Satsang with Nome - The State of Identity

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January 1, 2006

 

Nome: You are the One that does not enter into any state, who has no

mode or condition, who is never active, who is ever formless Being

and unmodified, immutable Consciousness. If there is a state and if

there is activity, you are all of that, but, in your own essential

nature, you have no state, no activity, no thought, no doing, and no

form. Whatever be the state of mind, you, yourself, appear as all of

that.

 

You, yourself, appear as the experiencer of that state, you appear as

the state itself, and then, again, as if one in that state. This is

true of waking, dreaming, and of deep sleep. When waking, dreaming,

in deep asleep, still, you ever remain transcendent of all that. You

are not that which appears in such states, and you are not actually

the experiencer of such states, but you ever remain as pure Being, as

pure Consciousness, which does not wake, dream, or sleep.

 

If your own nature is veiled to yourself, you sleep. If your own

nature is veiled plus you imagine, you dream and you wake. The waking

one appears as the waking state. The dreaming one appears as the

dream state. The sleeping one appears as the sleep state. Once we

feel that we are in such states, and in any of the modes of those

states, such as the various

 

mental modes of which one is aware in the waking state, we naturally

strive for Liberation and consider Liberation as a state beyond those

modes; and, then, further, a state beyond these three states of

waking, dreaming, and sleep. Actually, though, Liberation is the very

nature of your Being. It is that Being which is never

 

really in any other state, which has no state of its own, but just is

existent, without change, condition, and certainly without any

limitation.

 

When we inquire according to the Maharshi's instruction, "Who am I?",

we cease to regard ourselves as having any of the attributes of those

modes of mind. We cease to regard ourselves as being one who is with

those states, such as waking and dream. We cease to regard ourselves

as being even an experiencer of those states, such as a waking

experiencer, a dreaming experiencer, and a sleeping experiencer, for

what you are in your real nature is not an experiencer of anything.

You are not the individual, or ego, whether appearing as heavily

 

defined with a body, attributes, personality and such, or more

vaguely defined as one who passes through the states experiencing

various modes of mind. All of that pertains to the individual, but

Being is absolute. The Self is not an individual.

 

This Self, which is not an individual, is certainly not embodied, and

is who, in Truth, what, in Truth, you are. It is delusion to imagine

otherwise. To inquire, "Who am I?" is to resolve, or dissolve, that

delusion. As long as you consider yourself to be an individual, there

will be some kind of state and, within that state,

 

innumerable experiences corresponding to the quality of that state.

When, though, you

 

inquire and know yourself and abandon the false sense of

individuality, you find that you are never in any state.

 

Inquiring "For whom is this experience?For whom is this state of

mind?" we find that we are not the individual, not the experiencer,

for whom that state supposedly pertains.

 

So, then, though one may commence a practice feeling that one is in

this state of samsara and aim for the state of Liberation, or with

the idea that one is in these three states of waking, dreaming, and

sleeping and aiming for the Fourth, Turiya, really the nature of the

Turiya, or Fourth, is you, yourself. If you abandon the false

supposition that you are an experiencer, an individualized being, who

has any of these things, you find that Liberation is your own nature.

That is, you are eternally free and have never been bound. You are

always un-embodied, and you have never been born. You are always free

from thought, and you have never been conceived.

 

Cease to misidentify and, in Self-Knowledge, just see which state is

yours.

 

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Not two,

Richard