Nothing Inside but God (with subtitles)
Monte Sahaja, Portugal 4 August 2014
Nothing inside here. This also is God.
Nothing inside but God.
Then, what you call mind is God.
Consciousness is God. Person? God. Just God.
If this attitude is instilled inside,
what can go wrong?
What can go wrong if such an attitude is instilled inside?
Nothing can go wrong.
Even right and wrong, and so on, you've left that field, that realm,
you will leave it behind.
It will not be significant.
Even when you are not thinking.
At first you have to think God, then you feel God.
And then there is no separation between thinking, feeling, being God,
it is just always there.
There is nothing new, but it will be experienced
through the former conditioned mind.
It will slowly be evaporating.
And that empty space is not empty, like if I say, This is empty.
This is not a bad way this empty space,
but it is not a dead empty,
it is not just physically empty.
It is pure intelligence, but more than intelligence,
more than the usual human intellect or intelligence.
It is indefinable, and no language has ever been able to convey,
however sweet, and lyrical, and poetic their languages are,
they cannot convey the profundity, the beauty,
the subtlety, the power, the grace.
These words don't do it.
On every level, what I call the inner, or the higher realm,
or states of consciousness,
there are worlds within themselves.
Even at a phenomenal level, the phenomenon is a higher grade
than we perceive through the human intellect.
It is a higher grade, much more refined,
more beautiful, unimaginable. Unimaginably beautiful.
How does one's consciousness somehow absorb this?
I don't know, I only can say that, follow this simple guidance.
There are not a lot of things to learn.
Don't go to the path of studying, it is useless.
Go to the path of dissolution,
of just surrendering at the feet of God, and say, 'I am here'.
Keep abandoning yourself. Just abandon yourself.
Don't have ambitions in the world.
Although your activities will continue
according to whatever your dynamic destiny is,
you will find yourself doing things.
Your orientation will be in line with your dynamic destiny.
That is functioning, that is fine,
but inwardly you won't have the sense that anything is happening to you.
It is exquisite, in fact. It is exquisite!
Activity and no activity.
And this 'Yin and Yang',
this seeming interplay between What Is and what is not,
or what is moving and what is still,
to describe it as a movement is not right.
It is not like being in one zone.
And yet, it is like the only zone, a zoneless zone.
All the other things are like the dust that flies about in the air.
They come and go.
And so, I don't know if it has any value to talk about these things.
If there is a purpose, it is only to inspire the mind
to not give so much attention to transient expressions.
It is OK, they are OK.
And you, maybe, watch the functioning of
the daily life taking place, but nothing to report,
nothing to write on a postcard about.
The inner, the behind the scenes, behind the facade of the person
into the realm of God.
A life can be like that, beautiful.
[Questioner] Guruji, can I ask you something?
When you talked about surrender,
sometimes when there is a very strong emotion that comes,
and it just feels like a lot is coming up, out out,
and it is clear that it is all old or new personal stuff,
it is all very personal, and has to do with identification.
Sometimes it feels very ...
Sometimes the mind plays inquiry,
and that one feels very smelly.
And these sorts of thoughts,
can they be seen as just thoughts,
and to go completely into as much surrender as you can?
[Mooji] Surrender is something immediate, it is not a ritual.
It almost comes down to dropping things,
like unplugging from that way of looking,
and just offering up.
It really is abandoning your own private research, in a way,
because you know that it is futile, or that it's just using the mind,
and inviting in the light of grace and trusting in that,
that is also surrender.
If you say that your inquiry becomes very mechanical or mental
because you see it's going through the motions,
[M.] like, 'Who is feeling this?' [Q.] Not always.
[M.] Now, that's what you brought up that sometimes it's like that.
And you catch it. You simply stay in the place
where you can observe that, but don't give much power to the observing,
don't give so much noise or importance to that.
More than that is just to stay in the place of silence.
Not as a hideout or as an escape,
but just because you bring yourself back to Emptiness,
which is your natural abode, your natural environment.
The natural atmosphere for you, for the mind,
is to be in a state of Emptiness.
Rather than figuring out things, you often give them a reality
that they don't really have. It is not there.
It's just like trying to study a cloud.
You won't be doing that tomorrow, it is gone.
If you're doing it tomorrow, which is what you're doing,
talking about a cloud that was last week.
I feel that it's less important, but people believe in these things,
and they think it's important to keep a history case of them.
But in a natural mind they don't exist, even while they're expressing.
It is not that I say you are thinking, 'Oh, look at this!'
No! It doesn't say, 'It should not be there'.
When you have that attitude that a thing should not be there ...
No, they don't have an attitude that it shouldn't be there.
It appears and arises like anything else,
and because of a permission, that openness,
nothing sticks, nothing seems so important.
When you start to try and again capture life in a particular projection
and it gets disrupted, then you are creating the environment
for the mind to come in as the journalist,
and as the autopsy report, and as the speculator,
and then you create a type of environment which becomes very noisy.
I would rather just say, stay as the Self.
Just keep quiet, stay in the being. It's not so important.
Most of the stuff that we're concerned with is not important.
We believe them to be important, we give them the juice of our attention,
which means that they become important for us.
And when we can't bear our own stuffiness, we spit it out,
we vomit it out into the world very often.
We try and push people into positions that are not natural for them.
It just becomes a mess.
Just keep quiet.
Learn to keep quiet,
and to recognise and value your own stillness, your own silence,
as being infinitely more truthful
than trying to dig holes in your mind.
Which it will be happy to do because it is just like I say,
it appears that sometimes our mental identity
keeps throwing stones in the bush to get you away from true recognition,
to distract your attention.
[Q.] It always knows the ones to get 'me'.
[M.] While you are a person, of course, the mind knows the ones to get.
When you are nobody, what's there to get? What's the button to press?
There are still some residual impressions
that may have a little bit of juice in them,
but it is not sufficient to trip you up.
You will always have a move,
you'll always be able to stay in Emptiness.
You will always be able to see through the scams and the schemes
of your psychological conditioning.
[silence]
You move in a state of inwardly recognising the Emptiness,
and just enjoy your Emptiness.
Just enjoy your Is-ness.
Don't turn it into a job. Just enjoy it. Recognise it.
And if there is something to value,
value that peace that arises out of that Emptiness,
and just move in this, and your mind will not be able to trouble you.
It will try every trick and not be able to trip you up.
You are far too happy to get miserable with your mind in totality.
And then things just, as I say, like water off a duck's back,
it's a good expression,
the things that don't stick, they don't go into your feathers,
the water of the world doesn't go through your feathers.
You don't have to be like a duck.
An angel has wings as well. Like angel wings.
The water doesn't penetrate them, the waters of life.
The duck, or the angels, they don't say, 'I don't like rain'.
No, it doesn't matter at all.
These beings are also weatherproof.
So, which ones are yours.
And many people won't be ready to accept what I'm speaking
because it seems too simplistic, they believe too much in their problems.
They believe them to be real, they're looking for 'real' solutions.
So, it won't be easy for them
to really embrace the simplicity of my guidance, actually.
Of course, many do, and they can immediately testify
the immediacy of the fruits of that seeing.
It's not something you are saving up to experience in another ten months.
As you turn your attention within, even in the now, in the moment,
it is already yielding the fruit of peace and clarity.
'What you call mind is God, consciousness-God, person-God, just God.
If this attitude is instilled inside then what can go wrong?'
'Learn to keep quiet and to recognise and value your own stillness,
your own silence, as being infinitely more truthful
than trying to dig holes in your mind.'
'Don't go to the path of studying, it's useless.
Go to the path of dissolution, of just surrendering at the feet of God.'
'As you turn the attention within, even now, even in the moment,
it's already yielding the fruit of peace and clarity.'