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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3025, Sunday, December 23, 2007, Editor: Mark
The first human awakening was before Buddha, before Christ,
before any of those we have heard of. An ancient, early awakening
somewhere unknown. Those who could hear what this miraculous
awakening had to tell were ignited with either direct, immediate
understanding as their own true experience, or the desire for
that understanding. Of course, most who heard were not
interested. But those who were interested were caught by the
flame of truth, and it has been passed from being to being until
the present time.
There are exquisite sutras and scriptures, hymns and testimonials
that shake us, that cause us to fall flat on the floor when we
read them because they are alive with the spirit of truth, with
the certainty of this flame. They penetrate into our hearts with
this "yes," for somehow we know this truth without even
understanding what it is we know.
But the most sublime truth of all has never been stated or
written or sung. Not because it is far away and can't be reached,
but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that
can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your
being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified,
too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of
who you are is yours already. It is already present, and the only
reason that I have appeared in your consciousness is to simply
confirm that.
I truly have nothing to teach you. There have been many teachers
who have taught exquisite and useful codes of conduct, methods of
meditation, ways of living and manifesting in the world. I am
simply pointing to the stillness that is alive in the core of
your being and inviting you to turn your attention to That, to
let That live your life. I invite you to give your questions to
That and your answers to That. Give your failures and successes,
choice and choicelessness to That. Give all back to where it came
from, back to before creation.
When we look back into history at the numbers of known sages,
saints, and messiahs, we can see that awakening has been rare.
Since it has been rare, we assume in our minds that it is not
possible for us. Many people today say it is absolutely
inconceivable for an ordinary person to simply awaken to the
truth of who one is. That it is reserved for saints or for those
who have demonstrated great purity or endured great spiritual
practice. But this is not so.
This is for you.
With all of your experienced limitations, this is for you, simply
because all of your experienced limitations are not who you truly
are. Who you are is already on the other shore, already free,
already the source of all wisdom, clarity, and beauty. Who you
are is what all is, stillness itself.
Awakening does not mean that this particular form you inhabit
should or will be a saint, or a great artist, or king of the
world. It means you can know without a doubt that who you are is
not limited to form. Who you are is what the world appears in,
what the cosmos appears in, what space itself appears in.
There is a quickening on the Earth at this time. In this
quickening is the invitation to realize where you are, who you
are, who one is. If you are fully committed to that realization,
there is nothing that can stop you. There is no obstacle.
My teacher, Papaji, said that the greatest obstacle, in fact the
final obstacle, is the belief that there is an obstacle. Be very
aware if you are clinging to this belief, and have the courage to
let it go so that you can see for yourself. Then our meeting will
not have been just a passing thing that happened one day. It will
be the reunion of Self to Self, a reunion that is newer than the
first union.
I am profoundly delighted with our meeting and the potential that
is in this meeting. I know you as my own Self.
I love you as my own Self.
- Gangaji