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Satsang with Mooji
Urge for Freedom
An Invitation from London College of Spirituality
at The Institute of Education, London
[Mooji:] I remember there is one story of one yogi
and, this is an old story.
The yogi goes meditating in the forest -
and these are great yogis,
they could meditate for many months at a time even,
without eating food -
So he goes and sits down in the forest,
closes his eyes
and enters the inner way,
the inner world.
Then after a few days, one vine - little plant -
begins to curl itself around his arm.
And then, after three days of doing it,
it suddenly stopped
and began to unwind from the arm
because, there was sufficient consciousness
in even this plant.
It said, 'This is a great yogi,
he can sit for a very long time.
But one day he has to get up,
and when he gets up, he will break me.'
So it unwinds and it went to a great tree,
and it began to climb on this tree
because, it said, 'At least the tree will outlive me.
Better I cling to that one who will not break me.'
And we are clinging to so many things
which are not real,
give so much attention to what is transient.
Everything that you can see, that you think
or imagine or remember,
everything is passing
like clouds floating in the infinite sky,
nothing is stable,
coming and going.
Even our own self-image is constantly changing,
but there is something here in whose presence
all these changes are perceived.
And that remains untouched by the play
and the movement of the mind and the body.
Why not search for this thing?
How long will it take you?
How much distance to cover?
Only the distance of a thought.
But this thought,
'I am not myself, I am the body-mind',
this is a very mischievous thought,
very costly thought.
All the beings come into suffering
by purchasing this thought.
You are not a thought.
You are not a thought.
You are not even the thinker of thoughts.
Even the thinker of thoughts is itself a thought.
You are much earlier.
But you will not discover this through apathy,
there must arise inside some urge.
Who puts this urge there?
Supreme Grace puts this urge inside your heart,
this urge for freedom,
the urge to discover what is imperishable,
the urge to discover our true nature.
This is possible. This is possible.
It's available.
I don't see anything of greater value
than for a human being to discover this truth.
The power is within us to find it out.
We have not been doing well.
While our attention is focused on the external,
on the passing,
we are not doing well.
Yet, no one is ever without Grace.
Grace is constantly tapping
at the door of your own heart.
Grace brought you here.
I don't want to speak merely to your minds.
Enough.
But what I'm pointing to,
there must be some resonance inside your own hearts,
an intuition, a feel
that there is something in that -
there's something in that.
Be willing to be stirred, to be stirred up,
to be shuffled up.
Be willing even to be feel lost.
Feeling lost is already a kind of progress for many people.
Sometimes we are too fixed in our conditioning.
But something moves you.
Life is moving to shake this conditioning open
so that you can really begin to breathe
the breath of the Infinite One.
The chance is always with us.
Some power - some power is at work somewhere
that is trying to engage your mind.
Such is the play.
One day you will come to see that even this,
you are beyond this thing,
that you are the effortless Being,
Timeless,
Immutable.
This greatness a human being can attain.
What puts it in your heart to discover these things, I can't say.
Why you came here and not your friend,
not your family,
why are you here?
This is a mystery.
You're here because you're meant to be here.
I don't know where you go from here
with what you've heard.
And this place is not only really about
what has been spoken, also.
So, many of you I will see again, perhaps, some not.
I don't know, it's not with me.
All I can tell you is that your life is a great possibility
to go beyond the transient, the trivial, the momentary.
I think this is why we are so angry.
Because somewhere within we know
there's more to it than just this.
Sometimes you have to be angry to be free.
You have to be disappointed,
your dreams have got to be broken,
your world has got to turn upside down,
you have to feel loss,
you have to feel bereavement and pain
because, such things it takes
to shake us into real life.
But only because you are great enough to take it.
Not everyone has to go through suffering and pain.
Some people come into this understanding
with great joy, great rejoicing, great openness.
They not only throw their possessions into the fire,
they themselves enter this fire,
with folded hands they do it.
Perhaps you could be one of them, I don't know.
[Audience:] Yes! [clapping and laughing]
[M:] Very great.
Video Extract from Satsang DVD - Urge for Freedom - 11th of March 2011
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