#11 Being Yourself | The Last Obstacle to Discovering Natural Fulfillment

(Soft music playing)

I know we all want lots of little things.

Enough money to life on

The right mate, the right children

On and on.

But what do you finally, absolutely want?

If it were your last day on earth

What would you really want?

What would you want

your life to have been about?

To have been used for?

Cause that’s what you really want.

(Narrator woman voice): Hello and welcome

To being yourself, help and Gangaji’s

My name is Barbara Denimpond.

Just sharing a little bit personally,

when I first met Gangaji,

She absolutely stoped me in my tracks.

She was really helping me,

check my assumptions.

The assumptions I had about

Who I think I was,

And what I think was happening

And what was here

And what the problem was.

And so I really wanted to bring this

Monologe to you, because it is

An opportunity for us all together

To once again, check our assumptions.

What do we image, is the problem?

Gangaji has a remarkably answer to share

With you to that question.

This was recorded in 2008. Let’s listen.

(Gangaji speaking now): Hello everyone.

This morning, someone came up and

Initiated a conversation with a problem.

And I dismissed the problem

And we got on with the solution.

What’s also there, because often,

We’re so overly fixated on our problems,

That we don’t recognise, that in fact

We don’t have any problems, really.

But I don’t wanna trivialise the fact

That we experience, that we have problems.

We hm, that’s most of our common experience

And our experience is,

if we could just get those Problems solved

Then we would have fulfilment or happiness

Or peace, or our purpose would be revealed

You know, I mean it can be very superficial

My problem is, I need to loose weight

And then I’ll be happy

Or my problem is: if i could just find

The right job, or the right major

in college, or if I could find

Well that’s a little bit deeper, but

If I could find the right mate

Well ok, I found the right mate

But if I could have children

Now that I have children,

could I have the right children

(laughter in the audience)

Or get rid of the mate and re-mate.

And so we’re like led around by problems

That if we can look at our problems

And solve our problems, then we are happy

Because that’s the way we function as

Human animals. The problem of feeding

Ourselves, of sheltering ourselves

Of protecting ourselves as a tribe.

So it is an important aspect

of how our minds function.

But when it becomes the focus of our minds

We overlook this place of refuge

This place of peace.

This placeless fulfilment.

That is our nature.

Maybe not our human nature.

Maybe not our animal nature.

But our nature, before human, before animal

And so I do except that it is important

To identify the problem. And then it is

Important to recognise that

The problem is making that the problem.

Ramana Said: “the last thing to go

is self doubt.”

And Papaji said, which always the student

Has to surpass the master,

you know, that’s the way it grows.

„The last problem is:

thinking there is a Problem.“

And that’s what we kling to.

I know there is a problem,

I feel there is a problem,

I sense there is a problem

Or my life reflects that there’s a problem

And that’s the power of mind.

So if you’re willing, just to give up

The very powerful and hypnotic thought:

„Me and my problem, problems.”

Just to give it up.

Then you are immediately in retreat.

From your life as you have written it