This Exercise Is All the Help You Need

Om Sadhguru Shree Moojibabaaya Namaha This season, what has happened is that it came to present an exercise with many people. Some of you, we have tried and done with it before. And I felt it has been a very easy invitation and facilitating towards the place within you which is timeless. And so, why not again remind you even of that? That can be a start. It went a bit like this, Let's imagine that you all came and you said, I really want to meet you. I really want to come home to myself. Whatever that may mean for you. I'm taking it to mean that you're searching for liberation. You're searching for that joy which will not leave you, for happiness that does not go away. You're searching for a life which does not have death at the end of it, or something. I'm raising the stakes very high. So I'm going to take it at that level. So let's say your request has come to me like this. And I find you knocking at the door. You're knocking at my door. And I said, Please come in, to each one. Please come in. But before you do, please leave your mind outside. Strange thing to hear, no? Please leave your mind, and by mind I mean all your ideas about life, about what you think life is, or should be, or have been, or can be in the future. Just drop all your ideas for a moment. You have to be totally empty when you come into this space. And all your ideas you have about yourself. Because we've been living with many, many ideas we've held about ourselves. They keep changing, by the way. So they're not fixed. We try something out for a while, and it screws up somewhere. And then we reinvent, or upgrade the ego, or whatever it is that we do. Leave all of this outside. And even your desires for the future, how you want the world to be, how you want your life to be, how you want your family to be, how you want your children. Leave all your projections, your desires, and memories, and identity. Just leave it for a moment. We'll leave it outside. While you're here, to fulfil your highest aspiration. Let's say it is for freedom. When we are finished with the exercise, which will not be very long, you may go back out and pick up your stuff that you had before. And as I said before, don't worry, it will be there, waiting for you. So you can pick that up anytime. So right now, you're simply going to enter, and leave all your stories, and the traffic of thoughts, and judgements, and fears, and ideations, and stuff. Leave that. Do we feel we can do this for a moment or two? OK. When you feel you have done that, come in. Close the door. Come on in. You are here. And I won't be giving you some new ideas to keep now. Nothing new. Any feeling like, OK, we have done it, now what? Now what's going to happen now? So I'm going to say to you, Not even, now what? No, now what? Just as it is. No next. Immediately, you're only here. And don't fall asleep. You're only here. What is this that is only here? Are you here or not? You're here. Senses are here. Senses, we have not suppressed. The senses are there. The senses are not the mind. The senses are here. The power to perceive is here. The ability to experience is here. Also, I'm not asking you, don't use your imagination also. That's cheating. No imagination. Just sober looking. Now that these thoughts have been stripped away, and been left outside and so on, and any projections about the future, I've said, don't engage with that. Only now. Only now. All the thought activity, all your self-assessment, all the idea you have about yourself, we don't want. We're not going to tell any stories today. I don't want to hear your story, and I'm not going to tell you anything about my story. I just want to meet you. Not you plus. Just you. So without your story, without imagination, without judgements, desires and attachments, without all of these, are you you? Are you not here? Excluding these other things, are you not here? A little feedback will help now and again. What is it that simply is? This kind of is-ness that is here? Uncreated, unsupported by you. Is anybody exerting any effort? Simply, you're here. Whatever it is that you are experiencing or recognising or perceiving, is it a painful discovery? Is it a disappointing discovery? Are there any amputations or something? Can this, whatever it is, I'm not going to give it a name, I'm just saying at the moment, whatever it is, this is-ness, can it go away? Can it fade? Like it really is strong in here. But if you go to the shop, it will be weak. Could it be like that? What religion does it belong to? Right now, does it matter if you are a really good person or not at your best? Does it matter? Somebody is saying, I can see purple sky. Don't get involved with purple sky or purple rain or anything like that. Any image is only a cloud floating by. Don't develop any relationship with anything that you see for a moment. Let them just appear and disappear. Don't force anything. Don't hold on or push away anything. This feeling or vibration of is-ness, just whatever it is-ness, is it different from you who are here? Does the different days make any difference to it? Like if it was Tuesday, would you feel different from a Wednesday? No. What time of day is it here, in this? And you're sure you're not just making this up, you're not imagining this. Hello? Do you feel worried in yourself about anything? Agitated about anything? Can this, that we are directly perceived, can it come to an end? So if you are the same as it, can I put it, can you come to an end? Well, that's worth discovering, isn't it?