happening externally or internally, this is the basis. So, Self-awareness is part of this, and Meditation is based on Self-awareness. This is what we are working on together with you, deepening here with you.
GC: Master, we have another question here, from another subscriber. He asks the following question: “Master, can you make a video explaining how to do self-investigation?”
MG: Gilson, self-investigation is the basis for all of this, and self-investigation is what we have been discussing in all of these videos, not just in one specific video. All of our videos address the truth about Self-awareness, which requires the presence of this Attention on this entire movement of the “I,” which is self-investigation, which is self-inquiry. Now, something much greater than that, is these meetings. In these online, in-person meetings and retreats, we are working on all of this in a much more direct way. What is here, in these videos, is an approach of direct tips on how to work on this thing, but there is something present – and we have already talked about this countless times in the videos –, which is the Presence of Grace, which makes this work possible. That is what we are doing together in these meetings.
GC: Thank you, Master, our time is up. Grateful for this videocast. Thank you for this videocast.
And for those of you who are watching the videocast until the end and have a real, sincere yearning to understand these truths, I invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto provides. In fact, there are online meetings, so you don't even have to leave your home to be able to immerse yourself in this understanding and self-investigation that the Master provides us in the meetings. Because the Master, having already had this so-called “Awakening of Consciousness,” lives in a State of Presence and shares this Presence, this Grace, this Power in the Satsang meetings, and this helps us a lot in this self-investigation, in this observation of the crazy movement of thoughts. So, here's the invitation.
In the first pinned comment, there is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. In addition, give your “like” to the video, you can leave any comments with questions for us to bring to the next videos.
And, Master, thank you for this videocast.
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