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March 24, 2022
Guided Meditation: If You Think You Are Free, Then You Are Free!
In this guided meditation, we explore Chapter 1, Verse 11 of the Ashtavakra Gita and we come to the realization that we are already free, we are already liberated.
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Transcript
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If we just take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out.
00:00:18.751 --> 00:00:25.763
Take a deep breath in and exhale.
00:00:26.504 --> 00:00:28.199
Do it at your own pace.
00:00:28.704 --> 00:00:35.768
As we mentioned two weeks ago that allow your breathing to be as natural as possible.
00:00:36.344 --> 00:00:39.912
According to the speed that you normally breathe in.
00:00:42.909 --> 00:00:49.908
The most important thing in meditation is to be as natural as you are.
00:00:50.168 --> 00:00:51.308
To be as you are.
00:00:52.820 --> 00:01:00.682
There's no need to increase the breaths in terms of the speed and there's no need to decrease the speed of the breath either.
00:01:01.087 --> 00:01:03.555
Just be at your normal pace.
00:01:04.436 --> 00:01:08.274
So take that deep breath in and then take that deep breath out.
00:01:08.397 --> 00:01:09.881
At your own comfort.
00:02:07.742 --> 00:02:08.644
As you're breathing.
00:02:08.644 --> 00:02:33.706
Notice the sounds from outside, listen to the sounds in your house, whether it's the creaking of a floorboard, whether it's the sound of somebody in the kitchen or the sound of the refrigerator.
00:02:36.729 --> 00:02:42.604
Or the sound of the TV in a different room, allow all those sounds to be in your experience.
00:02:42.991 --> 00:02:43.971
Be aware of them.
00:02:45.441 --> 00:02:46.670
Don't get rid of them.
00:02:48.290 --> 00:02:55.866
Don't ignore them, take in everything that your senses wants to take in.
00:02:56.711 --> 00:03:03.281
But remember to be the awareness behind the things that you can hear.
00:03:34.816 --> 00:03:58.574
Listen to the cars going by, listen to the birds chirping if you can, if it's raining where you are, listen to the rain, whatever your senses perceive, fully embrace them.
00:04:25.045 --> 00:04:36.153
So we'll begin now with the Ashtavakra Gita and we will look at chapter one, verse 11.
00:04:39.704 --> 00:04:41.627
And it goes like this.
00:04:42.524 --> 00:04:51.875
Whoever's free has realized that freedom as one's very own, as what one always is one's self.
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So we'll break it up.
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As we meditate upon this line, whoever's free has realized that freedom as one's very own.
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As what one always is, One Self.
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What Ashtavakra Ji is showing us in this line is that those that think they are free are free.
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Those that think they are liberated, are liberated.
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Another way of thinking of this is whatever you think you so become.
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But this line, whatever you think you so become is also in the Ashtavakra Gita, but the line isn't for our material existence, it's for our spiritual existence.
00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:06.050
What we really are.
00:06:10.838 --> 00:06:12.978
We are already liberated.
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If we are not this body, if we are not this mind, if we are not the senses that we just utilized earlier, if we are not made of any matter, but are Pure Consciousness.
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Then consciousness is already liberated.
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Can Consciousness liberate Consciousness from Itself?
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Is that even possible?
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We find that that cannot be possible.
00:06:57.747 --> 00:07:03.740
So those that know that they are free because they are Consciousness are always free.
00:07:04.233 --> 00:07:15.067
Let's meditate upon this for a few moments that those that understand that Consciousness is freedom are always free.
00:07:55.699 --> 00:08:04.273
Can this Pure Consciousness, this Pure Awareness that is observing everything through which we experience life.
00:08:06.392 --> 00:08:09.093
Has that ever been bounded in any way?
00:08:12.447 --> 00:08:18.336
Can this body bind, imprisoned Consciousness.
00:08:32.376 --> 00:08:46.619
This Formless consciousness can anything that is Formless, imageless, shapeless be imprisoned in any way, by our mind or by our body?
00:10:06.643 --> 00:10:12.004
You may have thoughts that are taking you away from what we've been talking about.
00:10:13.654 --> 00:10:14.674
Let the thoughts travel.
00:10:20.932 --> 00:10:22.075
Let them be free.
00:10:26.610 --> 00:10:29.389
If you are free, let your thoughts be free.
00:10:33.538 --> 00:10:39.687
So if they arise, watch them and they will disappear by themselves.
00:10:40.355 --> 00:10:41.972
Don't give them any attention.
00:10:42.822 --> 00:10:43.602
Just watch them.
00:10:45.557 --> 00:10:46.681
Don't focus on them.
00:10:46.831 --> 00:10:49.640
Just watch be an observer.
00:10:50.821 --> 00:10:58.620
And then when you're ready, go back to consciousness, go back to that Formless Awareness.
00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:11.070
Where there is freedom, there is no resistance.
00:12:12.162 --> 00:12:13.725
There is no conflict.
00:12:21.971 --> 00:12:25.802
So do not have conflict with your thoughts, with your emotions.
00:12:28.802 --> 00:12:36.985
They are just appearances or forms across that Formless Awareness.
00:12:40.126 --> 00:12:43.857
Does the screen ever get damaged by what happens in the movie?
00:12:44.408 --> 00:12:44.736
No.
00:12:47.407 --> 00:12:50.900
Does the screen become blissful from whatever happens in the movie?
00:12:51.153 --> 00:12:51.606
No.
00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.350
The screen remains as the screen should.
00:12:55.890 --> 00:13:04.270
It remains in its True Nature and our True Nature our Shared Being is this Formless Awareness.
00:13:11.712 --> 00:13:13.605
Here there is no resistance.
00:13:17.442 --> 00:13:21.121
Here everything flows as it should.
00:13:54.485 --> 00:14:12.432
In the very next line, Ashtavakra Ji says whoever's bound, remains imprisoned in the thought that one is bound by things that limit what one is.
00:14:14.716 --> 00:14:23.164
We see here that if we think we are bound, then we are bound.
00:14:24.537 --> 00:14:33.027
If we think that we are stuck in this world, in this material world, and we will never be free, then that is what will happen.
00:14:35.576 --> 00:14:56.469
But if we go by the first line that we looked at, If we understand that we have always been free because we are consciousness, then there is no way we can be bound.
00:15:01.990 --> 00:15:18.629
So we have to release every preconceived notion that we are bound by any way, that somebody holds the key to our freedom.
00:15:22.928 --> 00:15:29.456
If there is anybody that holds the key to your freedom or my freedom, it's our own self.
00:15:37.190 --> 00:15:50.256
Nobody can give you freedom because how can somebody give you something that you already are?
00:15:57.808 --> 00:16:06.318
So as Ashtavakra Ji guides us, if we think we are bound, we will remain bound.
00:16:08.539 --> 00:16:13.203
If we think we are stuck in samsara, we will stay stuck in samsara.
00:16:17.453 --> 00:16:23.573
If we think we are stuck in Maya, then we will be stuck in Maya.
00:16:48.005 --> 00:16:49.500
You have always been free.
00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.820
You always will be free.
00:17:02.417 --> 00:17:14.886
If I say I am ignorant, then I am imprisoning my own self.
00:17:19.258 --> 00:17:33.442
But if I understand that this I am is Pure Consciousness, Pure Awareness then where does ignorance even exist?
00:17:34.488 --> 00:17:37.928
Let's ponder, let's meditate upon that question.
00:19:28.621 --> 00:19:32.836
You find that ignorance does not exist here.
00:19:34.731 --> 00:19:45.513
In this Formless, in this Awareness, in this Consciousness, ignorance has no place.
00:19:49.285 --> 00:19:53.221
Ignorance cannot reside here.
00:20:23.865 --> 00:20:42.486
And then Ashtavakra Ji continues to say that such is the truth of what is said, that as one thinks, so one becomes.
00:20:43.385 --> 00:20:46.445
Of this the changing world is made.
00:20:48.145 --> 00:20:57.859
So those that are willing to be the sages, the meditators, the one that want to be aware of this Pure Consciousness, they will become this.
00:20:59.061 --> 00:21:19.798
They will realize this, they will unveil this, but those that get stuck in the world, of their desires, of their needs, more so their wants, those people will see the world accordingly.
00:21:22.645 --> 00:21:26.854
So we decide what we want to see in the world.
00:21:31.292 --> 00:22:08.577
And the world is our own existence, but as Pure Consciousness, like the blank screen It remains as It is, whatever the projector may project, the screen does not get affected.
00:22:09.317 --> 00:22:10.778
So you will have desires.
00:22:11.157 --> 00:22:12.417
We will have desires.
00:22:13.597 --> 00:22:17.111
We will need to meet our needs.
00:22:17.430 --> 00:22:46.127
We may have certain wants, we may have all of these things, but we go back to that Pure Consciousness, when we understand that those things cannot make us happy, they cannot lead us to that eternal happiness, that bliss that we talked about in the last meditation.
00:23:00.715 --> 00:23:10.079
Consciousness as it is, that Formless Awareness is always happy.
00:23:11.856 --> 00:23:17.441
That's the natural state, J Krishnamurti used to talk about the natural state.
00:23:18.161 --> 00:23:23.837
This is the natural state, where there is contentment.
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The desires may arise and you may go on the journey to meet those desires because that's the play of the body and the mind.
00:23:43.695 --> 00:23:56.391
But in the day, take out some time to remind yourself that there is only Pure Consciousness.
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There is only Formless Awareness.
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That way our desires, our needs, our wants, they will not lead us to imprisonment.
00:24:19.117 --> 00:24:22.384
But we use them as gateways towards our freedom.
00:24:23.285 --> 00:24:34.349
And that freedom is because we know that our Consciousness, this Pure Consciousness, this Shared Being of Awareness is always free.
00:24:35.016 --> 00:24:36.393
Always liberated.
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Remember, that you have the key and you are the door.
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You are the key to your own liberation and you are the door to the liberation, door to that freedom.
00:25:19.615 --> 00:25:23.236
And then again, at the same time you are that freedom yourself.
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You are that liberation yourself.
00:25:30.096 --> 00:25:35.766
This is the non-dual understanding of what we really are.
00:25:37.986 --> 00:25:43.715
From the non-dual perspective, there is nobody that needs to be free.
00:25:45.465 --> 00:25:59.287
There is nobody that is bound because how can consciousness, which is the only real existence be bound or imprisoned in any way.
00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:17.621
Anything that is a narrative that we create to explain this world is simply the play of duality.
00:26:24.209 --> 00:26:36.023
But as seekers of the truth, we understand that Consciousness is ever free.
00:26:39.573 --> 00:26:42.182
What is Formless cannot be bounded by form.
00:26:44.452 --> 00:26:47.949
What is imageless cannot be presented in an image.
00:26:49.252 --> 00:26:54.502
What is Shapeless cannot be formed in any shape or geometry?
00:26:55.854 --> 00:27:06.443
What is Dimensionless does not belong to any dimension nor can any dimension impose itself upon that Dimensionless state.
00:27:16.903 --> 00:27:20.277
No limit can be put onto this Limitless.
00:27:24.628 --> 00:27:30.473
No time can impose itself on the Timeless.
00:27:40.233 --> 00:27:49.794
And the finite cannot hold itself against the Infinite.
00:27:54.753 --> 00:28:10.051
Right now feel, and experience and be that Infinite, Formless, Imageless, Limitless, Consciousness, Awareness.
00:29:03.816 --> 00:29:26.691
So as you go about during the day, there may be times when you say I'm feeling tired or, I'm not happy about this, or this is not good, whatever may happen in the day, let that be the play of the body of mind.
00:29:30.471 --> 00:29:50.231
But always remember and discern, have that viveka, that wisdom that you are, that Pure Formless Consciousness, that Pure Formless Awareness and rest in That.
00:29:51.726 --> 00:29:55.112
Take time during the day to remind yourself of this.
00:29:57.866 --> 00:30:17.040
Each day of this week, keep reminding yourself about this then you will always be in that moment of freedom, you will always be liberated.
00:30:18.604 --> 00:30:25.419
And as the Sages of the East have termed this as jivan mukti.
00:30:27.288 --> 00:30:28.909
You are Jivan Mukt.
00:30:30.769 --> 00:30:33.509
You are Liberated whilst Living.
00:30:34.338 --> 00:30:45.269
This is the purpose of every spiritual path is to experience freedom.
00:30:45.269 --> 00:30:49.118
Liberation in the here and now.
00:30:59.729 --> 00:31:00.903
Here you are free.
00:31:01.551 --> 00:31:25.584
Now you are free May that Consciousness, which is free, always be in the background of your day to day life.
00:00:03.049 --> 00:00:10.789
If we just take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out.
00:00:18.751 --> 00:00:25.763
Take a deep breath in and exhale.
00:00:26.504 --> 00:00:28.199
Do it at your own pace.
00:00:28.704 --> 00:00:35.768
As we mentioned two weeks ago that allow your breathing to be as natural as possible.
00:00:36.344 --> 00:00:39.912
According to the speed that you normally breathe in.
00:00:42.909 --> 00:00:49.908
The most important thing in meditation is to be as natural as you are.
00:00:50.168 --> 00:00:51.308
To be as you are.
00:00:52.820 --> 00:01:00.682
There's no need to increase the breaths in terms of the speed and there's no need to decrease the speed of the breath either.
00:01:01.087 --> 00:01:03.555
Just be at your normal pace.
00:01:04.436 --> 00:01:08.274
So take that deep breath in and then take that deep breath out.
00:01:08.397 --> 00:01:09.881
At your own comfort.
00:02:07.742 --> 00:02:08.644
As you're breathing.
00:02:08.644 --> 00:02:33.706
Notice the sounds from outside, listen to the sounds in your house, whether it's the creaking of a floorboard, whether it's the sound of somebody in the kitchen or the sound of the refrigerator.
00:02:36.729 --> 00:02:42.604
Or the sound of the TV in a different room, allow all those sounds to be in your experience.
00:02:42.991 --> 00:02:43.971
Be aware of them.
00:02:45.441 --> 00:02:46.670
Don't get rid of them.
00:02:48.290 --> 00:02:55.866
Don't ignore them, take in everything that your senses wants to take in.
00:02:56.711 --> 00:03:03.281
But remember to be the awareness behind the things that you can hear.
00:03:34.816 --> 00:03:58.574
Listen to the cars going by, listen to the birds chirping if you can, if it's raining where you are, listen to the rain, whatever your senses perceive, fully embrace them.
00:04:25.045 --> 00:04:36.153
So we'll begin now with the Ashtavakra Gita and we will look at chapter one, verse 11.
00:04:39.704 --> 00:04:41.627
And it goes like this.
00:04:42.524 --> 00:04:51.875
Whoever's free has realized that freedom as one's very own, as what one always is one's self.
00:04:52.016 --> 00:04:53.156
So we'll break it up.
00:04:53.776 --> 00:05:02.346
As we meditate upon this line, whoever's free has realized that freedom as one's very own.
00:05:04.596 --> 00:05:08.276
As what one always is, One Self.
00:05:15.576 --> 00:05:26.882
What Ashtavakra Ji is showing us in this line is that those that think they are free are free.
00:05:28.870 --> 00:05:32.180
Those that think they are liberated, are liberated.
00:05:35.762 --> 00:05:40.947
Another way of thinking of this is whatever you think you so become.
00:05:46.187 --> 00:06:04.500
But this line, whatever you think you so become is also in the Ashtavakra Gita, but the line isn't for our material existence, it's for our spiritual existence.
00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:06.050
What we really are.
00:06:10.838 --> 00:06:12.978
We are already liberated.
00:06:16.456 --> 00:06:33.752
If we are not this body, if we are not this mind, if we are not the senses that we just utilized earlier, if we are not made of any matter, but are Pure Consciousness.
00:06:36.161 --> 00:06:39.317
Then consciousness is already liberated.
00:06:40.846 --> 00:06:45.747
Can Consciousness liberate Consciousness from Itself?
00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:49.103
Is that even possible?
00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.995
We find that that cannot be possible.
00:06:57.747 --> 00:07:03.740
So those that know that they are free because they are Consciousness are always free.
00:07:04.233 --> 00:07:15.067
Let's meditate upon this for a few moments that those that understand that Consciousness is freedom are always free.
00:07:55.699 --> 00:08:04.273
Can this Pure Consciousness, this Pure Awareness that is observing everything through which we experience life.
00:08:06.392 --> 00:08:09.093
Has that ever been bounded in any way?
00:08:12.447 --> 00:08:18.336
Can this body bind, imprisoned Consciousness.
00:08:32.376 --> 00:08:46.619
This Formless consciousness can anything that is Formless, imageless, shapeless be imprisoned in any way, by our mind or by our body?
00:10:06.643 --> 00:10:12.004
You may have thoughts that are taking you away from what we've been talking about.
00:10:13.654 --> 00:10:14.674
Let the thoughts travel.
00:10:20.932 --> 00:10:22.075
Let them be free.
00:10:26.610 --> 00:10:29.389
If you are free, let your thoughts be free.
00:10:33.538 --> 00:10:39.687
So if they arise, watch them and they will disappear by themselves.
00:10:40.355 --> 00:10:41.972
Don't give them any attention.
00:10:42.822 --> 00:10:43.602
Just watch them.
00:10:45.557 --> 00:10:46.681
Don't focus on them.
00:10:46.831 --> 00:10:49.640
Just watch be an observer.
00:10:50.821 --> 00:10:58.620
And then when you're ready, go back to consciousness, go back to that Formless Awareness.
00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:11.070
Where there is freedom, there is no resistance.
00:12:12.162 --> 00:12:13.725
There is no conflict.
00:12:21.971 --> 00:12:25.802
So do not have conflict with your thoughts, with your emotions.
00:12:28.802 --> 00:12:36.985
They are just appearances or forms across that Formless Awareness.
00:12:40.126 --> 00:12:43.857
Does the screen ever get damaged by what happens in the movie?
00:12:44.408 --> 00:12:44.736
No.
00:12:47.407 --> 00:12:50.900
Does the screen become blissful from whatever happens in the movie?
00:12:51.153 --> 00:12:51.606
No.
00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.350
The screen remains as the screen should.
00:12:55.890 --> 00:13:04.270
It remains in its True Nature and our True Nature our Shared Being is this Formless Awareness.
00:13:11.712 --> 00:13:13.605
Here there is no resistance.
00:13:17.442 --> 00:13:21.121
Here everything flows as it should.
00:13:54.485 --> 00:14:12.432
In the very next line, Ashtavakra Ji says whoever's bound, remains imprisoned in the thought that one is bound by things that limit what one is.
00:14:14.716 --> 00:14:23.164
We see here that if we think we are bound, then we are bound.
00:14:24.537 --> 00:14:33.027
If we think that we are stuck in this world, in this material world, and we will never be free, then that is what will happen.
00:14:35.576 --> 00:14:56.469
But if we go by the first line that we looked at, If we understand that we have always been free because we are consciousness, then there is no way we can be bound.
00:15:01.990 --> 00:15:18.629
So we have to release every preconceived notion that we are bound by any way, that somebody holds the key to our freedom.
00:15:22.928 --> 00:15:29.456
If there is anybody that holds the key to your freedom or my freedom, it's our own self.
00:15:37.190 --> 00:15:50.256
Nobody can give you freedom because how can somebody give you something that you already are?
00:15:57.808 --> 00:16:06.318
So as Ashtavakra Ji guides us, if we think we are bound, we will remain bound.
00:16:08.539 --> 00:16:13.203
If we think we are stuck in samsara, we will stay stuck in samsara.
00:16:17.453 --> 00:16:23.573
If we think we are stuck in Maya, then we will be stuck in Maya.
00:16:48.005 --> 00:16:49.500
You have always been free.
00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.820
You always will be free.
00:17:02.417 --> 00:17:14.886
If I say I am ignorant, then I am imprisoning my own self.
00:17:19.258 --> 00:17:33.442
But if I understand that this I am is Pure Consciousness, Pure Awareness then where does ignorance even exist?
00:17:34.488 --> 00:17:37.928
Let's ponder, let's meditate upon that question.
00:19:28.621 --> 00:19:32.836
You find that ignorance does not exist here.
00:19:34.731 --> 00:19:45.513
In this Formless, in this Awareness, in this Consciousness, ignorance has no place.
00:19:49.285 --> 00:19:53.221
Ignorance cannot reside here.
00:20:23.865 --> 00:20:42.486
And then Ashtavakra Ji continues to say that such is the truth of what is said, that as one thinks, so one becomes.
00:20:43.385 --> 00:20:46.445
Of this the changing world is made.
00:20:48.145 --> 00:20:57.859
So those that are willing to be the sages, the meditators, the one that want to be aware of this Pure Consciousness, they will become this.
00:20:59.061 --> 00:21:19.798
They will realize this, they will unveil this, but those that get stuck in the world, of their desires, of their needs, more so their wants, those people will see the world accordingly.
00:21:22.645 --> 00:21:26.854
So we decide what we want to see in the world.
00:21:31.292 --> 00:22:08.577
And the world is our own existence, but as Pure Consciousness, like the blank screen It remains as It is, whatever the projector may project, the screen does not get affected.
00:22:09.317 --> 00:22:10.778
So you will have desires.
00:22:11.157 --> 00:22:12.417
We will have desires.
00:22:13.597 --> 00:22:17.111
We will need to meet our needs.
00:22:17.430 --> 00:22:46.127
We may have certain wants, we may have all of these things, but we go back to that Pure Consciousness, when we understand that those things cannot make us happy, they cannot lead us to that eternal happiness, that bliss that we talked about in the last meditation.
00:23:00.715 --> 00:23:10.079
Consciousness as it is, that Formless Awareness is always happy.
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That's the natural state, J Krishnamurti used to talk about the natural state.
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This is the natural state, where there is contentment.
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The desires may arise and you may go on the journey to meet those desires because that's the play of the body and the mind.
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But in the day, take out some time to remind yourself that there is only Pure Consciousness.
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There is only Formless Awareness.
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That way our desires, our needs, our wants, they will not lead us to imprisonment.
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But we use them as gateways towards our freedom.
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And that freedom is because we know that our Consciousness, this Pure Consciousness, this Shared Being of Awareness is always free.
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Always liberated.
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Remember, that you have the key and you are the door.
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You are the key to your own liberation and you are the door to the liberation, door to that freedom.
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And then again, at the same time you are that freedom yourself.
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You are that liberation yourself.
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This is the non-dual understanding of what we really are.
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From the non-dual perspective, there is nobody that needs to be free.
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There is nobody that is bound because how can consciousness, which is the only real existence be bound or imprisoned in any way.
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Anything that is a narrative that we create to explain this world is simply the play of duality.
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But as seekers of the truth, we understand that Consciousness is ever free.
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What is Formless cannot be bounded by form.
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What is imageless cannot be presented in an image.
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What is Shapeless cannot be formed in any shape or geometry?
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What is Dimensionless does not belong to any dimension nor can any dimension impose itself upon that Dimensionless state.
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No limit can be put onto this Limitless.
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No time can impose itself on the Timeless.
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And the finite cannot hold itself against the Infinite.
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Right now feel, and experience and be that Infinite, Formless, Imageless, Limitless, Consciousness, Awareness.
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So as you go about during the day, there may be times when you say I'm feeling tired or, I'm not happy about this, or this is not good, whatever may happen in the day, let that be the play of the body of mind.
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But always remember and discern, have that viveka, that wisdom that you are, that Pure Formless Consciousness, that Pure Formless Awareness and rest in That.
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Take time during the day to remind yourself of this.
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Each day of this week, keep reminding yourself about this then you will always be in that moment of freedom, you will always be liberated.
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And as the Sages of the East have termed this as jivan mukti.
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You are Jivan Mukt.
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You are Liberated whilst Living.
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This is the purpose of every spiritual path is to experience freedom.
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Liberation in the here and now.
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Here you are free.
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Now you are free May that Consciousness, which is free, always be in the background of your day to day life.
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