It won't be a conditioning.
You will start seeing reality.
If you start practicing being in Sakshi,
In the text that we will do,
In the scripture that we will do,
It is called Sakshi.
Sakshi means a witness.
The witness is there.
It doesn't matter whether you want to believe or you don't want to believe.
You are believing or not believing that is not going to change what is reality.
The reality is that even right now,
If you are listening to me,
There is somebody behind that is observing you listening to Ekta.
And that one is also observing the thoughts in your mind,
Repeating what Ekta repeated or what Ekta said repeats.
So there is a knower of the thoughts.
There is a knower of your body.
There is a knower of Ekta.
This knower is the witness.
Do you get it?
This is the first step.
If you recognize this knower,
Fantastic.
Don't think you are enlightened yet.
Wait,
Wait.
We have time to get there.
Yeah,
You've recognized this knower,
This witnessing element in you.
Now take it up as an exercise.
Can I all the time be in this witnessing element?
It's not that the witnessing element is not there when you are in a fight with your husband or wife.
It's just that you have forgotten to witness and you become one with the thoughts and the feelings and now you're fighting with her and shouting at him.
You have become part of the thoughts and feelings and perceptions and sensations.
Do you get it?
It is in your hands to let go and take that step back and knowingly be the witness.
This is what Advaita teaches.
Advaita says,
Very simple,
Again and again recognize this is Mithya.
Jagat Mithya Brahman Satyam.
And you come back.
Yeah,
You don't need to know the Sanskrit words.
You again and again remind yourself,
This person that I am fighting with right now,
Do I have proof that the person exists?
I just know my perception,
My sensation,
My thought and my feeling and it's only creating suffering inside me right now.
Drop.
Take that step back.
Be a Saakshi.
Yes,
So I just told you coming to the first step.
You will stumble and fumble and fail many times because of your own thoughts,
Because of your own conditioning,
Because of your own old concepts and because of your own ideas.
You cannot blame anybody else.
You cannot blame Advaita.
You cannot say that the teaching is wrong.
My own conditioning is responsible for me shuttling.
Yes?
If I have given a lot of strong fuel to negativity,
What is going to happen?
The negativity is going to flower and blossom in my life.
That's all I'm going to be surrounded by.
If I have fed positivity,
If I have fed more calmness and peace,
That is what is going to blossom in my life.
I cannot blame an external agent.
First of all,
I don't even have proof that an external agent exists.
From my experience,
I only know my perception,
Sensation,
Thought and feeling.
And all this creates the drama.
My suffering is because of me.
Not because of another person.
Because I get lost in the drama of these perceptions,
Sensations,
Feelings and thoughts.
I have not learned to take that step back to the awareness,
To the Sakshi.
The Sakshi is like the base layer of your cake.
Very boring,
Very bland,
Nothing great about it.
All the icing and flowery and those beautiful tasty treats are sitting on top of your cake.
And you find only that very interesting.
Because it has beautiful designs and beautiful colours.
That is the quality of Maya to attract you.
Your thoughts,
Feelings,
Perceptions,
Sensations pull you all the time.
Till now you got pulled because you did not recognise that noor.
Now Advaita says,
Now that you've recognised yourself,
Be yourself.
Don't get into this.
Again and again,
Stay,
Stay,
Steady,
Steady.
You will slip,
It's okay,
I come back.
Be compassionate with yourself.
You're not some superhuman that you're going to get this in one day or one night.
So do not have unreasonable expectations of yourself.
Be very kind and compassionate.
It's okay I slipped this time.
Again I come back to the noor,
I come back to the witness.
Even right now amidst this coronavirus crisis that is going on,
You will notice that noor,
That witness in you that remains untouched.
Right?
Yes,
With all the news,
With all that is going on,
Even if there is death in the family,
There is something within that remains untouched by that death.
If you can stay there,
Then you are victorious.
