00:00Subhraneel has quoted Nisargadatta Maharaj and he is saying something remarkable here.
00:09Throw out concepts like, I am virtuous or I am a sinner. What is the entity that senses
00:16this? Body consciousness will not lose its grip on you with the thought that your well-being
00:22is the result of some spiritual activity. All you need is to keep observing yourself.
00:29Now comes the more remarkable part. Do not befriend anything that is visible to you. If
00:36you have to act at all, do only this. Please your consciousness. Please your consciousness.
00:43Please your consciousness. It is very merciful. It will show you all that is directly. So
00:52Subhraneel is asking, how is it possible to please the consciousness without getting pleased
00:56in turn? Moreover, the sense of correlation between spiritual activity like listening to talks
01:02or reading books and the sense of well-being and peace arises automatically. Why is it told
01:10to get rid of that? Kindly guide. The pleasures of consciousness, Subhraneel, are not the pleasures
01:20of body. The body has its pleasures and consciousness has a totally different dimension of pleasure.
01:42that which pleases the body is not that which pleases consciousness. But the two become one because
01:51our consciousness is body consciousness. Consciousness, not entangled with the body, seeks a destination
02:07destination of a totally different nature. And as far as the body is concerned, it is seeking
02:19pleasures of its own kind. In some ways, the saint is also a pleasure-seeking individual. So, the
02:35one is a greedy or lustful man. It is just that the pleasures that the two are seeking are widely
02:47separate. Please the consciousness, not the body. And those who are in the business of pleasing
02:58the body, to them, I say, I exhort and invite. Try experiencing the pleasures of consciousness. You will
03:10forget all about the pleasures of body. If pleasure is what you must have, then, in Nisardat Maharaj's
03:18parlance, have the pleasures of consciousness. The pleasures of the body inflate the body, reinforce the body. And the pleasures
03:32of consciousness dissolve the consciousness. Such a great difference. The more pleasures you give to the body, the more
03:44the more body identified you become, the more pleasures you give to consciousness, the more all identifications dissolve.
03:58Usually, I do not use the term pleasure in context of consciousness. But here, because Maharaj is using that
04:10that lexicon. So, I am following him. The pleasures of body are called Sukh. The pleasures of consciousness are called Anand.
04:32And the two are very different. In fact, when you are consciousness itself, without its traps and
05:00identifications. And when you are trying to please consciousness alone, then that can result in
05:15displeasure to the body. And that is alright. Because the quality of the pleasure of consciousness is far higher
05:26than the quality of the pleasure of the body. So, the latter can be compromised for the former.
05:33I am getting it. Why does the consciousness need to be pleased? Because it is lonely. It usually gets
05:55attached to the body. Now you are saying, no, you will not have the body. So, it has become even more lonely.
06:07You need to give it something better than the body. That is what is called pleasing consciousness. Give consciousness something better than the body to be with.
06:22This will greatly please consciousness and probably annoy the body. But that is okay. It is a good trade-off.
06:34The advice to Valeach is Radha. Yes.
06:36The purpose is ë‚´ë ¤ Elainegnathu Kapuori is being unable to becomeheimerglioisin,
06:38right?
06:41Yes.
06:43When you are sitting here, listening to me…
06:44…obviously I am not giving your body massage yourself…
06:46…I have a clear explanation.
06:52…I am not giving you the full exercise of my body-addice allowance –
06:58…I am not giving your body massage–
07:00When you are sitting here listening to me, obviously I am not giving you a body massage.
07:09But you are getting pleased.
07:10Right?
07:11What is getting pleased?
07:12Not the body, but the consciousness.
07:16And the body is getting displeased, look at him, 42nd times.
07:27So that's what I am saying.
07:28Giving pleasure to consciousness, even if the trade-off is that you will have to displease
07:33the body a little, it is alright.
07:44Azaz comes to me when I am about to fall asleep, sometimes after I have fallen asleep and starts
07:51massaging.
07:54He starts massaging me, I start sermonizing.
07:57Both of us are pleasing each other.
07:59But who is getting a better deal?
08:03Azaz.
08:04He is giving me pleasure of the body, I am giving him pleasure of consciousness.
08:10And that is the reason he keeps sneaking into my room.
08:13After all of you have fallen asleep, he will come over, pick up some oil or something and
08:19start doing his thing.
08:24Usually I have fallen asleep by that time and I wake up.
08:26What is it?
08:27And find him at my feet, so I start saying something.
08:34That's a great mistake, you know, to not to know which of these is higher.
08:46It's a cardinal mistake man makes to place the pleasures of body higher than the pleasures
09:02of consciousness.
09:03Just don't make that mistake and everything will be okay.
09:04Acharya Ji does negation of what is not.
09:05Acharya Ji does negation of what is not.
09:06Acharya Ji does negation of what is not.
09:07Does negation…
09:08Negation…
09:09Negation…
09:10Negation…
09:11Hmm.
09:12…and then he makes to place the pleasures of body higher than the pleasures of consciousness.
09:17Just don't make that mistake and everything will be okay.
09:31Acharya Ji does negation of what is not.
09:35Does negation…
09:36Negation of what is not will always bring us to what is.
09:41It will not leave you to go to any point.
09:47You are saying, sir, if I negate what is not, will it bring me to what is?
09:55That which is not includes you as well.
10:00If that which is not is negated, will you still be left?
10:03But that is the common expectation.
10:08After everything has been negated and cut down, I will survive and I will then reach the truth.
10:18Once you are determined to cut down everything that is not, you will have to first of all slit your own throat.
10:26Firstly, you are not.
10:29Who will then remain to reach the truth?
10:31Therefore, the truth is not a destination.
10:35Forget the truth.
10:36Look at your own validity.
10:39Do you exist?
10:42And if you do exist, is it doing any good to yourself?
10:44Ask the ego to do you a great favor.
11:08What?
11:15Leave.
11:28She lives.
11:30You leave.
11:33Nothing remains.
11:35Peace.
11:35Nothing remains in context of what was existent earlier.
11:47Would there be something after you have gone?
11:53Maybe not.
11:54What is certain is that this question would not be there after you have gone.
12:03The very need to be certain that even after your disappearance, things will carry on is
12:09a mark of the ego still hanging around.
12:19It is only the ego that wants a certainty about the future, right?
12:23After I am gone, would there be bliss?
12:28After everything has been negated down, would there be truth?
12:32Who is concerned about the future?
12:37Who is concerned about the future?
12:39Exactly that entity which you are thinking of hacking down.
12:43If it has been hacked down, who will think about the future?
12:51So don't think about the future.
12:52Just see whether all this that is around you and within you needs to exist, whether it
12:59is doing you any good by its existence.
13:04It's a simple thing, right?
13:06Just look at what you have and what you are and ask yourself, is it doing me any good?
13:12Full stop.
13:13Pleasures of body, we have, we know it by five way and pleasure of consciousness like at the
13:31feet of master, in presence of master.
13:34Wherever you get it, wherever you get it, what is pleasure of consciousness?
13:47Doubts receding, peace prevailing, complexity is getting dissolved.
13:54All that which keeps bugging you, nagging at you, frustrating you from within, subsiding,
14:03that is pleasure of consciousness.
14:06So the pleasure of consciousness lies in not being.
14:13Pleasure of consciousness is a pleasure of disappearance.
14:20Pleasure of consciousness is similar to the pleasures of sleep.
14:34And why do you want to try out five or seven alternate ways of seeking pleasures of consciousness?
14:40You said, I know two ways of getting pleasures of consciousness, reading scriptures and listening
14:46to the Guru.
14:47Can you tell me five other ways why these two ways you want to abandon?
14:52If you know two ways, is that not sufficient?
14:55Why do you want five other ways?
15:00But man is like this, you know.
15:02Can I have a few more options?
15:04I love him, I love him, I also love him.
15:14Let there be bounteous choice.
15:26If man gets one option, he should be thankful for that and that should suffice for entire
15:32life.
15:33Why do you want 15?
15:44There are 150 actually.
15:48But you do not need 150.
15:51And if you chase 150, you will not have probably even a single one.
16:02Begin with what you have.
16:03Be grateful for what you already have.
16:06Stick to it.
16:07Maybe that will open the door for many others.
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