Satsang with Mooji
[Mooji] You say that it feels like there is the full chance
to be liberated in this life, in this body, now.
What stands in the way of it?
You brought something, you said, 'But I like this world!'
Many people say, 'I like being me. I love being me. I love this world.
I would like to know the Truth.
I would like to be liberated.' Like this.
So ...
Really, what you love when you say, 'I like being myself',
what you love, actually, is consciousness.
It is really consciousness that you love, because that is the constant
behind all the changing faces that you put on.
It is the consciousness that is consistent.
It is the thread running through all the beads of different experiences.
We think it is the personality,
but the personality is not a stable thing.
The personality draws its fragrance and its life
from the Beingness itself, from the consciousness itself.
Consciousness really loves consciousness.
But it also loves its expression through the mind.
Because the mind and the ego are also consciousness.
So if you love your story,
the way you think of your life and who you are,
there is absolutely nothing wrong with that at all.
Enjoy. Enjoy.
If you come to begin to look more deeply
into the nature of your own being,
you will come to some defining moment,
where to go beyond the identity will feel like a crisis.
This is what is going to happen
for anyone who is really looking sincerely.
Enjoy your sense of personality, the life you have also.
And you say, 'Yes. I don't like the idea
that when this life is finished, that is it!'
It is a good point.
Because some people feel like, 'If this life means liberation,
and it means no more life, no more coming back into another human body,
I don't know if I want that liberation! I love life!
I want to come back again, and again and again!' [laughter]
Let's be honest about it.
And this is a fear sometimes for people,
that perhaps if liberation means the end of this life,
what is going to happen?
'Will I just become like air?' [laughter]
'It is not very attractive. It might be eternal and all that,
but where is the fun?' [laughter]
So therefore, speculation will not do.
And this is why in satsang, you are already in this body,
while you have this body, you are beginning to have a taste
of what is timeless, even in the time-bound body.
Then you can make up your mind.
Don't wait until the body drops.
Nobody knows what is going to happen.
They speculate. OK?
No. I say, While this body is here, this time-bound body,
discover what is timeless inside this body.
Then when you are sure about it,
then you can weigh up the matter,
whether you prefer to be this person or whatever.
Because right through your life, at different periods you can put,
when you were 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, whatever,
you had a different sense of who you are.
And in each of those time frames, in those moments,
you felt, 'I don't want to be anything else! I am happy being me.'
But time changes, thoughts change, feelings change.
Fast forward a little bit,
and you are having a different mindset altogether.
And this becomes your current, 'This is how I am'.
Right now, in this moment,
you have a sense of who you are in this moment.
Well, 5 years ago you had a sense of who you were in that moment!
And you feel, 'I don't want to be different from how I am'.
And there is some truth about that for the time.
But what you are discovering is that many faces you have worn
and always you have still felt, 'I am me'.
This 'I am me' is the consciousness itself.
And that is what is drawing the mind back into unity with itself,
to go further than the mere life of one body.
To know yourself beyond all bodies, all changes.
To know the unchanging. This is what is possible.
If you listen to the mind,
it will create the story that you have just told,
'I like being me. If I die and have the chance to come back,
I would prefer to come back.
I mean, if you ask me more,
I will tell you exactly where I would like to come back. [laughter]
And if you keep asking, I could give a list
of what I would like to bring with me and all of that.'
We can go on like that! [laughter]
You might come back in some place where you don't want to be.
Who can say?
The point is, here, now, in the time we have,
you can discover the timeless, what is perfect in ourself.
And enjoy the dress of this personality, this play of consciousness
in its unique expression and fragrance in this body,
enjoy without attachment.
While this time-bound body is here discover what is timeless.
Video extract from the Satsang DVD 'Go Beyond, Go Beyond'
3rd February 2011 Tiruvannamalai, India