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Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Hello sir, my question is that, I'm fully aware of the thoughts that I'm having most
00:09of the times.
00:10So I feel like ever since, so for a year and a half, I feel like I've been going through
00:14something.
00:15It's a low phase.
00:16I can, I acknowledge the suffering and I know how to come out of it.
00:20But then I feel like I keep getting stuck in the same thought cycle again and again.
00:25I find an answer and then I'm back at it.
00:28Something small happens and then I'm back at the same cycle.
00:31The intensity reduces over time.
00:33So I feel like if I look back a year and a half ago, maybe it was this big and now it's
00:37just this small and I'm almost out.
00:40But then the thing is that it still keeps coming back.
00:45It's the same thought process, it's the same conclusion and then it repeats.
00:50So how do you break it?
00:52You don't need a solution for the existing mental pattern.
01:11If you will think in terms of what to do with what's going on in the mind, then you are
01:20only providing it with more energy, more respect, more consideration that just continues
01:32the cycle.
01:35Thought is important, thought is necessary.
01:38One needs a higher plane of thought.
01:43One needs a higher object to think about.
01:50Observe yourself with something so humongous, so implacable and so tremendously important
02:01that you cannot ignore it even for a second.
02:06And then all the petty kinds of little thoughts and nonsense that invade the mind and clutter
02:17it, you will find they don't have space, they are crowded out.
02:27If you will keep your mind available to anything that the world wants to keep in it, then the
02:41mind will become a storehouse of random thoughts, experiences, memories, desires and the mind
02:51does want something.
02:52You cannot just say, I will keep my mind clean and there will be nothing in it.
02:57That's humanly impossible.
02:59Even if that's possible, that's the last stage of wisdom when the mind is absolutely free
03:04of all content.
03:07Where you are, you need content and you need pure, proper, solid content in the mind.
03:17So help yourself with that.
03:19Give yourself something worth living for.
03:25More importantly, something worth dying for.
03:31So the follow up question comes even from the previous things that you mentioned.
03:35I often find myself asking, who am I?
03:38Then I have the answer, because I've been exposed to spiritual knowledge since birth.
03:45My family is spiritual, we follow a school of thought which is known as ***.
03:49So I feel like I have the knowledge, but I keep forgetting.
03:56I don't know how to frame the question.
03:57It's just that, okay, I need to find something, like you said, worth dying for so that I don't
04:03have anything that is not worth thinking about.
04:06I'm not giving it that much importance, but then how does it come?
04:12How do I find that answer?
04:15You don't have to find an answer.
04:18You have to let that answer be admitted, because the answer is right there in front of you.
04:28You don't have to ask, who am I?
04:29You have to see who you are.
04:32When you say, oh, I ask who am I, but sometimes I forget who I am, then isn't it obvious who
04:39you are?
04:40You are the forgetful one.
04:43You are the quality of your present action.
04:48You are not some theoretical answer of identity.
04:53Some book says, oh, you are the fragmented consciousness and you start saying, oh, I
05:00am fragmented consciousness.
05:02Some says, I am the absolute self and you become the absolute self.
05:06No.
05:07You are right now, attention itself, if you are indeed listening to me.
05:14So who are you?
05:16Attention.
05:17Unfortunately, this identity won't last.
05:21Soon you will be distracted and dissipated.
05:25You will become somebody else.
05:28The discipline lies in holding on to the highest identity possible and the highest identity
05:36is not an abstraction.
05:39Highest identity simply means that which you know to be the highest given your limited
05:45capacity.
05:49In your limited capacity, limited age, limited experience, limited knowledge, whatever, you
05:54still know something to be the highest, right?
05:56And I'm talking of knowing, not borrowing.
06:00From your own inner honesty, you know something to be important, right?
06:05Now stick to that.
06:06That's what who you should be.
06:08That's what should be the proper answer to who am I?
06:12Who am I is not a question that you ask yourself in solitude.
06:16So you, having done through the usual chores of the day, you sit in a corner and you ask
06:21yourself in a ritualistic way, who am I?
06:25And you already know the answer in advance because the spiritual path has provided you
06:30with a ready-made answer.
06:32So it's a nice game going on with the self.
06:35I'll ask myself a question.
06:36The question is ready-made and then I'll give myself an answer and the answer to is ready-made.
06:43So who am I?
06:44I am the Atma.
06:45Happy.
06:46Walk away.
06:47What is this?
06:48Is this inquiry?
06:49Do you call this kind of a thing as inquiry where the answer is preordained, ready-made,
06:56well-known in advance?
06:57No, this is not inquiry.
06:59Who am I?
07:00Is, is, is.
07:01Ma'am, you totally changed who I am.
07:15Who am I is a burning torch.
07:24It's supposed to totally destroy your illusions.
07:33So you are, you are just feasting on something and two minutes before that you had told yourself
07:40that you are the Shuddha Atma and now you are swallowing the samosa.
07:48So who you really are, please tell me.
07:52I am the gluttonous one.
07:56That's all.
07:57Can I be both?
07:58No.
07:59Though it's quite tempting to say, oh, I am the Atma currently lost in samosa.
08:11Kindly don't yield to that temptation.
08:15If the samosa is what is dominating your mind, then the samosa is your identity.
08:23Accept that even if it humiliates you.
08:28That's the tragedy.
08:29It keeps changing.
08:30What should be the state of mind while having the samosa?
08:36You already decided that the samosa is a must.
08:43But even if the samosa is a must, at least be honest enough to say, I am the samosa lover.
08:51Don't say I am Atma.
08:54I am the samosa lover.
08:58Obviously, please tell me from your own experience, what does this change mean?
09:04This change means that you are at the mercy of conditions and obviously this change is
09:10not something sitting here, engaging in this discussion.
09:17You are at a certain level and that's your identity.
09:23Then we'll walk out and then other things will take over and all the attentiveness will
09:29be lost.
09:30Do you think that is good?
09:33So this change is obviously not good.