Being: Satsang February 13, 2005

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Transcript of satsang with Nome. This is after our trip to India. I

will post the transcript in several sections over a few days.

 

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Nome: Nondual Being, the real Self, alone is. Being undifferentiated,

it does not arise from anything else; nor dies anything else arise

from it. It is unborn and, for it, there is no creation, no second,

at any time.

 

It is realized by Self-Knowledge. Yet, as the Maharshi frequently

points out in his spiritual instruction, there is no second, no other

kind of self, to realize it.

 

In the inquiry, "Who am I?", to know yourself as you are, the

inquirer is the focus, and the inquirer is the answer to the

question. There can be no other answer.

 

In the attempt to meditate upon the Truth of your own Being, the

meditator is first and foremost. What is the nature of the meditator?

What is the nature of the inquirer?

 

Self-Knowledge is nondual. As Sri Bhagavan points out, there is no

one self to realize another self, for your Existence is always

singular. So, then, what is meant by "I," in yourself?

 

To realize the Self, you cannot imagine a standpoint apart from it as

your identity. If you do so, such imagination is termed, "an ego."

>From the ego arise all kinds of illusions and their consequent

bondage and suffering. Liberation, which is the natural state, is the

egoless state. That is, it is freedom from such imagination. What is

free from the ego is also free from the adjuncts of that ego, such as

definitions in terms of the mind, the body, or the world. Inquire

within yourself, "Who am I?"

 

The Self is of the nature of Being-Consciousness-Bliss,

Satchidananda. There is no second existence, or being, to know it.

There is no second consciousness to know it. Between the Self and

yourself, there is no chasm, no gap. If you imagine that there is

such duality, inquire into what you regard as yourself. The Self will

be all right by itself. Inquire into the nature of yourself. If you

do so, the false sense of individuality, and the all adjuncts of the

ego-idea, will be destroyed. They will vanish because they are not

true. What remains is what has been existing all along. Because it

has been existing all along, Self-Realization, though the only direct

experience, is not an even in time. What comes goes. What is gained

is lost. That which is realized in Self-Knowledge, and that which you

seek to know through inquiry, neither comes nor goes. It has neither

creation nor destruction. It is not gained, and it is not lost.

 

The Maharshi reveals the Truth of Being, the Truth of the Self, which

is the very substance of Self-Realization, by Silence. As he has

explained, Silence is that in which no "I" arises. Where there is

no "I," there is not anything else. Just Being is. It knows itself.

Sankara has said that Brahman alone can know Brahman. That is, the

Self, which is real Being, alone knows real Being. There is no

second. Where there is no second, there is no suffering, no fear, and

no death, but just the self-evident Reality.

 

To comprehend within yourself what has just been indicated, inquire

within yourself, "Who am I?"

 

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Not two,

Richard

 

Material from SAT's "Reflections" Magazine, March/April 2005.

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