So when you react negatively to a situation, you can call it blasphemy. For you’re saying that God doesn’t know what he’s doing. That somehow consciousness has made a mistake someplace and you have to correct it, what nonsense. Yet most of us are doing these things everyday. Thinking that it’s up to us to straighten something out, up to us to correct somebody, it’s up to us to fix things. These things that you’re trying to correct and fix have been going on since the beginning of time, when the illusory universe first appeared. It’s all God’s leela. The sport of God, it’s a joke and you’re taking it seriously.
Is there any wonder that you’re feelings are always hurt. That you become angry everyday over some situation that is a trifle or nonsense, for you refuse to understand your divinity. You’re looking at yourself as a mortal being who has to go out into this world and fight for survival. It’s a lie, it’s not the truth.
This is what you should focus on day and night, and the best way to work on yourself is through self-inquiry. It encompasses all these things we’re talking about. But it’s up to you to do it and keep doing it day and night without stopping. Whatever comes to you, whatever you see everyday, whether it’s a trifle or it’s a serious thing, you have to inquire, “To whom does this come? Who feels this? Who sees this?” I know it’s hard for some of you to do this and this is because you’re not practicing the little things.
If you keep practicing the little things first, then when a so-called big catastrophe comes along, you’ll be able to handle it beautifully. You’ll simply say, “To whom does this come? To me, the ego, the I. I am free of it completely,” and be able to shrug it off and walk away in complete peace. But if you’re not practicing this, then when a so-called catastrophe comes along in your life, you will become violently upset over it, depressed, mad. It’s like when you’re going to die and leave your body. What you occupy your mind with when you die is that’s where you’re going to go. So some of you say, “Well I’m going to occupy my mind with Brahman, when I die I want to go straight to Brahman.” Of course it doesn’t work this way. Because if you have not been practicing previously to death, so-called, you will not be able to do it. When mr death comes to pay you a call, you will be in total fear. You will not be able to think straight. This is why it’s so important to practice now. It makes you stronger, in control.
Practice “Who am I?” constantly, continuously. “Who is this I that has this problem, this fear, this frustration? Where did the I come from?” As you keep separating yourself from the I daily, continuously soon you will not have to voice these things. It will be automatic. Whatever situation unveils itself, you will not say anything you will just look at it and smile and not be involved in it whatsoever. You will have risen to a higher consciousness, just by smiling at the condition, the situation. But if you are not practicing, then when a situation confronts you’ll get angry, mad, upset, depressed and the rest.
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Whatever You See Is The Self
25th February, 1993
Robert Adams Satsangs
The Collected Works