Preparatory Session with Sri Namannji – 10th October 2013 The Awakened one experiences no division as the inner and the outer. The unawakened one experiences a division as the inner and the outer. Sri Bhagavan gives a teaching every week for you to contemplate, to be introspective and to see how the teaching is applicable to you. Bhagavan talks about the awakened one and the unawakened one. You are supposed to contemplate on the teaching and understand from your own unconscious. If you are awakened, try to see the truth in your life using the first part of the teaching. If you are unawakened, then see the truth in your life using the second part of the teaching by seeing examples in your own life. On Sunday, Sri Bhagavan gave the teaching, The Awakened one experiences no division as the inner and the outer. The unawakened one experiences a division as the inner and the outer. This exposition will not give you the complete understanding or the meaning of the teaching. Those who have not completely understood the teaching will get some hooks to understand. There is no specific way to understand. Everyone understands from their own unconscious, from their own angle and from their past. Whatever is mentioned here will help you understand in your own way. We all understand that when a person is awakened the self is gone. This means that the sense of separate existence is no longer there. There is no division between you and the other. Instead, an unawakened person is clearly feeling the division between himself and the other. When the person is Fully Awakened, he experiences the other in him. He is there, everywhere. This means there is no difference between him and the tree. When he is actually experiencing the tree, he becomes the experience. He becomes the tree. There is no sense of separate existence. There is no sense of the body. There is no sense of the self. There is no sense of division. There is no sense of time. Commentaries are not there. There is just the experience. It is a wonderful experience to not have the self. Since there is no one to suffer, suffering is not there. That is the state of the awakened one. Let us understand how the self is formed. If you are watching a tree it is beautiful, the wind is blowing, the leaves are shaking and they generate a beautiful sound in the wind. All of this is happening and you can completely enjoy the experience provided there is no commentary in the mind. Commentary would be like saying, “It is a tall tree. It is a green tree. It is a mango tree.” The moment commentaries, labelling and descriptions start, there is a disturbance to the experience. The experience is not complete, given this disturbance. So there is dissatisfaction. This is the difference. It is the division. You feel, “I am naming. I am judging.” That very commentary becomes the self and you lose the experience of the experienced. The experiencer (namely you), is born. For the awakened person the self is not there. There is no past. There is no future. It is just the present. In the present he is completely experiencing without judgement, descriptions or labelling. It is just the experience. When he is experiencing, he is not there, so it is just the experience. The experiencer is not there, so division is not there. There is no difference between him and the tree. That is the experience. Right now you understand this intellectually. You are just imagining how it will be. But, when you get into the experience, then you actually know there is no division as the inner and the outer. It is one and the same. The self is generated due to that division. That division is the illusion of the self. On the other hand the unawakened one finds division in everything. When he is eating he says, “I am eating.” The “I” is created by the mind, by the sensory coordination and by language. When you say, “I am eating,” there is actually eating happening. If you break down the process of eating what happens is you see a sweet, the image is captured in the retina in the eye and some signals are sent to the brain. The brain sends it to the memory where information about a sweet is retrieved and then there is commentary in the brain that says, “It is sweet. It is going to be nice. Go and take it.” Then a signal is sent to the shoulder, the arm, the elbow, the hand and fingers. The hand starts moving toward the sweet. It picks up the sweet and puts it in your mouth. The moment the tongue touches the sweet, certain processes happen in the mouth and you start chewing. Saliva is automatically generated or used to mix the sweet well. You feel like gulping. You swallow it and then digestion happens. It is all a process that is happening naturally. Nobody is there doing it. But, the brain is always trying to see that there is somebody doing it. Language supports this. You say, “I am eating.” Who is that “I”? There is no “I” at all. It is only an illusion. It is a division created in the brain by the sensory coordination. Sri Bhagavan says, “The self is concept.” It is an illusion created by the division. Then it gives you the illusion that you are different from the sweet. The language brings about the understanding of the you and the sweet being different. You say, “I am eating.” So for the unawakened that divisions exists in the inner and the outer. For the awakened person this process is broken. The brain starts functioning differently. That is why Bhagavan says for an awakened person there is a change in the brain. It is a physiological change in the brain whereby the illusion of the self is gone. Contemplate more on this and see how you can’t do anything about it. You can only watch the process that happens in the brain. Most of the time you feel “you are present so strongly. But in reality you are not there. The sadhana you can do is to just experience the different senses. You can keep watching the sky, the greenery around you. You can watch how you are brushing your teeth with your senses and experience it to the extent possible. Doing this sadhana is a good preparation for your awakening, as well. Contemplate for at least five minutes with your eyes closed. See the thoughts that are coming and try to relate to this week’s teaching. Also contemplate on what has been explained here. Pray to AmmaBhagavan that you will receive a breakthrough during your five-minute contemplation.
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