Pure Consciousness is Who I Am

Pure Consciousness Is Who I Am
Sat guides everyone:
Isn’t it strange that in this lifetime we find one another and then we sit under this tree?
Which part of it do we have a hand in?
Now, let us be for a moment 100% present with the eyes open and feel the environment, and now.
Rather than being distracted, we smell, we feel the air.
We see the shape of the tree and we feel our Presence sitting here.
Is our Presence sitting here?
Or are we Consciousness, in which all this present time is, including the sounds and the birds?
Are they out of our Consciousness?
It appears so, but is it?
(A plane passes overhead.)
Even as big as the plane that is passing by is, is it in our Consciousness or is it separate?
Do not doze off, Stay extremely alert into discovery.
You need to be alert in what I am saying; otherwise, it is a waste.
This is why this meditation emphasizes an alertness.
That’s it. (Stays silent for several seconds.) Any sharing?
Farnaz: For a moment, immediately after You said what You said, I felt that I am the Consciousness and everything is in me. Then my mind was trying to question it, but I was feeling it.
Vijay: I felt an alertness that I have never felt before. I feel like I can feel every cell.
Sat: We are so focused on one body and because we are focused on one body, we see bodies. But when our focus is not limited, everything changes. Nothing is separate, nothing is outside of our Consciousness; it just isn’t. But then we focus on the body again and everything becomes separate and limited and that is what maya means. Maya means experiencing what is not, which is a great game.
Mandana: I have a question. Without the Consciousness, I cannot be even present or I do not exist without the Consciousness or that plane does not mean anything.
Sat: When we are in these realms, Consciousness is everything. It is a pathway to awareness. The “I am” is Consciousness. But the Consciousness, when It is realized, it becomes Pure Consciousness or Awareness, what Nisargadatta said: When I feel love, I am everything. When I feel wisdom, I am nothing.
So, you can say: When I feel totality of Consciousness, I am everything. When I go beyond to the complete elimination, I am nothing. Then he said, ‘My life moves between these two polars.’
So, right now, we wanted to break through the limited consciousness tonight by vigilance, to realize that when we felt ourself sitting here, where was our Consciousness? Was it limited just to this body? That is expansion!
When you feel nothingness, still you are conscious of your nothingness. So, as long as you are in the body, the Consciousness is your companion. Just the fact that you say “the Consciousness is empty.” It is being aware of emptiness- so that's Consciousness. So, this is why we want to expand that, to see that what we see outside of the individual, limited consciousness actually is neither outside nor inside. It is just one Knowingness, one Consciousness!
This is a very deep subject we are having tonight.
Mansour: I feel that it is exactly the way You are describing it. It is conscious of the emptiness.
Sat: That is the key; it is conscious of the emptiness, but when you are completely empty, you are not conscious of it- this is the difference.
Mandana: Can I ask a question? You said, “When you're completely empty, you are no longer conscious of it.” What is “it” referring to?
Sat: Of the Consciousness. It is like deep sleep; you still exist, but the Consciousness is lacking. In a deep sleep, you are not conscious of anything, so Consciousness does not exist, only Existence exists! Then you come to a lighter sleep. In order to experience the manifestation, you have to be the Consciousness itself.
Nilufar: Sat, I have a question. Do You always or often experience Sat-Chit-Ananda when You meditate or You go to the silence?
Sat: I experience Sat and Chit. Ananda for Me is peace; it is not bliss. I do not know how bliss feels like. Yes, I often wonder about this, because when I was blissful, I was not aware of anything else but the bliss, I mean intoxication during those days that I had it.
Nilufar: So, Sat-Chit is the state in silence?
Sat: No, it is your state. Sat means Existence, not the existence humans think, “So, this guy exists, and when he's dead he's not existing.” Then, Existence is also conscious, in other words, the Existence when It becomes conscious, It becomes the manifestation. So, they go hand in hand; there is not a one existence that does not become conscious and one is conscious. It is both at the same time and we are That. When our attention is on the movement or contents of Consciousness, we are human; when it goes to the unmoved Consciousness, we are Existence. But it does not matter, it is just the attention. That is what I think.
Nilufar: And You can experience that Sat-Chit not necessarily [just] in a state of meditation; You can just be doing Your own thing and experience that?
Sat: You call it experience, that is the wrong word. When your attention is on yourself, you taste your Reality. It is not something you achieve, even when you are working. Even if you know intellectually who you are and you are totally convinced by it, it has benefit because then you play the role. It is not the total understanding of it, but it is better than nothing.
Nilufar: So, it is not an experience because it is already you?
Sat: Experience comes and goes. You can say I had a momentary experience of Existence; that means that everything dropped and I saw it. We call that experience. Existence and pure Consciousness is not an experience; it is the State of Being; becoming is experience. You go as an individual, you experience That. But if you are That, then you cannot say you are experiencing it.
Nilufar: So, it is the State of Being, whether you know it or not?
Sat: That is all there is, that is all there is. This carpet is a State of Being, because it is in the Consciousness and Consciousness is Existence. We call it inert; it has no life to it. But if you see it, it is the same fabric as a human, in a different form. Why? Because it is in the Consciousness and Consciousness is Existence.
Nilufar: Is Consciousness Existence or consciousness is in Existence?
Sat: Consciousness is Existence because They are inseparable. That is My intuition, that is My conviction, and I stand on it for Myself because, everything else seems trash to Me.
Nilufar: So, is this all about attention? It feels like the whole thing is one Consciousness, but when my attention goes towards the maya, I get involved with the maya. When My attention goes inward, then I feel the totality of that Consciousness.
Sat: Yes, we say attention, just verbally. It does not even need attention but we have to say something. When you Are, you are pure Consciousness; when you try to become, you are involved Consciousness. Right now, just BE. We are not even talking about attention (pauses for a few seconds) now be Nilufar.
So, yes, I talk about attention to get your attention.
Nilufar: It is like everything being Consciousness and at the same time this emptiness. It is such a ... do You know what I am saying? To your mind it is a controversy, but it really feels that way.
Sat: Yes, everything appears in Consciousness, not everything is Consciousness. Consciousness is empty, and then things appear. You can be conscious of nothing, or you can be conscious of everything because “I Am” is Consciousness.
So, when we learn this, we expand on it and we really understand it, we see that the problem is thinking that the body, the mind and the five senses are telling us the truth. Whereas, they are just an avenue; they are just like a vehicle of Consciousness or a drawing inside of the Consciousness.
But as long as we live, it is hard to drop the individuality. There are very, very rare cases that the realization is so high that they do not live in the body [for] more than a few days. So, most of the enlightened people live an ordinary life and they have all sorts of human stuff in their life and human traits. But what makes them different is that they know what “I Am” is and They know what the dream is.
You know, Baba told Me in 2007 that He left His body, but the body was still living five more years after that. In other words, His entity, His existence was doing some other things, [in] some other places. But the Consciousness “I Am” still was there.
Did you guys not experience the words that were coming out tonight?
Did you not feel that you are the Consciousness of the body, but not the body itself?
-Everyone replies yes.
Sat: Do you know how advanced this is? For just a moment we experienced the expansion of Consciousness!
Farnaz: Sat, in the meditation “Am I a man or a woman?” You ask a lot of questions. You ask the main question, which is, “Am I a man or a woman,” but then You also ask, “Am I my thoughts or not? Am I the image that I think I am or not? Am I this body or not?” and many other questions.
My thinking was that all of it is also me, even the body, everything, all of these things that are mentioned are not all of me, but it is still part of me. Am I correct?
Sat: No, it is in your Consciousness, but Existence cannot be individualized. It is like a night dream; again, we go to the night dream. In the night dream, My image in is your night dream and you say to Me “It's all me, isn't it?”
I would have the same answer. I would say “No, you are the dreamer; your image that asks ‘is it all me?’ is in the dream in the Consciousness of the dreamer!” Immediately you will wake up because you realize, yes, although you are in Consciousness of the dreamer, but you are not the dreamer. Otherwise, you would be one with the sleep of the dreamer; unmoved!
Listen to this, in the daytime, this image that we questioned, it is in the Consciousness of the cosmic dreamer, but it is not the reality of the cosmic dreamer. So, we want to realize that we are that cosmic dreamer instead of the activity in the Consciousness.
Everything is in the Consciousness; all the five elements are in the Consciousness. But the Consciousness of who? At nighttime it is a dreamer, what is [it in] the daytime? It is Existence, which is the cosmic dreamer. In other words, it is the Totality.
Nilufar: Can the Totality have a bad dream?
Sat: Totality has movement; it is the images that call it bad and good. It is just a movement. Beyond that, I do not know!

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