Saturday journey succeeds when mind sees I am free from the daily chores,
Activities,
And the mind does not invite any agenda either from the past or the future.
So means the mind is free from what you say the cause and effect or you can say the karma,
Karma means action,
So that state of the mind succeeds.
So when we are doing Mondays and Thursdays session that is all about oh you are engaged in the karma the mind is wandering so we add lot of steps to stop the wandering of the mind to purify the mind to focus the mind.
Now see the mind is totally free from all the activities from your personal professional and social life it's a big challenge.
Why?
We need to do that then only,
Then only the mind is highly receptive for the right knowledge.
So Saturday's session is all about understanding.
So understanding can you see understanding?
No,
It is knowledge.
What is that knowledge?
It is understanding.
So what is that knowledge and understanding?
It is a stream of awareness in the mind.
It is a stream of awareness in the mind.
So it is the highest teaching.
It is the highest teaching.
So we have to be very clear about it.
Second point is the intellect is always says no I understand.
So I always tell people you are intelligent yes.
Did you understand yes then why you have stress?
Normally more the intelligent people are more the stress they have.
So can you can you bring them together I'm very intelligent.
No no I will see that I'm very intelligent in my business but you know when it comes to my personal life then I suffer.
So that does not mean intelligence.
You see that?
So Saturday's teaching from this text is the highest.
Why it is the highest teaching?
You don't have to perform any action from the mind.
So when you need not to perform any action it means the mind is totally focused in the field of awareness to bring a wave a stream of understanding.
The moment that understanding takes place in the mind meditation and mindfulness is effortless and a natural practice.
So here comes the Sarah also.
So now see it is one of the most beautiful words those who have missed a simple thing they can go to the audio.
So 10th verse what we are studying and understanding it is the second chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita where the seeker is narrating his experiences of meditation what happened to him.
Why we are studying so that we can compare where we are.
So it all talks about the wisdom.
One of the most beautiful words.
So now see what he is experiencing.
He says now I am aware that the entire world shines out of me.
What is our understanding?
I depend on the world I depend on my honey and still she or he makes me unhappy.
You know that example I give honey of that to make it understand you can replace that honey with any object in the world.
So what he says the the world shines out of me and dissolves in into me only like the like first example the pot into the clay second example the wave into water and the bangle shape into the gold.
What that means that you have that experience.
What it means I have that experience.
Now see the first part will you have any element of insecurity in you?
The entire world shines out of me.
Do will you have any insecurity?
You see the pointer is different.
That is how they have scribed these texts.
There is a complete security there is a complete happiness there is a complete love and the wisdom that shines out of you.
That is the result of meditation.
So let us understand this all experiences takes place in the mind.
We point out understanding takes place where inside the mind where it is it is inside me and where is the real self it is also inside me.
Two things.
Two things mind mind includes ego intellect knowledge mind has four functions so whether you say it is intellect whether you say the I mind one and I real self.
Two things.
Are you confused about the two?
That is why we have a problem.
So if once we are clear it is coming from the real I not the not the ego I let us take it mind intellect and ego ego I in the real I.
Two things.
So living with the master my master Swami Lakshman Das Ji so he used to say oh mind be at peace this will also pass.
What will pass?
Pleasure will pass.
Conflict will pass.
Problem will pass.
Fear will pass.
Don't we have an experience in our life that whoa when we had problems in the past we were worried depressed and now they have gone.
Now we have to understand why the my master used to say this.
It took me many years to understand oh from here he has brought this phrase oh mind be at peace this will also pass.
So there are two elements both are inside first is ego I or intellect I and the second is the real I.
Let us understand the difference between the two.
Once you understand between the two you will understand this verse and oh do I have that experience?
Wow I have reached to that state.
So this intellect I or ego I depends on real I.
What is real I?
It is pure consciousness but the real I is self-existent self-luminous it is like the Sun and the ego I is like it or intellect I is like it like a ray of light.
Intellect I borrows consciousness from the real self.
You see both are inside that is the first statement we understand.
Now that real I gives the consciousness to the ego to the mind and then the mind shines where?
Then the mind sees the David or Kate or Stephen that is how this intellect and the mind sees the world outside.
Oh there is a whole room and there is a small hole so I peep into the world outside through my intellect.
So I peep I am limited I see the part of that knowledge and the rest is out of sight.
Internet is good women that much I see but I don't see the rest is excluded.
Do you see?
So the third point the real self is unchanging today I am good tomorrow I'll be bad who perceives this it is intellect why the intellect is limited or whether you see I mind or intellect whatever you see it is limited.
So whatever is limited can it have a right understanding or the right knowledge about my life the answer is no.
Again I am repeating real self inside ego I inside.
Ego is constantly changing real self is unchanging ego depends on the consciousness real self is totally independent who is better?
Now go to the phrase proverb my master you say oh mind be at peace who is saying this real self is saying.
Ego intellect mind you have many projects you have a project of disliking that guy and that you will deal with after the meditation real self is saying oh mind be at peace why you are crazy.
Are you getting something?
Now I thought better to explain so I'm giving this interpretation from another text which is also one of the most interesting text and so you see that now oh mind be at peace this will also pass real self do not understand by the language and communication it is of the nature of the knowledge so when I have a thought of liking and disliking pain and the pleasure it is a project of the intellect real self says oh mind be at peace both are in you both are in you so real self says oh mind be at peace this will also pass real self is beyond intellect beyond ego beyond or behind you can say behind the ego.
It is the intellect or the ego or the mind that says you are changing why they say you are changing because I identify myself with the body outer conditions real self says oh mind be at peace this will also pass first we are understanding the principle and then we'll go to this why real self says real self says to the ego and the mind come on why you are searching happiness outside it is not there oh mind be at peace this will also pass can I start the communication between the real self and the mind 24 by 7 forget about stress forget about insecurity this is the beauty of his experience so now come to this sutra it says Mavarsa,
Matoh,
Matoh Veneragatam Vishwam,
Maye Valaya,
Meyashati,
Now it says the world shines out of me how to connect that the real self perceives the clay only intellect perceives the clay pot are you getting it the real self perceives the real self that is only one in all of us the intellect perceives through a communication in a language it is limited so intellect says here is a Sam here is a Stephen here is a Kat is it David here is a Jerry are you getting it both are there both are there so if the intellect wails the real self then this intellect perceives it has a limited perception it perceives the jewelries it perceives the ornaments not the gold it perceives the clay part not the clay it perceives the waves not an ocean but the cause of the wave is an ocean cause of the clay part is the clay the cause of all the ornaments is the gold.
Manoh,
Matoh,
Veneragatam,
Vishwam,
Maye Vellaim,
Aishwati,
The world shines out of me what is that meaning out of me here me is the real self it is the pure consciousness it is the Sun so that Sun illuminates the entire world.
Intellect says forget about it ego says forget I am better than the people here I am a good teacher see so that is the intellect and the ego but the real self sees that Sun shines everyone that consciousness shines everyone look at the level of understanding and the knowledge that he is revealing this is his experience the word shines out out of me how ready kumbhoo like from the clay the clay part look at that experience even you think of it so from today start communicating with the two I that we have inside us the real self and the false self which is ego I your mind I your intellect I start communicating inside communicating inside real self sees oh my be at peace this will also suffice why you are crazy why you are lazy in doing meditation see the point so there are two entities so now see real self shines like the clay in the clay part who sees the clay part ego or mind or intellect who sees the waves the ego mind but real self perceives only one consciousness that is the journey of the self discovery of yoga and meditation now see for a point for a moment don't allow the mind intellect and ego to recognize your name shape gender form don't you still see are you not aware still we are still aware what is that awareness it is pure consciousness where is the real self it is here and now no I will do a lot of practices it takes me it took you 26 years wait maybe so if your ego says you know I'm not that competent now you see that your ego comes in between it creates a limitation no you know I'm not as committed as you so who knows it may take 50 years ego barrier you are creating a barrier to yourself and I have understood I have reached there that is another ego mind expression limitedness limitedness see the another part that is very important between the relationship between the two the ego I real I real I is conscious means what consciousness means what that consciousness knows itself and it also knows others that is the property of a consciousness real I it is a matter mind is a matter part is a matter what is the meaning of the matter matter is inert how do we understand that inert matter cannot know itself and cannot know others but because it borrows the consciousness from the mind it borrows the consciousness from the real self by which it knows but the real self says okay continue now communicate real self says oh mind be at peace this will also pass at all time 24 by 7 first recognize our real nature and then say come on intellect and ego in the mind let it work in the world are you getting it?
Now see when it happens when the mind is constantly or ego or thought or whatever you say that false I is constantly agitated can you see the real self?
No.
If there is a cloud can you see the Sun?
No.
Now remember on Mondays and Thursdays you have to purify the mind there should be a natural focus the mind should not run after the things of the object in the world it should not create an attachment in detachment likes and dislikes when that mind is transparent then only it listens to the real self what the real self says oh mind be at peace this will also pass why you are crazy why you feel that you are suffering you feel laziness it is created by the same mind tell me who is lazy if your mind says you are lazy let the house be on fire then let me see if you are lazy or not see that see the understanding it is the mind that creates that a limitedness limitedness look at this mind you see the boss is very happy with you you make him little more happy why you know it limitedness you depend on it you create your likes and dislikes attachment and obsession this is what the real self is saying why you create unnecessary attachment detachment anxiety duality conflict so real self real self is constantly communicating to the eye it is saying inside oh mind be at peace this will also pass me but we don't listen let me settle a score with you first so I have to hesitate myself first and then I hesitate others real self is saying oh my be at peace this will also pass can you start communicating both are inside you here and now you recognize me as a teacher very fine ego ego is still there the moment there is a separation the ego and the mind is for working drop that separation the real self comes in the front it says okay I'm in peace mine oh mine be in peace this will also pass what a beautiful experience huh we talk about meditation you know still those vision of colors and all those stuff may come and go this is what the real experience in meditation is mato mato vinir ghatam vishwam my a will I am a shitty ready kumho ready kumho clay pot in the clay mind be at peace this will also pass jelly which he weighs in the water who see the waves ego I who sees the water real self I'm just making you understand from the teaching of another great master who is Shankaracharya who teaches in a very famous text for us in this tradition it is known as Upadesha Sahastri thousand teachings from there I brought there his explanation so what happens I need not to dissolve and break the clay pot to see the clay last point hmm do you see I need not to break your body to see that consciousness in you it is here and now do you see that can you see that oneness the real self says oh mine be at peace this will also pass I don't need to match the gold ornaments to see the gold it is visible here and now what is preventing me to see it it is my ego it is my mind do you see that it is visible here and now last point and then we will do my you know my body is moving how can I meditate I have a lot of pain how can I meditate Oh mind real self saying Oh mine be at peace why you create such limitations you are already in the state of meditation you are in the state of meditation 24 by 7 so by complaining by being lazy by being crazy when you say that meditation is not I have lot of challenges in the body and the mind all these expressions are from this I mind I intellect I go why the real self is already there behind so I create a barrier and a limitation that causes the problem in our life so we will study in this in this text where he comes to a conclusion naham tadamoksho naham where there is no ego I-ness separativeness limitedness there is awakening and where there is ego there is a bondage there is a limitation there is a suffering there is an insecurity there is a fear there is an anxiety so he is taking us to a deeper and deeper state let us start our journey of meditation going back we are already in meditation eyes are closed eyes are closed so eyes are a part of what it is a part of the body who recognizes intellect look at it see the in the real self recognizes only the entire body and then it will not recognize even the body it will only recognize the matter what a beauty of this world so you are aware of the body why pay attention why you are aware of the body in the beginning we said that is how we progress we said you know I have to make my body comfortable to to to to meditate but now I see the comfortable coming from the real self why it is coming from the real self the role of the mind should go that is the meaning of emptiness of the mind looking at the body awareness of the body just see that and go into the understanding oh mine be at peace this will also pass my master repeats used to repeat this phrase I would say thousands of times during the day so looking inside the head looking inside the head what do you see space very good we'll follow the same couple of same steps but we will have a deeper insight into these steps when I say being comfortable so you see the difference between the real eye and the false eye false eye perceives there is a neck joint real self perceives the matter but is made of matter in between when we see the neck joint we experience sensation comfortable steadiness where this experience lives it lives in the mind and then I used to say go deeper again so we approach near to the real self when you are aware of the space there is nothing to be done in meditation who is doing who does mind ego so as long as you do it you cannot transcend the mind what is required not action but knowledge understanding awareness shoulder joints the real self knows okay you are looking at the shoulder joint my mind very good keep looking do you experience sensation comfortable and steadiness good then the real self says oh mine be at peace you are already in peace that is the way so when the mind continues to work hard and tries to make the body adjusting no I have lot of pain today I have a laziness again this is coming from the minds of mine creates a network and what is that network of delusion leads to ignorance that prevents us to see the real self look at the entire body and all the joints of the body one after the other only with one point of awareness that it is the intellect which is separated my body and that is why it is looking at all the joints you simply understand that what is that understanding it is a point of awareness then the second experience comes that is also limited sensation comfortable steadiness let the mind absorb into the space it has started looking what is behind itself what happens emptiness do I need to empty make an effort it will never happen both are true by practice it happens without practice it also happens depends on what level of a seeker you are very good being comfortable now being carefree so what is being carefree it is nothing but awareness of a clay in the clay part thoughts feeling sensation all comes from the one mind see that so I'm using the same verse to to be carefree ornaments of gold no I see the ornament I see the gold not the ornament or I can say my false I perceives the ornaments and the ways and the clay part but my real eye at the same time here and now perceives the clay the water and the gold that is the real meaning of being carefree carefree means what free from all the cares who cares me the mind in the intellect or the ego all three four together it is one what is this false I how it perceives by limited perception it peeps why it borrows the consciousness from the real self and now you have separated real self says oh my be at peace this will also pass done you are already there you are already there look at the teachings of your masters they have tried us every means to teach us so let me integrate another teaching of seer and the scene whatever is known by me is known by the mind what cannot be known by the mind is the real self why because the real self is the real noir seer illuminator many words are used how simple let us see that look at the entire world look at the entire world so when the mind intellect ego perceives the world it perceives oh I'm sitting in a room I am meditating here is my body here are the different items I am listening to this guy and a long list of thoughts feelings incision items objects the real self is the nor the seer so when the real self is the nor bypasses the mind then it perceives the word as one unit same apply the same principle clay clay pot real self has nothing to worry and nothing want do not want to see the clay pot do not want to see that there are many people practicing meditation here and now the real self receives only one intellect sees many people are doing it look at it more the attributes you have the mind engages itself in those attributes causes likes and dislikes attachment and detachment and the desire and the seeking happiness outside projection what I am saying I'm saying a simple thing you are just sitting in front of a television movie continues this is the product this is coming from the mind but what is the ultimate cause of the movie TV screen real self do you understand now look at the body awareness of the entire physical body just you are aware who perceives the body ego I intellect I mind I what about the real self come back to the body you see the body yes you feel the body yes do you experience incision relaxation and stillness false I this is the experience so mine says okay live into that let me live little more little more little more real self says you're communicating in today's meditation there you are communicating with your own mind by separating how can I communicate if you are separate from me same way you are communicating with your real self says oh mind be at peace this will also pass why it says it says because I am of the nature of peace and happiness you make a project then you create a like and dislike then you sweat to be happy and still you remain unhappy oh mind be at peace this will also pass the higher meditation is all about communication understanding knowledge looking at the body again be sure body so you are simply you have separated your intellect intellect do you see the body yes I know real self you are not the body look at it you are not the clay pot and then real self communicates with your own mind yes you are not the clay pot oh mind be at peace this will also pass what will pass this delusion that we are the body you're not worried about whether the body moves or stays or lives you're not at all worried about anything at this time why whatever is perceived by whatever is perceived by the mind and intellect is limited I believe you have understood that so when that understanding dawns in the mind mind says are you sure real self says yes oh mind be at peace this will also pass you are not at all concerned whether the body is still or moves do you see movement of the body stillness of the body who recognizes mind intellect ego with the real self communicates come on when you are not the body whether it moves or doesn't move nothing to do with it why you are limited look at it and then look at the breath who perceives the breath is moving in and out who sees do not change the rate and the rhythm of the breath mine in intellect it is the false side we are launching something totally different on Mondays and Thursdays that is also required and today it's another way of learning mine perceives the breath is moving anything that is moving and changing is not me real self sees the real self communicates come on bypass this chains in the movement wait you are not there where there is a change breath is moving but uses the breath mindfulness to see the delusory nature of the world to find the real self oh my intellect say breath is changing going in and out where is in and out when I am NOT the body real self says you are not the word you are not a clay pot you are not a wave come on nothing is going in and out you are still communicating you real self real you communicating with the false you come on you are looking at the breath continue to look at the breath what the real self looks real self looks only one prana the life force can you make a difference between the life force and the amoeba and you you and the elephant or the tiger it is one see that clay pot and clay look at it it only needs are you aware if you are aware you are there we are learning from the experiences gained by the seeker that the time come when there will be only one step continues even for 30 minutes because the step is also known by the mind okay look at yes see that I'm expressing what is the meaning of this words in another different way so go deeper than the breath we find the feeling experiences emotions who is experiencing same false I intellect limited yes what the real ice is realize is come on there is nothing deeper in the outer and the inner only you perceive it can you see the outside and inside of a clay pot the right and the left side the bottom in the top it is all clay real Celsius it is all clay it is all me oh so all these thought feeding in the sensation perceived by the mind limits me see that real Celsius I see only one thing that I am pervading everywhere intellect says how it is possible this is my body this is your body this is my breath that is your breath this is my thought that is your thought this is my feeling that is your feeling intellect I mine whatever you want to say it is the same thing you you're not at all doing anything why the real self is ready to communicate and who does anything and everything mine intellect ego where the real self is not a doer in the enjoyer because it is of the nature of peace and happiness love and wisdom that's what I have been saying you who mine be at peace this will also pass moto vinir ghatam vishvam my evil I am a shitty very combo let me communicate to your in no I have to communicate through your intellect or mind or ego whatever you say communication the real self says I'm already one with you so there is no need to communicate but still we are communicating so let us leave go deeper I'm addressing to your intellect go deeper than the thought so here comes the transition point mind merges into the real self now only there is one only so that real self need not to say oh mine be at peace this will also pass why you know it why in that state in that state that is the state the seeker and a great master Janaka he became the master again he also taught but his teaching was totally full of craziness we'll talk one day so now see what he experiences were shines out of me and dissolves into me shines out of me intellect starts working recognizing limiting itself dissolves into me the mind merges world merges shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti shanti bring your mind on the right hand bring your mind on the left hand raise both your palms place it on your eyes open the eyes inside know your experiences bring the hands down how about you David and Jerry Steve and I was talking last night about how it's shocking to be the first one because you're just coming out of it but very very enlightening I would call it the the analogy with the clay and the clay pot just had this meditation for me to be about the balance of myself versus my intellect and ego and things like that so it's um it was very very deep very um different than previous ones beautiful beautiful you see we only need to understand you have an understanding you don't need anything wonderful how are you Jerry?
Sir I'm good I'm saying I'm illuminating I think that when we see the real self everywhere inside and everywhere then there's this freedom and this this just this light that you see in everyone and yourself you really shine and everybody shines beautiful beautiful experience how are you?
Stephen and Sam I'm really good from as soon as I closed my eyes I was gone so it was in fact the false eye is gone when you say I was gone the false eye is gone yes that is one it was it was a dark meditation where I saw an image of a woman for a split second and then I remember being like jarred during the meditation and I said to myself well when is the meditation actually going to start and then I realized I was in the meditation and then I heard the bell ring that it's time now that's basically my signal to snap out of meditation I was like wow that was beautiful you see what is his experience you can see that as if I lost the entire world outside created by the mind and intellect or ego whatever you say we live in our limited world here is my honey here is my friends here are my enemies here are my likes and here are my dislikes this is what the clay pot is this is clay pot and it becomes very difficult for us to break the shell how are you Sam?
I'm really good as well during the lesson I was a little bit absorbed at something you said at the beginning which is about how people who are often very successful professionally have a lot of other problems and I think it's because we tend to try to control outcomes and expect a lot and all of that so I was absorbed in that but as soon as I closed my eyes I said what was that thought again and I was like I don't even know I couldn't think about anything beautiful right and I noticed I was drooping my head a little bit and seeing a lot of darkness and then I would lift my head up and see all the white light and expansive space and I was just going between that it was beautiful beautiful beautiful how are you internet?
That was so relaxing I was not aware of my body during most of that journey and when you said to raise our hands to our eyes I didn't know where those hands were.
Beautiful yes yes yes the intellect or ego has dropped that limitedness of the body this is what happens but it doesn't mean that we lose our body so that too to be honest.
How are you Kate?
I'm good it felt very very vast and it all I one of the things like I don't know the word body not body like being aware the body is still here but and yeah yeah yeah I could see that you know and then especially when I when we were ending the meditation it was like I'm already beyond the body so like wait a second the body suddenly felt like limiting yeah yeah yeah that's a good that's a good experience how are you?
And then Terry.
I'm very good it's like that I was like thinking this why I'm taking the baggage of all the experiences or the thoughts with me I can leave them and then be there with me.
That's another good point yes and it was so peaceful I was just moving and so peaceful inside them.
Beautiful take your time Terry you see that when my master says and it goes deeper it took me a couple of years to go deeper why the why the master says oh mine be at peace and when I studied other texts and there the text says oh ask real self to communicate with your intellect with your false I and see what happens so there I got it oh this is what my master is saying this is what so this week you need to see you need to communicate at every point no I have no money then what should I do limitedness what the intellect should think no I don't have let me make an effort without any expectation the way the Sam has said that at the young age we have we keep a lot of garbage inside lot of burden limitedness who created this the mind intellectually ego but where is the real self real self still says oh mine be it is this will also pass whether you have a billion dollar or you have don't have it you have a right to be happy you have a yes steady I was waiting for you good beautiful yes you see that you see last point I want to make it Ashtavakra who is the master in this text did I tell you do you remember that he is crooked his body is deformed at eight places he could neither sit nor stand neither sleep that master is teaching the Janaka the highest journey wonderful that is all for today thank you we will meet again thank you
