Live a Life in Love, Truth and Liberation
22-06-2020 (with subtitles)
[Mooji] When I say, I take the opportunity ...
Whatever you discover of your Self, of Truth,
that stays with you.
Whatever you have given to the untruth,
that can also stay with you,
but it naturally should leave.
Whatever you discover of the Truth within you,
that will always uplift
and always be building inside the Truth.
Whatever you support that is not true
can also live with you,
but it doesn't support the joy of life
if you are living with too much personhood,
too much personal attention,
and giving importance to personal stuff.
This is why I would want to emphasise, in my view,
that so strong is the focus on liberation,
not because the world is horrible,
it is horrible too and it is beautiful,
but because the opportunity is here to wake up!
'Wake up' means to really see without prejudice,
to see without distortion,
to live in love and truth,
with respect and appreciation for each other and this planet,
and for God and the Self.
This level, I don't want to make a speech about it.
Why is it not a speech? Because it is a communion,
communicating what is important to us
and ought to be important to each one,
because I would love you to see yourself as I see you.
This is what my aim is, to become,
or rather, to throw off the things
that inhibit your beauty and your spontaneity,
to be who I know you are,
and who I take you to be.
And this is something that is really at the very heart of satsang.
And in this way, because I know who you are,
and what you are is not different from what I am,
I have to respect you and love you.
And this love is a love that makes that which is true
keep flourishing in our lives.
So whether you were here ...
I think everybody who comes here,
or who I have the opportunity to see in my life,
that is my connection in the moment, or onwards,
that is my connection,
that is what I offer in my existence.
And I encourage you, invite you
to the same level of living true to yourself.
And there is not a lot that you have to do.
There is an attitude you must have
and God does the rest, the God in you.
It is not so much in the way that we work,
like a beast of burden or something,
but that if your attitude is right,
then the Supreme is flowing in that.
And you will be surprised,
because our minds make so much trouble
and put so many projections and complicatedness
in front of us, that you think that,
you have to work through all of that to get to something,
whereas it is so simple!
I shared with you a story,
an account of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, when he said ...
Because you have read, some of you,
and I hope to bring more of these books here,
the book 'I Am That',
discourses and talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
The book is full, in every page and every word, of wisdom,
but what I picked out was, when he said that ...
Because he was being questioned by someone who said, effectively,
'Where do you get all this knowledge from? You seem to know everything.'
He said, 'Actually, I don't know anything! Actually, I don't know anything.
I simply was fortunate to meet my Guruji, my Master,
and in living in his presence ...
Shortly before he passed away he called me and he said,
"You are not what you have been conditioned,
or brought up to believe you are;
you are the Supreme Self".'
And that was not a personal compliment.
He said, 'You are the imperishable Supreme Being.
Use your time to confirm that.'
Then he passed away.
And Maharaj himself said,
'I accepted what I was told by my teacher,
because I saw that everything he did and said before was true.
I had faith in what he said.
And any spare time I had,
I just sat with what he said,
because I could not get it out of my head,
out of my being, what he said.'
'You are not what you have been brought up to believe you are.
You are the imperishable Self.
That's not a personal statement.
It is your Truth, don't forget it.' He said.
And he said, 'I stayed with it.
Any time I had to myself
I just probed into that, I just remembered that,
I felt it, I just took it on.
And in a relatively short time', he said, 'Three years,
'I awakened out of my sleep into What Is'.
Is this an unreasonable thing to be sharing with you?
Why did Maharaj not say,
'I know I am a rare case, there are not many like me'?
He did not say that.
So I took his word as being applicable to myself
and to all of us,
all who yearn for that,
whose time has come to accept that.
And yes, satsang is only mirroring, it is showing,
not in the way that the mind wants to take up spirituality,
to do all spiritual gymnastics, and to do all these things.
It is not necessary.
As I told you before, The Truth is simple,
but the ego-mind is complex.
The person is a complex vibration,
and you are not merely a person!
The person is like a costume that we wear for some time,
and just like the body also, one day it will be gone.
We're to find, while we have the time,
that which will not be gone,
that which is eternal.
Such words as I am sharing with you,
they are fading in the world,
because our attention has become so externalised
that all our efforts, for many people,
go in pursuing perishable things,
as though this is the only life and the time you have
to live the life of your person, and in a way it is true.
But as I said before,
We only live once, but it is forever.
What I mean is that it's not this body only that lives once,
but who you are is life itself.
The role we play, and the person we think we are, are for time.
And you know the proof of this,
because we have had so many beliefs, so many ideas about things,
and they are continuously changing.
And you are the one who is aware of the change,
you cannot be the thing which is changing.
Even something inside our own being is changing,
and there is an awareness that
even what is internal to us is also changing.
Find out that which is observing all these things,
but is unaffected by them,
that is at the very heart,
the quintessence of satsang pointing.
So,
don't memorise.
Be.
When I say Be, that is not a verb.
Trust that, and be more observing things as they come.
Actions will happen,
interactions, reactions will happen,
but they will be seen as a wave
flowing by on the sea of life.
Don't be too much in a hurry to talk about these things,
digest first, let them get assimilated
back into the Source they came from.
So what I share with you, that will pass.
The words of it will pass,
but where it is shared from will never pass.
[silence]
Thank you.
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