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Seeing Everything as Movements in Consciousness

Understand, you are not a human being having a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being having a human experience. It is the other way. You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being having a human experience.

So only when you understand the Truth, you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Suddenly you will see the outside world or the pleasures of the world are not attracting you at all. They are not affecting you anymore. You are just beyond all these things. You are just living in a different space.

The one who sees everything as movements in consciousness transcends sin and merit, bondage and liberation, which is the essence. This sutra is the essence. When you see everything as movements in consciousness, you realize you are in consciousness, you are consciousness, just consciousness is moving inside the consciousness.

Understand, there is no matter, there is no jata, there is no outer world. The outer world also is inside your consciousness. This can happen to you when you start witnessing. When you start constantly witnessing whatever happens inside and outside, suddenly you will see all movements, whatever is happening, including you, is just part of your own consciousness.

What you think as you, what you think as the world, whatever you think as the outer world and the other person, everything is just movements in consciousness. This realization can happen to you when you witness and above all when you unclutch from your body and mind.

See, as long as you connect with your body and mind, you create a boundary between you and the world, you and the whole. When you unclutch, suddenly the boundary disappears. You are no more separate from the whole. You are no more separate from the Truth. You are no more separate from reality. You are just filled with the same thing.

Enlightenment Vs Ignorance

See, the body will be there as a body as long as you give the name for it. The moment the name disappears from you, it remains in you just as an experience. Without the so-called words or the qualities associated with it, you will see in reality it is the same. See, the power which runs your body is only running the sun and the moon. The force which is working inside you is the same force running the solar system, running the whole universe.

If something is happening inside your body, it directly affects the sun and the moon. You will realize you are not an island as you think. You are not an island as you believe. Your belief that you are an island is too small. It is like in a big ocean, a small piece of straw is floating. A piece of straw is too small to separate the ocean into two. In the same way, your ignorance is too small to take away your enlightenment.

Understand this important Truth. Your ignorance is too small to take away your enlightenment. You are fortunate that your enlightenment is stronger, more powerful than your ignorance. That is why enlightenment is possible. Your ignorance is too small to cover you or to make you into two.

As long as you carry 'I', the idea of 'you' will be there, the idea of 'other' will be there. The moment you relax from the 'I', the idea of 'other' will disappear. As long as you connect all your thoughts and see things with your own ideas, you will see the outer world as separate.

But I tell you, once you unclutch from your body and mind, you will start seeing everything as movements in consciousness. You transcend sin and merit, bondage and liberation. You don't even ask for liberation. Understand, you transcend liberation. Now whatever you think as liberation, even that is an idea.

I always tell people, unclutch even from your idea of liberation, and you will be liberated. Otherwise you will have an idea, 'If I am liberated, I should be like this' and you will try to fulfill that idea, so you will never feel liberated.

Liberation means there is nothing like you should be like that or like this. You should feel intensely and clearly that you are liberated, that's all. You have nothing to achieve. You are free. That can happen to your being, that can happen to your soul, only when you liberate yourself even from the idea of liberation.