Let's do a self-inquiry meditation on the world drama.
This meditation must be done after the self-inquiry meditation on happenings.
Using the instructions from the happenings,
Take a step inwards from somethingness to nothingness.
Go beyond the visual field.
Go beyond the auditory field.
Go beyond the sensory field,
Beyond the border of form.
Abide as the formlessness of nothingness.
There is nothingness in the now.
You are that nothingness.
The formlessness,
The emptiness.
You are that real I that does not claim to be I.
From the stand of nothingness,
Recognize that in the now,
A mirage of I and the other appears and disappears.
The personal universe does not exist by itself.
It is merely a limited and disturbed view of the real.
A mirage is a limited and disturbed view of the real.
View the personal universe as a world drama.
The stage is full of imaginary entities.
Recognize your own personal world as a drama.
On this world stage,
A scene appears and then the scene disappears.
Moment to moment,
Recognize in the nothingness of the now,
A perception or sensation or thought or feeling appears and disappears.
The idea that you are an Advaitin soaked in a self-inquiry meditation appears and disappears.
In fact,
The idea of being a person appears and disappears.
The idea that this is a spiritual Advaita session appears and disappears.
The idea of a spiritual mentor's voice leading this self-inquiry appears and disappears.
The idea of a happy mind or an unhappy mind arises and dissolves.
The idea of a family arises and dissolves.
The idea of a friend arises and dissolves.
Moment to moment,
Every arising gets sucked into the black hole of nothingness.
The moment an idea arises,
The sense of I arises along with it.
I and the other are always performing together on this world stage.
When the arising appears,
The I appears along with it.
When the arising disappears,
The I disappears along with it.
This performance is continuous,
Ceaseless,
Relentless.
The appearance as well as the disappearance of this drama is constant,
Ceaseless,
Relentless.
The appearance is not optional.
The appearance is not in control.
The disappearance is also not optional.
The disappearance is not in control.
The drama continues relentlessly,
Ceaselessly,
Continuously.
The drama is not optional.
The drama is not in control.
This means the arising of anger,
Jealousy,
Hatred,
Love,
Passion,
Greed etc.
Is constant,
Ceaseless,
Relentless,
Continuous,
Not optional and not in control.
The disappearance of the anger,
Jealousy,
Hatred,
Love,
Passion,
Greed etc.
Is also ceaseless,
Relentless,
Continuous,
Constant,
Not optional and not in control.
They simply happen without a cause,
Without a doer.
They simply happen.
Nobody is controlling the stage.
It is a stage on which a world drama is being played but there is no controller,
No doer and there is no experiencer even.
It is a stage,
A world stage.
Which scene will appear on that stage is unknown.
How long the scene will play is also unknown.
And when that scene will disappear is also unknown.
The what is not in control but the how is in control.
Let's dive deeper into this.
What means which arising appears,
Whether it is a perception or sensation or thought or feeling.
That is the meaning of what here.
What appears and disappears is not in control.
But the how is in control.
Now let's understand the how.
Once an arising appears,
If you forget your true nature of nobodiness and nothingness and get enamoured by that arising,
Then you get fooled.
Getting fooled by the mirage of arisings determines the how part of it.
Thus,
The what is not in control but the how is in control.
Getting fooled by the mirage or not getting fooled by the mirage is in control.
That is the how.
The what is not in control but the how is in control.
The person is an arising.
It suddenly appears and suddenly disappears.
Until now you were not aware of the body-mind person sitting on that chair and doing this self-inquiry meditation.
Now you are aware.
So it appears and disappears.
This appearance and disappearance is not in control.
But assuming to be that person,
Assuming the person to be I is in your control.
If you assume to be the person,
That is self-foolery.
If you are clear that you are not the person,
That is wisdom.
What the person says is simply a perception of sound that appears and disappears.
What is said is not in control but the how is in control.
Let's dive deeper into the how part of this.
If there is doership regarding the speech,
Then that is ignorance.
But if there is clarity that I do not speak,
Only the person speaks,
That is wisdom.
Seeing every doing as a happening is wisdom.
Seeing it as a doing is ignorance.
Seeing every doing as a happening is wisdom.
Seeing it as a doing is ignorance.
What the person does,
Does not matter.
The quality of how it is done matters.
The what is not important.
The how is.
If there is a claim of mindness with perception,
Sensation,
Thought or feeling,
That is lack of knowledge.
If there is a clarity that no illusion can be mine,
That is wisdom.
Don't take the worldly life too seriously.
Worldly life is an illusion.
The world is a stage.
The drama is being played.
Scene after scene appears and disappears.
The what is not in control.
But the how is.
What the arising called the person does is not in control.
But how you,
The nothingness,
View the person's action,
That is in control.
The personal universe does not exist by itself.
It is merely a limited and distorted view of the real.
The universe needs no improvements.
A rainbow cannot be made more perfect.
It is an illusion.
Quit running behind the rainbow.
The universe needs no improvements.
But your way of looking at it does.
Don't take it too seriously.
It is simply a lila,
A play.
Simply lila.
Simply lila.
Simply lila.
