Question:

Dear Didi,
Thank you so much for making the sabbatical retreat mandatory for the Gurukul long-Buddha-retreat participants. The mind makes so many excuses not to sit for it. The discipline of the retreat and weekly Gurukul sessions protects the Turiya from slipping into the mind’s excuses. There is a clear recognition of plus one hundred and minus one hundred for every situation now. You truly protect me from myself. You enable the knowing of who I truly am.

Answer:

If you have recognized the plus and minus projections of the Consciousness, by the Consciousness, for the Consciousness, then it will be very clear that ‘You-the-Witness-Consciousness’ are playing this game with yourself, my dear.

• • You project the Minus, ‘I am bound.’
  • You project the Plus, ‘I want to be liberated.’
  • You project the Minus, ‘To be liberated, I need to find a mentor.’
  • You project the Plus, ‘I have found a mentor in Ekta.’
  • You project the Minus, ‘My mind keeps slipping away.’
  • You project the Plus, ‘Ekta’s instructions help bring me back.’

It is all but Thought, my dear.

• • ‘I am bound’ is a thought.
  • ‘I want to be liberated’ is a thought.
  • ‘To be liberated, I need to find a mentor’ is a thought.
  • ‘I have found a mentor in Ekta’ is a thought.
  • ‘My mind keeps slipping away’ is a thought.
  • ‘Ekta’s instructions help bring me back’ is a thought.

Recognizing the core thoughts is essential.

• • Ekta is also just a thought.
  • The person you claim to be is a thought.
  • The World that binds you is also merely a thought.
  • You are the doer in this world is a thought.
  • You are the experiencer is a thought.
  • ‘I am this’ is a thought.
  • ‘I-Sense’ is a thought.
  • ‘I am this’ is the enemy of the I-Sense, is also merely a thought.

Become free of this illusory bondage. There are merely random arisings on the background canvas of the NOW. Be Real!

Don’t be with the NOW as you are not separate from it, my dear girl. Be the NOW!