This is your time to go beyond this world

The work with my Guru last 21 years. I did not do anything at all, but only messed it up. I cannot remember even one thing I've done to help him. You will know what I am saying at the right time. You'll look back and say, "Wow! I have never done anything that could help my Master in order to be here looking at life this way."

If you ask me if I can remember the resistance, yes I can; I also remember the uncertainty, the insecurity, the fear of getting crazy, the uncertainty; I remember the feeling of not knowing what was happening to me and where I was going to, whether I was going somewhere or not.

If you ask me that, I can remember many times when things got hard, but it was in such a surreal dimension that it seemed to be happening to a character, it seemed to be just an imagination within time. It was like watching a movie and saying, "Look, is has happened this and that." It was a movie; it had nothing to do with What is Real. The "movie" was there, taking place on a "screen," having nothing to do with what I Am, but only now I can say that.

Therefore, you will be able to remember how much you have messed up, but you will not know what the Guru did to break this illusion; you will only know it has been undone. It seems he would have taken you by force, pushing you through an invisible door you have never seen before your eyes; he would find the door and he would push you through it against your will. This looks very crazy, but it is like that.

In fact, all this "process" was not really a process, but a dream. When you wake up from a dream you say, "Wow! There was no process happening! It was only imagination, nothing ever happened!" The feeling we have is this: “It was only a dream!" When Realization settles in, you look back and say: "There were mountains, seas, forests, but it was just a dream".

Isn’t this beautiful? I don’t know if I am being successful in picturing that clearly to you…

Then, you realize... by yourself, you realize It! Therefore, you have the authority to say: "Wow! There never was a time when I was not what I Am. I Am What I Am, I always had been!" - you realize it directly.

Then, you realize... by yourself, you realize It! Therefore, you have the authority to say: "Wow! There never was a time when I was not what I Am. I Am What I Am, I always had been!" - you realize it directly.

This is your moment to go beyond this world, to leave behind the story that you were born, you are a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, that you have children, family ... It is time to establish yourself in your Being, in your Real Nature, in your True Identity, which is the Consciousness of God, Happiness, Peace, Intelligence, Freedom. When there is no more history, bonds, birth or death, fear, desires, wishes ... there is no more exteriority.

This is God's business, not yours; yours is to remain still. Your job is to get out of your routine, get out of your script, and you know what I mean: to be a grandfather, a mother, a father, a wife, a husband, an entrepreneur; to be "someone" in the world. So, when you abandon the script, there is a room for the Divine, for God to bring you back ... He will bring you back again to that Place. He will take you by the hands and bring you back; He will make you return to Yourself. You've never been anywhere else. This is your place, you only have forgotten about it.

Jesus tells a parable about this: the parable of the prodigal son. You know the parable, don’t you? The father has two sons, and one day one of them loses his mind and says, "I want to live my life. I want you to give me my inheritance because I want to leave." The father asks, "Are you sure?" He answers "Yes! I want to leave!" Then the father gives him his early inheritance and says, "Here it is, my son. You want your inheritance, take it." Then the son travels to a distant land with his inheritance and begins to overspend the money: he goes to the brothels and parties until the day the inheritance ends. As he sees himself without money, he went out to look for a job, and the job available for him was to feed pigs.

The years went by and there he is, getting old in that life, feeding pigs, all dirty. According to Jesus’s parable, there comes one day when he looks up at the sky with his hands and face all dirty, his smelly body, and he remembers his home and says: “Wow, what a mess!”  The parable says he comes to his senses and thinks: “Gosh! What a mess! I have such a rich father and look where I ended up!” He had a moment of lucidity.

Look at you all! Satsang is a moment of lucidity. Some of you are beginning to suspect that it is worthless marrying again, having more children, building more business, making more and more money, building things... Some of you have already understood that you cannot waste this "inheritance," which is the physical energy, the health that remains there for the body and money and time, with other things. Look at you! It is a moment of lucidity!

In the parable, Jesus tells the young man says: "I will return to my Father's home”, and so he does. When he is on his way, someone says, "Look! Isn’t that your son?" Even far away, the father looks again and says, "Wow! It seems to be him, yes!" The father asks someone to help him. When the son arrives, the father welcomes him with an embrace and says to the son who had stayed at home: "Look, your brother has just returned. Let's make a party."

Then, the newcomer son takes a bath and perfumes himself. The father orders to bring the son a nice cloth and puts a ring on his finger saying: "Let's kill a calf and make a party." The son who had stayed at home says: "Father, what is this? I've been with you for so long, you have never made a party like that for me, but this one, this ungrateful one, ran away from home, took the money, spent with the whores" (It's written this way in the parable of Jesus; it says that he was with the whores, which is the symbol of lust, pleasure and human stupidity). "He spent everything with the whores and you prepare such a party?" Then, the father looks at him with a compassionate look and says: "My son, there was never anything lacking for you. All I have ever had is yours, but your brother was lost! He was dead, but now he's alive!"

When you turn to God, you turn to the Truth, you go back home ... You remember again! God is bringing you back. You only come back when He brings you. This work happens from the inside to the outside, so it's God bringing you back. In fact, He is bringing you to Himself, and therefore it is not the other way round: you coming back to Him. While the religion, with all its “isms”, is concerned about changing the people from the outside to the inside, Truth flourishes from within out. That is why it is not about practice, but about an honest intention, within yourself, to give up. This emerges from God Himself, from Consciousness itself, from Being itself, within you.

So, you pay attention to all this disordered, biased movement of the mind and you begin to appreciate the Truth, to abandon everything for It, to literally die for It. You really have to die for It! You will get in the way sometimes, but at these moments the Grace of the Guru, of this Presence, the Divine Grace, the Holy Spirit will be stronger than you and will reveal to you who you really are. That is why you need the Grace of the Guru, the Grace of God. "For by Grace are you saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" - it is written in the Bible, it is the same message.

* Presencial meeting transcription originally held on march, 2018, in the city of Cabedelo - Brazil. First published in Portuguese on March 15, 2018. Visit our agenda and join us: http://mestregualberto.com

Devotion to God is surrender to Life

Every real Master shows you how to forget yourself, how to give up your false freedom, how to bring Consciousness, enticing detachment. We can approach this through a speech that points out to non-duality or to the importance of devotion. Devotion is surrender to God, to Life. Do not separate God from Life, nor Life from your true Being. This devotion to God is surrender to Life, and this is Realization of the true Self. Then, devotion to God is devotion to the Truth about your Self.

The Presence, the Grace of God is imperious. In a non-dual language, I would say that attention to the false movement of this illusory identity - with choices, wills and decisions - is crucial. So, the attention to this, to this “me”, to this “I” is, in other words, the true and real devotion to God, to Life, to your true Being. If this is present, there is no room for fear; this is to be in the safe shelter of the Truth.

The Guru will always say: “You are Him!” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi said: “Leave it to Bhagavan so that He takes care!” This is the real meaning of surrender. Nothing is mine. Everything belongs to God. Therefore, Meditation becomes natural, just like your Natural State of Being, when there is only “Being”, when He takes care of everything, when You are Him, when there is no mind, body, world, health, time anymore, or anything else that is not Him. Everything is Him.

If you believe something is not Him, then non-separation is still just a belief for you. If you are Meditation, there is no resistance, there are no worries about the body, about the future, about adverse situations, because there is no mind, there is no time. Time is His, time is Him. He is the time that appears in the mind, the mind that appears in the Consciousness, the Consciousness itself, and He is beyond time, mind and this objective consciousness we know.

Do not trust anything else, do not separate yourself, do not see yourself as a separate thing. Then, you relax in His Grace, in His Presence, in the Truth... You are this relaxation itself. A speech about You is also about Him, for it shows that you are Him and He is you.

*Presential meeting transcription, originally held in Fortaleza city -Brazil, on May, 2018. - First published in Portuguese on October 5^th, 2018 Please visit our agenda and join us: http://mestregualberto.com

The Unique knowledge that really matters

What do surrender and meditation represent? This is our subject in this meeting. It is not the words themselves that matter, but what lies beyond them. After all, neither answers to questions nor the questions themselves are of relevance in Satsang. In general, you spend your entire life searching for answers; people are looking for answers. So, impelled by a fixed idea for this search, you have been acquiring and accumulating knowledge since childhood.

What kind of knowledge can you get here? If you enter this room to acquire more knowledge, I have a question to ask you: what knowledge may be more important to you than the fact that you already Are? You already ARE! What knowledge can be more important than this? But you still spend your whole life looking for more knowledge, and what for?

When you awaken to your Real Identity, to your Real Nature, you no longer care about knowledge, for it is only to fill the egoic mind. The heart of the Sage is already complete, not needing to be filled. The mind of the Sage has disappeared, so no content is needed. In Satsang, we have only one Knowledge that really matters: the Knowledge of the Truth of Being!

While the egoic mind is present, you can continue to acquire worldly knowledge and be proud of it. People are very proud of all the knowledge they have gained, but what is that for? How long will this kind of knowledge last, make you feel important and so proud of? It may seem I am despising knowledge, but this is not true; it has also its usage, but it cannot provide you Self-realization, God's Realization, supreme Happiness, the release of suffering, the end of fear.

Then, your knowledge will last until that brain mechanism is harmed, deleting part of the memory. This may happen during body life-time or when the whole brain mechanism collapses together with the body. Nevertheless, this Knowledge that You Are is beyond the body, the brain; it is beyond history and this world.

So here the question is: "Who am I?" While you are here, tell me about who you are and not about what you know; speak of your own direct experience in yourself; tell me about Meditation. Do you know what Meditation is? Meditation is not to lose sight of Yourself!

This Consciousness, this Presence is the proof of Divine Reality, of What is out of time. This is the Awakening of Wisdom, the true Knowledge. Then, You know that You Are, and this cannot be remembered nor forgotten, lost nor burned by fire, nor can it disappear with the death of the body or with the disappearance of objects around you. That, which is beyond the mind, has neither birth nor death, it is your True, Real Nature; it is your Being. So, when you come to Satsang, you are facing the Truth, the real Knowledge, which is the Knowledge of God.

Do you know why people are afraid of death? Because they do not know Meditation and they have lost sight of their True Identity. They are prisoners of the known, of the knowledge; they are trapped in the past, in memory, in history. When you are in your Real Nature, which is Meditation, you do not lose sight of your True Nature, and then there is nothing left to lose or to gain. So, you are free, absolutely free. In your Real Nature, you are neither a man nor a woman, you are neither a young man nor a child - these are all concepts within illusion, dream,maya. The enprisonment is to be attached to this.

When your body was born, your parents, relatives, they all celebrated, they were smiling and proud. Now, when this body dies, everyone will moan, weep, and mourn. This is maya, the illusion. Science says that over 80% of your body is water, so you are just a small drop in the ocean, in the universe of water. So, this body is water that goes back to water, is mineral that goes back to the ground, but there is no one inside that drop. Therefore, there is no reason to rejoice or to mourn, for this is only an event in maya, in the divine dream.

Do you know why it's so beautiful to be here? Because now you have the opportunity to discover that you are not this body and to establish yourself in the only Knowledge that really matters: to know who You Are. You Are What You Are, and that's all that matters!

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 4th, 2018. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm Local Time: Brazil BRT, except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please visit: http://mestregualberto.com/agenda/encontros-online

The origin of illusion

In these meetings we are always working towards this openness, the ability to live the Grace, the Truth about you. You are this timeless Presence, something beyond what is eternal. But, as soon as a thought or a feeling rises up, based on the belief that you are something else besides this timeless Presence, a limitation emerges (which is the identification with the body and mind), and you end up taking this as if it were your true identity.

It happens that your old habits of feeling, of thinking and of seeing yourself as a separate entity create every kind of problem. You are here to be aware of yourself, to know your Real Nature. This does not mean a constant struggle against old habits of thought, of feeling, of emotion. Struggling is not the way; it is not the real way to approach this work of self-investigation. The real approach happens kindly, it is about surrender and abandonment, something that happens through a patient observation. You need to observe the movements of the mind patiently, how the mind’s tendencies happen to emerge.

Each person reacts in a way, reacts differently, and this needs to be patiently, lovingly observed, with plenty attention. The Realization of Truth is not a result of effort, of struggle, of resistance, of a combat. It requires you to be consistent, to never give up, but to remain in this surrender, in this abandonment, in this self-observation.

It is not a matter of striving for virtues or experiences, but of deep love, of consistent and persistent surrender of old thinking, feeling and acting habits – it is here that devotion to the Truth is revealed. Prior to this, there was no attention to the movement of the actions, of the thoughts, of the feelings, it was pure automatism, pure unconsciousness. Now, you are bringing Consciousness to this moment, to this present moment, detaching from the experience, from the “me” present in the experience. As a result, thoughts, feelings, activities and relationships begin to happen within this Consciousness. When Consciousness is present, the expression of Truth and of Peace arises.

"It is not a matter of striving for virtues or experiences, but of deep love, of consistent and persistent surrender of old thinking, feeling and acting habits – it is here that devotion to the Truth is revealed."

If you are interested in Truth, in Peace, in Happiness, you need to be aware of your reactions, of every internal movement, of everything that goes on inside you. Thus, it will be possible to welcome the perfume of this timeless Presence; you will be able to naturally quit the old habits, to abandon this “me”, this old image of yourself. 

Everything is just part of this Totality, of this same inseparable Truth, but you cannot see this while you are stuck on old habits of the old illusory identity; you cannot enjoy the real Peace, Freedom and Happiness of your Being. My suggestion is: go beyond this illusion!

Portuguese on September 25^th, 2018. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please visit: http://mestregualberto.com

Live the Truth, the Reality of Your Being

In these meetings, we are handling with the end of the representation of "being someone”, to what we have been trained, educated, and conditioned. This gets very clear as people's lives have no Joy, Love or Freedom. What they call "joy, love and freedom" are unconscious desires and actions, as well as fear, much fear.

So, the whole society leads us to that direction, for if we do not become "someone" in this world, we will be a "nobody." Being "nobody" is interpreted as a very negative thing within our education and culture; it is like being a loser. Thus, since childhood, we are educated to trust in "being someone" and to work towards that direction. This is what society has taught us, and we end up paying a very huge price for being engrained in this representation, in this desire to "be someone."

Everybody puts a lot of value on this. If the purpose is "to be someone," the desire is to be important. So, people’s relationships are based on self-importance, which represent instability, anxiety and fear. That’s why people are concerned all the time with their self-image, pursuing to be loved, wishing to not be forgotten.

Is it not like this? Isn't that a fact? Is it not what happens in the world? Do people live in love, in joy and in freedom, or are they living the way I just said? What is your case? Are you working on this "thing" of going beyond the known human relationships, fully loaded with tremendous and terrible demands?

Satsang is this encounter with Reality, with Truth. So, our invitation is for you to live the Truth, the Reality of your Being, to go beyond this representation, because all this is the egoic mind, the false "me."

One curious thing is that there are many approaches for Self-realization presently. I do not know what is taken as Self-realization or Enlightenment by the majority of people. It seems to me that it has much more to do with a "self-illumination" than with the true Realization about yourself. Therefore, what has been called as "self-realization" or as "enlightenment" is still part of this illusion, this egoic structure, for it is an imagined thing, an invention of the mind; it is part of the old structure of the “me,” of the old egoic mind.

So, the question is: do these studies, meditation techniques, meetings of people exchanging ideas about enlightenment, sharing their convictions and beliefs, really work? The first thing you need to realize is that the relationship with the world around you cannot be based on the desire for self-importance, based on the pursuit to "be somebody," including (and mainly) an "enlightened one" or "self-realized one.” All this is still part of the lie. Each day there will be more people interested in this subject, and the more people come up, the more "gurus" will emerge, too. The demand for enlightenment will produce more supply.

I want to invite you to have a real approach to THAT. Therefore, your relationship with the surround needs to be real, based on Truth and not on theories, on beliefs, on concepts, on ideas. You cannot approach THIS like someone would do with a subject that needs to be externally studied. This is not something you learn at school such as mathematics or any other objective, external science. You will only know what, in fact, is the Truth about yourself through self-inquiry. This is possible only when you get out of this old structure, this representation based on the desire to "be someone."

When you are "someone," you can only see others. In other words, if you seek self-importance, all you desire is to see important people and to be like them. So, you also end up transferring this to these self-realization works, wanting to be as important as your "guru," making it a cheating, a lying game. Thus, there is no truth in this search for the Truth – the "guru" and his/her disciples are untrue.

This is happening because there is no real relationship, no real encounter with the Truth about yourself, but only a relationship among beliefs. A complete breach to this is required. When you observe yourself, you can also see your surroundings, this game, this illusion. Only then, the subtle ego, disguised as a "seeker of the Truth" or as "teacher of the Truth" can be demolished.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 30, 2018.

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