What About the Children? Satsang with Mooji
Monte Sahaja, Portugal
17th June 2012 (with subtitles)
[Questioner] You said, 'There's nobody on the planet without freedom'.
But what is with the children that are starving today,
now, this moment?
The fifty million, billion people,
who are ...
[Mooji] Let's build up the picture, because that's an unfair picture.
Let's talk about the millions also,
who are dying from tribal wars.
Let's talk about all the exploitation of wealth.
Let's talk about all the domestic violence in the world.
Let's talk about all the racial and religious violence.
Let's talk about the crookery of politics.
Let's talk about the hypocrisy of the human existence.
Let's talk about the raping of the forests,
the destruction of the mother Earth.
Let's big it up. Let's just push it.
Why just use the children?
It's very easy, 'Oh children, oh'. No, they are also beings.
You were once a child also, and you may be a child again.
I don't give any special credence to children, actually.
They are just beings.
Little people, or anything else.
So let's not be afraid about the subject.
The whole human species is in a difficulty.
And that difficulty is brought on
by ignorance and arrogance.
And who is responsible for it?
Let's look at it.
Who is responsible for it?
This is a very, very tricky field,
but I'm going to tackle it a little bit. [laughter]
I'm going to get into big trouble for this. [laughter]
Actually, for a while, it is totally unavoidable.
It is totally unavoidable, for a while.
No single factor can be attributed as responsible.
You can say we are collectively responsible.
But, who are we?
Before a thought enters your mind, did you know about it?
Did you know it was coming?
Did you order a certain set of thoughts for the day?
'I want these type of thoughts
and certainly not those type of thoughts.'
Do you have a way of resisting them?
How did you ...
Did you choose to be this manifestation consciously?
Do we have any real power?
It's not a dark picture.
It's not a dark picture, listen on a little bit.
We can go on to the root and say,
'Why there are all these starving children?'
And somebody will say, 'Yes, and I want to know
why we are losing all our camels'.
Another person says, 'Camels? I want to talk about the dogs!'
'And I want to talk about the trees,
and why you are polluting the air,
and why somehow, there is all this oil going, and why ...'
If we put all the voices on fire there,
all of us will want to run away.
All of us want to run away.
Who's responsible for it?
Somehow, consciousness is responsible for it.
Consciousness is playing this game, somehow.
We are the human expression of consciousness.
The human being is not the controller of consciousness.
They're not the possessor of consciousness.
We are, our self, the effects of consciousness,
the expression of consciousness, actually.
But while we have the notion of individuality,
right and wrong, morals and immorals, all these kinds of things,
we're going to be in a struggle, we cannot help.
We cannot come together as a people. It never happened before
that human beings, through their own endeavor,
based upon the notion that they're individualities or individual nations,
have the power, the capacity, the love, or the understanding,
to use their powers to come together to create a harmonious world.
It has never happened!
What has happened is that from time to time,
a human being, here and there, comes to real understanding
about the true nature, capacity, potential of the human being,
and points the way, that the way is here,
to find out more about who you are.
By finding out who you are, actually, each one, one by one ...
Each time it is discovered that, 'I am only That',
then, what happens in that vessel of discovery
is the understanding, 'All is That', also.
And when you know, 'All is That',
your actions are automatically different.
They're not coming from behaviour, or from practice, or ideology.
They're coming from your heart. That's different.
This is what I want to tell you.
Human beings cannot, by determination, by philosophy,
by the philosophy of brotherhood, they cannot do it!
Religions cannot do it, they cannot do it.
Because the human ego is arrogant and selfish.
What is great about the human being, is their spirit,
is that we are the Timeless portraying itself
as time and change, as growth, as differences, as variety.
That is it. Until human beings discover,
'I am That itself', the discoverer ...
It's not difficult, but there's fierce resistance in us,
because each time one comes to real understanding,
and begins to really expose,
what stands in the way is really illusory and petty, actually ...
But we see, we cannot admit it,
because we have an affection for the infection.
This is what it is.
We have an affection for the infection.
The infection is, you know, 'I want to be me',
and this 'me' is pure arrogance, actually.
This is what it is.
We can play at being generous,
Oh, yes, we give this nation 5 billion euros
and we want so much in return for that.
But the one who knows the Truth, wants nothing in return.
It's not even anything about return.
The light of one human being who discovers the Truth,
has been lighting the human kingdom for thousands of years.
Such is the power of a human being
who realised the truth of who they are.
If we don't, we're always leaving it up to the other man.
'They're in charge, they will do it.'
'They will do it', and it's right,
because we know we can't do it. We don't have the power.
And the politicians can't do it.
They are also acting in a kind of selfish energy sometimes.
Now and again, the light of consciousness
does shine through a politician,
or through whatever it is for a while,
because nature just balances things.
But not according to the human perspective on these things.
Whatever is happening has to happen for now.
There are not just bad things happening,
beautiful things are happening also.
The most beautiful things go unseen, actually.
The great beauty of the whole human experience,
the world experience, goes unseen.
Actually, all of us could be saying great 'thank yous',
countless times in a day.
Expressions of gratitude, for so much,
that our life shines out of pure grace.
But we don't know that.
Our eyes go to what is negative and perpetuates what is negative,
which is also a part of our conditioning,
a part of our potential also.
But I would say that the real chance we have,
every chance is there,
is to discover the Truth of who we are.
This is it. This is why we speak about a Buddha.
Why even the politicians are speaking about the Buddha,
or the Christ, or the Krishnas,
or the Anandamayis of the world.
They speak about it, why?
Because they were not taking sides,
they just spoke from the Truth, from love, from understanding.
They were not soft and gentle and cute,
everybody was not like the Dalai Lama.
Sometimes they had to spank humanity
with great actions, also.
They had to speak up clearly and expose many wrongs.
But they did it in such a way,
and with such power and such cosmic authority,
that we had to listen, and we are continuing to listen.
They say Buddha lived 2,500 years ago.
And died when? Two thousand and so many years ago.
Still, even today, there are new Buddhists.
New Buddhists are coming.
Are they coming for some dead guy who died two thousand years ago?
No, they're coming from a living spirit that shines inside,
and inside the heart of each being.
Why can we appreciate the Buddha? Because of the Buddha in you.
Why can you appreciate Christ? Because Christ is in you.
This is our real chance.
It's an easy road. It's the most delicious road.
But still we don't choose it, somehow.
And who are we to choose it?
A cocktail of consciousness-being
and an identity that we are a person, we are this body.
A sort of counterfeit version of the Truth.
This is what is happening. And for a while, it's like this.
And sometimes, just spontaneously, whoosh!
Maybe a wave of change comes,
and the human consciousness shines brightly again
in its true nature and capacity.
Then somehow the lights dim again
and we go back into the dark room for a while.
But let's not fantasise about it.
If you're waiting for the world to change out of pressure ...
It will change, of course.
It is compelled to change,
not only because human beings want to change,
but because all of this is change and changeful.
It has to change.
It has to evolve on some level,
and regress on some levels.
It will be like this.
But it's not a dark painting.
It's still a beautiful painting,
and the painting changes according to your present light.
As you grow more aware of the Truth,
you will see the glory of the universe and of God,
inside everything you see.
The picture is not fixed.
Not one thing in the whole of this manifestation
has one single meaning.
The meanings change according to the capacity,
according to the evolution,
according to the maturity of the perceiver.
The pictures change.
Nobody can solve the riddle of this universe.
Certainly not one who is not baptised in the heart, and of Spirit.
Only those who have somehow said 'Yes' to the inmost Being,
who have traveled inwardly,
will bring light, somehow, into this world.
They will somehow seem to be the cause,
of many people having a change in heart,
and don't know why their hearts are so compelled
to move into action, to give everything,
just to be a part of such a great vision,
a great movement of consciousness.
These things happen.
The world has moved like that,
in big steps at certain points,
because human beings wake up one by one.
We don't have to wake up in hundreds.
One here, one there, now and again.
The light of awakening is so powerful
that we can remember the birthday of Christ,
the birthday of Mahavira, the birthday of the Buddha.
Why? Because they represent triumphs of the human experience.
But they are not here to be worshiped as mere gods.
They are here to point out the God in you, also.
Because we are damn lazy for what is true,
and have a lot of energy for what is foolish.
It is like that.
We are foolish beings on one level,
but yet the brilliance in us is our potential,
that we are also divine, somehow.
This is it.
So, I am not paying a compliment
to say that, 'Yes, the God-Self is in us'.
This is a simple truth,
but also the devil-self is in us,
and we have to transcend that light, or lack of light.
We have to overcome it.
This is the grand play of the existence, in fact,
that a human being can transcend those powers.
Whether you believe in them or not, they still operate.
There's darkness in the world of duality,
there's righteousness and there's evil.
It plays like this.
It seems the purpose of intelligent existence
is to transcend the influence
of the dark energies of life,
which manifest in the human instrument,
and become alive to the light of consciousness.
This is the possibility. And it's a living possibility.
I am here as evidence of that, to show and to guide, also,
not in some poetic way, but in the practical way.
And there are people growing in that,
and falling asleep in that, also.
So, let us be intelligent about it.
Yes, many of these things have been happening for a long time,
and will continue to happen up to a point.
It's never quite the picture that you see.
Don't ever think that you have a complete take on the picture.
Many, many subtle things are happening in this universe.
Subtle things, subtle powers and forces are working here,
to sustain this mighty show.
And at the heart of them
is a benevolent power, a great power.
This universe is not a cursed place.
We are like fishes, dying of thirst in the ocean.
We must turn around a little bit.
How will we do it? We cannot do it by ourselves.
It's only by Grace that we can do that.
But then you come to see that
Grace is also another name for what we are.
And it is here working, always.
It's never tired.
One kiss from Grace
is greater than a thousand human successes.
But when She comes near you, say 'Yes' unreservedly.
Plunge into the ocean of your own Self.
This is a mighty existence.
[Q.] Thank you. [Mooji] Thank you.
[Mooji] I like when you fire me up a little bit, [laughter]
because I also have passion.
[laughter]
OK. Thank you for today.
The light of one human being who discovers the Truth
has been lighting the human kingdom for thousands of years.
Such is the power of a human being
who realizes the Truth of who they are.