Labyrinthump.
You are the nightly light.
This is all made up by the mind.
Mind story.
Aren't you aware right now?
Aren't you aware that your mind is saying yes to Ekta right now?
You don't have to make an extra effort to be aware.
Take this awareness to a higher level.
It's a knowingness.
The knowingness is always there.
It's not got to do with the mind's attention.
Till now,
So many years you have been practicing a technique in which the mind is focusing on a meditation object.
That has made you feel that mind's attention is equal to awareness.
Mind's attention on a breath,
On the breath or mind's attention on a word is mind's focus.
We are not talking about this spotlight.
We are talking about the floodlight which is the knowingness.
The one who knows that the mind is focusing on something.
Understood?
You are saying my awareness is high,
My awareness is low.
Who knows?
I am taking you one step further.
Here.
This is what is the real awareness.
This is the real knowingness.
This mind's attention high and attention low has got nothing to do with knowingness.
The knowingness is always there in the background.
It is not a magical experience.
It does not need any effort.
It's always been there throughout your life.
It is equal for a person walking on the spiritual path and a simple person.
The knowingness is there.
It is that knowingness that we are talking about in this.
That knowingness gives its energy to the ego and the ego comes up and creates some raga or dvesha and then reacts.
You are totally lost there and then you regret also.
Oh I should have not reacted like this.
I should have not done this or said this.
Why did this happen?
Because you took the energy from the knower and you gave it to the ego.
Now just be there.
Even if certain emotions come up in the mind.
There is anger.
I am the knower of the anger arising and falling.
I am the knower of excitement arising and falling.
I am the knower.
I am not angry.
I am not happy.
I am not laughing.
I am the knower of the one laughing.
I am the knower of the one who is sad.
This distinction needs to be made.
Yes?
This is one step higher.
Advaita Vedanta is one step higher than most of the other philosophies that we have studied till now.
But then isn't in this moment there is so much of like quietude also.
Like when you say be aware,
Be aware.
When you are aware there is so much of quietude that you know you don't feel like I mean you don't even feel like picking up the remote or watch anything because you just want to be.
Yes.
But then you know if I actually keep on doing that from moment to moment to moment the people around me,
Won't they be considered considering me a little bit weird or a little bit kind of different.
No,
First of all you should not think that it is different from a loving thoughts or emotions of people into your space.
Initially you might feel that because you have not been exploring this knowingness field.
You have only been exploring the mind and its attention.
So initially you love this taste.
It's something new.
First it feels like a background and becomes a space in which oh everything is.
Thoughts arise in this space and then they fall in this space.
This space remains untouched.
I am not these thoughts.
I am this untouched space,
This void.
So even in this void I pick up the remote and I start the TV and sit and watch with my husband.
The void is still there.
I am holding on to the void rather than holding on to the mind.
Because in the second the mind can go out of control and start fighting with the husband and create drama then that's what is suffering and then we sit and regret that later.
So the smarter thing to do is hold on to that void,
That quietness.
Recognise that is like space.
It's untouched by your TV and your remote and your husband and your thoughts and people.
You hold on to that and be there.
