You Are Beyond the Senses🔗

Be very clear, as long as you believe you are your senses, you abuse your senses. Your body and your senses have got tremendous intelligence to update, heal, rejuvenate and replace themselves. When you connect yourself only with the senses, you stop that natural updating process.

Your ego is such, whenever you feel some enjoyment, you go the extreme, till that sense is tired. Till that sense gets tired you do not stop. Till we feel we are overflowing, we don't stop eating. Till our eyes are begging us, 'Please relax, please relax,' we do not switch off the television!

The same is the case with food. If we feel something is tasty, till our senses are abused we don't stop. If you have the intelligence that you are not the senses but you are using the senses, you will never abuse them. When you are able to create the gap between you and the senses, you will not abuse your senses, you will not misuse your senses.

In the same way, the moment you decide the touch is a pleasure, you go to the extreme. You use all your energy to feel that pleasure through touch. You do not let the body rejuvenate itself. You do give enough gap for the senses to rejuvenate themselves.

There is an automatic intelligence which is constantly rejuvenating and even replacing: if some part is damaged you have enough intelligence to replace that also. But if your ego or the mind interferes, you do not allow that natural process to happen.

If you bring tremendous awareness, suddenly you realize you are not just the senses, you are beyond the senses. You are using your senses. Through the senses, you are relating with the world.

When you realize you are beyond your senses, whatever you use your senses for, they have the power to rejuvenate and they don't get tired. Not only do the senses not get tired, but they also bring tremendous energy. It is like they refill themselves.

If you can center yourself, in your center, beyond the five senses, not only will you experience the bliss within, even the senses become very energetic and active. You experience a different level of existence. Altogether your very existence will be in a different level.

Understand, this whole existence, the whole cosmos is you. But when you identify yourself just with the five senses, you lose the illimitable space, your expanded consciousness, the expanded ecstasy and the bliss which is your very nature. Do not think you are just this six feet body. You cannot be just the six feet form of the body. Be very clear, you are only using this six feet. You are using the body. You are not the body itself.

Fall into the center, move yourself away from the five senses. Fall into the center and suddenly you will realize, this center is directly connected to the illimitable space. As long as you are running driven by the five senses, constantly behind one sense or the other, you can never realize who you truly are.

Why Do We Run Behind Money, Love, Health…?

Why do you seek money? Because money expands your freedom. See, without money you have only one suffering. With money, you have a choice of sufferings! You can choose from many sufferings. Even having a choice of sufferings is a big freedom!

See, without money you don't have a choice. You have to lie down on your couch and suffer and be depressed. With money, you can choose. You can be lying down in Hawaii and suffering. You can be lying down in Honolulu and be depressed. You can be lying down in Machu Picchu and be depressed. You have a wide range of suffering. Your boundary is expanded; that is why you ask for money. You don't ask for money just for the sake of it; it expands your boundary.

In the same way, it is with love. When you feel somebody loves you deeply, it makes you feel better. It just gives you a complete feeling, a wholeness. That is the reason you ask for love and attention.

Especially in the developed civilizations only I see sending a card, giving a flower, saying, 'I love you'. Once in half an hour you have to ring up and say, 'I love you dear,' 'I love you darling.' I can't understand this idea! Somehow I am not able to relate with some of these things. If you love, love, that's all! Why should you be constantly telling? Maybe telling makes the other person feel better! It is like remembering and reminding the other person. Love gives you that kind of a feeling of completeness.

In the same way, it is with health. Why do you seek health? Because you know being healthy is your nature. For example, if you have headache, you know being healthy without headache is your nature. That is why you take medicine and you just want to come out of it.

If you had had headache forever, if you had never tasted a moment without headache, then you would never think of coming out of your headache! You know it is your nature. See, not having headache and being healthy is your nature. So you want to come back to your nature.

The Birth of Identity Leads to Emptiness

Whatever you may be seeking, you are seeking fulfillment. Please understand, these are the few truths you need to internalize.

Between the ages of 7 and 14, you experience your individual identity. From that moment you feel a kind of emptiness, the unrest inside. It is a kind of hollow, shallow emptiness. From that moment you start seeking fulfillment. If you believe money will give you fulfillment or if somebody makes you believe money will give you fulfillment, you start seeking that. If you believe love will give you fulfillment or if somebody makes you believe love will give you fulfillment, you start seeking through love.

Whatever path you may choose, you are seeking fulfillment. Whether it is health or love or relationships or luxury, whatever you may be seeking, directly or indirectly you are seeking fulfillment. Your whole life is a long chain of events performed in moving towards the one goal of fulfillment. Whatever you may do, whether it is eating or drinking or having relationships, gaining wealth or joy – it is all to experience the fulfillment. Through different directions you seek fulfillment instead of seeking it directly.

The emptiness which you started feeling the moment you felt the individual identity, you start seeking fulfillment from that emptiness. You want to escape from that emptiness. It happens between the age of 7 and 14, it depends on the culture. I can say if the culture is not corrupting you too much, if it is not putting too much of fantasy inside you, it may be upto 14. But if the culture is forcing too much of fantasy inside you, putting too many ideas inside you, then it will be 7. But it will be between 7 and 14.

When you are physically mature, that is the time a strong individual identity is felt by you. The moment you start feeling the strong individual identity, you start feeling a kind of deep emptiness, shallowness.

Look little deep. From the day you started feeling the individual identity, you have that emptiness. From that day, you started seeking fulfillment. If you believe or you are convinced to believe that through something that fulfillment will be achieved, you start going behind it, you start working towards it.

You start seeking what you are missing - in so many things, in so many places.

If somebody convinces you making money will take you out of the emptiness, it will give you fulfillment, you start making money. If somebody convinces you having love only will give you fulfillment, you start running behind love. If somebody convinces you good relationships and family will only give you fulfillment, you start running behind that. If somebody convinces you that having a car and house and all the basic needs only will give you fulfillment, you run behind that.

But from the beginning, whatever you may be seeking, you are working for fulfillment. The day you started feeling the individual identity, the emptiness started.

Somebody tells you, 'First get educated, then life will be settled.' So you start studying. Then you think, 'If I get a job, life is settled.' Then, 'If I find my love, life is settled.' Then, 'If I am married and settled, life is settled.' After marriage, 'If I have my house and car, life is settled.' After car and house, 'If I have kids and family, life is settled.' After kids, 'If they study well and grow up little bit, life is settled.' After the children grow up, study well, 'If they find the right college, life is settled.' After they find the right college and study, 'If they get married, life is settled.' Then after they get married, 'If I have grandkids, life is settled.' Till you go and settle in the graveyard, life is never settled!