The realization of the Self is a very simple thing in itself
What it is, in itself, is just simple and natural.
What it is, is just simple and natural
And I even wondered if there was a time
when human beings were just like that,
just in our natural state, but I don't know that.
I felt, in those days, I want to share this
because it is so simple, it's so simple.
But in my own case,
it took a little bit of scrubbing as well, to arrive at that.
This is a kind of paradox, in a way, because it is so simple,
but where we are coming from is so complex.
As I said before, The Truth is simple,
but the seeker of Truth is complex.
And he has to get over himself.
He cannot do anything for Truth.
We cannot do anything for Truth. We cannot help Truth.
It's total nonsense, arrogance and stupidity to even think of that.
The basis of the entire universe is that it emanates
and plays in the space of Truth.
So no one can do anything for Truth.
And the fact is that, we are Truth. We are Truth.
But in order to make a search happen,
we have to be under the spell of the untrue.
Otherwise, there is no search. Why would there be any search?
Just like now, we came to be convinced that we are our name,
that we are our culture, that we are our race, that we are our gender.
We believe that, so we don't have to question that.
We just assume; nobody questions that.
In the state of the Truth, then it is completely natural.
You don't have to question that any more.
But while we have the identity
or the idea that we are persons and people,
it is a very complex state of consciousness,
it's very self-centred, but self-centred in the psychological sense.
Meaning that, it is a kind of neurosis; a complexity is there.
And we are not going to be happy.
There is no one who, not being aware of the pure Self,
can be in a state of equanimity and unbroken happiness.
Our lives will be topsy-turvy. We will experience that.
But for one who is aware of the Truth,
and aware that they are the Truth,
then the waves of the mind, the waves of the vital force
cannot trouble them at all. There is no trouble at all,
because they are not holding onto the mind,
they are not holding onto any emotional state,
they are not holding onto the body.
Just like how they say the Ganga is flowing,
but it is also constant.
The waves are like, maybe, our thoughts.
The changefulness that occurs and arises in the body is like the waves,
but the Ganga itself, you can say, is untroubled.
It is the same thing.
So we don't need to study for years to realize the Self.
And yet we do. We don't need to study for years and years.
What are we studying? What are we practising?
Sometimes, also, we are practising,
and we still don't know what we're practising for.
Sometimes we meditate,
yet we don't know the aim and object of meditation.
If we are meditating only to meditate,
to enjoy a portion of time in a state of non-duality,
meditation can offer us this.
But as we have heard people say in satsang,
'The minute I step away, the minute my meditation is over,
the chaos of life and of the mind comes again'.
So that cannot be the permanent state.
Nothing that we acquire will be the permanent state.
Only what we discover,
which is independent of the personal wave,
only that is stable by itself; nobody can make it stable.
We can only discover that untouched essence.
And when 'we' discover 'That', we are That!
You cannot discover the Self
and be a discoverer of the Self as a person.
And this is why I say that the self-inquiry is my 'piranha question',
because as we are exploring and introspecting this question,
the questioner and the questioning are being swallowed up
by the very inquiry itself.
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'Nothing that you acquire can be the permanent state ... '
' ... only what you discover.' ~ Mooji ~
Spontaneous Satsang under Papaji's Tree
Rishikesh, India, 2013