Understanding the Goal of Your Search
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0:04 - 0:08Understanding the Goal of Your Search
with Mooji -
0:08 - 0:14July 2014, Monte Sahaja
(with subtitles) -
0:15 - 0:18What is the goal of the seeker?
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0:18 - 0:24This is very important
and should be from the outset, -
0:24 - 0:29before one thinks about engaging
in a spiritual path or journey. -
0:29 - 0:34Very early on, there should be a sense
of what you are searching for. -
0:34 - 0:36You must be very clear about that.
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0:36 - 0:41Is it for knowledge? Is it for experience?
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0:41 - 0:44Is it for fame?
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0:44 - 0:50Is it for attaining spiritual powers?
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0:50 - 0:54To do miracles?
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0:54 - 0:57To realise what Truth is?
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0:57 - 1:01To realise the Truth,
but so much so, that you are the same as it, -
1:01 - 1:05your realisation and your Self
are the same thing? -
1:05 - 1:09Is it to have a better afterlife?
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1:09 - 1:13Is it to become a teacher?
Is it to become a guru? -
1:13 - 1:16We have to really think about these things,
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1:16 - 1:20what is the purpose of your seeking.
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1:20 - 1:23Of course, you can start
without having any idea -
1:23 - 1:26and without having any clear intention.
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1:26 - 1:29You just follow what things are happening
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1:29 - 1:32and you grow into a kind of a shape
or something like that. -
1:32 - 1:36That must also be included, like that.
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1:36 - 1:43But I feel that for many seekers,
after years of practice, -
1:43 - 1:47if they really were asked,
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1:47 - 1:50'Do you have an idea
what you are searching for?' -
1:50 - 1:54anyway, at the end of so many years
your goals may change. -
1:54 - 1:58You may start off with one thing
and become something else. -
1:58 - 2:01If you are searching just for experiences,
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2:01 - 2:03they will come and go, of course.
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2:03 - 2:06Every experience is connected with time,
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2:06 - 2:08has a beginning and an ending also.
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2:08 - 2:12So it is very important to be clear,
as much as you can be, -
2:12 - 2:17or to have a sense of what is important,
where you are going. -
2:21 - 2:27Here, the goal is to awaken
to what you have always been. -
2:27 - 2:32I say, not to develop into something.
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2:32 - 2:34That can be another way of looking at it,
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2:34 - 2:38so I don't want to be too rigid
with terminologies. -
2:38 - 2:44It can be put like you are growing into this,
becoming this thing, -
2:44 - 2:47like you are moving from caterpillar
to butterfly. -
2:47 - 2:49It can be a way of putting it.
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2:49 - 2:55Or, it can also be a way of undressing
all the layers of conditioning -
2:55 - 2:57and ideas and identity and so on,
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2:57 - 3:00and coming back to one's original place,
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3:00 - 3:02before we 'acquired', so to speak,
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3:02 - 3:09all these ideas about ourselves and the world,
which are not stable. -
3:09 - 3:15So here, we focus more on that
which is always present, -
3:15 - 3:19because if Truth is real and infinite,
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3:19 - 3:22it must always be real, always be infinite.
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3:22 - 3:28And if it is infinite, it means that
it is also here now, ever present. -
3:28 - 3:30Then your question may be,
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3:30 - 3:33'If it's here now,
how come I'm not aware of it?' -
3:33 - 3:38And I would be inclined to tell you,
Well, actually you are It! -
3:38 - 3:43But you believe you are not it.
You are unaware of it, so to speak, -
3:43 - 3:47because we are more feeling that
we are our body-mind -
3:47 - 3:50and the dynamic expression which we call life,
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3:50 - 3:53and our belief systems, identities, and so on.
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3:53 - 3:57But these are not stable factors,
they are also changing. -
3:57 - 4:01And you are behind all the changes
to witness all the changes. -
4:01 - 4:02So you cannot be the changes.
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4:02 - 4:07This is something that
you will discover very, very quickly in satsang, -
4:07 - 4:11and as you go more deeply
into the experience of this. -
4:11 - 4:14Experience means that
you can confirm for yourself, -
4:14 - 4:20not just believing, not imagining,
but you can feel and clarify -
4:20 - 4:25and somehow confirm
from your direct experience. -
4:25 - 4:27This has to be the most important factor
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4:27 - 4:30because otherwise you are only speculating,
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4:30 - 4:33it only becomes a question of opinions or so.
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4:33 - 4:36One has to speak from one's Being.
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4:36 - 4:41You must be the thing
you are searching for, ultimately. -
4:41 - 4:43Now, whether that 'ultimately'
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4:43 - 4:49is a question of lifetimes, or years, or so on,
well, we will see. -
4:49 - 4:52I say, What you are searching for is timeless
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4:52 - 4:56and it is timelessly here,
timelessly present. -
4:56 - 5:00You are not greater than the thing
you are searching for, in fact. -
5:00 - 5:02You, the one who is seeking,
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5:02 - 5:05if you have a notion of your self as a person,
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5:05 - 5:08you are not greater
than the thing you are seeking. -
5:08 - 5:11And even you, as a person seeking something,
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5:11 - 5:15are watched immediately
and directly from your true place -
5:15 - 5:19which knows what seeking is,
knows what intention is. -
5:19 - 5:22So in a sense it is crazy!
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5:22 - 5:24That you are here!
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5:24 - 5:36But it seems to be so entwined
with our learnt self, our ideas, that -
5:36 - 5:41it seems an entangled sense that,
'I am here somehow, -
5:41 - 5:45but it is all mixed-in with my thoughts,
feelings, memories and so on.' -
5:45 - 5:51So in true Self-discovery, all this opens out
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5:51 - 6:00and one is freed from the influence
of the psychological mind. -
6:00 - 6:03So this is the most important thing.
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6:03 - 6:08And as I said, You can start off
in a very naive search, you can say, -
6:08 - 6:11and mature in that search to the point
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6:11 - 6:14where everything becomes clear, unexpectedly.
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6:14 - 6:18So, every blessing for that.
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6:18 - 6:20Whatever it is that brings you ...
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6:20 - 6:27In any search you will experience,
if it is authentic for you, -
6:27 - 6:31it must be also alive with love.
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6:31 - 6:34Love is a great support in searching.
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6:34 - 6:39Not love that necessarily
needs an objective reflection, -
6:39 - 6:45but the love which is the joy of Being,
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6:45 - 6:49the sense of wholeness or unity of Being,
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6:49 - 6:52which arises in this form as love towards all.
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6:52 - 6:56It doesn't pick and choose,
like how the sun shines, -
6:56 - 7:02it doesn't prefer to shine on beautiful flowers
and not on a dirty place, -
7:02 - 7:04it is everywhere equally.
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7:04 - 7:09So your heart becomes very open,
very generous like this -
7:09 - 7:14and is not inclined to separate and to judge.
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7:14 - 7:21All these things begin to melt away
and become one unity, one wholeness. -
7:21 - 7:24And this wholeness is not about things,
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7:24 - 7:29it is a spiritual feeling,
it is all-inclusiveness. -
7:29 - 7:32These are not things that
we can describe so much with words. -
7:32 - 7:36And it's good that
we cannot describe them with words, -
7:36 - 7:38because then we would put too much trust
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7:38 - 7:41as we have done already, in words.
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7:41 - 7:45The words have got to open up
in their inner meaning inside, -
7:45 - 7:49so that the husk of the words is pulled away
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7:49 - 7:55and the kernel of the words,
which is the soul of the words, is alive. -
7:55 - 7:59In the same way that you drive a car.
A car is just a mechanical thing. -
7:59 - 8:02You drive the car, the car has no soul.
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8:02 - 8:05You are the soul inside the car.
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8:05 - 8:08In a similar way, the car of this body,
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8:08 - 8:12you must find the soul who is inside him.
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8:12 - 8:14You must find that one.
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8:14 - 8:17You cannot say, 'I am my car'.
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8:17 - 8:21You may say, 'I love my car,
but I am not my car'. -
8:21 - 8:26You are the soul in the car.
You can go out and get into another car. -
8:26 - 8:31You must find out
who is the driver inside this car of the body. -
8:31 - 8:35Very good for now.
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8:35 - 8:37Thank you.
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8:47 - 8:50If the Truth is real and infinite,
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8:50 - 8:53it must always be real
and always be infinite. -
8:53 - 8:57If it is infinite,
it means that it is here now, ever present. -
8:58 - 9:05You must BE the thing that
you are searching for. -
9:06 - 9:11What you are searching for is timeless
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9:11 - 9:16and it is timelessly here,
timelessly present.
- Title:
- Understanding the Goal of Your Search
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Spontaneous Satsang with Sri Mooji at Monte Sahaja July 27 2014
If the truth is real and infinite, it must always be real and always be infinite. If it is infinite it means that it is here now, ever present.
You must BE the thing that you are searching for.
What you are searching for is timeless and it is timelessly here, timelessly present.Music: 'Remember' by Omkara from the album 'From the Silence' also available on: http://www.satsangshop.com/music/30-from-the-silence-by-omkara.html
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