Satsang with Nome - Sahaja Samadhi - Question 1

[Guest guest]

Q.: I was looking for what is always there, for what is innate must

always be so. The appearance of red in a clear crystal is unreal.

[ed. note: reference is to an analogy in Sankara's Vivekacudamani.] I

know mentally that the crystal never becomes red. I am starting to

catch on a bit in practice and to know that what is always there is

not touched by anything. It must be who I am.

 

N.: Your very nature is extremely clear, like a transparent crystal.

What colors do you imagine in it? If something completely clear,

because of the proximity of something red, blue, etc., appears as if

red, blue, etc., what, in your experience, are these colors? Your

Being is entirely clear, having no definition whatsoever. What colors

do you superimpose on it?

 

Q.: The color of the misidentification.

 

N.: Yes, so what is the misidentification? With what do you confound

yourself?

 

Q.: [Ed. note: At that moment, a very loud helicopter flew by

overhead, drowning out all other sounds, so that only the questioner

and Nome could hear what he said.]

 

N.: Examine your own mind. What do you mix up with yourself? If you

continue to so examine, guided by the Knowledge of what you truly

are, you will find your experience to be exceedingly clear.

 

Q.: The crystal does not have any adjuncts.

 

N.: Nothing adheres to it. The colors that are apparently added to it

are so only by reflection or illusion. Nothing has happened to the

substance of the crystal, and, similarly, nothing has happened to

your Being. Your Being has not become something else and has not

become embodied. It has not become something caught up in the mind,

in the waking, dreaming, and sleeping states.

 

Q.: It is clearer than clear that whatever is my identity is always

my identity. There has never been anything but the same clear

identity. The thought-confusion that occurs when looking outside in

imagination, makes it seem as if many, but, inside, that movie is

also absurd.

 

N.: So, the looking outward and the imagination of multiplicity are

actually one and the same thing.

 

Q.: Yes.

 

N.: Continue discriminating, comparing and contrasting, your actual

experience and the imagined diversity. Every time you see some aspect

of ignorance as absurd, it is no longer yours.

 

(silence)

 

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Not two,

Richard