00:00If everything is happening within Consciousness, and the individual self is ultimately an illusion,
00:07then why does Achareji emphasize finding meaningful work?
00:10Wouldn't emerging oneself in deep meditation be the most direct path to reconnect with the source of Consciousness?
00:17What was the first little word?
00:19If everything is happening within Consciousness...
00:22Stop! If everything is happening within Consciousness, is that how your life is?
00:28Second half, illuminate me please.
00:30Wouldn't immersing oneself in deep meditation...
00:33What is meant by that? Immersing oneself in me deep meditation?
00:36What do you mean by that? What is meditation?
00:38What do you mean by meditation?
00:41And what is immersion in that thing called meditation?
00:45Where are you coming from? What do you mean by reconnect?
00:49When were you previously connected?
00:51Real spirituality is not about something that sounds elevated,
00:57or admirable, or respectable.
01:00Real spirituality is actually a very shameless thing.
01:03And this makes me angry.
01:05Somebody put these words in your mind, right?
01:09They are not original.
01:11Who was that person?
01:13Who did that?
01:16Achareji, next we have Ravi Singh Ji, who is asking that if everything is happening within Consciousness,
01:27and the individual self is ultimately an illusion, then why does Achareji emphasize finding meaningful work,
01:34and do it with full passion so deeply that you forget time itself?
01:38Wouldn't emerging oneself in deep meditation be the most direct path to reconnect with the source of Consciousness?
01:45And I do all that so that from this entire statement, the first little word disappears.
01:57What was the first little word?
02:02What was the first? Consciousness.
02:04Consciousness.
02:05What was the first word in the statement right in front of you?
02:09If.
02:10Yes.
02:11If means for somebody else.
02:15It's an ideal.
02:17It is not something of your life.
02:19Now repeat the statement, starting with if.
02:24If everything is happening within Consciousness.
02:28Yes.
02:29Stop.
02:30If everything is happening within Consciousness, is that how your life is?
02:36Then what is the point in asking this question?
02:41For you, everything is happening in the material world outside of you.
02:46Not in the subtle world inside of you.
02:49For you, this is a mere idea.
02:52That's why that little if exists.
02:55And my entire effort is to remove that if from your life.
03:00But you put that if and you feel it's a minor addition, won't spoil anything.
03:04It spoils everything.
03:07It spoils everything.
03:14Next time you are thirsty and you come to me and I'll say,
03:19Let there be some water.
03:25Instead of saying, here is some water.
03:27I'll say, let there is some water or if there is some water.
03:33You need water, not a story beginning with if.
03:40It's obvious.
03:42But you are coming from an ideal.
03:44And that ideal is contained in the second half of your question.
03:48Why should we not meditate?
03:50Some Baba Ji.
03:51Read that second half.
03:53Illuminate me please.
03:55Wouldn't immersing oneself in deep meditation.
04:01What is meant by that?
04:02Immersing oneself in me deep meditation.
04:05What do you mean by that?
04:06What is meditation?
04:07What is it?
04:08This oneself that you will take and immerse?
04:11What kind of immersion are you talking of?
04:14Hmm?
04:15Like taking a soiled shirt and immersing it in some water.
04:21How will you immerse yourself?
04:22Should I haul you up by the collar and then immerse yourself in some well?
04:31What do you mean by immersing oneself in deep meditation?
04:33Please tell me beyond the trick of words.
04:36What is this?
04:38Immersing oneself in deep meditation.
04:40Please tell me what is this?
04:42And what is this oneself?
04:43Ego?
04:44Ego, right?
04:46What do you mean by meditation to the ego?
04:50But we are used to a lifestyle that is founded on avoiding facts.
05:03And to avoid facts, idioms, words, euphemisms are just so handy.
05:17You are snoring.
05:18No.
05:19I am immersing myself in an altered state of consciousness.
05:25And it is a state of consciousness that the Upanishads too talk of.
05:29It is very adjacent to Jagrati.
05:34It is called Svapnavastha.
05:38Sir, you have dozed away.
05:41You are actively snoring.
05:42No, no, no.
05:43I have immersed myself in an alternate state of consciousness just adjacent to Jagrati.
05:53How much effort you put just in deceiving yourself.
05:59Immersing myself in meditation.
06:01What is that?
06:02What do you mean by meditation?
06:06And what is immersion in that thing called meditation?
06:10And who is being immersed?
06:12But you will never ask these questions because some Babaji totally dominated your faculty to question.
06:21With this get up, the entire works, the demeanor, the voice, the body tone.
06:37And you are ordered to immerse yourself in meditation.
06:42I am immersing myself in meditation.
06:50I said have some taste for nakedness.
06:58Clothes are alright on the body, not on consciousness.
07:03Our consciousness is also a very clothed thing.
07:08Clothed and outwardly respectable consciousness.
07:12How to immerse oneself in meditation then?
07:24And oneself in deep meditation be the most direct path to reconnect with the source of consciousness.
07:36Most direct path to reconnect with the source of consciousness.
07:42I really wish we never went to school, we never attended any language or literature classes.
07:57At least we wouldn't have so many deceptive words in our vocabulary.
08:03This is all that education has given us.
08:05More and more means to deceive ourselves, reconnect with the source of consciousness.
08:11So, where are you coming from?
08:13What do you mean by reconnect?
08:14When were you previously connected?
08:16How did the signal go off?
08:20What are you talking of?
08:29Source of consciousness.
08:30There is no consciousness.
08:32What is the source of this elephant?
08:39There is no elephant.
08:41How do you know something as a source?
08:43What do you mean by that?
08:44Where is this knowledge coming from?
08:47Is it knowledge at all?
08:53But this is…
08:54Do you hear this?
08:55This is what the world of spirituality is about.
08:58Random mumbo jumbo.
09:05Elephants.
09:06No!
09:07Dinosaurs in the room.
09:10And then you say the source of the dinosaur.
09:19And if I am sounding abrasive, it is only because these words, this advice, this kind of feedback should have come to you much, much earlier in your life.
09:38But you have been pampered and you have been spoiled.
09:43So, you will feel I am offending you.
09:47And you will feel that only because there has been probably nobody so far who could speak straight to you.
09:56Have I abused?
09:57Am I spitting on somebody?
09:59I am just asking a few innocent questions.
10:02And there should have been somebody in your process of education to ask these questions much earlier.
10:07But nobody did.
10:09So, when I do that now, I appear like the fallen culprit.
10:20How to pinch and poke everybody and rub everybody the wrong way and…
10:26Oh, he is so abrasive.
10:31Am I abrasive?
10:32I am asking what do you mean by immersion in meditation and reconnecting to the source of consciousness.
10:36What is that?
10:39And all of that anyway started with an IF.
10:48You know what the scary part is?
10:50All of this is very much admissible in conventional spirituality, Lok Dharam.
10:55The statement that has been made is a beautiful statement in the domain of Lok Dharam.
11:02Lok Dharam.
11:03This is the very stuff of Lok Dharam.
11:05Just hollow but high sounding statements.
11:15Real spirituality is not about something that sounds elevated or admirable or respectable.
11:23Real spirituality is actually a very shameless thing.
11:27We said stripped of all covers, all clothing.
11:35One has to have taste for nakedness, not for the well dressed up priest.
11:47And this makes me angry.
11:49Somebody put these words in your mind, right?
11:53They are not original.
11:55Who was that person?
11:58Who did that?
12:05Some religious authority or some book where you read this stuff up.
12:12Reconnecting with the source of consciousness.
12:16Had we been a really conscious society, the author of these lines should have been jailed.
12:25And that would have been perfectly constitutional.
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