Hello everyone,
This is Gangaji.
I'm really happy to meet you this way,
At this moment in our lives.
We can come together,
We have come together,
We meet.
And we meet to answer this deep call of conscious being,
This call,
This command to discover ourselves truly.
Not the way we have been defined in others' minds or in our own mind,
But to truly recognize the unmovable truth of being and to recognize ourselves whatever our circumstances,
Internal circumstances are external,
Whatever the age of the body,
Whatever the mood,
The mental or physical activity.
And I meet myself in you in this meeting.
May our meeting benefit all.
May our inquiry and our meditation spread throughout the universe to support this call and all being to know itself,
To celebrate itself,
To discover itself always new here.
So just now you can relax.
You can bring your plans,
Your worries,
All your thoughts home to rest in the core of your heart.
Open listening,
Free inquiry,
Conscious discovery.
You are free to listen to my voice and the words that are being used as support to point you into deeper,
Fresher,
True discovery.
You are free to be here.
You are naturally consciousness.
What we name God or life or the unnameable is supreme consciousness.
You are naturally one with that.
You are naturally truth.
All the rest of the denials,
The definitions,
The attempts to form yourself into something is unnatural.
It may be normal,
But it's not natural.
It may be usual,
But it's not natural.
This normal play even has its purpose because with the belief in our definitions and others' definitions of who we are,
There is a kind of suffering.
There is a sense of being lost and we experience the pain and the suffering of that being lost and from that arises this call home,
This prayer to come home.
Then the whole imagination of ourselves as ever separate from life,
From God,
From the unnameable can be reunited in the truth,
In the immediately discoverable truth.
This is what brings us together.
This is what you can allow your thoughts to fall back in,
Your definitions to dissolve into,
Your ideas,
Your beliefs.
The choice is yours.
After eons of choosing to tell a story of separation from whatever you mean when you say God or supreme or mystery,
The story of that separation may seem choiceless.
It seems choiceless,
But it's not.
You have simply been continuing to choose the story of separation that was passed on to you by your ancestors,
By your culture,
By your genes,
By your past mistakes,
And by your past desires.
What is choiceless is the truth of who you are.
Choice lies in our mind's ability to either deny that choiceless truth or to embrace it.
This invitation is to take these moments to fall into that embrace because truly you have no free will regarding the truth of who you are.
You are that now and always,
Fully and completely.
You can live life as if you are not who you truly are and there will be suffering.
You can play endless versions of choosing or denying who you are.
And you have played this for eons.
Eventually a weariness arises in this play of separation because the play is limited for all of its display,
For all of its beauty,
For all of its pain.
The play is limited because it is always based on the false assumption that you are somehow separate from truth,
From understanding,
From love,
From God.
The whole play of suffering is based on this false assumption of separation.
The assumption is believed to be real and from this belief the play can get very complicated.
But in this moment we are allowing all of our complications,
All of our complexities to come home,
To rest,
To be here in a way that cannot be defined.
And in this invitation I invite you to see who is really playing this horrific game,
Story of separation.
In the invitation that is extended from Ramana,
From Papaji,
And in this moment from your own heart,
The invitation of direct self-inquiry.
You have the opportunity and you have the capacity to turn your attention to who is lost,
Who is separate.
You will find no one.
There is no one lost.
The appearance of the lost one was mysteriously fabricated in the mind to begin the play.
If you resolve to investigate intensely,
Freshly,
Completely,
To not fall asleep by continuing to practice the belief based on the habit of separation,
Then you meet yourself as that very consciousness in which player,
Seeker,
Sufferer,
Achiever,
And union appear and disappear.
In this spaciousness we greet each other as oneself.
