Be Yourselves

This is a recording from an informal satsang held at an ashram where Premasudha is staying.

The most powerful thing we can do on the spiritual journey is to be our true, authentic selves.
When we are able to stay present in our bodies — with ourselves and with all our emotions, no matter how uncomfortable they may feel — we move closer to truth and we will transform. Prayer can support us in this. By allowing ourselves to feel, we invite our soul back in. We start embodying our true self.
When we do not yet feel safe enough within ourselves, or when the intensity becomes overwhelming, we can pray for a slower, gentler unfolding.
To become who we truly are, we must move through the conditioning that kept us from being ourselves. If we can meet this process with an innocent heart, understanding can grow. Otherwise, we may remain caught in suffering.

Speaker: Robert

Transcript

The thing is, The journey, Just be yourselves. That's the most important thing. Don't try to like try to perfect, Try to like from that intellectual island. Yeah, Stay yourselves. I want to embody truth. Stay yourselves. Like your reference point is you. See, We're in a patriarchy, So we go into the objective and we diss the subjective and the emotional. We diss it. Okay. So part of us feels very safe, Even on the spiritual journey, Being kind of objective, A little removed from ourselves in that intellectual way. You leave the detachment. Yeah, The detachment in an ego way, Not the true non-attachment. The trick is to stay in your body with yourself, No matter how uncomfortable your emotions are, And you stay with them and you stay and you start to pray and you start. Yes. And then what will happen is it will start dissolving in a true way and you will have an expansion, Expanded outlook after. Yeah. I mean, It's just like us when they are when it gets so, So terrible. If you can stay in your body, Stay with the situation, Just keep praying and everything, You will come to an organic resolution that includes a transformation. You will have transformed. You'll be more in truth for having faced that. You go through these emotions, You feel all this stuff, You know, You give it over, You get brought through it. It brings you to an embodied understanding that is invincible because your soul is in you. Your soul's allowed to come in. In the space where the ego was operating all the controls, You've brought your soul in and you are an embodied being. And life is good. Your problem is you're not at home enough with yourself to get this. And your ego doesn't want you to realize that you're not at home with yourself. Because if you realize it, You'll face it. So it's trying to steer you towards what do I do in this case? What should I do in this case? And you just need to recognize that you're not that at home with yourself. You can take it like, You go, I can't deal with this right now. So can you turn it down? But I will face this as soon as I'm able. You see, To become ourselves, We have to then move through the conditioning that stopped us from being ourselves. So yeah, You have to, Right. I can feel there's a nice kind of trust of yourself that is wanting to be, Come into you. And I'm seeing it as a very bright light with a little bit of a yellow, In a good way. You're funny, You're saying to me, I'm going to suffer so much if I don't get this point that you're speaking about, Kramasutra. And it's true, You will. If you don't get this, You will suffer a lot. So, Better get it. And it's the innocence, You see, When you're just innocent, When your goal is really innocent hearted, You can understand things quickly. And if we've got an agenda, And secret desires about stuff, We don't get it. Yeah. You think you're going to do something wrong. It's very, Very beautiful. You know, It's just embrace this little guy, Embrace this. And you know, You might do something wrong as part of the clearing. But this is the hard part. You sometimes watch yourself actually do that. And so you do something wrong, So you upset a table, Oh well. No, Really, I mean it, Like, Oh well, If you're moving into your true self.