Seeing all change, I stay as I am || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)

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00:00Anjaneya is there, he is quoting from Vrashtaka Gita, right, Vrashtaka Gita, chapter 12 verse

00:293, seeing the transitions between abnormal states of incorrect perception and the meditative

00:39states as a rule, I stay as I am, what is there to watch Anjaneya?

00:55If one stays watchful, what is there to watch, can the truth be watched, what is it that

01:12you would end up watching whenever you watch, all that which is transient, temporal, false,

01:36that is what is watched, and how is that watched, that is watched through non-identification,

01:47so all those things are happening, yes they are happening, but they are not carrying me

01:55away, they do have the power to take me along with them, but that is not happening, a great

02:14wind is blowing, it's a storm, my body can experience that storm, so it's not that I am imagining,

02:27the storm is indeed there, but it is not taking me away, not being blown away, everything

02:44about me is shaking, shivering, look at my hair, look at my clothes, I can feel the gust

02:53on my face, but it is almost as if I am reverted to the earth, I cannot be taken away, and

03:17these two things are happening at the same time, simultaneously, on one hand I am fully

03:27experiencing the storm, it's severe, call it a cyclone, on one hand it is being fully

03:41experienced and I have proof that a great cyclone is raging, what is the proof, look

03:50at how my clothes are sticking to my body, look at the condition of my hair, my eyes

03:59are all full of dust, nothing is clearly visible, objects around me are all flying

04:13away here and there in a chaos, so it is undeniable that there is indeed a storm here, but at

04:27the same time I stand here unshakable, unmovable, that is watching, that is what it means to

04:46watch, there is sufficient reason for you to buckle down, yet something very unreasonable

04:59is happening, you are standing tall and firm, it is against all logic, witnessing is very

05:13illogical, it does not obey a reason, reason commands you to follow the laws of physics,

05:23follow the laws of mind, follow the laws of universe, follow the laws of the body, if

05:33there is a provocation then you must get provoked, angry, if there is a temptation then you must

05:42get tempted, seduced, but that is not happening and I do not deny that there is both a provocation

05:51and a temptation and invitation, all that is there, yet something very inexplicable

06:01is happening, rather not happening, that not happening is called witnessing, witnessing

06:11is when that which should have happened by laws of Prakriti does not happen, it does

06:26not happen, it is against Prakriti, that is why Kabir Sahab sings Ullad Baasi, strange

06:42things happen, in Prakriti, water should fall and the blanket should be wetted, but in the

07:00world of Kabir Sahab, it is raining blankets and the blankets are wetting the water, that

07:11should have happened is not happening, this not happening I said is called witnessing,

07:17it should have happened, by all experience it should have happened, it has always happened,

07:23whenever I have been provoked, I have retaliated, it has always happened, now it is not happening,

07:29that is called witnessing. Narashtra Upanishad has added something to it, he says the mind flips,

07:49not only its various states, but also between the states and the non-state, to witness is to

08:05not only see the transition between the states, but also see the transition between the states

08:14and statelessness, now the statelessness obviously not being a state cannot be experienced, so what

08:28does statelessness occur in witnessing as, statelessness occurs as a gap, statelessness

08:39occurs as a gap and that is why Anjali, I am so very pleased when you do not remember anything

08:44from my sessions, I want a gap, I want a gap in the consciousness, I want a gap in the memory,

08:53so when you look back, you see nothing, all you see is a gap, a blankness, before the session

09:02there was much that I can remember, after the session there was something happening that I

09:07can remember, before the session there was the happening, after the session there again is the

09:14happening, in between there is nothing to remember and that implies that there is non-happening,

09:20when there is nothing to remember, surely nothing is happening, that not happening,

09:27that non-happening we are repeating is witnessing, do not remember anything,

09:35even witnessing can be forgotten, why do you want to know, who is the one who wants to know and then

09:55boast to himself, now you know why she will be angry at you, I want to know that I have been

10:09witnessing, want to keep a journal of the time, 10.30 to 11.42, witnessed, then claim s points,

10:24when you can gather 1000 s points, you can redeem them, that is how the mind works,

10:38that is why all the marketers come up with all these schemes, for every 10 minutes of

10:46witnessing, you get 1 s point and once you have gathered 1000 s points, you become Acharya,

10:55see how happy Parishis, it does not happen that way.

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