Satsang with Nome - Nonobjective Realization

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Satsang

October 23, 2005

 

["N." signifies Nome; "Q." signifies Questioner; "laughter" means

that everyone was laughing, not just the speaker.]

 

Om Om Om

 

(Silence)

 

N.: The Reality of the Self ever alone is. The real cannot be made

more so. This has been clearly taught be Sri Bhagavan. The real

cannot be made more real, and therefore, Self-Realization is not new

attainment. The Real can no more be made to be more real than your

existence can be made more existent. It is not possible.

 

If the misidentification, which is purely ignorance, with what is not

the Self is abandoned, the Reality of the Self which alone is shines

brilliantly in it s own Light. Therefore, efforts in sadhana, or

spiritual practice, inquiring to find out who you are, are directly

merely at dissolving misidentification. If the misidentification with

the body, the mind, and the sense of being an individual entity, or

ego, is abandoned, everything is already accomplished.

 

Every kind of imagined limitation, and every limitation is only

imagined, has it root and for its very substance, some

misidentification, some conception of oneself as an individual or

ego, endowed with some kind of form, which is usually the body. Ask,

though, yourself deeply if you are the body or if you can be a body,

and, if you inquire in such a manner, all the limitations associated

with being a body vanish, just as the misidentification itself does.

 

Similar is it with the mind. Can you possibly be what you think,

whatever the thought is? It is imperative to be free from thought.

Can you be a thought? Where is the connection between your Existence,

which is of the nature of pure Consciousness, and some thought?

 

What is it that seems to define an individual that is carved out, as

it were, from the space-like infinite Consciousness, our real Being?

What is it that makes for individuality? It cannot be thought and the

body, for these are appended to this so-called individual as if they

were clothing or sheaths wrapping it up. What marks off the

individual called "I"? Inquiring, "Who am I?", seeing where this "I"

rises, or from what, is the inquiry according to Sri Bhagavan.

Turning your mind inward, examine keenly, what is it that is "I".

 

(Silence)

 

For Being, itself, there is no appearance of ignorance and no

disappearance of ignorance, For Being, itself, which is the Reality,

there is no birth of the unreality and no perishing or death of the

unreality. With and for the individual is the illusion, the unreal.

If you inquire and know yourself, at once and for all eternity, you

see That which alone exists. Nothing has divided the forever-

indivisible. The Nondual is purely nondual. Nothing has broken off

from it, to be outside of it or divided within it. It is not correct

to think that your are separate from it in any degree. It is not

correct to even think, "That is a part of me," as if it were the most

interior part. Though it is proclaimed to be your inner Existence,

you must realize the Truth that you have no outer existence; that is,

no other existence than pure Existence, which is Brahman. It is the

only Self and the only thing that exists.

 

As it is the only thing that exists, in This, is full peace. In This,

is perfect Bliss. This Being-Consciousness-Bliss is unborn and

imperishable. It never changes. Perceive this changeless Existence,

by virtue of inquiry, to be the only Existence that you are. If you

see what you are, you see what is. If you misperceive what you are

and take yourself to be an individual, there is something else also

that is. Where there is a self, there is something other. Where there

is an individual, there is differentiation. In the Knowledge of

yourself, realize that there is no individual just pure Being, and

then there is nothing else, and there is no differentiation.

 

(Silence)

 

If you inquire into the nature of the one who seems as if a bound

individual, you will find only bondage-free Being, and this called

Liberation or Self-Realization.

 

So, then, know yourself.

 

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This was posted at PracticeofSelfInquiry

 

Not two,

Richard