GC: Hello, everyone, we are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here. Master, today I will read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "From Advaita of India: 'I am my own spirit'." Joel quotes this passage from Advaita. On this subject, may the Master share what Advaita is?
MG: Gilson, Advaita is an Indian expression for non-separation, non-duality; it means "the one without the second." The ancient Indian sages, those who realized the Truth, left this written in the Vedas. This expression comes from the Vedas, it is the Truth that in Life, there is no such thing as division, separation. There is only one Reality present, there is only one Truth present. We can give many names to this present Reality, but none of these names, as a word, an expression - as all words are -, as an expression of thought, can explain its meaning.
So, this Divine Reality that we call God, Truth, Being, is the only Reality of Life. This is Advaita. This Divine Reality, of God, which is Advaita, non-separation, is the Reality of your Being, it is the Reality about you. Once this Awakening is present, the vision that remains of life is the vision of non-separation. There is no such thing as this "I" and life, this life and God; this "I," life, God, and the other. There is a Present Reality. It is present in this manifestation, but also beyond everything that we call here "manifestation." So, we are faced with something indescribable, unnamable. No term, no word, can explain it.
The good news is that the Realization of your Being is the Realization of God, it is the Realization of Advaita. The Truth of this is the end of ignorance, it is the end of illusion, it is the end of suffering. To get closer to life is to get closer to God. And to get closer to God, which is to get closer to life, is to discover how to discard this sense of "I," of this "me." All this movement of the "I," of the "me," of this "person" in us, having as its principle the model of thought as we know it, places us in a condition of ignorance, of illusion, of separation. If this separation is present due to ignorance, due to illusion, then confusion, conflict, disorder, and suffering are present.
In life, we are all here to become aware that there is only one Reality here. This is Awakening! Without this, this life, in this sense of separation, of duality, is chaos, it is an enormous confusion. Human beings live restless, lost, and psychologically disturbed. There is an internal restlessness, they do not know the Truth about themselves, they get confused with the model that thought has established as a rule, as a standard. This rule, this standard, is the model that we have called here "mental conditioning." We are always responding to life from this element that sees itself separate from it. This way of responding is inadequate.
When, for example, you deal with people, you deal with people from the idea of being a person too. You do not see them as they really are. But how could it be different? If you cannot become aware of the Truth about yourself, how would you have the Truth about him or her? Thus, the particular vision of the "I" is the vision that thought has established as being true, as being real, about life, about the other, about itself. So, this condition is something that thought is establishing as a standard, as a rule. This is the mistaken principle of separation, of duality. It was thought that created the idea of this "I" and the non-"I," of this "I" and life, of this "I" and God. To approach an encounter like this here is to approach the possibility of investigation, of investigating, of deepening this question.
The question is: "What am I?" What will be the truth of this "Who am I?"
This "Who am I" is a construct of thought itself. Having an approach of what "I am" is the approach of Self-awareness, precisely to discard this idea about "who I am." There is no such thing as "I," there is no such thing as "who." There is a Reality here, and you acknowledge this Reality beyond the "I." This "you," in this acknowledgment, is Divine Reality itself conscious of Itself. There is no separation between you, God and life. You are God in your Real Nature, but in thought you are a person. In the model of behaving, acting, feeling and living, something that thought is producing within a thought conditioning response, something common to all, you are a person, and a person is in trouble, a person has problems, a person is alienated from Truth - precisely because they are a person -, alienated from Reality, from Truth, from Life.
So, what is Advaita? It is the Truth of your Being, it is the Truth of God, it is the Truth of Life, when there is no longer this illusion, when there is no longer this model of thought.
GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Pedro makes the following comment and asks: "What makes thoughts arise, generate? What is the primary cause of this phenomenon?"
MG: So, Gilson, the first cause of thought - see, this has a very simple basis. the first cause of thought is memory. Every present thought is a memory of the past. When we go through an experience, this is recorded in the brain. This record appears in this thought format. How does this process work? Based on a stimulus, a response to a challenge. When you see a scene, it brings back a memory, see, this memory arose due to this stimulus, this challenge. This is the mechanics of the brain; this is how the brain works: it produces thoughts. But this production of thought, in fact, is just memory emerging. It does not bring thought out of nowhere, it brings thought from the past and from memory. Just as our physical heart beats due to electrical stimuli coming from the brain, our brain reacts to stimuli, to challenges, and produces thoughts. But it is not that it produces thoughts out of nowhere, it reproduces thoughts due to thought, memory, the recollection that it has. It is a record in it that is responding. This is the phenomenon of thought.
Now, let's go a little deeper into this with you. The problem is not in having thoughts. The problem is that human beings, as they function - I refer to the masses, to humanity. the common human being is not aware of thought. They are victims of a condition of internal restlessness, of internal chatter, of psychological disorder, due to this movement, this movement of thinking, of the brain. Here, we need to comprehend this: this psychological condition of life is not natural. This is something common to this model of conditioned brain, of conditioned mind, that human beings know. So, the problem with thought is that, in human beings, it functions in an unconscious, mechanical, repetitive, chattering way, producing, along with these thoughts, internal states of feelings, emotions, conflict, disorder, and suffering.
In this sense of the "I," of the ego, of this conditioned mind, of this egoic mind, of this conditioned brain, there is no stillness, silence, absence of thought. The brain is constantly producing thoughts, that is, connecting itself, at every moment, to all kinds of stimuli and challenges, and producing the illusion of an identity within this experience, which is the experience of thinking. See, this is not natural. This occurs because the human being does not know the Truth of That which he is outside of this conditioning. All the human being knows about himself is what thought is saying, and he is confusing himself with thought, identifying himself with these reactions and living in this restlessness, in this chatter. Thus, the brain in the human being is functioning in a mistaken, chaotic way. There is no such freedom from this awareness of the absence of this psychological time. Human beings live in thought, in this psychological condition of thought. Thus, we are constantly between the past and the future, and this movement of the present is the restlessness between what was and what will be.
Can we break with this, towards a new quality of mind, of a new brain, where thought is functional, so that it is only present when necessary and is not occupying all this space all the time? When it is occupying all this space... this space that is occupied all the time is what we have called here egoic consciousness, consciousness of the "I." May we know, in life, Freedom, that is, the end of this consciousness of the "I," of this consciousness of the ego? This requires the presence of Self-awareness, the presence of Meditation, the presence of this Space that reveals itself when the brain becomes quiet, when the mind becomes silent. So, something beyond the mind, beyond the brain, beyond the "I," beyond the ego is revealed.
This is what we are working on together here with you, showing you that, in this life, the Awakening of Intelligence requires the presence of Silence, of a new way of thinking, feeling, and acting in life. And this only becomes possible when we put an end to this psychological condition that we have just explained to you here, where the brain is busy all the time. Look, you are having lunch or working on some activity, but internally the brain is active, chattering, saying things, putting this feeling and thought there, locating a present entity, which is this "me," in the past or in the future. We are not aware of this moment, aware of the now, because there is no space, there is no stillness, there is no silence. And here we are telling you that this is not natural. This is common, but it is because human beings are in psychological disorder. The great truth about this is that human beings are neurotic, they are building exaggerations, they are exaggerating. The model of thought is to exaggerate.
So, this internal dysfunction, this psychological confusion, this movement of thought is the continuation of this ego, of this "I," of this "me." When this ends, something new is present, and this is what we are working on here, with you. The only thing in life is to realize Life, the Awareness of Life, the Beauty of Life, the Love that is Life. Then, we have the presence of Intelligence, the presence of Freedom, within our relations with others, with ourselves, with experiences. This is when thoughts are only occupying their real space, and not this psychological space, as occurs with the presence of the ego. The way in which we, human beings, are functioning psychologically is a problem, it is something to be discarded!
So, the Flourishing of your Being is the Awareness of Reality, of That which is beyond the "I," beyond this brain, beyond this mind, beyond this ego. What makes this possible is a work of Self-Awareness, of Meditation, due to the Power of this Presence, which is the Power of this Divine Grace.
GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Tânia makes the following comment, asking: "Master, so only after investigation without the ego can we reach the Truth?"
MG: You ask: "Only after investigation without the ego can the Truth be revealed?" Look at your question. The truth of the approach, of self-investigation, of the investigation of the "I," is the investigation of the ego itself, it is the awareness of looking at these reactions. So, let's correct this question a little here. We need to get closer to our reactions, but this approach requires a look, a look free from the movement of the "I," but this look includes a clear vision of this movement.
We have to discover, here, what it means to observe these reactions. This observation requires, yes, the presence of the absence of this observer, this thinker, this experiencer, but it is not about reaching the Truth. The awareness of this pure observation reveals something outside of the known. Truth is already present, it is That which is already present, but which, in fact, only reveals itself when we become aware of this awareness of Self-knowledge. Thus, learning to observe our reactions without the observer, learning to become aware of what is happening here and now, without confusing ourselves with this element that is the experiencer separating himself from the experience, the observer separating himself from what he observes, the one who listens separating himself from what he is listening to... To become aware of this is to have a real approach to the vision of Meditation. This is within this approach of Self-awareness.
Here, this Attention on our reactions requires a look free from this element that separates itself to interfere, that lives within a movement of liking and disliking, or of wanting to alter or change, that judges, evaluates, compares. Thus, the basis for this self-observation, for this self-investigation, is to bring this Attention to this moment, an Attention free of choice, free of alternatives, free of ideas, conclusions, beliefs, evaluations, judgments and all types of responses that come from the past, that may arise from the past. It is just looking, it is just noticing, becoming aware of what is happening here and now. When you look at a thought, your inclination, in general, when you look, is to like it or not. When a feeling arises, you like it or not. So, in general, we are always accepting or rejecting what is happening inside us and what is happening externally in this relation with the other. We are always approaching life, this instant, this moment, from this experiencer, this thinker, this observer, while here we are showing you that there is a new way of approaching this instant. This new way requires the presence of this Attention, precisely, on these reactions. This Attention does not interfere, it does not get involved. This Attention is what gives us the basis for Self-awareness, and with the basis of Self-awareness, we come closer to Meditation. So, there is a new quality of action that emerges when the "I" is not there, when this experiencer, this observer, this element that separates, judges, evaluates, is no longer present.
So, what is the real approach to life? The real approach to life is the real approach to the truth about us. Without this verification of what is happening here and now in you, with you, there is no way to break with this old condition, for this Reality to show itself, for this Truth to flourish. This is what we are approaching here in these meetings.
GC: Thank you, Master, our time is over. Thank you for this videocast.
And for you who are following the videocast until the end and really want to live these teachings and have this vision in Freedom as the Master has, I invite you to participate in the intensive meetings that Master Gualberto provides. These are intensive weekend meetings in an online format and there are also in-person meetings and retreats. In these meetings, Master Gualberto, in addition to answering our questions directly, because he already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares an Energy Field that is a Power, a Grace, which helps us a lot in this comprehension of ourselves, because we end up taking a ride on this Energy Field of the Master. And this really makes it much easier for us to spontaneously enter the meditative state, to silence our minds... So, here is the invitation.
In the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to be able to participate in these meetings.
And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.
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