Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to be free?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to be free?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00Hello, sir. My question is that I'm fully aware of the thoughts that I'm having most
00:09of the times. So I feel like ever since, so for a year and a half, I feel like I've been
00:14going through something. It's a low phase. I can, I acknowledge the suffering and I know
00:19how to come out of it. But then I feel like I keep getting stuck in the same thought cycle
00:24again and again. I find an answer and then I'm back at it. Something small happens and
00:29then I'm back at the same cycle. The intensity reduces over time. So I feel like if I look
00:34back a year and a half ago, maybe it was this big and now it's just this small and I'm almost
00:39out. But then the thing is that it still keeps coming back. It's the same thought process.
00:47It's the same conclusion and then it repeats. So how do you break it? I mean, the solution
00:54is coming to my mind that this is the solution. But after doing that, the same problem is
00:59coming again. So the solution is wrong.
01:02You don't need a solution for the existing mental pattern. If you will think in terms
01:13of what to do with what's going on in the mind, then you are only providing it with
01:23more energy, more respect, more consideration. That just continues the cycle. Thought is
01:35important. Thought is necessary. One needs a higher plane of thought. One needs a higher
01:45object to think about. Involve yourself with something so humongous, so implacable and
02:00so tremendously important that you cannot ignore it even for a second. And then all
02:07the petty kinds of little thoughts and nonsense that invade the mind and clutter it, you'll
02:19find they don't have space. They are crowded out. If you will keep your mind available
02:33to anything that the world wants to keep in it, then the mind will become a storehouse
02:42of random thoughts, experiences, memories, desires. And the mind does want something.
02:52You cannot just say, I'll keep my mind clean and there'll be nothing in it. That's humanly
02:58impossible. Even if that's possible, that's the last stage of wisdom. When the mind is
03:03absolutely free of all content. Where you are, you need content and you need pure, proper,
03:12solid content in the mind. So help yourself with that. Give yourself something worth living for.
03:23More importantly, something worth dying for. So the follow-up question comes even from the
03:33previous things that you mentioned. I often find myself asking, who am I? Then I have the
03:38answer ki, because I've been exposed to spiritual knowledge since birth. My family is spiritual. We
03:46follow a school of thought which is known as ****. So I feel like I have the knowledge, but I keep
03:54forgetting. I don't know how to frame the question. It's just that, okay, I need to find something,
04:00like you said, worth dying for, so that I don't have anything that is not worth thinking about.
04:06I'm not giving it that much importance. But then, how does it come? How do I find that answer?
04:14You don't have to find an answer. You have to let that answer be admitted. Because the
04:24answer is right there in front of you. You don't have to ask, who am I? You have to see
04:29who you are. When you say, oh, I ask, who am I? But sometimes I forget who I am. Then,
04:38isn't it obvious who you are? You are the forgetful one. You are the quality of your
04:45present action. You are not some theoretical answer of identity. Some book says, oh, you are
04:55the fragmented consciousness and you start saying, oh, I am fragmented consciousness. Some says,
05:02I am the absolute self and you become the absolute self. No, you are right now,
05:08attention itself, if you are indeed listening to me. So, who are you? Attention. Unfortunately,
05:18this identity won't last. Soon, you will be distracted and dissipated. You will become
05:26somebody else. The discipline lies in holding on to the highest identity possible. And the
05:35highest identity is not an abstraction. Highest identity simply means that which you know to be
05:43the highest given your limited capacity. In your limited capacity, limited age, limited experience,
05:51limited knowledge, whatever, you still know something to be the highest, right? And I'm
05:57talking of knowing, not borrowing. From your own inner honesty, you know something to be
06:04important, right? Now, stick to that. That's who you should be. That's what should be the
06:09proper answer to who am I? Who am I is not a question that you ask yourself in solitude. So,
06:16you having done through the usual chores of the day, you sit in a corner and you ask yourself
06:21in a ritualistic way, who am I? And you already know the answer in advance because the spiritual
06:28path has provided you with a ready-made answer. So, it's a nice game going on with the self. I'll
06:35ask myself a question, the question is ready-made and then I'll give myself an answer and the
06:40answer to is ready-made. So, who am I? I am the Atma. Happy. Walk away. What is this? Is this
06:48inquiry? Do you call this kind of a thing as inquiry where the answer is preordained, ready-made,
06:56well-known in advance? No, this is not inquiry. Who am I?
07:00Ma'am, you totally changed who I am. Who am I is a burning torch. It's supposed to
07:26totally destroy your illusions. So, you are just feasting on something and two minutes before that
07:38you had told yourself that you are the Shuddha Atma and now you are swallowing the samosa. So,
07:48who you really are, please tell me. I am the gluttonous one. That's all. No. Though it's
08:05quite tempting to say, I am the Atma currently lost in samosa. Kindly don't yield to that temptation.
08:13If the samosa is what is dominating your mind, then the samosa is your identity. Accept that
08:23even if it humiliates you. That's the tragedy. It keeps changing. You already decided that the
08:38samosa is a must. But even if the samosa is a must, at least be honest enough to say,
08:48I am the samosa lover. Don't say, I am Atma. I am the samosa lover. Obviously. Please tell me
09:01from your own experience. What does this change mean? This change means that you are at the mercy
09:06of conditions and obviously this change is not something sitting here, engaging in this discussion.
09:17You are at a certain level and that's your identity and we'll walk out and then other
09:25things will take over and all the attentiveness will be lost. Do you think that is good?
09:33So this change is obviously not good.
09:36I am at a certain level and obviously this change is not good. So this change is not good.