Satsang with Mooji (with subtitles)
'Is awakening predestined?'
[silence]
[Mooji laughs]
I prefer to tell you, you are awake. You are awake always.
The light of the Self is always as it is,
but that understanding must also come to the mind.
You have to be conscious of your timelessness,
because life is experience, not just expression.
I told a story that two friends, two men,
were friends for a long time and they used to meet and talk,
and share their secrets,
even the secrets they had not told their own family.
And so one man told his friend, he said, 'I am a bit sick.
I'm a bit concerned for my health and I want to tell you,
you know my wife and my son, they are there ...
For the moment we are OK, but I have made provisions for them.
I have got all this money, I have put it under the house,
but I have not told them about it.
But you are my trusted friend. I tell you about it.'
In the course of time this man passed away.
His friend went travelling for a while,
then returned back to his own village
and found the wife of his friend and the son
begging on the street, looking in bins for food.
And he went to the wife and said,
'Sister do you remember me?'
She looked, 'Ah, yes. You are the friend of my husband.'
'What are you doing?'
She said, 'We have no money. We lost everything.
I have to beg on the street now.'
Then he said, 'Come, come. I want to tell you something.
Your husband was not well and he has left all this money for you.
But he didn't want to tell you, because, he said,
"If I give it early, it will spoil you.
It will spoil you, because you already had sufficient."
He didn't feel to give more.
He felt that the son should grow up like other children
and he must come to appreciate things.
But I see now is the time I cannot keep this news from you.
Your husband has left money under the house.'
So even hearing the news, 'Ah!',
she is already ... because she knows, she can trust this person,
she hears the news and she already, 'Ah!',
is not feeling like a poor person anymore. Just the news.
Then he says, 'Come, come.
Come, I will show you. We mustn't delay now.
Enough time spent being poor, starving.'
And they go to the house and they dig up the floorboards,
and they dig and after, 'Thunk', they hit something.
Then, 'Ah,' her heart is jumping.
They pulled the box out and it is full of money.
Now, this money was always there and it was always hers,
but was she rich? Were they rich? No.
It was always there but they were unaware of it,
so they had no access to that.
Like us, we are also free. We are also this pure, perfect being.
When I say this, it's not a compliment I am giving.
Some beings, they hear this, 'Huh!', already something feels,
'Oh, my God! It is so good to hear this.
I felt that I am bound and that I am worthless, I don't have any value.
Even my family doesn't give any value to me.
And you are saying that I am always perfect.'
No, not only I am saying it, I am going to show you.
'OK, yes, come, show me.'
This is satsang.
Then you have to find it for yourself, then you will know,
'Yes. It's not theory. It's not a hoax. I have found it.'
I don't want to delay, I don't want to tell you,
'In six months you will find it, you will be rich.
Come to the next retreat and then I will tell you the next step.'
No, I say, today, you are this thing.
Something goes, 'Yes?' I say, Yes.
'But I don't feel it.' It's not enough just to feel it.
You must know it in your heart.
I am always pointing there.
There are forces, sometimes, that seem to work
to distract your attention, distract our attention from this.
Why? I don't know. It is part of consciousness's game,
that it should not be too easy.
Because if it is too easy, maybe it has no value for you.
Some people ask, 'Why should we have to go through all this? Why?
If we are perfect, why wouldn't we be just perfect?'
Well we are just perfect, but somehow we are in this dream
and we are attached to this dream.
We also want this dream, we want to stay in the dream,
but we want to be awake. Think about it.
You say, 'But how do I want to stay in the dream?'
Well, if you have a strong idea to defend your identity, it is dream.
If you are open to look, 'What is my true nature?',
and sometimes feel a fear that you may discover something that,
'Ah, I can't cope. It is too big', or something,
then this is also a part of the whole feeling of dream ...
I don't feel that you have come from wherever you have come
to come here, to make the effort, to find the time ...
Some people have had to book well ahead
to find time to come to this place.
Is it just for some novelty? I don't feel like this.
There must be some urge, and there is also something, sometimes working,
sustaining a doubt or something.
So I don't want to give you on top of this a theory.
If you are hungry, I don't want to give you just a menu.
So, let us carry on like this and see what comes out of it.
You are awake always. The light of the Self is always as it is.
But that understanding must also come to the mind.
You have to be conscious of your timelessness
because life is experience, not just expression.
Video extract from the Satsang DVD 'Don't Be Anything, Not Even "I Am" '
14th January 2012, Tiruvannamalai, India