questions & Answers with Sat-April 01, 2025

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-Sat joins the call after the group has been discussing and contemplating the topic of doership for the last 5 weeks.
She says: Welcome everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful month on non-doership.
The following questions are asked and answered by Sat. The first three refer to the previous Chat when She had joined, and the last seven pertain specifically to doership.
Question 1: What does it really mean to be present? What is the best way to be present?
Sat: It is to feel the quietness, turning your gaze inward. It is being present, meaning your Presence is present; It is obvious. It is not the five senses and the mind unconsciously doing things, because you are looking out, your Consciousness is reviewing the world outside of yourself. But when you turn the Consciousness towards Itself, it is being Presence. A moment of silence is being Presence, present, and feeling your Presence at that moment.
Part 2: You consistently point us towards everything being ‘for now’ and that everything has its own phase and lifespan. How can we apply this wisdom as the Art of Living?
Sat: Yes, I do say ‘for now I am this way’ or ‘for now the situation is this way,’ because I am very well aware that things change and yet humans think that everything is permanent, and they get so rattled by changes. Changes are not avoidable, so when you say ‘for now I am peaceful … for now my life is like this … my job is like this …’ etc. you are not setting yourself up for something permanent that is impossible to have. And you move with the changes without expectation or resistance much better than you would if you thought that this is the way it should be, just because it is [like that] now it will always be [that way.]
With our characters, with our behaviors, with our approach to life, with the way we think, constantly going through changes; so we cannot say that ‘so and so is this way.’ No, it is this way for now, it could be another way the next day or next year.
I came to realize that when I say I have a mastery in something, I am setting Myself up. Rather I say to Myself, ‘for now I have realized this!’ or whatever the situation is. I do not put finality because I have learned that there is no consistency in anything. Which is not bad, it is not something negative, if it was, we would all be bored to tears. It is just that in different situations different scenarios happen in life.
In other words, putting our eyes on the impermanency and the changes rather than the other way around.
Question 2: When we are present and conscious, is it that we more aware of our surroundings and all its details? Or, are we so present that we don’t see or feel anything but the Presence and the Consciousness?
Sat: Yes, that is a very good question. When you become present of your environment, you are right there and you see things in a beautiful way, you hear the sounds around you, you see the colors better, you are there to appreciate what is happening around you. And then we have a deeper state of being which means that you are so sunken into your silence that you are being 100% conscious of that Consciousness, of that pure State of Being. At that time, you just ARE, you don’t need any of the senses to feel in the present time. The mind dies down, you just ARE!
Question 3: On the February 25, 2025 U.S. Chat, You said: “We are not trying to wake up the dreamer, we want the dreamer to understand its greatness, rather than the limited self!”
Can you please elaborate more on this?
Sat: Yes, when the thinker is a thought, there is no use of waking up that entity. But in reality, the thinker is the soul before identification with the thought. So, when we identify not as the thinker, but that Presence that watches the thinking and the receiver of that thought, we are unlimited. We are limited when we take ourself to be a thinker, because thinker is a part of the mind. So, contemplate on it- whoever asked Me this question.
They are all one Source, let’s put it this way, say you were on the other side of the world, for example in Iran or in India. It would be very early in the morning for you. In the United States or in another part of the world, it might be the middle of the night or it is just getting dark. But nothing really changes; it just depends on where your Existence feels It is, that it is day time or night time. Where your body is, whether it is daytime or nighttime.
What I am trying to say is, it all depends on your understanding of if you turn yourself to being a thinker and the doer, then that is who you are, the limited. How do we wake that up? But once you realize that beyond the thinker and the thought, there is an Existence that when you are quiet, you watch your mind think, and the thinker vanishes- that is unlimitedness!
So, it is as though where you stand is where it is daytime or nighttime.
Goodnight everybody.